Recaps

Gao Linzhi crossed the reef field, dominated the Grand Voyage rankings, and expanded his influence through Giant Dune and new allies. As factions plotted against him and unrest spread in the real world, he prepared for the Sacrifice Event and investigated how to protect his growing domain.

• Gao Linzhi learned from the former Great Elder that the nearby islands lay inside the Great Chariot, then repeatedly revived to wear down the reef-field creature and lead his crew beyond the reefs.
• Gao Linzhi sailed through increasingly dangerous waters, built a fleet, sold ranking positions for anti-divination protection, and used repeated revivals to reach 9,999 miles and claim first place in the Grand Voyage.
• Gao Linzhi studied Empty 2086’s stealth abilities, while Xu Gou recruited players for lethal anomaly trials and later used Puppet Best’s memory alterations to improve their success rate.
• Gao Linzhi seized control of Giant Dune, broke the Five Village Formation, and arranged for Puppet Best to establish a trading post there.
• After surviving a miniature nuclear attack, Gao Linzhi learned divination skills and used a curse to damage the luck of Federation*Ya Zi, Federation*Chaofeng, and Federation*Suanni, who had targeted him.
• Gao Linzhi prepared for the Sacrifice Event as rival factions united against him, while a Rogue Player’s killings on a bus drew attention and the Alliance planned to trap Gao Linzhi with an illusion.
• Gao Linzhi bought respawn-location reset talismans for Qingcheng Bored to sell, urged Xu Gou to establish fair rules for Rogue Players, and learned that the ancestral hall protected one-tenth of the population as the village grew.

Gao Linzhi dominated the shrine events, built up his resources, and secured a Gold Quality Talent Stone while confronting the Federation and the Sky Wolf Dynasty. After raiding an imperial laboratory and escaping with its technology and staff, he established a research lab at East Wolf Village and began recruiting scientist Hai Zida.

• Gao Linzhi won the Shrine Sacrifice Event by submitting vast stores of valuable materials, then gathered elite Rogue Players and led them toward the Giant Dune trial for a Gold Quality Talent Stone.
• After rivals lured prospectors away and the Association tried to undermine his gold supply, Gao Linzhi turned the defectors into puppets, raided city vaults, and forced the Federation to deliver three hundred tons of gold.
• Gao Linzhi spent the gold to advance to Noble 25, claimed Shang Que's hidden Gold Quality Life Steal Talent Stone, and turned hostile Sky Wolf Dynasty members and Big Black Fatty into puppets.
• Gao Linzhi traveled to Sea Dragon City, where he observed the dynasty's corruption and watched Bao Fei become infected by White Mist and use it to devour people and absorb Skill Stones.
• Gao Linzhi infiltrated the imperial Tower laboratory, bargained with Ouyang Jing over a Talent Stone, then escaped after repeatedly reviving, turning researchers into puppets, and stripping the lab of its equipment and staff.
• Gao Linzhi brought the laboratory's technology and personnel to East Wolf Village, where Xu Gou organized an underground research lab, while the upgraded shrine became a Safe Zone with three game shops.
• After Hai Zida's research prospects came up, Gao Linzhi learned that Fifth Generation Company was pressuring the scientist and told Xu Gou to take him to meet the Four Village Trading Company.

Gao Linzhi built his strength and wealth while the imperial court tried to exploit players and harness the Eye of the Storm. After investigating the anomaly and the court’s plans, he watched a storm-driven flying boat lose control and plunge toward the sea.

• Gao Linzhi recruited Hai Zida, who developed a way to bypass Talent Stone requirements, while the Constitution Championship and the court’s interference put pressure on players.
• Gao Linzhi exposed the court’s illusory quests and managed growing threats, including rival factions, an island-wide typhoon, and schemes targeting his Pay-to-Win Talent.
• Gao Linzhi absorbed the Bloodthirst Talent Stone, advanced his Vampire talent, and used gold mining and purchases to push his Constitution score beyond ten million points.
• Gao Linzhi met the Python King Xiao Bai, learned that the typhoon came from a provoked Eye of the Storm, and decided to investigate the anomaly.
• Gao Linzhi traveled to Capital Island, disguised himself as a refugee, and joined an Imperial Observatory expedition to the Eye of the Storm.
• Ouyang Jing traded with New Century Amber for information about the Eye and discussed using it against rebellious islands, while Gao Linzhi listened in secret.
• Ouyang Jing assigned Daoist Master Di Can to take control of Wolf Snake Island, but a final test enraged the Eye and sent a tornado after the flying boat.
• The flying boat lost its direction in the clouds, its diviner died, and Gao Linzhi realized the vessel was plunging nosefirst toward the sea.

Gao Linzhi used the players’ hunt for Longevity Water to investigate Sea Sky Island, expose the Heavenly Assassins’ corruption, and acquire a sample. The story left him amid the rival prefects’ contest on Haifeng Island, where player intervention disrupted their military wager and led them to propose a Literary Duel.

• After surviving Mangxiao Island’s storm and escaping the Faceless Man’s attack, Gao Linzhi returned to Wolf Snake Island and watched the game launch a monthly Imperial Court Treasure Hunt for Longevity Water.
• Gao Linzhi sent Clerk He to investigate the Liu family, then led the players to Sea Sky Island, where Wuliao organized them against the prefect’s forces and Gao Linzhi secretly entered Prefectural City.
• Gao Linzhi discovered that Prefect Liu was a Substitute Puppet and witnessed Heavenly Assassin Tian Qing curse him, while Old Daoist Tiansheng intervened and secured the Imperial Observatory’s permission to investigate the Eye of the Storm.
• Gao Linzhi challenged Tian Qing’s accusation against him, learned of the Heavenly Assassins’ corrupt local branch, and watched Tian Qing die fighting his four senior brothers.
• Gao Linzhi defeated the four senior brothers through his Substitute Puppet, took their Longevity Water quota, and delivered the genuine sample to Hai Zida for one million points.
• Gao Linzhi joined Prefect Liu’s voyage to Haifeng Island, where the prefects’ fragile alliance broke down over the Longevity Water and they arranged a contest between their forces.
• During the military contest, the players’ formation faltered, but a female player with Tengu One and Tengu Two confronted the prefects and used a Three Talents Sword Formation to resist the generals.
• When Prefect Liang threatened the soldiers and ordered them buried alive, the trio returned to challenge him, forcing the prefects to end the wager and begin arranging a Literary Duel and Wargame Simulation.