Chapter Summaries

The Sea King overwhelmed Hei Sha and nearly killed him, but the Players intervened to claim the Ghost Emperor for themselves. Gu Yu and the others took custody of the dying Hei Sha, eager to gain the rewards from killing him.

• The Player fleet joined the battle and helped the Sea King's forces overwhelm Hei Sha's fleet.
• Hei Sha tried to bribe the Sea King with a share of the Icefire Stones, but the Sea King refused and kept attacking him.
• The Sea King trapped Hei Sha in a contracting water ball and weakened him with death energy until he was near death.
• Players fired on the Sea King and rushed over, demanding that he hand Hei Sha to them so they could kill him themselves.
• The Sea King released Hei Sha and threw him to Gu Yu, whose group welcomed him as a valuable source of soul power and experience.

The Players and Sea King destroyed Hei Sha’s Shark Bite Fleet, then staged a second battle to make it appear that they had attacked the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild’s ships. Sea King rescued the merchants while the Players collected the Icefire Stones, and the two sides relaxed together after the deception was complete.

• Gu Yu and the Players repeatedly healed and struck Hei Sha so everyone could claim a share of the rewards, while Sea King attacked the Shark Bite Fleet.
• The Shark Bite vice president ordered the fleet to charge through the encirclement, but the Players and Sea King stopped the escape and destroyed the ships.
• After the battle, the Players and Sea King staged a fight in front of the sea merchants and attacked their five merchant ships.
• The merchants abandoned ship, and the Players dove after the Icefire Stones while Sea King swept the merchants to safety with a wave.
• Sea King fled under the Players’ staged pursuit, and the two groups regrouped among the wreckage to share food and drink.

After the merchant ship raid, the players tortured Hei Sha to death, then distributed their spoils and received Lu Wu’s new Disassembler and Alchemist professions. As players began studying and experimenting, Lu Wu watched them develop the skills and creativity that could eventually make the Player Race a calamity across the heavenly realm.

• The players returned to Bei Qi with Hei Sha and continued forcing him to drink Health Recovery Potions while taking turns hammering him until he died.
• The major guilds distributed the raid’s supplies, and players spent Soul Coins to obtain more of the scarce Icefire Stones for equipment enhancement.
• Lu Wu announced that players could register for the Disassembler and Alchemist Life Professions, which could break down materials into elements and combine them into new items.
• Players received textbooks and beginner tools, then began studying the professions in the crowded underworld mansion.
• Disassembler players tested their skills on plants, stones, trees, and low-tier equipment, while Lu Wu protected the mansion buildings from being dismantled.
• Alchemist players bought elements and practiced synthesis as Lu Wu encouraged their experiments and awaited the Player Race’s rise.

After Lu Wu benefited from the Players’ new Life Professions, the story introduced Kong Yi, a reincarnated Human Ancestor living as an elementary school student in a depleted Human Realm. Kong Yi remained determined to avenge humanity’s defeat but saw no path to power, and the chapter ended with his strict father carrying him home and spanking him.

• Lu Wu welcomed the Players’ diligent study of Disassembly and Alchemy, which circulated Soul Coins and helped fund his plans.
• Number One returned with eight more pages of the Human Emperor’s Mirror, and Lu Wu felt confident that his growing Soul Coin income could cover the expense.
• In Ming Xiao City, Kong Yi reflected on his former life as a Human Ancestor, humanity’s defeat, and his return to the Three Realms through reincarnation.
• Kong Yi lamented that the Human Realm’s lack of spiritual energy left him unable to cultivate or pursue revenge against the Heavenly Realm.
• Kong Yi’s strict father found him at school, picked him up, and spanked him before taking him home.

Kong Yi struggled to find a way to cultivate in the Era of Dharma Decline, but his search for spiritual herbs ended in failure and a beating from his father. His father’s new learning machine unexpectedly brought him to the spirit-rich Netherworld, where an anti-addiction quiz immediately stood between him and cultivation.

• Kong Yi considered alchemy as a way to cultivate and cautiously asked Kong Ba for money to buy medicinal herbs.
• After Kong Ba refused, Kong Yi skipped school and searched four herbal shops for spiritual materials but found none.
• Kong Ba tracked Kong Yi down, brought him home, beat him, and lectured him; Kong Yi sobbed over his failed attempt to cultivate.
• The next day, Kong Yi returned to school, and Kong Ba bought him a Super Learning Machine with a Black Sea Game Pod.
• Kong Yi entered Battle Online and recognized Netherworld City as the real Netherworld, sensing its abundant spiritual energy.
• A Game Notification activated the Anti-Addiction System and required Kong Yi to answer 300 first-grade questions before receiving two hours of game time.

Kong Yi struggled to earn game time by passing the Anti-Addiction exam, then returned to Netherworld City hoping to learn about the game’s origins. He impressed Mo Xiaoxin with his knowledge but got stuck when asked to recite the full Decomposition Element Table.

• Kong Yi failed the 300-question Anti-Addiction test with 36 points and began studying so he could earn time to cultivate.
• After three days of studying, Kong Yi scored 300 points and earned two hours and twenty minutes of game time.
• Kong Yi arrived at Netherworld Central Square and found people studying instead of cultivating, so he asked Mo Xiaoxin what he was reading.
• Mo Xiaoxin told Kong Yi to study and grind questions, but Kong Yi challenged him to quiz him in exchange for answers.
• Kong Yi correctly answered questions about the game's elements and special elements, then faltered when Mo Xiaoxin demanded the names of all 36,888 elements.

Kong Yi learned about Conquest from Mo Xiaoxin, then taught him disassembly and decided to pursue Life Professions for resources. After accepting Disassembler and Alchemist trials, he began cultivating and comprehended the top-tier technique Hun Yuan Body, earning a massive reward and an All-Region Announcement.

• Kong Yi questioned Mo Xiaoxin about Conquest and concluded that Human Emperor Tu Mie was likely behind the game and preparing the human race for war.
• Kong Yi explained the Disassembler's Introductory Handbook to Mo Xiaoxin, impressing him with his deep knowledge despite repeated Anti-Addiction tests and school obligations.
• After learning that Life Professions could provide resources and rewards, Kong Yi accepted the Disassembler and Alchemist job advancement trials.
• Kong Yi began cultivating with his self-created technique and comprehended the top-tier technique Hun Yuan Body, receiving 10,000 Soul Coins through an All-Region Announcement.
• Mo Xiaoxin recognized Kong Yi as the announced Player and was stunned by the elementary school student's achievement.

Kong Yi mastered the Hun Yuan Body technique and Lu Wu discovered that he was an ancient Human Race powerhouse reincarnated as a schoolboy. When Lu Wu investigated Kong Yi’s memories, Bei Li warned him that learning about the missing Human Emperors could expose him to a deadly Sacred Spirit Lord.

• Kong Yi inspected the Hun Yuan Body technique’s powerful effects, while Mo Xiaoxin envied how easily Kong Yi had obtained it.
• Players on the forums speculated about Kong Yi’s new technique and wondered what had happened to Black Tiger.
• Lu Wu examined Kong Yi’s soul and learned that Kong Yi was a pre-war Human Race pillar who had reincarnated as a primary school student, while the Anti-Addiction System kept him playing under Kong Ba’s supervision.
• Lu Wu opened a memory fragment labeled Human Emperor Tu Mie and found an image of Pikachu dancing, then suspected Bei Li had altered Kong Yi’s memories.
• Bei Li denied tampering with Kong Yi’s soul and warned Lu Wu that the Sacred Spirit Lord could sense people who knew the truth about the missing Human Emperors and had killed many of them.

As the Disassembler and Alchemist trials approached, Mo Xiaoxin argued with his mother Mo Lanlan, who mocked his chances of passing. Kong Yi, already confident in his exam knowledge, was prevented by Kong Ba from entering the game and forced to go out and celebrate his school results.

• Players crowded Central Square to prepare for the Disassembler and Alchemist trials, hoping to gain profitable Life Professions.
• Mo Lanlan teased Mo Xiaoxin about his past failures and insisted he was unlikely to pass the Disassembler trial.
• Mo Xiaoxin argued that his analytical skills would help him pass, but Mo Lanlan continued to mock him.
• Kong Ba told Kong Yi that he had ranked first in his class and insisted they go out to celebrate instead of letting him take the Life Profession exam.
• Kong Yi struggled to reach the Game Pod, lamenting that he could not decide for himself.

Mo Xiaoxin began the Disassembler Trial and started dismantling a Star Pattern Stone, determined to pass after years of failed profession examinations. Kong Yi finally entered the game, but Anti-Addiction restrictions forced him to pass a separate examination before reaching the Alchemist Trial at the last minute.

• Mo Xiaoxin entered the Disassembler Trial after noticing that Kong Yi had not logged in, while Mo Lanlan teased and encouraged him.
• The trial rules outlined four stages of increasingly difficult items, and Mo Xiaoxin examined the beginner disassembly tools while waiting for the examination to begin.
• Kong Yi overcame his Anti-Addiction examination and entered the Alchemist Trial Hall in the countdown's final minute.
• Mo Xiaoxin received three first-tier items and chose the Star Pattern Stone as his first item to disassemble.
• Mo Xiaoxin used Spirit Eye, the Disassembly Mallet, gloves, and the condensation box to separate and condense elements from the stone until he exceeded the passing threshold.

Kong Yi’s alchemy trial success recreated his Human Decree, which received a distress message from Human Ancestor Zhu Shan and revealed Humans suffering beyond the domain. Lu Wu opened an expedition to rescue them, and Kong Yi accepted the role of leader, leaving with restored strength.

• Kong Yi dominated the Alchemy trial and earned 30,000 points by synthesizing a Human Decree.
• Kong Yi received a distress message from Zhu Shan showing chained Humans attacked by black giant birds, along with coordinates beyond the domain.
• Kong Yi pleaded with the unseen power to rescue his people, but received no answer before the trial ended.
• Lu Wu and Little Bei Li prepared a cross-realm expedition to Region 223.523, Wanderers, and the servers announced it would begin in one hour.
• Kong Yi accepted the offer to lead the expedition, appeared as an NPC, and gained strength as soul power flowed into him.
• Kong Yi thanked the unseen power, and Lu Wu replied, “We are all Human!”

The players launched their first interdimensional expedition to Wandering Star, where they freed humanity’s imprisoned warriors and defeated the Crow King. Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s incarnation then trapped the army behind a barrier, leaving Kong Yi to face him while Lu Wu and Little Bei Li tried to restore the connection.

• Players arrived on Wandering Star and attacked the Black Crow Legion to rescue the human warriors bound to stone pillars.
• Kong Yi transformed into a giant and killed the Crow King with a single axe strike, scattering the crows.
• A white barrier sealed the players off from Lu Wu and Little Bei Li, who burned Soul Coins to repair the passage.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi revealed that he was an incarnation who had set a trap, and Kong Yi stood between him and the players.
• Kong Yi clashed with Eastern Emperor Taiyi, whose Prayer Beads weakened the axe attack, but Kong Yi pressed forward and vowed to kill him.

Kong Yi fought Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s avatar to protect the Players, and continued attacking even after his head was severed. When the avatar turned his remaining Prayer Beads against the Players, Lu Wu empowered a hundred ancient Human Race warriors, who broke free and charged to defend their descendants.

• Kong Yi refused Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s offer to lead the Human Race descendants in the Heavenly Realm and attacked the avatar’s Prayer Beads.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi severed Kong Yi’s head, but Kong Yi kept fighting and shattered three Prayer Beads, inspiring the Players and imprisoned warriors.
• Eastern Emperor Taiyi trapped Kong Yi with six Prayer Beads and sent the last one to bombard the barrier blocking the Players.
• Lu Wu asked the imprisoned Human Race warriors to burn their remaining lives to protect the future, and they answered by breaking free and attacking the Light Shadows.
• The hundred warriors raised a new barrier to keep the Players back, then charged the enemy under Zhu Shan’s lead, declaring that the Human Race was eternal.

Kong Yi and Zhu Shan led the Human Race Ancient Warriors in defending the Players from Eastern Emperor's avatar, but the warriors burned their souls to keep fighting. After Kong Yi broke the barrier and destroyed the avatar, the Human Emperor appeared before the surviving enemy.

• Eastern Emperor's avatar redirected a Prayer Bead's Light Shadows toward the Players and attacked Kong Yi with lightning as Kong Yi tried to break through the barrier.
• Zhu Shan and the Ancient Warriors abandoned their bodies and burned their souls to fight the Light Shadows, and Zhu Shan died proclaiming that the Human Race would never perish.
• Kong Yi burned his soul, shattered the Prayer Bead barrier, and charged Eastern Emperor's avatar in blue flames.
• Lu Wu gathered the Players and the souls of those killed by the Black Crow Legion into the divine artifact after the outer barrier shattered.
• Eastern Emperor's avatar emerged from the crater, believed he had won, and then recognized the Human Emperor standing above him.

Lu Wu defeated the Eastern Emperor's avatar and escaped as the avatar's contingency destroyed Wandering Star, but Kong Yi and the Human Race Ancient Warriors had died protecting him. Lu Wu honored Kong Yi's last wish by restoring him as an ordinary child with his memories erased, so he could live with his father.

• The Eastern Emperor's avatar tried to flee, but Lu Wu seized him and beat him after Kong Yi's self-sacrificing strike left him badly wounded.
• The avatar triggered a Prayer Bead that caused Wandering Star to collapse, but Lu Wu vanished and left the avatar to die beneath the magma.
• Little Bei Li encouraged Lu Wu to trust himself, while he grieved for Kong Yi and the Human Race Ancient Warriors whose souls had been burned away.
• Players discussed the expedition and remembered Kong Yi's defiant final battle, unaware that the top-ranked Alchemist would not return.
• Kong Yi woke from his Game Pod with his memories erased, embraced Kong Ba, and went to breakfast as an ordinary child after Lu Wu fulfilled his final request.

Lu Wu studied divine artifacts, learned how to keep the Divine Artifact Space secure during future cross-realm battles, and began preparing a surprise for Eastern Emperor Taiyi. In the Underworld, Mo Xiaoxin’s mother made him dismantle Ghost Spirit Cores for money, but he discovered an unfamiliar element and went to the library to research it.

• Lu Wu learned from Little Bei Li that he had to lead the player army himself to extend the Divine Artifact Space’s absolute safe zone to a distant deployment location.
• Lu Wu studied the Disassembler’s Introductory Handbook and decided not to turn Eastern Emperor Taiyi’s tooth into a Negative Body totem, but planned to give Eastern Emperor Taiyi a surprise.
• Mo Lanlan mocked Mo Xiaoxin for placing twenty-third in the Disassembler exam and gave him several hundred Ghost Spirit Cores to dismantle for her.
• Mo Xiaoxin examined the Ghost Spirit Cores and found an unfamiliar gray element that was absent from the introductory handbook.
• Mo Xiaoxin went to the Underworld Library, searched the Disassembler Knowledge Area for an elements table, and selected “Elements Table · Complete.”

Mo Xiaoxin searched for a way to extract the Negative Elements in a Ghost Spirit Core and discovered a cultivation method that could absorb them by flaming people. He considered risking his mage abilities to test whether forum flaming could power the method, but the chapter ended before he chose.

• Mo Xiaoxin found that Negative Elements made up more than half of the Ghost Spirit Core and were too difficult for him to decompose with his current skills.
• Mo Xiaoxin looked for help from Kong Yi, but Kong Yi remained offline, so he continued researching in the library while telling Mo Lanlan the task was going well.
• Mo Xiaoxin discovered the Negative Body cultivation method, which could absorb Negative Elements but would prevent him from using any other elements.
• Mo Xiaoxin read a note claiming that flaming people could generate Negative Elements, but he worried that doing so in-game would make enemies across every server hunt him.
• Mo Xiaoxin realized that forum flaming might let him absorb Negative Elements through the game connection, and he weighed the possibility against permanently ruining his mage character.

Mo Xiaoxin chose to cultivate the Negative Body technique, which blocked his elemental spells and initially seemed too expensive to advance. He discovered that the Negative Element accumulated in his forum account could be withdrawn and used for cultivation, leaving him hopeful that he could grow stronger after all.

• Mo Xiaoxin decided to learn Negative Body after his mother, Mo Lanlan, urged him to earn more Soul Coins for her weapon.
• He visualized the Negative Heart Core in just two hours and successfully cultivated Negative Body, which blocked his non-Negative elemental abilities.
• Mo Xiaoxin tested the technique’s effects, then spent three hours arguing on the forum without gaining any cultivation progress.
• He extracted Negative Element from a Wraith Spirit Core and discovered that it advanced Negative Body, but calculated that cultivating the technique would cost a fortune.
• Mo Xiaoxin noticed 443.326 Negative Element in his forum account balance and realized he could withdraw it for cultivation.

Mo Xiaoxin’s forum arguments fueled his cultivation of the Negative Body technique, but they also drove up his bounty and brought him closer to being killed by his mother. Lu Wu noticed Mo Xiaoxin’s unusual method of growing stronger and decided to watch whether he could surpass the technique’s creator.

• Players continued to complain about Crayon_Shinchan’s relentless forum arguments and remembered how he had humiliated players across the Five Great Servers.
• Mo Xiaoxin realized that arguing increased his Negative Elements and helped him cultivate, but also raised the bounty his mother wanted to collect.
• Mo Xiaoxin discovered that he could gain Negative Elements only by using the forums inside the game, and he considered arguing less after his mother urged him to keep it up.
• Lu Wu learned how Mo Xiaoxin was cultivating through forum arguments and admired his unconventional method of drawing growth from the player base.
• Lu Wu investigated the Negative Body technique, judged Mo Xiaoxin well suited to it, and began observing him to see whether he could make his own path.

The Mid-Autumn Festival event began in Conquest, bringing Chang'e to Netherworld City and sending players across Beiqi to catch Moon Rabbits. Ye Shiwen’s rabbit was repeatedly mistaken for one and captured, leaving it longing for her while the festival events continued.

• Lu Wu released four Mid-Autumn Festival events, and Chang'e descended into Netherworld City to open the rabbit-catching quest.
• Players hurried across Beiqi as Moon Rabbits began spawning throughout the region.
• While Ye Shiwen visited relatives, her rabbit encountered a Moon Rabbit and tried to befriend it, but the Moon Rabbit fled.
• Three players mistook Ye Shiwen’s rabbit for a Moon Rabbit, captured it, and brought it to Chang'e, who identified it as a player's contracted beast.
• The players apologized and compensated the rabbit with food, but other players kept capturing and submitting it, making it miss Ye Shiwen.