Chapter Summaries

During the Mid-Autumn Festival’s Martial Arts Under the Moon tournament, Yuan Fang matched against Nie Feng, who believed his bombs could finally defeat Yuan Fang’s defenses. Nie Feng’s Special Nuclear Bomb vaporized Yuan Fang, leaving him stunned by his first arena defeat.

• Players completed the Moon Rabbit event and began competing in the server-wide Martial Arts Under the Moon tournament.
• Yuan Fang matched with Nie Feng, whose record stood at twenty-four consecutive losses and no wins.
• Nie Feng recognized Yuan Fang as an opponent his explosive attacks could counter, while Yuan Fang watched him prepare a bomb.
• Nie Feng’s Alchemy Furnace exploded, engulfing the arena in black light and killing Yuan Fang.
• Yuan Fang saw that his record now included one defeat and read that the explosion had dealt him over 500,000 damage.

Bei Qi players celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival with fishing, moon riddles, and a dance by Chang'e after the events ended. Lu Wu watched them enjoy the festivities, then decided to launch another paid Lucky Roulette event after spending all his Soul Coins.

• Players began the Koi Carp Gift Giving event, while forum experts recommended teaming up to share mooncakes and Luck points.
• Some players tried to catch fish with lightning and explosives, angering ordinary fishers and sparking fights between the two camps.
• Players returned to Netherworld City for the Blooming Flowers, Full Moon event and submitted answers to riddles appearing on the moon.
• Players shared mooncakes and watched correct answers become fireworks as they enjoyed the festival together.
• After midnight, Chang'e thanked the Bei Qi Descendants and danced along a bridge of moonlight before disappearing into the full moon.
• Lu Wu saw the players' joy, noted that the festival had emptied his Soul Coin reserves, and decided to hold another paid Lucky Roulette event.

Yan Mai, a Phantom Fish Bounty Hunter Group spy, disguised himself as a Player and headed for Netherworld City to investigate the Player Race. A Player exposed him with Analyze, and the Players prepared a surprise while Yan Mai remained unaware his cover had been blown.

• The Yellow Springs Merchant Guild commissioned the Phantom Fish Bounty Hunter Group to investigate the Player Race after blaming them for the failed raid on a supply convoy.
• Yan Mai used his Transformation talent to disguise himself as a Player and set out for Netherworld City to assess the Player Race's strength.
• A Player who collected equipment data used Analyze on Yan Mai, discovered his identity, and posted screenshots on the forum.
• Players discussed ways to let Yan Mai enter Netherworld City before revealing that they knew he was a spy.
• Yan Mai noticed Players watching him with strange smiles but remained convinced his disguise was flawless.

Yan Mai entered Netherworld City to assess the Player Race for the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild, but its prosperity and the sight of a wounded god convinced him that the Players were terrifyingly powerful. After Sea Moon warned him to flee, he witnessed Liu Chai erase thousands of Players with a punch, leaving him desperate to escape and report what he had seen.

• The Players learned from Sea King that Yan Mai was coming to investigate, so they decided to mislead him by displaying the Player Race's strength.
• Yan Mai entered Netherworld City and overheard Players claim that Chairman Liu had slaughtered a god eight times.
• Yan Mai saw the wounded Evil God in the square and concluded that the Player Race could threaten the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.
• Sea Moon recognized Yan Mai as a Phantom Fish Clan Member, revealed that his ancestor Huan Ci had followed her, and urged him to leave before his clan was implicated.
• At the city gates, Yan Mai watched Liu Chai kill thousands of kneeling Players with a punch, then saw Liu Chai turn his attention toward him.

Yan Mai returned from the Player Race’s Netherworld City terrified by its strength and reported his findings to the Phantom Fish Clan. The clan leader verified that the Nether Sea Empress was alive, leaving the clan wary of siding with the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.

• Yan Mai escaped Netherworld City after witnessing Liu Chai erase thousands of Players with a single controlled punch, then hurried back to the Phantom Fish Clan instead of reporting directly to the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.
• Liu Chai and the Players celebrated their staged display, which they had arranged to make Yan Mai carry false intelligence about their strength back to the guild.
• Yan Mai arrived at the Phantom Fish Clan’s coral palace and told the clan leader and elders that he had seen their ancestor Huan Ci and the Nether Sea Empress in the Player Race’s city.
• The clan leader took Yan Mai and the elders to Huan Ci’s tomb and used the Soul Restriction Pearl to test whether the Empress was alive.
• The Soul Restriction Pearl’s glowing soul thread confirmed that the Nether Sea Empress had survived, and the clan leader feared that siding with the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild could bring ruin upon the Phantom Fish Clan.

Yan Mai and the Phantom Fish Clan debated whether to flee the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild or side with the Player Race, which the Nether Sea Empress had joined. The Phantom Fish Clan Chief decided to meet the Player Race's leaders before committing to an alliance.

• The Phantom Fish Clan Chief asked whether they should report the Nether Sea Empress's survival to the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.
• Yan Mai proposed either fleeing to distant seas and risking the Guild's retaliation, or joining the Player Race because it had strategic advantages and the Empress's support.
• Yan Mai invoked the Phantom Fish Clan's ancestral loyalty to the Empress, persuading the elders to support his recommendation.
• The Phantom Fish Clan Chief decided to meet the Player Race's leaders and join them if satisfied, otherwise the clan would move away.
• The Phantom Fish Clan Chief teased Yan Mai that he would bear the blame if the clan was destroyed, and Yan Mai fell silent when the chief rolled up his sleeves.

Lu Wu discovered that the Death Great Domain’s invasion was engineered by Celestial Realm descendants using an extraterrestrial ghoul factory to weaken the Netherworld. He decided to lead the Player Race to destroy the factory and considered taking its supply of materials for his own Calamity Legion.

• The Death Great Domain invaded Senluo while Mei Ba gathered the Corpse Clan army at Nether City to prepare for battle.
• Lu Wu investigated the invaders and found a hidden teleportation gate leading to an extraterrestrial planet where Celestial Realm descendants manufactured ghouls.
• Lu Wu and Little Bei Li learned that the planet’s twelve districts produced different kinds of death creatures and sent them into the Death Great Domain to weaken the Netherworld.
• Lu Wu realized the Celestial Realm had engineered the earlier defeat of the Netherworld Clan and decided he had to intervene.
• Little Bei Li urged Lu Wu to destroy the extraterrestrial nation rather than merely repel its ghouls, and he agreed to lead the Player Race there.
• Lu Wu discovered a second teleportation array supplying the ghoul factory with materials and considered seizing those supplies for his Calamity Legion.

Lu Wu led the players to Jade Shattered Star for a cross-realm assault on Xuan Mo’s city, where Corpse Ghouls were being used to attack the Senluo Great Domain. Lu Wu confronted Xuan Mo but was badly beaten while the players focused on destroying the city, leaving him still trapped in a one-sided fight.

• Lu Wu announced the cross-realm expedition, and players across the Five Great Servers registered and prepared for the war.
• Lu Wu and the registered players teleported to Jade Shattered Star, while Little Bei Li stayed behind to protect the remaining players.
• Xuan Mo learned that an outside force had invaded and discovered that countless unfamiliar, horned creatures were descending on his city.
• The players received their Heavenly Devil Form and Merit Point objectives, then began destroying buildings, descendants of immortals, and Corpse Ghouls across the city.
• Lu Wu introduced himself as Tu Mie and challenged Xuan Mo, but Xuan Mo trapped him briefly and then beat him down repeatedly.
• The players ignored Lu Wu’s desperate struggle and continued competing to destroy the city, while Lu Wu relied on Soul Coins to keep healing through Xuan Mo’s attacks.

Lu Wu repeatedly fought Xuan Mo, enduring his attacks while trying to keep him from reaching the Players as they destroyed Jade Shattered Star. After Lu Wu finally weakened Xuan Mo with Little Bei Li's techniques, powerful Players surrounded the enemy, and Gouzi offered Lu Wu a cigarette as he watched them take over.

• Lu Wu tried to fight Xuan Mo with the Human Emperor's Mirror but was repeatedly beaten because he lacked combat experience, while Players dismissed him as a tank and continued demolishing the city.
• Lu Wu kept charging Xuan Mo to stop him from attacking the Players, enduring brutal blows through his rapid healing.
• As Xuan Mo weakened, Lu Wu used Little Bei Li's Throat Lock and Headbutt Strike to hold and batter him.
• Xuan Mo released his remaining spiritual energy to blast Lu Wu into a deep pit, then turned back toward the battle.
• Lu Wu climbed out and found nearly a hundred powerful Players surrounding Xuan Mo, while Gouzi offered him a cigarette.

Lu Wu and the assembled overpowered players tried to kill the exhausted Demigod Xuan Mo, but his physical strength and roar overwhelmed their attacks. As Nie Feng prepared a massive explosive using donated materials, Lu Wu restrained Xuan Mo and the players fled; Nie Feng released the attack over the city, leaving its destruction to unfold.

• Lu Wu stayed out of the fight while Gouzi remained beside him, and Yuan Fang tested Xuan Mo's strength by letting himself be hurled at him and torn apart by a punch.
• The overpowered players attacked Xuan Mo together, with Little Mo and Xiao Yuzi breaking through his defense, but his roar shattered their restraints and blasted them away.
• Kamiyama Arashi healed and enhanced the players as they resumed their assault, while Nie Feng asked everyone to donate materials so he could make an explosive capable of killing Xuan Mo.
• The players stalled Xuan Mo while Nie Feng refined his explosive, but Xuan Mo charged to escape until Lu Wu grabbed him from behind and slammed him to the ground.
• Nie Feng told Hu He to withdraw the Ghost Kings, then dropped the black sphere into the city and shouted, "Spicy Sky Dance!" as blinding black light engulfed the world.

Nie Feng’s Alchemy Furnace destroyed the city and killed Xuan Mo, ending the cross-realm campaign. The Players fought over a hidden resource point instead of collecting supplies, and Lu Wu returned to the Human Realm with the resources as Little Bei Li greeted him as a “Big Meat Shield.”

• Nie Feng’s bomb obliterated the city, killed Xuan Mo, and left Lu Wu alive through his health-lock cheat.
• The campaign rankings named Bei Qi Great Domain first and Nie Feng the top Player with 645272 Merit Points.
• The Players discovered a resource point beneath the ruined city and immediately began fighting over it instead of moving the supplies.
• Players from the four stronger servers turned on the Africa Server during the final ten minutes, then the system returned everyone to their Great Domains.
• Lu Wu took the remaining supplies back to the Human Realm and connected the divine artifact to Little Bei Li’s subspace.
• Little Bei Li appeared in the artifact and called Lu Wu a “Big Meat Shield.”

After the cross-realm war, Nie Feng shared his Merit Point rewards with the players who supplied his materials, while Lu Wu inventoried the captured Heavenly Realm supplies and prepared to exploit a possible resupply. Lu Wu continued training after his humiliating battle with Xuan Mo and resolved to grow strong enough to show off next time.

• Players praised Lu Wu as a useful Big Meat Shield and celebrated Nie Feng as the World-Destroying Great Demon King after his nuclear attack.
• Nie Feng offered to buy Merit Point shop items for players according to the value of the spiritual materials they had contributed, winning their support for future experiments.
• Lu Wu discovered that the captured Heavenly Realm supplies were worth about 2.7 billion Soul Coins and set up a portal on Jade Shattered Star for a possible new delivery.
• Lu Wu reflected on his defeat by Xuan Mo, continued studying combat techniques, and swore that he would eventually prove himself.

The Phantom Fish Clan attacked the Mute War Merchant Guild to prove its loyalty to the Player Race, but the Sea King survived and took Yan Mai hostage. Huan Sha withdrew with his clan and hurried toward Liuli Coast, hoping the Player Race could help recover Yan Mai.

• The Sea King learned that the Smoke Dragon Merchant Guild had returned and wondered why Shadow Elder was protecting the Player Race from the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.
• The Phantom Fish Clan arrived at New End Island, where Yan Mai and Huan Sha attacked the Sea King to offer his head as a token of loyalty to the Player Race.
• Huan Sha and the Phantom Fish elders overwhelmed the Sea King and pierced his neck, but the Sea King survived and seized Yan Mai as a hostage.
• The Sea King forced Huan Sha to withdraw, then imprisoned Yan Mai and convened a meeting at the palace.
• Huan Sha led the Phantom Fish Clan toward Liuli Coast, hoping the Player Race could help him rescue Yan Mai.

The Phantom Fish Clan arrived at Liuli Coast, and Huan Sha asked the Players to accept his people as refugees. After he explained that his clan had nearly killed Sea King to prove its loyalty, the Players reacted with fury over their prized “Sea Leek.”

• Players at Liuli Coast spotted the Phantom Fish Clan approaching and prepared for a possible attack.
• Huan Sha introduced himself to Xiao Mo and asked to speak with the Player Race’s leaders.
• Liu Chai arrived, agreed he could represent the Players, and heard Huan Sha’s offer to seek refuge with one condition.
• Huan Sha explained that his clan had planned to kill Sea King as proof of its allegiance but failed after Sea King survived their attack.
• The Players realized the Phantom Fish Clan’s actions stemmed from their earlier prank and grew furious that Huan Sha had nearly slaughtered Sea King.

Liu Chai demanded that Huan Sha and the Phantom Fish Clan swear a soul oath before joining the Player Race, while Huan Sha first sought help rescuing Yan Mai from Sea King. After the Nether Sea Empress explained that she had sworn the oath herself, Huan Sha agreed, and Liu Chai prepared to take him to New End Island to retrieve his clansman.

• Liu Chai learned that Sea King had survived and told Huan Sha that Sea King's Mu Te ancestors had served alongside the Phantom Fish Clan in the ancient Nether Sea Country.
• Huan Sha asked the Players to rescue Yan Mai, but Liu Chai insisted that the Phantom Fish Clan first swear a soul oath of loyalty.
• The Nether Sea Empress told Huan Sha she had sworn a soul oath herself and described it as cooperation rather than enslavement.
• Huan Sha discussed the choice with his nine elders, then agreed to swear the oath after the Players rescued Yan Mai.
• Liu Chai said the Players would go to New End Island at once, and Huan Sha was surprised that Liu Chai planned to go without powerful clan members.

Liu Chai brought Huan Sha and nine Phantom Fish Clan elders to New End Island, disguising them so they could enter without raising suspicion. He revealed their identities to the Sea King when he came to take Yan Mai, leaving the injured ruler shocked.

• Liu Chai summoned his Ghost Ship and took Huan Sha and nine Phantom Fish Clan elders toward New End Island, leaving the rest of the Phantom Fish Clan behind.
• Near the island, Huan Sha and the elders transformed into humanoid disguises at Liu Chai's request.
• Lan Hu Shan recognized the arriving ship as belonging to the Player Race and welcomed Liu Chai and his companions onto the island.
• Lan Hu Shan escorted Liu Chai's group through the island's defenses to meet the recovering Sea King.
• Liu Chai said he had come to take Yan Mai, but the Sea King did not recognize the name.
• Liu Chai told Huan Sha and the elders to reveal their true forms, and the Sea King recognized the attackers who had recently injured him.

Liu Chai explained to Sea King why the Phantom Fish Clan had come to join the Player Race, revealing their shared Nether Sea Country heritage and the Empress’s connection to the players. Sea King left stunned by the news that his legendary ancestor was with the Player Race.

• Sea King panicked when Liu Chai arrived with Huan Sha and the Phantom Fish Clan elders, but Liu Chai insisted they had come as allies.
• Sea King refused to release the Phantom Fish prisoner, fearing the clan had tricked the Player Race and would destroy his forces.
• Liu Chai explained that the Phantom Fish Clan had attacked Sea King’s faction to offer his head as a gift when joining the Player Race, after Sea King’s earlier suggestion led them to deceive the Yellow Springs Merchant Guild.
• Sea King learned that the Phantom Fish Clan descended from a core force of the ancient Nether Sea Country and had mistaken him for an enemy because they did not know his ancestry.
• Liu Chai told Sea King that the Empress, founder of the Mute Clan’s legacy and Sea King’s ancestor, was with the Player Race, leaving Sea King stunned.

Liu Chai secured Sea King’s release of Yan Mai and brought the Phantom Fish Clan to Bei Qi, where Huan Sha led them in swearing an oath to join the Player Race. The oath bound all 214,285 clan members to Lu Wu’s artifact, and they were transported to the Divine Artifact Space for body Datafication.

• Liu Chai persuaded Sea King to release Yan Mai by claiming the Empress belonged to the Player Race, and Sea King agreed to let the Phantom Fish Clan go.
• Liu Chai reunited Yan Mai with Huan Sha and the elders, then escorted them from New End Island after Huan Sha promised the clan would swear a soul oath.
• At Liuli Coast, Huan Sha led 214,285 Phantom Fish Clan members in reciting Liu Chai’s oath and joining Bei Qi.
• The artifact recorded every clan member’s soul imprint, and an All-Region Announcement declared the Phantom Fish Clan had become NPCs.
• Lu Wu welcomed the clan in the Divine Artifact Space and ordered Little Bei Li to Datafy their bodies and upload knowledge using Soul Coins.

After the Phantom Fish Clan joined Bei Qi, Huan Sha stepped down and Yan Mai became clan chief as the clan settled into its new home. Yan Mai got caught up gambling with Copper Hanger and returned the next morning with 80,000 Soul Coins in debt.

• After learning the Phantom Fish Clan had gained the ability to resurrect and would help the Player Race, Huan Sha chose to retire and the elders agreed to make Yan Mai clan chief.
• The Phantom Fish Clan built its territory where Instant's residence had stood and held a coronation gathering attended by players and NPCs.
• Huan Sha announced that the Phantom Fish Clan would offer assassination and stealth skill training in Netherworld City, exciting assassin players and worrying mages and warriors.
• After drinking at the celebration, Yan Mai met Copper Hanger and joined a card game, initially winning Soul Coins before losing them as he kept playing.
• Yan Mai returned to the clan the next morning and told Huan Sha and the elders that he had accumulated 80,000 Soul Coins in debt.

After Yan Mai’s gambling debt forced the Phantom Fish Clan to remove him as chief, he searched Netherworld City for work to repay the clan. Copper Hanger pointed him toward a Wood Spirit Race job brewing Heavenly Brew, and the two prepared to pursue it.

• The Phantom Fish Clan opened its Assassination Hall, attracting many assassin players and earning its first Soul Coins.
• Huan Sha paid off Yan Mai’s debt of eighty thousand Soul Coins by selling clan treasures, and the clan elders removed Yan Mai as chief until he repaid the loss.
• Yan Mai wandered Netherworld City asking for work, but players and NPCs ignored him, and Feng Ling threw him out of the Great Dragon Guild’s pharmacy.
• Yan Mai applied for a job at Copper Hanger’s Forging Room, where Copper Hanger refused to hire him for pay but offered him a recruitment notice from the Wood Spirit Race.
• Copper Hanger explained that the Wood Spirit Race needed strong outsiders to help brew a Heavenly Brew formula, and he invited Yan Mai to join him in pursuing the work.