Chapter Summaries

Mei Ba reunited with Hanba’s Corpse Spirit and arranged for Hu He’s companion to enter the Netherworld Clan’s Trial Space in exchange for Corpse Spirit Jades. When Hu He met her, she asked who had killed Hanba, but he refused to name Evil God.

• Mei Ba’s memories revealed that she had helped the Corpse Clan surrender to the Netherworld Clan while secretly strengthening it and dispelling her divine curse.
• Mei Ba agreed to give Hanba a chance to speak if Hu He provided one hundred Corpse Spirit Jades and access to the Trial Space beneath Corpse Mountain for his companion.
• Chi Ba opened a path through Corpse Mountain, Qi Ming entered the Trial Space, and Mei Ba handed over the jades.
• Hu He left his hiding place to meet Mei Ba, who recognized him as Hanba’s Corpse Refiner and revealed that Hanba was her biological brother.
• Hu He warned Mei Ba that a god had killed Hanba, but he refused to identify Evil God or help her seek revenge.

Hu He took Hanba's empty Corpse Spirit away, while Mei Ba revealed that Hanba's soul still existed and persuaded Chi Ba and Lie Ba to help her rebuild his body. After recovering Hanba's soul fragments from the Evil God, Mei Ba began shaping the fused Corpse Mountain into a new body for her brother.

• Hu He left with Hanba's Corpse Spirit after refusing to reveal who had killed him, and Mei Ba explained that Hanba's soul had not entered the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Mei Ba asked Chi Ba to give up his Half-God breakthrough and Corpse Mountain so she could combine it with the mountains held by Lie Ba to create Hanba a peak Half-God body.
• Three days later, the Evil God discovered that a purple mist had taken Hanba's soul fragments from him and erupted in anger.
• Mei Ba used the three fused Corpse Mountains to retrieve Hanba's soul fragments, though she admitted she could not restore them.
• Mei Ba placed the fragments in a blood-red core and refined the Corpse Mountain into a humanoid form while Chi Ba and Lie Ba guarded her.

Lu Wu learned that Mei Ba was reconstructing Hanba from soul fragments rather than truly restoring him, then turned his attention to the Hell Server’s efforts to develop bodily combat power. Ai Rui and Tesla pursued the Mechanical Revolution plan, which would replace the body with machinery and give Players a steel body that could keep fighting without a mech.

• Lu Wu asked Little Bei Li to inspect Mei Ba’s work, and she explained that Hanba’s memories were being pieced together into an incomplete soul rather than his original soul being restored.
• Little Bei Li praised Mei Ba’s talent but said her method was far less advanced than her own, and Lu Wu decided not to interfere with future relations between the Corpse Clan and the Player Race.
• Lu Wu received a report from Ekko that Hell Server Players had begun modifying their bodies and shifted his attention to Ai Rui and Tesla arguing over a new growth plan.
• After losing to Reinhardt in the Individual Competition, Ai Rui sought a way for Hell Server Players to remain dangerous after their mechs were destroyed.
• Ai Rui and Tesla found the unfinished Mechanical Revolution proposal in the Blue Valley People’s records and worked with Ekko to develop its concept of replacing the human body with machinery.

Ai Rui and Tesla completed a Body Mechanization blueprint and began testing it on Ai Rui, who discovered that the modification required creating a new class. After Ai Rui accepted the irreversible change, the experiment was cleared to proceed under Lu Wu’s watch.

• Ai Rui and Tesla argued over Body Mechanization and Gene Modification, and Ekko judged mechanization the better path for improving their combat power.
• Ai Rui and Tesla spent two months researching and completing the Body Mechanization blueprints with Ekko’s help, despite repeated beast tides forcing the Black Light Organization to relocate.
• Ai Rui bought rare materials and processed them into 3,795 components before he and Tesla began the modification experiment in a temporary laboratory.
• Tesla injected liquid metal into Ai Rui to metallize his skeleton, but the procedure drained Ai Rui’s health and the recovery liquid seemed to consume the metal.
• A Game Notification offered Ai Rui the chance to create a new class and warned that his body could not be restored; Ai Rui confirmed the choice as Lu Wu watched.

Ai Rui created the Intelligent Machine profession and endured a long, dangerous body-modification process supervised by Tesla and assisted by Ekko. After completing the transformation, he discovered his new abilities and realized that leveling up by consuming costly spirit ore could leave him broke.

• Ai Rui created the Intelligent Machine profession, earning 500 Soul Coins and triggering the Hell Server’s first profession-creation announcement.
• Ai Rui endured the painful metallization of his skeleton and replacement of most of his organs while Tesla performed the modifications and Ekko supplied data.
• Tesla and Ekko corrected errors as they installed the final components, while Black Light Organization players guarded the laboratory.
• Ai Rui completed his transformation with a 97% mechanized body, tested his movement, and shared his new profession panel with Tesla.
• Ai Rui ate spirit ore to gain experience and worried that the rising cost of leveling would consume his money.

Over six months, the Five Great Servers advanced through wars, conquests, and new developments as Lu Wu continued expanding Conquest. After three years of operating the game, its influence on reality had grown, and Wu Guoyi invited Lu Wu to attend the upcoming E3 Game Show.

• Lu Wu opened part of Hell Server's body modification permissions after Ai Rui became an Intelligent Machine, and Ai Rui shared his transformation with Players, drawing recruits to the Black Light Guild while refusing the American military's offer to cooperate.
• The Asian Server fought Demon Ridge forces, gained battlefield experience, and saw a Player obtain part of Bone Monk's inheritance.
• The Europe Server defeated Yuan Xu in the Azure Void Great Domain; Hu He and Evil King killed Yuan Xu, and Hu He earned the achievement for slaying a Ghost Emperor Level powerhouse.
• The Africa Server annexed the Beast-Loving Tribe and gained new territory and resources, but faced an impending counterattack from the Qiuniu Tribe.
• China Server Players continued to strengthen, while Lu Wu updated the servers and their forums began recording milestones from three years of Conquest.
• Wu Guoyi called Lu Wu and asked whether he would attend the upcoming E3 Game Show.

Lu Wu decided to attend E3, only to discover that Conquest players had learned he would be there and were flooding the event’s review platform with one-star ratings. Their bizarre campaign drew widespread attention, and the players changed the reviews to five stars the day before the show opened, hoping to win every award for Conquest.

• Lu Wu accepted Wu Guoyi’s offer to attend E3 and learned that players would judge games through a system that displayed their in-game hours.
• Wu Guoyi’s media interview revealed that Lu Wu would attend, prompting Conquest players to buy up tickets and flood the E3 platform.
• Conquest players posted one-star reviews while boasting of thousands of hours in the game, confusing prospective players and drawing media coverage.
• Lu Wu recognized that the negative reviews were giving Conquest valuable publicity, even as players urged others to avoid the game.
• The day before E3 opened, Conquest players replaced their negative reviews with five-star ratings and rallied to win every award.

Lu Wu visited the E3 Game Show with Little Bei Li, where Conquest Players’ threats against him made him increasingly wary. While exploring the exhibits, he saw Titan, a game he remembered as the ambitious project that had once contributed to Blizzard’s decline.

• Lu Wu entered E3 with Little Bei Li and spotted Conquest Players carrying cosplay weapons and talking about harming the Dog Official.
• Lu Wu noticed a group of fifty masked Players wearing Evil God shirts and suspected they were the forum members who had threatened to kidnap him.
• Lu Wu checked Battle Online’s booth location but wandered through the A1 exhibition area instead of going straight to it.
• Lu Wu explored other companies’ flagship games and recognized several titles he had once anticipated.
• Lu Wu watched Titan’s CG at the EA Booth and remembered how Blizzard’s costly, overambitious Titan Project had been canceled and contributed to the company’s decline.

Lu Wu tried Blizzard’s Titan demo, then visited Conquest’s crowded booth and unexpectedly won its only limited-edition Copper Hanger figure. After escaping the jealous players, he learned Little Bei Li credited his luck to the Human Emperor’s Mirror and declined Wu Guoyi’s offer of a seat beside him at the awards ceremony.

• Lu Wu tested Titan at the EA booth, judged it inferior to Conquest, and left with Little Bei Li.
• At the Conquest booth, Lu Wu learned players were lining up for NPC figures and joined the queue.
• Lu Wu drew the sole limited-edition Copper Hanger figure, drawing intense envy from the surrounding players.
• Lu Wu refused to sell the figure and left the A3 Exhibition Hall with Little Bei Li.
• Little Bei Li said the Human Emperor’s Mirror gathered human fortune and gave Lu Wu exceptional luck.
• Wu Guoyi offered Lu Wu a seat beside him at the awards ceremony, but Lu Wu declined to avoid being mistaken for a developer.

Lu Wu attended the E3 awards ceremony with Little Bei Li while Wu Guoyi fielded questions about Conquest and accidentally revealed that its Mastermind was present. Conquest swept the awards, and Lu Wu left with Players searching for him, quietly vowing to make them pay in Soul Coins later.

• After declining Wu Guoyi's invitation, Lu Wu waited with Little Bei Li and entered the E3 awards venue when the ceremony began.
• Lu Wu watched Wu Guoyi get surrounded by game-company executives hoping to learn about or poach Conquest's development team, which consisted only of Little Bei Li.
• The E3 representative presented Battle Online's dominant ratings and called Wu Guoyi onstage to answer questions, but Wu Guoyi admitted he knew little about Conquest.
• Wu Guoyi revealed that Conquest's Mastermind was probably in the venue, prompting Players and company executives to search the crowd while Lu Wu tried not to draw attention.
• Conquest swept nearly every award, and after the ceremony Lu Wu found Players blocking the exit to hunt for him and demand Soul Coins.
• Lu Wu acted magnanimous toward the Players but privately vowed to squeeze Soul Coins out of them and settle his grudge later.

After Conquest’s E3 success brought in new players, Lu Wu expanded the game and used a Lucky Roulette event to refill his Soul Coin reserves. Meanwhile, veteran players headed toward the Extreme Cold Abyss as the chapter recounted how the Player Race’s war with the Corpse Clan began.

• Lu Wu evaded players searching for Conquest’s behind-the-scenes boss at E3, while the game’s awards drew worldwide attention and new players.
• Lu Wu expanded the main city areas across the servers and launched the Lucky Roulette, which drained players’ saved Soul Coins and replenished his reserves.
• The players’ conflict with the Corpse Clan began after Hanba and Evil God fought, and Chi Ba and Lie Ba sacrificed themselves to empower Hanba.
• After Hanba and Evil God’s five-day battle left them unconscious, Mei Ba’s Corpse Clan tried to devour Evil God, prompting the Evil God Guild, Gu Yu, Myth Guild, and other players to launch a rescue.
• The players fought the wounded Corpse Clan and took Evil God away, turning the Player Race and Corpse Clan into permanent enemies.

The Players turned the war with the Corpse Clan into a profitable corpse-recycling industry while growing stronger, leaving the Corpse Clan increasingly desperate for Hanba to wake. Meanwhile, Ganda arrived at Pollsmoor Prison and defeated the Beast Gang, declaring himself its new boss as memories of the name Moon Radiance stirred within him.

• The Players reclaimed Evil God and began raiding the Senluo Great Domain, collecting Corpse Clan bodies for the Corpse Refining Room, the Auction House, and demon chef cuisine.
• The corpse trade and the Players’ repeated attacks weakened the Corpse Clan, while Lu Wu profited from processing and transaction fees.
• Ganda arrived at Pollsmoor Prison with a life sentence, refused to bribe a guard, and was sent to Room 707.
• The Beast Gang demanded that Ganda prove himself by attacking a white prisoner, but Ganda struck the gang leader and fought the gang alone.
• Ganda knocked down the Beast Gang, stood over its leader, and asked whether the gang needed a boss as the name Moon Radiance surfaced in his hazy memories.

Ganda rose to power in B District by repeatedly defeating the Beast Gang’s leader and uniting the prison gangs, while his vague mission came from Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord’s attempt to investigate divine remnants in the Human Realm. Lu Wu and Little Bei Li uncovered the Immortal Lord’s scheme and sent Mu Zhiguang to punish Ganda, who was preparing to enter prison.

• Ganda was beaten unconscious by prison guards after overpowering inmates, then woke with Moon Radiance’s soul and memories confusing his sense of identity.
• Ganda repeatedly challenged the Beast Gang’s leader despite confinement and beatings until the leader finally acknowledged him as boss.
• Ganda unified B District, expanded his influence across the prison, and planned to use the inmates to escape and complete his vague mission.
• Lu Wu and Little Bei Li discovered that Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord had possessed Ganda with Moon Radiance’s soul to investigate divine body fragments in the Human Realm.
• Lu Wu summoned Mu Zhiguang and sent him to South Africa with a mission to enter prison and punish Ganda.
• Mu Zhiguang arrived in South Africa and decided to commit a crime so he could be imprisoned.

Mu Zhiguang arrived at Pollsmoor Prison, defeated C District’s gangs, and became their boss so he could confront Ganda. He overpowered Ganda in a prison duel while Lu Wu and Little Bei Li watched the Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord grow anxious from the Celestial Realm.

• Mu Zhiguang arrived at Pollsmoor Prison after being sentenced for robbing a bank with a toy gun and refusing to explain himself.
• Mu Zhiguang defeated dozens of C District prisoners with his copied grappling technique, then agreed to lead the district against Ganda.
• Mu Zhiguang drove back prisoners from A and B Districts during a cafeteria brawl, and C District’s two bosses asked him to become their leader.
• After Ganda left the Confinement Room, Mu Zhiguang accepted his challenge and quickly gained the upper hand in their duel.
• The Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord watched from the Celestial Realm and found no spiritual power in Mu Zhiguang, while Lu Wu and Little Bei Li prepared their trap.

Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord tried to steal Moon Radiance’s soul from the Six Paths of Reincarnation, but Lu Wu and Little Bei Li’s trap led Eastern Peak Great Emperor to catch him. Eastern Emperor Taiyi traded back Eastern Peak’s lost Law Ribbon to secure Heavenly Profound’s release, while Mu Zhiguang faced execution in the Human Realm.

• Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord watched Ganda lose to Mu Zhiguang, then saw Ganda die and tried to intercept Moon Radiance’s soul.
• The Six Paths of Reincarnation seized Moon Radiance’s soul, so Heavenly Profound entered its world to steal it himself.
• Eastern Peak Great Emperor answered Little Bei Li’s blank message, caught Heavenly Profound, and trapped him inside a Brass Bell.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi exchanged Eastern Peak’s lost Law Ribbon for Heavenly Profound’s release and took his subordinate away.
• Lu Wu and Little Bei Li revealed that they had arranged Ganda’s death and the message to lure Heavenly Profound into the Six Paths of Reincarnation.
• Mu Zhiguang was sent to the Confinement Room and faced the death penalty for killing Ganda.

Lu Wu and Little Bei Li prepared to deceive any future Heavenly Realm spies while Lu Wu turned the Moon Radiance Palace Lord into an NPC and observed the players’ war with the Corpse Clan. The chapter ended when Lu Wu noticed a forum post reporting that the Sea King wanted the Player Race to rob a Yellow Springs Merchant Guild transport.

• Lu Wu and Little Bei Li planned to detect future Heavenly Profound Immortal Lord pawns and create a convincing virtual world to mislead them.
• Lu Wu modified the Moon Radiance Palace Lord’s soul and sent him to the European server as an equipment enhancement NPC.
• The Corpse Clan fought on two fronts to collect corpses for its Corpse Mountain and awaken Hanba, while players farmed bodies for Soul Coins.
• Lu Wu considered the Soul Coin Exchange mutually beneficial to wealthy and farming players, though both groups continued complaining about the Dog Official.
• Lu Wu saw Poverty Makes Me Trash’s forum post and watched a video in which the Sea King proposed that the Player Race rob a Yellow Springs Merchant Guild transport.

The Sea King sought the Player Race’s help to seize a shipment of rare Icefire Stones from the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild and strengthen his forces. He and the players agreed to consider the job but spent the night arguing over how to divide the profits.

• News of the Sea King’s arrival drew crowds of players to Liuli Coast, where he came alone to seek cooperation.
• The Sea King explained that he had been assigned to protect five merchant ships carrying Icefire Stones and revealed his plan to take the shipment to advance his ambitions.
• Gu Yu and the other guild leaders agreed to consider the job, then disputed the Sea King’s proposed seventy-thirty profit split in his favor.
• Liu Chai proposed a sixty-forty split favoring the Player Race, and Gouzi rallied the players to reject the Sea King’s counteroffer.
• The Sea King threatened to find another faction, but Gouzi challenged him to do so, and both sides continued negotiating through the night without reaching an agreement.

Gu Yu and the Players negotiated an even split of the plunder with the Sea King, then learned that a new NPC could amplify their equipment using Icefire Stones. The announcement left them eager to reopen negotiations because enhancing their high-quality gear would require a great many stones.

• The Sea King and the Players argued over the plunder's division until they agreed to split the profits fifty-fifty.
• The Sea King left to gather information and later send someone with the merchant ships' route, while Gu Yu comforted a dejected Gouzi.
• An all-region announcement introduced Mu Guang, a Spirit Infusion Master who could amplify equipment using Icefire Stones and Soul Coins.
• Lu Wu explained that he had created Mu Guang and set safeguards for amplification, while planning to profit from the Icefire Stones and any destroyed equipment.
• Gu Yu and the others realized their high-quality gear could gain powerful enhancements, but they needed many Icefire Stones and wished they could renegotiate with the Sea King.

The Sea King escorted five Icefire Stone merchant ships while planning for the players to stage a hijacking, but Hei Sha’s Shark Bite Merchant Guild attacked the fleet first. The Sea King and his lords fought back as the players waited at the wrong ambush point, unaware that the battle had begun.

• Players gathered at Liuli Coast to prepare to rob the five merchant ships carrying Icefire Stones.
• The Sea King arranged a handover with Hei Sha, then led the merchant ships toward the Blood-colored Sea Region.
• After the handover, Hei Sha secretly turned the Shark Bite Fleet around and followed the Mu Te Fleet to seize the shipment.
• Black sharks attacked the Sea King’s fleet, and the Shark Bite Fleet appeared behind it; the Sea King ordered Hei Sui and the other lords to counterattack.
• The players waited in the water for the Sea King to arrive, repeating, “Don't worry, the Sea King is on his way!”

The Sea King fought to protect the merchant ships from Hei Sha and the Shark Bite Fleet until Bai Ze and the player fleet arrived as reinforcements. The players rejected Hei Sha’s offer to divide the goods and joined the battle, allowing the Sea King to turn his full attention to Hei Sha.

• Gu Yu discovered that the merchant ships had been intercepted and called the players to provide support.
• The Sea King fought Hei Sha while the Shark Bite Fleet overwhelmed the Mu Te Army and attacked the merchant ships.
• Hei Sha ordered his Shark Devouring Formation to destroy the merchant ships, but Little Kun’s arrival scattered the sharks.
• Bai Ze met Hei Sha, who offered to split the goods, but the players arrived and refused to abandon the Sea King.
• The player fleet charged into the battle, and the Sea King attacked Hei Sha without needing to protect the merchant ships himself.