Chapter Summaries

Number One broke into the main control room, where he found a nearly one-ton Fragmented Page, and Bei Li used his soul power to activate the base’s self-destruct program. Number One escaped with the page while the base and everyone trapped inside were destroyed, then left the site carrying it.

• Number One killed Deputy Director Li and the Base Security Captain, survived X-Energy Bullets, and defeated the security soldiers before breaking into the main control room with a Black Light Sword.
• Headquarters researchers recognized Number One’s ability to manifest spiritual energy as a mutation and, with Dr. Yad, resolved to capture him alive.
• Number One discovered the glowing Fragmented Page in the control room, and Bei Li told him to take it and placed her control of his soul power at his disposal.
• Bei Li used Number One’s soul power to activate the base self-destruct countdown, and Number One destroyed the elevator controls before leaving through the boulder gate with the page.
• The researchers escaped their detention rooms but could not reach the destroyed elevator, while Number One waited outside to ensure no one escaped.
• The base exploded and collapsed, killing those inside and destroying its contents, and Number One left with the Fragmented Page.

Lu Wu and Bei Li discovered a fragment of the Human Emperor's Mirror and planned to strengthen Number One for use in the real world. Meanwhile, the Nine Radiance Brothers considered invading Bei Qi, while Bei Qi Players received a quest to explore the Nine Radiance Great Domain.

• Lu Wu and Bei Li identified the recovered page as an incomplete section of the Human Emperor's Mirror and suspected Jie De Technology had scattered its pages among its laboratories.
• Lu Wu decided to imprint Number One's soul in the Divine Artifact and find him a body cultivation inheritance so he could serve as a secret weapon in reality.
• At a gathering in the Profound Heaven Pavilion, Gold Radiance told Star Radiance that the Fissured Earth Tribe had left the Barren Grassland.
• Star Radiance agreed to wait and investigate Bei Qi's strongest force, while Moon Radiance set out to assess the vacant Lord Governor position.
• Bei Qi Players received a main quest to explore five percent of the Nine Radiance Great Domain for the Pioneer title.

The Nine Radiance Envoys arrived in Netherworld City to recruit Liu Chai and the players into the Nine Radiance Palace Lord’s campaign in Bei Qi. Liu Chai pretended to accept their terms, leaving the envoys stunned when he announced plans to attack the Rock Ghost King.

• Nine Radiance Envoys arrived at Netherworld City and asked to speak with its lord.
• The players prepared to attack the envoys, but Liu Chai urged them to hear the visitors out.
• The Star Radiance Envoy presented an edict demanding allegiance in exchange for military support and a future position as Great Lord.
• At Yin Xiaoqi’s suggestion, Liu Chai asked when the promised troops would arrive and raised the players’ shortage of supplies.
• Liu Chai accepted the offer of supplies and announced that the players would declare war on the Rock Ghost King, stunning the envoys.

Liu Chai staged a fierce battle against Rock to convince the Nine Radiance Envoys that he had sincerely pledged allegiance, while the Players secretly held back. The envoys believed Liu Chai and promised to deliver supplies within three days, leaving him free to continue the deception.

• Liu Chai declared war on Rock in front of the Nine Radiance Envoys, while secretly arranging with Rock to stage the battle in exchange for twenty percent of the supplies.
• Liu Chai led the Player army into the Bedrock Northern Region, where he and Rock traded threats before their forces clashed.
• The Players pretended to fight with full strength and die in large numbers, while Rock enjoyed the battle and expected to trade his share of the supplies for Soul Coins.
• The Nine Radiance Envoys urged Liu Chai to withdraw, but he insisted on fighting until they promised to deliver supplies within three days.
• Liu Chai agreed to end the battle for the envoys' sake and warned that he would fight to the death in the next one, earning their complete trust.

Liu Chai tricked the Nine Radiance Envoys into promising supplies by staging a costly-looking battle, while the envoys believed they had recruited a loyal underworld army. Back in the Nine Radiance Great Domain, Moon Radiance was tasked with delivering supplies and secretly investigating the Players, but he eagerly chose gifts for the underworld force he considered his future subordinates.

• Liu Chai persuaded the Nine Radiance Envoys that the Players needed resources and equipment, and they promised to report his request and arrange supplies.
• After the envoys left, the Players joked on the forum about deliberately getting killed during their staged fight with the Tree Demon Army.
• The Nine Radiance Brothers accepted the envoys' account, and Star Radiance ordered Moon Radiance to deliver supplies while secretly investigating the underworld force.
• Moon Radiance entered the Nine Radiance Great Domain Equipment Depot and selected spiritual medicine, ore, equipment, and treasures for Liu Chai and his guards.

Moon Radiance secretly accompanied a supply convoy to investigate Liu Chai, while the Players recognized his disguise and staged a convincing show of Liu Chai’s arrogance and foolishness. After Liu Chai led an attack on the Nine-Headed Serpent, the Rock Ghost King arrived with a Tree Demon Army, leaving Moon Radiance alarmed by Liu Chai’s decision to fight them too.

• Moon Radiance disguised himself as a guard and joined the hundred-soldier convoy carrying supplies to the underworld.
• The Players used Data Analysis to identify Moon Radiance, then acted as though Liu Chai was their arrogant, incompetent ruler while he discussed battle plans with the Moon Radiance Envoy.
• Liu Chai ordered his army to attack the Nine-Headed Serpent in the Ascension Zone, and Moon Radiance watched the Players stage a battle that appeared to give them the advantage.
• The Rock Ghost King arrived with a Tree Demon Army and called for the Nine-Headed Serpent to join him against the Player Race.
• Liu Chai ordered his warriors to fight the Tree Demon Army, while Moon Radiance inwardly urged him to retreat.

Moon Radiance revealed himself to stop Liu Chai from continuing a disastrous battle against Rock and the Nine-Headed Serpent, then ordered the Player Army to retreat. Afterward, Rock and the Nine-Headed Serpent compared their shares of the supplies the Players had provided.

• Moon Radiance watched the Players suffer heavy losses as the Tree Demon Army and Demonic Serpent Army attacked from both sides, while the envoy tried to persuade Liu Chai to retreat.
• Liu Chai refused to withdraw and prepared to join the fighting, so Moon Radiance revealed his identity as the Lord of the Nine Radiance Great Domain.
• Moon Radiance convinced Liu Chai to order the Player Army to retreat and warned him to keep Moon Radiance's visit to the Netherworld secret.
• Rock and the Nine-Headed Serpent drank together and discovered that each had received fifteen percent of the supplies from the Players.

After the Nine Radiance Great Domain sent six waves of supplies to the Players, Moon Radiance’s brothers pressured him to take Bei Qi himself. Moon Radiance committed to the attack and marched there with his army, leaving the brothers’ assets divided and the outcome uncertain.

• Moon Radiance told his eight brothers about the Underworld’s forces, and the Nine Radiance Great Domain began sending them supplies.
• The Players used the supplies to strengthen their guilds and continued staging battles against Rock Ghost King and Nine-Headed Serpent.
• After half a month without progress, Moon Radiance’s brothers urged him to attack Bei Qi personally, with Fire Radiance threatening to act in his place.
• Moon Radiance agreed to lead the campaign, despite fearing Mountain Split might return.
• Moon Radiance gathered the 2.3 million-strong Moon Radiance Army and marched toward Bei Qi with the supplies.

Moon Radiance marched to conquer the Underworld, but Bedrock and Nine-Headed Serpent both surrendered without a fight. The chapter ended with Moon Radiance bewildered as his army reached the Ascension Zone and gained the loyalty of its two major forces.

• Moon Radiance refused Liu Chai's banquet and ordered the army to take the Bedrock Northern Region before attacking the Ascension Zone.
• Bedrock recognized Moon Radiance, surrendered the Bedrock Northern Region, and pledged loyalty to him.
• Moon Radiance accepted Bedrock's surrender and led the combined forces toward the Ascension Zone despite Liu Chai's objections.
• When Moon Radiance's army charged the Demonic Serpent Army, Nine-Headed Serpent hurriedly surrendered and pledged loyalty.
• Moon Radiance sounded the ceasefire horn and stood bewildered after both of his major opponents surrendered without a battle.

Moon Radiance unified Bei Qi and received the Eastern Peak Great Emperor’s recognition as Palace Lord, gaining a major increase in power and a Yin Talisman. Meanwhile, mysterious voices in the Hall of the Six Paths of Reincarnation discussed a woman’s possible return and prepared to fight for her.

• Moon Radiance had Liu Chai, Rock Ghost King, and the Nine-Headed Serpent swear Soul Oaths, then sent Rock Ghost King to bring the remaining Bei Qi armies under his rule.
• Three days later, Moon Radiance recited the Palace Lord Succession Codex, entered the Brass Bell, and passed the Eastern Peak Great Emperor’s Heart Refinement Test.
• The Great Emperor’s blessing raised Moon Radiance to the Ghost Emperor Late Stage and granted him a triangular Yin Talisman as the assembled factions watched.
• The Players welcomed Moon Radiance’s rise because his strength was part of Yin Xiaoqi’s plan for the coming war against the Nine Radiance Great Domain.
• In the Hall of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, two voices wondered whether a departed woman would return and vowed to fight for her if she did.

Moon Radiance focused on Bei Qi’s problems while an escort carrying his treasures was ambushed by Fire Radiance Palace forces. Mad Fang escaped toward the Underworld with news, while Chen Ziyu and the Players revealed that the attack was a staged act.

• Moon Radiance learned that the Death Clan was invading Bei Qi and set out to negotiate with Sea King.
• Mad Fang led a convoy carrying Moon Radiance’s treasures through the Barren Grassland toward the Underworld.
• Fire Disciple Warriors ambushed the convoy from the grass and the ground, and their commander ordered that no witnesses survive.
• Chen Ziyu urged Mad Fang to escape with the news while the guards and Players sacrificed themselves to open a path.
• Mad Fang broke through and fled toward the Underworld as Fire Disciple Warriors chased him.
• After Mad Fang was gone, the Fire Disciple Commander stopped fighting Chen Ziyu and began changing his appearance.

The players looted Moon Radiance’s supplies by disguising themselves as Fire Disciple Warriors and framing Eighth Fire Radiance, while Moon Radiance negotiated with Sea King. Sea King realized the Player Race was deceiving Moon Radiance but let him leave, expecting Bei Qi’s internal conflict to benefit him.

• Chen Ziyu revealed that he was Xiao Tian after Mad Fang fled, and the disguised players took all the supplies and carts.
• Wu Guoyi ordered the players to head toward the Barren Grassland to continue their scheme.
• Moon Radiance showed Sea King the Bei Qi Yin Talisman and explained how he had taken control of Bei Qi.
• Sea King recognized that Moon Radiance had misunderstood the Player Race and had likely been tricked, but agreed to withdraw the Death Clan.
• After Moon Radiance left, Sea King told Hei Sui and the others that the Player Race was his enemy, and they realized Moon Radiance might not survive his new rule.

After Mad Fang reported that the Fire Disciple Army had stolen Moon Radiance’s treasure supplies, Moon Radiance rushed to stop Liu Chai’s retaliation and confronted the army at the border. Convinced by the evidence that Fire Radiance was responsible, Moon Radiance killed the commander Huo Xing Ze.

• Mad Fang told Moon Radiance that the Fire Disciple Army had robbed the supply convoy and killed its escorts, and the Moon Tooth General confirmed that Mad Fang had been pursued by them.
• Moon Radiance heard Mad Fang’s account and learned that Liu Chai had already led troops toward the Barren Grassland to seek revenge.
• Boulder and the Nine-Headed Serpent secretly smiled as Moon Radiance flew toward the Nine Radiance Great Domain, while their plan continued to unfold.
• At the border, Liu Chai’s millions of Players joined the fleeing Players and attacked the Fire Disciple Army, surrounding and driving it back.
• Moon Radiance arrived and questioned Huo Xing Ze, but killed him after the commander insisted that his troops had only pursued invaders.

Moon Radiance confronted Fire Radiance over the stolen treasure supplies and searched the Fire Disciple Army camp. Liu Chai found a pile of treasure in the supply depot, leaving Fire Radiance insisting he had been framed as Moon Radiance demanded an explanation.

• Moon Radiance executed several Fire Disciple Army Warriors who could not satisfy him and led Liu Chai and other faction leaders toward the Fire Disciple Army camp.
• Moon Radiance ordered Fire Wave Ghost King to open the supply depot, and Liu Chai led Players inside to search while Fire Radiance was summoned.
• Liu Chai's Players secretly placed the plundered treasures in a corner of the supply depot as part of their plan to frame the Fire Disciple Army.
• Liu Chai emerged and told Moon Radiance that a pile of treasure was inside, prompting Moon Radiance and Fire Radiance to enter the depot.
• Moon Radiance found the treasures and demanded an explanation, while Fire Radiance claimed he had been framed.

Fire Radiance tried to prove he had not stolen Moon Radiance’s supplies, but the evidence and his brothers’ suspicions turned the dispute into a family confrontation. The chapter ended with Fire Radiance and Moon Radiance exchanging punches after Fire Radiance accused Moon Radiance of staging the theft.

• Fire Radiance assembled his army and questioned the soldiers who had visited the supply depot and the hundreds of thousands who had pursued supposed invaders to Bei Qi.
• A Ghost Overseer said the pursuers had chased enemies who resembled Moon Radiance’s Player Race, while depot guards confirmed that no one had entered the depot that day.
• Fire Radiance suspected a third party had stolen Moon Radiance’s supplies and hidden them in the depot, but Moon Radiance accused him of lying and took the treasures to bring the dispute before Star Radiance.
• At Profound Heaven Pavilion, the brothers sided against Fire Radiance, and Star Radiance demanded that he apologize to Moon Radiance.
• Fire Radiance refused, kicked over a table, and punched at Moon Radiance, who immediately met his attack with a punch.

After returning to Bei Qi severely wounded from a fight with his brothers, Moon Radiance was betrayed by Liu Chai and the Players, who launched a surprise attack on him and his army. As Moon Radiance lay dying, he learned the brothers’ feud had been engineered, while the oath-bound allies revealed they had become Bei Qi NPCs through a loophole.

• Moon Radiance returned to the Palace Lord Hall badly injured after Star Radiance and the other brothers sided with Fire Radiance in their fight.
• Liu Chai posted Moon Radiance’s weakened status on the forum, and the Players decided to kill him rather than continue their original scheme.
• Liu Chai, Rock Ghost King, and the Nine-Headed Serpent restrained Moon Radiance while Players attacked Moon Tooth General and the Moon Radiance Army across the Netherworld.
• After the battle, Moon Radiance realized the conflict with his brothers had been engineered and asked how Liu Chai’s allies had broken their soul oaths.
• Rock Ghost King, the Nine-Headed Serpent, Ghost General Yaodu, and Ghost General Earth Wolf were announced as Bei Qi NPCs, and Liu Chai told the dying Moon Radiance that he was a Player and a calamity.

In New York, assassin Emily killed her former mentor, survived an ambush, and sought refuge with Doctor Haier while police searched nearby. Trapped in the clinic with her injury, she entered Battle Online, beginning her path toward hunting gods.

• Emily shot her former mentor from a clock tower, reported the mission complete, and escaped with her sniper rifle packed in a cello case.
• A hidden assassin shot Emily in the calf, but she assembled her rifle and killed him in a midair bullet clash and a final shot.
• Emily discarded her phone and went to a nearby clinic, where Doctor Haier treated her gunshot wound.
• When police arrived to ask about gunshots, Haier concealed Emily and cleaned the blood outside the clinic.
• Emily accepted Haier's Virtual Helmet, opened Battle Online, and began her future path of hunting gods.

Emily entered the game, chose a Charging Mecha, and spent her initial enhancement points on her Dream Eater sniper rifle. After landing in the Gu Lan Ruins, she effortlessly killed a pack of wolves with precise, lethal shots, leaving a nearby Player stunned.

• Emily selected the Charging Mecha and chose to enhance her weapons instead of following the AI's survival recommendations.
• Emily upgraded Dream Eater to Level 5, spending her available spiritual ore enhancement points before deploying to the Gu Lan Ruins.
• Emily received the Wasteland Rising quest and the Fatal Hunter challenge, which rewarded Players for killing monsters.
• Emily spotted a Player being chased by a pack of wolves and used Dream Eater to kill every wolf with a single headshot.
• The rescued Player stared in shock as Emily slung her rifle over her back and walked away.

A video of Emily wiping out a seven-player team with seemingly impossible headshots stunned players across all three servers. After Battle Online officially confirmed she had not cheated, Emily became known as a sniper god.

• Skywalker posted a video showing Emily killing members of his seven-player team with a string of headshots.
• Emily shot the team's fighters and snipers from long range, then killed the last two opponents at close range and while falling from a rooftop.
• Players across the three servers debated whether Emily was cheating and noticed she had nearly three times as many Hunting Points as the second-place player.
• Battle Online officially confirmed that Emily had used no cheats and that her shooting was entirely personal skill.
• Players hailed Emily as a human cheat code and a supreme sniper god.

In the Hell Great Domain, Emily used her sniper rifle and carefully timed armor-piercing shots to kill a Silverback Demon Ape 76 levels above her. Her feat inspired other Charging Mechas to copy her build, but their failures left Emily’s victory as an unrepeatable legend.

• Emily ambushed the Silverback Demon Ape from over 1,500 meters away, but it survived her initial shots and charged toward her.
• Emily loaded armor-piercing bullets and struck the demon ape in the eye and mouth, then used charged shots to weaken it as it closed the distance.
• Emily activated Dynamic Visualizer and fired her final armor-piercing bullet through the demon ape’s existing wounds, killing it just before it could reach her.
• A server-wide announcement publicized Emily’s victory, and Players across the three servers debated her build and the strengths of different classes.
• Five days later, Hell Server Players copied Emily’s sniper-focused Charging Mecha build, but most failed and switched to easier weapons.
• Hell Server Players concluded that skill could make even a supposedly weak class legendary.