Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo investigated the implants in East District players and discovered that each chip was surrounded by a toxin, then spread a rumor linking their strength to a potion called “White Blood.” The Rebel Army followed by announcing that chips had been found in East District players’ skulls, encouraging others to investigate their purpose.

• Xu Huo left the breakfast shop after surviving an attack by a glasses man and decided not to pursue the Rebel Army further.
• Xu Huo had a doctor examine two East District players’ corpses and found tiny chips surrounded by a toxin in both brains.
• Xu Huo theorized that Zheng Yuci was using the chips and toxin in dangerous experiments to enhance and control East District players.
• Xu Huo sent a chip to Xin Rong for analysis and spread a half-true rumor that East District players used a strength-enhancing Potion called “White Blood.”
• The Rebel Army announced that chips had been found inside East District players’ skulls, prompting speculation about their purpose.

Players converged on Yuquan City after learning that Zheng Yuci possessed the White Blood Potion, while the Rebel Army attacked Agor’s facilities. As the city emptied and Agor’s response remained uncertain, Xu Huo explained that Zheng Yuci was a mental-energy-focused Super Evolver whose years of effort would be wasted.

• Outer District Players and Players from other cities moved toward Yuquan City, hoping to obtain the White Blood Potion and escape Agor’s control.
• The Rebel Army destroyed Agor’s Laboratories and offices while Players caused chaos in the city.
• Qiao Qiao and Old Zhou met Xu Huo after Lin Cao disappeared, and they discussed whether Agor would protect Zheng Yuci.
• Xu Huo said Agor would likely use East District Players to test the response, since everyone was watching to see whether the company would defend Zheng Yuci.
• Xu Huo explained that the city’s Mutated Plants had been planted to counter mental-energy threats and revealed that Zheng Yuci was a mental-energy-focused Super Evolver.

At Agor headquarters, Zheng Yuci manipulated two A-class players and prepared for the assault by Outer District Players as battles erupted across Yuquan City. As the defenses suddenly vanished and the attackers rushed the building, Xu Huo stayed back, and the masked boy guessed that Zheng Yuci was his goal.

• Zheng Yuci learned that more than a hundred Outer District Players were outside Agor headquarters and ordered two A-class players to disable the defensive barrier if an attack failed within three minutes.
• Outer District Players launched successive assaults on Agor and the municipal government, breaking through barriers but suffering heavy losses against East District Players.
• A later group breached Agor's defenses, but the barrier and newly prepared defensive items suddenly vanished, prompting the attackers to rush the building.
• Old Zhou urged Xu Huo to join the attack, but Xu Huo watched from the rooftop while Qiao Qiao and Old Zhou left.
• The masked boy appeared beside Xu Huo and said he had figured out that Xu Huo's goal was Zheng Yuci, then asked whether Xu Huo held a grudge against her.

Xu Huo discussed the Rebel Army’s motives and Zheng Yuci with the masked youth, then tasked him with watching Agor’s headquarters while he investigated Yuquan City’s centralized water system. The fighting around Agor was intensifying, but the Rebel Army had yet to make its move.

• The masked youth admitted he had gone to investigate Zheng Yuci, and Xu Huo questioned whether he wanted revenge.
• Xu Huo argued that the Rebel Army had exposed Agor’s player modification program to prevent Agor from controlling Yuquan City’s future, and linked its cause to the old Holy Sword Society’s ideals.
• Xu Huo admitted he had invented a righteous reason to persuade the masked youth, and they discussed how to kill Zheng Yuci, who could enter the Station.
• Xu Huo gave the masked youth a Communicator and asked him to watch Agor’s headquarters while he handled something else.
• Xu Huo obtained a map of the East District’s water supply system and recognized that Agor’s centralized control of the city’s water could serve his purposes.

Xu Huo watched footage of the battle around Agor headquarters and assessed the powerful East District Players who had thwarted repeated bombing attempts. Players from the same Sub-district broke through the headquarters’ barrier, and the fighting moved inside as the attackers searched for people to interrogate.

• Xu Huo planted King Fungus on the Nuwa Stone to cultivate a backup cure for the toxin used on modified Players.
• Xu Huo reviewed footage revealing a Spatial Super Evolver who contained spatial explosions and a white-haired old man who delivered precise, lethal attacks from inside an Agor building.
• Outer District Players repeatedly failed to bomb Agor headquarters as the Spatial Super Evolver stopped their spatial explosives and the old man supported him.
• Players from the same Sub-district joined the battle, detonated a spatial explosive, and broke through the barrier outside Agor headquarters’ main building.
• The fighting moved inside Agor headquarters, where attackers searched the building and an Outer District Player killed a wounded East District Player who mocked them.

As the Rebel Army’s coordinated explosions threw Yuquan City into chaos, Xu Huo realized Agor had activated devices beneath the city, raising containment barriers that divided it into sections. Trapped inside one of the barriers, the masked youth reported that he might be about to die.

• Players continued fighting around Agor headquarters as battles broke out elsewhere and some East District Players headed toward the explosions.
• Xu Huo used citizens’ videos to investigate the explosion sites and concluded the Rebel Army’s attacks had obscured its true objective.
• Xu Huo suspected Agor’s underground devices were more than a master switch for the Jammer, then saw a pale-blue beam rise above the city.
• Containment barriers surged up and joined into rings, dividing Yuquan City and trapping Players between them.
• Xu Huo retrieved the Nuwa Stone, tested the barrier with Cube Space, and contacted the masked youth, who said he might be about to die.

Xu Huo and the Outer District Players were caught in Agor Company's moving containment barrier after the East District players vanished. The survivors briefly escaped the crush with a spatial interference device, but an old man attacked them with a boundary-cutting ability.

• The masked youth warned Xu Huo that the containment barrier was moving and Agor was targeting Outer District Players.
• The barrier contracted around the plaza, trapping the Outer District Players while the East District players vanished from the Sub-district.
• A player used a multiplying floor tile to push back the barrier, and the masked youth weakened one section with Twilight Divide.
• White beams killed three B-class players, then a second barrier slammed into the first and crushed the trapped players together.
• A player found a sufficiently powerful spatial interference device, ending the barrier trap, while an unnoticed boundary line divided the ground beneath the survivors.
• The old man appeared outside the vanished barrier and used A hair's breadth from life or death to slice more than half the players in two.

Xu Huo rescued Jiang Chengfeng from Agor’s attack, then moved to destroy Agor headquarters and its barrier-generating instruments. An East District Super Evolver intervened, but Xu Huo set off successive Space bombs and launched another blast inside the headquarters.

• Agor’s attack killed many trapped players, but Xu Huo pulled Jiang Chengfeng out of danger, accidentally shaving off his mask and hair.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Chengfeng introduced themselves and discussed the attack as the ring-wall barriers began to disappear.
• Xu Huo stopped near Agor headquarters and planted Space bombs, reasoning that the reinforced ground concealed the barrier-generating instruments.
• An East District Super Evolver arrived and erased Xu Huo’s first bomb, but Xu Huo detonated another and sent “Little Mushroom Cloud” through a Mental Portal into the headquarters.
• The Super Evolver contained the first blast’s shock wave but could not stop the near-simultaneous explosion inside Agor headquarters, while Xu Huo prepared a third Space bomb.

Xu Huo bombed Agor’s headquarters to draw out Zheng Yuci, and the resulting poison leak forced Teacher Zhao and the East District players to rescue those underground. Zheng Yuci relocated under guard, but the demon-Masked attacker intercepted her and found his weapons halted before they could reach her.

• Xu Huo used repeated explosions to destroy Agor’s headquarters and expose the underground buildings, where people remained trapped.
• A damaged building pierced the underground structure, releasing poisonous gas, and Teacher Zhao ordered players to contain the leak and rescue the researchers.
• Zheng Yuci emerged in a Protective Suit with two A-class players and flew toward another part of Yuquan City.
• Jiang Chengfeng and Xu Huo followed Zheng Yuci, and their group brought down her aircraft with a giant net.
• The demon-Masked attacker engaged Zheng Yuci while his allies held off her guards, but her darkness trapped him and his summoned weapons stopped a meter from her.

The Evil Ghost Mask attacked Zheng Yuci with artifacts and collapsed a section of a building, but Zheng Yuci evaded or neutralized nearly every strike. Xu Huo identified Zheng Yuci as a mental-type Super Evolver and assessed how his Mental Portals and Defense Artifact protected him.

• The Evil Ghost Mask used a hidden spike to attack Zheng Yuci, but a Mental Portal redirected it without injuring him.
• The Evil Ghost Mask used a metal strip to collapse part of the building, then attacked Zheng Yuci through the dust and wreckage.
• Zheng Yuci emerged unharmed while the Evil Ghost Mask's attacks had devastated the street.
• Jiang Chengfeng wondered how Zheng Yuci was avoiding so many artifacts, and Xu Huo explained that Zheng Yuci was a mental-type Super Evolver.
• Xu Huo recognized Zheng Yuci's precise Mental Portals and powerful spherical Defense Artifact as the reason the Evil Ghost Mask's attacks had failed.

Xu Huo watched Zheng Yuci fight the Ghost Mask and learned that she was involved in Agor Company's plan to control Yuquan City's Players through a sterilizing agent and experimental chips. As Zheng Yuci prepared to operate on the Ghost Mask, the Mutated Plants surged and he vanished, leaving Zheng Yuci to confront Xu Huo.

• Jiang Chengfeng questioned whether Zheng Yuci could sustain her mental power and whether Xu Huo was a mental or space-type Super Evolver.
• The Ghost Mask accused Zheng Yuci of controlling Yuquan City's Players and revealed that Agor Company had put a sterilizing agent in the city's water and air supply.
• Zheng Yuci trapped the Ghost Mask in Mental Portals, where a second version of her appeared and began cutting into his scalp for an experiment.
• The Mutated Plants across the street surged and covered the area in new leaves, forcing Zheng Yuci into the air and making the Ghost Mask disappear.
• Zheng Yuci spotted Xu Huo on a tilted building and asked if he had caused the disruption.

Xu Huo battled Zheng Yuci as their Spiritual Worlds clashed across the city, with Zheng Yuci’s manifested Honeycomb growing stronger over time. Xu Huo held his ground while spectators watched from a distance, but the duel remained unresolved.

• Zheng Yuci and Xu Huo vanished into their Spiritual Worlds as Mutated Plants spread throughout the neighborhood.
• Zheng Yuci used manifested hexagonal barriers to build his Honeycomb and try to trap or overwhelm Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo tested whether he could escape the Honeycomb’s range, then stopped shifting and fought through the Mental Portal while manifesting his own mental power.
• The battle swept across the city center, and East District players withdrew after more than a dozen players sent to contain the fight were killed.
• Jiang Chengfeng and Qiao Qiao watched from a safe distance as players wondered how long Xu Huo could withstand Zheng Yuci.

Xu Huo fought Zheng Yuci at Agor headquarters while trying to learn about White Blood and draw him into the Rebel Army’s trap. Zheng Yuci trapped Xu Huo in a deadly field of hexagonal portals, but Xu Huo escaped the seal and covered Zheng Yuci’s shoe with a shadowy hand.

• The Evil Ghost Mask told Xu Huo to lure Zheng Yuci to the ground, where the Rebel Army could kill him.
• Xu Huo headed to Agor headquarters, where Zheng Yuci followed and discussed his experiments, his Teacher, and the White Blood supply at the White Bear Laboratory.
• Zheng Yuci attacked Xu Huo with hexagonal barriers that formed a sealed arena of portals and relentless strikes.
• Xu Huo endured the assault with Defense Artifacts, used ambush items, and escaped beyond Zheng Yuci’s seal with City Sandbox.
• Xu Huo activated his manifested mental strength, and a black shadowy hand covered Zheng Yuci’s shoe.

Xu Huo battled Zheng Yuci across Agor headquarters as her hexagonal barriers grew into a city-spanning honeycomb and distorted their relative size. He collapsed the underground structures to destroy equipment interfering with Space Artifacts, but when he returned to the surface, he realized he had underestimated Zheng Yuci.

• Xu Huo used hidden Manifestations to attack Zheng Yuci while dodging her hexagonal barriers with Mental Portals.
• Zheng Yuci trapped Xu Huo in successive hexagonal chambers, and he escaped by slicing through them and fleeing into the Book Tower.
• Zheng Yuci’s barriers and the surrounding city grew larger, while she became enormous relative to Xu Huo and covered half the city with hexagons.
• Xu Huo tried the “Same Sub-district Portal,” but his Space Teleport Artifact still failed, so he entered the underground structures and destroyed their metal framework with the “Life Core.”
• The ground beneath Agor headquarters collapsed, and Xu Huo stopped when Teacher Zhao and East District players intervened.
• Xu Huo returned to the surface and realized he had underestimated Zheng Yuci.

Xu Huo and Zheng Yuci clashed across their Spiritual Worlds as the East District players tried to escape the expanding Honeycomb. Zheng Yuci discovered that Xu Huo had developed a second personality and attacked relentlessly, leaving Xu Huo immobilized beneath a barrage of hexagons.

• Zheng Yuci trapped the East District players in the Honeycomb, and Xu Huo warned Teacher Zhao that Zheng Yuci might have a backup plan involving the White Blood Potion.
• Teacher Zhao led three other East District players out of the Honeycomb, saw the two Spiritual Worlds tearing into each other, and sent for Old Qiao.
• Xu Huo increased his mental power enough to halt Zheng Yuci's expansion, but he estimated he could last only three minutes.
• Zheng Yuci silenced Xu Huo and tried to trap him inside a rapidly shrinking hexagon, but a physical black hand caught it.
• Zheng Yuci realized Xu Huo had developed a second personality and continued attacking as Xu Huo felt something inside him being torn away and became unable to move.

Zheng Yuci tested Xu Huo’s newly emerged childhood personality, but it merged back into Xu Huo and strengthened his mental abilities. The two resumed their fight, ending with Xu Huo wounded after breaking through Zheng Yuci’s Honeycomb barrier.

• Zheng Yuci trapped Xu Huo in powerful hexagons and watched as Xu Huo’s shadow personality struggled to emerge.
• The shadow personality grabbed Zheng Yuci and appeared to help him suppress Xu Huo’s main personality, but Xu Huo activated The Never-Dying Passerby.
• Jiang Chengfeng arrived and attacked Zheng Yuci, while Xu Huo pulled him out of danger through a Mental Portal.
• The shadow personality merged back into Xu Huo, whose exhaustion vanished and mental strength increased.
• Xu Huo and Zheng Yuci exchanged attacks, and Xu Huo shattered Zheng Yuci’s Honeycomb barrier but spat out blood.

Xu Huo tested his newly evolved ability to control mental power against Zheng Yuci, then uncovered the core of her Honeycomb Manifestation. The fight escalated when both revealed hidden attacks, and Zheng Yuci stabbed herself in the temple with an Artifact.

• Xu Huo realized he could freely control mental power within twenty meters, though Zheng Yuci's greater range and skill overwhelmed him.
• Xu Huo used his shadow Manifestations to break apart Zheng Yuci's Honeycomb and exposed a golden hexagon at its core.
• Zheng Yuci stabbed Xu Huo through the chest, but he survived by shifting aside and taunted her about his second personality.
• Xu Huo's shadow personality punched through Zheng Yuci's chest and tried to tear out her heart, forcing her to repel it with golden light.
• The battle forced Xu Huo and Zheng Yuci down into an area overrun by Mutated Plants, where Zheng Yuci flattened the vegetation and stabbed her own temple with a spike-shaped Artifact.

Xu Huo and the East District players fought to stop Zheng Yuci, while Zhang Xian tried to kill them both through their linked injuries. Zheng Yuci escaped after revealing another White Blood cache and inviting Xu Huo to meet his teacher, leaving Xu Huo with a puzzle ball.

• Zheng Yuci opened Mental Portals and revealed that Zhang Xian was trying to stab himself to kill them both.
• The East District players battled the Rebel Army as Zheng Yuci's Spiritual World kept others away from him and Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo brought Zhang Xian into a Mental Portal and helped him attack Zheng Yuci, but Zheng Yuci killed Zhang Xian and Zhang Xian revived.
• Zhang Xian used a Short Arrow to pierce his heart and Zheng Yuci's, while Xu Huo told him he had already achieved his goal.
• Zheng Yuci sealed his wound inside the Operating Room and revealed the location of another White Blood supply and his surgical records.
• Zheng Yuci invited Xu Huo to meet his teacher, then disappeared and left a puzzle ball for Xu Huo to catch.

After Zheng Yuci escaped, Xu Huo fought off the Players who tried to attack him and forced the Rebel Army’s leaders to flee. Teacher Zhao gave Xu Huo a potion to end the confrontation, but it was not the White Blood he needed, so Xu Huo disappeared and Teacher Zhao ordered the East District Players to the Ocean Evolution Base.

• Zheng Yuci escaped, and the Evil Spirit Mask ordered some Rebel Army forces to retreat while the others prepared to fight.
• Xu Huo learned that the White Bear Laboratory had been destroyed and that the Rebel Army had not obtained its White Blood.
• Xu Huo identified Dove and the strategist as the Rebel Army’s leaders, then killed several Players who attacked him and drove the rest away.
• Dove and the strategist fled, and Teacher Zhao offered Xu Huo a metal case to make him leave the East District peacefully.
• Xu Huo found only an ordinary potion in the case, shattered it, and disappeared; Teacher Zhao ordered the East District Players to go to the Ocean Evolution Base.

Xu Huo searched the Ocean Evolution Base for the real "White Blood" and discovered that Zheng Yuci’s atomizer trap threatened surgically altered players most of all. The chapter ended with Teacher Zhao realizing the danger and Xu Huo condemning Zheng Yuci and the East District.

• Xu Huo entered the burning Ocean Evolution Base through his Spiritual World while Mutated Plants overwhelmed the facility and players fought outside.
• Xu Huo searched the underground Laboratories for the real "White Blood," suspecting the Potion used by East District players was not the original.
• Xu Huo found two players trying to open a black metal box and warned them before Teacher Zhao arrived and identified it as an atomizer.
• Teacher Zhao explained that releasing the Potion could poison Yuquan City, while Xu Huo reasoned that Zheng Yuci might have hidden two other connected boxes.
• Xu Huo asked how many East District players Zheng Yuci had operated on, leading Teacher Zhao to realize the trap could kill the already-poisoned test subjects.
• Xu Huo called Zheng Yuci a lunatic and asked whether the East District players were crazy too.