Chapter Summaries

Little Fairy shared a meal with her tenants and praised Star Sea’s food while the others assumed she was describing a game. Dog Daddy realized she spoke of Star Sea as though it were real, confirming his suspicion that it was not a game.

• Little Fairy held off on raising the rent because the tenants had a young child, then scolded the couple for being two months behind on rent.
• Everyone tried Lao Wang’s wild boar meat, but Little Fairy found it bland compared with the meat in Star Sea.
• The tenants explained that Star Sea’s queue was over a million people long, and Little Fairy said Activation Codes could be worth millions or even a hundred million.
• The young man praised Grandpa Lu’s popular posts about Star Sea, which described how the game could simulate taste.
• Little Fairy called Star Sea a second world, and Dog Daddy recognized that she genuinely believed it was real.

After Little Fairy described the game to Dog Daddy and their friends, Dog Daddy connected her account with his daughter Xiao Jia’s disappearance and concluded that players might really be on Mars. Alarmed by the possibility that thousands of players had been altered into superhumans, he called Lao Zhang for help, but Lao Zhang doubted his claim.

• Little Fairy enjoyed talking about the game with Dog Daddy, the young couple, and the teacher couple, then Dog Daddy saw everyone downstairs.
• Dog Daddy recorded what he had learned and reviewed an analysis post about Grandpa Lu.
• Combining the game’s details with his daughter’s disappearances, Dog Daddy concluded that players might actually be on Mars and undergoing Gene Surgery.
• Dog Daddy realized that nearly tens of thousands of players might have been transformed and called Lao Zhang using a new SIM card.
• Dog Daddy asked Lao Zhang if he knew anyone at the Astronomy Bureau and said his daughter might be on another planet, but Lao Zhang asked how drunk he was.

Xi Ye approved the developer players’ first city plan and arranged training and contract rules to support future construction. He also learned that players planned to sell unruly combat engineers to other players, then turned his attention to the urgent disputes involving the sects and the Undead Realm.

• Xi Ye approved Big Back Head and the other developer players’ city plan, then told them to oversee construction.
• Xi Ye explained that he would send the developers to tour elven cities and pursue further study after the city was complete.
• Xi Ye ordered the system to publish the plan, open contract applications, and limit how many projects players could accept so they would sell excess combat engineers.
• The system reported that a quarter of the combat engineers were unruly and that players planned to sell them to others, prompting Xi Ye to let the players learn from the risk.
• Xi Ye asked for updates on the missions concerning the sects in the real world and the Undead Realm in the New Realm.

Xi Ye prepared to fake a Luofu Sect mountain gate after Old Man Li asked to visit, while Kunlun sent its Great Luo Ancestor and twelve Celestial Immortal elders toward C City. The chapter ended with Old Man Li realizing Kunlun might be heading for the sect.

• Xi Ye reviewed the crises surrounding the Undead Passage and D-Earth, then agreed to support Old Man Li’s requests for more Dragon Group members and a visit to the Luofu Sect.
• Xi Ye tasked Big Back Head and the developer players with putting their city plans on hold and building a convincing sect mountain gate.
• Old Man Li considered Qing Que’s extraordinary strength and the mysteries surrounding the Luofu Sect, and waited for an answer to his request to visit.
• The leader told Old Man Li that Kunlun’s Great Luo Ancestor and twelve Celestial Immortal elders were rushing to C City.
• Old Man Li realized that the Luofu Sect was also located in C City and exclaimed that they were in trouble.

Kunlun’s elders learned that a mysterious sect had placed Qing Que with the authorities, reviving their fear of losing influence as they had a thousand years earlier. The Immortal Venerable left seclusion and ordered the elders to head southwest, intending to prevent history from repeating itself.

• Kunlun’s elders reviewed Dragon Family intelligence about Qing Que joining the Dragon Group and her killing two Kagura captains.
• Elder Gong questioned whether Qing Que was truly a Direct Disciple and suggested Xuanzang’s celebrated youth might have been a deception.
• The Immortal Venerable emerged from seclusion after hearing that another Grand Luo had appeared.
• The Immortal Venerable ordered all the elders to head southwest while he followed, warning them not to repeat Kunlun’s past mistake.

Old Man Li prepared to go to C City as Kunlun mobilized against Luofu, while the official side hesitated over whether to oppose Kunlun. Xi Ye learned how the Ten Great Sects and Kunlun Secret Realm worked and asked about the power of Great Luo experts.

• Old Man Tian questioned Old Man Li about the higher-ups' stance, and Old Man Li explained that they feared falling out with Kunlun without knowing Luofu's background.
• Old Man Tian urged the official side to seize the chance to support Luofu, but Old Man Li defended its cautious approach and said he would try to mediate in C City.
• Old Man Li planned to visit Luofu's mountain gate and assess whether the sect could become a second Huangjue Temple.
• Wei Lin reported the situation to Xi Ye, who asked Intelligence about Central China's cultivation forces and the Ten Great Sects.
• Intelligence explained that Kunlun recognized the Ten Great Sects and controlled access to the Kunlun Secret Realm, then described Huangjue Temple's Great Luo expert.
• Xi Ye asked how powerful a Great Luo expert was and learned that such beings could command heaven and earth.

Little Fairy accepted Big Back Head’s rushed mountain-gate construction project for the promised points. Meanwhile, Zach’s hopes of pursuing his craft were shaken when Gray Egg broke his carving and denounced their work as service to their captors, then immediately went off to flatter their master.

• Big Back Head offered Little Fairy one hundred thousand points for each peak she completed and asked her to build a decorative mountain gate quickly.
• Zach reflected on how capture had unexpectedly given him safety, rest, and a chance to practice the carving he loved.
• Gray Egg knocked Zach’s Emerald Jade carving to the floor and dismissed the broken material as unimportant.
• Gray Egg accused the other engineers of forgetting they were Imperial soldiers and working like slaves for the Green-skinned Orcs.
• After Gray Egg left, Zach and the others heard him praise their master and request more materials.
• Zach wondered whether Gray Egg’s ingratiating behavior was how people got ahead, recalling that Gray Egg had once been a squad leader.

Little Fairy gave Zach responsibility for designing a mountain gate model, and he realized his hard work had earned her trust. After logging out, she grew concerned when Lao Wang failed to invite the group to dinner and heard that a young woman had visited his room, prompting her to decide to check on him.

• Hulk warned Zach that Gray Egg had blamed him for smashing the Jade Stone materials, and Zach tried to defend himself to Little Fairy.
• Little Fairy brought Zach to a workshop, assigned him a mountain gate model, and told him he would choose skilled workers for the construction project.
• Zach cried with joy after Little Fairy left, grateful that she had trusted him with the work.
• Little Fairy logged out, waited for Lao Wang's usual dinner invitation, and learned from the group chat that a young woman had visited his room.
• Little Fairy wondered whether the visitor was Lao Wang's new girlfriend, then decided to go check on him because she owned the house.

Li Xiaoqian nervously hosted Little Fairy while trying to gauge whether she was an expert, and Little Fairy mistook her fear for guilt over pursuing Uncle Wang. Elsewhere, Dog Daddy met Lao Zhang, who had found a former Astronomy Bureau employee with equipment that might help investigate Dog Daddy’s theory.

• Li Xiaoqian learned that Situ Ming wanted her to search Wang Lin’s room and test whether the expert was there, leaving her convinced Kunlun did not care about her safety.
• Little Fairy visited Dog Daddy’s room under the pretense of checking a leaking toilet and questioned Li Xiaoqian about her connection to Uncle Wang.
• Little Fairy concluded that Li Xiaoqian was a would-be stepmother and watched her flee, then smugly declared victory.
• Dog Daddy met Lao Zhang at a remote location, where Lao Zhang explained that he had found a former Astronomy Bureau employee with useful equipment.
• Dog Daddy and Lao Zhang discussed whether Dog Daddy’s theory involving aliens was reliable, and Dog Daddy said they would soon find out.

Lao Wang and Director Zhang learned from Yang Renjie that modern Mars landing documentaries were staged and that the original Mars base had long been abandoned. On Mars Base, Xi Ye decided to keep observing Wang Lin while considering the artificial-atmosphere plan.

• Lao Zhang brought Lao Wang to meet Yang Renjie, a former member of the North America Astronomy Bureau’s Mars Project team.
• Yang Renjie explained that the only real Mars landing took place 130 years earlier, cost 750 billion dollars, and established a small base.
• Yang Renjie said later Mars landing documentaries were staged and that the last North American monitoring robot had stopped transmitting 30 years earlier.
• Lao Wang told Yang Renjie that he suspected people were currently living inside Mars and connected the idea to the game Star Sea.
• Xi Ye learned that no modern human Mars base existed and considered launching the artificial-atmosphere plan.
• Xi Ye told the artificial intelligence to keep watching Wang Lin and the others because he found Wang Lin’s deductions interesting.

Huang Huafeng hosted Hou Ruolan and Mu Yunji at the Huang Family villa, where Mu Yunji sought help locating Wang Chengbo’s missing father. A message warned that the Kunlun Twelve Immortals were heading to C City, leaving Mu Yunji fearing she had triggered a serious dispute.

• Huang Huafeng joked with Hou Ruolan about Leng Xing and the women interested in him while she questioned Mu Yunji’s standing in the Yun Mountain Sect.
• Mu Yunji arrived and asked Huang Huafeng to use his police connections to find former criminal police captain Wang Lin.
• Wang Chengbo told Mu Yunji that his father had not contacted him for two weeks, and Mu Yunji worried the Kunlun Twelve Immortals might have harmed him.
• A Yun Mountain Sect cloud eagle delivered a warning that the Kunlun Twelve Immortals were heading to C City and Mu Yunji should return to the sect.
• Mu Yunji realized the situation might be serious and feared she had gone too far.

Mu Yunji tried to protect Wang Chengbo after learning that his father, Wang Lin, had escaped police custody and that Kunlun was pursuing him. When Situ Xue arrived to take Wang Chengbo, Mu Yunji fought her and let him flee, but one Kunlun disciple chased after him.

• Huang Huafeng told Mu Yunji that Wang Lin had escaped the C City Police Station five days earlier after a major sect pressured authorities to hand him over.
• Mu Yunji urged Wang Chengbo to flee with her to Yun Mountain, but he refused to abandon his search for his missing sister, Xiao Jia.
• Li Xiaoqian arrived, and Mu Yunji suggested she did not understand what it meant to be a Kunlun Cauldron before Situ Xue and Kunlun disciples entered and demanded Wang Chengbo.
• Wang Chengbo agreed to go with Kunlun, but Mu Yunji shielded him and cut the floor with Sword Qi, declaring that she would not hand him over.
• Situ Xue attacked Mu Yunji with Heavenly Water Flowing Splendor, while Mu Yunji sent Wang Chengbo toward an exit and blocked the other Kunlun disciples.
• Mu Yunji parried Situ Xue as a Kunlun disciple chased after the fleeing Wang Chengbo.

Leng Xing rescued Wang Chengbo from a Kunlun disciple and carried him away to find his father, while Hou Ruolan followed, confused by their closeness. At Yang Renjie’s home, Yang Renjie prepared to compare Mars images with the game’s maps to investigate Dog Daddy’s theory.

• Huang Huafeng tried to help Wang Chengbo escape, but a Kunlun disciple landed in front of them and reached to seize him.
• Wang Chengbo drew a gun and fired at the Kunlun disciple, but Leng Xing caught the bullet between his fingers.
• Leng Xing told Wang Chengbo that they needed to get him and his father to safety, then carried him away because his injured foot kept him from walking.
• Hou Ruolan followed Leng Xing and Wang Chengbo, wondering whether Leng Xing’s real interest was in Wang Chengbo.
• Yang Renjie showed Dog Daddy and Director Zhang authentic panoramic images of Mars and proposed comparing them with the game’s images.

Yang Renjie and Director Zhang considered Dog Daddy’s claim that the game transported players to Mars, and Dog Daddy decided to find an ordinary player to demonstrate it. Meanwhile, Leng Xing, Wang Chengbo, and Hou Ruolan were confronted in a foggy pine forest by three Kunlun Heavenly Immortals, and Leng Xing prepared to face them.

• Yang Renjie compared more than thirty thousand player-uploaded images with Astronomy Bureau photographs and concluded that the game’s developers might have obtained the bureau’s images.
• Dog Daddy argued that players might be hiding the game’s true effects and proposed bringing an ordinary player into the game to prove his theory.
• Dog Daddy said he knew an ordinary player and set off to find her with Yang Renjie and Director Zhang.
• Wang Chengbo persuaded Leng Xing to let Hou Ruolan come with them, warning that Kunlun might arrest her if she stayed behind.
• Three Kunlun Heavenly Immortals emerged from the fog and remarked on Leng Xing’s strength and her sect’s possible secret realm.
• Leng Xing put Wang Chengbo down, asked Hou Ruolan to care for him, and removed her necklace as she prepared to confront the three immortals.

Dog Daddy tried to arrange for Little Fairy to log into the game while Old Wang learned that the Kunlun Golden Immortals had arrived in C City to target Luofu. When Kunlun surrounded the residential compound, Li Yunfei ordered authorities to intervene, setting up a confrontation over the agreement between cultivators and the authorities.

• Dog Daddy invited the other tenants to witness Little Fairy logging into the game, but their unavailability delayed the plan.
• Lao Zhang learned that Li Yunfei had detained the Director and restored official protection for Old Wang, while Kunlun’s Twelve Golden Immortals arrived in C City to target Luofu.
• Little Fairy saw people entering the residential compound and hid behind Old Wang, who recognized them as possibly being the Kunlun Golden Immortals.
• At the police station, Elder Li of Kunlun called Luofu an Evil Cultivator sect and said Kunlun intended to eliminate it, while Li Yunfei defended Luofu’s official partnership with the authorities.
• Director Bai reported that Kunlun had surrounded the compound and planned to seize Old Wang and a suspected Luofu disciple, so Li Yunfei ordered authorities to intervene.

Old Man Li and Elder Li clashed over whether the authorities would honor their agreement with Kunlun, while Elder Hong considered what Luofu’s emergence meant for the sects. At the residential complex, Kunlun moved to seize Little Fairy, and Situ Ming challenged her protectors as reinforcements were on the way.

• Elder Li warned Old Man Li that Kunlun might consider its agreement with the authorities void, then left the Police Station with his disciples.
• Elder Hong refused to choose Emei’s side without consulting his sect master and questioned whether Luofu could withstand Kunlun.
• Old Man Li ordered Director Bai to send people to rescue Luofu’s members and said he hoped to mediate after they were safe.
• Elder Hong told Luo Feifan that Luofu might be a secret-realm sect and that Kunlun’s Great Luo Ancestor had personally set out against it.
• Kunlun’s elders demanded that the authorities hand over Little Fairy, but Wang Lin and Lao Zhang protected her while awaiting reinforcements.
• After learning that the Police Station had sent people, Elder Li ordered Situ Ming to act, and Situ Ming drew his sword and challenged the defenders.

Little Fairy revealed her extraordinary strength when she twice caught Situ Ming’s sword and shattered his hand with a counterforce. Zhou ChiYang then intervened to take her away before the authorities arrived, leaving her under the pressure of his overwhelming aura.

• A Kunlun elder told Situ Ming to attack Little Fairy, and Wang Lin tried to shield her with his body.
• Little Fairy caught Situ Ming’s sword barehanded, surprising him and the elders as Wang Lin comforted her.
• Situ Ming attacked again at full strength, but Little Fairy used the Vibration Word Art to twist his sword hand and send him stumbling back.
• Qing Xian drew the force out of Situ Ming’s arm while Zhou ChiYang accused Little Fairy of using vicious methods.
• With the authorities nearing, Zhou ChiYang introduced himself and unleashed an aura that forced Wang Lin and the other mortals to the ground.

Little Fairy struggled against Elder Zhou until Xi Ye’s teleportation system replaced her injured body with a Green Titan. Her sudden transformation left the Kunlun elders shaken and convinced them that Luo Fu was a heretical cult.

• Wang Gou Dan watched Little Fairy’s losing fight as Xi Ye explained that the players had combat instincts but lacked bodies trained for battle.
• Elder Zhou unleashed his full strength and sent Little Fairy flying, while Dog Daddy could only watch helplessly.
• The Teleportation Device activated, and its spatial beam severed Elder Zhou’s hand as he tried to capture Little Fairy.
• Little Fairy reappeared as a heavily muscled Green Titan and challenged Elder Zhou to fight again.
• Elder Zhou called Little Fairy a monster who had attained the Dao and accused Luo Fu of being a heretical cult.

Leng Xing fought three Kunlun Golden Immortals outside the Huang Family Manor and was injured by their coordinated attacks. The First Elder then used the Turning Heaven Seal to crush him, leaving his fate unclear.

• The Situ Family elder attacked Leng Xing with her Flowing Water Stance, but he countered with a spear thrust that she narrowly evaded.
• An elder in black struck Leng Xing with Yin Lightning Palm, injuring him and leaving a sinister current surging through his arm.
• The leading elder decided they could not capture Leng Xing alive and summoned a square jade seal.
• The jade seal enlarged into a mountain-sized artifact, pinned Leng Xing with its suction, and crashed down as the surrounding mountain range shook.
• Situ Xue recognized the artifact as the First Elder's Turning Heaven Seal from the Kunlun Treasured Records.

Leng Xing survived the Turning Heaven Seal by unleashing his berserk power and nearly killed the Kunlun disciples when he hurled the seal at them. The Kunlun Immortal Venerable arrived, caught the seal, and stopped Leng Xing’s devastating punch with one finger.

• Mu Yunji reached the battlefield and learned that Leng Xing had been crushed beneath the Turning Heaven Seal, while Wang Chengbo feared the Kunlun elders had mistaken him for a monster and killed him.
• Situ Xue reunited with her Old Ancestor, who said the elders had defeated a powerful monster but suffered injuries in the fight.
• Leng Xing lifted the Turning Heaven Seal in his berserk state and hurled it toward the elders and disciples, forcing them to flee.
• The First Elder failed to regain control of the seal, but the Kunlun Immortal Venerable appeared and caught it as it shrank back to normal size.
• Leng Xing attacked the Immortal Venerable, who stopped his punch with a single finger, astonishing everyone watching.