Recaps

Zhang Mingzhen won two battlefield matches and began the Dragon Slaying Campaign, whose reward pool drove players across God's Domain into an intense week of challenges. As Chongxing pursued the event’s valuable rewards, Gao Linzhi checked the game backend and found that players’ activity was accelerating his seizure of Earth’s World Source.

• Zhang Mingzhen’s faction won the Flag-Carrying Battlefield, then claimed another easy victory in the Chain Island Battlefield after the opposing players recognized Chongxing and surrendered.
• Zhang Mingzhen studied the Dragon Slaying Campaign’s challenge-point rules before the event began and revealed a reward pool that set players scrambling for outfits, equipment, formations, and other prizes.
• Players spent the week grinding through boss challenges and battlefields, while forum users traded advice about improving their strength and clearing higher floors.
• Zhang Mingzhen aimed to empty the reward pool, planned to earn enough points for the defensive formation, and continued challenging bosses on the highest floors he could manage.
• Gao Linzhi checked the game backend, saw that the rate of his seizure of Earth’s World Source had increased, and decided to let Cheaters grow without interfering in their fates.

Guilds and households raced to secure protection arrays through the Dragon Slaying War, while major organizations sought Zhang Mingzhen’s help to earn exchange points. As the event’s seven-day deadline forced players to spend every challenge attempt, the Zheng and Jiang families backed Zheng Yingcai as their candidate to obtain an array.

• Thunder Legion executives discussed obtaining protection arrays and decided to contact Chongxing, whom Lu Zheng identified as Zhang Mingzhen.
• Dragon Diagram Frenzy and other guild leaders sought Zhang Mingzhen’s assistance, and Imperial City Yu Tian agreed to pay him one hundred Gold Coins for each attempt across seven days.
• Guilds and organizations selected loyal, powerful members to earn arrays, while their members pooled resources and planned to live inside protected gathering places.
• The Zheng and Jiang families chose Zheng Yingcai to pursue an array for their neighboring homes and gave him equipment, a fire lizard egg, and experience pills to improve his combat power.
• Zheng Yingcai promised to use every challenge attempt and battlefield mission during the seven-day event, recalling the servants lost when the family lacked protection.
• Players across the server spent their challenge points each day, while Zhang Mingzhen remained the only player with extra points available for outfit rewards.

Zhang Mingzhen auctioned two outfit chests, whose Fortune bonuses prompted Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven to recruit his sister for wilderness operations and reconsider his guild’s reward plans. After learning Thorn Bramble was steering public opinion against him, Zhang Mingzhen found its secret base, attacked its leaders, and revived officer Zhang Song to guide him to the organization’s other hideouts.

• Zhang Mingzhen listed two outfit chests for gold, and Xiaoxue's Snow and Imperial Dynasty Little Princess bought them for hundreds of gold coins each.
• Xiaoxue's Snow and Imperial Dynasty Little Princess revealed their outfits’ Fortune bonuses, leading Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven to insist that his sister join the guild’s wilderness operations.
• Zhang Mingzhen learned that Thorn Bramble was directing negative attention toward him and decided to retaliate against the organization.
• Thorn Bramble’s leaders discussed their plan to provoke Zhang Mingzhen on behalf of factions testing Dragon Han, when Zhang Mingzhen appeared at their underground base.
• Zhang Mingzhen defeated Thorn Bramble’s leaders, killed guild leader Thorns, and revived officer Zhang Song to identify the group’s other bases.

Zhang Mingzhen destroyed Thorn Bramble’s leadership, prompting the major guilds to fear and appease him while the Dragon Slaying War ended and players secured defensive arrays. He finished the event at level 53 and joined another Monster Altar run as the dungeon’s demand rose.

• Zhang Mingzhen used Zhang Song’s guidance to hunt down and kill Thorn Bramble’s higher-ups and core members, leaving the organization effectively dismantled.
• The major guilds halted investigations into Chongxing and sent him apology gifts, which Zhang Mingzhen accepted while warning them not to provoke him again.
• Zheng Yingcai activated a defensive array for the Zheng and Jiang families, and the Zheng family decided to keep their suspicion that Chongxing lived nearby secret.
• The Dragon Slaying War event ended, players exchanged their rewards, and defensive arrays began providing real-world strongholds against Warcraft.
• Chongxing reached level 53 and topped the experience leaderboard as Xuanyuan Yi rose to tenth place, surpassing Death Scythe.
• Zhang Mingzhen led Dragon Diagram Jinghe, Wushuang Zhiyu, Know by Heart, Yes Yes Yes?, and Utterly Empty into the Monster Altar dungeon.

Several pioneering teams prepared to clear Frenzy’s equipment dungeon, while Utterly Empty’s group began its own run. Chongxing’s team tested a cautious, ranged-focused strategy against the Sandstorm Beast, eventually defeating it after a wipe and a difficult second attempt.

• Utterly Empty and Yes Yes Yes declared that they were both determined to obtain Frenzy’s equipment, and Zhang Mingzhen activated their team dungeon.
• Dragon Diagram Frenzy, Qin Xiao Youhui, Hero War Sky, and their teammates entered the dungeon without Chongxing and advanced cautiously, summoning their magical beasts along the way.
• Qin Xiao Youhui’s team cleared the entrance monsters and discussed Qin Xiao Youhui’s rare healing-type Bloodsucking Bug.
• The group engaged the Sandstorm Beast, but its full-screen ultimate wiped them out on their first attempt.
• On their second attempt, the team learned the boss’s attack patterns, revived Dragon Diagram Frenzy after he fell, and defeated the Sandstorm Beast after more than an hour.
• Seaside Wave urged the team to keep using their safe ranged strategy rather than risk fighting the next boss at close range.

The Legion and Century Imperial City guilds cooperated to search for an underwater mount after discovering tameable amphibious Warcraft. Their teams found three glowing cave entrances beneath the sea and agreed to regroup at the underwater palace.

• Qin Xiao Youhui and the others failed twice to defeat the Lord of Magma, then discussed inviting Xuanyuan Yi and improving their damage and healing.
• Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven told Qin Xiao Youhui that Century Imperial City had found tameable amphibious Warcraft but needed underwater breathing equipment to pursue them.
• Legion found Breath-Holding Conches in Warehouse Seventeen and agreed to supply them in exchange for at least half the mounts.
• Century Imperial City and Legion divided the work, with one guild tracking the Warcraft and the other gathering conches, then each sent fifty people to the sea.
• Yes Yes Yes? explained that the teams needed to enter hidden underwater passages, so Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven, Qin Xiao Youhui, and Yes Yes Yes? led groups toward three marked coordinates.
• The three teams each spotted a faintly glowing cave entrance after diving more than thirty meters.

Gao Linzhi added Qin Xiao Youhui to the list for the new Skyfall Game while the top players of the God's Domain Game explored the Fish Dragon Palace and uncovered its secrets. The survivors escaped the palace's attacking skeletons, found tameable Fish-Dragons, and waited for the guild leaders to arrive.

• Gao Linzhi remembered Qin Xiao Youhui's talent and added Qin Xiao Youhui to the new Skyfall Game list to help obtain Source Energy.
• Yes Yes Yes? led the players through an underwater passage to the Fish Dragon Palace, where they discovered that skeletons came to life whenever the palace turned dark.
• The players learned from Zhi Zhi Fu Zhi Zhi's account that Sea God Island's natives had worshipped the Fish-Dragons, then climbed through a concealed opening to escape the skeletons.
• The group found a brightly lit upper palace filled with tameable Fish-Dragons and heard the deceased guardian Ming Yihai ask them to protect the creatures.
• The players agreed to wait for Qin Xiao Youhui and Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven before discussing how to divide the Fish-Dragons.

Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven and the Legion Guild claimed the Fish-Dragons, while Chen Qing was attacked by a hidden Warcraft after leaving Luo City's Protective Formation to collect a delivery. Her family discovered that her name had vanished from the game, and authorities found strange blood and tusk-wing spikes at the scene, leaving them to suspect her disappearance was tied to a daytime monster attack.

• Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven and Qin Xiao Youhui agreed to split the 142 Fish-Dragons between their guilds, and the mounts’ attributes spread across the world channel.
• War Sky ordered his guild to search for group-living Warcraft, then sent Jingjing to farm the abyss map after she criticized his connections.
• Chen Qing left her home with Little Treasure to collect a delayed meat delivery outside Luo City's Protective Formation.
• Chen Qing found the delivery goods and phone but no worker, then tentacles emerged from the ground and killed Little Treasure before engulfing her.
• A male player with the Enslavement talent decided to intervene, while Chen Xiao discovered Chen Qing had disappeared from his friends list in God's Domain.
• Chen Mingyu and Chen Xiao found no sign of Chen Qing at home, then learned that investigators had found nonhuman blood and Tusk-Wing Warthog spikes at the attack site.

Magical beast attacks spread to city outskirts around the world as Safe Zones and nutrient solution supplies came under pressure. In Ling City, Zhang Mingzhen’s neighbors discovered that he had accepted their meals and sent their family nutrient solution in return, prompting them to keep cooking for him.

• Chen Mingyu and Chen Xiao encountered tentacle monsters during the investigation of Chen Qing’s death, while Luo City Command dispatched emergency forces to support the team.
• Magical beast attacks appeared outside Safe Zones worldwide, and authorities classified other areas as high-risk as residents worried about shelter, food, and dwindling nutrient solution.
• Zheng Yingjie and Zheng Guohua discussed their family’s nutrient solution shortage, and Jiang Donglai noticed Zheng Yingjie often cooking despite rarely seeing the family eat.
• Zhang Mingzhen accepted the Zheng family’s meals and decided to repay them with nutrient solution rather than leave them indebted.
• The Sting Bee Queen delivered more than twenty nutrient solutions to the Zheng family, and Zheng Guohua urged Zheng Yingjie to keep cooking for Zhang Mingzhen.

As Warcraft surrounded Safe Zones and Harvest City, besieged by endlessly regenerating Devil Vines, Zhang Mingzhen traveled there to investigate their source. He agreed to help in exchange for intelligence and learned that Vermilion Fruit could improve players’ bodies when prepared by a Gourmet Subclass player.

• Warcraft surrounded cities and occupied zones, forcing players to risk gathering supplies while Harvest City remained trapped by Devil Vines.
• Dragon Han officials debated how to rescue Harvest City, and Zhang Mingzhen suspected a nest was producing the seemingly endless monsters.
• Zhang Mingzhen asked Ganoderma to prepare to refine materials from a possible flesh nest, then flew to Harvest City.
• Zhen Wu welcomed Zhang Mingzhen, shared the Devil Vines’ details, and asked him to find the source of their regeneration.
• Zhen Wu told Zhang Mingzhen that Vermilion Fruit could restore hunger and improve players’ bodies, especially when prepared by a Gourmet Subclass player.

Zhang Mingzhen destroyed the Devil Vine Flesh Nest in Harvest City, ending the monsters’ respawning and earning a monthly Vermilion Fruit supply from the authorities. He then converted the nest into a Demon Thorn Vine Nest and put it up for trade, drawing competing offers from powerful guilds and foreign buyers.

• Zhang Mingzhen learned from Zhen Wu that destroying a Flesh Nest would stop monsters from respawning, then found and removed the Devil Vine nest in a western-suburbs textile mill.
• Zhen Wu sent forces to clear the remaining Devil Vines, and Dragon Han announced that Harvest City’s lockdown had ended and revealed the secret behind monster respawning.
• The authorities mailed Zhang Mingzhen twenty improved Vermilion Fruits each month as part of a long-term partnership.
• Ganoderma offered Zhang Mingzhen the choice of refining the high-grade Flesh Nest into medicine or a monster-breeding core, and he chose the Demon Thorn Vine Nest.
• Zhang Mingzhen listed the nest core for sale, prompting Hero War Sky, the Legion Guild, foreign buyers, and the War Alliance Guild to make offers.
• The War Alliance Guild caught Zhang Mingzhen’s interest by offering a lead to a special secret-realm quest whose cleared prerequisites left only its core, believed to contain a skill inheritance.

Zhang Mingzhen traded control of the Devil Vine Nest to the Hero Alliance for information about a level-sixty Wolf Barbarian dungeon, then trained near its entrance while his weapons advanced to golden quality. Meanwhile, the nest announcement spurred guilds to search the real world for more nests, and a party led by Wandering Arrow investigated a Hornless Demon near the capital.

• Hero War Sky told Zhang Mingzhen that the Wolf Barbarians guarded a likely dungeon whose level-sixty entry requirement and skill-book rewards made it valuable, and Zhang agreed to trade the Devil Vine Nest for its coordinates.
• Hero War Sky placed the Devil Vine Nest north of the contribution shop and announced weekly taming slots, prompting guild members and players across God's Domain to seek nest resources.
• Zhang Mingzhen found the concealed cave entrance in the Huangtu Rocklands, fought the Yellow Earth Guardians around it, and chose to level there before entering the Wolf Barbarian lair.
• Zhang Mingzhen trained for several days, upgraded his Death Scepter and Death Tomb Book to golden quality, and activated the level-ten effects of his equipment sets.
• Wandering Arrow, Wandering Shadow, Under One Person, and Su Yueban investigated the capital's western suburbs, where guilds were searching for a Hornless Demon suspected of producing a flesh nest.

Gao Linzhi watched from Earth as the Brotherhood and Contending for the World fought a Hornless Demon infestation in an abandoned chemical factory near the Capital. After the guilds nearly defeated the Hornless Demon's main body, reinforcements from other forces arrived to compete for the Flesh Nest.

• Gao Linzhi observed the teams exploring the factory as Wandering Shadow fell under the Hornless Demon's Confusion, and Wandering Arrow was affected while trying to save him.
• Su Yueban used Demon Armor to break the brothers' mental effects, then pulled them to safety with help from the team.
• Wandering Arrow and Under One Person summoned 800 elite players, prepared potions and paired spellcasters with physical-class allies to counter the Hornless Demons.
• The guilds lured the Hornless Demons out of the factory and battled the swarm, while the Capital's military and other forces learned of the suspected Flesh Nest and mobilized.
• After the players cleared most of the swarm and attacked the main body, Under One Person sent the Berserkers to join the assault as reinforcements arrived.

Contending for the World claimed the Hornless Demon Nest, merged with the Brotherhood, and became the second guild to establish a Summoned Beast nest. Zhang Mingzhen discovered a hidden realm inhabited by the Wolf Barbarian Clan and fought his way toward their underground stone hall.

• Under One Person and Wandering Arrow secured the Flesh Nest's final blow, then chose to refine it into a Hornless Demon Nest rather than make a limited supply of Resurrection Medicine.
• Contending for the World absorbed the Brotherhood, established the Hornless Demon Nest, and assigned its first three taming spots to Su Yueban, Wandering Arrow, and Wandering Shadow.
• Zhang Mingzhen reached level fifty-eight, passed through a concealed cave wall, and entered a hidden wilderness where he encountered Wolf Barbarian Archers and Cursecasters.
• Zhang Mingzhen defeated Wolf Barbarian monsters, found their sentry post and underground stone hall, and fought against guards summoning reinforcements as he advanced toward the entrance.

As Safe Zones spread across Gao Linzhi’s Blue Star world, Zhang Mingzhen discovered a Wolf Barbarian settlement and brought its location to Fragrant Cloud City, advancing the main storyline. After earning a rare talisman and accepting a mission to stop the Wolf Barbarians, he visited the newly opened achievement shop and encountered its unpopular prices.

• Safe Zones appeared across Gao Linzhi’s Blue Star world, where authorities punished offenders through social isolation and other indirect measures.
• Zhang Mingzhen gathered ninety-nine Wolf Barbarian Headdress fragments, used the completed headdress to reach a dying Fragrant Cloud City guard, and obtained a map to the Wolf Barbarian settlement.
• Zhang Mingzhen delivered the map and intelligence to Dong Fangming, earning the title Wolf Barbarian Nemesis and triggering the achievement shop’s opening.
• Zhang Mingzhen chose a Wonderful Dharma Talisman from the city lord’s treasury, then accepted Dong Fangming’s mission to infiltrate the Wolf Barbarian settlement, defeat its leader, and destroy its Holy Relic.
• Zhang Mingzhen visited the achievement shop, where players complained about Zhang Fugui’s prices for rewards such as Double Experience Pills.

Zhang Mingzhen exchanged achievement points for Double Experience Pills and focused on leveling, while the Power Transmission Pill’s benefits led guilds to compete for high-level players’ help. The Legion Guild offered him information about a Spirit Realm Fish, and he agreed to discuss it after ten minutes.

• Zhang Fugui showed players the achievement shop’s expensive mounts and new items, including pills that enabled power transmission between players.
• Zhang Mingzhen bought twenty Double Experience Pills and used one to grind monsters near the Wolf Barbarian Palace.
• Guilds tested Power Transmission Pills and found that wider level gaps granted larger experience bonuses, prompting them to organize transmissions for selected members.
• Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven refused his sister’s request for a power transmission and discussed Chongxing’s rapid leveling with Yes Yes Yes?.
• Zhang Mingzhen ignored requests from guilds and acquaintances while leveling, and the Legion Guild decided to offer him information about the Spirit Realm Fish.
• After seeing that the Spirit Realm Fish granted experience every second for sixty minutes, Zhang Mingzhen told the Legion Guild he would discuss the deal in ten minutes.

Zhang Mingzhen tested power transmission for Qin Xiao Youhui while using a Spirit Realm Fish to maintain his own experience gain. Qin Xiao Youhui's rapid rise prompted rival guilds to seek similar deals, but Zhang Mingzhen refused fixed schedules and told Utterly Empty he had no time for another transmission.

• Qin Xiao Youhui explained that Never Return Empty had discovered Spirit Realm Fish in a hot spring and that skilled anglers caught them only in small numbers.
• Zhang Mingzhen agreed to test a Spirit Realm Fish while transmitting power to Qin Xiao Youhui at the hot spring.
• Never Go Fishless offered Zhang Mingzhen fish from his private stash, but Zhang Mingzhen declined because he had already made a deal with the guild.
• Zhang Mingzhen gained experience from the fish while Qin Xiao Youhui rose from level forty-one to forty-two and reached second place in the experience rankings.
• Zhang Mingzhen continued transmitting power to Qin Xiao Youhui over the next two days, raising him to level forty-four and alarming rival guilds.
• Zhang Mingzhen negotiated random transmission times with other guilds and told Utterly Empty to seek another expert because his schedule was full.

Zhang Mingzhen reached level 60, opened the Wolf Barbarian Palace with help from the War Alliance Guild, and entered its dungeon with One Sword Nine Provinces. After clearing the first checkpoint, he heard a child playing and found a Wolf Barbarian dwarf with a giant wolf.

• Zhang Mingzhen leveled up to 60, triggering announcements that opened two Wolf Barbarian dungeons and introduced master-disciple and companion systems.
• Zhang Mingzhen discovered that ten living beings had to weigh down the palace gate’s two platforms, so he asked the War Alliance Guild for help.
• War Sky sent One Sword Nine Provinces and eight other guild members; Zhang Mingzhen led them to the palace and had the others activate the gate, but they were teleported back while One Sword Nine Provinces remained with him.
• Zhang Mingzhen entered the palace with One Sword Nine Provinces, who was able to pass the gate, then told him to wait while he explored alone; Gao Linzhi noticed One Sword Nine Provinces’s desperate wish for a cheat and used some of his authority.
• Zhang Mingzhen fought through powerful Wolf Barbarian guards and cleared a crowded checkpoint, but its chest held no skill; he followed the sound of a child playing and found a Wolf Barbarian dwarf with a giant wolf.

Zhang Mingzhen fought through the Wolf Barbarian dungeon’s bosses, traps, and reassembling stone puppets, earning Golden Tier equipment along the way. In the final chamber, he destroyed the surrounding mechanisms, triggering the chieftain’s Frenzy form and a devastating attack that sharply reduced his health.

• Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Wolf Barbarian gnome’s giant wolf mount, received the Polar Belt, and watched the gnome flee as a treasure chest appeared.
• Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Wolf Barbarian Warrior Captain and Wolf Barbarian Mage Captain, survived the mage’s powerful attack with Self-Sacrifice, and obtained Golden Tier Battlefield Boots.
• Zhang Mingzhen navigated the dungeon’s traps and star-shaped mechanism, then found and disabled the control that let the stone men reassemble.
• Gao Linzhi considered Zhang Mingzhen a useful source of World Source Energy and thought he should use his monopoly advantage to build a mercenary platform.
• One Sword Nine Provinces monitored Zhang Mingzhen’s health from outside the dungeon and reported its fluctuations to War Sky and Steel Bone.
• Zhang Mingzhen entered the chieftain’s room, destroyed its eighteen mechanisms while dodging the boss’s attacks, and triggered the chieftain’s Frenzy form, whose crushing blow sent his health plunging.

Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Wolf Barbarian clan chief after surviving its three sacrifice attacks, earning a first-clear announcement with One Sword Nine Provinces. Meanwhile, Qin Xiao Youhui's party cleared the Lord of Magma and advanced toward the Monster Altar's third boss.

• The Wolf Barbarian dwarf blocked Zhang Mingzhen's finishing blow, and the clan chief absorbed the child's body, regained full health, and transformed into a stronger second phase.
• Zhang Mingzhen endured the clan chief's three immobilizing sacrifice attacks with the help of Heart of Undeath, defeated the boss, and received a golden necklace and dungeon writ.
• The system announced Chongxing and One Sword Nine Provinces as the first players to clear the Wolf Barbarian Extermination dungeon, and Zhang Mingzhen declined One Sword Nine Provinces' request to become his disciple.
• Qin Xiao Youhui's party failed four times to prevent the Lord of Magma's second phase, then changed tactics and defeated it with Qin Xiao Youhui tanking while Seaside Wave healed.
• Seaside Wave opened a random equipment chest and obtained silver Dragoon Gauntlets, which Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven won; the party then headed toward the third boss while discussing scarce feathers for wings.

Qin Xiao Youhui and the other guild leaders cleared the easy Monster Altar dungeon, while Zhang Mingzhen completed his quest and chose new growth-type weapons from the treasury. Using the prison key, Zhang Mingzhen unlocked the level-sixty Secret Realm “Wolf Barbarian Escape,” leaving him as the only player currently able to enter it.

• Qin Xiao Youhui led Dragon Diagram Frenzy, Seaside Wave, Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven, and War Sky through the Monster Altar, and they defeated the final boss after Frenzy and Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven handled its adds.
• Seaside Wave opened the dropped box and found a Silver Tier assassin weapon, which the group sold at auction before going their separate ways.
• Zhang Mingzhen reported defeating the Wolf Barbarian leader to the city lord, received the prison key, and chose the Scepter of Dominion and Netherblessing Tome from the treasury.
• Zhang Mingzhen returned to Wolf Barbarian territory and used the prison key, triggering the opening of the level-sixty Secret Realm “Wolf Barbarian Escape.”
• Players congratulated Chongxing for unlocking the new Secret Realm, while the War Alliance realized he was the only player yet qualified to enter.

Zhang Mingzhen entered a new dungeon to escort the Wolf Barbarian Chieftain through the prison, keeping him alive through dangerous encounters and coordinated enemy squads. After clearing the dungeon and obtaining the archer-exclusive skill book Focused Arrow, Zhang Mingzhen announced its auction, prompting players and major forces to compete for it.

• Zhang Mingzhen freed the Wolf Barbarian Chieftain and began escorting him through the prison, healing him while fighting off guards and archers.
• Zhang Mingzhen followed the chieftain up a cliff and through successive battles, including a plaza filled with mechanical puppets.
• Zhang Mingzhen and the chieftain defeated a coordinated squad of guards and mechanisms, and Zhang Mingzhen obtained the archer-exclusive Focused Arrow skill book.
• Zhang Mingzhen announced a twelve-hour cross-server auction for Focused Arrow, drawing intense discussion from players and attention from major forces.
• A player urged his Big Brother to win the auction and seek family support if necessary.

The Skill Book auction ended with Ironblood Guild paying thirteen thousand Gold Coins, while Zhang Mingzhen withdrew from the attention and returned to leveling. Meanwhile, Aberrants overran Jili Kingdom and spread into neighboring countries, and the chapter ended with Stone Kingdom players vanishing and Dragon Han divided over whether to accept refugees.

• Ironblood Guild won the Skill Book for thirteen thousand Gold Coins and gave it to In the Flick of a Finger, whose tests confirmed its powerful burst damage.
• After guilds continued pestering him for dungeon information, Zhang Mingzhen warned them to stop, hid his game ID, and returned to leveling.
• Gao Linzhi observed new Skyfall Game data entering certain players as Aberrants emerged in a city in Jili Kingdom and transformed its population.
• Aberrants retained their hosts' classes and skills, overwhelmed Jili Kingdom, and spread into Stone Kingdom and Wind Kingdom despite emergency defenses.
• Moer vanished during a conversation with his District 17 teammates, and Stone Kingdom players began disappearing as Dragon Han debated whether to admit Stone Kingdom refugees.

As the Aberrants’ hidden incubation period led countries to close their borders, Wang Mengyan’s secret effort to bring her teammate Hong Yu into Dragon Han ended in disaster when he transformed and vanished in God's Domain. The Capital’s temporary camp was overrun, and the Wang Family joined the emergency defense as the crisis threatened the city.

• Most countries refused to accept Stone Kingdom refugees after scientists warned that Aberrant infection could remain undetectable for months, while the Eagle Kingdom began expelling foreign players.
• Wang Mengyan persuaded her father Wang Yuhao to take in Hong Yu, but he confined her; while confined, she secretly arranged for Hong Yu to enter Dragon Han using a deceased overseas student’s identity.
• After Wang Liangchen released Wang Mengyan from confinement, she met Hong Yu and their teammates in God's Domain, where Hong Yu suddenly turned transparent and disappeared.
• Wang Mengyan admitted to Wang Liangchen and Wang Yuhao that she had secretly brought Hong Yu into the country, and Wang Liangchen ordered her to report the details to headquarters.
• The temporary camp outside the Capital was overwhelmed as infected players became Aberrants, and the authorities ordered the Wang Family to lead the defense while establishing a perimeter around the Capital.

The Capital’s players fought a devastating battle against Aberrants after prominent-family scions secretly brought Stone Kingdom people into Dragon Capital. The immediate assault was stopped, but Zhang Mingzhen and the Dragon Kingdom’s leaders kept forces in place because hidden, incubating infections remained a threat.

• Wang Mengyan and the other scions regretted their actions, but their families detained them and forced them to swear blood oaths to fight the Aberrants.
• Dragon Han mobilized players and factions to defend the Capital, where tens of thousands of newly infected Aberrants charged the army.
• Gao Linzhi watched the crisis and sent restricted cheats to several people he considered promising.
• The battle lines struggled against infectious attacks, and the defenders discovered that mature Aberrants were far stronger and could evolve in under an hour.
• The players’ desperate counterattack stopped the Aberrants’ advance, though the fighting caused heavy losses and required a continued sweep of the Capital.
• Zhang Mingzhen and the senior leaders kept the deployed teams on alert while they sought a way to detect concealed infections.