Chapter Summaries

Xia Chujian experienced Hua Yixin’s birthday celebration in the simulation before the laboratory shifted into a massacre by Remnants. After the surviving senior sister sacrificed herself to protect Xia Chujian, Xia charged through the fog and confronted a gigantic abyssal creature.

• Xia Chujian realized the researchers were celebrating Hua Yixin’s birthday, then shared the cake with the laboratory staff.
• The scene shifted to a ruined laboratory where Remnant tentacles attacked, and Xia used her mecha and sniper rifle to destroy them.
• Xia discovered that the Remnants’ mental attack had killed fourteen scientists and incapacitated the middle-aged senior sister.
• The senior sister warned Xia to escape, then shielded her from a tentacle and was pierced; Xia cut the tentacle into pieces.
• Xia charged through the white fog and faced a colossal, tentacled creature emerging from the seabed wilderness.

Xia Chujian fought an enormous shadowy monster and swarms of Niapula in the underwater city, then cleared the “Raging Sea Cataclysm” instance. After the Game System unlocked the “Empire Dawn” level and ejected her from the simulation, she emerged hungry to find her classmates gathered nearby.

• Xia Chujian used the Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha and Black Silver Bullets to wound the shadow monster, which sacrificed its lower half and escaped into the void.
• Xia Chujian used an underwater machine gun to kill many Niapula, then fled toward the surface and shot the last pursuing crow with a conventional bullet.
• The Game System announced that Xia Chujian had cleared the “Raging Sea Cataclysm” instance and unlocked the “Empire Dawn” level.
• Xia Chujian woke in her Nutrient Cabin after two and a half hours and realized that clearing a level had ended the simulation early.
• Xia Chujian found most of the students out of their Nutrient Cabins, and Chen Yanjun praised her for being the last one to emerge.

After the first class in the holographic game, Xia Chujian’s classmates praised her for lasting longer than the others, while she kept quiet about clearing a hidden instance. The students discussed their deaths and strategies, and the chapter left them heading off to lunch after surviving the experience.

• Chen Yanjun and Jiang Sheng congratulated Xia Chujian for being the last student to leave the game, and Xia Chujian concealed that she had cleared “Raging Sea Cataclysm.”
• Chen Yanjun offered to treat the Star Destroyer Class freshmen to lunch, and Xia Chujian agreed to join him in treating their classmates.
• Wenren Sanshang accused Xia Chujian of receiving secret tutoring, while Mai Aotuo defended her and Fan Ruisi explained that students had learned the course topics only the day before.
• Mai Aotuo and Fan Ruisi discussed the Eye of Nep, which had killed them in the game, and Fan Ruisi described its vulnerable eyes and resistance to attacks.
• The freshmen discussed their in-game deaths, and Mai Aotuo waited outside the cafeteria while Fan Ruisi bought him lunch.

Xia Chujian and her classmates ate together in the Sophomore Cafeteria, comparing its ordinary food with the ingredients and rice from Guiyuan Star. After they discussed their progress in "Empire Dawn," Xia Chujian realized none of them had unlocked the "Raging Sea Cataclysm" instance.

• Xia Chujian inspected the standard meal and found its pork and rice inferior to the food from Guiyuan Star, though she ate it with the others.
• Chen Yanjun described the better food served in other cafeterias and praised Guiyuan Star rice, prompting Xia Chujian to explain that her family had once been poor.
• Xia Chujian offered to bring her classmates fresh rice and meat from home next semester, and Chen Yanjun and the others offered to contribute toward the meal.
• Chen Yanjun sent Xia Chujian a private friend request, but she ignored it because she was not ready to add her classmates as private friends.
• After the meal, Xia Chujian listened as Chen Yanjun and the others discussed monsters in "Empire Dawn" and realized none had unlocked the "Raging Sea Cataclysm" instance.

Xia Chujian questioned her classmates about their game experiences, then went to the Library to investigate the history behind the game. When a more advanced intelligence questioned her about the missing content, she concealed her real concern about the Raging Sea Cataclysm and complained about the gorilla-like monsters instead.

• Xia Chujian learned that her classmates had encountered mountain and sea monsters, but none had begun their games aboard a ship or heard of the Raging Sea Cataclysm.
• Xia Chujian’s classmates decided to study their coursebooks in the Library before entering the game again, and she joined them after learning that clearing the assessment early could earn them an early vacation.
• Xia Chujian asked Library robot Tu 103 for detailed military history and learned that the freshman textbook was only a brief history, while early comprehensive records were sparse.
• Tu 103 explained the founding period at length but only expanded on the same material found in the textbook, so Xia Chujian asked where the game’s additional content came from.
• A more advanced intelligence questioned Xia Chujian about content missing from the textbook, and the Other Shore Flower Necklace warned her before she could mention the Raging Sea Cataclysm.
• Xia Chujian instead complained that the game’s gorilla-like monsters with flaming wheels were absent from the textbook and asked how students were supposed to defeat them.

Xia Chujian challenged the Library robot Tu 103’s claims about prehistoric monsters, then learned that another Mechanical Intelligence had secretly taken control of it. She trusted Seven Lù’s caution, furnished her dorm, and heard Qiu Shenxing explain that the Game could include monsters absent from textbooks.

• Xia Chujian argued with Tu 103 about whether unknown prehistoric monsters could be inferred from history, and the robot threw her out of the consultation room.
• Library robots detected Tu 103’s malfunction, sealed it in a metal box, and took it away for repairs.
• Seven Lù told Xia Chujian that a different Mechanical Intelligence had taken over Tu 103, and Xia Chujian praised Seven Lù for withholding information about the Game.
• Xia Chujian ordered and assembled a modular cabinet and corner sofa with Seven Lù’s help, partitioning her dorm into a bedroom and living area.
• The next morning, Qiu Shenxing told the class that the Game could contain monsters not covered in textbooks because it created a highly realistic world.

Qiu Shenxing explained that the Game tested students’ ability to apply textbook methods, then revealed a public real-time scoreboard that showed Xia Chujian far ahead of her classmates. When students pressured Xia to share her gameplay experience, Chen Yanjun defended her, and the class prepared to enter the Game again.

• Qiu Shenxing explained that Game challenges could include material beyond the textbooks, but students should use the methods they had learned to solve them.
• Xia Chujian deflected a noble student’s accusations, and Qiu Shenxing displayed the rankings showing her at ninety-nine points while Mai Aotuo led the others with nineteen.
• Qiu Shenxing told the class that the scoreboard would be displayed publicly, while gameplay footage would be archived for grade reviews; Xia Chujian urged everyone to finish asking questions so they could return to the Game.
• Wenren Sanshang accused Xia Chujian of refusing to help her classmates, but Qiu Shenxing said sharing was voluntary and the course grades were controlled by Mechanical Intelligence.
• Several students pressed Xia Chujian to share her experience, and Chen Yanjun argued that she should not have to share her answers for an exam.

Xia Chujian entered the First Level, “Empire Dawn,” after checking her Nutrient Cabin and returning to the sea where her previous level had ended. She followed a red arrow south, fell from the sky, and woke beside Seven Lù in the form of a Pocket Lucky Cat.

• Qiu Shenxing apologized to Xia Chujian for asking to see her exam paper, then sent the class to spend three hours in the Nutrient Cabins.
• Xia Chujian checked Chen Yanjun’s Nutrient Cabin, prompting him to discover a power-system fault that a maintenance robot repaired.
• Xia Chujian entered the Game and found herself aboard a sailing ship at the sea where she had left the previous level; she searched underwater for Arkham City but found no trace of it.
• A golden message announced the start of “Empire Dawn,” and Xia Chujian followed a red arrow south as the ship and sea vanished behind her.
• The Shao Siming Mecha retracted, and Xia Chujian fell from the sky; she later woke beside a rock under the stars with Seven Lù as a Pocket Lucky Cat.

Xia Chujian entered the historical game’s opening scenario, killed an Eye of Nep with her Crocodile Dragon Daggers, and sheltered from a storm aboard the sailboat. After waking beneath a clear sky, she learned the North Star’s presence contradicted the game’s historical setting and asked Seven Lù for food.

• Xia Chujian found her Shao Siming Black Silver Mecha restricted to golden chainmail and spotted the sailboat waiting at the end of a makeshift pier as a storm approached.
• Xia Chujian killed the Eye of Nep with her Crocodile Dragon Daggers before it could open its eyes, and Seven Lù explained that the weapons were especially effective against water monsters.
• Xia Chujian dragged the monster beside a rock, then took Seven Lù into the sailboat’s leaking cabin and blocked the gaps before sleeping through the storm.
• After the storm passed, Xia Chujian saw the North Star, and Seven Lù realized its presence conflicted with Beichen Empire history books and the game’s supposed historical accuracy.
• Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù whether it wanted food, and Seven Lù eagerly claimed it would starve without a meal.

Xia Chujian harvested and roasted the Eye of Nep, sharing its delicious meat with Seven Lù. After local natives found her beside the slain creature, they thanked her for avenging their tribe, and she introduced herself as Seven Kill.

• Xia Chujian cut open the Eye of Nep with her Crocodile Dragon Teeth Dagger and gathered burning branches from a lightning-started forest fire.
• Xia Chujian roasted Eye of Nep meat over the fire, enjoyed it, and shared some with Seven Lù.
• Several armed natives approached Xia Chujian and knelt when they saw the slain Eye of Nep.
• A native woman warned Xia Chujian that eating the Eye of Nep was believed to bring a curse, but Xia Chujian dismissed the warning.
• The natives thanked Xia Chujian for killing the creature, and she told them to call her Seven Kill.

Xia Chujian reassured starving island natives that the Eye of Nep was food, then killed a flying Ying Fish and taught them how to prepare it. She became chieftain of the Earth Wolf Tribe, renamed it the Seven Killings Tribe, and set out to bring them the Better Than Crab as well.

• Xia Chujian renamed the feared Eye of Nep “Better Than Crab” and fed its roasted meat to the natives, convincing them it would not curse them.
• A giant flying fish attacked the shore, and Xia Chujian cut off its wings and killed it with her Crocodile Dragon Dagger.
• Xia Chujian identified the fish as a Ying Fish, explained that it ate the natives’ wooden houses, and taught them how to clean it.
• The female native invited Xia Chujian to lead the Earth Wolf Tribe, and Xia Chujian agreed to become their chieftain and renamed them the Seven Killings Tribe.
• Xia Chujian promised to protect and feed her new tribespeople, then went to get rope so they could bring the Better Than Crab back to the tribe.

Xia Chujian and Su Ye Luo visited the Chang Geng Tribe’s Wizard-Lord, who explained how the tribes measured time and revealed that he was Su Ye Luo’s father. He said most people lived only sixteen years, mainly because of Sea Beasts, leaving Xia Chujian with a new danger to investigate as she sought clues to clear the game.

• Xia Chujian followed Su Ye Luo through the forest to meet the Wizard-Lord of the Chang Geng Tribe.
• Xia Chujian gave Tree Leaf Fall the new name Su Ye Luo, and Su Ye Luo accepted it.
• The Wizard-Lord explained that the tribes measured time with hourglass cycles, carved marks, and tied knots.
• The Wizard-Lord revealed that he was Su Ye Luo’s father and said she was sixteen years old.
• The Wizard-Lord said the tribes’ average lifespan was sixteen years and identified Sea Beasts as the greatest threat.

Xia Chujian persuaded the Seven Killings Tribe to eat Sea Beasts by dismissing the curse and received a powerful ironwood staff from the Wizard-Lord. The celebration was interrupted by a meteor-triggered forest fire, as huge Sea Beasts and Fierce Beasts surged into the area, leaving the tribe under attack.

• The Wizard-Lord warned Xia Chujian that Sea Beasts were cursed, then gave her a Ten Thousand Year Ironwood staff that she used to snap a great tree in half.
• Xia Chujian encouraged her tribe to eat Sea Beasts and told them to say “Curse Rebound” before eating; the people feasted on grilled fish and meat.
• Meteors fell into the forest, igniting a massive fire, and the frightened natives fled to their shacks.
• Huge Eye of Nep and other Sea Beasts charged from the shore toward the flames, while Xia Chujian chased after them.
• Fierce Beasts attacked the shacks in the clearing, forcing the Seven Killings Tribe members out as they cried for help and blamed Xia Chujian.

Xia Chujian saved a child during a beast stampede, then rallied four Demon Beasts to fight the Sea Beasts invading from the shore. She killed the mountain-sized Sea Beast leading the attack with a Crocodile Dragon Tooth bayonet mounted on her Ironwood Long Staff, leaving the remaining Sea Beasts to face her and her new allies.

• Xia Chujian killed a Jackal that was about to attack a child and returned the child to his mother.
• The winged White Tiger, fanged lion, horned leopard, and patterned Black Hound turned their attention to Xia Chujian as the Sea Beasts advanced.
• Xia Chujian called on the four Demon Beasts to help her fight the Sea Beasts and ordered them to split up and attack.
• Xia Chujian mounted a Crocodile Dragon Tooth bayonet onto her Ironwood Long Staff and charged the mountain-sized Sea Beast.
• Xia Chujian beheaded the mountain-sized Sea Beast with one slash.

Xia Chujian stopped the infected animals from spreading the fleshy-bud virus, defeated the Sea Beasts, and claimed the region for the Seven Killings Tribe. After clearing Part One of "Empire Dawn," she received new equipment and found herself transported to a hall where Su Ye Luo and the other natives appeared much older and better dressed.

• Xia Chujian burned the infected animals and the remains of the Mountain of Flesh to stop the contagious fleshy-bud virus from spreading.
• Xia Chujian killed all four Eye of Nep and helped the four Demon Beasts and the mountain beasts defeat the Sea Beasts that had crawled ashore.
• Xia Chujian declared the mountains, land, sky, and sea to be the Seven Killings Tribe's territory and destroyed an Eye of Nep's head as a warning.
• The Game System announced that Player 'Seven Kill' had cleared Part One of "Empire Dawn" and rewarded Xia Chujian with a set of Holy Armor and a long blade.
• Xia Chujian saw her new robe, Helmet, and Long Sword in the Virtual Display Screen, then found herself seated on a High Platform in a hall with the older-looking Su Ye Luo and other natives.

Xia Chujian learned that ten years had passed in the Game and that four neighboring tribes wanted to submit to her. She founded Beichen Country, appointed its officials, and then overturned discriminatory laws that had emerged during the time skip.

• Su Ye Luo and the Wizard-Lord told Xia Chujian that the surrounding tribes recognized her as their ruler after she led the Seven Killings Tribe to prosperity.
• The Chang Geng, Gu Xin, Ju Ling, and Qing Lan Tribes submitted to Xia Chujian, who renamed the Seven Killings Tribe Beichen Country and made the Wizard-Lord its High Priest.
• Xia Chujian appointed the former leaders of the Gu Xin, Ju Ling, and Qing Ye Tribes as officials and ordered them to create governing rules.
• Su Ye Luo told Xia Chujian that the Game had established a marriage system and that a Gu Xin leader wanted the High Priest position restricted to men.
• Xia Chujian appointed Su Ye Luo as her secretary and ordered her to announce freedom to marry and divorce, equal inheritance rights, and that wives did not have to obey their husbands.

Xia Chujian killed a minister who challenged her authority and declared equal rights for women in Beichen Country. She then sailed to search for the sunken Arkham City library, discovering that two of her guards were connected to the ministers she had just confronted.

• Su Ye Luo and the High Priest returned to the hall, where the Zong Family Minister challenged Su Ye Luo’s appointment and demanded that ministers establish the country’s rites.
• Xia Chujian killed the Zong Family Minister and warned the hall that anyone who tried to seize her position or suppress women would meet the same fate.
• Su Ye Luo revealed that women had previously been barred from studying, so Xia Chujian ordered equal rights and told her to issue a decree.
• Xia Chujian asked Seven Lù what to do next, then decided to search the seabed for Arkham City and its science library.
• Xia Chujian sailed with sixty Guards and learned that Zong Shangzhu was the murdered minister’s nephew, while Quan Tongxin was the other minister’s son; both declared loyalty to her.

Xia Chujian searched the underwater ruins for the Library of Arkham City and confronted evidence that it had become the Sanctuary of the Beichen Empire over time. She opened the door at the end of the Library’s dark corridor, leaving what lay beyond unrevealed.

• Xia Chujian learned that the search for Tantai Lin had been underway for five years and ordered the notices withdrawn and impersonators threatened with execution.
• Quan Tongxin and Zong Shangzhu offered to accompany Xia Chujian underwater, but she ordered them to stay on the ship and dove alone.
• Xia Chujian reached the seabed and found the ruined Library of Arkham City, which had drifted there separately from the rest of the city and now resembled the Sanctuary.
• Xia Chujian crossed the Library to a familiar dark corridor and, after Seven Lù reminded her to pull the final door, opened it.

Xia Chujian cleared the second part of “Empire Dawn” and saw the future of the Beichen Empire, but the laboratory’s fallen scientists left her troubled. After waking from the Nutrient Cabin, she discovered the school was inspecting the cabins’ circuitry and criticized the robots’ maintenance practices.

• Xia Chujian saw the fifteen scientists dead in the laboratory and could not enter to recover their remains before the scene vanished.
• She returned from the underwater Library with bamboo-slip science books, then received a 71-point score and an upgraded Holy Armor with guns unlocked for clearing Part Two and a Hidden Plot.
• Xia Chujian watched Beichen Country develop into an empire that conquered the stars before waking in her Nutrient Cabin after forty-seven minutes.
• She chose not to continue to the next Game chapter because she felt mentally exhausted, then left her cabin to seek permission to rest.
• Cylindrical Robots inspected the Nutrient Cabins after a student reported faulty circuitry, and Xia Chujian criticized their outdated maintenance practices.

Xia Chujian returned from the Game after clearing “Empire Dawn” in record time and earning the highest score in history. As the school forum erupted over her achievement and Huo Yushen publicly acknowledged her superiority, she went back to her dorm unaware of the commotion until he messaged her.

• Xia Chujian threatened the Cylindrical Robot with a complaint and left it struggling to repair itself.
• Xia Chujian told Qiu Shenxing she had cleared Chapter One and asked to return to her dorm to rest.
• The school announced that Xia Chujian had broken the fastest-clearance record for “Empire Dawn” and achieved a score of 220.
• Students and graduates debated her result on the school forum, where Huo Yushen posted that he bowed to her superiority.
• Huo Yushen messaged Xia Chujian to congratulate her and say he looked forward to her surpassing him in every way.