Chapter Summaries

After news of Su Yu’s death plunged Blue Star into despair, Neon Country’s grief over the Gravity Funnel disaster fueled a powerful revenge movement led by Fujiwara Chika. She secured supplies for her growing army and promised to address disaster relief before turning against surrenderism.

• Su Yu and Morningstar entered Linlong City, obtained legal identities, and flew to Trena City to carry out the final part of their plan.
• News of Su Yu’s reported death spread across Blue Star, leaving many people fearful that humanity could not defeat the Skrulls.
• Neon Country split between surrender advocates, people blaming the United Government and Su Yu, and a large revenge faction galvanized by the Gravity Funnel disaster.
• Fujiwara Chika called Hu Jing and reported that 300,000 people had volunteered for military service in three days, requesting weapons, equipment, and food.
• Hu Jing approved Fujiwara Chika’s request and urged her to prioritize disaster relief; she promised to handle it within a month before suppressing the Surrender Faction.
• After the call, Hu Jing worried about Su Yu’s death and the worldwide rise of surrenderism, unsure how to restore humanity’s morale.

After Xu Xiaotian warned Hu Jing that Chancellor Cao must not go to Skrull Star for four days, Cao agreed to wait. Meanwhile, Su Yu reached the Renket National Museum and found the Eternal Emblem, preparing to act with Morning Star.

• Chancellor Cao told Hu Jing to prepare a surrender plan because Su Yu was dead and resistance seemed futile.
• Cao planned to travel to Skrull Star the next day to negotiate better terms for humanity.
• Xu Xiaotian asked Hu Jing to stop Cao from going to Skrull Star for four days, and Cao agreed to wait.
• Su Yu entered Trena City under a false identity and traveled to the Renket National Museum.
• Su Yu found the Renket Eternal Emblem and told Morning Star to prepare to act in sixty seconds.

Su Yu tried to steal the Renket Eternal Emblem, but the museum’s Soul Imprisonment Array captured his soul and trapped it in a Soul Space with Director Skallo. While Su Yu fought to escape, Morningstar protected his body by unleashing a huge fire across the six National Museums and secretly collecting relics for later exchanges.

• Su Yu prepared to seize the Renket Eternal Emblem and planned to teleport to Blue Star afterward, while Morningstar readied the items he had given her.
• Su Yu shattered the emblem’s protective barrier, triggering the museum alarm and causing the Soul Imprisonment Array to seize his soul.
• Director Skallo entered the Soul Space, recognized Su Yu, and fought to keep him imprisoned as Su Yu attacked the confinement.
• Morningstar shielded Su Yu’s motionless body, used Ghost Cat's Echo and Vermilion Crane Fusion, then transformed into a giant Vermilion Crane.
• Morningstar engulfed all six National Museums in flames, secretly storing many relics while the fire appeared to destroy them.

Morningstar defended Su Yu while Stidim rushed to kill them, buying time until Su Yu broke free from the Soul Imprisonment Array. She used the Village's Best Sword to stun Stidim and interrupt his attack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Morningstar shielded Su Yu from the Skyscraper Tower's Disintegration Ray as Stidim detected them and hurried toward the library.
• Morningstar flew to confront Stidim, but his barrage of Instant Cast psionic spells broke her Magic Shield and left her gravely wounded.
• Su Yu regained control of his body, prompting Stidim to abandon Morningstar and charge up a lethal spell against him.
• Morningstar survived Stidim's attacks and struck him with the Village's Best Sword, stunning him and interrupting his spell.

Su Yu escaped Stidim by using Skallo’s soul to halt his attacks, then returned to Blue Star through an Interstellar Teleportation Gate. His survival became public across Skrull Star, forcing Marnina XIII and the Solar Empire to confront the failed assassination.

• Su Yu appeared before the wounded Morning Star, who returned to his Pet Space to recover.
• Stidim attacked Su Yu, but Su Yu released Skallo’s soul as a shield, forcing Stidim to dispel his spells.
• Su Yu taunted Stidim and the Solar Emperor, then escaped through an Interstellar Teleportation Gate as Trena City heard his announcement.
• Stidim called Plante, while the Solar Empire’s intelligence department confirmed Su Yu’s survival and informed Marnina XIII.
• Marnina ordered Xion to contact Lanqi and seek a response from Victoria as news of Su Yu’s return spread across Skrull Star.
• Su Yu returned to Blue Star through the Space Tunnel.

After returning safely to Blue Star, Su Yu checked on the injured Morning Star and asked Donna to arrange a meeting with her brother Link. He learned credits could secure a meeting but could not persuade a War Inspector to join the final battle, then gave Donna gifts from the Skrulls.

• Su Yu returned to Donna's villa, threatened Skallo into behaving inside the Ring of Rebirth, and gave him ancient books to read.
• Su Yu checked on the wounded Morning Star, who asked him to catch Astral Rats to help her recover once they returned to their world.
• Su Yu asked Donna to arrange a meeting with Link and offered 100 credits; Donna contacted her brother and accepted the credits.
• Su Yu asked whether credits could hire Link to fight in the final battle, but Donna said he could not participate under any circumstances.
• Donna asked about gifts from the Skrulls, and Su Yu showed her Azure Pearl Powder and a Master-crafted Tongwen Ring.

Su Yu persuaded Link to deliver potions to Skrull Star by giving him Candied Hawthorn, despite Link’s duty as a War Inspector to remain neutral. Link emerged at Cindy Doppler’s victory speech in Beck Country, where he had promised to oppose G2’s war against Blue Star.

• Su Yu gave Donna gifts, and Donna returned the favor with an Intermediate Defense Rune.
• Link initially refused Su Yu’s request to deliver potions, saying it would violate his neutrality as a War Inspector.
• Su Yu gave Link Candied Hawthorn, which increased Link’s favorability toward him, and Link agreed to help in exchange for more snacks.
• Su Yu gave Link three Grandmaster Life Recovery Potions to deliver to designated individuals on Skrull Star.
• Cindy Doppler pledged that the Anti-United Organization would work to stop G2’s war against Blue Star for six months.
• Link emerged through a portal near Cindy Doppler while eating a Candied Hawthorn skewer.

Link visited Beck City to search for treasure at 213 Crown Bird Street, the ancestral home of Prime Minister Cindy Doppler. After searching underground, Link returned with a satisfied smile, leaving the watching crowd to wonder about his haul.

• Link arrived in Beck City, where Guardian Expert Cecilia Assassin greeted him and learned he had come to hunt for treasure.
• Link asked for someone to lead him to 213 Crown Bird Street, and Cindy Doppler revealed that it was his ancestral home.
• Cindy Doppler led Link to the address, where Link burrowed underground while Cindy waited with Beck Country’s experts.
• Reporters and citizens gathered outside as they waited for Link to emerge.
• Link flew out of the ground with a satisfied smile.

Link compensated Cindy Doppler for treasures found at his Ancestral Home with three Grandmaster Life Recovery Potions and the method for making Small Space Rings. Cindy realized Su Yu had arranged the handoff and protected himself by making the rewards a national asset.

• Link gave Cindy Doppler three Grandmaster Life Recovery Potions as compensation for the treasures found at his Ancestral Home.
• Cindy recognized the potions as the ones Su Yu had shown him and realized Su Yu had arranged for Link to deliver them.
• Link gave Cindy the manufacturing method for Small Space Rings under three cubic meters and then disappeared.
• Cindy realized the valuable rewards put him in danger as Cecilia appeared behind him.
• Cindy announced that the potions would be auctioned for Beck Country's reconstruction fund and that a state-owned enterprise would use the ring-making method for the country's benefit.
• Cecilia vanished after Cindy tied his interests to Beck Country's.

Su Yu returned from Skrull Star and revealed to humanity that he was alive, lifting the despair caused by his apparent death. Chancellor Cao learned that Su Yu had used a double, and was relieved he would not have to honor an agreement to sell Blue Star to the Skrulls.

• Cindy Doppler donated the wealth granted by the Divine Envoy to Beck Country, gaining public praise and support while drawing interest from wealthy investors.
• Su Yu left Donna’s home and announced on the Official Forum that he had returned from Skrull Star, overwhelming the forum and bringing many people to tears of relief.
• Su Yu used magic and portals to broadcast his return throughout the country, delighting residents and frightening the Surrender Faction.
• Chancellor Cao reached Su Yu and learned that the body found in the Tianshan Mountains had been a disguised double.
• Su Yu told Chancellor Cao that his real body had been on Skrull Star, and Cao rejoiced that he would not have to sell Blue Star to the Skrulls.

Su Yu returned alive to Blue Star after the Skrulls destroyed only one of his clones, and Chancellor Cao announced that he was free to remain there after reaching God-tier Peak. Su Yu revealed his captured artifacts and Skallo’s soul, challenged the Skrulls to trade gold for them within seven days, and was warmly welcomed by Speaker Hu Jing.

• Chancellor Cao told Su Yu that he had regained his freedom and had learned nothing about Elder Zhu while on Skrull Star.
• Zhong Feng, Old Meng, Xiao Tian, and other cultivators and officers celebrated Su Yu’s return as he explained that the Skrulls had killed only his clone.
• Su Yu showed the group artifacts from the Renket National Museum and briefly revealed his captive Skallo’s soul.
• Su Yu publicly offered the Skrulls 428 artifacts and Skallo’s soul in exchange for gold, giving them seven days to respond.
• Speaker Hu Jing welcomed Su Yu at United Government headquarters and said humanity was fortunate he was alive.

Su Yu told Hu Jing and the others about the armaments he had taken from Beck Country and the crystals he brought back to absorb nuclear radiation. He left the weapons in his Space Necklace for a surprise before the decisive battle, while Fujiwara Chika received the crystals to address Neon's contamination.

• Su Yu described his deal with Cindy Doppler and the armaments he had taken from more than a dozen Beck Country warehouses.
• Su Yu and Hu Jing agreed to keep the weapons hidden in his Space Necklace and equip the army one month before the decisive battle.
• Su Yu showed the group about fifty kilograms of crystals that could absorb nuclear radiation from the Sea of Japan.
• Hu Jing invited Fujiwara Chika to the meeting room, and Su Yu's crystals were offered to help resolve Neon's nuclear radiation problem.
• Fujiwara Chika arrived and accepted the crystals, while Xiao Tian was told to deliver them to her.

Fujiwara Chika pledged Neon to fight the Skrulls, and Su Yu returned home before logging into the game. After learning that Bernina Tide had taken the Blazing Sun Seal, he found Morning Star injured and prepared to send a clone through her portal to catch Astral Rats.

• Fujiwara Chika told Su Yu that Neon would fight the Skrulls to the end and help suppress surrenderist forces.
• Su Yu returned to Donghai City and called Speaker Hu Jing to arrange a confidential Space Ring production line.
• Speaker Hu Jing told Su Yu that Bernina Tide had almost certainly taken the Blazing Sun Seal after his clone was killed.
• Su Yu logged into the game and found Morning Star still badly wounded.
• Morning Star opened a portal to the Astral Realm as Su Yu began creating a clone to catch Astral Rats.

Su Yu created a new clone to hunt mice, then traveled with the injured Morning Star to meet Alijeh and Tina before heading to Lord Bernina. While upgrading a potion left by his previous clone, he discovered he had spent nearly all his Psionic Coins, and the chapter ended with Alijeh embracing him at the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace.

• Su Yu created a clone, equipped him with mage gear, and sent him through the Astral Portal to hunt mice.
• Su Yu and Morning Star headed toward the Gorse Flower Imperial Palace, where they planned to meet Alijeh and Tina before visiting Lord Bernina.
• Su Yu reviewed items left by his previous clone, including forty-two Golden Potions, and began upgrading a Life Recovery Potion.
• Su Yu learned that he had only 1,632,693 Psionic Coins left after spending his fortune, and Morning Star suggested borrowing money from Alijeh and developing commerce.
• Alijeh flew to Su Yu and embraced him at the palace, while Tina arrived moments later and greeted him from the side.

Su Yu reunited with Alijeh and Tina, then brought them to Clear Wind Village to meet Bernina Tide about reversing the Time Flow Rate. Bernina confirmed that she had the Blazing Sun Seal, leaving Su Yu poised to discuss it with her.

• Alijeh eased the awkwardness between herself, Tina, and Su Yu, while Morning Star reassured them and healed after swallowing an orb of astral energy.
• Su Yu invited Alijeh and Tina to visit Bernina Tide, and Alijeh left the court conference on the oil pipeline negotiations to go with him.
• Su Yu, Alijeh, Tina, and Morning Star traveled to Clear Wind Village and followed the village chief to Bernina Tide.
• Su Yu told Bernina Tide that he had brought the Renket Eternal Emblem and asked whether she had the Blazing Sun Seal.
• Bernina Tide confirmed that she had found and kept the Blazing Sun Seal.

Bernina explained that she was descended from Blue Star humans abducted by the Silver Federation and raised as experimental subjects, and that she spent thirteen hundred years inside Evolution World. She revealed that the Secret Court gave Evolution World to Blue Star after the Skrulls applied to invade, leaving Tina asking whether Bernina’s people could help in the war.

• Su Yu agreed to let Bernina reverse the Time Flow Rate, and she took him, Tina, and Alijeh toward the Golden Hourglass.
• Tina asked Bernina how she could enter Kexing’s world, prompting Bernina to tell the group about her origins.
• Bernina recounted that the Silver Federation had abducted Blue Star humans more than ten thousand years ago and built a population of two hundred thousand descendants, including her.
• Bernina explained that she spent thirteen hundred years in Evolution World and was both a citizen of the Silver Federation and partly a Blue Star human.
• Bernina revealed that the Secret Court gave Evolution World to Blue Star after the Skrulls applied to invade three years earlier.
• Tina asked whether any of Bernina’s two hundred thousand clansmen were powerful enough to aid Blue Star in the war.

Su Yu negotiated with Bernina to join the war against the Skrull, offering Silver Federation credits and land in Australia for her kin. Bernina agreed, then began preparing to Reverse Time Flow Rate at the Golden Hourglass, leaving Su Yu and the others carrying out her first instructions.

• Su Yu offered Bernina over twenty thousand Secret Court of Prophecy credits and land in Australia in exchange for help in the war, and Bernina agreed to move her kin there.
• Bernina brought Su Yu, Tina, Cat Morning Star, and Alijeh to the Golden Hourglass and assigned them positions around its Magic Array.
• Bernina activated the hourglass preparations and instructed Tina to coat a Deep Continent Rock Core with melted Refined Mithril and cool it to Absolute Zero.
• Su Yu followed Bernina's instruction to weave ten Ankeliboli Flowers into a wreath and wear it on his head.
• Alijeh injected one percent of Kevin Gorse Flower's power into a Zhonya's Hourglass, which shone with golden light.

Su Yu, Morning Star, Tina, and Alijeh followed Bernina’s instructions to reverse the Time Flow Rate with the Golden Hourglass. The first phase ended with the rate tripling, and Su Yu discovered that his remaining game time had risen to over thirty-four hours.

• Bernina assigned Su Yu, Morning Star, Tina, and Alijeh tasks to prepare materials for the reversal.
• The Blazing Sun Seal and the Renket Eternal Emblem appeared above Donghai City, alarming residents until Emperor Taizong explained they were part of Su Yu’s operation.
• Jennifer recognized the Skrull treasures in satellite footage and received the order from her superiors not to act.
• After ten minutes of work, the Golden Hourglass rotated forty-five degrees, completing the first phase of the plan.
• Bernina said the Time Flow Rate had already tripled, and Su Yu found 34:47:53 remaining on his game-time interface.

Emperor Blood God Slayer Elite Group 3 discovered that their remaining login time had tripled, and Zhu Tu Meng Jin learned from Lord Ke’s pinned forum post that the Time Flow Rate was being reversed. After An Zhi Ting Lan recalled the earlier vote and material-gathering effort, the team resumed its raid and defeated Boss 4, Aetairos.

• Zhu Tu Meng Jin and An Zhi Ting Lan noticed that their remaining game time had risen to about twenty-four hours, and the rest of Elite Group 3 found the same change.
• Zhu Tu Meng Jin checked the Official Forum and found Lord Ke’s pinned post announcing that the Time Flow Rate had been reversed threefold and would reach twelvefold.
• An Zhi Ting Lan reminded the team that players had voted to reverse the Time Flow Rate and that Lord Ke had organized a material-gathering effort more than a month earlier.
• An Zhi Ting Lan told the team to set aside discussion and continue their raid on Aetairos while they waited for more information.
• Emperor Blood God Slayer Elite Group 3 defeated the wind-spell dragon Aetairos after three hours of fighting.

After defeating the fourth boss, Emperor Blood God Slayer Guild Elite Team Three discovered the reversed time flow let them spend far longer in the game, though their experience gains had fallen. An Zhi Ting Lan and Zhu Tu Meng Jin secretly divided the boss’s equipment, then let the team believe it had vanished before they continued toward the fifth boss.

• After the boss died, the team checked their game logs and found they had 68 hours of game time remaining and had earned 36,000 Experience Points each.
• Zhu Tu Meng Jin pointed out that three hours in the dungeon amounted to just fifteen minutes in reality, so An Zhi Ting Lan told the team to log out and return after five minutes.
• After the other players left, Zhu Tu Meng Jin accused An Zhi Ting Lan of staying behind to claim the boss drops, and the two agreed to split the six pieces of equipment.
• The team returned and marveled at how little time had passed in reality before An Zhi Ting Lan led them toward the fifth boss.
• The players realized the previous boss's equipment had disappeared, while An Zhi Ting Lan and Zhu Tu Meng Jin secretly smiled about their successful deception.