Recaps

Gao Linzhi warded off a colossal sea hand with the Evil Warding Order, then sailed beyond ten miles and entered the Grand Voyage event’s chat channel. As players negotiated across islands, the undercover agents logged off and discussed how to stop his growing power.

• Gao Linzhi used the Evil Warding Order to repel a giant hand that sent other players fleeing from the Treasure Ship.
• The Treasure Ship passed ten miles, triggering the Grand Voyage event, a ten-point first-place reward, and a restricted chat channel.
• Qingcheng Bored negotiated with Dugu Yijia of Eagle Island over a Blue Tier Skill Stone while shorebound players lamented falling behind.
• Zhan Cangqiong, Guihuajiu, and Aoxue logged off after seeing the giant hand and discussed orders to stop Gao Linzhi, whose power was growing too quickly.
• Aoxue said her attempt to seduce Gao Linzhi had failed because he stayed in his room and turned the beauty sent to him into a puppet.

Zhan Cangqiong, Aoxue, and their companion failed to earn Gao Linzhi’s trust, while Gao Linzhi’s Treasure Ship dominated the sailing rankings. After learning nine professional skills and strengthening his Constitution, Gao Linzhi continued sailing as other islands began plotting to challenge Wolf Snake Island 3081.

• Zhan Cangqiong and the others decided to gain Gao Linzhi’s trust through a pet, but his Treasure Ship had already sailed away when they logged back in.
• The sailing rankings placed Qingcheng Bored first and filled the top spots with players from Wolf Snake Island 3081, while Jiangnan1912 refused to ask Gao Linzhi to give up ranking positions.
• Gao Linzhi learned nine professional skills from Qingcheng Bored’s Skill Books and Skill Stones, raising his Constitution to 5+490 and leaving eight skill slots open.
• A flash flood sent a mudslide into Gao Linzhi’s cave, prompting him to ask whether the game offered livable spatial treasures; that night he used Exorcism Talismans to stop eerie singing that was disturbing the players aboard the ship.
• The next morning, Can Xue Waves Across the Map led both rankings with 300 points, and players from other islands speculated about his ship’s speed and its ability to drive monsters away.
• A player proposed gathering top players and their best items on one ship, then claimed to know how to change which island a player appeared on when logging in.

Gao Linzhi’s Treasure Ship reached a reef ring guarded by a colossal sea creature, forcing him to turn back and seek the village’s old secrets. After summoning the former Great Elder’s spirit, Gao Linzhi showed him the thriving village and left him stunned.

• Gao Linzhi sent puppets to investigate the reefs, but a giant wave swept them away and the creature sucked down another puppet sent into the sky.
• Gao Linzhi asked Game Help how to cross the reefs, learned there was no official solution, and returned to the village with his team.
• Gao Linzhi asked the elders about the reef field, and they explained that the village’s secrets were passed down by its Great Elders or revealed through a soul-summoning ritual.
• Gao Linzhi and the elders summoned the former Great Elder’s spirit at the ancestral hall, and Gao Linzhi told him to see how the village had changed.
• The former Great Elder looked down at the brightly lit, bustling village and was utterly shocked.

Gao Linzhi showed the former Great Elder how his village had prospered and how its puppet guards enforced the rules fairly, convincing him to reveal an ancient secret. The former Great Elder explained that their islands lay inside the Great Chariot, a colossal creature, and that a rampaging tiny hand had once been sealed beneath Five Finger Mountain.

• The former Great Elder mocked Gao Linzhi for giving villagers comfortable lives, but Gao Linzhi challenged his belief that villagers had to risk their lives against anomalies.
• The former Great Elder saw the rebuilt streets and prosperous villagers, then witnessed puppet guards investigate and arrest Zheng Jiucai's family for illegally taking over a public road.
• Gao Linzhi asked whether the former Great Elder still thought the village had been better under his rule, and the former Great Elder conceded and offered to reveal hidden matters.
• Gao Linzhi asked about the reefs a thousand miles away, and the former Great Elder revealed that Wolf Snake Island, Eagle Island, Tiger Leopard Island, and nearby islands lay inside the Great Chariot.
• The former Great Elder recounted how a tiny hand had rampaged across several islands before villagers from four villages joined forces to seal it at West Mountain, near West Wolf Village.
• Gao Linzhi recognized West Mountain as the place he had seen called Five Finger Mountain.

Gao Linzhi recruited the spirits of East Wolf Village’s ancestors to work as puppets, then sought a way past the enormous creature hidden beneath the reef. By repeatedly reviving and letting it swallow him, he finally made the creature fall asleep and clear the way.

• Gao Linzhi convinced the ancestral spirits to work inside puppets, creating a new workforce for East Wolf Village.
• The former Great Elder and the ancestors explained that the reef could only be crossed while the enormous creature was asleep, and Lao Qi suggested feeding it until it slept.
• Gao Linzhi stayed at Level 1, learned seventeen physical skills to Level 100, and raised his Constitution to 665.
• On the seventh day of the Grand Voyage event, Gao Linzhi flew alone to the reef while his companions watched from behind.
• Gao Linzhi repeatedly revived after being swallowed by the creature, and after a hundred thousand deaths it sank beneath the sea and fell still.

Gao Linzhi used repeated resurrections to defeat the reef-field threat, then led his crew beyond it and discovered that the islands and their inhabitants were being managed as livestock by a giant rancher. As the voyage grew more dangerous, he protected the crew from a mind-bending sea song and later confronted a flock of attacking birds using his enhanced Auto-battle AI.

• Gao Linzhi spent 100,000 Skyfall Stones repeatedly resurrecting to wear down the reef-field BOSS, then led everyone across the now-cleared reef field and past the 1,000-kilometer mark.
• The Treasure Ship passed 1,500 kilometers before a song from the sea drove the crew into a frenzy, and Gao Linzhi used a Heavenly Clear Talisman to restore them.
• Gao Linzhi realized that a giant creature acted as a rancher, with the reef field serving as a pen that protected and managed the human population.
• Gao Linzhi led the crew east through increasingly dangerous waters, relying on Exorcism Talismans as monsters and aberrations threatened the ship and its passengers.
• By the twentieth day, Gao Linzhi had sailed 3,000 kilometers when a flock of birds charged the ship, so he sent the crew into the cabin and flew out to face them.
• Gao Linzhi activated his Noble 22 Auto-battle AI and evaded a bird's feather arrows by matching their airflow, reducing the attack's damage to zero.

Gao Linzhi used the combat AI to defeat the flying birds, reached 6,000 miles, and spent his event points in the newly opened Points Shop. After the game updated the rules to stop multiple players on one ship from claiming rewards, Gao Linzhi rejected customer service and later learned that people, possibly connected to the game officials, were plotting against him.

• Gao Linzhi's combat AI defeated the flying birds by exploiting their weak points, impressing the players watching him.
• After Can Xue Waves Across the Map passed 3,000 kilometers, the Points Shop opened, and Gao Linzhi bought two Revival Stones and spent his remaining points on recovery pills.
• The game updated the event so only the top contributor aboard each ship could spend points or count toward rankings, angering players who had hoped to share rewards.
• Gao Linzhi refused to contact Private Customer Service, while players in the Official Game Group discussed his lead and argued with Jiangnan1912.
• On Day 25, Jiangnan1912 secretly warned Gao Linzhi that people were plotting against him, and Gao Linzhi rewarded him with potions.

Gao Linzhi organized a fleet to dominate the Grand Voyage rankings and auctioned ranking spots in exchange for anti-divination items after powerful players tried to pressure him. As the event neared its end, the fleet surged ahead, leaving rival big shots furious and scheming to capture Gao Linzhi so he would spend money on their behalf.

• Gao Linzhi assembled a fleet of more than a hundred ships, and Jiangnan1912 confirmed that sailing as a fleet released players' frozen points under the normal rules.
• After a message demanded that Gao Linzhi surrender several top-ten spots, he auctioned places in the top fifty in exchange for anti-divination items and gave priority to buyers offering stronger protection.
• Gao Linzhi accepted a Gold Quality Great Crystal Kingdom Copper Coin that could resist Master Level divination and awarded its owner a top-five ranking spot.
• Gao Linzhi led the fleet 1,600 li farther out and gave second place to Puppet Best, while Wuliao handled the fleet's positions and rankings.
• Players in the Official Built-in Group complained that Gao Linzhi's fleet and ranking sales ruined the competition, but Skyfall's Most Handsome said the strategy was allowed and mocked them for not spending enough.
• Pig Realm 3001 guessed that Gao Linzhi could grow stronger by spending money, and the angry players proposed capturing him and forcing him to top up for them.

As the Grand Voyage rankings neared their deadline, Empty 2086 used an invisible Floating Ship and a set of stealth skills to rapidly challenge Gao Linzhi’s lead. Gao Linzhi faced the choice of risking a dangerous push beyond 6,000 li, while Empty 2086 pursued a hidden achievement that could grant him a powerful title.

• Gao Linzhi waited in East Wolf Village as the 24-hour countdown began, confident that his 286,000 points and control of the top thirty ranks would hold.
• Gao Linzhi noticed Empty 2086’s score rising rapidly, and Wuliao and Puppet Best warned that the newcomer might steal their rankings.
• Empty 2086 and two companions traveled aboard a Floating Ship, trailing a line in the sea to exploit the voyage rules while using flight and concealment to cover distance quickly.
• Empty 2086’s score passed 150,000 as his companions recognized that his stealth, pathfinding, and flight abilities gave him a major advantage.
• Gao Linzhi hesitated to travel farther because the route beyond 6,000 li held dense monsters and possible sealing threats, while Empty 2086 explained that repeated first-place finishes could earn a title that intimidated monsters.

Empty 2086 lost his airship and puppets to a flock of birds but continued across the ocean, while Gao Linzhi faced powerful monsters beyond 6,000 miles. Gao Linzhi then exploited his instant revival to teleport past the monsters, leaving him able to keep advancing by repeatedly dying and reviving.

• Empty 2086 tried to break through 6,000 miles, but a flock of scent-sensitive birds detected his airship and destroyed it along with his friends’ puppets.
• Empty 2086 continued by boat, reached 6,400 miles, and raised his score to 250,000, still 30,000 behind Gao Linzhi.
• Gao Linzhi decided to improve his scattered skill collection and flew onward to keep Empty 2086 from overtaking him.
• Gao Linzhi fought through giant octopuses beyond 6,000 miles and reached 6,500 miles, where a swarm of Black Sea Snakes attacked his ship.
• Gao Linzhi used the revival system’s location rule to respawn farther out at sea, repeatedly spending Skyfall Stones to clear his Resurrection Cooldown and teleport past the monsters.

Gao Linzhi sailed 9,999 miles and raised his Grand Voyage score to 9.99 million, leaving Empty 2086 far behind on the leaderboard. After the event ended, Empty 2086 was sucked into a giant whale’s windpipe and asked the Official Built-in Group for help, where he learned that Can Xue Waves Across the Map might be able to reach him.

• Gao Linzhi used pieces of wood and repeated revivals to sail 9,999 miles, earning 9.99 million points and the Grand Voyage: Far-Roamer achievement.
• Empty 2086 reached 7,000 miles with 320,000 points, saw Gao Linzhi’s score on the leaderboard, and raged over losing the top spot.
• Players argued and betrayed one another over rankings as the Grand Voyage event ended and conflicts spread across the islands.
• Empty 2086 failed to dodge a giant whale’s inhalation and became trapped, paralyzed by mucus inside its windpipe.
• Empty 2086 asked the Official Built-in Group for rescue, and Number One Handsome in the World said Can Xue Waves Across the Map could reach him while Jiangnan1912 argued that Can Xue would not help someone who had stolen his leaderboard spot.

After taking first place in the Grand Voyage rankings, Gao Linzhi spent his rewards, planned to expand the Four Village Trading Company to nearby islands, and decided to strengthen his skills so rivals could not threaten his lead again. Qingcheng Bored agreed to investigate Kongkong's abilities, while Idle and Bored speculated that Gao Linzhi's talent was Pay-to-Win.

• Empty 2086 cursed Jiangnan1912 in the event channel and received a 24-hour mute.
• Gao Linzhi claimed first-place rewards, invested all his free attribute points in Spirit, and redeemed more Revival Stones and recovery potions.
• Qingcheng Bored proposed expanding to Eagle Island for its Island Ranking rewards, and Gao Linzhi approved the plan.
• Gao Linzhi reviewed his resources and skills, then told Bored to investigate Kongkong's skill set so he could build a comparable one.
• Gao Linzhi explained that he wanted to learn from others and surpass them, impressing Bored, who agreed to gather information.
• Idle and Bored speculated that Gao Linzhi had Recharge Talent, which they called Pay-to-Win Talent.

Bored uncovered Empty 2086’s concealment talent, prompting Gao Linzhi to imitate his skill set and seek invisibility skills and a concealment talent of his own. Xu Gou discovered that Sirius Island’s anomaly produced Talent Stones and Skill Stones through deadly trials, then agreed to a partnership that would supply participants in exchange for access to the stones.

• Bored investigated Empty 2086 and reported that his upgradeable talent made people overlook him, while his skills focused on stealth, invisibility, dodging, and movement.
• Gao Linzhi rearranged his skills to copy some of Empty 2086’s abilities and sent Xu Gou to find invisibility skills and a concealment talent.
• Xu Gou found intelligence that Sirius Island’s anomaly produced Skill Stones and Talent Stones through monthly trials requiring at least ten level-35 participants, with only about two surviving.
• Xu Gou learned that Empty 2086 had bought Sirius Island’s Breath Concealment Talent Stone and that the island had already sold its available stones.
• Xu Gou met Sirius Island’s representative and agreed to provide participants for the trials in exchange for a share of the profits and priority access to Talent Stones.

Xu Gou recruited desperate people in the real world for dangerous trials, while Gao Linzhi tested his skills in East Wolf Village. Zhan Cangqiong reported Xu Gou’s methods to Gao Linzhi to test his reaction and sow distrust, leaving Gao Linzhi’s response unknown.

• Xu Gou arranged a recruitment drive in Xu Family Village, offering two million yuan to people willing to risk their lives, and applicants signed up with the promise of help with personal problems.
• Zhang Zhengwen discovered that entering the game had healed his paralysis and tried to withdraw from the trial, but Xu Gou and a companion killed him and took the bloodstained Game Poster from his corpse.
• Gao Linzhi tested crafting and equipment upgrades, spending heavily on charms to raise a level-less Green-Tier Wolf Head Staff to +11.
• Gao Linzhi tested his stealth and evasion skills, then learned that Zhan Cangqiong was waiting to see him.
• Zhan Cangqiong told Gao Linzhi that Xu Gou was forcing homeless recruits into lethal uncanny trials and killing those who tried to leave, while secretly using the report to probe Gao Linzhi’s limits and drive a wedge between him and his subordinates.

Gao Linzhi allowed Xu Gou to continue recruiting people for anomaly trials under voluntary contracts and ordered him to seek healing abilities. After repeated failures at a memory-altering anomaly, Xu Gou negotiated a profit-sharing deal with Big Black Fatty and returned to Wolf Snake Island to find someone who could manipulate memories.

• Zhan Cangqiong reported to Gao Linzhi, then privately concluded that his probe had confirmed the Federation’s suspicions about Dragon Slayers becoming evil dragons.
• Captain Qingcheng Bored doubled the team’s workload, and Zhan Cangqiong and the other two received the largest assignments.
• Xu Gou explained that the anomaly participants had signed contracts willingly, and Gao Linzhi told him not to force anyone and asked him to find healing talents that could clear negative effects.
• A week later, Xu Gou and Big Black Fatty watched ten contracted players enter the Giant Dune anomaly, but all ten died without completing its trials.
• Big Black Fatty proposed using memory manipulation to change the participants’ personalities, and Xu Gou agreed to find someone with that ability.
• Xu Gou negotiated for half of the anomaly’s extra output and used the Fake Death Switch to return to Wolf Snake Island.

Xu Gou and Big Black Fatty enlisted Puppet Best to erase and replace addicts’ memories, turning them into temporary elite teams that greatly increased Giant Dune’s Talent Stone yield. When natives prepared to seize the dune, Big Black Fatty offered Xu Gou a gold-grade Talent Stone in exchange for his lord’s protection.

• Xu Gou brought Puppet Best to Luoshui City, where she erased a drug addict’s memories and explained how a Purple-grade jade talisman could implant new ones.
• Over the next three days, Puppet Best gave ten addicts elite memories, and they entered Giant Dune to seek Talent Stones.
• Eight of the ten returned with Talent Stones, raising Giant Dune’s success rate and prompting Big Black Fatty to plan repeated memory alterations and expeditions.
• A week later, Big Black Fatty learned that allied natives were coming to take Giant Dune, and Xu Gou prepared to leave with Puppet Best.
• Big Black Fatty offered Xu Gou a gold-grade Talent Stone and asked for his lord’s protection.

Gao Linzhi learned concealment and healing skills, then prepared a remotely controlled Substitute Puppet before agreeing to go to Sirius Island to protect Giant Dune. The chapter left him approaching a confrontation between Big Black Fatty’s group and village elders over who controlled the valuable resource site.

• Gao Linzhi learned concealment, healing, and purification skills, raised them to level 100, and increased his physique and spirit.
• Xu Gou told Gao Linzhi that the villages wanted to reclaim Giant Dune, and Gao Linzhi agreed to go while suspecting the request might be a trap.
• Gao Linzhi gave Puppet Best materials to upgrade a Magic Puppet and instructed Xu Gou to tell the Sirius Island group to hold out for a few more days.
• Puppet Best completed a Substitute Puppet that could wield 22% of its controller’s spirit attributes, and Gao Linzhi learned to control it remotely.
• Gao Linzhi and Xu Gou arrived near Giant Dune, where Big Black Fatty’s group and sixteen village elders argued over the site’s ownership and lease.

Gao Linzhi watched the villagers and Corporate Players fight over Giant Dune, then ended their standoff by overpowering them and claiming most of the land for himself. He judged that neither side had reached the threshold of extraordinary warfare.

• Big Black Fatty and the village elders argued over who owned Giant Dune, and their dispute turned into a series of duels.
• The armored villager defeated Zhang Clan*Flowing Wind but spared his life, then Gandalf used magic to beat the villager.
• Granny Elder attacked Gandalf with poisonous snakes and a giant python, but Gandalf protected himself with layered shields.
• Gao Linzhi sent his Substitute Puppet down and blasted the ground with a Giant Fireball, stunning both sides.
• Gao Linzhi seized Granny Elder and declared that he would take eighty percent of Giant Dune, leaving ten percent for each family.

Gao Linzhi overwhelmed the village elders’ formation by digging up the leyline that powered it, forcing them to surrender and opening the way for a trading post. The battle’s reports set off debate on Archipelago about the overwhelming importance of speed and constitution in real combat.

• The village elders admitted they could not match Gao Linzhi’s speed, while Big Black Fatty logged out to tell the family head that overwhelming him with numbers was futile.
• The family head agreed to compromise with Gao Linzhi and ordered Steward Zhang to prepare a strategy to help him catch up.
• Fat White Elder challenged Gao Linzhi to break the Five Village Formation, and Gao Linzhi tested it with spells and repeated charged attacks.
• Gao Linzhi burrowed underground and disrupted the leyline, destabilizing the formation and sending the villagers flying.
• Fat White Elder surrendered, and Gao Linzhi arranged for Puppet Best to establish a trading post in the village.
• Rogue Players posted accounts of the fight on Archipelago, where players debated Gao Linzhi’s speed and the importance of constitution.

After a miniature nuclear blast failed to stop him, Gao Linzhi sought divination skills and talents to find a way to counter the powerful people tracking him. He learned a new talent that greatly increased his Spirit, then received a strategy for obtaining a Gold Quality Talent Stone through a trial at Giant Dune.

• Gao Linzhi returned from Giant Dune and praised Puppet Best's use of puppets, then trained to control his greatly enhanced body in the real world.
• Gao Linzhi found a concealed watcher, took them high into the air, and escaped before a remotely detonated miniature nuke exploded.
• Angered by the warning from the people targeting him, Gao Linzhi asked Xu Gou to search for divination skills and talents.
• A week later, Gao Linzhi learned several Mystic System skills and the Mysterious Enhancement talent, raising his Spirit by 90 points.
• Gao Linzhi sent Xu Gou to ask Big Black Fatty for the promised Gold Quality Talent Stone, and Xu Gou returned with a strategy for earning one through a Giant Dune trial.

Gao Linzhi learned that divination consumed lifespan, then had Dragon Fruit transfer its cost to demonic creatures and identify the Company Union Federation members plotting against him. He cursed the three suspects and used Advanced Inspiration to view the spirit world, where he saw three points of light in the mist.

• Gao Linzhi learned from Game Help that divination cost lifespan and that his 795 Constitution gave him a lifespan of 178 years.
• Gao Linzhi asked Dragon Fruit how to manage divination costs, and she explained how to transfer them to long-lived demonic creatures.
• Dragon Fruit narrowed the suspects to the Total Contribution List, performed a ritual, and identified FederationYa Zi, FederationChaofeng, and Federation*Suanni as people harboring extreme malice toward Canxue and already taking action.
• Gao Linzhi used Advanced Curse Technique, spending shop items worth thirty million Skyfall Stone to greatly diminish the three targets' luck.
• Gao Linzhi activated Advanced Inspiration and saw three points of light in the spirit world's mist.

Gao Linzhi watched his curse bring misfortune to several targets, including the death of a wealthy man, then discussed finding Gold Quality talents with his allies. A new Sacrifice Event was announced, and Gao Linzhi learned that someone wanted to pay him to give up competing for first place.

• Gao Linzhi watched Ya Zi survive an octopus lodging in his windpipe, while Association*Chaofeng struggled against repeated misses during a boss fight.
• Association*Suanni survived poisoning at a banquet, but Mr. Wu died before Suanni could treat him, prompting the guests to rush off and seek game qualifications.
• Gao Linzhi asked Wuliao, Puppet Best, Xu Gou, and Qingcheng*Bored how to find people with Gold Quality talents, and they agreed to search in the real world.
• Gao Linzhi received notice of the Sacrifice Event, whose rewards included Shrine Spirit Tablets, Revival Stones, and the Lord of a Hundred Islands title.
• Xu Gou told Gao Linzhi that someone offered double the first-place rewards, except the title, if Gao Linzhi settled for second place.

Gao Linzhi demanded that the players competing for first place compensate him and kill anyone who threatened him, prompting rival factions to reject his terms and plan to pool their resources. Meanwhile, Xu Gou searched for people with Gold Quality talent in Xu City and witnessed a newly empowered player kill two bus robbers.

• Xu Gou delivered Gao Linzhi's demand that rivals make up his lost rewards and eliminate anyone who threatened him.
• Players discussed the Sacrifice Event, level progression, and the game's apparent push for factions to build up their bases.
• Rival factions complained that Gao Linzhi's demand was impossible and decided to unite their companies' resources to secure a ranking victory.
• Xu Gou rode a crowded bus in Xu City while looking for promising people and heard passengers discuss Jincheng Mining's gold-hunting recruitment.
• Two masked robbers boarded the bus and shot an office worker during a robbery.
• A bespectacled student used a game skill to pierce and kill both robbers as Xu Gou watched.

After a Rogue Player’s violent attack exposed supernatural powers in Xu City, the Alliance plotted to use an Illusionist against Gao Linzhi while he focused on preparing for the event. Learning the event could help villages expand toward becoming City-States, Gao Linzhi asked Bored about the Four Village Trading Company’s reach and learned its island territory remained difficult to control.

• A bespectacled Rogue Player killed two robbers on a bus, and bystanders’ videos spread online as locals and forum users argued over whether the footage was real.
• Alliance members celebrated the growing disorder in Xu City and Liang City, expecting Gao Linzhi to intervene, but Gao Linzhi ignored the incident and continued gathering sacrificial materials.
• The Alliance discussed its failed efforts to seize the Lord of a Hundred Islands title and chose a level 55 Expert Level Illusionist to trap Gao Linzhi in a false event and waste his lifespan.
• Gao Linzhi learned from Game Help that the event shop would sell limited quantities of sacrificial and ancestral hall upgrade materials, then suspected the event would help the game build a Newbie Safe Zone.
• Gao Linzhi summoned Bored and asked about the Four Village Trading Company’s territory, learning that it controlled four nearby villages and Panlong Town Fortress but struggled to maintain influence across distant islands.

Gao Linzhi bought Respawn Point Reset Talismans to help players travel between islands and persuaded Xu Gou to protect Rogue Players with clear rules instead of coercive controls. As hostile forces plotted to infiltrate him, Gao Linzhi learned that the village ancestral hall had always protected a fixed one-tenth of its population, leaving open whether the game could change that rule.

• Gao Linzhi learned that players could reset their respawn locations with costly talismans, bought 50, and ordered Qingcheng Bored to sell them for gold.
• Xu Gou proposed tracking and controlling Rogue Players in Liang City and Xu City, but Gao Linzhi urged him to set clear rules and let players live freely so they could work together toward immortality.
• A man and a woman fled to Xu City for refuge, while a secret association discussed sending a spy and an illusionist to deceive Gao Linzhi.
• Gao Linzhi questioned village elders about the ancestral hall, and the Second Elder explained that it had always protected one-tenth of the population as it expanded with the village.