Recaps

Xu Huo and the others forced the silver-haired man’s group to take their places in the dungeon’s mini-games after learning their large teleportation device could not be activated. As the games claimed several people and injured others, Xu Huo gave Bingmei a teleportation device and let her leave ahead of the rest.

• The silver-haired man explained that the large teleportation device could not be activated and that the group’s remaining cross-sub-district devices could not guarantee a safe escape.
• Xu Huo confiscated the newcomers’ devices, and the silver-haired man’s group supplied food while no mini-game appeared on the nineteenth day.
• On the twentieth day, two members of the silver-haired man’s group entered mini-games; one returned severely injured, and the other never came back.
• The next morning, the driver and Bingmei were selected, and members of the silver-haired man’s group took their places; the mother and child were selected soon after, and only one of the three entrants survived.
• Xu Huo gave Bingmei a teleportation device and let her leave, and she promised to repay the eldest sister and the others.

On the twenty-fifth day, Xu Huo killed the silver-haired man in black, destroyed the remaining device, and entered the black vortex as the Dungeon ended. Da Fei and the others left with the mother and her children, while a wounded woman in purple arrived after they were gone; Xu Huo found himself in a pitch-black space.

• On the twenty-third day, no one was selected for a Mini-game, and Tong Chuan and Da Fei wondered whether the Player Family's team had outside support.
• On the twenty-fourth day, the silver-haired man in black was selected, and Xu Huo gave the final teleportation device to Da Fei for the next person chosen.
• The silver-haired man in black returned badly wounded and threatened Xu Huo after learning his companions were dead.
• On the twenty-fifth day, the driver used the teleportation device, and Xu Huo told the mother to choose someone else before killing the silver-haired man and destroying the large device.
• Xu Huo entered the black vortex as the Dungeon ended, while Da Fei and Tong Chuan took the mother and children out of District 007.
• Da Fei and Xiao Fei erased traces at the site, but a bloodied woman in purple emerged from a black vortex and raced toward the Dungeon entrance as Xu Huo stood in a pitch-black space.

Xu Huo struggled through a collapsing mental space, where Dr. Zhang and Carmen Field confronted one another before Xu Huo and his adult self forced Dr. Zhang underwater. He escaped into the Iceberg Space and discovered that striking snowflakes with Space Power let him grasp Curved Time, though repeated reversals made the space seem fragile.

• Xu Huo drifted toward oblivion in the darkness until a doctor-like figure urged him to leave his isolated inner world.
• Xu Huo saw his adult self, Carmen Field, and Dr. Zhang seated around a table, then sank underwater with his adult self as Carmen Field vanished.
• Dr. Zhang pulled Xu Huo and his adult self from the water, but both versions of Xu Huo forced Dr. Zhang back in with them.
• Xu Huo expanded his white Spiritual World through the darkness, pushed through black doors, and emerged in the Iceberg Space.
• Xu Huo repeatedly struck falling snowflakes with Space Power, used the resulting turbulence to grasp Curved Time, and reversed time by three seconds each time.
• After dozens of repetitions, Xu Huo sensed that the space around him had become dangerously fragile.

Xu Huo emerged from Carmen Field’s legacy with major advances in mental, space, and time Evolution, then tracked down the Fei Sisters. He found them sheltering with many others after the fighting spread, and learned the influx of people had made their Dungeon situation safer.

• Xu Huo broke through his mental limits, expanded his Spiritual World, and learned to connect and redirect Snowflake Spatial Entities through Space Rays.
• Xu Huo left the black space, completed the Dungeon, and received generous rewards including an A-rank time item.
• Xu Huo concluded Carmen Field had preserved an unusual collective space as a place for Evolution and recognized himself as the greatest beneficiary of the legacy.
• Xu Huo searched for the Fei Sisters, found an empty car marked with dried blood, and followed the trail toward them.
• Xu Huo found the Fei Sisters sheltering with dozens of people in a building beside a damaged tour bus, and Xiao Fei told him that fighting had spread across many cities.

Xu Huo and the Fei Sisters recovered a recording device and found that Mutant Rats were entering the Mutated Plants' territory, but the footage revealed no Origin Stone. Before they could leave, three Players ambushed them, and Xu Huo used Time Power and the Kaleidoscope Threads to defeat them.

• Xu Huo found the crushed recording device in the sewers, and the Fei Sisters watched footage of Mutant Rats entering the Mutated Plants' territory.
• Xu Huo decided to leave the Dungeon site intact, worrying that taking the Origin Stone or fighting the Player family could destroy it.
• Three Players attacked Xu Huo and the Fei Sisters, crushing their building and deploying a Hyperdimensional Space Barrier to restrict Time Power.
• Xu Huo sent streams of Time Power sideways through the city, aging the two Players in the sky and trapping the third.
• Xu Huo blocked the remaining Player's escape with the Kaleidoscope Threads, froze him with a Time Ray, and cut his throat with a Spatial Cutline.

After escaping the Dungeon, Xu Huo reunited with Wen Shenghe and Qiu Yuying, who were being hunted while trying to mediate District 007’s war. He proposed a plan to end the conflict by removing a major district’s designation, but whether it could clear the Dungeon remained uncertain.

• Xu Huo collected instruments after killing the Players in the Dungeon, and the Bee Instrument self-destructed before he left.
• The Fei Sisters traded two Sub-class Stones for instruments, and Xu Huo returned to District 007, where war had driven people through the Restricted Zone.
• Player Family members tried to surround Xu Huo as he emerged from the Dungeon, but he broke through and escaped by changing his appearance and clothing.
• Xu Huo found Wen Shenghe, Qiu Yuying, and other peace advocates being hunted, then helped them drive back their pursuers.
• Qiu Yuying explained that efforts to mediate District 007’s war had failed and that their group risked timing out of the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo proposed that the District Government and the opposing Players cooperate to remove a major district’s designation peacefully, though Qiu Yuying questioned whether the plan was feasible or would clear the Dungeon.

Xu Huo left negotiations over the war and visited Lady Feng, where a family connected to Carmen questioned him about the Restricted Zone Dungeon. When their opponents arrived with a Transdimensional Space Instrument to trap him on Blue Heron Islet, Xu Huo confronted them in the sky.

• Xu Huo urged Wen Shenghe and Qiu Yuying to seek terms to end the war, then left them to consider his proposal.
• Xu Huo visited Lady Feng with fruit and emerald jewelry, where a guest pressed him for information about Carmen’s special spaces.
• Xu Huo told the guest he had offended someone in the Dungeon and refused an offer to mediate his conflict with an A-class wormhole point’s Players.
• A group arrived at Blue Heron Islet carrying a Transdimensional Space Instrument, alarming Lady Feng’s other guests.
• Xu Huo moved into the sky and challenged the arrivals, asking whether they intended to perish with him after sealing the island.

Xu Huo unleashed Time Power inside the Player Family’s barrier, freezing most of his enemies and forcing the Super Dimensional Instrument to be shut down. After the barrier vanished, he attacked the fleeing Players, but a transparent glass sphere dropped into the Time Power and severed time itself.

• The Player Family trapped Xu Huo in a sealing barrier and attacked him with magma and a crystal arrow, but he evaded them using Dark Space.
• Xu Huo sent streams of Time Power through the Hyperdimensional Space Barrier, causing the rays to multiply and freeze Players across the islet.
• The Player Family leader ordered the Super Dimensional Instrument shut down, but its operators had been frozen and the Players continued to fall victim to the Time Rays.
• Lady Feng urged an unfamiliar face to help shut down the instrument, but its two operators recovered first and deactivated it.
• Xu Huo attacked the Players as they fled, rapidly aging more than a dozen of them until a transparent glass sphere expanded and severed time.

Xu Huo negotiated with the Du Family after escaping their Transdimensional Space Instrument, accepted the Super Artifact, and left after warning them he would visit again. The Du Family suspected he had concealed powerful abilities and wondered whether he might surpass Carmen Field.

• Xu Huo confronted the glass-bead holder, rejected the Du Family’s attempt to dismiss the conflict, and questioned how many Transdimensional Space Instruments they possessed.
• The Du Family offered to end the dispute, while the unfamiliar-faced man proposed a Jenkins Family gathering and Lady Feng advised Xu Huo not to push for more compensation.
• Xu Huo sensed hidden Ultra-A-class Players nearby and decided to leave rather than reveal more of his abilities or risk being trapped.
• Xu Huo warned the Du Family that he would visit them in the future, nodded to Lady Feng, and vanished.
• The Du Family wondered whether Xu Huo also possessed Mental Evolution, had evaded the instrument’s Time Power, or might eventually surpass Carmen Field.

Xu Huo reviewed the Super Artifact Lonely Arrow and the A-class time item Time Void, then shared Super Evolution notes and checked on developments in District 007. After drawing attention from the A-class Player community by posting about the Magician, he arrived at B02-001 and paid his respects at Carmen’s statue.

• Xu Huo examined Lonely Arrow’s tracking and multiplying arrows and reviewed the defensive time item Time Void.
• Xu Huo sent Tong Chuan and the others his Super Evolution notes, and they told him they had helped the mother and her two children settle in a peaceful Sub-district.
• Xu Huo checked District 007 and saw signs that the civil war was moving toward peace negotiations.
• Xu Huo posted a message about receiving an instrument from the Magician, bringing attention from A-class Players and an excited barrage of questions from Moth Art.
• Xu Huo arrived at B02-001, left a bouquet at Carmen’s statue, bowed, and departed.

Xu Huo entered the sealed Cangxian Lake district and asked the patrol Players to summon Wang Quan. He disappeared into the fog before they could question him, leaving them to wonder whether they had met the real Xu.

• Two ordinary men on a night patrol saw a human-shaped figure in the fog and fled toward their vehicle.
• Players on night patrol spotted the approaching figure and challenged it, suspecting it might be an Outer District Player.
• Xu Huo stopped nearby, asked whether Wang Quan was still in charge of Cangxian Lake Base, and requested that he come to the lake.
• Xu Huo vanished into the fog, and the Players decided to notify Team Leader Wang.

Xu Huo returned to Cangxian Lake and learned that its unstable, expanding spatial anomaly had become more dangerous, though it was not yet close to an A-class Dungeon. He left the lake and returned to the Capital City Safe Zone, where Tongtong and the family welcomed him home.

• Wang Quan gathered the base members and went to the lakeshore after receiving notice that Xu Huo had returned.
• Wang Quan told Xu Huo that players probing beneath Cangxian Lake had vanished and that the unstable anomaly appeared to be spreading through overlapping spaces.
• Xu Huo examined the lake and judged that it was not close to an A-class instance and might never become a Dungeon.
• Xu Huo dismissed Wang Quan and continued along the lakeside before returning to the Capital City Safe Zone.
• Tongtong spotted Xu Huo at the refrigerator, shrieked and threw himself at him, waking Ms. Yu, who called Father Xu downstairs.

Xu Huo returned home and spent time with his family, giving Tongtong a mechanical dog while a Man-Eating Mushroom he brought back multiplied throughout the storage room. The chapter ended with Tongtong bargaining with his friends to borrow Xu Huo for two hours in exchange for their toys.

• Xu Huo showed Tongtong a Man-Eating Mushroom, and Father Xu wrapped it up and threw it in the trash after it bit at them.
• Xu Huo gave Tongtong a mechanical dog, which Tongtong showed off to his classmates.
• Xu Huo found that the painted woman was away with friends and left her alone because she seemed happy and safe.
• Father Xu opened the storage room and was buried in multiplying mushrooms, so he called the Enforcement Department to dispose of them.
• Tongtong brought five friends home, introduced Xu Huo as his brother, and bargained to lend him to them for two hours in exchange for their toys.

Xu Huo reviewed the District Government’s first leadership list after spending time playing football with local children. His influence helped District 014 balance its new Player-centered government against the rights of ordinary people.

• Xu Huo took the children to a park and used spatial barriers to let them play high-altitude football.
• Ji Tong visited Xu Huo and presented the District Government’s proposed leadership list and candidates’ backgrounds.
• Xu Huo reviewed the list, and Ji Tong credited him with helping non-Players retain a voice in the new government.
• Xu Huo’s approval finalized the leadership list, which was set to be announced after official appointments.
• District 014 shifted toward Player-centered management, while Xu Huo’s power helped keep Players and ordinary people in balance.

Xu Huo took his family camping in a government-restricted mountain area, where they enjoyed a meal and a rare outing amid the dangers of District 014. After Father Xu’s fishing attempt revealed the river’s mutated fish, the family abandoned fishing for a safer activity.

• Xu Huo arranged for Players stationed in the mountains to withdraw, then took his family to camp there.
• Xu Huo collected improved food from nearby Players and brought it back, while his family prepared a barbecue.
• Tongtong tried to impress the family with his fruit peeling, then complained that Ms. Yu disliked him.
• Father Xu reflected on Xu Huo’s responsibility for District 014 and urged him not to shoulder everything alone.
• Father Xu tried fishing, but Xu Huo showed the family that the mutated fish had sharp teeth, so Father Xu turned his attention to Tongtong digging for earthworms.

Xu Huo spent a rainy mountain outing with Tongtong and his family, teasing the boy about poisonous mushrooms before Ms. Yu punished him for asking about eating them. Back at the District Government, a Player calling himself the Magician demanded to see Xu Huo and threatened to reveal why Xu Huo was looking for him.

• Xu Huo took Tongtong fishing and mushroom-picking, then playfully suggested that he try a poisonous mushroom.
• Tongtong ran back to camp, and Ms. Yu scolded and spanked him after Xu Huo reported his question about eating poisonous mushrooms.
• Tongtong made peace with Xu Huo while they shelled peanuts, and Ji Tong called to say that the Magician had arrived at the District Government asking for Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo refused to interrupt his vacation, but the Magician told Ji Tong to warn him that he would reveal why Xu Huo was searching for him.

Xu Huo reunited with Moth Art and revealed that he planned to kill a Super Player who threatened District 014. Moth Art balked at the danger, while Xu Huo explained why he hoped to recruit the Magician for the fight.

• Moth Art met Xu Huo on a rooftop and was stunned by how powerful the Temporal Evolver had become.
• Xu Huo confirmed that he had met the Magician before and invited Moth Art to join a mission.
• Xu Huo told Moth Art that he planned to kill a Super Player, shocking him into backing away.
• Xu Huo said the Super Player had become his enemy and could endanger District 014 once he recovered.
• Xu Huo explained that he wanted the Magician's help because of their past connection, while recruiting Hua Han would be difficult and risky.

Xu Huo weighed his options for dealing with a Super Player and decided the Magician was the best candidate, though the Magician had not replied. Moth Art left after meeting Lichun, and Xu Huo discovered she had neglected the Goddess Vine he had asked her to tend.

• Xu Huo considered Shi Shuai and the Paper Puppeteer but judged the Magician the best choice for his plan involving the Super Dungeon.
• Xu Huo and Moth Art discussed how difficult it was to kill Super Players, and Moth Art asked whether the Magician had replied.
• Lichun arrived and teased Moth Art, who decided to wait a few more days for news before leaving.
• Lichun offered Xu Huo half of the gifts she had received, and he asked whether she had cared for the Goddess Vine.
• Lichun admitted she had fed the Goddess Vine meat, and Xu Huo threatened to plant her and the vine in the same flowerpot if she did it again.

Xu Huo transplanted the Goddess Vine and ordered the area around his home cleared and restricted. Team Leader Wu then presented plans to expand Ting City, prompting Xu Huo to question whether concentrating so many people there might trigger a Dungeon.

• Xu Huo returned to Ting City with the painted woman and transplanted the Goddess Vine into his garden with Lichun.
• Xu Huo asked Team Leader Wu to clear residents within ten kilometers of his home and designate the area a Restricted Zone.
• Team Leader Wu cleared the surrounding area and showed Xu Huo a plan to expand Ting City southward while incorporating the northern area into a Restricted Zone.
• Team Leader Wu explained that migration, overcrowding, and Outer District Players settling in District 014 had driven the expansion plan.
• Xu Huo questioned whether the District Government had studied Dungeon formation rules and warned that bringing so many people to Ting City could cause trouble.

Xu Huo allowed Ting City’s potential merger with nearby cities to proceed cautiously and reviewed the District Government’s game-related supplies. He asked Ji Tong to seek unusual props and game items from Enforcement Department Players, while his search for the Magician remained fruitless.

• Team Leader Wu asked whether Xu Huo opposed merging nearby cities with Ting City, and Xu Huo told him to proceed at his own pace while keeping patrols away from the mountains and Safe Zone.
• Team Leader Wu offered gifts from Ting City, which Lichun eagerly unwrapped before he left.
• Ji Tong presented the District Government’s inventory of props, instruments, ores, tickets, and other game-related resources, explaining that supplies were scarce and many props had been lost during district integration.
• Xu Huo asked Ji Tong to have Enforcement Department Players lend him props or game items with unusual effects, promising to return or compensate for them.
• Xu Huo checked the messages responding to his post, found mostly impostors and false offers about the Magician, and wondered whether the Magician had seen his message.

Xu Huo used a public post to draw Magician out, despite Moth Art’s objections and warnings about the risks of challenging a Super Player. Magician appeared in District 014, and Xu Huo revealed that he had the Instance Authorization Letter for Happy Circus City.

• Moth Art confronted Xu Huo, suspecting he was gathering information to target Magician rather than cooperate with him.
• Xu Huo explained that he could not contact Magician and wanted to find him, while Moth Art defended his idol and warned Xu Huo to be careful.
• Moth Art left District 014 after asking Xu Huo to get Magician’s autograph if they met.
• Magician appeared from a mutated cedar in the Safe Zone and joined Xu Huo for tea.
• Magician challenged Xu Huo’s claim that he did not want fame, and Xu Huo disclosed that he had the Instance Authorization Letter for Happy Circus City.

Xu Huo learned that killing Suitcase Man would be difficult because his powers let him escape across Sub-districts, but Magician agreed to consider helping after Xu Huo survives a Dungeon. Xu Huo visited Hua Han, who explained Magician’s connection to He Pu and said Xu Huo was equivalent to a second He Pu to him.

• Magician explained that Suitcase Man had escaped a coordinated hunt through his ability to open passages across Sub-districts, and that Hua Han Werner’s Super Dungeon might seal his escape route.
• Magician gave Xu Huo a Station Ticket and agreed to consider helping him if he survived the Dungeon, while warning him not to contact him through Dimension Below again.
• Xu Huo left for District 011 with Lichun after asking Ji Tong to watch the Safe Zone, then visited Hua Han at the Werner family estate.
• Hua Han told Xu Huo that Magician had known He Pu, whom Magician admired despite his weakness, and said Xu Huo’s existence was equivalent to a second He Pu for Magician.

Hua Han explained how Transdimensional Space Instruments could restrain Xu Huo’s Temporal Evolution and taught him a way to damage them using Time Resonance. He warned that the instruments existed within time themselves, leaving Xu Huo with a possible means of counterattack.

• Xu Huo helped Hua Han tend the garden, then asked him about Suitcase Man’s black vortex and its connection to spacetime.
• Hua Han explained that the game’s powers came from spacetime and that Transdimensional Space Instruments could seal off Temporal Evolution.
• Hua Han described the two types of Transdimensional Space Instruments and warned Xu Huo that Suitcase Man might prepare one.
• Hua Han taught Xu Huo to use Time Resonance to vibrate the Time Rays inside an instrument, giving it a one-in-ten chance of destruction.
• Hua Han warned that Transdimensional Space Instruments could restrain Time Power but still existed within time.

Xu Huo worried that using Time Resonance could disrupt the balance between the forces in his body, and Hua Han taught him how to control its range. Meanwhile, Asis and Dolo Werner discussed Xu Huo’s effect on Hua Han’s inheritance and District 011, while Asis sought instruments and prepared to receive his future third wife.

• Xu Huo worried that Time Resonance might upset the balance between the water Rubik's Cube and Transdimensional Space Power in his body, and Hua Han assured him the Cube was protected by Time Power.
• Hua Han warned Xu Huo that abnormal Evolution could eventually make him lose control of his body, advised him to strike first when using Time Resonance against an instrument, and offered to teach him to control its range.
• Hua Han transformed the room around Xu Huo as he began teaching him, while Asis arranged clothes and combat gear for Xu Huo to be delivered before breakfast.
• Dolo Werner worried that Hua Han might leave his estate to Xu Huo, and Asis acknowledged Xu Huo was not their enemy despite the danger his presence could pose to District 011.
• Dolo told Asis that the Game Government was restricting their access to large Transdimensional Space Instruments, so Asis directed her to seek partially completed instruments from the Platinum Eye.
• Dolo reminded Asis that the Wainwright family's young lady would arrive the next day and was expected to become his third wife.

After two days of practice, Xu Huo emerged from the tower and attended dinner at Werner's estate, where Heather Wainwright openly pursued him while discussing marriage and lovers. Hua Han explained that Wainwright had sent Heather to seek Xu Huo for the sake of producing an exceptional descendant, then sent him off to face the dungeon chosen by the Magician.

• Xu Huo came out of the tower, saw that snow covered the estate, and went to sleep in a guest room.
• Heather Wainwright flirted with Xu Huo and asked whether he would consider marrying into Wainwright or taking a lover, while Asis tried to stop her.
• Xu Huo joined Hua Han and the Werner household for dinner, then told Hua Han he planned to leave afterward.
• Hua Han explained that Wainwright had sent Heather to approach Xu Huo because the family wanted an exceptional descendant.
• Hua Han warned Xu Huo not to follow the example of Carmen or himself, then sent Xu Huo to see what dungeon the Magician had chosen for him.