Chapter Summaries

Engineering Guy transformed the Mechanical Fortress Ship and rammed the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant, while Ling Chu used Corrosive Potions to weaken the bone defenses protecting its core. The potions began opening a larger breach in the giant’s sternum, but Ling Chu had not yet reached the red dot inside.

• Engineering Guy ordered the Mechanical Fortress Ship into its third defensive form despite having only one Intermediate Mana Stone left.
• Engineering Guy charged the transformed ship into the giant’s forearm, blowing apart half of it.
• Ling Chu threw her only Corrosive Potion at the red dot in the giant’s chest and corroded a shallow pit in its bone defenses.
• Lingering Wind and Fading Moon sent Ling Chu a batch of one hundred Corrosive Potions, and Ling Chu told Squid Ball to tie them into bundles of nine.
• Ling Chu threw a bundle into the pit, and the exploding potions rapidly corroded a much larger section of bone.

Ling Chu and You Jiali used Corrosive Potions to carve a passage into the Moss Giant, giving the livestream viewers hope of reaching its core. Smiley planned to stop them using the Fate Threads, while the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant continued destroying Hope Island.

• Ling Chu and You Jiali hid in a deepening pit on the Moss Giant's chest as Corrosive Potions dissolved its bones, then Ling Chu exploded another bundle to extend their passage toward its core.
• Livestream viewers rallied around Ling Chu's turnaround, while Smiley grew furious and resolved to use the Fate Threads linking him to Ling Chu to keep her from leaving the tower alive.
• The Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant smashed through Hope Island's walls and crushed Zhen Qingshan's sword formation, leaving him to judge that killing it would require six mountain-sized swords.

The Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant destroyed Hope Island’s final wall and threatened to crush the fleeing citizens with a giant bone ball. Just as the survivors gave up hope, Salos stopped the attack and declared the island was under his protection.

• Edmund hesitated to abandon Hope Island, but Star River Enters Dream and National Server Little Luban urged him to retreat to the Back Mountain Temple.
• Star River Enters Dream rescued Edmund from the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant’s sweeping arm, and the final section of the city wall collapsed.
• Edmund ordered everyone to flee, but the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant tore off its left arm and shaped it into a bone ball aimed at the only escape route.
• The bone ball threatened the fleeing citizens, who stopped and braced for death.
• Salos raised a towering wave to catch the bone ball and send it crashing back into the giant, then told the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant that the island was under his protection.

Salos trapped the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant beneath the sea and saved Hope Island, whose survivors hailed him as their Sea God. As Salos prepared to leave, he sensed something near the Whispering Lighthouse, where Ling Chu was using her last Corrosive Potion to attack the Moss Giant.

• Salos bound the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant with seawater chains and forced it back into the abyssal seafloor.
• Edmund and the people of Hope Island praised Salos as their Sea God, while Star River Enters Dream, Zhen Qingshan, and the other players reacted with shock.
• Salos told Edmund he had not come to collect tribute and prepared to leave Hope Island in his canoe.
• Ling Chu watched the Mechanical Fortress Ship transform into an ironclad warship and smash the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant's forearm, then returned her attention to attacking the Moss Giant.
• Squid Ball told Ling Chu that her last bundle of Corrosive Potion was ready and Xiaoyue needed at least ten minutes to make more.
• Salos sensed something near the Whispering Lighthouse as Ling Chu prepared to use the final bundle of Corrosive Potion.

Ling Chu and You Jiali were battered when the Moss Giant spun its chest cavity, but they stayed still afterward to avoid drawing its attention. After receiving another bundle of potions, Ling Chu sprang up ready to resume attacking the giant’s core.

• Ling Chu and You Jiali realized the Moss Giant had stopped shaking, then the giant separated its body joints and spun its chest cavity, hurling them against the bone walls.
• When the spinning stopped, Ling Chu found You Jiali beneath her and told him to remain motionless so the Moss Giant would not notice they were awake.
• Ling Chu told You Jiali to protect himself first next time, while he murmured that he would not hold her back.
• Squid Ball reassured Huang Xiaowen and Clumsy Bear that Ling Chu and You Jiali were safe, as the Moss Giant resumed attacking them.
• Ling Chu waited motionless on You Jiali while she recovered, then got up when Squid Ball traded over another bundle of potions.

Ling Chu broke through the Moss Giant’s bone wall and discovered its heart, but protective vines blocked her attempt to hit it with Corrosive Potions. She and You Jiali prepared a coordinated attack as the giant was distracted outside.

• Ling Chu hurled Corrosive Potions through the bone wall while Huang Xiaowen used Clumsy Bear to stop the Moss Giant from spinning and make it strike its own head.
• Ling Chu broke through into the giant’s hollow interior and found its heart wrapped in green vines.
• Ling Chu’s potions were caught by the vines, and her lightning arrow failed to harm them.
• Ling Chu gave You Jiali a bundle of Corrosive Potions and planned to shatter them with a Storm Arrow above the heart before the vines could intercept them.

Ling Chu and You Jiali used Blood Burst to expose the Moss Giant’s heart-protecting vines, letting Ling Chu shatter Corrosive Potion bottles with precise arrows. The heart melted under the corrosive liquid, and the Moss Giant collapsed.

• You Jiali threw a blood vial at the vines and used Blood Burst to expose a Corrosive Potion bottle.
• Ling Chu shattered the exposed bottle with a Storm Arrow, and the corrosive liquid withered the vines.
• Ling Chu and You Jiali repeatedly used blood vials and Corrosive Potions to clear the vines and move the potions closer to the heart.
• Ling Chu shattered the final bottle, drenching the Vine heart in Corrosive Potion and causing the Moss Giant to collapse in pain.
• Ling Chu threw her last two potion bundles onto the heart and detonated them, melting it as the Moss Giant roared and fell apart.

Ling Chu and her allies destroyed the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant, ending the Eerie Fog calamity and clearing the Whispering Lighthouse. Smiley retaliated by starting a team Public Challenge, but the system unexpectedly sent Ling Chu into the Death God's Game.

• Ling Chu and You Jiali escaped as the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant's body collapsed, and the system announced that the Whispering Lighthouse was cleared and the Eerie Fog calamity had ended.
• Engineering Guy kept the Mechanical Fortress ramming the giant until it sank beneath the sea, while players celebrated Ghost Ship's victory.
• Smiley blamed Ling Chu's success on luck and used a Public Challenge Selection Card to assemble Chen Piaopiao, Juliet, and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows for a combat challenge.
• Ling Chu picked up a bone pendant in the lighthouse hall, then the system replaced its Fishing Boat Battle notice with a forced entry into the Death God's Game and teleported her away.

Ling Chu’s victory cleared the Whispering Tower and ended the Eerie Fog disaster early, but she suddenly vanished and was pulled into a new public challenge. As her allies celebrated and searched the livestream for her, the chapter ended with them realizing she was missing from the group leaving the tower.

• The system altered the Fishing Boat Battle challenge and dragged Smiley, Juliet, Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows, and Chen Piaopiao into Death God's Game.
• Ling Chu disappeared from the Whispering Lighthouse, and Huang Xiaowen and the others tried to locate her through Silly Bird’s livestream.
• Hope Island’s players celebrated as the Eerie Fog lifted, while Salos returned to the sea and a dormant being beneath the Netherworld Sea sensed the events.
• Engineering Guy and the Miracle Ship Fleet celebrated their survival and Ling Chu’s victory after the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant sank.
• Flying Mouse spotted the group leaving the Whispering Tower and realized Ling Chu was not with them.

Ling Chu was unexpectedly teleported alone into the four-day Public Challenge “Death God's Game,” where players could kill one another for Soulstones. She equipped a powerful bone amulet and headed toward water, while Smiley realized his companions had been scattered and a giant spider approached behind him.

• Ling Chu found herself in the Gobi and discovered that her System Panel and communication channels were unavailable.
• The system explained the challenge rules: 200 players would compete for Soulstones, and players could kill one another or evacuate early.
• Ling Chu studied her map, decided to pursue the greatest possible rewards, and equipped the Myriad Bones Amulet.
• Ling Chu set out toward the nearest water source to find food and water.
• Smiley arrived at a jungle birth point, realized Chen Piaopiao, Juliet, and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows were scattered elsewhere, and paused beside a tree as a giant spider descended behind him.

Smiley and Juliet regrouped using Chocolate’s tracking ability while Ling Chu’s entry into the Public Challenge stirred excitement among viewers and concern among her allies. Ling Chu crossed the Gobi in search of water, but a pack of hyenas blocked her path.

• Smiley killed a third-tier spider and collected the soul stone it dropped.
• Juliet found Smiley with Chocolate and said they could track down Chen Piaopiao and Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows.
• Players in the Public Chat Channel and livestream reacted to Ling Chu entering the Public Challenge, while Silly Bird left for Hope Island with Great Strength Creates Miracles.
• Huang Xiaowen gathered the Ghost Ship’s crew to watch Ling Chu’s livestream as she walked through the Gobi.
• Ling Chu collected cactus fruits for water and then spotted at least seven or eight hyenas watching her from a nearby hill.

Ling Chu killed four Wasteland Hyenas in the Gobi Desert, collected their Soulstones, and prepared for the night during the Public Challenge. Back aboard the Ghost Ship, Huang Xiaowen urged everyone to stay calm while she asked Squid Ball to divine Ling Chu’s future.

• Ling Chu used Bone Armor and her Blade of White Bones to kill four attacking hyenas, causing the remaining three to flee.
• Ling Chu collected four Soulstones from the corpses and took the hyena meat as provisions for the four-day Public Challenge.
• Ling Chu roasted the meat before nightfall, found it tough and gamey, and stored the cooked portions in her Soulstone Pouch.
• The Ghost Ship’s crew watched Ling Chu’s livestream and worried about her harsh conditions in the Gobi Desert.
• Huang Xiaowen told the crew to keep their spirits up, then asked Squid Ball whether it could divine Ling Chu’s future.

You Jiali and the others suspected the Circus had forced Ling Chu into the Public Challenge and vowed to destroy it after she escaped. Unaware that she was being watched by opportunistic players, Ling Chu slept by her campfire while Mortus tracked her and revealed his plan to claim her soul.

• Squid Ball’s tarot reading suggested that someone had deliberately altered Ling Chu’s fate and sent her into the Public Challenge.
• You Jiali connected the interference to Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows of the Circus, and the group vowed to wipe out the Circus after Ling Chu escaped.
• Three players watched Ling Chu sleeping and decided to let her hunt monsters for two more days before targeting players carrying many soul stones at an extraction point.
• Mortus watched Ling Chu’s red marker on a special map and revealed that he had designed the Death God Game to torment her and take her soul.

Ling Chu headed for a Treasure Chest near the jungle and discovered that three men had set it up as bait. She escaped their net and fought back, leaving one man trapped and killing the frog-like defender.

• Ling Chu chose the nearer Treasure Chest marker and traveled toward it despite her lingering injuries.
• At the jungle’s edge, Ling Chu found footprints and cautiously approached an iron Treasure Chest on a boulder.
• Ling Chu stored the Treasure Chest, triggering a net trap set by the three men she had encountered the previous night.
• Ling Chu used her Teleport Skill to evade the net and began fighting the three men, trapping the knife-thrower in a bone cage.
• Ling Chu severed the frog-like man’s tongue and pierced his chest with her Bone Blade.

Ling Chu killed three high-Sin players who had robbed her Treasure Chest, collected their loot, and drew attention in District 111. Elsewhere, Crimson Moon noticed Ling Chu’s sudden rise after the same criminals died, while Ling Chu was prompted to merge the Soulstone Pouches she had taken.

• Ling Chu used Death Warrant on the remaining attackers, then killed Century Cola and gained Justice Points, Sea Shells, and a boost from Harvest Time.
• Ling Chu killed Blackhead Fish despite his pleas for mercy, and District 111 announced the deaths of all three Sin Ranking players.
• Players in District 111 discussed Ling Chu’s kills and the collapse of the Fish Head Pirate Crew.
• Crimson Moon learned that Ling Chu had killed Braised Egg, Century Cola, and Blackhead Fish, then killed a middle-aged man at another Treasure Chest location.
• Ling Chu searched the attackers’ Soulstone Pouches, found Soulstones, supplies, maps, and Rare throwing knives for Xiao Wen, and received a prompt to merge the pouches’ storage space.

Ling Chu gathered equipment after defeating three Pirates while the Ghost Ship crew watched her livestream and managed the fallout from Hope Island’s disaster. Meanwhile, the Circus reunited in the altered Death God's Game instance and suspected a mysterious force had changed the challenge, leaving them wary of what awaited them.

• Ling Chu fused three Soulstone Pouches into hers, collected a Hand Crossbow and an iron net, and left useful equipment for the skeletons.
• Squid Ball, Huang Xiaowen, Clumsy Bear, and You Jiali watched Ling Chu’s livestream as Huang Xiaowen struggled to handle Hope Island’s urgent management requests in her absence.
• The Silly Bird Daily’s coverage of the Ten-Thousand-Bone Giant’s defeat drew support from thousands of witnesses, while Crispy Shark and the Shark Fleet accused it of fabricating reports and Shark Daily sales slumped.
• Smiley, Juliet, Chocolate, Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows, and Chen Piaopiao reunited in the swamp forest after Chocolate tracked their teammates.
• Plucking Flowers and Seeking Willows concluded that a mysterious force may have altered the challenge, and he warned the Circus to stay cautious about its intentions.

Ling Chu traveled deeper into the jungle, killed several dangerous creatures, and spent the night sleeping in a tree near a stream. After the map refreshed and she spotted huge beast footprints near her campsite, she headed toward the nearest Treasure Chest.

• Chen Piaopiao wanted to leave the empty evacuation point to hunt Treasure Chests, but Smiley insisted the group guard it to stop Ling Chu from evacuating.
• Ling Chu killed two spiders, a venomous snake, and a scorpion while searching for water, gaining four Soulstones.
• Ling Chu spent the night on a sturdy tree branch near the stream, eating leftover roasted hyena meat before falling asleep.
• After waking, Ling Chu saw that the refreshed Treasure Chest and evacuation point markers had shifted closer to the map’s center.
• Ling Chu found enormous bear-like footprints near her tree and the stream, then drank water and sprinted toward the nearest Treasure Chest.

Ling Chu found an Iron Treasure Chest in a cave that appeared to be the lair of a giant black bear and retrieved three items from her storage. When the bear returned and killed one of two players fighting outside, it charged at Ling Chu, who used Ghostly Steps and an item to conceal her scent.

• Ling Chu entered the cave, opened the Iron Treasure Chest, and received 400 Soulstones, an Item Retrieval Card, and an Iron Pot.
• Ling Chu used the card to retrieve a Life Potion, a Folding Ice House Card, and a third item she chose as a trump card.
• Ling Chu heard a battle outside and saw a giant black bear fighting two players who were trying to turn it against each other.
• After one player was injured and fled, the bear killed the other player and then charged at Ling Chu.
• Ling Chu used Ghostly Steps to increase her distance from the bear and sprayed the retrieved item over herself, spreading a scent of grass and vegetation.

Ling Chu used Scent Affinity Potion to tame the black bear and rode it to another Treasure Chest location, where she found several victims and an already-emptied chest. She returned to a streamside campsite, where the bear brought her fish and kept watch as she made dinner.

• The black bear stopped attacking Ling Chu after smelling the Scent Affinity Potion, and she collected a player's Soulstone Pouch and the Composite Bait that had provoked it.
• The black bear followed Ling Chu, and she agreed to let it accompany her and rode it toward another Treasure Chest location.
• Ling Chu found four or five peeled-faced corpses and an already-opened, empty Treasure Chest, then decided to avoid confronting whoever had killed them.
• Ling Chu returned to her previous campsite by the stream and set up her ice house.
• The black bear brought Ling Chu two fish, then watched nearby while she grilled one and cooked the other into soup.

Ling Chu headed downstream with Black Bear to claim a Treasure Chest on the final day of the challenge, while the Blood Moon woman found the central evacuation point guarded by Circus and his companions. After her prayer to the Goddess of Light went unanswered, she suspected the challenge was a divine domain controlled by the Death God and set out for a distant Treasure Chest.

• Ling Chu woke refreshed, checked the map, and rode Black Bear downstream toward the nearest Treasure Chest.
• The Blood Moon woman watched Smiley and three companions kill players who tried to reach the central evacuation point, then retreated without alerting them.
• The Blood Moon woman used her holy relic to pray to the Goddess of Light, but received no response.
• The Blood Moon woman concluded that her prayer channel might have been severed by the Death God and feared the challenge was his divine domain.
• The Blood Moon woman marked a distant Treasure Chest on her map and set off toward it.