Recaps

On the train home, Qin Shi reflected on his new standing in Central City and explored Nation War records in the Second Universe, becoming intrigued by the Feng Faction Army. Meanwhile, Mo Qihuan remained on leave, and Tai Jun confronted Hengzhou New Star’s game-obsessed Governor, whose military simulation was nearing completion.

• Qin Shi reviewed his progress, including gaining Central City’s recognition and becoming one of New Dongxia’s protected seeds.
• Mo Qihuan refused his secretary’s pleas to return to the Education Department, saying he would resume work only if Central City called for him.
• Qin Shi entered the Second Universe arena, watched Nation War records, and grew interested in the successful Feng Faction Army.
• Tai Jun urged the silver-haired Governor to attend to Hengzhou New Star’s affairs, but the Governor said his simulation was nearly complete and that he needed a bomb powerful enough to destroy the Star God.

Feng Wuyang explained why he planned to awaken the Lord of Gluttony, a Star God dormant beneath Hengzhou, through a massive Great Expansion. He accepted that his strategy could cost many lives, but believed Hengzhou had to break free of the Star God’s blockade, leaving General Tai to report his orders as he prepared to face the consequences.

• Feng Wuyang and General Tai discussed the Star Gods and the failure of Governor Lin and Qin Shouge’s plan to take over the juvenile Lord of Gluttony.
• Feng Wuyang revealed that he had designed a Great Expansion with nearly 400,000 troops and planned to strike the Lord of Gluttony’s two hearts to awaken it.
• General Tai warned Feng Wuyang that his plan treated Dongxia’s citizens as sacrifices and said he would report the governor to the tribunal.
• Feng Wuyang defended his choice by recalling Hengzhou’s persistent poverty and explaining his belief that the region had to break free of the Star God’s blockade.
• Feng Wuyang declared that he would pierce both hearts of the Lord of Gluttony and awaken it, while General Tai realized the governor was determined to confront the Star God head-on.

Feng Wuyang activated Hengzhou’s wartime protocols while Qin Shi advanced his meditation and martial arts training in the Great Universe Server. As Qin Shi headed toward Tai’an, the Seventh Legion arrived in Hengzhou under division commander Mo Zhenting.

• Feng Wuyang ordered Tai Jun to mobilize Hengzhou’s resources and support the eastern and western fronts, and Tai Jun activated wartime protocols.
• Qin Shi rented a high-end training room, advanced his Void Meditation Method to the Second Layer, and mastered Horizontal Clouds Hundred Strikes and Myriad Phenomena Wind Formation.
• Super Little He mined in the Netherworld to replenish Qin Shi’s Void Coins while Qin Shi trained in the Great Universe Server.
• Qin Shi left the training room and traveled toward the Tai’an Metropolitan Area, considering whether to seek fights through a cyber arena or cooperate with Primal Energy Company.
• The Seventh Legion’s battleship entered Hengzhou’s orbit and descended toward the spaceport, bringing division commander Mo Zhenting.

Mo Zhenting arrived in Hengzhou to assist with its defense and learned that the Great Expansion Movement would be called the Ploughing the Court Plan. Back in Tai'an, Qin Shi sought a powerful opponent to help integrate his two paths, and his public Dark Web order drew the attention of Ying Huang and Mo Zhenting.

• Mo Zhenting arrived in Hengzhou and ordered his adjutant to give the soldiers rotating shifts and leave during the radio storm.
• Mo Zhenting met Tai Jun, agreed to defend the border with the Wind Sickle, and heard the Great Expansion Movement had been named the Ploughing the Court Plan.
• Qin Shi returned to Tai'an, gave gifts to his friends, and cultivated while considering how to integrate the Martial Path and Psionic Path.
• Super Little He advised Qin Shi to face an opponent who could overpower him, so Qin Shi posted on [Kill-a-Mo] seeking a Professional-Level fighter.
• Ying Huang accepted Qin Shi's Dark Web order and asked Old Li to find a suitable fighter.
• Mo Zhenting learned Qin Shi had posted the order and told Haila to send Deputy Song and the others to Tai'an.

Mo Zhenting abandoned his plan to test Qin Shi after learning Qin had been placed on Hengzhou Local’s Seed Candidate List. Qin Shi returned to Old Factory Street, discussed his breakthrough plans with Old Liang, and learned that Marshal Qin’s Soldier Attack Warfare Method might be the powerful technique he needed to unite his martial arts.

• Haila warned Mo Zhenting that Qin Shi’s Seed Candidate List status required strict protection, so Mo Zhenting canceled his plan to send Deputy Song to challenge him.
• Qin Shi saw a sensational report about his public challenge to Professional Level experts and visited Old Liang with supplements, teasing him about Auntie Mei.
• Qin Shi told Old Liang he wanted to break through by taking a beating and explained how he hoped to combine Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum with Nanhuang Dojo’s Body Refining Furnace.
• Old Liang observed Qin Shi’s rapid progress, learned that Tai Jun had given him a Divine Crystallization, and said he needed a powerful technique to command both paths.
• Old Liang reminded Qin Shi that he had taught him Marshal Qin’s Soldier Attack Warfare Method, which might surpass SSS-rank if brought to Great Perfection.

Qin Shi weighed his future outside the Four Great National Universities as Old Liang offered to help him join a legion and reminisced about his military service. Elsewhere, Fourth Legion captain Qin Huaien prepared to head for Hengzhou, where memories of his old guard, Little Liang, resurfaced.

• Old Liang advised Qin Shi that several hundred layers of the Soldier Attack Warfare Method could strengthen him, and Qin Shi agreed to try training in it.
• Qin Shi explained why he had turned down the Four Great National Universities, and Old Liang offered to use his military connections to help him join a legion after the Great Expansion Movement.
• Qin Shi invited Old Liang to share drinks and food and tell stories about his army days, prompting Old Liang to hum a battle hymn.
• A radio-wave storm delayed the Fourth Legion warship's journey to Hengzhou, and Captain Qin Huaien teased first officer Xiao Zheng about outperforming Mo Zhenting.
• Xiao Zheng explained that he had joined the Fourth Legion to defend Eastern Xia and follow Marshal Qin's successor, and Qin Huaien told him to credit his own personal charisma instead.
• Qin Huaien looked forward to returning to Hengzhou and remembered Little Liang, his former guard, wondering how he was doing.

Qin Shi trained Zhou Ning at Nanhuang Dojo and invited him to join a planned freight company, while Old Zhang traveled aboard a civilian ship through the Scorpion Corridor. When raiders attacked, Old Zhang stepped out into space to confront them.

• Qin Shi coached Zhou Ning in Furnace Stance, and Zhou Ning thanked him for helping him enter Nanhuang Dojo.
• Qin Shi invited Zhou Ning to invest in and help manage a planned long-haul freight company, and Zhou Ning agreed.
• Qin Shi asked Yu Weiwei when Master Zhang would return, and she explained that his journeys could last years.
• A civilian cargo ship carrying Old Zhang entered the Scorpion Corridor, where raiding groups watched it suspiciously.
• The captain and first mate found a Divine Mecha in the ship’s launch bay and learned its bald caretaker was not its pilot; he said the senior they sought was in first class.
• When raiders attacked the ship, Old Zhang walked into the vacuum of space, and the darkness erupted in brilliant flashes.

Old Zhang destroyed a raider band in the Scorpion Corridor, while Qin Shi learned more about his master's past and prepared to defend Nanhuang Dojo. The chapter ended with Qin Shi eagerly welcoming three soldiers who came to challenge him.

• Old Zhang burst into space and destroyed roughly seventy or eighty raiders and their fighter jets before returning to the civilian cargo ship.
• Yu Weiwei told Qin Shi how Old Zhang had lost to Qi Wuxiang and He Lanchán, and explained that only something with an immortal quality might extend a Grandmaster's life.
• Yu Weiwei warned Qin Shi that challengers might visit while Old Zhang was away, and Qin Shi invited visitors to test him at Nanhuang Dojo.
• Qin Shi had Zhou Ning hang a boastful sign outside the dojo and sat at the entrance waiting for challengers.
• Jiang Shijie, Wei Tu, and Scholar arrived, and Jiang Shijie decided to challenge Qin Shi.
• Qin Shi rushed out to greet the three soldiers and asked which of them would fight first.

Qin Shi faced three Wind Scythe Sequence Army elites who had come to challenge him at Nanhuang Dojo, defeating Wu Yong in an aura clash by turning his Incineration Art against him. After Lin Xiong challenged him to break through his Pure Steel Whale Armor, Qin Shi produced a Perfect Grade Electric Shock Saber from the Spirit Pillar, leaving Lin Xiong alarmed.

• Qin Shi welcomed Jiang Shijie, Lin Xiong, and Wu Yong into Nanhuang Dojo, where Wu Yong quietly used his reconnaissance aura to assess him.
• Qin Shi noticed Wu Yong's probing aura and brushed it aside, prompting Wu Yong to activate the Sixth Legion's Incineration Art and open his Sea of Consciousness.
• Qin Shi summoned Super Little He to bear the pressure and used Mental Power to overwhelm Wu Yong, who suffered a backlash and had to withdraw.
• Lin Xiong challenged Qin Shi to break through his ninth-layer Pure Steel Whale Armor, promising to accept defeat if Qin Shi succeeded.
• Qin Shi asked whether he could use a weapon, then revealed a Perfect Grade Electric Shock Saber from the Spirit Pillar, startling Lin Xiong.

Qin Shi used his Perfect Grade Electric Shock Saber to deter Lin Xiong, then prepared to face Jiang Shijie after Yu Weiwei ended the challenge. As he trained toward the Perfect Domain, he combined three techniques and used Combat Rewind to test himself against Jiang Shijie and Lin Xiong.

• Qin Shi drew his Perfect Grade Electric Shock Saber, and Lin Xiong backed down from fighting him.
• Jiang Shijie challenged Qin Shi, but Yu Weiwei intervened and arranged for the Seventh Legion soldiers to return in three days.
• Yu Weiwei asked Xuanming to calculate Qin Shi’s chances of reaching the Perfect Domain, and Xuanming estimated a forty-seven percent probability.
• Qin Shi practiced combining Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum, the Body Refining Furnace, and the Void Meditation Method to stabilize his body and mind.
• Qin Shi used Combat Rewind to fight Jiang Shijie and Lin Xiong, suffered severe injuries, and advanced [Armor Iteration] by five percent.

Qin Shi trained against professional fighters to prepare for a breakthrough, then sparred with Lin Xiong of the Seventh Legion. He turned Lin Xiong’s countershock field into power for a devastating strike that sent him crashing into the training-room wall.

• Qin Shi repeatedly lost to Jiang Shijie and Lin Xiong in the Inner Scenery, then recovered with spirit-nourishing incense and asked Lin Yunqing to arrange a spar with Lin Xiong.
• Lin Xiong and his fellow soldiers discussed Qin Shi’s record and the casualties their squad had suffered during the Great Expedition.
• Old Liang encountered Lin Xiong outside Nanhuang Dojo, recognized him as a Seventh Legion soldier, and asked after Commander Zhao before leaving.
• Qin Shi fought Lin Xiong in Nanhuang Dojo’s training room, trading hundreds of close-range blows while Lin Xiong’s Professional Level field slowed him down.
• Qin Shi used the Four Limits to absorb Lin Xiong’s countershock force, redirected it through Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum, and smashed Lin Xiong into the metal wall.

Qin Shi pushed Lin Xiong to unleash his full Professional Level strength, then used Soldier Attack Warfare Method and a new Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum technique to pierce Lin Xiong’s domain. After the sparring match, Qin Shi collapsed as his Specialized Domain completed and a Perfect Core began to form.

• Lin Xiong recovered from Qin Shi’s opening punch and activated his full Pure Steel Whale Armor, while Qin Shi recognized that ordinary attacks could not overcome the Professional Level domain.
• Qin Shi ignited 160 Life Force nodes with Soldier Attack Warfare Method and struck Lin Xiong, who caught the punch and prepared to return its force through his armor’s recoil trait.
• Before the recoil could hit, Qin Shi unleashed the third stage of his power, using the shock waves to severely damage Lin Xiong’s Flesh Activity and pierce his Specialized Domain.
• Lin Xiong asked about Qin Shi’s technique, and Qin Shi named it Hundred Forms Cultivating Momentum: Move Like Thunder before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Xuanming caught Qin Shi, and a diamond-shaped crystal formed inside his body as his Perfect Core took shape.

After defeating Lin Xiong with the Soldier Attack Warfare Method, Qin Shi refined his Perfect Core and broke through to the Professional Level, leaving him wondering what trait he would develop. Meanwhile, Lin Xiong and Wu Yong told Jiang Shijie that Qin Shi had used the Fourth Legion’s signature technique, and Jiang Shijie resolved to face him without disappointing his commander.

• Qin Shi ate the Nutritional Meals Yu Weiwei brought and told her that he had formed a core, while Yu Weiwei arranged to lower Nanhuang Dojo’s lockdown and raise its Energy Factor concentration.
• Qin Shi meditated through the night, merged his spiritual essence with his Flesh Activity, and broke through to the Professional Level with a field that extended up to sixty meters.
• Qin Shi examined his new strength and wondered what trait his Perfect Core would produce.
• Wu Yong checked Lin Xiong’s injuries, and Lin Xiong told Wu Yong and Jiang Shijie that Qin Shi had used the Soldier Attack Warfare Method and defeated him.
• Jiang Shijie considered the political and military implications of Qin Shi’s technique, then contacted Haila and vowed not to let his commander down.

After injuring Lin Xiong, Qin Shi spent three days refining his newly professional body and prepared for his fifth rebirth, while Jiang Shijie arrived at the Nanhuang Martial Arts Hall for their publicized spar. The chapter ended as Qin Shi unleashed a crushing domain and Jiang Shijie realized his professional trait was a basic enhancement.

• Lin Xiong recovered in the hospital after nurses treated the charred injury Qin Shi had inflicted, while Jiang Shijie and Wu Yong discussed the danger of Qin Shi’s combat skills.
• Qin Shi cultivated in seclusion for three days, refining his body and reaching the point where his fifth rebirth could begin.
• Yu Weiwei visited Qin Shi, encouraged his decision to reject the Four Great National Universities, and heard him promise to win.
• Jiang Shijie and Wu Yong arrived at the Nanhuang Martial Arts Hall, where Ren You expanded the domain and Xuanming disabled the reporters’ drones.
• Qin Shi entered the courtyard and released a powerful professional domain, prompting Jiang Shijie to identify his trait as an enhancement.

Qin Shi faced Jiang Shijie in a spar at Nanhuang Dojo, where everyone underestimated his ordinary Enhancement characteristic. Qin Shi activated its immense amplification and overwhelmed Jiang Shijie, leaving the dojo’s defenses shattered and the onlookers stunned.

• Jiang Shijie, Wu Yong, Ren You, and Jian Yuzhu were surprised that Qin Shi had refined the low-rated Enhancement characteristic, while Yu Weiwei anticipated the strength of his physique and cultivation.
• Outside Nanhuang Dojo, Li Yuan asked Xie Yucheng to watch for reporters badmouthing Qin Shi, while Chen Yun left to investigate who had stirred up the confrontation.
• Jiang Shijie unleashed his Heaven-Burning Fury characteristic and landed a powerful blow that sent Qin Shi skidding backward, but Qin Shi’s body endured the damage.
• Qin Shi entered his third stage, activated his trait, and fused it with tenfold amplification, catching Jiang Shijie’s attack and overpowering him.
• Qin Shi threw Jiang Shijie into the air and slammed him down, while the resulting storm shattered Xuanming’s defensive field and blasted open Nanhuang Dojo’s gates.

After Qin Shi defeated Jiang Shijie with his tenfold amplification, officials discussed using the victory to support his nomination as an Eastern Xia Torch, despite concerns about his Fourfold Chosen identity. Qin Shi recovered from the strain of fighting as the Netherworld Rift widened, and Yu Weiwei entered the Netherworld to protect him from a swarm of pillar's minions.

• Qin Shi defeated Jiang Shijie in three punches, revealed his tenfold amplification, and accepted Jiang Shijie's concession.
• Wu Yong declined Qin Shi's invitation to spar, while reporters gathered outside Nanhuang Dojo to cover the victory.
• Chen Ruofu and Fang Putang discussed nominating Qin Shi as an Eastern Xia Torch and worried that his Fourfold Chosen identity could hinder the Tribunal's approval.
• Fang Putang suggested Qin Shi join the Fourth Legion to gain support from Tribunal factions that admired Marshal Qin, and Chen Ruofu noted Liang Zhengxiong's Fourth Legion service and past trial.
• Qin Shi collapsed from exhaustion, then cultivated at Nanhuang Dojo as dense Energy Factors rushed through the widening Netherworld Rift.
• Yu Weiwei entered the Netherworld, destroyed a swarm of pillar's minions, and declared that Qin Shi was under her protection.

The Netherworld Research Institute detected a rift opening near Nanhuang Dojo, where Yu Weiwei confronted the Great Demon Getu. When Getu attacked Qin Shi, the Four Pillars’ crests in his mind destroyed its spirit, leaving Yu Weiwei warning him that their emblems were not reliable protection.

• Section Chief Ma’s team detected a dangerous Netherworld surge at Old Factory Street but stayed calm because Nanhuang Dojo had reported a training exercise.
• Yu Weiwei held back Getu and its Servant Creatures while Getu taunted her with dark crystals showing the faces of people she cared about.
• Qin Shi entered the Netherworld through meditation and joined Yu Weiwei, despite her urging him to leave.
• Getu attacked Qin Shi to provoke Yu Weiwei, but the Four Pillars’ crests in Qin Shi’s mind overwhelmed and destroyed the demon’s spirit.
• Yu Weiwei’s witchlike transformation subsided, and she warned Qin Shi that the Four Pillars’ emblems were labels rather than protective charms.

Qin Shi and Yu Weiwei escaped the Netherworld after the Four Pillars’ power nearly destroyed Getu, then Yu Weiwei explained the Nine Great Powers of the Star Sea and Eastern Xia’s potential. As Hengzhou began its Great Expansion, Qin Shi received a conscription report sending him to the Western Front.

• Getu attacked Qin Shi and Yu Weiwei, but the Four Pillars’ power repeatedly shattered him until the [Mother Nest] shielded him with a wall of flesh.
• Yu Weiwei warned Qin Shi about the Chaos Pillars, and they escaped the Netherworld rift together.
• Back at Nanhuang Dojo, Yu Weiwei explained Getu’s origins and described the Nine Great Powers, including Eastern Xia and its exceptional potential.
• The Great Expansion began across Hengzhou, requiring eligible students and residents to serve with the military.
• On the seventh day of Hengzhou’s full wartime lockdown, Qin Shi received a conscription report ordering him to the Western Front.

Qin Shi prepared to join the Western Front and was registered by the Tribunal as a protected Stellar Cup contender. He met Ying Huang, who offered a partnership and evidence against Ying Xiao, leaving Qin Shi to weigh the offer.

• Secretary Huo told Qin Shi he would deploy to the Western Front in the third wave, receive a Tribunal mark for Stellar Cup scoring, and serve under a confidentiality protocol because Getu might have marked him.
• Qin Shi injected the golden liquid, and the Tribunal registered him as a protected target and directed its Main Brain to watch Hengzhou.
• Qin Shi met Ying Huang at a milk tea shop, where Ying Huang proposed a personal partnership and warned that powerful figures might suppress Qin Shi for resembling He Lanchán.
• Ying Huang offered evidence that Ying Xiao had smuggled military equipment as proof of his sincerity.

Qin Shi accepted Ying Huang’s offer of a logistics team and, after several days at home, left for the Western Front under a cover identity. He reached the recruitment center and discovered the support group Ying Huang had arranged was recruiting artillery specialists through a suspicious notice.

• Qin Shi pressed Ying Huang for better terms, and Ying Huang agreed to provide a dedicated logistics team in exchange for strong results in the Great Expansion Movement.
• Ying Huang told Old Li that Qin Shi resisted the Nine Clans and reminded him of He Lanchán, then decided to see whether Qin Shi could distinguish himself in battle.
• After noticing his family and friends worrying about the Great Expansion, Qin Shi called Chen Ruofu and chose to head to the Frontline.
• Holwen drove Qin Shi to the recruitment center, explained his cover identity and assignment to Wall City, and Qin Shi began enlistment under the name Qin Shi.
• Qin Shi joined Ying Huang’s group, Hard-Luck Workhorses: Daily Gigs, and found a recruitment notice seeking artillery specialists for the support squad.

Qin Shi joined a support squad, then traveled with newly conscripted recruits toward White Poplar Fortress City while keeping his identity and strength concealed. The convoy arrived at the Western Front fortress, where the recruits would be assigned to training camps.

• Qin Shi introduced himself to the support squad, sent them two hundred Void Coins, and told them not to embellish rumors about him.
• Qin Shi observed the recruits in his dormitory and met Gao Pao and Song Ping as they discussed the Western Front’s progress.
• The recruits boarded military trucks, and Qin Shi was assigned the passenger seat because of his family connections.
• During a roadside stop, a lieutenant described the three training camps and warned the recruits about the dangers of war.
• After two days on the road, Qin Shi’s convoy entered White Poplar Fortress City.

Qin Shi joined White Poplar Fortress City’s notorious Yellow Springs Training Camp, where instructor Fu Lei tested the recruits with a choice of training manuals and then a brutal early-morning muster. The recruits learned that anyone expelled from Yellow Springs would be abandoned as a Lone Ghost in the Fortress City.

• Qin Shi arrived at White Poplar Fortress City, where Old Fu warned the recruits that Yellow Springs Training Camp had a casualty rate above sixty percent and let volunteers choose to join Zheng Xuebin.
• Gao Pao and several recruits, including Qin Shi, volunteered for Yellow Springs, and Zheng Xuebin drove them to the camp, where Fu Lei welcomed them.
• Fu Lei introduced himself as the Butcher and gave recruits ten days to prove themselves, then let them select training manuals; Qin Shi chose Soldier's Decree Art, drawing Fu Lei's attention.
• On the third day, Fu Lei woke the recruits at four in the morning and demanded they assemble on the parade ground, praising Gao Pao, Qin Shi, and Zhao Su for arriving quickly.
• Fu Lei announced that recruits expelled from Yellow Springs would become Lone Ghosts in White Poplar unless they crossed more than a thousand kilometers of wilderness to return to the Metropolitan Area.

At Yellow Springs Training Camp, Qin Shi excelled under Fu Lei’s brutal drills while Fu Lei warned his adjutant that White Poplar Fortress City could face disaster as the Great Expansion became a war of attrition. On the recruits’ third day, Fu Lei escalated training by offering Black Medicine as a reward for exploring the Contaminated Zone.

• Fu Lei told the recruits that failing Yellow Springs’ assessment would cost them their recruit status and frontline opportunities, then pushed them through exhausting physical training.
• Qin Shi completed the drills without strain, used his Soldier's Decree Art to cultivate in White Poplar, and kept his true strength concealed by investing most of his Life Force in his field.
• Fu Lei learned Qin Shi was a young descendant of the pioneer Qin family and ordered extra drills and a dose of Black Medicine for him, despite his adjutant’s safety concerns.
• Fu Lei warned his adjutant that White Poplar had scant supplies and might fall as Servant Creatures escalated their attacks, while questioning the decision to open eastern and western fronts.
• By the third day, Qin Shi still led the recruits, twelve had been eliminated, and Fu Lei announced that recruits who completed Contaminated Zone exploration missions would receive Black Medicine.

Qin Shi volunteered for an exploration mission into the Contaminated Zone and absorbed Black Medicine with startling speed, concealing the extent of his strength. As he and his teammates set out, a hired squad began clearing Chaos Faction ambushers from the area.

• Fu Lei explained Black Medicine’s effects and dangers, then asked who would volunteer for a Contaminated Zone exploration mission.
• Qin Shi volunteered alongside Gao Pao and Zhao Su, received the field manual and supplies, and injected a dose of Black Medicine.
• Qin Shi absorbed the dose in under eight minutes and secretly raised his Life Force, impressing Fu Lei, who ordered a backup team to protect the recruits rather than cancel the mission.
• Qin Shi, Gao Pao, and Zhao Su prepared to leave White Poplar Fortress City for their exploration mission.
• A Chaos Faction group planned to ambush recruits, but a woman from the Ox-Horse Squad killed them and received orders to patrol the surrounding area.

Qin Shi led Gao Pao and Zhao Su into the Contaminated Zone to search for valuable items, despite the dangers of Black Moon Night. As Servant Creatures gathered and his backup team followed, Qin Shi confronted supernatural apparitions and entered a substation, where his Monument Panel activated a new achievement.

• Qin Shi accepted leadership of the exploration mission and assigned Gao Pao to watch and Zhao Su to provide support as they planned to search the power station, outpost, and government building.
• A backup team led by the Short-haired Woman monitored Qin Shi, then followed him into the Contaminated Zone despite the Black Moon Night and the risk of a beast tide.
• Qin Shi entered the abandoned town, found signs of a past shootout, and continued toward the Contaminated Zone after resting briefly.
• Qin Shi and his teammates pressed on under the Black Moon, and Qin Shi used the Void Meditation Method to reveal and eliminate pale apparitions for tiny crystal-like essences.
• Qin Shi told Gao Pao and Zhao Su to stay put, climbed into the substation, and triggered the Monument Panel achievement [Tianren's Gift], which began converting into [Basic Achievement—Insight].