Chapter Summaries

After years of despair following his family’s death, Beichen Ichito met Kikyo, whose warmth helped him recover and form a close friendship. When Kikyo revealed that she was being forced to guard the Yin and Yang Family’s ancestral shrine, Beichen Ichito decided to rescue her himself and took up his father’s sword, Heartless Pill.

• Beichen Ichito drifted through two years of grief, abandoned swordsmanship, and became a homeless alcoholic after his dojo went bankrupt.
• Kikyo found Beichen Ichito asleep by the sea, followed him into town, and paid for his liquor and cigarettes when he lacked money.
• Beichen Ichito began taking Kikyo back to the Yin and Yang Shrine, and their chance meetings by the sea grew into a close friendship.
• After Kikyo disappeared for half a year, she returned in tears and told Beichen Ichito that she was destined to guard the Yin and Yang Family’s ancestral shrine underground.
• Beichen Ichito tried to free Kikyo by confronting the shrine priests, contacting the police, and appealing to the media, but no one helped him.
• Beichen Ichito returned home, retrieved his father’s sword Heartless Pill, and resolved to rescue Kikyo himself.

Beichen Ichito repeatedly challenged the Yin and Yang Shrine’s priestess to free Kikyo, eventually defeating her Shikigami and learning that Kikyo had been sacrificed and was dead. After the priestess rescued him from the Yin and Yang Masters, he lost hope and considered abandoning swordsmanship, but discovered his father’s book and a warning against learning the Ichito Style’s demonic sword method.

• Beichen Ichito returned to the Yin and Yang Shrine and repeatedly fought its priestess, growing stronger through relentless training and challenges.
• Beichen Ichito defeated the priestess’s Shikigami, then learned Kikyo had died as a sacrifice and found her drawings and writings in the underground palace.
• Beichen Ichito attacked the gathered Yin Yang Masters but was gravely wounded before Kikyo’s mother, the priestess, rescued him and warned him not to return.
• Beichen Ichito left the hospital, lost hope of challenging the Yin and Yang Family, and decided to give up his sword before his father’s memorial tablet.
• Beichen Ichito found the Ichito Style · Taiyuan book and read his father’s letter warning him never to learn its corrupting demonic sword method.

Beichen Ichito risked his life to master the Taiyuan Sword Canon, then stormed the Yin and Yang Shrine and killed its Grand Elder before collapsing. After serving ten years in prison, he met Iai Mi, who recruited him into her Conquest guild, and agreed to join.

• Beichen Ichito began cultivating the Taiyuan Sword Canon despite its dangers, eventually abandoning his attempt to condense a Sword Pill and transferring his property to the Iai family.
• Beichen Ichito returned to the Yin and Yang Shrine and fought his way through the underground palace, killing the Grand Elder with a final sword strike before collapsing.
• The police took Beichen Ichito into custody, and the Ancient Swordsmanship World—including Iai Temoku and the Iai family—worked to reduce his sentence.
• Beichen Ichito served ten years in prison as a one-armed man and was released into a world that felt unfamiliar to him.
• Iai Mi invited Beichen Ichito to join her Conquest guild, and he accepted after thinking of Kikyo.

Beichen Ichito joined Iai Mi’s Moonlight Squad and entered Battle Online for the first time, where the game restored his missing arm. When asked what weapon he would use, he overcame his reluctance and chose the sword.

• Iai Mi brought Beichen Ichito to Inoue Atom and the Moonlight Squad, who accepted him despite learning he had never played a game.
• The Moonlight Squad decided to help Ichito level up before confronting the Indian players who had driven them from the Withered Bone Forest.
• Atom and the others taught Ichito how to use a Game Pod, and he entered Battle Online as the Dominator class.
• Ichito met Iai Mi in the game and discovered that he could feel and move the right arm he had lost ten years earlier.
• When Iai Mi asked what weapon he would use, Ichito recalled Iai Temoku’s words and chose the sword.

Beichen Ichito searched for a sword that could grow with him and agreed to sacrifice his right arm in the game to forge one from his body. After learning of his unusual swordsmanship and past, Lu Wu approved the attempt and sent Copper Hanger to Brahma Heaven City.

• Iai Mi gave Beichen Ichito 50 Soul Coins, but he refused to settle for an ordinary sword and asked for a growth-type weapon like Proud Sword's.
• Inoue Atom led the group to Uncle Gu, who revealed a blueprint that forged weapons from a Player's flesh and soul, permanently removing the body part used.
• Beichen Ichito chose to offer his right arm, explaining that he was accustomed to wielding a sword with his left hand, while Iai Mi urged him not to act impulsively.
• Uncle Gu privately contacted Han Yuanwu, who passed the dangerous request on to Lu Wu for a decision.
• Lu Wu examined Beichen Ichito's history and recognized him as a swordsmanship genius whose sword was shaped by emotion, then approved the attempt and sent Copper Hanger to Brahma Heaven City.

Copper Hanger arrived in Brahma Heaven City and joined Gu Da Shu to begin forging a growth-type weapon for Beichen Ichito. The Flesh Forging began with Copper Hanger hammering Beichen Ichito’s right arm, leaving him in unbearable pain but determined to endure.

• Copper Hanger arrived in Brahma Heaven City, ignored a chance to buy local liquor after Lu Wu’s warning, and headed to Gu Da Shu’s blacksmith shop.
• Gu Da Shu introduced Copper Hanger as his big brother, and Copper Hanger agreed to help Beichen Ichito forge a growth-type weapon using the Flesh Forging Diagram.
• Copper Hanger examined the diagram, brought out his Legendary Forging Hammer, and directed Gu Da Shu to smelt the required ores.
• Copper Hanger secured Beichen Ichito to the forging table and began hammering his right arm, causing intense pain that reached his soul.
• Beichen Ichito insisted that Copper Hanger continue despite his suffering, while Iai Mi and the others watched in alarm.

Copper Hanger completed a Legendary weapon for Beichen Ichito by forging his lost right arm into the tachi Kikyo, which could transform between a sword and an arm and grow alongside him. After Lu Wu made the forging free, Beichen Ichito and the others left, while Copper Hanger asked Gu Da Shu to lend him Soul Coins.

• Copper Hanger used molten spirit metals and repeated hammering to forge Beichen Ichito's lost right arm into a weapon blank, while Beichen Ichito endured the pain.
• Copper Hanger forged the tachi to Beichen Ichito's specifications, engraved Soul Recombination runes, and named it Kikyo at Beichen Ichito's request.
• Kikyo bonded with Beichen Ichito and revealed its Legendary traits, including soul growth, transformation between sword and right arm, and abilities that developed with his sword intent.
• Copper Hanger waived the forging fee after Lu Wu ordered him to make the weapon free, and Iai Mi unsuccessfully asked him to forge her hair into a Legendary weapon.
• Beichen Ichito and the others departed, and Copper Hanger asked the admiring Gu Da Shu to lend him Soul Coins.

Inoue Atom's Moonlight Squad took Beichen Ichito to Withered Bone Forest so he could gain experience and learn to fight. When Indian players charged toward them during a battle with a Blood Demon, the squad retreated, but Beichen Ichito stayed behind, ready to face them.

• Inoue Atom led Beichen Ichito and the squad on foot to Withered Bone Forest, where players warned them about Indian groups clearing others out.
• Iai Mi told Beichen Ichito to practice against a monster, but pulled him back when a level 49 Blood Demon appeared and warned him it was too strong.
• Iai Mi, Inoue Atom, and the others fought the Blood Demon while Beichen Ichito watched their techniques.
• As the Blood Demon weakened, an Indian clearing squad rushed toward them, and Iai Mi killed the monster and secretly picked up its red gemstone.
• Inoue Atom ordered a retreat, but Beichen Ichito turned toward the approaching players and tightened his grip on Kikyo.

Beichen Ichito slaughtered the Indian team with his mastery of swordsmanship and awakened Sword Qi, leveling up as he fought. After Iai Mi recognized him as the legendary Hokushin who had killed her father, the enemy fled, leaving her to face Ichito with hatred and reluctant acceptance.

• Iai Mi retreated after killing the Blood Demon, then turned back when she saw Beichen Ichito stay behind to face the Indian team.
• Beichen Ichito awakened his sword heart, killed several attackers, and used techniques from multiple Ancient Sword Art schools to overwhelm the Indian players.
• Beichen Ichito unleashed Sword Qi, killed the team leader Sharu Kehan, and received a notification that he had unlocked the hidden ability.
• Beichen Ichito leveled up repeatedly while fighting, and Iai Mi recognized his sword intent and realized he was the Hokushin who had killed her father.
• The Indian team fled, and Beichen Ichito sheathed Kikyo as Iai Mi watched him with hatred and reluctant acceptance.

Beichen Ichito revealed to Iai Mi that he was the swordsman who killed her father, and she confronted him in the rain before hearing about his painful past. She chose to learn swordsmanship from him so she could defeat him herself, while their friends mistook their reconciliation for a romance.

• Beichen Ichito admitted his identity to Iai Mi, who angrily accused him of deceiving her and logged off.
• Iai Mi ran into the rain and repeatedly struck Beichen Ichito, who refused to fight back and explained his regrets and his wish to protect her.
• Iai Mi told Beichen Ichito to leave, but when he collapsed from his failing health, she helped him up and demanded that he teach her swordsmanship so she could defeat him.
• Iai Mi and Beichen Ichito returned to Inoue Atom and the others, who doubted their story about him falling in the rain and assumed they were a couple.
• Lu Wu watched the scene through the artifact and felt disappointed that Beichen Ichito's danger notification had led to what he considered a romantic moment.

Beichen Ichito’s battle video made him a celebrated sword expert and gave the Asian Server a new source of pride. The chapter then described how Battle Online reshaped real-world interests and education, ending with Lu Wu preparing to expand the Anti-Addiction System to every server ahead of the “Boundless Sea of Learning” expansion.

• Miss Atom posted a video of Beichen Ichito defeating an entire Indian team, and Asian Server players hailed him as a rising top expert.
• Inoue Atom added an image of Beichen Ichito’s growable Legendary weapon, prompting players across the servers to discuss his equipment and swordsmanship.
• Proud Sword praised Beichen Ichito’s sword intent and looked forward to fighting him, while Asian Server players began imitating his use of swords.
• Battle Online’s popularity influenced real-world schools, training, and careers, while its Anti-Addiction System encouraged students to finish their studies before playing.
• Lu Wu prepared to expand the Anti-Addiction System to every server as the “Boundless Sea of Learning” expansion approached.

Tian Lan confronted her father, Tian Kun, who had come to persuade her to join the Langya Island Allied Forces while secretly plotting to use her power for his own ambitions. After the Nether Sea King Scepter exposed his thoughts, Tian Lan attacked him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Bei Qi Players retreated to Liuli Coast to escape the Nine Radiance Brothers’ purges and sailed toward Sea King’s territory.
• Tian Lan rose to power in the Kui Long Sea Region after opening the Nether Sea Country Ruins and gaining its Stone Statue Legion and Nether Sea King Scepter.
• Sea King grew alarmed when he learned Langya had sent Tian Kun to persuade Tian Lan to surrender.
• Tian Kun approached Kan Kun Island, where Tian Lan’s guardian statues attacked him before she appeared and demanded to know his purpose.
• Tian Lan rejected Tian Kun’s appeal to join Langya and accused him of scheming to betray the alliance and claim the Kui Long Sea Region.
• Tian Lan used the scepter to see through Tian Kun’s thoughts, then an enormous golden arm rose from the island and struck at him.

Tian Lan used the Nether Sea King Scepter to expose Tian Kun’s plan to steal the Nether Sea Country’s legacy, then killed him and declared her ambition to restore the Nether Sea Country. The golden phantom recounted the empire’s history and fall, leaving Tian Lan aware that its past rulers were undone by ambition, powerful enemies, and the collapse of their alliance.

• Tian Lan used the scepter’s Nether Sentiments ability and discovered that Tian Kun desired the Nether Sea King Scepter.
• Tian Lan immobilized Tian Kun with the scepter and killed him with the Stone Statue Legion’s golden arm.
• Tian Lan told the golden phantom that she planned to restore the Nether Sea Country, and he warned that ambition had led the Nether Sea Empress to disaster.
• The golden phantom explained that the Empress’s invasion of Bei Qi led to conflict with Ice Seal, Bei Ming, and Bei Lingjing, whose strike left the Empress gravely wounded.
• The golden phantom recounted how the Empress’s death weakened the Nether Sea Country, leading to its dissolution into the Eight Great Sea Kingdoms and the loss of its former unity.

Tian Lan decided to obtain the Nether Sea Empress’s inheritance by awakening the formation hidden in her body, and resolved to plunder the Kui Long Sea Region for the spiritual materials it required. She attacked the Players’ fleet with the Stone Statue Legion, but the assault halted when Wang Damang called out to her.

• Tian Lan convinced the man of golden light that she shared the Empress’s appetite for conquest, and he agreed to reveal how she could inherit the Empress’s legacy.
• The man of golden light explained that Tian Lan needed a large quantity of spiritual materials to awaken the formation beneath the Empress’s body, and Tian Lan decided to gather them by plundering the region.
• Tian Lan summoned the Stone Statue Legion and led it toward an approaching fleet, which carried Players fleeing Bei Qi to reunite with Sea King.
• Tian Lan ordered the Players to surrender their supplies and attacked their fleet when they resisted, while the Players identified the Golden Paragon as an immensely powerful Ghost Emperor artifact.
• Wang Damang claimed that Tian Lan was once nearly his concubine, and the Players laughed at him until he called her name and the stone statues stopped attacking.

Tian Lan and the Stone Statue Legion attacked Wang Damang’s fleet, and Tian Lan demanded its supplies. She spared Wang Damang while destroying the ships, then left without learning where their cargo and wreckage had gone.

• Wang Damang recognized Tian Lan and tried to stop the Stone Statue Legion’s assault, but Xueli and the others restrained him until Tian Lan noticed him.
• Tian Lan told Wang Damang she had already repaid him with the Child of the Ocean and demanded that the Players surrender all their supplies.
• Gouzi and Gu Yu challenged Tian Lan, but the Golden Paragon destroyed the Mythical Warship and the rest of the fleet, sending the Players into death cooldown.
• A golden light shield protected Wang Damang from the attack, and Tian Lan later questioned him about the missing supplies and wreckage.
• Wang Damang refused to answer Tian Lan, who eventually departed with the Stone Statue Legion and left him lamenting his failed hopes of winning her over.

Wang Damang met Doctor Sea, a Ghost Emperor who had spent hundreds of thousands of years trying to become a villain after a woman rejected him for being too good. Doctor Sea described his accidental good deeds and revealed he had planted the Tranquility ancient tree as a supposed disaster in the False Void Sea Region, while Wang Damang found some comfort in realizing he was not the only one with a painful love life.

• Doctor Sea appeared beside Wang Damang and introduced himself, and Wang Damang’s analysis panel revealed that he was the former King of the Nether Sea Country and a late-stage Ghost Emperor.
• Doctor Sea told Wang Damang that he had tried to become a villain after an ambitious woman called him a good person, and urged Wang Damang to learn to be bad for the sake of love.
• Doctor Sea recounted how his attempts to cause tsunamis, erupt a volcano, and kill tens of thousands of warriors had instead helped people and earned him gratitude.
• Doctor Sea revealed that he had planted an evil seed in the False Void Sea Region, and Wang Damang recognized it as the Tranquility ancient tree and realized Doctor Sea had purchased it from the Ink Dragon Ocean Merchant Guild.
• Doctor Sea advised Wang Damang to become a great villain so the woman he loved would fall for him, and Wang Damang felt comforted by Doctor Sea’s even worse romantic misfortune.

Wang Damang learned that Doctor Sea had joined the Extremely Evil Alliance, whose members had followed him to the Kui Long Sea Region to cause destruction. Doctor Sea accidentally made them cancel their plans, then accepted a solo destruction mission while Evil Armor and the others fled.

• Doctor Sea told Wang Damang he had come to the Kui Long Sea Region to join the Extremely Evil Alliance’s planned destruction.
• Evil Armor arrived and begged Doctor Sea to leave the alliance, explaining that his past mishaps had ruined the Bi Quan villain organization.
• Doctor Sea offered to help plan the destruction, so Evil Armor canceled the operation and announced the organization would go into seclusion for one hundred years.
• Evil Armor tricked Doctor Sea into accepting a solo destruction mission and fled to warn the president.
• Doctor Sea invited Wang Damang to join him, and Wang Damang worried that his past misdeeds might make him a bad person.

Doctor Sea tried to persuade Wang Damang to become a villain by pointing to the power of the girl he liked and recounting Nether Sea Country’s history. Wang Damang realized Doctor Sea’s reckless actions had likely helped bring about the empire’s destruction.

• Doctor Sea urged Wang Damang to become a villain, but Wang Damang insisted that he wanted to remain a good person.
• Doctor Sea told Wang Damang that the girl he liked had inherited Nether Sea Country and described how its Empress had built the empire through evil deeds.
• Doctor Sea recounted how he ordered Golden Fool to attack Bei Qi without investigating its strength, causing the Tidal Army to be wiped out.
• Doctor Sea said he later beat Ice Seal and secretly captured and beat him again after Nether Sea Country’s war with Bei Qi ended in a draw.
• Wang Damang concluded that Doctor Sea’s karma skills had likely played a major role in Nether Sea Country’s destruction.

Lu Wu launched a Children’s Day event in which Players cared for adorable children, and many Players grew deeply attached to them. After the children vanished at midnight, Lu Wu and Bei Li agreed to preserve their data and consider adding child-nurturing features.

• Lu Wu launched the Filial Piety event, letting Players claim children and earn rewards by raising their Happiness Value.
• Players across the servers shared childcare advice and competed to show off their children as they grew fond of them.
• At midnight, the children bowed to their Players, said farewell, and vanished in white light.
• Players flooded the forums with protests and pleas to bring the children back.
• Lu Wu discussed the backlash with Bei Li and announced that the children's data would remain while officials considered child-nurturing features.

Wang Damang followed Doctor Sea to the Nether Sea Ruins, where Jin Guang’s plan to resurrect the Empress using Tian Lan as a sacrifice began. Doctor Sea intervened with a Five-Colored Fragment, and the Empress absorbed so much energy that even her body began to struggle to endure it.

• Doctor Sea told Wang Damang he planned to revive the Empress, and Wang Damang followed him to the Nether Sea Ruins after learning Tian Lan was connected to the scheme.
• Tian Lan began what she believed was the Empress’s inheritance, but Jin Guang revealed the formation was a resurrection ritual designed to use her body and soul as a sacrifice.
• Jin Guang entered the Nether Sea King Scepter and activated the formation, awakening the Empress and draining Tian Lan’s vitality.
• Doctor Sea arrived with Wang Damang and threw a Five-Colored Fragment into the formation, adding its immense life-reversing power to the ritual.
• Jin Guang initially welcomed the new energy, but grew alarmed as it continued flooding the Empress’s body beyond what she could endure.