Chapter Summaries

Jennifer launched the Skrulls’ Raiko Worm operation as several Blue Star powers declared war on HX and an attack began on the Mercenary Camps at Yunlu Mountain. Zhang Ling suspected Jun Shi Yi had been lured away from the mountain, while the other characters’ involvement remained unclear.

• Senior Tao suggested Jun Shi Yi fly to Fu* to contact Senior Yang, and Jun Shi Yi quickly left after realizing his speed made him the better choice.
• At the Skrull military base, Jennifer learned that Su Yu’s breakthrough might finish within six hours and requested authorization to launch the Raiko Worm operation.
• After receiving approval from Lanqi, Jennifer ordered the three-part operation to begin, including raids on the Nuclear War Headquarters and Yunlu Mountain’s Mercenary Camps, and efforts to form the Anti-HXZ Alliance.
• The leaders of YG, FG, JND, ADLY, and the Pacific Nation announced they no longer recognized the Blue Star United Z※ and declared war on HX, causing turmoil among Blue Star Humans.
• Speaker Hu Jing called Zhang Ling for an explanation, and Zhang Ling reported that the Mercenary Camps on Yunlu Mountain were under attack after the Great Cultivator there had left following Jun Shi Yi’s call.
• Zhang Ling wondered whether Jun Shi Yi had lured the Great Cultivator away from Yunlu Mountain.

After the Skrull launched coordinated attacks on humanity, the Great Cultivators continued toward Su Yu to protect him, despite the destruction of a Yunlu Mountain camp and the capture of the Nuclear War Headquarters. The chapter left Hu Jing fearing the Skrull could use the seized nuclear arsenal to devastate humanity.

• Zhang Zheng* warned Emperor Taizong that the Yunlu Mountain camp had been attacked, and the Great Cultivators decided to continue toward Su Yu rather than return.
• Fifty attackers destroyed Holy Light Camp with rockets, killing one thousand Tier 5 Soldier units before taking poison to avoid capture.
• Emperor Taizong reported that five hundred rebel soldiers armed with Skrull weapons had seized the Nuclear War Headquarters and its more than two thousand nuclear warheads.
• Senior Yang insisted that the Great Cultivators keep going to protect Su Yu, and they accelerated toward him.
• Speaker Hu Jing learned that the nuclear arsenal had fallen into Skrull hands and slumped onto a sofa, fearing humanity had been defeated.

Jennifer reported that the Skrulls had destroyed Holy Light Camp and seized control of 2,150 nuclear warheads, prompting Marnina XIII to order 500 intercontinental ballistic missiles launched at Su Yu. As the missiles flew toward the Sea Palace, Great Cultivators arriving to protect Su Yu accused Jun Shi Yi of betraying them, and Senior Tao appeared to confirm his suspicions.

• Jennifer reported the destruction of Holy Light Camp and the capture of 2,150 nuclear warheads to Marnina XIII and Lanqi, who rewarded her and promised Lanqi a title and access to the Solar Spring.
• Marnina XIII redirected the planned nuclear strike from Mercenary Camp to Su Yu at the Sea Palace, and Jennifer launched 500 intercontinental ballistic missiles.
• Senior Yang and ten Great Cultivators arrived at the Sea Palace, where Jun Shi Yi and King Arthur welcomed them.
• Emperor Taizong and Emperor Liu Che questioned Jun Shi Yi about whether he had betrayed them to the Skrulls, and Jun Shi Yi denied it.
• The Great Cultivators hesitated as Jun Shi Yi appeared sincere, but Senior Tao stepped forward and shouted, “Just as I thought! I knew it!”

Senior Tao accused Jun Shi Yi and King Arthur of betraying humanity, just as the Great Cultivators learned that 500 nuclear missiles were targeting Su Yu's breakthrough site. With Su Yu too vulnerable to move or interrupt, Emperor Taizong chose to defend him, but ordered Jun Shi Yi and King Arthur to leave rather than risk sabotage.

• Senior Tao claimed Jun Shi Yi and King Arthur had conspired with the Skrull, citing Jun Shi Yi's supposed prophecy and the departure of Senior Yang from Yunlu Mountain.
• King Arthur denied the accusations, but the Great Cultivators remained uncertain whether the pair had betrayed humanity.
• Emperor Taizong received Speaker Hu Jing's warning that 500 missiles had been launched toward Su Yu and would arrive in 20 minutes.
• The Great Cultivators found Su Yu's breakthrough too critical to interrupt and decided to use Joint Defense to protect him from the missiles.
• Senior Tao insisted Jun Shi Yi and King Arthur might sabotage the defensive barrier, and Emperor Taizong ordered them to leave.

Jun Shi Yi sacrificed his life to transfer the 500 nuclear missiles threatening the Chinese cultivators and Su Yu, hoping to prove his innocence and preserve unity between Eastern and Western cultivators. As he flew toward the missiles, Senior Tao followed him, and Su Yu's breakthrough neared completion.

• With 19 minutes until the missiles arrived, Jun Shi Yi offered to sacrifice his life to use the Great Transfer Technique and urged the cultivators to unite against the Skrulls.
• King Arthur tried to stop Jun Shi Yi, but Jun Shi Yi activated Life Force Burn, reached Peak Tier 6, and flew into the clouds.
• The Chinese cultivators realized Jun Shi Yi was innocent, and Senior Tao decided to follow him and repay his life with his own if Jun Shi Yi died.
• Su Yu's Sea Palace shone with white light as his breakthrough neared completion, while the Chinese cultivators continued building their defense.
• Emperor Liu Che urged the cultivators to learn from their mistake and called for revenge against the Skrulls.

Jun Shi Yi and Senior Tao sacrificed themselves to transfer five hundred nuclear missiles into outer space, saving humanity and allowing Su Yu’s breakthrough to continue. Su Yu then emerged from the vanished Sea Palace after advancing to Level 80 and reaching Legendary.

• Jun Shi Yi burned his life force and summoned Saint Sophia Cathedral as he flew toward the incoming nuclear missiles.
• Senior Tao apologized to Jun Shi Yi, sacrificed his body, and gave him his magical energy to strengthen the cathedral.
• Jun Shi Yi used the cathedral to transfer all five hundred nuclear missiles into outer space, then died as the missiles detonated harmlessly.
• Jennifer reported the failed attack and sent footage of Jun Shi Yi’s sacrifice to the Emperor and Commander-in-Chief Lanqi.
• The Great Cultivators mourned Jun Shi Yi and Tao Qian while Su Yu continued his breakthrough.
• Su Yu broke through the Legendary bottleneck, reached Level 80, and appeared above the vanished Sea Palace.

After breaking through to Tier 7, Su Yu rushed to save Jun Shi Yi and Senior Tao by preserving their souls in the Ring of Rebirth. Meanwhile, Marnina XIII watched Su Yu’s progress and discussed the Skrulls’ remaining plans with Lanqi.

• Su Yu learned that Jun Shi Yi and Senior Tao had fallen, then opened a portal and led the Great Cultivators to them.
• Su Yu used the Ring of Rebirth to store Senior Tao’s intact soul and directed the Great Cultivators to find Jun Shi Yi’s scattered soul fragments.
• Su Yu and the others gathered Jun Shi Yi’s fragments and stored them in the ring for restoration.
• Jennifer showed Marnina XIII and Lanqi surveillance footage of Su Yu, and Marnina realized Su Yu had reached Tier 7.
• Lanqi asked Marnina how to proceed with the Rebel Army and the 1,500 nuclear bombs still at Nuclear War Headquarters.

Marnina XIII ordered Jennifer to destroy Game Helmets and launch 1,500 nuclear warheads at major cities. After learning of the Skrull attack and the deaths of Jun Shi Yi and Tao Qian, Su Yu traced a Skrull spy satellite to Mount Elbert and arrived at the Skrull command base, where he identified its command center.

• Marnina XIII ordered Jennifer to accelerate the destruction of Game Helmets and launch 1,500 nuclear warheads at major cities.
• Su Yu preserved Jun Shi Yi's and Tao Qian's souls but said he could not rebuild their bodies until he advanced to the eighth tier.
• Emperor Taizong recounted the Skrull assault and how Jun Shi Yi and Tao Qian had died.
• Su Yu urged the Great Cultivators to go to the Indian Nation, then teleported to a Skrull spy satellite in near-Earth orbit.
• Su Yu traced the satellite's signals to Mount Elbert and teleported to Skrull Base, where he found the command center.

Su Yu annihilated the Skrull headquarters, escaped Monk’s retaliation, and teleported to the Nuclear War Headquarters to stop a missile launch. He knocked out the nuclear weapon control experts, but the soldiers opened fire on him.

• Su Yu used Element Annihilation to destroy the Skrull headquarters, killing Monk’s Tier 5 adjutants while Monk and Jennifer survived.
• Monk attacked Su Yu, but Su Yu blinked outside the Psionic Spring’s range and taunted him without drawing him out.
• Su Yu called Xue Wenli for the coordinates of the Nuclear War Headquarters, then teleported there before Monk could warn its occupants.
• Su Yu drank a Master Level Mana Potion and used Lightning Armor and Holy Light Speed to knock the six nuclear weapon control experts unconscious.
• The 210 Pacific Nation special forces soldiers fired anti-psionic penetrating Laser Guns at Su Yu.

Su Yu seized Nuclear War Headquarters and ended the Raiko Worm operation, but the Solar Empire prepared a new attack against him. Afterward, Great Cultivators and priest players uncovered and punished anti-humanity traitors across several countries, though Gordon escaped by Jennifer’s intervention.

• Su Yu summoned Al'Akir, the Moon God Phantom, and Sand Soldiers to kill the special operations soldiers at Nuclear War Headquarters, then struggled to suppress his Magic Backlash.
• Jennifer reported Su Yu’s victories to Marnina XIII, who ordered the Green Crown Bird Operation and planned to use the Blazing Sun Seal to kill Su Yu.
• Marnina XIII ordered Jennifer to return to Skrull Star and promised Monk several of his lovers to console him.
• Senior Yang, other Great Cultivators, and priest players arrived at Nuclear War Headquarters and began investigating countries that had turned hostile toward China.
• The Great Cultivators and priests uncovered anti-humanity traitors through raids and Mind Steal, and King Arthur helped arrest and execute political figures.
• Jennifer altered Prime Minister Gordon’s memories so he appeared to be a spy working for the United Government, allowing him to avoid the purge.

After three days of seclusion, Su Yu recovered from Magic Backlash and met Xue Wenli at Nuclear War Headquarters. He learned that purges had succeeded in sixteen hostile countries and prepared to return to the game, where his allies were advancing and the war continued.

• Su Yu used his last three Master Level Energy Potions to stabilize his realm and overcome Magic Backlash.
• Three days later, Su Yu left seclusion, and Xue Wenli welcomed him at Nuclear War Headquarters.
• Xue Wenli told Su Yu that the Great Cultivators and priest players had purged Surrender Faction members from sixteen hostile countries.
• Su Yu asked for a Game Helmet so he could return to the game and collect potions and life-saving items.
• Xue Wenli told Su Yu that his pet cat had regained Tier 7 strength, Tina Garcia was preparing to break through to Tier 7, and the Panda People Empire remained locked in a difficult war.
• An orderly delivered Su Yu a Game Helmet, and Su Yu said goodbye to Xue Wenli before preparing to log in.

Su Yu returned to the game and reunited with Alijeh after four months apart, then spent three days with her before leaving for the Panda People Empire. He also learned that Tina had begun a lengthy Legendary breakthrough, while Alijeh secretly knew Tina might eventually help her travel to Blue Star.

• Su Yu took Xue Wenli on a brief flight, prompting her to apply for a chance to rapidly strengthen herself in the game.
• Su Yu entered the game and traveled from Apuxi City to Broom City, where he reunited with Alijeh and Cat Morning Star.
• Alijeh gave Su Yu Tina's letter explaining that Tina had begun a two-month Legendary breakthrough under Lord Bernina's protection.
• Alijeh concealed Tina's second letter, which said that Tina and Lord Bernina had devised a way for Alijeh to travel between the two worlds after Tina's breakthrough.
• Su Yu spent three days with Alijeh before departing for the Panda People Empire to help repel foreign invaders.

Alijeh lamented how rarely she could meet Su Yu, while Morning Star teased her about having a child with him. In Baozhan City, Su Yu arrived as the Golden Flower Empire’s special envoy and offered to help Emperor Shaohao resist the invaders, revealing that he had advanced to Legendary.

• Alijeh admitted to Morning Star that she worried she would seldom see Su Yu again, and Morning Star joked that they could have a child to govern the Golden Flower Empire.
• Emperor Shaohao and his ministers discussed the coalition invasion that had devastated the Panda People Empire and strained its food supplies.
• A guard announced that Kexing, special envoy of the Golden Flower Empire, had requested an audience, and Emperor Shaohao welcomed Su Yu into the Bamboo God Hall.
• Su Yu offered to help the Panda People Empire repel the Mantis Demons and Mogu, clarifying that he had brought no troops.
• Su Yu revealed his Legendary aura, stunning Emperor Shaohao and the ministers with how quickly he had advanced.

Su Yu earned Emperor Shaohao’s trust, gained authority to issue campaign quests, and accepted a quest to cure Tao Ya. He left Baozhan City with Tao Lili, escaping players who recognized him, and headed toward her home.

• Su Yu asked Emperor Shaohao for Golden Potions and permission to issue quests on his behalf, and Shaohao granted both requests.
• Su Yu received the epic quest to defeat the Mantis Demons and the Mogu Clan, along with authority to issue ten campaign quests.
• Su Yu remembered Baozhan City from his past life and recognized Tao Lili, who was selling Candied Hawthorn to pay for her adoptive mother’s treatment.
• Su Yu accepted the quest to cure Tao Ya and explained that he could help her for one string of Candied Hawthorn.
• Su Yu recalled that Tao Ya had once belonged to the Shado-Pan and that curing her was the first step in a quest chain to restore her memories and return her to the organization.
• Players recognized Su Yu as he walked with Tao Lili, so he used Invisibility, took her hand, and hurried away.

Su Yu cured Tao Ya with a Perfect Cold Dispelling Pill and earned a rare Candied Hawthorn (Gold). He continued Tao Ya’s hidden quest by promising to make medicine to restore her memories, while arranging for Zhen Hong to organize a 100,000-player campaign against the Mantis Demons and Mogu Clan.

• Su Yu recruited 100,000 Panda People players for a campaign and asked the forum for advice on targeting the Mantis Demons and Mogu Clan.
• Crimson-Eyed Black Dragon recommended attacking the Heart of Fear and Mogu Shan Palace, and Su Yu asked Zhen Hong to organize the players in the imperial capital.
• Su Yu gathered herbs, made a Cold Dispelling Pill, and upgraded it into a Perfect Cold Dispelling Pill using 1,110 Psionic Coins.
• Su Yu gave the Perfect Cold Dispelling Pill to Tao Ya, curing her illness and earning Candied Hawthorn, experience, favorability, and a rare golden Candied Hawthorn.
• Su Yu asked Tao Ya whether she wanted her memories restored, and she firmly agreed despite his warning that they might bring her trouble.
• Su Yu left to make medicine for Tao Ya’s amnesia, leaving Tao Ya and her daughter waiting at home.

After helping Tao Ya recover her memories, Su Yu accompanied her and Tao Lili to The Shado-Pan, where Tao Ya struggled to choose between returning to service and caring for her adopted daughter. A golden dice decided she would go home with Lili, and Su Yu received a Fate Dice that reflected whether good or bad fortune lay ahead.

• Su Yu brought Tao Ya and Tao Lili to The Shado-Pan headquarters, where Taran Zhu welcomed Tao Ya but offered her the choice to return home with Lili.
• Tao Ya asked Su Yu whether she should stay with The Shado-Pan or leave, and Su Yu remembered that she had died on a mission in his previous life after choosing to stay.
• Su Yu gave Tao Ya Morgan's Loaded Dice to decide her future, but Taran Zhu stopped her and fetched a golden dice from the headquarters' warehouse.
• Tao Ya rolled a 6 on the golden dice, so Taran Zhu told her to go home with Lili, though Tao Ya had privately wanted to remain with The Shado-Pan.
• Taran Zhu rewarded Su Yu with a golden potion and Fate Dice, whose rolls indicated whether good or bad fortune was approaching.

Su Yu completed Tao Shi’s quest and received Taran Zhu’s Fate Dice before gathering players for a campaign against the Mantis Demons. He recruited Zhen Hong to lead a group to obtain Azerite Bombs, leaving the battle preparations underway.

• Taran Zhu gave Su Yu the Fate Dice after its roll confirmed Su Yu’s prophetic ability, and Tao Shi learned that he was the renowned Kexing.
• Taran Zhu funded Tao Shi and her daughter’s resettlement, and Su Yu escorted them home before teleporting to Baozhan City.
• Su Yu arrived to find hundreds of thousands of players gathered, then opened the Heart of Fear Scenario Battle quest for them.
• Su Yu privately instructed Zhen Hong to lead a thousand players to request 10,000 Azerite Bombs for the attack on the Mantis Demons.
• Zhen Hong accepted the Azerite Bombs side quest, which tasked him with obtaining the explosives from Quartermaster Officer Li Feng and returning them safely to Kexing.

Su Yu led 100,000 players in a surprise assault on the Heart of Fear, targeting five vital areas while confronting Empress Xiake Hill himself. The players began destroying the Mantis Demons’ resources and defenses as Su Yu and Shak'hil’s battle drew in their forces.

• Zhen Hong accepted Su Yu’s quest, gathered players, and led a thousand bomb carriers through a portal into the Incubation Chamber.
• Twenty thousand players used Azerite Bombs to destroy barriers, cocoons, and larvae while defeating the Bug Nest Guards.
• Su Yu deployed players through five portals to attack the Incubation Chamber, Food Storage Room, armory, Control Room, and Empress Xiake Hill’s Bedroom.
• Shak'hil sensed the invasion and found Su Yu blocking her bedroom doorway; he demanded that she surrender, but she refused and attacked.
• Su Yu blocked Shak'hil’s scythe with Earth Divine Shield and blasted her back with dragonfire as her guards and the Mantis Demons rallied, beginning a major battle across the Heart of Fear.

Su Yu and the players devastated the Heart of Fear while fighting Xiake Hill and her guards, but Wind Lord Melgarak’s arrival turned the battle against them. After revealing that he was Kexing and could revive, Su Yu demanded Xiake Hill surrender to the Panda People Empire or face repeated attacks.

• Su Yu held off Xiake Hill while his Moon God Phantom battled Blade Lord Tayak and his other summons restrained her guards.
• Su Yu used quests and generous rewards to direct eighty thousand players as they destroyed the hive and wiped out its guards.
• Wind Lord Melgarak arrived with the Mo'ang Mark Blade Squad, and the players suffered heavy losses as the battle turned against them.
• Su Yu transformed into human form, revealed himself as Kexing, and left the Mantis Demons helpless because they could not prevent his revival.
• Su Yu demanded Xiake Hill sign a surrender agreement, warning that he and the players would keep attacking her hives if she refused.

Su Yu forced the Mantis Demons and the Mogu Clan to surrender through repeated portal assaults, completing two major campaigns and finishing his quest. After Turalyon warned that the Allied Army would retaliate against the Golden Flower Empire if Su Yu attacked, Su Yu continued toward the Mantis Plateau to overfulfill his quest objectives.

• Xiake Hill and the Mantis Demons agreed to surrender to the Panda People, and Su Yu signed a five-year nonaggression agreement with them.
• Su Yu sent the players to raid Mogu Shan Palace; after the Mogu Clan defeated the first assault, it surrendered when the players revived and attacked again with Su Yu.
• The two campaigns gave Su Yu 1.5 billion Experience Points, completed his quest, and spread news of his tactics among players and NPCs.
• Turalyon warned Su Yu that the Allied Army would invade the Golden Flower Empire if he attacked them, and Su Yu decided to leave the Allied Army to the Panda People.
• Su Yu flew toward the Mantis Plateau to exceed his quest objectives and seek greater rewards.