Recaps

Lin Yu learned that the Psychology Society might be preparing to send Lu Xi into the Death game, and weighed whether to interfere or use the opportunity to recruit her as an ally. After deciding to act in his own interest, he checked on the developing Information Lifeforms and turned his attention to ordering every meal and beverage available on the plane.

• Bandura explained that Lu Xi had once been assessed as having at least B+ potential, and that the Psychology Society might now be preparing to send her into the Death game, with Fluoxetine likely assisting rather than leading the operation.
• Lin Yu considered intervening to stop the Psychology Society's plan or staying uninvolved so he could potentially recruit Lu Xi, then decided to choose what benefited him most.
• Lin Yu left Old Zheng with his warm beer and checked on the White Sand and Qianhuan simulators, which were still developing slowly.
• Lin Yu sensed a flight attendant approaching, accepted a menu, and requested all three meal options and every beverage available in business class.

Potassium Chloride escaped from a suitcase in the plane’s baggage compartment, injuring herself and triggering an alarm. She encountered a masked Player who recognized her as a threat to the actor he was protecting.

• Lin Yu ate his third airplane meal and received Journey's Blessing, which lasted 30 days.
• Potassium Chloride used a grenade to blast her way out of the suitcase, then took an antidote and treated her injuries.
• The explosion triggered the baggage compartment alarm, and Potassium Chloride used a Transparent Sticker to conceal herself.
• A masked man emerged from another suitcase and spotted Potassium Chloride despite her concealment.
• Potassium Chloride realized the masked man was a Player hired to protect the actor she intended to kill.

Potassium Chloride and White Sand fought in the plane’s luggage compartment, each mistaking the other’s role and allegiance. White Sand survived Potassium Chloride’s demonic attack, and both suspected the Freedom Alliance was involved in the mission to protect Lu Xi.

• Potassium Chloride attacked the masked swordsman with golden needles, poison, and the Abyssal Destruction Demonic Flow.
• White Sand was badly wounded but grew more powerful after using his Invocation, startling Potassium Chloride.
• Potassium Chloride wondered whether a Freedom Alliance expert had been hired to protect Lu Xi and blamed the organization for making the job dangerous.
• White Sand revealed that he had boarded the plane to target Lin Yu, not to act as a bodyguard.
• White Sand recognized Potassium Chloride’s varied techniques and suspected he was a Freedom Alliance member competing for the job.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride activated their Exclusive items inside the luggage compartment, plunging the fight into sensory-depriving darkness. White Sand relied on battle instincts while Potassium Chloride waited for him to exhaust himself, leaving their standoff unresolved.

• White Sand summoned the Colorful Fierce Tiger and activated [Godless], using it to summon multiple legendary figures into his body.
• Potassium Chloride activated [Eternal Silence], which swallowed all light and sound and cut off environmental perception.
• White Sand tried Thunder Art, then used the vibrations of striking his axe against his sword to confirm his movements and surrounded himself with lightning.
• Potassium Chloride used pain from needles hidden in his clothing to map anything he touched, but chose to wait for White Sand to spend his strength and resources.

Potassium Chloride and White Sand fought in the luggage compartment until a third Player disrupted their battle with a wide-area mental attack. They briefly agreed to cooperate, but the newcomer attacked again and blasted a hole in the plane’s floor, sending luggage and nearly both Players out into the sky.

• Potassium Chloride waited inside [Eternal Silence] while wondering why no crew members had come to investigate.
• White Sand endured the sensory deprivation and tried to locate Potassium Chloride in the luggage compartment.
• A third Player entered through the ceiling panel, and their mental attack forced Potassium Chloride to withdraw [Eternal Silence].
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride recognized the newcomer as a threat and agreed to pause their fight while they searched for them.
• The third Player spoke of boosting their growth, then exploded a hole in the cabin floor and nearly swept White Sand and Potassium Chloride out of the plane.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride joined forces to escape the wind-filled luggage hold and confront the unseen person directing the Trial. After breaking into the passenger cabin, they found everyone aboard asleep.

• White Sand summoned the Mountain God while Potassium Chloride used a magic scroll to shield himself from the growing gale in the luggage hold.
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride agreed to find the person controlling the strange wind and head for the passenger cabin.
• Potassium Chloride reasoned that their unseen opponent was probably in the upper cargo hold and might have set traps near the pressure relief panel.
• White Sand punched a welded partition plate loose, and he and Potassium Chloride climbed through the opening into the passenger cabin.
• Potassium Chloride found the cabin silent, with all the passengers and crew members deeply asleep.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride escaped the baggage compartment and discovered that Schreiber had put the plane’s passengers into a deep sleep and was controlling them through Mental Power. After passing the first round of his Trial, they were welcomed into the second round with the passengers under his control.

• White Sand and Potassium Chloride found the passengers and flight attendants asleep, and Potassium Chloride warned that a Death Sleep effect might be involved.
• An elderly passenger spoke for their unseen opponent, leading Potassium Chloride to suspect that the Player could communicate and monitor them through sleepers.
• A child and the child’s mother announced that White Sand and Potassium Chloride had passed the first round of the Trial.
• The passengers laughed together under Schreiber’s control, and Potassium Chloride recognized the First Generation President’s Mental Power techniques.
• The passengers spoke in unison to welcome White Sand and Potassium Chloride to the second round of the Trial.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride were forced to protect the plane’s passengers when a hidden Player threatened to use them as hostages. The mastermind began a second-stage Trial requiring them to solve a puzzle and find a key that could endanger their lives.

• The hidden Player warned White Sand and Potassium Chloride that he would make the passengers attack or cause a crash if they tried to leave the Trial.
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride realized they could not abandon the plane without risking the passengers and drawing the Order’s wrath.
• Potassium Chloride urged White Sand to accept the Trial, then asked the hidden Player what it involved.
• The hidden Player explained that the second stage would test their ability to solve a puzzle and find a key hidden on the plane.
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride listened as the mastermind prepared to give them the puzzle and clues.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride searched the aircraft for a tangible, divided target that would become increasingly dangerous and could cause an aviation accident. From the shadows, Lin Yu watched their cooperation and planned to exploit their misunderstanding so they would overlook the Director.

• White Sand and Potassium Chloride interpreted the seven hints and concluded that the target might be a dangerous device hidden in the cabin.
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride discussed their detection abilities and began searching the aircraft.
• Lin Yu observed the two Tier 3 experts and realized their presence gave him an opportunity to manipulate events.
• Lin Yu noted that White Sand and Potassium Chloride still misunderstood each other and decided to make further arrangements while they focused on Schreiber.

Potassium Chloride and White Sand discovered that a growing magical effect on the passengers came from a massive summoning array drawn across their bodies. The trial’s voice revealed that the array would summon a projection of a Pillar-level Demon, leaving them to stop its activation or fight the demon.

• White Sand reported that the pilots were hypnotized but remained poised to control the plane, while Potassium Chloride found no unusual relics or magic beyond lingering Death Sleep magic.
• Potassium Chloride used Shining Magic Power Crystal Powder to reveal magic clinging to the passengers and noticed that its strength was gradually increasing.
• White Sand found red markings on an old man’s skin, and Potassium Chloride recognized the markings as parts of a large array spread across the passengers.
• Potassium Chloride identified the array as a Super-Tier summoning array that could call something from the Abyss.
• The trial’s voice announced that the array would summon a projection of a Pillar-level Demon and challenged them to stop it or defeat the demon.

A mastermind used an Abyssal Undercurrent, a Pillar-level Demon's Root Demon Crystal, and the Director's [Guest Appearance Invitation] to try to summon a Pillar-level Demon into the human world. Potassium Chloride began analyzing the array while White Sand and the transparent person fought off attackers, but Potassium Chloride could not understand how the array worked.

• The mastermind revealed a Pillar-level Demon's [Root Demon Crystal] as the medium for the cross-world summoning.
• The Director awoke under apparent manipulation, and the mastermind used the Director's [Guest Appearance Invitation] as part of the summoning plan.
• Potassium Chloride and White Sand realized the array threatened the passengers and agreed to stop it, with Potassium Chloride analyzing the array while White Sand protected him.
• Three snake-bodied Night Valley Dark Species attacked Potassium Chloride, and White Sand struck one down while the transparent person pinned another with golden needles.
• Potassium Chloride admitted that he could not understand how the magic array operated or how it was taking effect.

Potassium Chloride decided the strange Summoning Array could only be stopped by finding its caster, so he used a Succubus Tail to enter the Dreamscape. Lin Yu watched from hiding, revealed that the array was mostly a convincing fake and that the Guest Appearance Invitation was the real key, then waited to summon help while remaining awake and out of reach.

• Potassium Chloride judged the Summoning Array too abnormal to understand and decided to find and kill whoever was manipulating it.
• Potassium Chloride stabbed his heart with a heart-tipped Succubus Tail, releasing pink smoke that swallowed everyone in the cabin and linked their dreams.
• Lin Yu watched Potassium Chloride and White Sand respond, explaining that their belief had made his copied array partly real, though its effects were limited.
• Lin Yu revealed that the Guest Appearance Invitation was the true means of summoning a demon and gave him control over the visitor without sacrificing the passengers.
• Lin Yu observed that Potassium Chloride's dream-linking ability could counter him, but reasoned that Potassium Chloride could not find him because Lin Yu's soul was not in anyone's consciousness.

Potassium Chloride entered the passengers’ Dreamscape to find its mastermind, but discovered that every Consciousness Entity was controlled by the same enemy and became trapped. He escaped by shattering his consciousness at great cost, leaving White Sand to face the Projection of a Pillar-level Demon.

• Potassium Chloride inspected the sleeping passengers’ Consciousness Entities but found neither traps nor the mastermind.
• Potassium Chloride tried to wake a passenger and realized every Consciousness Entity was the mastermind, who could now read his thoughts.
• The mastermind revealed that Potassium Chloride’s Tier 3 soul was meant as an offering to the Demons and prevented him from awakening normally.
• Potassium Chloride shattered his Consciousness Entity to dispel [Succubus Tail]’s Dreamscape, losing nearly one-tenth of his soul.
• Potassium Chloride apologized to White Sand, who concluded they had to defeat the Projection of a Pillar-level Demon.

As White Sand and Potassium Chloride prepared to face a Pillar-level Demon, Lin Yu arranged for Schreiber’s identity to gain influence and negotiated with the Ninth Pillar Demon, Hershakanus. The bargain was interrupted when another Pillar Demon, Okfielst, offered to do the job for less.

• White Sand and Potassium Chloride sensed the summoning array open a portal to the deepest layer of the Abyss and prepared to fight a Pillar-level Demon.
• Lin Yu used the situation to strengthen Schreiber’s reputation and trap part of Potassium Chloride’s soul in the Information Space.
• Hershakanus appeared and recognized Lin Yu as the Successor of the Third Pillar, then rejected Lin Yu’s offers of his soul, acting talent, and the Third Pillar Root Demon Crystal.
• Hershakanus offered to kill two human experts in exchange for thirty years of Lin Yu’s lifespan.
• Okfielst emerged and offered to do the job for twenty-five years, prompting Hershakanus to accuse him of undercutting the deal.

Lin Yu watched Okfielst and Hershakanus bargain over the price for killing two humans, then received a Scale of Destiny from Okfielst. After confirming Hershakanus would accept seven years of lifespan, Lin Yu checked his own balance and discovered it held 109,579 days.

• Okfielst challenged Hershakanus for the contract and helped drive the compensation down from twenty-five years to seven.
• Okfielst gave Lin Yu a Scale of Destiny that could measure remaining lifespan and serve as a beacon to find Okfielst in the Abyss.
• Lin Yu asked Hershakanus whether he would still accept seven years after Okfielst left, and Hershakanus confirmed the deal.
• Lin Yu used the Scale of Destiny to check his lifespan balance and saw that it displayed 109,579 days.

Lin Yu hired Hershakanus, the Ninth Pillar, to kill White Sand and Potassium Chloride, while the two targets chose to enter Hershakanus’s domain and attack before it could fully descend. As Hershakanus’s projection rose from the magma, Potassium Chloride recognized its prepared body as an Abyssal Lava Armored Dragon.

• Lin Yu agreed to pay Hershakanus to kill White Sand and Potassium Chloride, and Hershakanus sealed the contract.
• Hershakanus opened a volcanic domain through the Abyssal Rift, and Potassium Chloride identified the Ninth Pillar and explained its Authority to White Sand.
• Potassium Chloride urged White Sand to attack before Hershakanus fully descended, and both men leaped into its domain.
• Hershakanus sensed the two targets entering its kingdom and vowed to burn them to ashes.
• Hershakanus’s body emerged from the magma, and Potassium Chloride recognized it as an Abyssal Lava Armored Dragon.

White Sand and Potassium Chloride fought Hershakanus’s Abyssal Lava Armored Dragon Projection and managed to destroy it. As they prepared to attack the Abyssal Rift, immense Abyssal power surged in from the cabin entrance, and Hershakanus angrily addressed them.

• Hershakanus projected himself as an Abyssal Lava Armored Dragon and attacked White Sand and Potassium Chloride with lava and Sulfur vapor.
• White Sand blocked the attack with water, struck the dragon with the Thunder God Hammer, and wounded it with his Guan Dao.
• Potassium Chloride used Forgotten Fog to disrupt Hershakanus’s control of the dragon, then restrained it while White Sand gathered strength.
• White Sand’s powerful Guan Dao strike cleaved the dragon in half and cracked Hershakanus’s domain.
• Potassium Chloride proposed destroying the Abyssal Rift, but vast Abyssal power poured in from the cabin entrance and Hershakanus demanded to know whether they had had enough.

Hershakanus used the Third Pillar Root Demon Crystal to restore its strength and formed a towering lava body, forcing White Sand and Potassium Chloride into a desperate fight. Meanwhile, Kres’s uneventful surveillance ended when he spotted a woman in ancient clothing and a frail girl whose presence he sensed was extraordinarily dangerous.

• Hershakanus drew on the Third Pillar Root Demon Crystal’s magic power and raised a giant body from the lava.
• White Sand and Potassium Chloride saw the strengthened Hershakanus and searched for a way to survive.
• Kres recorded the girl’s ordinary daily routine and complained that his surveillance mission had become boring.
• Kres noticed a woman in ancient clothing enter the residential complex and prepared to investigate her.
• Kres saw a frail girl with a silver cane following the woman and recognized her as more dangerous than any Player he had encountered.

Kres watched a cane-using girl and an ancient-dressed woman arrive in Jiang City, then saw Lady Freud appear and threaten a middle-school girl. The two top Tier 4 players, Miss Player and Lady Freud, began fighting, while Kres withdrew and reported the situation to his employer.

• Kres noticed that the cane-using girl had spotted him and exchanged a greeting, so he prepared to intervene if she threatened his protection target.
• A woman in a white lab coat teleported into the street and questioned the girl about the Great Demon from Prison Mountain.
• The cane-using girl said she was protecting the demon and a middle-school girl, while the newcomer revealed she had come to kill that girl.
• The women identified themselves as Miss Player, founder of the Freedom Alliance, and Lady Freud, president of the Psychology Society, and their Tier 4 domains erupted into battle.
• Kres put away his item, closed the window, and went to heat milk while reporting the fight to his employer.

Fluoxetine began the Psychology Society’s assault on Jiang City while Freud fought Player, aiming to reach the Forum’s hidden server. She opened a passage beneath the river to a Metal Door leading to the server complex.

• Kres reported that Freud and Player were fighting at the entrance to the target’s residential complex, and Fluoxetine accepted the report without suspicion.
• Fluoxetine waited atop Jiang City’s cross-river bridge for Rosenthal’s signal to begin the Psychology Society’s plan against the Forum server.
• Rosenthal told Fluoxetine that the plan had begun, and she wondered whether Freud could join the operation while suspecting Potassium Chloride’s mission might go badly.
• Fluoxetine opened a blue parasol as explosions struck Order’s logistics department and archives, Jiang’an Hall’s activity center, and the Night Watcher’s temporary base.
• The Psychology Society cut off calls for reinforcements, and Fluoxetine descended to the river and opened a passage to the Metal Door leading to the Forum server.

Fang Qing and Freud fought over the mission to kill a middle schooler, then agreed Freud would leave the girl alone while she pursued her plan to destroy the Forum's physical servers. After Freud departed, Fang Qing discovered that Li Nian had stolen Freud's metal lighter during the fight.

• Freud healed her fatal neck wound and admitted she had attacked the girl because the Freedom Alliance was protecting her, while Fang Qing revealed the girl was a relative of an organization member.
• Fang Qing and Freud agreed to stop fighting, and Freud said she intended to blow up the Forum's physical servers.
• Freud told Fang Qing that Hacker had left to rescue the Grandmaster and that the Celestial King was expected near Jiang City; Fang Qing gave Freud a Singularity Bomb in return for the information.
• Freud left, and Fang Qing revealed that Li Nian had stolen Freud's metal lighter during their confrontation.

Fang Qing explained why he had kept Freud from threatening the Forum, revealing that its destruction could alter the Death game and endanger Hacker. He told Li Nian that Hacker was a survivor of the previous version of the game and was actually the God of Games and Rules.

• Fang Qing returned the Mind Desire Fire lighter to Li Nian and explained that he had wanted to keep it out of Freud’s hands because it could harm spiritual and information bodies.
• Fang Qing said he had given Freud the Singularity Bomb to let her disrupt the Forum without completely destroying it, since a limited failure might keep her from escalating her plan.
• Fang Qing explained that the Forum was bound to the Death game and Hacker, and that its destruction could transform the game or weaken Hacker while other groups were already targeting her.
• Fang Qing told Li Nian that he was suppressing his progress toward Authority partly because Hacker’s presence helped protect him from rejection by the World Will.
• Fang Qing revealed that Hacker had survived the previous version of the Death game and had already mastered an Authority compatible with his own.
• Fang Qing identified Hacker by her formal title: the God of Games and Rules.

Fang Qing and Li Nian found Zhu Qiansi in Xia Yue’s home, where she was watching Zhu Ming’s sleeping daughter. Zhu Qiansi said she had gone there to seek answers about Zhu Ming and revealed that she had seen a past Destiny could not replay and a future it could not predict.

• Li Nian bragged about her potential after learning that God of Games and Rules possessed two Authorities, while Fang Qing teased her about training with the Psychology Society’s president.
• Fang Qing told Li Nian that Zhu Qiansi had gone to Zhu Ming’s house, and the two went to investigate.
• Fang Qing and Li Nian entered Xia Yue’s apartment and found Zhu Qiansi beside the sleeping girl, with spider silk linking their wrists.
• Zhu Qiansi assured them that she would not harm Zhu Ming’s family and explained that she wanted to judge whether Zhu Ming could match or surpass her former master.
• Zhu Qiansi told Fang Qing that she had seen a past Destiny could not replay and a future it could not predict.

Fluoxetine passed through the indestructible door into the Forum’s real-world Server Array and prepared to sabotage its servers. Chongming and Zhigeng confronted her, and their experiment to kill her began.

• Fluoxetine used her ability to merge with the Giant Metal Door and emerge on the other side.
• Fluoxetine found the Server Array and recalled how destroying its physical components could weaken the Forum and Hacker.
• Fluoxetine brought out a dangerous device and prepared to attack the perimeter servers.
• Zhigeng and Chongming revealed themselves, and Chongming announced she intended to test whether they could kill Fluoxetine.
• Chongming attacked with an iron chain while Zhigeng sent a Sketch-style Cube at Fluoxetine, who countered with her shotgun.

Chongming and Robin fought Fluoxetine in the underground server cave, with Chongming stalling her while Robin completed a drawing. The chapter ended as Robin’s Shura Hell drawing dragged Fluoxetine into its abyss.

• Chongming and Fluoxetine traded blows while concealing their full strength, and Fluoxetine baited Chongming into cutting her thigh before escaping as flower petals.
• Fluoxetine appeared behind Robin, but Robin buried her under plaster balls and declared she would no longer hesitate to fight her.
• Fluoxetine crushed a Higanbana and unleashed an explosive attack, while Chongming took the full impact to protect Robin and buy her time.
• Robin finished her drawing and revealed Shura Hell, whose hellfire and grasping spirits seized Fluoxetine and dragged her into the abyss.