Recaps

Xu Huo’s group explored the alien-infested city while trying to understand its unusual lack of mutated vegetation. At lunchtime, the instance selected an ordinary tour-group member for a survival minigame, and Xu Huo sent the eldest sister through the portal in his place.

• The eldest sister and Brother Ya suggested that a gas from mutated vines might explain why the city had few mutated plants, while Xu Huo continued searching the streets for an unknown purpose.
• Xu Huo stopped the vehicles at a shopping mall, where the group cleared out aliens and set up protective devices before preparing a meal.
• A screen and portal appeared before a tour-group member, whose choice to send someone else prompted Xu Huo to consider the players as substitutes.
• The eldest sister volunteered to enter the minigame, and Xu Huo gave her three devices before she stepped through the portal.
• Xu Huo warned that the group needed to preserve its numbers, while Brother Ya and the others discussed how the game might grow more difficult for future substitutes.

The group treated their leader after she returned gravely wounded from a survival minigame, and Xu Huo warned them not to move or wake her. As everyone feared being chosen for the next game, Xu Huo refused to promise the children would be spared, and a light screen appeared before him.

• The leader emerged from the portal after five minutes, badly wounded, and Old Yuan used Self-Healing Agents to stabilize her.
• Xu Huo stitched her internal injuries with Space Ray and warned Tong Chuan not to move or wake her because she might have a head injury.
• Hat blamed Brother Ya and his companions for stealing their items and forcing them into the dungeon, while Da'an suggested the minigame might have lasted longer than five minutes inside.
• Old Ping wondered whether multiple people could enter the next minigame, and the driver and others anxiously asked Xu Huo what they should do.
• A couple begged Xu Huo to leave their children until last, but he said he could not promise that and told them the children might be placed first or last.
• As Bingmei tried to reassure everyone that the next minigame might take a long time to appear, a light screen appeared before Xu Huo.

Xu Huo entered the dungeon’s survival minigame, where destructive Snowflake Spatial Entities triggered a spreading spatial storm. He escaped the storm’s center by repeatedly using the dark space, but remained trapped in a dangerous region as the snowflakes began to thin.

• Xu Huo chose to enter the minigame himself despite being given only a 20% chance of survival.
• Xu Huo discovered that the falling snowflakes were unstable spatial entities that exploded on contact and set off a chain reaction through the ice mountains.
• Xu Huo defended himself with spatial barriers and fled thousands of meters through the dark space as the storm engulfed the area.
• Xu Huo doubled back through the storm’s center using Kaleidoscope Threads and layered barriers, suffering powerful impacts along the way.
• Xu Huo returned to the storm’s starting point, where the spatial entities had grown sparse, and carefully avoided further eruptions while escaping.

Xu Huo explored the strange Iceberg Space, discovering that its Snowflake Spatial Entities emerged from a boundary between two joined spaces and rebuilt the icebergs after storms. After nearly an hour inside, he returned badly injured, restoring the group’s hope and leaving them eager to learn what he had faced.

• Xu Huo studied the Snowflake Spatial Entities and found that a powerful pull near the overhead boundary dragged him toward the sky before he returned to safety.
• Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to discover that the apparent sky contained another iceberg-filled space, joined to the lower one at a dividing line where the spatial entities appeared.
• Xu Huo returned to the ground and waited, uncertain whether the black vortex would reappear before another storm.
• Brother Ya, Tong Chuan, Bingmei, Old Yuan, Hat, and the others feared Xu Huo had died and worried about surviving the remaining days without their devices.
• The driver reclaimed the first aid kit and held onto it while the group waited for Xu Huo to return.
• Xu Huo emerged from the black vortex badly wounded, and the driver, Old Ping, and Little Sun helped tend to him as Brother Ya’s group asked about the minigame.

Xu Huo and the others traveled toward the outskirts in search of food, water, and shelter while trying to understand the survival minigames. A drone brought a plea from five survivors, whose account suggested the minigames became much more frequent after their group fell below twenty-five.

• Xu Huo suspected the survival minigame could take place in different arenas and considered how player numbers might affect its appearance.
• Xu Huo led the group toward the outskirts to look for supplies and possible surviving players.
• As night fell, the group reinforced a building and fought off waves of aliens attracted by the noise.
• Brother Ya spotted a drone carrying a plea for help from five people who wanted to join them.
• The five survivors reported that twenty of their twenty-six dead companions had died in survival minigames and that the games became more frequent below twenty-five people.
• Brother Ya asked Xu Huo whether the survivors were telling the truth.

Xu Huo’s group shared limited food with five newcomers while keeping them at a distance, and Big Sis recovered enough to describe a deadly minigame. The newcomers revealed that minigames had become more frequent and that one survivor had escaped a place filled with water, while the group suspected that making someone take another person’s place increased the danger.

• Xu Huo agreed to let five players join the group but ordered Brother Ya to keep them separate from the Tour Bus passengers.
• Big Tiger demanded food, but the middle-aged glasses man stopped him and offered survival-game devices in exchange for help; Brother Ya gave them a packet of compressed biscuits.
• Xu Huo’s group shared out soup and dried meat, while Xu Huo refused the newcomers’ request for extra soup for their injured companion.
• Big Sis woke up, described a minigame filled with attacking mutated pine needles, and thanked Xu Huo for lending her a device.
• The middle-aged glasses man told Xu Huo that minigames had grown more frequent and described one survivor’s water-filled game; Brother Ya suggested that taking someone else’s place increased the frequency.
• The driver rebuked the survivor who looked to Xu Huo for help, and the man stared back through tears with resentment and defiance.

Xu Huo exposed the middle-aged glasses man’s group for hiding how they had survived the escalating mini-games, then forced them to explain their history. The group debated whether selected people should enter the games or use substitutes as they faced the dungeon’s remaining days.

• Xu Huo questioned the middle-aged glasses man about the group’s time in the dungeon and whether they had used substitutes, then used his spiritual world to compel him and his companions to obey.
• The middle-aged glasses man admitted his group had been in the dungeon for sixteen days and described how the games increased in frequency as selected people found substitutes.
• He revealed that his five survivors had joined another group, let its ordinary people become substitutes, and then joined Xu Huo’s group after the previous group was killed.
• The middle-aged glasses man argued that the ordinary people should be used as substitutes, while Bingmei and the older woman challenged his attitude and debated how to handle future selections.
• The older woman suggested searching the city for other survivors, and asked Xu Huo what he thought.

Xu Huo kept the group under control as two people were selected for survival minigames, then led everyone to inspect the city’s vast, poisonous plant barrier. The group found that the vines blocked passage and contaminated the groundwater, leaving them with few options for food and water.

• Xu Huo told the group to organize night watches and had the driver distribute candy to calm the frightened tourists.
• After dawn, a tourist and Big Tiger were selected for minigames with survival rates of zero, and Xu Huo kicked Big Tiger into a portal when he tried to seize an ordinary person.
• The group ate breakfast and set out without waiting for the two who had entered the minigames.
• Xu Huo led the group to a massive wall of mutated vines and used his psychic power to inspect its dense, rotting interior.
• The middle-aged glasses man warned that the vines hunted living things and that the groundwater was contaminated, while Xu Huo asked about the water treatment plant.

Xu Huo evacuated his group when a massive Mutated Plant vine attacked their shelter, then entered the Survival Minigame after it selected a child. With Xu gone, his companions and the surviving members of the group of five faced off over supplies while waiting for him to return.

• Tong Chuan suggested eating Aliens or Mutant Animals if survival demanded it, and Big Sister told him to stop provoking the group.
• A giant vine burst through the building, releasing poison as Xu Huo cut it apart and used Mental Portals to move his companions to a rooftop two thousand meters away.
• The group regrouped amid an Alien attack, and the Survival Minigame selected the older of two children, whose screen showed a survival rate of zero.
• Xu Huo selected “Someone Else” and entered the black vortex to take the child’s place in the minigame.
• After Xu disappeared, the group of five pressed to control the supplies, but Big Sister warned that Xu had survived the minigame before, and they agreed to wait behind a defensive barrier.

Xu Huo explored a resource-rich mutant forest, gathering food and water while trading candy with a troop of monkeys. He spent the night with them, but the black vortex still had not appeared by morning.

• Xu Huo avoided deadly mutant animals and insects, then caught small creatures to take with him.
• Xu Huo collected water from flowers and traded candy with the monkeys for a large gourd of water.
• The monkeys led Xu Huo to a waterfall, where he filled several gourds and gathered herbs and fruit.
• Xu Huo packed his supplies and stayed at the monkeys’ home when the black vortex failed to appear by nightfall.
• The night passed without Xu Huo emerging, and the people waiting outside felt a shadow hang over them at dawn.

Xu Huo escaped a volcanic eruption by taking a portal back to the city, where he found two starving players who had survived alone for over a month. Meanwhile, the older woman and the others agreed to use people as substitutes in the survival minigames, believing Xu Huo would not return.

• The middle-aged glasses man persuaded Tong Chuan, Brother Ya, the older woman, and the others to send other people into the survival minigames, and the group agreed despite the older woman's concern about Xu Huo returning.
• Xu Huo spent the night near the monkeys' nest, traded with the monkeys for strange mushrooms, and collected fertile soil to bring back for Dr. Deng to examine.
• A distant volcano erupted, sending animals fleeing and threatening the area around Xu Huo.
• A black vortex opened two thousand meters above the ground, and Xu Huo leaped through it to return to the rooftop in the city.
• Xu Huo followed the banners left by the group and found two emaciated sisters, who told him they had been in the instance for over a month and that everyone else had died soon after arriving.

Xu Huo returned to the group with two new players and a large supply of food, then took charge of the survivors at the mall. The middle-aged glasses man and his companions followed him inside, while Xu Huo’s return left the group preparing to rest and eat.

• Xu Huo brought two sisters to the vehicles after rescuing them from the dungeon, and they agreed to join his group.
• On the tour bus, a member of the five-person group threatened the ordinary people, but Xu Huo appeared and killed him.
• Xu Huo ordered Tong Chuan to drive the lead vehicle and directed the group to rest at a mall ahead.
• Xu Huo brought baskets of food, live animals, and other supplies into the mall, introducing the sisters as new players.
• Big Sis let the middle-aged glasses man and his companions enter, and Xu Huo had the driver collect flower dew for everyone to drink.

Xu Huo moved his group away from a massive rat swarm and learned that mutant vines were carrying the rats underground. Tong Chuan recovered a red sub-class stone, which the middle-aged glasses man identified as one produced by a Creation Origin Stone, prompting Xu Huo to question its ranking against mother stones.

• Xu Huo and the others survived another night of alien attacks, but a huge swarm of mutant rats forced them to flee through his mental portal.
• Tong Chuan investigated the rats and discovered mutant vines swallowing them into hollow stems and carrying them underground.
• Tong Chuan brought back a red fragment from one of the vines, and the middle-aged glasses man confirmed it was a sub-class stone.
• The middle-aged glasses man said the stone came from a Creation Origin Stone, and Xu Huo asked whether mother stones ranked just below time-type stones.

The middle-aged glasses man proposed that Xu Huo’s group search underground for a Genesis Origin Stone, and Xu agreed to proceed after the group built instruments. Big Sister revealed that the stone could cause hallucinations and brain lesions, while the group remained wary of the dangers ahead.

• The middle-aged glasses man explained that Genesis Origin Stones could accelerate the growth of Mutant Flora and Fauna and offered to help Xu Huo search for one in exchange for Sub-class Stones.
• Xu Huo agreed to let the glasses man and his companions build instruments, warning that they would receive no Sub-class Stones if the equipment proved useless.
• Xu Huo sent Da'an and Old Yuan to watch the three scavengers for trouble while they searched for materials.
• Big Sister told Xu Huo’s group that Genesis Origin Stones could cause hallucinations and brain lesions after prolonged contact, and she suspected the Game Government valued them for medical experiments.
• Brother Ya and Bingmei argued about whether Bingmei’s remarks seemed to predict misfortune.

Xu Huo considered how temporal and spatial powers interacted and decided to approach the origin stone cautiously, weighing the danger of disturbing it. After the group traveled toward the city’s edge, Brother Ya was selected for the survival minigame and entered its black vortex.

• Xu Huo reflected on the Snowflake Spatial Entities, the water Rubik's Cube, and his limited control over transdimensional space power.
• Old Yuan and the others returned with components and built drilling machines while Xu Huo left them to work.
• After learning the origin stone could affect brains, Xu Huo worried that taking it might trigger changes and destroy the city or dungeon.
• The group drove for half a day, then Brother Ya and a tourist were selected for the survival minigame.
• Brother Ya entered the black vortex, and Tong Chuan offered to take the older woman's place if she was selected next.

Xu Huo and the Players searched underground for the Origin Stone while the group confronted the danger of starvation in the Dungeon. The Fei sisters survived the ordeal, and the older sister returned from apparent death using a one-use game item.

• Two vines destroyed two tunneling machines, but the third returned with soil samples that convinced the middle-aged glasses man the Origin Stone was nearby.
• A female Player who had entered the Dungeon returned alive but mortally wounded, and her younger sister grieved over her apparent death.
• Xu Huo noticed the older sister’s injuries reversing and congratulated her on her resurrection.
• The older sister explained that a one-use game item had brought her back to life, and Xu Huo arranged ordinary medicine for her.
• The Fei sisters told Xu Huo and the others that they were B-class Players whose relatives and friends had been killed after their group entered the Dungeon.

After Da Fei described surviving a deadly minigame, Xu Huo learned that the mutant vines made locating their origin stone difficult. He set out to investigate the area where sub-class stones had been found and cleared a vast section of the vine wall with Spatial Cutlines.

• Da Fei told Bingmei and the others how mutant beasts drove her into spatial disturbances, costing her a hand and a foot before the exit appeared.
• Bingmei questioned Da Fei about death and time reversal, but Da Fei reported no bodily changes after returning to the moment of her injury.
• Brother Ya failed to return, while the middle-aged glasses man and his companions worked to locate an origin stone.
• The middle-aged glasses man found two intact sub-class stones, and Xu Huo said he would inspect the area the next morning.
• After another tourist entered a survival minigame, Xu Huo led a group to the vine wall and used Spatial Cutlines to shred everything across a five-thousand-meter semicircle.

Xu Huo failed to reach the Origin Stone because the Mutated Vines regenerated too quickly, so he sent recording and sampling devices underground on Mutated Rats while his group waited for results. As the Mini-game continued selecting people, the survivors dwindled, and on the eleventh day the final two members of the five-person group were chosen together.

• Xu Huo stopped trying to reach the Origin Stone, shared several Sub-class Stones with the middle-aged glasses man and his companions, and asked them to build devices for recording footage and collecting samples.
• The female Player and her companions made three devices, which Xu Huo strapped to Mutated Rats and sent into underground passages beneath the Mutated Vines.
• The Mini-game selected Hat and Old Ping on the seventh night, and both disappeared into the black vortex.
• Xu Huo's group searched the city for companions, but the Mini-game selected more Players on the eighth, ninth, and tenth days, and none returned alive.
• On the eleventh day, the final two members of the five-person group were selected at the same time.

Xu Huo entered the Time Reversal mini-game, where streams of Time Power cut through a star-filled space and seemed to erase stars. He discovered that time had reversed around him when a marker he had carved as “20” changed to “19.”

• Tong Chuan bit the glasses man’s wrist and knocked him into the black vortex, while the female Player was also pulled into the Mini-game.
• Over the following days, the convoy dwindled to twelve people, and the driver broke down in tears as the group faced another night.
• On the seventeenth day, Xu Huo entered a new Mini-game with a child and told Big Sister and the others to keep going if he did not return soon.
• Xu Huo realized he had reached the place he was seeking and carefully navigated the star-filled space, where Time Power surged unpredictably.
• Xu Huo marked the ground with numbers as he walked, then saw his “20” marker change to “19” after a faint breeze passed.

Xu Huo entered a new Mini-game space filled with dangerous streams of Time Power, searching for the source of the Dungeon’s temporal anomalies. After marking his path as he advanced, he discovered that time had reversed around one of his markers.

• The glasses man and a female Player were pulled into the Mini-game, leaving fewer than twenty people in the convoy; over the following days, the group dwindled to twelve.
• On the seventeenth day, Xu Huo entered the Mini-game with a child and told Big Sister and the others to keep going if he did not return soon.
• Xu Huo recognized the new space as the place he had been searching for and cautiously navigated its shifting streams of Time Power.
• After noticing a faint breeze and finding no clear trace of it, Xu Huo carved numbered markers into the ground as he walked.
• When he looked back after marking the ground with a 20, Xu Huo found that the marker had become a 19 and realized time had reversed.

Xu Huo studied Curved Time in the Astral Space and realized it coexisted with other Time Powers throughout space-time. He learned to stir Curved Time without losing his memories and began sensing the many strands of time around and within himself.

• Xu Huo recorded when Curved Time appeared and discovered that each occurrence reversed time within an area of about three kilometers around him.
• Xu Huo sensed that Curved Time was woven throughout space rather than entering through a fixed point, and considered how it might coexist with other space-times.
• Xu Huo reached out and stirred Curved Time, reversing the numbers he had carved into the ground and sending nearby Time Powers flowing backward.
• Xu Huo retained his memories as time reversed and felt that his body held both forward-flowing and reversed time.
• Xu Huo sensed many overlapping Time Powers around him and felt that his body had become a passage through which different kinds of time could flow.

Big Sis and her companions encountered a well-equipped team of Players preparing for a Mini-game, then turned back toward Xu Huo’s location. In the Astral Space, Xu Huo advanced his control over Time Power and saw a person standing beside a river of stars.

• Tong Chuan spotted Players surrounding the group from nearby rooftops, and a purple-clad man questioned Big Sis about their dried meat.
• Big Sis told the purple-clad man that the person who brought the meat out had reentered the Mini-game, and the elite team left without confronting them.
• Big Sis decided her group should return toward where Brother Xu entered the Mini-game, and they headed back without removing their banner.
• The elite team used instruments to drive away Aliens and waited for the Mini-game to select its participants.
• Xu Huo practiced drawing Time Power in the Astral Space, learned to draw Time Rays from different directions, and considered whether special ore could form there.
• Xu Huo reached toward the stars and saw a flowing river of white light beside a black Abyss, with a person standing nearby.

Xu Huo saw a vision of his future self in the Astral Space, then returned to the Dungeon and attacked the Players who had detained his companions. After interrogating them about their research into Mini-games, he returned to Big Sis and the others, who explained how they had been captured.

• Xu Huo saw a familiar figure in the Astral Space point beneath his feet before the vision vanished and he returned to the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo used Time Power to kill sixteen of the twenty-eight Players and freeze or age the others.
• Xu Huo forced a purple-clothed woman and the silver-haired man in black to unlock a terminal, then found research on twenty-five Mini-game spaces but no records of Time Power.
• The silver-haired man in black stopped the purple-clothed woman from reporting the deaths and decided to follow Xu Huo.
• Big Sis and the others thanked Xu Huo, and Tong Chuan told him the Players had captured them and forced them to reveal where he had entered the Mini-game.

Xu Huo agreed to share Super Evolution notes with Big Sis and her companions, then took Big Sis aside to hear how she had gained a Special Evolution Ability. Big Sis recounted finding and consuming strange roots around a mysterious red object in a Dungeon, after which one of her Abilities could be used without limit.

• Xu Huo told Tong Chuan and Big Sis that he would give them copies of his Super Evolution notes after they left the area.
• Big Sis offered to share her experience with Ability Evolution, so Xu Huo took her to a rooftop several kilometers away.
• Big Sis explained that she had become an A-class player and gained a Special Evolution after a fortuitous encounter in a low-level Dungeon.
• Big Sis recounted how roots dragged her underground, where she ate them and followed their growth toward a red glowing object before losing consciousness.
• Big Sis said the red object and roots vanished, but she later discovered that one of her Abilities could be used without limit.

The woman explained how an origin stone had seemingly helped her Skin Hardening ability evolve, and Xu Huo suspected the stones in the dungeon might have similar effects. When the cross-sub-district instrument proved unusable, Xu Huo confronted the remaining players and began killing them rather than let them threaten him again.

• The woman told Xu Huo that her Skin Hardening ability had strengthened and changed after she encountered what she suspected was an origin stone.
• Xu Huo asked the woman and four others to move to another sub-district and stay away, but the silver-haired man in black revealed that the cross-sub-district instrument could not be activated because some spatial points were locked.
• The woman in purple offered an individual teleportation instrument that could send only one person out of the current space.
• Xu Huo killed two more players with time rays and immobilized the rest, leaving only the silver-haired man in black free.
• Xu Huo threatened the silver-haired man in black, saying the group could die there or outside and that he would retrieve their family's instrument.