Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici moved into Lu Changming’s mansion, where Ji Xinyan teased and kissed him before taking charge of furnishing the house with the ten million yuan he gave her. As Lin Baici turned away a neighboring streamer and Feng Ting struggled with her boyfriend’s demands, Li Luyou arrived at Gu Qingxiang’s neighborhood with a camera for the championship.

• Ji Xinyan flirted with Lin Baici in the mansion’s bathroom, and they kissed before Feng Ting interrupted them.
• Lin Baici told Feng Ting to discard Lu Changming’s clothes, and she later pointed out the lipstick on his mouth and neck.
• Li Mengge visited to invite the new homeowner into the residents’ group, but Lin Baici declined while Ji Xinyan introduced herself as his girlfriend.
• Lin Baici transferred ten million yuan to Ji Xinyan and asked her to furnish the mansion and arrange its utilities and access.
• Feng Ting refused Zhou Zhen’s dinner invitation but reluctantly lent him two thousand yuan for his sister’s phone.
• Li Luyou arrived at Gu Qingxiang’s neighborhood with a camera and asked her to come downstairs.

Gu Qingxiang received cameras from Li Luyou while Lin Baici brought her flowers and chocolates. The next day, Lin Baici picked up Hua Yueyu for lunch, and she invited him to her home to see her clown loaches.

• Li Luyou gave Gu Qingxiang cameras and photography tips, reminded her about the weekend, and left when she sent him away.
• Lin Baici came home with flowers and chocolates for Gu Qingxiang, who hid the cameras and made him dinner.
• Lin Baici skipped an Advanced Mathematics lecture and drove to Haijing University to pick up Hua Yueyu, giving her roses at the gates.
• Lin Baici and Hua Yueyu ate lunch at a Western restaurant, where Hua Yueyu drank a bottle of wine but remained sober and hoped they could spend more time together.
• Hua Yueyu invited Lin Baici to her home to see her clown loaches, and he realized she wanted him to visit.

Lin Baici spent the night with Hua Yueyu, while Shen Xin painted scenes of a little girl and her sister in a park. Ji Xinyan brought treats to her roommates, and Gu Qingxiang joined Li Luyou at Wanda Plaza, where a God Ruins appeared as the mall opened.

• Lin Baici drove Hua Yueyu home, introduced himself as her boyfriend to her neighbor, and offered to buy her a home before they went to her bedroom together.
• Shen Xin watched a little girl play in a park across two days, painted her and the Female Office Worker who came to take her home, and showed the paintings to the principal.
• Ji Xinyan brought snacks to her roommates, who discussed their romantic preferences and asked what she had been doing while skipping class.
• Lin Baici drove to pick up Hua Yueyu for the Honor of Heroes final, while Gu Qingxiang met Li Luyou at Wanda Plaza to film him.
• When Wanda Plaza opened, Gu Qingxiang and Li Luyou sensed the God Ruins and stopped in alarm.

Shen Xin warned Gu Qingxiang and Li Luyou about the Head-Wrapped Woman and Little Cutie, then joined Li Luyou at a gaming tournament after Gu Qingxiang left. Meanwhile, Lin Baici accompanied Hua Yueyu to Wanda Plaza, where the tournament ended with LGD winning and Li Luyou activated Super Arcade in frustration.

• Shen Xin found the Female Office Worker and Little Cutie heading to Wanda Plaza, warned them about dangerous people inside, and watched them leave before entering the mall.
• Shen Xin met Gu Qingxiang and Li Luyou, agreed to be responsible if the two monsters caused trouble, and offered to model for her; Gu Qingxiang left, and Shen Xin agreed to photograph Li Luyou.
• Lin Baici accompanied Hua Yueyu and Little Assistant to the Honor of Heroes event, met several streamers, and later encountered Zhao Qing, Wang Xiao, and Su Manni while exploring the mall.
• LGD defeated Li Luyou's team in the finals, and Shen Xin showed Li Luyou footage that captured his disappointment at losing.
• Li Luyou punched the keyboard and activated Super Arcade.

Zhao Qing, Zhu Momo, Hua Yueyu, Lin Baici, and countless others were swept into the Super Arcade, where the game administrator launched the deadly role-playing game Dark Faith. After choosing classes and forming groups, Lin Baici headed toward Shining Gold Town, where his first attack left him without his starter sword.

• Zhao Qing and groups of streamers were transported from the mall and backstage to an ancient plaza, where they recognized the event as Rule Pollution.
• The game administrator announced that players had to clear Dark Faith to escape, and that falling near the bottom of the live rankings could mean being erased and killed.
• Lin Baici chose Warrior, Hua Yueyu and Little Assistant chose Priest, Gu Qingqiu chose Mage, Xia Hongyao chose Paladin, and Da Tianjie chose Assassin; several of them gathered into Lin Baici's party.
• Lin Baici and his companions left the city, turned down Wang Menghua's offer to team up, and split up to explore the game world.
• Lin Baici headed east toward Shining Gold Town and wounded a wild boar, but the animal dragged his rusty sword away; Phoenix in the Grass Nest then killed it with a fireball and claimed its drops.

Lin Baici reached Shining Gold Town, took on the landlady’s scouting task, and earned equipment by helping around the tavern before hunting goblins outside town. After leveling up and learning new skills, he followed a rare goblin warrior named Rakaze into the forest and began fighting him while trying to save a Little Girl.

• Lin Baici discovered that using Divine Grace or outside weapons in the game forfeited monster rewards, then reached Shining Gold Town and accepted the landlady’s request to scout nearby.
• Lin Baici helped the landlady and earned the loan of a two-handed greatsword, while Phoenix in the Grass Nest pursued a separate quest from the constable.
• Lin Baici killed goblins near town, collected loot, learned Charge, and reached Level 4.
• God of Gluttony directed Lin Baici west, where he followed the rare goblin warrior Rakaze into the forest and saw him prepare to kill a Little Girl for food.
• Lin Baici attacked Rakaze with an arrow and then charged with his greatsword, but Rakaze blocked his strikes with a battle axe.

Lin Baici defeated the rare goblin Rakaze, rescued Isha, and gained valuable gear and supplies before returning to Shining Gold Town. After accepting a delivery quest and secretly taking explosives from a dead prospector’s room, he heard an urgent knock at his door.

• Lin Baici used careful dodges and counterattacks to defeat Rakaze, gaining the Disarm skill book, a blue-quality axe, and other loot.
• Lin Baici rescued Isha, found a goblin knapsack and herbal medicine in Rakaze’s tent, and killed three more goblins on the way out of the forest.
• Tang Keke and You Ke Huashengjiang watched Lin Baici fight, asked to team up, and exchanged friend requests with him after he declined.
• Lin Baici returned Isha to Shining Gold Town, received blue chainmail from the landlady, and accepted a letter to deliver to Mrs. Susan of Anfield.
• Lin Baici entered the dead gold prospector’s room and took twenty sticks of explosives and a bottle of kerosene before returning to Room 2.
• Someone knocked loudly and urgently on Lin Baici’s door.

Lin Baici abandoned difficult farm quests and discovered a narrow cave where he could safely farm mermen, rapidly climbing to level 15 and first place in the rankings. Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu’s team noticed his rise and intensified their own grinding, while other teams prepared for dungeons and elite quests.

• Lin Baici refused the sheriff’s reward pouch, learned Iron Body, and received a letter and five Gold Coins for his journey to Harvest City.
• Lin Baici failed to clear Madam Susan’s boars, then searched for her missing son Arnold and began hunting mermen for Arnold’s stolen fishing rod.
• Lin Baici used a narrow crack near the merman village to trap and kill the fleeing mermen, farming more than five hundred of them in an hour.
• Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu’s team saw Lin Baici reach first place at level 15, and Gu Qingqiu pushed the team to lure and defeat larger waves of boarmen.
• Other teams noticed Lin Baici’s ranking, while Call Me Brother Kun’s team planned to enter the Goblin Lair and You Ke Huashengjiang and Tang Keke’s team noticed his rise during an elite quest.

Lin Baici let Tang Keke, Peanut Butter, and Zoro of Three Sword Style learn his murloc farming method, then returned to Anfield Farm and found the Wild Boar Princess. After Cangtian Ge joined Lin Baici's party to claim the rare mob's loot, he discovered Lin Baici had set loot distribution to leader control.

• Peanut Butter and Tang Keke regretted not joining Lin Baici earlier, and Tang Keke persuaded him to share his murloc grinding location once he was done farming.
• One Arrow Headshot found Lin Baici clearing waves of murlocs, tried the strategy with his pet boar, and failed; Lin Baici warned him not to reveal the location.
• Lin Baici showed Tang Keke, Peanut Butter, and Zoro of Three Sword Style how to farm the murlocs, then left them to try it themselves.
• Lin Baici returned Arnold's fishing rod to Madam Susan and went to the Pumpkin Field to search for the Wild Boar Princess.
• Lin Baici attacked the Wild Boar Princess and her guards while Cangtian Ge tried to claim the rare mob; Cangtian Ge joined Lin Baici's party just before the princess died.
• Cangtian Ge tried to grab the Wild Boar Princess's drops, but Lin Baici revealed that he had set party loot to leader distribution, and Cangtian Ge left the party and raised his warhammer.

Lin Baici reached level 20, defeated the Red-eyed Werewolf with a temporary party, and obtained the ranged skill Storm Hammer from the drunkard. He then reunited with Xia Hongyao and the others at Boar's Den Highlands as they prepared to enter the dungeon.

• Lin Baici killed Cangtian Ge after Cangtian Ge attacked him, then completed his boar quest and became the first player to reach level 20, opening the Boar's Den Dungeon.
• Cangtian Ge respawned, learned that his achievement points had reset, and resolved to seek revenge on Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici joined Bai Yutang's party, led them to defeat the Red-eyed Werewolf, and took its attack-speed-boosting eyeball.
• Lin Baici completed the werewolf bounty, then bought drinks for the drunkard until the man gave him the Storm Hammer skill book.
• Call Me Brother Kun's party cleared the Goblin Lair, but learned that dungeon First Kill announcements only applied to dungeons above level 20.
• Lin Baici met Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, and their party at Boar's Den Highlands, where they decided to try the dungeon.

Lin Baici led his party into Boar's Den, where they defeated the first boss and advanced through the dungeon with coordinated crowd control and area attacks. They reached the Hunter boss and began fighting it, leaving Lin Baici injured but confident that the party could win.

• Lin Baici gave Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao better gear, then led his party into Boar's Den while Brother Kun's team entered ahead of them.
• Lin Baici's party controlled and defeated the two guards at the entrance, then crossed the suspension bridge and cleared groups of Boarmen with area attacks.
• Lin Baici led the party through Rushhawk's attacks, and they killed the first boss and divided its level 20 gear.
• Lin Baici's party cleared nine waves of enemies and two patrol groups before reaching a Hunter boss and its two-headed boar pet.
• Lin Baici attacked the Hunter directly while Da Tianjie controlled its pet, but the boss's attacks brought Lin Baici below half health.

Lin Baici’s party cleared the Boar’s Den Dungeon by recruiting three Orc slaves to help defeat the Great Shaman, earning the First Kill announcement. After other players’ groups failed against the final boss, the world chat fell silent when someone asked how Lin’s team had won.

• Lin Baici led the party through the ogre merchant’s fight, controlled the released Orc slaves instead of killing them, and recruited all three to help against the Great Shaman.
• Lin Baici’s party defeated the Great Shaman with the slaves’ assistance and received the dungeon’s First Kill announcement.
• Players across the game world celebrated the announcement, while Call Me Brother Kun’s group wiped against the Great Shaman and learned that death reset their achievement points.
• Hua Yueyu told the world chat that Lin Baici was her cousin and that Gu Qingqiu had gone to school with him, while Lin ignored the flood of friend requests.
• A player asked Lin Baici how his party had defeated the final boss, and the world channel went silent.

Lin Baici’s party repeatedly cleared the Wild Boar Plain instance, helping other players climb the achievement rankings and level quickly. At midnight, the administrator revealed that elimination was real and executed the last-ranked player, Bread95, in front of everyone.

• After players questioned what happened to a wiped party, Thicker Stick explained that they had respawned in a graveyard with their achievement points reset, and Xia Hongyao shared how to recruit three enslaved NPCs to fight the Great Shaman.
• Lin Baici’s group distributed the Great Shaman’s loot, then invited Little Assistant into the instance and cleared it quickly by pulling multiple monster groups at once.
• Lin Baici’s party brought in Peanut Butter, Tang Keke, and Zoro of Three Sword Style, then taught Peanut Butter to help with their fast, large-scale pulls as they cleared the instance repeatedly.
• Tang Keke joined another run while Lin Baici’s party climbed the level rankings, and players began calling Lin Baici Hungry God, Xia Hongyao Summer God, and Gu Qingqiu Autumn God.
• At midnight, the achievement rankings named Bread95 as the last-place player, and the administrator revealed that dying reset achievement points but elimination was real.
• Bread95 returned to the real world and tried to escape the mall, but the administrator’s countdown ended with her head exploding as the players watched.

After the Administrator announced that players would be eliminated at midnight and only the top 10% would survive, Gu Qingqiu organized a paid Boar's Den guide and the party kept leveling. Lin Baici left for Harvest City, where he took a map and entered the sewers to investigate a suggested route.

• The Administrator warned that one player would be eliminated each night and that only the top 10% of players on the final achievement leaderboard would survive.
• Gu Qingqiu told Hua Yueyu to sell the party's Boar's Den guide for twenty gold coins, and Hua Yueyu quickly received more than a hundred interested buyers after offering future guide access and party priority.
• The party repeatedly cleared Boar's Den until dawn, bringing most members close to level 30 and replacing much of their gear.
• Lin Baici traveled to Harvest City and delivered the Shining Gold Town sheriff's letter to the Knight Commander, who offered him a scouting quest at a bandit-held mine.
• After receiving a city map from the Knight Commander, Lin Baici followed it to the sewer entrance and went inside.

Lin Baici found the hidden Orc merchant Brusoh in the sewers and survived his escalating defense quest, defeating the rare boss Anderson to claim a unique Red Dragon Whelp. He left with powerful loot and access to Brusoh’s shop, while Phoenix in the Grass Nest learned he had missed his chance to obtain the one-of-a-kind pet.

• Lin Baici followed God of Gluttony’s directions through the sewers, found Brusoh, and accepted the solo quest to protect him from the Razor Party bandits.
• Lin Baici fought through increasingly difficult waves of bandits, leveled up during the battle, and reached the final wave as Brusoh fled with the Dragon Whelp.
• Lin Baici recovered, defeated Anderson by dodging his attacks, and collected a Blade Storm skill book, the Razor Party Mask, and Anderson’s Tin Flask.
• Brusoh returned and gave Lin Baici the Red Dragon Whelp, then opened his shop and offered him a Swift Raptor Mount and other powerful items.
• Lin Baici asked Hua Yueyu to send him Gold Coins and read messages congratulating him on reaching level 30.
• Phoenix in the Grass Nest found Brusoh after Lin Baici left and learned that the Red Dragon Whelp was a unique reward already claimed by Lin Baici.

Lin Baici and his party cleared Harvest City Prison, defeated its final boss, and claimed the dungeon’s First Kill. Afterward, they assembled a replacement team and completed a second run, leaving the watching players stunned by their speed.

• Phoenix in the Grass Nest repeatedly failed Brusoh’s escort quest, recognized Lin the Hungry One as the Warrior who had beaten it, and sent him a friend request.
• Lin Baici rode his Swift Raptor through Harvest City, met Gu Qingqiu’s group at the prison, and advised them to wait until level 35 before attempting his sewer quest.
• Lin Baici led the party through Harvest City Prison with large monster pulls, and they defeated McKelley and Vicario before beating Johnson’s split-copy phase.
• Lin Baici, Detective Xia, One Leaf Tilting Autumn, Hua Yueyu, and You Ke Huashengjiang claimed the prison’s First Kill, then reformed the party with Little Assistant for another run.
• Lin Baici’s party completed the second run with a Priest in place of Peanut Butter, taking ten minutes longer than before while the players outside watched in disbelief.

Lin Baici’s group farmed the Harvest City Prison dungeon and sold Gu Qingqiu’s AoE guide while other players and rival groups reacted to their success. Su Manni discovered that Lin Baici was Big Cousin and, as he prepared to enter the dungeon again, threatened to tell his girlfriend he had bought a BMW X5 for another girl.

• Gu Qingqiu replaced Da Tianjie with a Mage after the five-person party’s run took forty-five minutes, then Hua Yueyu advertised the prison dungeon guide and drew a flood of buyers.
• Brother Kun abandoned Blackwater Mine and decided to head to Harvest City to buy the guide and level up for the next First Kill.
• Su Manni recognized Lin Baici at the security office, tried to get closer to him, and learned from other players that he was Big Cousin, the player behind two First Kills.
• After Lin Baici’s group finished another run, Gu Qingqiu refused requests to carry weaker players, while the round-faced girl tried to impress Lin Baici by mentioning her father’s position at Haijing Academy of Drama.
• As Lin Baici prepared to return to the dungeon, Su Manni grabbed him and threatened to tell his girlfriend that he had bought a BMW X5 for a scheming girl.

Lin Baici's party carried Su Manni through a prison dungeon, then demonstrated their full-corridor speed clear to players who doubted Hua Yueyu's guide. Their leveling push made Lin Baici the first to reach level 40, triggering the appearance of a level 50 world boss in Elegy Forest.

• Su Manni accused Lin Baici of sleeping with Hua Yueyu, and Lin Baici slapped her before entering the instance.
• Gu Qingqiu invited Su Manni into the party for a fast dungeon run, then removed her afterward; Su Manni failed to copy the party's monster-pulling strategy with her own group.
• Lin Baici challenged Thicker Stick's doubts about Hua Yueyu's guide, and Thicker Stick confirmed that Lin Baici's party had cleared the entire corridor in one pull.
• Three Slashes God urged players to level up and defeat the Dark Temple boss so they could escape the game.
• Lin Baici became the first player to reach level 40, causing the level 50 world boss Isarek to appear in Elegy Forest.

Lin Baici and his team cleared three level 40 dungeons and claimed all three First Kills while selling their guides and leveling through the Holy Light Cathedral. After Lin Baici became the first player to reach level 50, the Dark Temple opened at level 55, and players urged him to fight the level 50 world boss Isarek.

• Lin Baici led his team through the Titan Ruins, where they defeated five bosses and claimed the dungeon’s First Kill.
• Lin Baici’s team cleared the Holy Light Cathedral, defeated the Red-robed Archbishop, and claimed another First Kill; Hua Yueyu equipped the boss’s healer gear.
• Lin Baici’s team cleared the Troll Tribe and claimed its First Kill, while Hua Yueyu sold 325 sets of guides for the three dungeons.
• Gu Qingqiu worked out an efficient Holy Light Cathedral route, and the team repeatedly ran the dungeon, helping Lin Baici reach level 50 first.
• The game announced that the level 55 Dark Temple had opened and that clearing it would grant players their freedom.
• Players urged Lin Baici to fight the level 50 world boss Isarek, and they competed to join his team.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao hunted monsters, killed a player who attacked them over a chest, and rode to confront the group robbing players at Thorns Valley. After Lin revealed that he was Big Cousin, the sales director threatened them, and Xia Hongyao slapped him before his group attacked.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao found Phoenix in the Grass Nest attacking Xia over a golden chest, and Xia killed him while Lin helped stun him.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao met Tang Keke, gave her a robe and Gold Coins, and rode to confront the players who had robbed her.
• At Thorns Valley, the sales director tried to placate Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao, but Lin asked how many players his group had robbed.
• Lin Baici asked world chat for reports of robberies, and more than a hundred players described their losses.
• After the director threatened them and began backing away, Xia Hongyao grabbed and slapped him, prompting him to order his group to attack.