Chapter Summaries

Yin Xiaoqi discovered that the underworld she had entered was Battle Online and learned that injuries in the game might affect her real body. After researching the game and its valuable inheritance classes, she accepted the first stage of Bei Li’s Ultimate Chain Quest and prepared to establish a guild.

• Yin Xiaoqi examined the Players’ conversations, summoned the game interface, and concluded that she was inside Battle Online.
• Yin Xiaoqi remembered rumors that injuries in the mysterious game could carry over into reality, and Bei Li reassured her before announcing that her quest had begun.
• Bei Li disappeared after assigning Yin Xiaoqi the first stage of the Ultimate Chain Quest: establish a guild ranked among Battle Online’s top 1,000 most popular.
• Yin Xiaoqi exited the game, searched online, and discovered Battle Online’s reach, its unexplained development team, and the high value of the Inheritance Class reward.
• Yin Xiaoqi decided that establishing a powerful guild would not stop her and put on the Virtual Helmet again.

Yin Xiaoqi proposed unleashing Hu He to dig up ancient disasters across the Azure Void Great Domain and distract Yuan Xu from the Xian Xu Army. After players persuaded Hu He and secured his freedom to leave the safe zone, he finally stepped out of the Revival Point, eager to resume digging.

• Yin Xiaoqi established her own guild, Conquest, after joining Battle Online and quickly leveling up.
• Europe Server players debated withdrawing from the Dragon Concealment Zone or asking Bei Qi for help against Yuan Xu’s growing forces.
• Yin Xiaoqi posted a strategy suggesting players release Hu He to unleash disasters and force Yuan Xu to deal with them instead of attacking the Xian Xu Army.
• Players praised Yin Xiaoqi’s idea, and she advertised Conquest as a guild that accepted elite members who passed her assessment.
• Hu He agreed to dig up disasters after players promised he could leave the safe zone without interference, then stepped out of the Revival Point with his shovel.

Hu He livestreamed an excavation in a poisonous swamp and used instructions from an ancient text to break a Demon Sealing Array. He uncovered thousands of immortal Shebi Corpse Clan members and played loud music to awaken them.

• Hu He followed his compass into a swamp, where the Shana Corpse Spirit dug an entrance to an underground palace.
• Hu He found a sealed wall with six Demon Sealing Pearls and consulted the Corpse Spirit Sect Secret Codex for a way to open it safely.
• Hu He shifted the pearls according to the ancient instructions, causing the array to crack and the wall to split open.
• Hu He and the livestream viewers discovered thousands of Shebi Corpse Clan members regenerating in a green pool.
• Hu He played intense music through a speaker, and ripples began spreading across the pool.

Hu He awakened the cursed Shebi Clan, then spent the next three days breaking seals and unleashing dangerous forces across the Azure Void Great Domain. As players adapted to the ensuing chaos, Yin Xiaoqi posted a startling new suggestion.

• Hu He awakened the Shebi Clan by breaking its Demon Sealing Array, and She General killed him when he emerged from the pool.
• Hu He revived to a crowd of cheering players and continued searching for sealed sites in the Azure Void Great Domain.
• Over three days, Hu He broke more than ten seals, unleashing dangerous clans, remnants, disasters, and other Evil Forces.
• Players in the eastern corner of the Azure Void treated the disasters as sources of experience and Soul Coins.
• Yin Xiaoqi posted another suggestion thread that stunned the players.

Yin Xiaoqi proposed that players join the Evil King to escape their vulnerable position and grow by backing his faction, and players across both servers agreed to try her plan. Meanwhile, Yuan Xu diverted the Extreme Spirit Storm and demanded answers about the ancient seals being destroyed.

• Yin Xiaoqi argued that players could ally with the ambitious Evil King, gain room to develop, and profit from the prolonged conflict with Yuan Xu.
• Players praised Yin Xiaoqi's proposal and decided to try implementing it, while noting they might turn against the Evil King after defeating Yuan Xu.
• Yuan Xu attacked the approaching Extreme Spirit Storm, weakening and redirecting it with a void beast.
• Yuan Xu questioned the Ghost Kings and Ghost Generals about why ancient seals had been destroyed and natural disasters were appearing.

Yuan Xu learned that someone had destroyed the seals and that the Evil God's nearly immortal evil thought was recruiting troops to challenge him for the Lord Governor position. Meanwhile, the Evil King recruited the Players of Dragon Concealment Village, who pledged support without hesitation and left him doubting their claims of being fearsome warriors.

• Fen Shui Ghost King told Yuan Xu that several sealing sites had been destroyed and that the Evil God's evil thought had emerged and was gathering troops.
• Yuan Xu dismissed the threat and declared that he would seal the Evil God's evil thought again, then headed to the Palace Lord Hall.
• The Evil King arrived at Dragon Concealment Village in a Buddha statue, and the Players recognized him as a potential ally and future leader.
• Li Xing represented the Players and readily pledged their support for the Evil King's bid to become Lord Governor.
• Li Xing claimed the Player Race feared neither death nor battle, and the Evil King concluded that the Players were boastful and lacked real ability.

Li Xing persuaded the Evil King to consolidate his forces in Dragon Concealment and the Ruins of the Relics before confronting Yuan Xu. Meanwhile, Hu He uncovered a bloodstained tombstone in Death Garden, but the Fen Shui Ghost King attacked him as he examined it.

• Li Xing told the Evil King that the Player Race had a deep-seated grudge against Yuan Xu and asked how they should oppose him.
• Li Xing proposed withdrawing from weaker-held territories and concentrating the Evil King's forces in Dragon Concealment and the Ruins of the Relics, and the Evil King accepted.
• Hu He searched Death Garden for a seal and had the Shana Corpse Spirit dig up a massive black tombstone.
• Hu He deciphered the tombstone's words about slaughtering the Great Emperor, while players watching his livestream speculated about their meaning.
• The Fen Shui Ghost King spotted Hu He at the tombstone and sent him flying with a powerful gust of wind.

Fen Shui Ghost King caught Hu He digging up a seal in Death Garden and brought him before Yuan Xu. After Hu He refused to explain himself, Yuan Xu ordered him sealed in Endless Darkness for a thousand years.

• Fen Shui Ghost King abandoned his watch at the former Azure Void Palace Lord Hall and went to Death Garden, where he caught Hu He digging up a seal beside a massive black tombstone.
• Fen Shui Ghost King beat Hu He, filled in the excavation site, and flew him to Treacherous Dragon Tomb to meet Yuan Xu.
• Yuan Xu questioned Hu He about destroying the seals, but Hu He insisted he had been digging for fun and dared Yuan Xu to search his soul.
• Yuan Xu ordered Fen Shui Ghost King to take Hu He to Endless Darkness and seal him there for a thousand years.
• Fen Shui Ghost King grabbed Hu He and flew toward the prison beneath the former Palace Lord Hall.

Fen Shui sealed Hu He in Endless Darkness, where Hu He discovered he could neither see, hear, nor die, and feared he had been trapped for a thousand years. Fen Shui released him after only an hour, while Lu Wu explained that the seal distorted time perception and could not harm Hu He through the divine artifact.

• Fen Shui kicked Hu He into the sealed darkness beneath the former Palace Lord Hall and taunted him about spending a thousand years there.
• Hu He tried using a searchlight, calling out, and killing himself, but the darkness swallowed the light and sound and prevented him from dying.
• Hu He repeatedly logged out and back in, then saw Players joke about his supposed thousand-year account ban before they organized a rescue.
• Hu He opened the forum to report the problem, but Fen Shui lifted him out and revealed that only an hour had passed.
• Lu Wu explained that Azure Void's seal distorted the soul's perception of time, while Hu He's divine artifact protected him; Hu He told Fen Shui that the experience had felt all right.

Hu He remained calm while the Fen Shui Ghost King repeatedly sent him into the Endless Darkness, then used the time inside to break through its sealing wall. Beyond it, he found an unresponsive creature and tried to contact it with a special tool.

• Hu He taunted the Fen Shui Ghost King, who repeatedly sealed him in the Endless Darkness to try to break his resolve.
• Hu He passed the time inside by listening to music, browsing forums, watching livestreams, and eventually logging out for coffee.
• When the Fen Shui Ghost King left him sealed for ten thousand years, Hu He searched the darkness and used three Anti-Seal Negators to break through a sealing wall.
• Hu He stumbled over a smooth, soft creature beyond the wall and bought a Soul Communication Rope to try to speak with it.
• Hu He connected the rope to the creature and called out to see whether it could hear him.

Hu He freed more than twenty powerful beings from Endless Darkness and led them out, where they joined forces against Fen Shui Ghost King. Fen Shui Ghost King was overwhelmed as the rescued captives recovered their memories and strength.

• Hu He contacted Jason, received twenty thousand Soul Coins, and used them to break open sealed rooms in Endless Darkness.
• Hu He freed thirteen more captives, gathered them with the others, and persuaded them to help him take revenge on Fen Shui Ghost King.
• The captives gradually regained their spirits and memories while Hu He watched streams and acted as their Leading Big Brother.
• Fen Shui Ghost King opened the seal and pulled out Hu He and more than twenty captives, recognizing several beings he had imprisoned on Cang Xu's orders.
• Hu He pointed at Fen Shui Ghost King and urged the others to attack, and several of them knocked Fen Shui Ghost King to the ground as he tried to flee.

Hu He took revenge on Ghost King Fen Shui by having the prisoners pluck him bald and repeatedly throw him into the Endless Darkness. Before Hu He could kill him, Yuan Xu arrived and attacked, forcing the prisoners to defend Hu He as they faced overwhelming pressure.

• Hu He ordered the prisoners to strip Ghost King Fen Shui of his feathers and throw him into the Endless Darkness.
• After pulling Fen Shui out an hour later, Hu He sent him back into the darkness when he begged not to return.
• Yuan Xu appeared, asked Hu He to serve him, and rejected Hu He's feigned agreement after recognizing the deception.
• Yuan Xu unleashed a purple vortex to drain the prisoners' energy, and they stood their ground to protect Hu He despite his urging them to flee.
• Da Sha roared and burst open his clothes, revealing a muscular upper body as the prisoners struggled to hold back Yuan Xu.

Da Sha and the other twenty-two warriors burned their lives in the Blood Sacrifice War Dance to protect Hu He from Yuan Xu, dissolving Yuan Xu’s final attack before they died. Hu He swore revenge, collected their bodies, and stabbed himself rather than let Yuan Xu kill him.

• Da Sha and the other twenty-two warriors began the Blood Sacrifice War Dance, sacrificing their life force to hold back Yuan Xu and shield Hu He.
• The warriors burned themselves completely to dissolve Yuan Xu’s purple sphere of destruction, and all twenty-three fell.
• Hu He charged Yuan Xu in a rage, but Yuan Xu struck him down and declared that the warriors’ deaths could not be undone.
• Hu He gathered the twenty-three bodies into his storage space and swore to kill Yuan Xu one day.
• Hu He stabbed himself in the neck, vowing to die by his own hand and carrying the weight of his brothers’ deaths into darkness.

Hu He vowed to avenge the twenty-three men who had died protecting him, while the Players rallied to attack Yuan Xu’s forces. The Player army broke through the Demonized People’s defense and pressed toward the Ghost Kings.

• Hu He decided to refine the twenty-three men into corpse spirits and promised to carry out their vengeance.
• Yuan Xu left Fen Shui Ghost King to recover and departed for the Treacherous Dragon Tomb.
• Lu Wu reopened the expedition quest, and millions of Players gathered in Dragon Concealment Village to fight for the fallen warriors.
• Li Xing led the Player army toward the Treacherous Dragon Tomb despite the Evil King’s refusal to support them.
• Mad Spider Ghost King and Knife Demon Wolf formed a shield wall, but the charging Players broke through, forcing the Ghost Kings to attack.

The players fought the Demon Domain Army with such reckless resolve that the two Ghost Kings and the Evil King were shaken, even as Yuan Xu’s reinforcements turned the battle into a slaughter. When Yuan Xu descended to attack them, the Evil King intervened, declared the players his soldiers, and challenged Yuan Xu while the players resumed their charge.

• The players overwhelmed the two Ghost Kings, shattered the Demon Domain Army’s morale, and forced the Ghost Kings to retreat with their troops.
• The Yuan Xu Army arrived with eight Ghost Kings and more than ten Ghost Generals, but the players continued fighting despite losing nearly a third of their army by the fourth hour.
• Li Xing and Liu Chai rallied the players through the legion voice channel, and the army fought to avenge the twenty-three warriors who had protected Hu He.
• Yuan Xu descended to attack the players, but the Evil King blocked him and told Li Xing that he had officially acknowledged the players as his soldiers.
• The Evil King transformed and attacked Yuan Xu while the players charged the surrounding enemies again.

The players fought to the last against the Yuan Xu Army, killing every player but leaving the enemy too terrified and broken to claim a true victory. The Evil King declared that the battle was only the beginning and threatened the Yuan Xu Army with his own forces.

• Yuan Xu tried to aid his army but the Evil King kept him occupied, while the players charged the surrounded Yuan Xu Army without hesitation.
• The players’ relentless attacks frightened the Ghost Kings and drove the Yuan Xu Army into retreating fear, even as more than half the players fell.
• Only a million players remained, and they charged again while the Yuan Xu Army hesitated beneath the crimson rain.
• The last player fell, leaving the Yuan Xu Army alive but shaken and unable to celebrate its victory.
• The Evil King mocked Yuan Xu, claimed the players as his army, and warned the Yuan Xu Army that his forces would avenge them.

The Evil King escaped after the Yuan Xu Army withdrew, while the players celebrated their defiant stand despite losing the battle. At Dragon Concealment Village, the Evil King discovered that the players could revive, restoring his hope of commanding their army.

• The Evil King mocked Yuan Xu and fled south as a stone statue, and Yuan Xu ordered his troops to withdraw to Dragon Concealment.
• Players celebrated their unity and resolve on the War Online Official Forum, and Lu Wu decided that Bei Qi's players would focus on the Nine Radiance Great Domain while Europe Server players continued their trial.
• The Evil King returned to Dragon Concealment Village and lamented that the battle had exhausted the Player Race's strength.
• Players poured out of the Revival Point, and the Evil King pulled Li Xing from the crowd and learned that the Player Race could revive three times.
• The Evil King examined the ordinary-looking altar, accepted that he could not understand the resurrection ability, and became confident about winning the Lord Governor position.

After the battle in the Demon Domain, Lu Wu planned to merge South America, North America, and Oceania into the Hell Server, while preparing for its harsh survival-focused opening. Liu Chai attempted the Ghost Overseer Trial at level 100 and, despite being outmatched, began fighting back against the Ferocious Beast.

• Players intensified their attacks on the Death Clan, Nine-Headed Serpent, and Rock Ghost King, while more Players paid to attempt the Ghost Overseer Trial and increased Lu Wu's Soul Coin income.
• Lu Wu decided to merge the South America, North America, and Oceania servers into the Hell Server, whose Players would begin in the Hell Great Domain with limited revival options until they claimed territory.
• Liu Chai reached level 100 and started a livestream as he entered the combat-type Ghost Overseer Trial against a Ferocious Beast.
• The Ferocious Beast knocked Liu Chai away with its wooden club, prompting the livestream chat to split between cheering him on and rooting for the monster.
• Liu Chai blocked the Ferocious Beast's next attack, struck its armpit to numb its arm, then knocked its club aside and hit its chest.

Liu Chai used Mu Zhiguang's indestructible right arm to defeat a Ghost Overseer Trial monster and set a record, prompting Lu Wu to strengthen the second phase. Meanwhile, Number One returned to Jie De Technology's laboratory and killed Abel when he demanded to know where Battle Online's executive was.

• Liu Chai blocked the Ferocious Beast's attacks with Mu Zhiguang's right arm, counterattacked, and defeated it to set a Ghost Overseer Trial record.
• Players copied Liu Chai's unconventional approach and shared strategies for clearing the trial, while Lu Wu improved the combat awareness of second-phase monsters.
• Number One arrived at a hidden Jie De Technology laboratory outside the border of Dragon Nation and was directed to the base director's office.
• Abel confronted Number One about the missing Battle Online executive, and Number One smashed Abel's head against the wall.

Number One, reprogrammed and enhanced by Bei Li, turned against the base and fought his way toward its main control room to activate the self-destruct program. He killed the base director, Number Three, Deputy Director Li, and numerous guards, while the chip in his head failed to explode when the Base Security Captain triggered it.

• Number One killed the base director and slaughtered the security personnel who tried to stop him.
• Deputy Director Li ordered the base's security forces to contain Number One and hurried to retrieve the remote control for his explosive chip.
• Number One defeated Number Three and continued toward the main control room, killing guards who attacked him with bullets and knives.
• Director Li tried to use the remote control to force Number One to surrender, but the Base Security Captain triggered it when Number One charged.
• The chip did not explode, and Number One crushed Director Li's head before turning toward the stunned Base Security Captain.