Chapter Summaries

The group reached Kunlun’s Wind and Cloud Platform, where Dog Bro cared for the Liu family and Wang Chengbo and Young Master Huang joined the unaffiliated spectators. Young Master Huang drunkenly claimed Mu Yunji was Wang Chengbo’s wife just as she appeared in the arena, leaving the burly stranger questioning whether they were serious.

• Dog Bro carried Liu Xiaoli’s little girl through the cold and rejected Liu Xing’s attempts to befriend him while agreeing to look after Liu Kai.
• The group arrived at the Wind and Cloud Platform, where the major sects received warm pavilions and unaffiliated spectators sat on icy stairs.
• Young Master Huang complained about the cold, then drank from a flask offered by a burly stranger and became tipsy.
• Young Master Huang told the stranger that he had come to watch Wang Chengbo’s wife fight in the arena.
• Mu Yunji appeared on the arena, and the burly stranger asked Wang Chengbo and Young Master Huang if they were serious.

At the Kunlun Martial Arts Competition, Mu Yunji ignored Yan Wushuang’s taunts while searching for Wang Chengbo, whose drunken companion had loudly called out to her. Yan Wushuang attacked Mu Yunji in anger just as Li Xiaoqian arrived to meet Cheng Bo.

• Guo Hongde doubted Young Master Huang’s claim that Mu Yunji was his friend, but eagerly agreed to meet her when Huang promised an introduction.
• Yan Wushuang taunted Mu Yunji about her previous victory, while Mu Yunji searched the crowd for Cheng Bo and brushed off the insults.
• Young Master Huang called out to Mu Yunji, drawing attention from the spectators and the Yun Mountain Sect leaders, while Wang Chengbo pulled him back in embarrassment.
• Mu Yunji warned Yan Wushuang about her recently healed hand, provoking Yan Wushuang to surge forward with a punch aimed at Mu Yunji’s face.
• Li Xiaoqian approached Wang Chengbo and Young Master Huang and greeted Cheng Bo.

Wang Chengbo remained unmoved when Li Xiaoqian came to see him, while Mu Yunji defeated Yan Wushuang with overwhelming ease and then joined him. The spectators were left wondering how a man with no apparent cultivation had attracted women from two major sects.

• Li Xiaoqian teased Wang Chengbo about coming to see her, but he insisted he had come for Yunji's match and felt no emotional response to her act.
• Mu Yunji interrupted Li Xiaoqian and revealed that she had already defeated Yan Wushuang, shocking the spectators with the speed and force of her victory.
• The Kunlun experts discussed Mu Yunji's strength and the Luofu Secret Realm, while the Yun Sect Leader warned Lu Xingfeng to be cautious of the Luofu disciple he would face.
• Li Xiaoqian left when she noticed the attention their exchange was drawing, and Mu Yunji sat beside Wang Chengbo after Young Master Huang moved aside.
• Guo Hongde wondered what Wang Chengbo had going for him after seeing his apparent connection to both Mu Yunji and Li Xiaoqian.

Dog Bro's kindness toward Yang Zhi Xin softened Liu Xiaoli and Old Master Liu's feelings toward him, while the tournament continued to expose Kunlun's advantage. As Li Jia Yi went to her match, she sent her shivering family to the Stone Pavilion, leaving Old Man Li to reflect that she was not truly heartless.

• Dog Bro gave Yang Zhi Xin a Red Crystal Fruit, and her eagerness for another one made Liu Xiaoli and Old Master Liu reconsider his place in the family.
• Kunlun disciples won four of the next five matches, while Wudang lost twice to the Yan Brothers.
• Nie Liuyun leaped from the Stone Pavilion to enter his match, impressing the crowd and drawing the attention of Kunlun's elders.
• Li Gou Dan confronted her family for criticizing her and mocked Li Yichen for returning after his attempt to establish his own household failed.
• Li Jia Yi sent Old Man Li and the others to wait in the Stone Pavilion before heading to the arena, and Old Man Li concluded that she was not truly heartless.

Li Gou Dan faced Wudang prodigy Nie Liuyun in the Kunlun Martial Arts Competition after the crowd learned of her Luofu Sect and Dragon Group connections. Nie Liuyun offered her three moves, but she sent him flying with her first attack, and he insisted on continuing as his nose bled.

• Young Master Huang asked Wang Chengbo about Li Gou Dan, and Guo Hongde explained her Luofu Sect background and reputation.
• Old Man Li and Old Man Tian worried that Nie Liuyun might eliminate Qing Que in her first match.
• Nie Liuyun offered Li Gou Dan three moves, and she accepted before charging at him.
• Nie Liuyun used Tai Chi to redirect Li Gou Dan's attack, but she recovered her balance unnaturally and struck his face with her elbow.
• Li Gou Dan checked whether Nie Liuyun was all right, and he stood up with a bleeding nose and insisted on continuing.

Li Gou Dan fought Nie Liuyun in the tournament, whose Wudang Soft Fist initially exploited her inexperience and drove her into a dangerous position. She defied expectations to evade his decisive palm strike, grabbed him, and clamped her hand around his neck.

• He Songzi and Wang Qing recognized that Li Gou Dan's abrupt changes in momentum defied ordinary physical control.
• Nie Liuyun used Taiji to dissolve Li Gou Dan's rapid punches while she grew impatient and left an opening.
• Nie Liuyun seized the opening with Hand Strikes Pipa and used Soft Fist to spin Li Gou Dan off balance in midair.
• Li Gou Dan abruptly stopped and twisted away from Nie Liuyun's palm strike, leaving his defenses exposed.
• Li Gou Dan grabbed Nie Liuyun's shoulder, returned to the ground, and clamped her left hand around his neck.

Li Gou Dan defeated Nie Liuyun, prompting him to renew his commitment to cultivation, while the elders praised her victory. Liu Shiyu then went to face Yun Mountain Sect champion Lu Xingfeng, leaving Old Liu anxious and Old Man Li eager to see whether the Dragon Group prospect could win.

• Li Gou Dan explained her midair recovery to Nie Liuyun, who accepted his defeat and vowed to train harder before seeking her advice again.
• He Songzi approved of Nie Liuyun learning from the loss, while Old Master Li and the other elders celebrated Li Gou Dan's victory for the Dragon Group and the Li family.
• Liu Family Fourth baited Liu Shiyu by asking how he compared with Li Jia Yi, and Dog Bro said she was a little stronger.
• The arena announced Liu Shiyu's match against Lu Xingfeng, Yun Mountain Sect's top disciple and previous tournament champion.
• Liu Shiyu reassured Old Liu that he could beat an outsider, then leaped from the pavilion to face Lu Xingfeng.
• Old Man Li reminded Old Liu that Liu Shiyu had fought Hong Tianlu to a draw and said a victory would boost the Dragon Group's reputation.

Dog Bro faced Lu Xingfeng in the martial arena, where both fighters armed themselves and exchanged their first attacks. Lu Xingfeng’s Azure Peak Sword shattered against Dog Bro’s spear, leaving the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Hong Tianlu told Elder Hong that Dog Bro’s hard-body skills surpassed his own, but he was uncertain whether Dog Bro could defeat Lu Xingfeng’s superior technique.
• The Yun Mountain Sect Leader warned Lu Xingfeng not to challenge Dog Bro’s strength directly, and Lu Xingfeng acknowledged the warning.
• Lu Xingfeng entered the arena with the Azure Peak Sword, and Dog Bro asked for a weapon after noting how dangerous it looked.
• A silver-white iron spear arrived from the Luofu Stone Pavilion, and Dog Bro bought it from Intelligence for five thousand points.
• Lu Xingfeng attacked Dog Bro, who answered with a skilled spear thrust; Lu Xingfeng then tried to break the spear with his sword, but the Azure Peak Sword shattered on impact.

Dog Bro defeated Lu Xingfeng with his superior spear, drawing interest in Luofu’s weapons and earning praise for the Liu Family. As the elders planned the second day of the martial matches, Qin Xuanji of Luofu’s Mystic Division requested an audience with Elder Situ.

• Dog Bro defeated Lu Xingfeng, whose ancient weapon shattered against Dog Bro’s spear, and the sect elders became eager to obtain more Luofu Secret Realm slots.
• Old Liu celebrated Dog Bro’s victory with Old Man Li, while Wei Lin reported the event to Lord Xi Ye and Xi Ye reviewed the disciples’ combat footage.
• Xi Ye considered adding Nie Liuyun to the game but rejected the idea and assigned Wei Lin a new mission.
• Elder Situ and the Kunlun elders discussed the second day’s match slots, while Elder Li brought Li Xiaoqian to serve tea at their meeting.
• Su Ruoyu interrupted the elders’ meeting to announce that Qin Xuanji, Sect Master of the Mystic Division of the Luofu Secret Realm, requested an audience.

Wei Lin visited Kunlun and demonstrated her ability to transform the elders’ swords into a heavy lump of high-grade Kang Gold. She then asked Kunlun to arrange a match between Daoist Wang Qing of Wudang and one of her disciples, leaving the elders wary of her intentions.

• Elder Li told Su Ruoyan to turn away the Sect Master of Luofu, but Old Ancestor Situ ordered him to invite her in respectfully.
• Wei Lin entered the hall, and the elders were struck by her beauty; Elder Li flirted with her and asked what kind of man she wanted.
• Wei Lin transformed more than a dozen treasured swords into a golden pill of high-grade Kang Gold and presented it to the elders.
• Wei Lin said she had come to discuss Kunlun’s match roster, then asked them to arrange for Daoist Wang Qing to face one of her disciples the next day.

Kunlun agreed to Luofu’s request to match Chen Yutong against Wudang’s Wang Qing, while the Yun Mountain Sect worried that Kunlun’s other matchups would leave its disciples facing overwhelming opponents. The chapter ended with Wudang’s He Songzi questioning why Kunlun had arranged Wang Qing’s unusual matchup.

• Wei Lin asked Kunlun to arrange for a Luofu disciple to face Wang Qing, and Elder Situ agreed after judging that refusing could provoke a fight.
• Elder Situ assigned Chen Yutong to face Wang Qing and told the matchmakers to avoid other clashes between major sects’ aces.
• Yun Sect Leader warned Mu Yunji, Lu Chenshuang, and Wu Sheng about their difficult matchups, then urged Mu Yunji to seek Luofu’s support in the secret realm.
• Yun Sect Leader noticed that Wang Qing had been matched against a Luofu disciple and worried that Luofu might also be targeted.
• He Songzi studied the matchup list and wondered why Kunlun had arranged for Wang Qing to face Chen Yutong.

Tang Kaimin, NetEase’s planning director, sought to buy Little Cabbage’s internal beta slot so the company could assess the game. After recognizing her at a hair salon, he tried to negotiate, but she instead grilled him about NetEase’s controversies and criticized its Yi Shui Han voting system.

• Tang Kaimin came to C City hoping to buy two internal beta slots, but Young Master Wang’s two-hundred-million offer made his task harder.
• Tang Kaimin recognized the disguised Little Cabbage at a hair salon and introduced himself as NetEase’s planning director.
• Little Cabbage asked Tang Kaimin whether NetEase had compensated an employee with terminal cancer and fired the HR worker involved.
• Tang Kaimin tried to steer the conversation toward buying her slot, but Little Cabbage asked who had planned Yi Shui Han’s voting system.

Little Cabbage rejected Tang Kaimin’s offer to buy her invitation slot because she distrusted NetEase and did not need the money. She left the barbershop with Tang pursuing her, while Alice followed them after questioning the barber.

• Little Cabbage recalled how NetEase’s dual-charging scheme had soured her on online games and connected her distrust of the company to its employee-dismissal incident.
• Little Cabbage explained that she wanted to keep her invitation slot for now because her tribe needed research and management talent.
• Tang Kaimin offered Little Cabbage 250 million for the slot, but she refused and left the barbershop.
• Tang Kaimin chased after Little Cabbage with hair foam still on his head, leaving the barber unpaid and bewildered.
• Alice asked the barber about the two people, paid through her membership account, and followed Little Cabbage and Tang Kaimin.

Liver Emperor and Little Cabbage registered Little Cabbage Limited Company to recruit research and management talent for their in-game base, choosing to save their Cooperation Quotas for recruiting rather than sell them. When Little Cabbage failed to meet him, Liver Emperor went alone to a headhunting company, where his odd outfit and request for Sprite contrasted with his company’s fifty-million registered capital.

• Little Cabbage and Liver Emperor sold about a thousand captured Gnolls for roughly fifty million and decided to keep their Cooperation Quotas for recruiting talent.
• They chose to seek biological science, agricultural science, and alchemy researchers, along with financial and management professionals, and planned to use recruitment as a pretext to bring Academic Overlords into the game.
• Liver Emperor struggled with the company-registration paperwork, hired an agency, and received an electronic business license within a week.
• Little Cabbage did not answer Liver Emperor’s calls before their planned visit to a headhunting company, so he went alone.
• At the headhunting company, Liver Emperor named his business Little Cabbage Limited Company, and the receptionist discovered its registered capital was fifty million.
• The receptionist offered him tea or coffee, and Liver Emperor asked whether they had Sprite.

Liver Emperor, posing as Zhang Jiaming, met headhunter Qin Haodong to recruit a senior executive for his newly established biotechnology company. Qin Haodong doubted the company’s research claims until Liver Emperor showed him a strange, fragrant fruit, leaving him captivated by the apparent research result.

• Qin Haodong introduced himself to Zhang Jiaming and explained that the tea came from Mount Emei.
• Zhang Jiaming asked Qin Haodong to find a senior executive who could build the company’s management system and human resources team.
• Qin Haodong questioned the private research company’s funding and prospects, while Zhang Jiaming claimed it had powerful investors and focused on biological genetics, agriculture, and biomedicine.
• Zhang Jiaming took out a crystal-clear fruit and offered half to Qin Haodong, who was overwhelmed by its aroma.

Qin Haodong met Liver Emperor, who was recruiting a manager for his disorganized company and offered him a Red Crystal Fruit. After Qin Haodong’s stomach pain worsened, he ate the fruit and felt warmth spread through his body as he rested on the sofa.

• Qin Haodong resisted eating Liver Emperor’s Red Crystal Fruit, though he felt an unusually strong craving for it.
• Liver Emperor asked Qin Haodong to find a manager with extensive experience, ideally managing tens of thousands of people.
• Qin Haodong realized the receptionist and janitor admired the fruit’s appearance but did not crave it, so he took it to his office.
• Qin Haodong’s stomach pain persisted despite medicine, and he gave in to his craving and devoured the fruit.
• Qin Haodong felt his stomach pain recede as warmth spread through his body, then lay down on the sofa and closed his eyes.

Qin Haodong discovered that the strange fruit had seemingly restored his health after he slept for an entire day and woke covered in foul-smelling muck. Meanwhile, Liver Emperor called Little Cabbage and realized a stranger had answered.

• Qin Haodong woke at the office the next morning, found himself coated in foul-smelling muck, and hurried home after seeing his missed calls.
• Qin Haodong reassured his worried wife, washed himself thoroughly, and left for a medical follow-up.
• Lao Peng confirmed Qin Haodong’s test results were remarkably healthy, and Qin Haodong admitted he had eaten a strange fruit.
• Liver Emperor called Little Cabbage to suggest recruiting North American politicians, then realized a cold-voiced stranger had answered and asked who they were.

Alice enjoyed the city’s colors and Sprite while keeping Little Cabbage and Tang Kaimin captive, but her fading strength reminded her that she could not stay in this world much longer. Little Cabbage learned that her system could not safely teleport her away, and Alice noticed her fear.

• Alice drank Sprite and admired the Liang River night view while the captive white-collar woman asked who she was and what she wanted.
• Alice told the woman she needed a place to stay because she had no ID card, and said the home’s location was good.
• Alice reflected that her connection to the person who brought her out of the realm of the dead was weakening and that she had little time left in the living world.
• Little Cabbage’s system warned her that Alice was a dangerous undead and that teleporting could get her killed.
• Alice approached Little Cabbage and asked why she had suddenly become frightened.
• At the Mars Base, the system asked Lord Xi Ye whether the situation was really okay.

Xi Ye explained that he was testing whether Alice had the qualities of a lord while making sure the system protected her. He then tried to provoke his old classmate Ryan, who had landed on a promising icy planet, but Ryan politely brushed him off.

• Xi Ye told the system that Alice's experience and ability made her worth testing, and ordered it to prioritize her safety.
• The system read Ryan's posts describing his newly discovered planet, its subglacial ocean, and signs of native life.
• Xi Ye joined other Celestial Gods in praising Ryan, hoping to draw a response from his former classmate.
• Ryan asked Xi Ye how he had been, then explained that he was too busy surveying his planet and analyzing specimens to chat.
• Ryan offered to help Xi Ye if needed, leaving Xi Ye and the system to react to his courteous reply.

Pu Yunchuan stayed withdrawn after Isabelle disappeared and his cousins died, while police kept questioning him about the missing people. He was shaken when Liver Emperor called and said Little Cabbage had been kidnapped again.

• Pu Yunchuan's mother urged him to discuss his recent blind date and stop lying in bed, but he said he was grieving his cousins.
• Pu Yunchuan rushed to answer the door and let in two police officers who questioned him again about the missing people.
• Pu Yunchuan's mother complained after the officers left, while Pu Yunchuan privately recognized that his home could help solve the case.
• Liver Emperor called Pu Yunchuan and told him that Little Cabbage had been kidnapped again.