Chapter Summaries

The Fish Banquet Tower’s players tried to retrieve the tentacled item fish, but it upgraded and unleashed powerful Time Power along with a new spatial ability. Xu Huo and Shi Shuai remained outside its limited range as the Fish Banquet Tower sealed the space and prepared to contain it.

• The player in formalwear pulled the shrinking item fish from its space and trapped it in nets, but its tentacles attacked the nearby players.
• Five Fish Banquet Tower reinforcements used boxes to contain the tentacles while asking where the item came from.
• The item fish swelled, burst, and revealed a black tentacled lump that released Time Power and froze the reinforcements.
• Xu Huo warned Shi Shuai and the others to stay still as the Fish Banquet Tower players broke free and called for reinforcements.
• The Fish Banquet Tower sealed the space, leaving the surviving players trapped while Xu Huo and Shi Shuai discussed the item’s upgrade.

After the prop fish swallowed the banquet hall, Xu Huo and the others were scattered into a vast zoo full of Mutant Animals. Xu Huo found Shi Shuai and the painted woman, then watched the Player in formalwear struggle against the tentacle prop while preparing to claim whatever remained afterward.

• The prop fish reappeared, swallowed the tentacle prop and the banquet hall, and scattered everyone through a spatial passage; the tentacle prop broke free and killed seven people.
• Xu Huo landed in a zoo, fought off attacks from Mutant Animals and spiders, and used an invisibility prop to flee toward an area with fewer poisonous insects.
• Shi Shuai and the painted woman emerged from the forest while fleeing a pack of Mutant Beasts, and a tentacle from the prop attacked the Player in formalwear.
• The Player in formalwear tried to escape through a Space Portal, but the prop fish disrupted it and drew the tentacle prop back into the fight.
• Xu Huo surveyed the sealed zoo and waited nearby as the Player in formalwear battled the tentacle prop; two groups of Players then approached Xu Huo and his companions.

Xu Huo and the other Players fought alongside the zoo’s hostile items against a tuxedoed Player from Fish Banquet Tower. The tuxedoed Player was killed, and his scattered devices released poisonous mist.

• The Players explained that the zoo blocked items and trapped visitors until the daily system-maintenance window, and suggested waiting for the tuxedoed Player to die so they could take his equipment.
• The tuxedoed Player charged toward Xu Huo and the others, and Xu Huo trapped him with his Manifestations before the tentacle item and item fish disrupted his defenses.
• The tuxedoed Player fired three Space Rays at Xu Huo, but Xu Huo used his Wormhole Flower interference device to blunt them.
• Several Players attacked the tuxedoed Player while the tentacle item struck him, destroying one of his arms.
• A Player’s spatial triangle canceled the tuxedoed Player’s barrier, and two more triangles cut his throat as Xu Huo watched.
• The tuxedoed Player fell and exploded, scattering devices that released poisonous mist.

Xu Huo and several others were swallowed by the Artifact fish and watched Fish Banquet Players use spider-shaped devices to immobilize people and animals while pursuing them through space. Shi Shuai explained how the spider locks worked but admitted he could not make them, leaving the group trapped as the pursuers closed in.

• Poisoned Players found that their Antidote Syringes barely helped, while others discussed the destroyed instruments and the missing Artifact fish.
• The Artifact fish swallowed Xu Huo, his companions, and two Players, carrying them through a flexible space portal inside the zoo.
• Six Fish Banquet Players released spider-shaped devices that immobilized nearby Players and small predators.
• The Fish Banquet Players detected the Artifact fish and pursued it with a fast tadpole-shaped instrument as it shifted through the zoo.
• Shi Shuai explained that the spider locks used Space Power to briefly control movement, then admitted he did not know how to make them.
• The trapped Players urged Shi Shuai to get them out before the game channels reopened that night.

Shi Shuai, Xu Huo, and their companions were trapped in a Fish Banquet conference room with their props and devices disabled, but the prop fish disrupted the Fish Banquet Players’ defenses. Xu Huo found a concealed space passage and led the group out into a corridor, where their equipment worked again and they scattered.

• The prop fish dropped Xu Huo and four others into a Fish Banquet conference room as its Players sealed the exits and disabled their devices.
• The group dodged Spider Locks and fought Fish Banquet Players while poison gas threatened them beyond the barriers.
• The prop fish appeared, then swallowed several Fish Banquet Players trapped between the barriers.
• Xu Huo noticed the Fish Banquet Players were escaping through concealed Space Power passages and led his companions through one.
• The five emerged in a corridor, regained use of their props and devices, and scattered in different directions.

Xu Huo hid in a room with the painted woman, where an old man asked about a suited Fish Banquet employee who had died. After leaving, Xu Huo learned the painted woman had told the old man that he killed the employee, though the old man had been concealing his desire for revenge.

• Xu Huo and the painted woman entered a room on the 53rd floor and found three Players, including an old man searching for someone in a Photo.
• Xu Huo recognized the suited Player in the Photo as a Fish Banquet employee and suggested the old man ask a Server about him.
• Another Player warned the old man that the suited employee served Cannibal Players, but the old man held back his anger.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman changed their appearances and left the room, and the painted woman told the old man that Xu Huo had killed the suited Player.
• Xu Huo questioned the painted woman about her lie, and she explained that she had recognized the old man's desire for revenge.

Xu Huo and the painted woman escaped Fish Banquet’s pursuers and took shelter with the buzz-cut Player, while Xu Huo considered how intelligent Dungeon items might disrupt the tower. The chapter left him with news that a strange fish capable of traveling through space had appeared on the sixty-ninth floor.

• Xu Huo fought off Fish Banquet Players and led the painted woman to the fifty-sixth floor, where they escaped into a room.
• The buzz-cut Player recognized Xu Huo and the painted woman, and Xu Huo explained that Fish Banquet was hunting him after their dispute.
• Xu Huo reasoned that releasing intelligent Dungeon items might throw Fish Banquet Tower into chaos, but the buzz-cut Player warned that the tower had likely prepared for such a tactic.
• Xu Huo recalled that a fish item’s spatial abilities had helped them enter and leave the sealed zoo, though he did not know where the fish had gone.
• Xu Huo saw a Communicator message reporting that a strange fish was traveling through space on the sixty-ninth floor.

Xu Huo fought his way through the Feast’s distorted building and battled the players waiting for him, but a powerful long-haired man trapped and nearly killed him and the painted woman. Just as Xu Huo stopped the man with two items, Bobo Fish appeared between them.

• Xu Huo took the painted woman with him and used “Seal Gate” to break the Feast players’ spatial barriers as he headed upstairs.
• The Feast players trapped Xu Huo on a transformed floor and attacked him with coordinated items and devices.
• Xu Huo used Time Power and a sound-wave device to kill several Feast players.
• A long-haired man appeared, sealed the floor, and battered Xu Huo through his water Rubik’s Cube barrier.
• The painted woman shielded Xu Huo, who stopped the long-haired man with “Three Seconds of Life” and “Heart of Innocence” as Bobo Fish appeared between them.

Shi Shuai rescued Xu Huo by crushing the powerful middle-aged player and taking his Distant Hometown tetrahedral pyramid. He revealed that becoming a Super Player required owning a Super Dungeon, while Xu Huo questioned whether anyone could truly escape the game's control.

• The item fish intervened as the middle-aged man tried to use Distant Hometown, and a hand emerging from a spatial rift shrank and pinned him.
• Shi Shuai stepped through the rift, broke the man's barrier, reclaimed the tetrahedral pyramid, and crushed the man to death.
• Shi Shuai confirmed that he was not yet a Super Player and claimed that players needed to obtain a Super Dungeon to become one.
• Shi Shuai told Xu Huo that A-class Wormhole Points held the best opportunities and hinted that some players followed paths beyond Super Evolution.
• Xu Huo asked whether Ability Evolution or Super Artifacts could free people from the game's control, and Shi Shuai said escape was impossible wherever the game held sway.

Xu Huo and the painted woman escaped Fish Banquet’s searches with Shi Shuai, who gave Xu Huo a disposable spatial device before leaving. Xu Huo continued searching for the person he had come to find, but the search was interrupted when three Players attacked them.

• Shi Shuai explained that Fish Banquet held many Dungeon items and gave Xu Huo an empty picture frame that could open a path to District 001 twice.
• Shi Shuai sent Xu Huo and the painted woman out of the space fish and left without revealing his name or exchanging contact details.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman decided to keep searching for the person they sought, then leave if they could not find them.
• An injured Player and two companions burst into the room, sealed off Xu Huo and the painted woman’s movement, and attacked with wind blades.

Xu Huo and the painted woman survived an attack while a wounded Player hid in their room, and Xu Huo considered how completely the game controlled Players, Artifacts, and even supposedly external spaces. His doubts about reversing the past led him to question how the painted woman had come into existence, and the chapter ended with him asking what she looked like when she first opened her eyes.

• A Player used the Ability "Helpless!" to bind everyone and attack Xu Huo, the painted woman, and the wounded Player, but Xu Huo escaped the barrier and defeated the two pursuers.
• Xu Huo allowed the wounded Player to hide in the room and decided with the painted woman to wait until the next day before going out.
• Xu Huo reflected that the game could reach Players even in simulated spaces and questioned whether Curved Time could change the past or erase the game.
• Xu Huo asked the painted woman how she came to be, then blocked outside observers and asked what she looked like when she first opened her eyes.

Xu Huo and the painted woman joined a group of Players entering a sealed space hidden behind a pocket door in the Fish Banquet Tower. They found a lavish castle filled with valuable materials, and the group believed they had hit the jackpot.

• Xu Huo questioned how the painted woman had come to life and whether she could be placed in an item slot, but she dismissed the idea.
• After the shark Masks stopped appearing, Xu Huo and the painted woman discovered that tracking items had marked them and changed their appearances.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman agreed to accompany a group of Players and young heirs into a sealed space, with Elder Ma expected to help them escape if necessary.
• The group entered a pocket door behind a storage rack, with Xu Huo bringing up the rear.
• Xu Huo and the others found a lavishly decorated castle whose hall floor was paved with Sub-class Stone.

Players explored the castle with the young scions, finding that most of its valuable gems and stones could not be removed while collecting portable ornaments and other goods. When a player triggered a hidden door and trapped himself with a young scion, Elder Ma cut through the door with a circular device.

• Players discovered that the castle's gems and Sub-class Stones could not be removed, though some portable vases, paintings, and ornaments could be taken.
• Xu Huo examined a vase and a reflective disc that recorded the painted woman's image, while Fat Player explained why such ornaments could be valuable to ordinary people.
• The young scions led the players deeper into the castle, where they found items without encountering danger through the Third Floor.
• A player triggered a hidden door and ended up trapped inside with a young scion as the door shut behind them.
• Elder Ma told his juniors to stay alert, then used a bladed circular device to cut through the hidden door.

Xu Huo and the other players explored the Castle with the young heir’s group, learning that the Feast’s administrator had sent them to find an unknown valuable item. After they reached the highest level, the Castle began shifting its rooms and corridors, scattering everyone and carrying the young heir’s group away.

• Elder Ma freed the young heir from the Secret Room, where Xu Huo found a pile of player skeletons.
• The injured Player claimed the young heir’s defensive barriers had hurt him, and the group questioned why the heirs had brought them inside.
• Xu Huo asked Elder Ma what the group was searching for, and the gemstone earring man said the Feast’s administrator had promised something valuable but had not identified it.
• The gemstone earring man invited the players to search while asking them to protect his group if danger arose.
• At the highest level, the Castle began moving its rooms and corridors, separating the players and carrying the young heir’s group away.
• The players pursued the young heir’s group, but the corridor flipped over and left them standing on the ceiling of the floor below.

As the Castle’s spaces shifted, Xu Huo and the gemstone earring man followed the painted woman into a stable chamber with seven entrances. Unable to detect a safe route, Xu Huo chose a green-gem-studded door, and the painted woman accidentally pulled off its doorknob.

• The painted woman guided Xu Huo toward a shifting opening, and he collided with the gemstone earring man before finding a square entrance formed by a corridor, doorway, and window.
• Xu Huo pulled the gemstone earring man out of the entrance, and the three of them slid into a chamber assembled from several spaces.
• The gemstone earring man explained that he and his companions were searching for naturally formed Space Artifacts, but his detector could not distinguish the seven entrances.
• Xu Huo chose a door decorated with green gemstones and asked the gemstone earring man to use his teleportation artifact if danger lay beyond it.
• The painted woman tried the door’s knob, and it came off in her hand.

Xu Huo, the painted woman, and the gemstone earring man were swept into a shifting space made of layered tetrahedrons, where they discovered corpses embedded in the walls. After Xu Huo touched one and watched it disintegrate, he concluded they were inside a world dominated by Space Power and might be trapped there.

• The floor carried Xu Huo, the painted woman, and the gemstone earring man through the opened door, which then sealed behind them.
• Xu Huo touched the rippling wall, revealing layers of moving tetrahedrons and a growing black spot within them.
• The gemstone earring man spotted a dead Player embedded in the wall, and Xu Huo found the corpse broke apart when he grabbed it.
• Xu Huo explained that Space Power dominated the place, while the gemstone earring man warned that its unstable space could be deadly.
• As another corpse appeared and vanished into fragments, Xu Huo said they would likely be sealed inside the space like the dead.

Xu Huo and the painted woman remained trapped inside a shifting spatial entity while the gemstone earring man searched for a way to contact his companions. As they waited, the man explained his family’s business and ideals, then offered Xu Huo a chance to learn how Player Families trained Super Evolvers.

• Xu Huo studied the spatial entity while the painted woman played a game, and the gemstone earring man tried devices to send out his location.
• The gemstone earring man offered Nutrient Agents made by his family, and the painted woman eagerly drank them.
• Xu Huo questioned why the gemstone earring man had visited Fish Banquet, and the man argued that it gave troublesome players a place to fight away from ordinary people.
• The gemstone earring man explained that Elder Ma might search for their bodies before leaving, and Xu Huo recognized that he was being offered a job.
• The gemstone earring man invited Xu Huo to learn how Player Families trained Super Evolvers, but Xu Huo thought of the Werner family and Hua Han Werner.

Xu Huo spoke with Lan Huai Xie about District 001 and its efforts to attract players before a growing black hole appeared in the room. As the apparent spatial collapse threatened to swallow them, Xu Huo questioned why Lan Huai Xie did not use a Ticket to escape.

• Lan Huai Xie introduced himself and explained District 001's history, its incentives for outside players, and the compensation fund paid to local players.
• The painted woman claimed she owned a city, then annoyed Lan Huai Xie by playing her game at full volume until Xu Huo asked her to turn it down.
• The painted woman noticed a black speck growing behind Lan Huai Xie, and it expanded into a dark hole that began swallowing the room.
• Lan Huai Xie warned of a spatial collapse and tried to activate an unstable Space Portal while the darkness spread.
• Xu Huo tested his Personal Panel, prepared a Ticket, and asked Lan Huai Xie why he would not use a Ticket to return to District 001.

Xu Huo, Lan Huai Xie, and the painted woman escaped the strange space compartment using Shi Shuai’s frame device, only to arrive in a sealed room full of traps. A Balloon claiming to be the Super Player’s gift recognized Xu Huo’s answer and sent the others away, then made him hop around before he grabbed it and threatened to destroy the place.

• Xu Huo questioned whether the blackness was a spatial collapse, and it receded without damaging the room.
• Xu Huo activated Shi Shuai’s frame device, and he, Lan Huai Xie, and the painted woman entered a passage that led to a dark, sealed space.
• A fish-shaped shadow prank startled Lan Huai Xie, and the painted woman triggered a Balloon resembling Shi Shuai.
• The Balloon asked for the Super Player’s name, and Xu Huo answered, “the gourmand,” correctly identifying him.
• The Balloon sent Lan Huai Xie and the painted woman away, then instructed Xu Huo to hop between spots until he grabbed it and threatened to destroy the place.

Xu Huo found the P6S Perfect Potion at Fish Banquet and escaped the shifting Castle with Lan Huai Xie and the others after masked pursuers attacked them. The group reached District 001 and took shelter at a Lan family villa, where Lan Huai Xie offered to show Xu Huo his energy-weapon factory the next day.

• Xu Huo retrieved a green syringe identified as a possibly genuine P6S Perfect Potion and left the hidden space at Fish Banquet.
• Xu Huo, the painted woman, Lan Huai Xie, and other players regrouped as the Castle's shifting corridors began to stabilize.
• Elder Ma opened a teleportation passage, but it vanished when masked Fish Banquet players emerged through Space Portals and attacked the group.
• Lan Huai Xie led Xu Huo, the Fat Player, and another female player through a passage to District 001, leaving an abandoned player behind.
• Lan Huai Xie welcomed the group to a Lan family villa and offered to take Xu Huo to see the family's energy-weapon factory the next day.