Recaps

Gao Linzhi recruited Hai Zida after the mathematician’s girlfriend tried to steer him toward a major company. When Wang Wenzhou challenged Gao to a contest, Gao faced the Level 45 Shieldbearer Barbarian Bull and sent the giant flying, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Gao Linzhi persuaded Hai Zida to join him by promising more time for his scientific work, but Hai’s girlfriend Lizhi objected and insulted Gao’s company.
• Hai Zida lost interest in Lizhi, broke up with her, and refused to care when she threatened to expose him.
• Lizhi returned with Wang Wenzhou, chairman of Fifth Generation Company, who challenged Gao to a contest and offered Hai investment and game access if his side won.
• Wang Wenzhou sent Barbarian Bull, a 3.5-meter-tall Level 45 Shieldbearer, to fight Gao on a raised platform as onlookers watched and placed bets.
• Barbarian Bull charged, but Gao Linzhi caught his arm and tossed him high into the air.

Gao Linzhi overwhelmed Barbarian Bull, while wealthy magnates discussed how to control powerful players and recruited experts to advise them. After Xu Gou recruited Hai Zida, the group traveled to Xu City, where they encountered a player’s violent outburst on the plane; Hai Zida then entered Wolf Snake Island and was stunned by the laboratory beneath the village ancestral hall.

• Gao Linzhi toyed with Barbarian Bull in midair as local magnates watched and summoned specialists to assess the threat posed by powerful players.
• The specialists recommended ranking players by strength and binding them to established interests, while the magnates privately speculated about Canxue’s distrust of them.
• Hai Zida chose to sign with Xu Gou after seeing Gao Linzhi defeat Barbarian Bull, and Wang Wenzhou later ordered Barbarian Bull’s resources doubled.
• Gao Linzhi, Xu Gou, and Hai Zida flew to Xu City, where Xu Gou stopped a player who had gone berserk and attacked the airplane cabin.
• Hai Zida became a player, traveled safely to Wolf Snake Island, and was amazed by the equipment in the underground laboratory beneath the village ancestral hall.

Hai Zida studied the game rules and developed a dangerous method for bypassing Talent Stone restrictions, while a new Constitution Championship brought the imperial court into conflict with players. Gao Linzhi questioned Lin Zhongxian about the court’s plans, but Lin Zhongxian denied knowing of any scheme.

• Hai Zida quickly learned the Skyfall Game’s basics, assembled a research team, and uncovered rules governing player activity and loyalty.
• Hai Zida proposed putting players in a game-judged near-death state to bypass Talent Stone restrictions, and Gao Linzhi approved the research.
• The game announced the Constitution Championship, warning that the imperial court would try to weaken players and offering attribute points and other rewards.
• Gao Linzhi considered ways to raise Constitution through Basic Physical Element skills and suspected the imperial court had acted in response to players’ rapid growth.
• Gao Linzhi asked the elders about the Sky Wolf Dynasty, then summoned Lin Zhongxian and asked how the court intended to trouble the villagers; Lin Zhongxian denied that it would.

Gao Linzhi learned from Clerk He how the court exploited villagers and considered how earlier Descenders had been driven from the Archipelago world. When the Constitution Championship began, he spent heavily to raise his constitution and prepared to acquire more physical skills, leaving the contest underway.

• Gao Linzhi questioned Lin Zhongxian about the court’s treatment of villagers, then summoned Clerk He, who described how officials extorted money, labor, and supplies from them.
• Gao Linzhi had Clerk He record the court’s schemes and learned that past Descenders had left behind traces despite the court’s efforts to suppress them.
• After half a month, the Constitution Championship began, and Gao Linzhi saw a player claim the lead with 100,000 points from 100 constitution points.
• Gao Linzhi spent 55.5 million Skyfall Stones on Constitution Pills, gained 41 constitution, and raised his score to 41,000 points.
• Gao Linzhi expanded his skill limit to 100 and asked Alluringly Bored to bring him one of each of the 78 physical-type Skill Stones they had collected.

Gao Linzhi used 30 Skill Stones to learn physical skills and raised them to level 100, pushing his constitution over a thousand and leaving other players stunned by his huge score. Meanwhile, players asked Jiangnan1912 to approach him on their behalf, but Jiangnan1912 realized he was being manipulated and decided to refuse.

• Gao Linzhi rewarded Bored for providing Skill Stones, then learned 30 new physical-type skills and raised them to level 100.
• Gao Linzhi gained 300 constitution, bringing his total constitution to 1,136 and his score to more than 300,000.
• Players complained about Gao Linzhi's advantage, and Riding the Wind to Beat Luo Shao was muted after insulting him in the official game group.
• Players urged Jiangnan1912 to broker an exchange channel with Gao Linzhi and framed the imperial court as their common enemy.
• Jiangnan1912 agreed to approach Gao Linzhi but, after leaving the group, realized the others had manipulated him and decided to refuse.

Gao Linzhi learned that the court was sending a ship to Wolf Snake Island to collect tribute and prepared to stop it. As the court officials planned to exploit the Descenders by disguising tribute demands as quests, their ship approached the island after paying tribute to a giant hand beneath the sea.

• Jiangnan1912 decided not to answer the group chat's demands, though he planned to pass them along to Gao Linzhi indirectly.
• Descenders reported that a fake court official had cheated players out of silver with a promise of Skill Books, and organizations began recruiting members to prepare for the court's interference.
• Qingcheng*Bored warned Gao Linzhi that the court was sending a ship to collect tribute from Wolf Snake Island, and Gao Linzhi resolved to deal with its arrival.
• A senior court official told Master Wu that the court would take over the Descenders' quest system and use it to claim their valuable goods as tribute.
• A giant hand rose from the sea and grabbed for the ship; Master Wu threw sacks of tribute overboard, allowing the vessel to continue toward Wolf Snake Island.
• The senior minister spotted the island's bustling settlements and looked forward to making its people surrender their treasures willingly.

Steward Liu and the Imperial Court used illusions to imitate the players’ system and entice them with quests to join the court, while the players reported the offer to the Four Village Trading Company. Gao Linzhi investigated the court’s new reputation quests and recognized that their prompts were illusions, revealing a plan to use players to build an invasion base.

• Rogue Players spotted Steward Liu’s ship and received an illusory quest requiring Revival Stones, jade talismans, and the elimination of a hidden threat in exchange for a chance to join the court.
• The players sold the quest lead to the Four Village Trading Company in exchange for jobs and protection.
• The company verified that Steward Liu’s men had landed and set up a dock, then sent an employee who received new Imperial Court reputation quests.
• The employee realized the quests would make players build a temporary dock and base for the court, and reported the danger to the trading company.
• Gao Linzhi secretly investigated the ship, saw the same prompt, and recognized it as an illusion because his spirit value was high enough.

Gao Linzhi discovered that the imperial court was using illusions to trick players into working for it, much like the Game System’s operators did. He warned his trusted subordinates but chose not to expose the court publicly, while officials arrived on other islands and players began plotting how to benefit from them.

• Gao Linzhi realized that a court clerk was using illusions to make players mistake labor quests for genuine Game System content, and he overheard the clerk and his aide mocking their greed.
• Gao Linzhi concluded that the court’s knowledge of players and ability to imitate system prompts helped explain why the game’s attempts to invade the Skyfall World had failed.
• Players on Wolf Snake Island advertised paid court quests and dismissed the game’s scam warning, while Gao Linzhi explained the illusions to Qingcheng Bored, Xu Gou, Puppet Best, and Dragon Fruit.
• Gao Linzhi told his subordinates to observe the court officials and keep records rather than drive them away, so the court would not become wary.
• Court officials arrived on other islands, including a Military Sima on Empty 2086’s island, and players debated submitting to the court while planning to develop their own territories.
• Gao Linzhi continued improving his attributes and upgrading skills, trusting the physical and spiritual gains that carried over to his real body.

Players uncovered that the court had used illusions to fabricate quests and manipulate them, while one player helped a court aide replace Steward Liu through a staged drowning. The players began discussing the deception and considering how to retaliate against the court.

• Steward Liu ordered his aide to pressure players for a Revival Stone, while the aide grew resentful and accepted a player's invitation to East Wolf Village.
• The player persuaded the aide to replace Steward Liu, and the aide staged his own drowning before disguising himself as the steward with Expert Level Disguise Art.
• The disguised aide took Steward Liu's place and planned to profit with the player before escaping to East Wolf Village's Safe Zone.
• Players shared that court officials had fabricated their quests and rewards with illusions, prompting outrage across the activity channel.
• Gao Linzhi saw the deception's exposure as inevitable, while Empty 2086 admitted he had known about the scheme but kept quiet for a leaderboard event.
• Players in the Official Built-in Group discussed confronting the court to seize its cultivation techniques, medicines, and other resources.

Empty 2086 prepared an alt account to challenge Canxue Waves Across the Map for the Constitution ranking, while Gao Linzhi reacted by creating two alternate characters of his own. The chapter left Gao Linzhi planning to stockpile resources across his accounts and keep his real body hidden underground.

• Empty 2086 ordered his ally to boost Alt Account No. 1 above 400 Constitution points so it could take the top rank from Canxue Waves Across the Map.
• Gao Linzhi discussed the threat of alt accounts with Qingcheng*Bored and worried he would eventually run out of Constitution points to defend his lead.
• After Gao Linzhi complained to customer service about shop limits, the operators launched an unlimited recharge reward, but the pills yielded far fewer Constitution points than expected.
• Gao Linzhi concluded the operators were using the ranking event and diluted rewards to restrain him, then decided to counter Empty 2086 with alternate accounts.
• Gao Linzhi created Full Health Plays Erhu and Too Strong Always Nerfed, and moved his real body farther away through underground tunnels.

Gao Linzhi’s new alt account landed on a desert island where three families imprisoned new players and forced them to serve as breeding stock. After killing the families’ leaders and taking control of the island’s enforcers, he freed some players but required them to work for him, leaving the rest to be organized under new contracts.

• Gao Linzhi met three elders who competed to bring him to their oasis families, and he agreed to visit all three.
• Old Woman Wei revealed that the families had trapped players as breeding stock and tried to force Gao Linzhi to sign a hundred-year contract.
• Gao Linzhi discovered his alt account could use his physical abilities and skills, defeated the elders, and killed them after learning they had captured players across generations.
• Gao Linzhi checked the other two oases, dealt with the families’ underlings, recruited some surrendered thugs, and released a few players he judged honest.
• Gao Linzhi ordered Wei Da, Shu Er, and Wu San to organize the players and sign new contracts making them work for him.

Gao Linzhi discovered a rich gold deposit on the Desert Island, then tracked down and attacked the monster that had been deforming local men. After driving it into the sea, he left his alt account on the island to develop the mining operation and returned to Wolf Snake Island, where four Safe Zones had grown around ancestral shrines.

• Gao Linzhi rejected the players’ complaints about their new contracts and told Wei Da to make the complainers keep their harsher old contracts.
• Wei Da led Gao Linzhi to a dry river valley, where Gao Linzhi spotted gold and ordered him to organize sustainable mining.
• Wei Da brought Gao Linzhi to the Men's Oasis, where Gao Linzhi watched a black-cloud monster enter a hut and attacked it with fireballs.
• Gao Linzhi pursued the wounded monster to the sea, where it escaped among the reefs, while Wei Da realized the local men could work as miners.
• Gao Linzhi switched back to his main account and returned to Wolf Snake Island, where four Safe Zones had formed around ancestral shrines.

Gao Linzhi met a representative from old Island No. 8, who tried to recruit him through marriage and demonstrate the superiority of old-server players. Their confrontation revealed the representative’s powerful illusion skill, but Gao Linzhi remained unaffected and the man fled; afterward, he dismissed Gao Linzhi to the Old Server Forum.

• Gao Linzhi noticed New Century Amber from Island No. 8 had entered the Constitution Ranking List in fourth place, then agreed to meet the island’s representative.
• At the teahouse, the middle-aged representative urged Gao Linzhi to marry into his family and warned that his Pay-to-Win Talent could not make him powerful.
• The representative attacked Gao Linzhi with a Master Level illusion, but the game system removed its mental damage and Gao Linzhi punched back.
• The middle-aged man assumed Gao Linzhi had raised his mental stat through reckless spending, dodged his punch, and escaped through a window.
• On the hidden Old Server Forum, the middle-aged man called Gao Linzhi conceited and said marrying into his family would be asking for trouble.

Island No. 8’s faction devised a plan to tempt Gao Linzhi into a wager-duel anomaly by using a real woman tailored to attract him. Meanwhile, an anomalous typhoon tornado struck Wolf Snake Village, where the Ancestral Hall Safe Zone protected the villagers and players from the devastation.

• The middle-aged man and the Island No. 8 faction discussed stealing Gao Linzhi’s Pay-to-Win Talent through a wager duel, then decided to make him discover the opportunity himself.
• A week later, New Century Amber and his deputy prepared to use a beautiful, carefully selected young woman to draw Gao Linzhi in, confident that her genuine past and personality would make the setup convincing.
• Gao Linzhi’s trading business continued to thrive in Wolf Snake Village, where players and villagers gathered to trade and attend regular auctions.
• A sudden anomalous typhoon tornado struck the island, preventing players from logging off and sweeping through the village.
• The villagers and players crowded into the Ancestral Hall Safe Zone, whose golden barrier held back the tornado as it destroyed the surrounding village.

After a typhoon devastated East Wolf Village, Gao Linzhi discovered Qin Qin, a beautiful woman who had been brought into the game world. As Qin Qin learned about the players and Canxue’s reputation, Gao Linzhi sent Xu Gou to investigate her and Xu Gou discovered that a strange entity had brought her and others to Skyfall World.

• The typhoon ended, leaving East Wolf Village in ruins, and villagers and players began surveying the damage and rebuilding.
• Gao Linzhi found Qin Qin in the Council Hall and had Puppet No. 888 explain that she was in a game world.
• Qin Qin settled in a temporary shelter, met players, and learned about Rogue Players, Company Executive Players, and Canxue’s rise to power.
• Qin Qin learned that Canxue was the Great Elder she had met, while players praised his strength for deterring companies from hunting Rogues.
• Gao Linzhi ordered Xu Gou to investigate Qin Qin, and Xu Gou discovered that a strange entity had brought her and many others into Skyfall World.

Xu Gou prepared to investigate the typhoon anomaly while Gao Linzhi learned how to remove restrictions on Gold Talent Stones and began preparing to use Bloodthirst. In Wolf Snake Village, players started rebuilding after the disaster as Qingcheng Bored promised to restore their shops.

• Xu Gou questioned the woman brought by the typhoon, assigned a puppet to watch her, and tried to recruit high-level players to investigate the anomaly at sea, but they refused, so he sent for puppets instead.
• Hai Zida showed Gao Linzhi a Gold Tier Jade Talisman that could remove item requirements, explaining that he had developed it by studying how Game System rules interacted with anomaly rules.
• Gao Linzhi used the talisman to remove the requirements on the Gold Talent Stone Bloodthirst, learned that becoming a Berserker required converting Spirit into Negative Spirit, and ordered Bored to find useful Skill Stones.
• Players in Wolf Snake Village began rebuilding with cheap wood and bamboo after the typhoon destroyed East Wolf Village, while Qingcheng Bored promised to rebuild their shops within a week and return them free of charge.

Gao Linzhi endured nine days of agony to absorb a Gold Quality Lifesteal talent, while powerful observers expected the attempt to kill him. After learning that the talent could grow by absorbing blood from higher-level opponents, he prepared to hunt monsters while keeping his level at 1.

• Wuliao compensated players whose businesses had suffered losses and helped rebuild their shops, earning their trust while buying valuable goods and Skill Stones for Gao Linzhi.
• Gao Linzhi raised all 20 of his basic physical skills to intermediate level, gaining 200 Constitution and bringing his event score to 540,000.
• Gao Linzhi began absorbing the Gold Quality Talent Stone, and the game's protection system reduced his pain sensitivity as his Game Character suffered through the process.
• Veteran players on Island No. 8 mocked Canxue and expected him to die from absorbing the stone, but Gao Linzhi survived nine days of pain and succeeded.
• Gao Linzhi learned that Lifesteal could advance by absorbing the blood of opponents above his level, then set out to hunt monsters while keeping his character at Level 1.

Gao Linzhi farmed monsters and used a massive gold purchase to raise his temporary constitution and extend his lead in the constitution ranking. He learned that Riding the Wind to Beat Luo Shao planned to use a skill that multiplied his physique for a final challenge, leaving the contest unresolved.

• Gao Linzhi spent two weeks farming swordfish to level his Vampire talent while Island No. 8’s honey trap failed to distract him.
• Wuliao told Gao Linzhi that major families had offered to compromise, and Gao Linzhi suspected they were preparing another scheme.
• Gao Linzhi bought 1,000 temporary constitution points with one ton of gold, raising his ranking score to 1,542,000 and shocking the event players.
• Empty 2086 learned that his mentor’s warning about absorbing Skill Stones too quickly did not apply to digitized players and lamented losing his chance to catch up.
• Jiangnan1912 relayed the Official Built-in Group’s discussion to Wuliao, revealing that Riding the Wind to Beat Luo Shao planned to use a skill that temporarily multiplied his physique tenfold.

Gao Linzhi sent Wuliao to develop a gold mine on a desert island, where Wuliao raised production by recruiting players and imposing a strict incentive system. Gao Linzhi used the growing supply of gold to top up his game account, pushing his score past ten million points and leaving other players stunned.

• Gao Linzhi gave Wuliao another five-ton gold order, then revealed a gold-rich desert island and supplied Respawn Point Reset Talismans to reach it.
• Wuliao inspected the island’s neglected gold valley and found a large natural Gold Nugget, then decided to reorganize mining and recruit more workers.
• Wuliao offered new players thirty percent of their mined gold and old players ten percent, while routing their earnings into debts, supplies, and costly monsters.
• Wuliao’s rules and recruitment sharply increased productivity, and Wei Da reported that the mine was producing over half a ton of gold each day.
• Gao Linzhi used the mined gold to top up his account, raising his score beyond ten million points and astonishing players who saw the leaderboard.

Gao Linzhi traveled to Python Island to test his strength against a huge demonic creature, but learned the creature was an intelligent, peaceful ten-thousand-year-old being named Xiao Bai. After claiming first place in both physical fitness rankings, he turned his attention to resolving the strange entity that had caused the typhoon.

• Gao Linzhi went to Python Island and struck the giant Python King, waking it from its sleep.
• The Python King questioned Gao Linzhi about attacking it, explained that it had not harmed anyone, and revealed its body was a shed shell while its true body lived deep in the ocean.
• Gao Linzhi and the Python King discussed strange entities and demonic creatures, and the Python King identified the typhoon-causing entity as an Eye of the Storm that someone had agitated.
• Gao Linzhi and the Python King exchanged names, with the serpent choosing Xiao Bai, before Gao Linzhi left the island.
• Three days later, Gao Linzhi won both physical fitness leaderboards and earned 40 free attribute points.
• Gao Linzhi decided to investigate the anomaly behind the typhoon so his island could become a commercial hub.

Gao Linzhi investigated the Eye of the Storm and concluded that Wolf Snake Island needed help from the Imperial Observatory to deal with the disaster threatening its growth. On Capital Island, he noticed starving refugees and players trying to aid them, then watched constables shut the relief effort down.

• Gao Linzhi visited the Eye of the Storm, learned that a provoked anomaly could unleash typhoon-force winds, and found that a Story Instance Ticket could not affect it.
• At a meeting, Wuliao, Xu Gou, Dragon Fruit, and the others explained that sheltering in the Safe Zone was only temporary and that the disaster was driving players away from Wolf Snake Island.
• Gao Linzhi decided to seek the Imperial Observatory's help on Capital Island and asked Hai Zida and the underground research lab to study the anomaly.
• On a busy street in Capital Island, Gao Linzhi gave boxed meals to beggars and noticed that crowds of unusually strong, starving refugees filled the city.
• Gao Linzhi saw players distributing food and clean water to refugees for charity points, but constables confiscated their token and ordered them to stop without permission.

Gao Linzhi infiltrated the Imperial Observatory’s recruitment of starving refugees and learned that its officials were using them as expendable material to test anomalies. He was classified as C-class material and discovered that the Observatory was preparing to investigate the Eye of the Storm.

• Constables blocked players from aiding refugees, recruited able-bodied people as unpaid laborers, and beat those who resisted or tried to flee.
• Gao Linzhi disguised himself as a refugee and was taken with more than a hundred others to the Imperial Observatory, where an old Daoist killed two people who begged to leave.
• The old Daoist classified Gao Linzhi as C-class material and explained that he would receive a Captain’s status while the D-class refugees served as cannon fodder.
• Gao Linzhi followed the old Daoist to the Observatory’s dormitory compound and learned that the anomaly they were preparing to explore was the Eye of the Storm.

Gao Linzhi was taken with the imperial expedition to investigate the Eye of the Storm, where Ouyang Jing tested refugees and gathered data. After learning the Observatory wanted information from Island No. 8’s players, he witnessed New Century Amber offer to trade the Eye’s rules for Longevity Water; Ouyang Jing said the deal could be discussed.

• Gao Linzhi joined the expedition as soldiers herded refugees aboard a flying ship powered by Sky Crystal and warded by runes.
• The ship reached the Eye of the Storm, where Ouyang Jing ordered tests that fed two refugees to the vortex.
• Gao Linzhi overheard Ouyang Jing and Daoist Master Tiansheng discuss their failed attempts to capture experienced players and their plan to trade with them.
• New Century Amber appeared on deck and offered the Eye’s rules in exchange for Longevity Water, and Ouyang Jing said they could discuss it.

Ouyang Jing learned how the Eye of the Storm could be provoked into attacking a faction, while Gao Linzhi secretly listened and considered how it had been used against Wolf Snake Island. Their conversation revealed the court's political weakness and plans to collect tribute from the southwestern islands.

• Under Gao Linzhi's surveillance, Ouyang Jing traded with Amber and learned that the Eye of the Storm remembered provocations, scaled its attacks to their strength, and showed humanlike judgment.
• Amber explained that the storm could not be controlled directly, but someone could provoke it and return to a faction's territory to draw its attack there.
• Gao Linzhi resolved to use Dragon Fruit's divination to identify who had betrayed Wolf Snake Island, then continued following Ouyang Jing.
• From outside the cabin, Gao Linzhi overheard Ouyang Jing and an elderly court official discuss using the storm against rebellious Prefectural Islands and the limits of its destructive power.
• The old official ordered Ouyang Jing to collect tribute from the southwestern islands as the court worried about rebellion, rival families, and Outsiders.

Gao Linzhi watched the Imperial Observatory provoke the sentient Eye of the Storm and learned why Old Daoist Tiansheng feared sending forces to Wolf Snake Island. As the angry anomaly chased the flying boat toward the island, fog disoriented its crew, leaving the vessel unknowingly plunging toward the sea.

• The Imperial Observatory tested the Eye of the Storm by throwing people into it, while Gao Linzhi stayed hidden and observed.
• Ouyang Jing ordered Old Daoist Tiansheng to take control of Wolf Snake Island, but he refused and warned that a powerful anomaly there protected the island.
• Ouyang Jing assigned Daoist Master Di Can, a level-73 professional, to the island after the court's order for five Masters was reduced.
• A final test enraged the Eye of the Storm, which unleashed a tornado that chased the flying boat toward Wolf Snake Island.
• The flying boat fled through dense clouds, its crew lost their sense of direction, and the diviner died after trying to determine their course.
• While the crew argued over whether the boat was climbing or descending, Gao Linzhi realized it was plunging nosefirst toward the sea.