Recaps

Xu Huo cleared the One-Third City Dungeon but lost access to his Spatial Evolution Power, then returned to Ting City and fought invading Outer District Players. He investigated Cangxian Lake with Nie Xuan, escaped its unfinished space-type Dungeon, and returned to offer Zhou Ning and Liu Jia a test of his time artifact.

• Xu Huo recognized the recreated past as an illusion, cleared the One-Third City Dungeon, and found that the water Rubik’s Cube had sealed his Spatial Evolution Power.
• Xu Huo exposed the player organization’s role in activating the water Rubik’s Cube, published his clearance method, and returned to Ting City.
• Xu Huo killed and captured Outer District Players in Ting City before refusing local Players’ requests to form an organization or alliance.
• Xu Huo defeated an attacker who detonated spatial-explosion Artifacts and found a map marking six sites with intense evolutionary activity.
• Xu Huo investigated Cangxian Lake’s folded spaces and met Nie Xuan, who gave him information about a former Seventeenth Hospital operator possibly connected to Dr. Zhang.
• Xu Huo and Nie Xuan entered the underwater Ruins, where an unseen presence forced Xu Huo deeper into unstable folded spaces containing stone statues and dead military Players.
• Xu Huo escaped after six hours, delivered recovered corpses, and warned the military that no one else should enter the unfinished space-type Dungeon.
• Xu Huo returned to Ting City, questioned Liu Jia about Team Leader Ming’s possible identity as Professor Han, and offered to test whether his time artifact could help Zhou Ning and Liu Jia evolve again.

Xu Huo strengthened his ties with District 014, advanced the Seventeenth Hospital Dungeon, and pursued a lead on a Perfect Potion before traveling to the Fish Banquet. Inside the hundred-floor venue, he and the painted woman learned its dangerous rules and fought their way upward.

• Xu Huo gave Yuan Yao an A-class item, then killed wanted criminals in Ting City and urged the Special Defense Department to publish their crimes.
• Xu Huo trained with his companions in simulated Time Power and upgraded the Seventeenth Hospital into a C-class high-level Random Instance with three possible clear conditions.
• Xu Huo pursued information about Diner and the Fish Feast, while Zhou Ning developed a snake-hair ability that could stop people who met its gaze.
• Xu Huo traveled to District 011, met Huahan Werner, and learned that destroying the water Rubik’s Cube could kill him, while further Evolution might let him remove it safely.
• Xu Huo funded Dr. Deng’s Laboratory after learning his potion could slow Black Thorn Disease, then accepted an invitation to the Fish Banquet in C01-001.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman entered the Fish Banquet, where guests wore fish masks and the Mermaid was chosen as the Lucky One in a hundred-floor hunt.
• Xu Huo learned that Mermaid-Masked guests were hunted, tested how invitations changed masks, and discovered that ten piranha invitations formed an octopus-mask invitation.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman explored changing safe rooms and collected items, then Xu Huo killed an octopus-masked attacker who tried to steal his invitation on the eighth floor.

Xu Huo and the Painted Woman survived Carnival Day’s violence, were swept into a strange corridor and pursued by deadly white threads, then entered the Mermaid Game to recover Hua Sisi. After winning back a Perfect Evolution Potion, Xu Huo rejected Miss Zhai’s offer to work for Fish Banquet Tower and escaped as the tower shifted the room into a collapsing pit.

• Xu Huo fought off the Giant Eyed Fish Player’s group, learned what he could about Feaster, and stayed with the Painted Woman through the start of Carnival Day.
• Xu Huo and the Painted Woman were swept into a shifting corridor with Shi Shuai and other Players, where deadly white threads pursued them and an Easter Egg pouch released attacking item fish.
• Xu Huo’s group emerged on the Twelfth Floor, fought through the tower’s hunting groups, and learned about the Mermaid Game and its Mermaid Masks.
• Xu Huo entered the Mermaid Game with Hua Sisi and the round-faced Player, then won through successive dice wagers while Hua Sisi served as a Mermaid stake.
• Xu Huo risked a Perfect Evolution Potion in a high-stakes game, recognized that Players were sabotaging the dice to stop anyone winning it, and ended the game by interfering with their rolls.
• No. 1 and No. 6 tried to buy the Potion, but a shark-Masked attendant summoned Xu Huo to meet Miss Zhai.
• Xu Huo rejected Miss Zhai’s offer to work for Fish Banquet Tower and unleashed Time Power, forcing the tower to shift the room into a collapsing pit as he escaped behind a Water Rubik's Cube barrier.

Xu Huo was caught in the chaos caused by Fish Banquet’s Dungeon items, pursued the shifting space inside the tower, and recovered a possible P6S Perfect Potion. The arc ended with Lan Huai Xie bringing Xu Huo and several companions to District 001 while Fish Banquet attacked the group they left behind.

• Xu Huo rescued a captured player from her pursuers and learned that Fish Banquet trafficked players, while the painted woman showed him a game tracking an escaped Dungeon item.
• The item fish and its tentacled companion attacked the tower, then scattered Xu Huo, Shi Shuai, the painted woman, and other players across a sealed zoo and Fish Banquet spaces.
• Xu Huo and his companions fought Fish Banquet players and the tuxedoed Player as the item fish disrupted their battles and swallowed players.
• Shi Shuai killed the long-haired man, explained that Super Players needed a Super Dungeon, and gave Xu Huo a frame that could open a path to District 001 twice.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman entered a shifting castle with a group of players and young heirs, then became trapped in an unstable space while searching for a naturally formed Space Artifact.
• Lan Huai Xie introduced himself and described District 001 as a black spatial collapse briefly spread through the room before receding.
• Xu Huo used Shi Shuai’s frame to reach a hidden space, where the gourmand’s Balloon tested him and directed him to a green syringe that might contain a genuine P6S Perfect Potion.
• Xu Huo, the painted woman, and Lan Huai Xie escaped to District 001 as masked Fish Banquet players attacked, and Lan Huai Xie took them to a Lan family villa.