Recaps

Zhang Mingzhen identified the Profound Clarity Mirror as a way to detect Aberrant infection, prompting cities worldwide to screen their populations and detain hundreds of infected players. After auctioning an assassin skill book and continuing to farm, he learned that Chosen One had discovered Sky City, where a Pet Championship was about to begin.

• Zhang Mingzhen told Qin Xiao Youhui that the Profound Clarity Mirror could reveal parasitism and other abnormal conditions, and the Legion Guild used one to screen players entering the capital.
• The mirror exposed nearly three hundred infected players, including Wang Mengyan and her teammate, and the detained group was later reported to have mutated and faced execution.
• Gao Linzhi recognized that Aberrant infection could make people afraid to fight, but believed the solution he had provided might still be discovered.
• Zhang Mingzhen obtained the Shadow Clone skill book and auctioned it, with the Dragon Diagram Guild winning the bidding for thirteen thousand five hundred Gold Coins.
• A system announcement reported that Chosen One had discovered Sky City and that the Pet Championship was about to begin.

The Chosen One’s unruly Lovebond Duck carried him to the newly discovered Sky City, where he found a platform connecting the floating island to the ground. Meanwhile, Zhang Mingzhen explored the city’s attractions and capsule machines as Adorable Mengmeng won a rare cosmetic robe.

• The Lovebond Duck flew after a flock of birds, carried the Chosen One into the sky, and brought him to Sky City, earning him a thousand achievement points.
• The Chosen One discovered a transport platform that descended to the ground and returned players to the floating city, then shared its location with his guildmates.
• Zhang Mingzhen arrived at Sky City with his Azure-Scaled Dragon Python and explored its attractions while hiding his character information.
• Players gathered at Capsule Street to draw prizes, and Adorable Mengmeng obtained the rare Glazed Golden Body Robe, which granted Agility, Fortune, and a Teleportation effect.

Players entered the Pet Championship to win rewards that could evolve their summoned beasts, while Chosen One’s supposedly useless Lovebond Duck unexpectedly won match after match by courting and distracting its opponents. The duck reached the top thousand and became a tournament dark horse, leaving Chosen One wondering how far it could go.

• Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven ordered his guild to protect its funds from his sister’s fashion spending and confirmed the guild would enter the Pet Championship.
• Zhang Mingzhen entered his Azure-Scaled Dragon Python, determined to win the divine pet evolution pill, while players and guilds backed their own powerful contenders.
• Cross Art brought his mutated Bloodthirsty Demon Lizard away before the tournament began, saying he intended to teach it tricks for its matches.
• Dragon Diagram Frenzy’s Blazing Fire Golden Ape won its opening match easily as high-profile pets advanced through the early rounds.
• Chosen One’s Lovebond Duck courted and distracted its crane, bear, and snake opponents, winning several matches and reaching the top thousand.
• Spectators began calling the Lovebond Duck a lust beast and betting on its chances, while Chosen One wondered whether it could make the top ten.

The Lovebond Duck stunned the tournament by reaching the top ten before losing to the Earthshaking Vajra Bear, while Zhang Mingzhen’s Azure-Scaled Dragon Python won the championship and began evolving. After the beast competition ended, attention shifted to the dangerous racing event, which Zhang Mingzhen could not enter while his python evolved.

• The Lovebond Duck defeated the Crimson Flame Bat and Sky-Soaring Mystic Crane through its strange mental interference, then lost to the Earthshaking Vajra Bear after guilds prepared counters.
• The Azure-Scaled Dragon Python survived the Shadow Demon’s powerful ambush with help from Spring Wind and finished first in the championship, ahead of the Shadow Demon and Earthshaking Vajra Bear.
• Chosen One finished tenth with the Lovebond Duck, sold one of his rare pet eggs for a huge sum, and celebrated his unexpected fortune.
• Zhang Mingzhen fed the Divine Evolution Pill to the Azure-Scaled Dragon Python, which began a twelve-hour evolution, then watched as preparations began for the racing event.
• Players learned that the race allowed participants to eliminate one another, while its rewards included mounts and mount evolution pills; Zhang Mingzhen could not compete because his python was evolving and he had no other pet.

Gao Linzhi studied how to modify the Skyfall Game system while the players competed in a mount race. The race left the opening melee behind and focused on the top ten, as the Excavator Guild used the event to showcase its crowd-control products.

• Gao Linzhi decided to turn selected factory workers into NPCs with healing and cleansing talents, assigning them long-term daily quests.
• Imperial Dynasty Little Princess entered the aerial race with her Flamefeather Sparrow after Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven reluctantly gave her ten Experience Pills.
• Players began racing through a hazardous instance, where falling meteors and other dangers threatened both flying and ground mounts.
• War Sky led the race, followed by Know by Heart and Dawn Breeze, Waning Moon, while Yes Yes Yes? held around tenth place.
• An Excavator Guild archer used beast-disorienting powder, restraining vines, and skill-sealing pellets to disrupt competitors, while Tractor promoted the items to spectators.
• The Excavator Guild secured a place in the top twenty, and the fiercest contest shifted to the top ten and especially the top three.

Know by Heart won the pet race, and God's Domain opened pet leveling and feeding systems that made evolution more accessible but costly. Zhang Mingzhen evolved his Azure-Scaled Dragon Python into a Wildsea Candle Dragon and began training it, while Su Feng entered a dangerous canyon to earn money for his sick sister.

• Yes Yes Yes? surged past the racers, but Know by Heart's Cloudrunner Beast used Swallow Mist to secure first place, leaving the Lightning Falcon second, War Sky third, and Dawn Breeze, Waning Moon fourth.
• The system introduced pet leveling, satiety, and exclusive food, prompting players to discuss the costs of feeding pets and the seeds available through the gacha machine.
• Zhang Mingzhen spent Gold Coins on a high-quality pet food seed, then learned that his Azure-Scaled Dragon Python had evolved into a Wildsea Candle Dragon with powerful new abilities and a higher level cap.
• Zhang Mingzhen left the Wildsea Candle Dragon with two Flower Spirits to train among level-forty monsters, then went to a canyon full of level-sixty-six five-element ghosts to grind for experience.
• Su Feng cautiously entered the canyon, where he sought to earn money through power-leveling and gold farming to pay for his gravely ill younger sister Su Yu's treatment.

Su Feng and Su Yueban entered an unexplored high-level region, escaped a Bone Demon ambush, and discovered they could defeat the level 48 Lionheart Tigers appearing there. After hearing a huge battle ahead, they decided to retreat and wait for their guildmates, wondering which group had gathered so many monsters.

• Su Feng and Su Yueban ventured into Bone Demon territory, where the monsters rose from the scattered bones and surrounded them.
• Su Feng led them through a gap in the encirclement, and they escaped into a high-rank forest where the Bone Demons would not follow.
• The pair defeated several level 48 Lionheart Tigers and found that the monsters appeared only one or two at a time.
• Su Feng and Su Yueban followed their curiosity deeper into the forest and heard the sounds of a large battle ahead.
• They realized a group was fighting at least a hundred monsters and chose to return rather than interfere, planning to wait for their guildmates.

Su Yueban and Su Feng discovered that Chongxing’s summoned creatures were clearing the Lionheart Tiger habitat and persuaded their guild to farm nearby for valuable Lionheart Stones. Zhang Mingzhen allowed the Contending for the World guild to operate under strict conditions, and the chapter ended with Under One Person reviewing their small stockpile and noting Chongxing likely had far more.

• Su Feng and Su Yueban ran into Chongxing’s Wildsea Candle Dragon and Flower Spirit fighting Lionheart Tigers, then recognized them as Chongxing’s neutral summoned creatures.
• After the summons defeated the six Tigers pursuing them, Su Yueban noticed a Lionheart Stone drop and vanished into Chongxing’s remote inventory, prompting the pair to plan cautious farming nearby.
• Su Yueban contacted Wandering Shadow, who informed Wandering Arrow; Wandering Arrow and Under One Person approved gathering trusted guild members to collect stones.
• Wandering Arrow privately explained the plan to Zhang Mingzhen, who permitted the Contending for the World guild to farm nearby but refused responsibility for their safety and warned them not to attack his summons.
• The guild farmed the habitat for a day, gaining experience and collecting a few dozen Lionheart Stones, while Under One Person considered reserving them for powerful guild members and compared their yield with Chongxing’s likely larger stockpile.

After Chongxing ended his grinding session, the Lionheart Stone site drew the major guilds, while Excavator's members blamed Su Feng for keeping the opportunity from them. When Su Feng learned that his sister Su Yu had been deliberately left to die, he contacted Su Yueban about joining his guild, and Gao Linzhi began considering how to use the siblings.

• Chongxing's Summoned Beasts disappeared after reaching their target level, leaving Contending for the World's players overwhelmed and sent back to town.
• Under One Person summoned reinforcements as the major guilds learned about the Lionheart Stones and rushed to claim positions in the wilderness.
• Excavator members accused Sharp Blade of hiding the opportunity, but Su Feng stayed in the guild despite Fish's Memory urging him to leave.
• After Fish's Memory died to repeated ranged attacks, Su Feng realized someone had targeted her and agreed to consider leaving Excavator with her.
• Su Feng contacted Su Yueban to ask about joining his guild, while Gao Linzhi identified the siblings as useful pawns.

After Zhang Mingzhen planted high-level pet food seeds at his villa, Jiang Min revealed a premium seed she had won from the gacha machine. Zhang Mingzhen discovered it in the neighboring yard and asked how it was obtained, while Zheng Yingjie disclosed the seed’s origin and suggested a price.

• Su Feng and Su Yueban left their guild and joined Contending for the World after Su Feng’s guildmates accused him of colluding with them.
• News spread that District 3 players had found high-level wilderness zones yielding new enchanting materials, and players elsewhere began recruiting teams to farm them.
• Zhang Mingzhen planted high-level pet food seeds with help from his pets, while sting bees gathered around the crop to guard it.
• Jiang Min revealed that she had obtained a premium pet food seed after spending one thousand Gold Coin on gacha pulls, and she planted it with her neighbors’ seeds.
• Zhang Mingzhen spotted the premium seed in Zheng Guohua’s yard, triggered the protective formation to meet its owners, and offered to trade for it.
• Zheng Yingjie told Zhang Mingzhen that Jiang Min had won the seed through the gacha machine and suggested she would sell it for one thousand Gold Coin.

Zhang Mingzhen revealed himself to Zheng Yingjie and arranged to sell Jiang Min’s special-grade pet food, then sold his stock of Lionheart Stones to several major guilds. He spent his earnings on the gacha machine and auctioned rare fashion outfits that sparked intense bidding across regions.

• Zhang Mingzhen admitted he was Chongxing to Zheng Yingjie, agreed to buy the special-grade pet food for a thousand gold coins, and asked him to keep his identity secret.
• Zheng Yingjie told Jiang Min that he had found a buyer, and she agreed to let him deliver the seed’s fruit once it matured.
• Zheng Yingjie explained that major guilds were hunting Lionheart Tigers for scarce Lionheart Stones, and Utterly Empty asked Zhang Mingzhen to sell his remaining stock.
• Zhang Mingzhen agreed to sell 329 Lionheart Stones for twenty-two gold each, and several major guilds accepted the deal.
• Zhang Mingzhen spent his earnings at the gacha machine, obtained a mount and two outfits, and listed them at auction.
• Fireworks in the Rain and other wealthy players bid fiercely on Zhang Mingzhen’s rare outfits as their appeal drew attention from powerful players across regions.

Zhang Mingzhen sold two rare outfits for a huge profit, fed the Wildsea Candle Dragon special-grade food, and resumed leveling in God's Domain. Meanwhile, Utterly Empty hired the Excavator Guild for a Monster Altar dungeon run, but Princess Lulu's inexperience and the team's struggles left him regretting the gap between this carry and Chongxing's.

• Misty Rain Jiangnan sold for 12,200 Gold Coins, and Dragon Diagram Frenzy bought King of Ice and Snow for 12,700, while the mount sold for 1,500.
• Zhang Mingzhen collected 26,000 Gold Coins, fed the Wildsea Candle Dragon a bag of special-grade feed, and sent it to gain experience among level 55 stone puppets.
• Utterly Empty hired Tractor's Excavator Guild team for 500 Gold Coins to challenge the Monster Altar's first guardian after reaching level 40.
• Tractor reluctantly brought Princess Lulu onto the team at King Jiji's insistence, despite her lack of dungeon experience.
• Princess Lulu died to minor monsters before the party reached the first boss, then blamed King Jiji for failing to hold them.
• During the first boss fight, Utterly Empty struggled to keep up with healing and watched Princess Lulu's health rapidly fall, realizing how much worse the run was without Chongxing.

Tractor dismissed King Jiji and Princess Lulu after their failed dungeon attempts, recruited Sharp Blade and Auspicious Cloud, and cleared the first boss. As melee players struggled to find dungeon teams, Gao Linzhi opened the God's Domain Champions Tournament, whose announcement promised major rewards and penalties.

• Princess Lulu blamed the team for her deaths and low damage, so Tractor arranged for her and King Jiji to leave.
• Gao Linzhi gave Lulu several stacks of the Reeking Stench debuff after reviewing the game logs.
• Tractor recruited Auspicious Cloud and asked Sharp Blade to help; their new team defeated the first boss on its first attempt.
• Players complained on the forum that melee classes were being excluded from dungeon teams as Shield Guards, Priests, and ranged classes were in demand.
• Gao Linzhi announced the God's Domain Champions Tournament, with solo, two-person, five-person, and guild-war brackets and rewards for top districts.
• Players reacted to the tournament announcement, debating its penalties and whether District 3's Chongxing could secure victory.

District 3 prepared for the cross-server competition, relying on Chongxing’s strength while its guilds negotiated who would represent them in the guild battle. As players worldwide trained for the event, District 1’s Godfall expressed a wish to fight Chongxing but agreed to follow his guild’s arrangements if they were matched.

• District 3’s leaders discussed the event rules and concluded that Chongxing could help secure both the individual event and a guild battle.
• Zhang Mingzhen agreed to enter the individual event and join whichever guild represented District 3 in the guild battle.
• District 3’s guilds argued over representation until Qin Xiao Youhui proposed taking turns according to guild rankings, with selected players temporarily joining the chosen guild.
• Players across the districts began intensive training and tactical preparation for the competition.
• Godfall, District 1’s top-ranked player, said he wanted to test Chongxing’s abilities, but promised Pengpeng's Hair he would follow the guild’s plans if their districts faced each other.

District 3 finalized its representatives for the God's Domain Championship after Dragon Diagram Jinghe proposed a tactical plan built around Chongxing's strength. The match was about to begin, with District 3's roster submitted just before the deadline and the participants preparing for a public livestream.

• Godfall agreed to join District 1's candidate training camp, while players in District 3 discussed famous opponents and the danger posed by hidden talents.
• Contending for the World selected Sharp Blade as a candidate and bought him the Swordsman skill Autumn Wind Sweeps Leaves to strengthen his talent-based attacks.
• Dragon Diagram Jinghe proposed entering Chongxing in a two-person match to mislead opponents and concentrate District 3's strongest players in the five-person match.
• District 3 chose Dawn Breeze, Waning Moon for its solo match and selected Demon Zero Zero, Sharp Blade, Unparalleled Weaving Rain, War Sky, and Lives by the Sea Wave for its five-person roster.
• Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven secured the two-person slot alongside Chongxing, and District 3 submitted its final lineup three seconds before the deadline.

The 3rd District’s Chongxing and Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven faced Godfall and I Bet My Youth on Tomorrow in the first tournament match. Chongxing killed Godfall with a single attack and overwhelmed Tomorrow, leaving the 3rd District victorious and the other districts shaken by his strength.

• The 1st District chose a two-person battle, hoping Godfall and I Bet My Youth on Tomorrow would secure a win against the 3rd District.
• The system matched Godfall and I Bet My Youth on Tomorrow against Chongxing and Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven, surprising both contestants and spectators.
• Chongxing told Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven to wait near their starting point while the 1st District team searched the arena for them.
• As Godfall and I Bet My Youth on Tomorrow approached, Chongxing used Chasing Wind and killed Godfall with one hit before his wind blades struck Tomorrow.
• The system ended the match in the 3rd District’s favor, and Godfall later said Chongxing had to be hacking and apologized to his district.

District 1 and District 3 began their five-on-five match after Zhang Mingzhen had secured District 3 the first victory. District 3’s emergency defenses thwarted Street Little Overlord’s lethal attack on Unparalleled Weaving Rain, and the battle ended with District 1’s priest under renewed assault.

• Rising Prosperously led District 1’s team into the five-on-five match while District 3 prepared to target Natural Airhead and defend Unparalleled Weaving Rain.
• The teams met in a cramped pavilion arena, with District 1 focusing on Unparalleled Weaving Rain and District 3’s attackers pursuing Natural Airhead.
• Street Little Overlord used Mutual Destruction to cut Unparalleled Weaving Rain’s health, but Demon Zero Zero shielded the mage and Seaside Wave shared the damage and healed him.
• Rising Prosperously used Armor to protect the struggling Natural Airhead as District 3’s attackers unleashed their burst skills to defeat him before his control removal returned.

District 3 defeated District 1 in the matchmaking battle, earning triple experience while thirty percent of District 1's players were struck with a severe Weakened status. As District 1's leaders vowed to win the next match and officials searched for a remedy, Zhang Mingzhen rejected calls for districts to deliberately trade victories and losses.

• Sharp Blade's Suppression talent sealed Natural Airhead's Demon Transformation, allowing District 3 to defeat District 1's remaining fighters.
• The settlement granted District 3 twenty-four hours of triple experience and randomly inflicted thirty percent of District 1's players with Weakened for forty-eight hours.
• Godfall, Pengpeng's Hair, Rugged Glory Guild, and Dragon Battles in the Wild promised District 1's players they would fight to win the next match.
• Lu Zheng and Qin Xiao Youhui discussed efforts to find a remedy, but two guilds refused to trade their Flesh Nest and Chongxing had no way to remove system-imposed negative statuses.
• Players debated whether districts should arrange one win and one loss, but Zhang Mingzhen rejected the idea and resolved to climb to the top.

After District 3’s triple-experience period ended, districts prepared for another round of the King Tournament. District 1 was matched against District 33 and took the opening 2V2 match with a victory by Godfall and Natural Airhead.

• Jiang Donglai rested at home while Jiang Min and Jiang Lai discussed the Zheng family and District 3’s recent victory.
• Players across District 3 used the triple-experience period to level up, while Zhang Mingzhen reached level 63 with Flower Spirit and Candle Dragon.
• The triple-experience period ended, and districts prepared rosters for the next King Tournament round.
• District 1 was matched against District 33, and the districts exchanged taunts before selecting their match formats.
• Godfall and Natural Airhead defeated Tiance Love Song and Say a Word in the opening 2V2 match, giving District 1 the lead.

District 1 defeated District 33 in the district match and earned a twenty-four-hour triple experience boost, while District 3 continued its winning streak against District 65. The chapter left District 65 facing a one-on-one defeat after Chongxing swiftly overwhelmed its Shield Guard.

• Street Little Overlord used Mutual Destruction against White Robe, but White Robe survived with one health point through his Last Stand Counterattack talent and won the duel for District 33.
• District 1 focused its five-on-five attacks on District 33's Priest, but Stars Light the Lamps kept District 1's Priest alive long enough for the opposing Priest to fall first.
• District 1 won the team match, removed one layer of weakened status, and activated its twenty-four-hour triple experience boost.
• District 3 matched against District 65, whose players feared the consequences of facing the strongest district and discussed how combat rankings might protect players from weakening.
• Chongxing fought District 65's Shield Guard and defeated him without letting the opponent touch him.

Districts 3 and 19, the tournament’s undefeated leaders, were finally matched against each other as repeated losses left several districts crippled by stacked Weakened penalties. District 77 secured promises of temporary aid, while both leading districts prepared for a showdown that began with a guild battle and a system-selected two-versus-two match.

• District 3 defeated District 65 in both matches, and District 65 received stacked Weakened penalties that crippled many of its players.
• Zheng Yingjie and Zheng Yingcai urged Zheng Guohua to stop running his shop and train with them so he could improve his combat power.
• Sunshine begged the joint conference to arrange a fixed match for District 77, but Lu Zheng rejected the proposal and offered temporary combat-power supplies instead.
• Districts 65, 77, and 114 accumulated seven stacks of Weakened, leaving many Dragon Han players unable to fight.
• Qin Xiao Youhui anticipated that undefeated Districts 3 and 19 would soon meet, and the system matched them that day.
• District 19 chose a guild battle, District 3 chose its usual one-versus-one mode, and the system randomly set the third match as two-versus-two.

District 3's Chongxing overwhelmed District 19's top assassin in the opening duel, then defended the central energy point alone as the guild battle began. District 19 avoided him and captured small points, leaving the battle to turn into a mobile contest over energy.

• District 19 chose Arikaiser to fight Chongxing, but Chongxing shrugged off his critical strike and defeated him with Spirit Strike.
• Dragon Diagram Jinghe outlined District 3's plan to have Chongxing hold the central energy point while the rest captured and contested smaller points.
• Chongxing reached the central point first and captured it, then eliminated the ten-person squad led by Shiyade when they tried to take it.
• District 19's commander ordered the team to avoid Chongxing, leave an assassin to watch him, and focus on capturing small points.
• District 19 activated its third contingency plan, assigning squads to hold captured points while the rest followed their planned routes, and gradually activated the small points across the battlefield.

District 3 defeated District 19 in the King's Guild Battle, and the King's Championship ended with District 3 in first place. The top ten districts received an experience-rain announcement, while the bottom ten were told that a calamity would descend in ten minutes, prompting many players to log out.

• Zhang Mingzhen left the center, overwhelmed District 19's main force, and led District 3 to a 1,000 to 386 victory.
• Sunshine asked the Legion Guild for help against the Twelfth District, but its leader only granted access to the second-tier equipment treasury and Dragon Han's leadership secretly decided to abandon the bottom ten districts.
• The system announced the King's Championship rankings, placing the 3rd District first and listing the top ten districts for a twenty-four-hour experience rain.
• The system named the ten districts with the most accumulated losses and announced that a calamity would begin in ten minutes and last twenty-four hours.
• Players in the bottom ten districts panicked, and many chose to return to the real world in hopes of escaping the calamity.

The natural disaster turned players in the last ten districts into violent monsters in the real world, while system warnings urged players to evacuate or log off. As officials began registering residents and preparing Safe Zones, Zhang Yu recognized that an inspection request concerned Zhang Mingzhen, whom the authorities had been ordered not to provoke.

• Players in the last ten districts mutated into monsters in the real world, and Dragon Han officials warned that they could attack people nearby.
• Sixties Era worried about his family in District 4, then died when he tried to log off as his father and sister attacked him outside his bedroom.
• System warnings told players in the first ten districts to log off, while officials and guilds organized inspections and protected group login sites.
• Zheng Guohua's family cautioned registration staff against approaching Zhang Mingzhen's villa, but the team leader contacted his superior for instructions.
• Zhang Yu realized that the request concerned Zhang Mingzhen, codenamed Chongxing, and recalled orders not to provoke him.

Authorities confined demonized players after the calamity, then decided to relocate them to Xuancheng for centralized supervision while eliminating those who remained monsters. War Zone 3 celebrated its growing advantage as its guild leaders prepared for Wolf Barbarian Secret Realms, while Seaside Wave’s team entered the Monster Altar and began its final boss fight.

• Officials ordered the registration team at Zheng Guohua’s home not to disturb the villa’s occupants, and the Zheng family refused to reveal what they knew about the resident.
• After the calamity’s countdown ended, some confined players regained human form, but experts concluded that players who had killed people or monsters of their own kind had become permanently monstrous.
• Countries decided to eliminate most irreversibly demonized players, and authorities compromised on relocating the rest of the bottom ten districts’ players to Xuancheng for supervision.
• War Zone 3’s top players discussed scouting the Wolf Barbarian Secret Realms, but Seaside Wave remained level fifty-nine and chose to use his final weekly Monster Altar entry with Dishitian’s team.
• Seaside Wave’s team cleared the first two Monster Altar stages, and Xuanyuan Yi volunteered to kite the final boss’s adds so the others could attack the boss.