Chapter Summaries

Wang Yi used his magic to reinforce the passage between Mars and the Abyss, turning the Zerg’s attempt to summon reinforcements into an uncontrolled breach. As the Brain worm recognized the power holding the gate open as divine, it realized that its young swarm faced a god.

• Wang Yi sent four upgraded landing squads to Mars, where the Brain worm’s Zerg ambushed them and were repelled by their barriers and weapons.
• The Brain worm called on Sailu, who sent a horned demon commander and an Abyssal force through the passage.
• The Abyssal troops charged the landing squads, suffered heavy casualties, and retreated as the Brain worm and Sailu sacrificed more resources to widen the gate.
• The passage expanded uncontrollably as an unknown force poured in Magic Power, and neither the Brain worm nor Sailu could close it.
• The Brain worm searched its genetic memories, recognized the power as divine, and feared that a god had appeared on Mars.

Wang Yi defeated Sailu, looted his Abyss lair, and uncovered the Zerg’s tangled divine lineage before deciding to keep the Brain worm and Queen worm under control and use the swarm to transform Mars. Meanwhile, Qin Xiang launched the first Flame Hound Caravan, prompting an in-game trade event that could also bring a native caravan to the Savage Camp and give Wang Yi a route into the Seraphim Realm.

• Wang Yi killed the demigod Abyss Lord Sailu, hauled his corpse and treasures through the passage, and sealed it against an approaching Abyss Demon God.
• Wang Yi traced the Brain worm’s genetic lineage, found nine divine auras, and inferred that the Zerg used targeted faith to transform gods; he then began clearing out spaceborne Insect eggs and planned to use the Zerg to develop Mars.
• Umbrella announced that its assault on the Zerg had failed, while Qin Xiang formed a caravan of forty-eight Flame Hounds and more than a hundred players to trade near the Monster Forest.
• Wang Yi worked on Mage Towers on Mars and arranged for Zabo to offer a mission that would bring native merchants to the Savage Camp, giving him a way to travel with a caravan into the Seraphim Realm.
• World Company and Umbrella Corporation announced the “exchange what we have” event, rewarding the first caravans to trade between the regions and the first to bring a native caravan to the Savage Camp.

Qin Xiang led a large Flame Hound caravan through the Monster Forest as Lu Yi and Kangaroo's Dad discussed trade and the rising conflict in the Eastern Lands with Baron Darnick. Darnick began considering the savages as allies, then was stunned to hear they intended to escort merchants through the forest and had already killed a powerful Flame Bird monster lord.

• Qin Xiang's Flame Hound caravan set out to trample a road through the forest while other players followed with smaller, makeshift caravans.
• Lu Yi and Kangaroo's Dad told Baron Darnick that their tribe's caravan was coming and learned that Count Luke's actions had pushed the Eastern Lands toward war.
• Lu Yi warned Darnick that the savages were difficult to control, while he and Kangaroo's Dad pledged that their squads would support the baron.
• Lu Yi asked Darnick to introduce merchants to the tribe, and Darnick cautioned that the Monster Forest had no road and might contain a monster lord.
• Lu Yi promised that the savages would protect merchants on the journey, and Kangaroo's Dad revealed that their people had killed the Flame Bird monster lord, shocking Darnick.

Count Luke learned that the savages had reportedly killed the Flame Bird and opened a trade route, so he sent a merchant caravan to Darnick. Back on Earth, Wang Yi returned to his family, while Qian Yaqian and Gu Nan faced a business dispute in Paris after Gaul's Frank took offense at Gu Nan changing his schedule.

• Count Luke read Darnick's report about the savages' planned trade route and the suspected killing of the Flame Bird, then ordered a merchant caravan sent to Darnick Town.
• Wang Yi returned to Earth, reunited with Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke, and told them they could treat the game world as real and study magic for their roles there.
• Qian Yaqian and Gu Nan discussed Qian Yayan's upcoming visit to Paris and planned to host her while attending a fashion show.
• Gu Nan's secretary reported that Frank was angry about the changed itinerary, and Gu Nan arranged to apologize to him personally.
• Frank refused Gu Nan's call, dismissed his apology, and urged his friends to obstruct Big Ship Heavy Industry's business in Gaul.

Wang Yi visited Paris with Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke to survey weakened spatial nodes and give an academic lecture. At the airport, he agreed to support Alston through Umbrella, while Frank recognized Wang Yi’s influence and rushed to repair his business ties with Gu Nan.

• Wang Yi identified the Eiffel Tower as the main weakened zone in Paris and marked seven additional locations for surveying.
• Qian Yaqian and Gu Nan met Wang Yi’s group at the airport, where Gu Nan apologized to business partner Frank for changing their meeting time.
• Frank tried to meet Alston director Joel, but Joel hurried past him to greet Qian Yayan and Wang Yi’s group.
• Wang Yi told Joel to contact Umbrella’s Paris office and promised to put in a word for Alston.
• Frank realized Wang Yi could influence Umbrella, fainted, then recovered and offered Gu Nan favorable business terms.

Wang Yi and his companions watched Beautiful Country’s press conference in Paris, where its spokesperson praised Umbrella before unveiling research achievements based on Magic Power knowledge. Beautiful Country announced a genuine room-temperature superconductor and a method for concentrating Magic Power, while Wang Yi recognized the results and considered establishing a stronger laboratory of his own.

• Wang Yi and his companions saw Paris police swiftly arrest scooter robbers, then visited the Eiffel Tower, where Wang Yi confirmed the weakened barrier had not connected to another world.
• Lin Shiqin told Wang Yi that Beautiful Country was preparing to announce its results, so he asked her to prepare a presentation and watched the press conference with the group.
• Beautiful Country’s spokesperson thanked Umbrella for its Magic Power knowledge, space equipment, and help preserving global stability before describing the world’s recent threats.
• Beautiful Country announced that its national laboratory had created a real room-temperature superconductor by using Magic Power properties of silver to activate hydrogen’s metallic properties.
• Beautiful Country reported that it had measured Magic Power concentration and used silver pipelines near the New York Abyss site to raise it from 0.03C to 1C.
• Wang Yi recognized the researchers’ achievement and decided he could donate a laboratory to his alma mater with a Magic Power concentration of 10C.

Beautiful Country announced major advances in superconductivity, Magic Power research, and a spatial node, prompting Wang Yi to respond during his lecture in Paris. He confirmed Umbrella had already achieved similar breakthroughs and revealed that it had long used fusion reactors, though its technology required a Magic Power environment.

• Beautiful Country announced room-temperature superconductivity, a Magic Power laboratory, rising global Magic Power levels, and a spatial node in New York that might lead to another world.
• Wang Yi reassured Gu Nan that he would respond to the announcement, while Beautiful Country's press conference boosted morale and its index.
• Researchers in Beautiful Country successfully cast a spell in their new laboratory, and officials approved further investigation of the New York node while warning the team to avoid a rival group.
• Wang Yi gave an academic lecture in Paris and used a question about Beautiful Country's breakthroughs to explain that Umbrella already used the same theories and had put them into practice.
• When a scholar proposed an international fusion project, Wang Yi revealed that Umbrella had used fusion reactors since completing Penglai, including in its mechs and Xingxiu spacecraft.

Wang Yi revealed that Umbrella had already developed and deployed miniaturized controlled nuclear fusion, shocking researchers around the world. Meanwhile, the merchant caravan from Dunno City arrived at Darnick Town, where players prepared to open trade and Kangaroo's Dad astonished Mage Murphy with his rapid magical progress.

• Wang Yi's revelation that Umbrella powered Penglai and its mechs with controlled nuclear fusion spread from Gaul to research institutions and stunned the world.
• Wang Yi reinforced Paris's spatial weak point without sealing it, then prepared to return home as the Dunno City merchant caravan approached Darnick Town.
• Jia Nan and the caravan's tigerman guards discussed the journey and the prospects for trading with Darnick.
• Zhao Qi and Lu Yi gathered their squads to meet the caravan, rejected recruitment attempts from Apple Prince and other foreign players, and waited at the town entrance.
• Kangaroo's Dad cast Language Comprehension for the caravan, and Mage Murphy praised his talent before learning he had only studied magic seriously for two months.

Murphy and Jia Nan met with Lu Yi’s group to discuss the first caravan’s trade route, but Apple Prince tried to poach the merchants, triggering the first livestreamed player-versus-player death. Kangaroo's Dad’s team disarmed and expelled the foreign players, while Baron Darnick’s cavalry rode over to investigate the explosions.

• Murphy was shocked that Kangaroo's Dad had studied magic for less than two months, while Jia Nan asked when the first caravan would arrive.
• Apple Prince claimed his alliance was the real first merchant guild and invited Jia Nan’s merchant guild to visit their camp.
• Youyouzi hurled two Fireballs at Apple Prince and the nearby foreign players, killing Apple Prince and injuring the others.
• Kangaroo's Dad confronted Komodo, and his team confiscated the foreign players’ guns before driving them away.
• Murphy told Jia Nan that the players probably meant no harm, and Baron Darnick arrived with his guard and ten armored cavalrymen.

Lu Yi and Baron Darnick waited with the Demi-human caravan and fifty cavalrymen for the savage trade caravan to arrive at the Monster Forest. Qin Xiang led forty-eight docile Flame Hounds out of the forest, stunning Darnick and revealing the savages’ formidable ability to tame monster beasts.

• Darnick agreed to accompany the caravan and warned that killings were forbidden in his town, while Lu Yi and the others prepared to meet the arriving traders.
• Darnick discussed the savages’ fireballs and mysterious sticks with Murphy, then brought fifty heavily armored cavalrymen to display his strength.
• Lu Yi explained that the caravan was widening the forest path, and Darnick and the others sensed tremors coming from within the forest.
• Qin Xiang emerged with forty-eight Flame Hounds and had them roar, causing the warhorses and King Kong’s Magic Pig to recoil.
• Darnick realized the savages had brought dozens of tamed monster beasts merely to transport goods and wondered what their domestication capability meant for the region’s military balance.

Qin Xiang negotiated a transit camp and trade arrangement with Baron Darnick as the Savages opened a route through the Monster Forest. At the Expeditionary Army Camp, Jia Nan and his companions met the Archmage Zabo and learned that the Savages' resurrections came from divine favor.

• Qin Xiang told Baron Darnick that Flame Beasts contracted only with their own race and asked to establish a nearby transit camp, which Darnick approved.
• Jia Nan began discussing trade with Qin Xiang and considered sending an expedition through the newly opened route to seek further profits.
• Wang Yi created powerful new bodies for Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke, while Lin Shiqin tested her control of them.
• Jia Nan, King Kong, Murphy, and Lu Yi reached the Expeditionary Army Camp, where Zabo's presence convinced the visitors that he was an Archmage.
• Apple Prince appeared alive and complained about his earlier death, and Zabo explained that the Savages could resurrect through divine favor.
• Murphy asked Zabo whether he knew Master Yi, and the players' remarks led the visitors to suspect that Master Yi had close ties to the Savages.

The merchant caravan reached the savage camp, where Wang Yi introduced the traders to its people and revealed that the savages had valuable goods and trade prospects. Meanwhile, Baron Zack learned that the savages had opened a route through the Monster Forest and began gathering allies to seize the trading opportunity from Darnick.

• Elder Zabo explained that killing was permitted beyond the camp, and Apple Prince fled when Youyouzi prepared to attack him again.
• Wang Yi welcomed Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke to the Mage Tower, then traveled with the caravan representatives toward Darnick Town.
• Jia Nan and King Kong met Wang Yi and learned about the savages’ resources, temperament, and potential trade goods.
• Qin Xiang’s caravan received purchase allocations for special goods, while PDD and Jiang Bo examined the weapons and commodities available.
• Baron Zack learned that a savage caravan had brought dozens of magical beasts through the Monster Forest and saw a chance to gain access to its trade.
• Zack sent letters and messengers to recruit allies, planning to take Darnick Town and secure the trading opportunity.

Wang Yi and the others reached Darnick Town just as Baron Zack’s coalition prepared to attack, and Qin Xiang accepted Baron Darnick’s request for help. The players received land as a reward and vowed to defend the town, while Darnick learned that they could resurrect after death and resolved to secure Wang Yi’s support.

• Qin Xiang greeted Wang Yi and introduced PDD and Big Pineapple, while Wang Yi recognized Jiang Bo’s unusual Contract Magic and hinted that he had noticed the truth about the world.
• Darnick Town sounded its alarm, and Captain Gong reported that Baron Zack had gathered a large coalition and asked Qin Xiang to help defend the territory.
• At Zack Territory, Baron Zack and the assembled nobles discussed their plan to seize Darnick, relying on their large army and Master Mafei’s destructive magic.
• Qin Xiang accepted Baron Darnick’s mission, and Darnick offered the players undeveloped land between the Monster Forest and his farmlands as compensation.
• Jia Nan and King Kong told Darnick that the barbarians had divine favor and could resurrect, leaving him shocked and determined to win Wang Yi’s allegiance.

Baron Zack and his allies captured wildman players who were scouting their camp, but the players’ strange behavior and willingness to endure torture confused the nobles. The coalition army advanced toward Darnick Town, where the players and Baron Darnick prepared to face it in a decisive battle on the plains.

• Baron Zack summoned Baron Shute and Viscount Henry to question a captured wildman scout after learning that wildmen were approaching the coalition camp.
• Mafei used a soul-pain spell on the player, who switched on his pain senses for livestream donations and briefly collapsed before returning to taunt his captors.
• The player offered to reveal the wildmen’s plans, then claimed they would defeat the coalition in an honorable duel on the plains; more players soon let themselves be captured to livestream the experience.
• The coalition army broke camp and advanced while players livestreamed its march and viewers discussed its size and equipment.
• Qin Xiang, Big Pineapple, PDD, and dozens of savage knights lined up with Flame Hounds outside Darnick Town as Baron Darnick and his forces prepared to support them.
• The coalition formed up opposite Darnick’s forces, presenting its professional-tier nobles and knights at the head of its heavy cavalry while Wang Yi watched from the town’s watchtower.

Baron Zack’s challenge ended with PDD dead, but the duel revealed that heavy firearms could damage even enchanted armor. The players then used rotating volleys to destroy the nobles’ cavalry charge, leaving the coalition defeated and its militia in flight.

• PDD challenged Baron Zack to a duel, wounded him twice with a heavy musket, and was killed by Zack’s thrown spear.
• PDD’s Flame Hound charged Zack in fury, but Zack evaded it and killed it with his sword.
• Zack and the other nobles decided their armored knights would lead the charge and absorb the players’ gunfire, while Qin Xiang prepared the players to target the horses and fire in rotations.
• The nobles’ cavalry charged as the players fired successive volleys, bringing down mounts and then overwhelming the knights despite their armor and defensive magic.
• Zack’s force called for surrender as its cavalry collapsed, but the gunfire continued until the charge was destroyed and the militia fled.

After the players routed the rebel nobles’ army, Darnick recognized the threat posed by their weapons and worked with Qin Xiang to secure the captured spoils. Wang Yi warned Darnick about possible intervention from Galle and headed toward Dun Nuo, while escaped Viscount Henry and Mafei planned to seek help from Henry’s family reserves.

• Qin Xiang asked Darnick to have his men capture the wounded and surviving nobles while the players guarded them with their weapons.
• Darnick realized the players’ firearms had transformed warfare, and he agreed to sell Qin Xiang two hundred sets of captured armor at the price of new armor, with repairs included.
• Wang Yi warned Darnick that Galle might exploit the rebellion and said he would help Luke drive off the Blood Duke after reaching Dun Nuo City.
• At Darnick’s banquet, Wang Yi cautioned Darnick about outside threats, and Darnick identified escaped Viscount Henry and Mafei as potential dangers.
• Viscount Henry and Mafei fled through the forest and decided to return to Henry’s territory so they could use his family’s stored resources to protect themselves.

Galle's Elder Council decided to intervene in Kiddon after learning that the savages had crushed a cavalry force with enchanted weapons, while Wang Yi returned to Dunno and offered to help Count Luke. The Blood Duke learned that Galle spellcasters were coming to reinforce him and resolved to use the standoff to try to kill Luke and seize Dunno.

• Galle's Elder Council discussed the savages' weapons and magical-beast techniques, then decided to step in with full justification.
• Wang Yi returned to Dunno with Liu Xiaoke and Qian Yayan, where Baron Daof explained the tense standoff across the river.
• Wang Yi offered to help drive off the Blood Duke, then returned to his Mage Tower before meeting Count Luke.
• The Blood Duke learned that Wang Yi had returned and that several of Mait's Galle classmates and teacher would arrive by airship.
• The Blood Duke decided to exploit the reinforcements and lure Luke into a battle that could leave Dunno's forces devastated and Luke dead.

Luke prepared to confront the Blood Duke’s forces with Wang Yi’s help, while Calais sent Gade Hoyle and powerful tactical scrolls to support North. Luke launched a sudden, all-out assault across the Dunno Bridge, but Gade prepared a counterattack as the battle continued.

• Luke asked Wang Yi to help him confront the Blood Duke, and Wang Yi agreed to guide one of Luke’s seventh-rank scrolls, Draw the Ground as Prison.
• Gade Hoyle arrived to reinforce the Blood Duke with three tactical scrolls, and Luke assembled cavalry, elite infantry, and militia in Dunno.
• Luke led his army across the Dunno Bridge while the Blood Duke’s forces waited in formation, supported by Calais spellcasters.
• The Blood Duke and Gade suspected Luke had found a path toward becoming a Legend, but they resolved to kill him before he could advance.
• Luke challenged the Blood Duke, exposed Calais’s spellcasters, and fired an Anti-Magic Arrow at Gade, whose ring protected him.
• Luke charged alone beneath Lilith’s Flame Rain spell and struck the North Border Knights with a Fire Phoenix, disrupting their formation; Gade then prepared a scroll to counter him.

Luke fought the Blood Duke while Gade Hoyle unleashed linked spells that threatened Kiddon’s rear and trapped Luke behind an Earth Shield. Wang Yi then used a seventh-rank scroll with extraordinary control to seize the serpent, incapacitate Gade, and imprison the enemy mages, leaving the battle suddenly reversed.

• Luke pressed the Blood Duke with relentless attacks, while Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke rode toward the battlefield and Wang Yi warned they might face a hidden trump card.
• Gade Hoyle sent Mait to activate a scroll that consumed his life and soul, creating an Undead Wind that strengthened an elemental serpent attacking Kiddon’s rear.
• Luke charged Gade’s position, but another scroll raised an Earth Shield that blocked his attack and trapped the mages behind it.
• Qian Yayan and Liu Xiaoke revealed their Great Knight strength and tore apart the serpent, but Gade used further magic to begin rebuilding it.
• Wang Yi reshaped Luke’s terrain-altering scroll into an earthen giant, seized and bound the serpent, and caused Gade to collapse from magical backlash.
• Wang Yi’s earthen spear pierced the Earth Shield, disabled its caster, and transformed the barrier into a cage that sealed the remaining mages and cut them off from other magic.

Luke and Wang Yi defeated the North Border Knights, captured the Blood Duke, and secured West Mountain City, while Wang Yi returned to Mars to study the Zerg’s account of the Abyss’s history. The chapter left him tracing the Abyss’s transformation from a stable realm into a chaotic one after four primordial gods emerged.

• The Blood Duke surrendered after the earth giant shattered the Earth Shield and made the North’s defeat inevitable.
• Luke ordered the North soldiers to surrender, then arranged to capture the prisoners and seize West Mountain City.
• Luke offered Wang Yi ownership of Mage Towers and other rewards, while Wang Yi began connecting the Mage Tower to his Mars base.
• Players watched footage of the battle, and Qin Xiang asked Big Pineapple to help test Abyss Mineral Company’s prototype magic airship.
• Wang Yi questioned the Brain worm and learned that the Abyss had once been stable before its creatures and four primordial gods emerged, eventually triggering widespread chaos.