Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo rescued Yan Jiayu from the Suitcase Man and traveled with her and Unpolished Jade’s group toward a high-risk Dungeon. After Xu Huo demonstrated how much his Spatial Evolution had improved, Yan Ping detected someone ahead.

• Xu Huo put away the Ability’s notes and considered the unknown substance from the Suitcase Man’s black space and the chance that the Suitcase Man might track him to District 014.
• Yan Jiayu recovered, thanked Xu Huo for rescuing her, and learned to use the items and instruments he had prepared.
• Xu Huo, Yan Jiayu, Unpolished Jade, and the others set out on foot, and Xu Huo noticed that two of Unpolished Jade’s companions were stronger than they appeared.
• Xu Huo used Space Rays and Mental Portal to clear a wave of Mutated Plants and move the group ten thousand meters away.
• Xu Huo realized his Spatial Evolution had improved greatly, and Yan Jiayu asked him to teach her Spatial Evolution in exchange for teaching him Body Evolution.
• Yan Ping detected someone ahead and stopped the group.

Xu Huo and Unpolished Jade’s group struggled to cross a Sub-district where intelligent Mutated Plants surged in massive waves and disrupted their teleportation devices. After escaping the plants’ pursuit through the air, they landed outside the active area, where several companions sensed a new danger.

• Xu Huo rescued a badly wounded player from Mutated Plants, but the man died before he could speak.
• Unpolished Jade’s group found that the Sub-district’s concentrated energy made their teleportation items misdirect them, leaving them farther from their destination as a plant wave approached.
• Xu Huo used layers of spatial barriers and Spatial Cutlines to hold off the Mutated Plants, then led the group high into the air.
• The Mutated Plants piled up beneath the group to raise the ground toward them, so Xu Huo moved them away and they used the Mental Portal to escape the active area.
• Several members of the group sensed something alarming as soon as they landed.

Xu Huo and Unpolished Jade’s group fought mutant monkeys and a corrosive insect swarm while traveling through the dangerous forest, then reached a deep pit leading to the underground Ruins. As they descended, Xu Huo pressed Unpolished Jade to reveal what valuable thing she sought there.

• Xu Huo and the others fought mutant monkeys that used portals, then sheltered in a Location Item after the creatures killed two bounty hunters.
• The group left the monkeys behind but encountered a corrosive insect swarm and fled until they escaped, suffering injuries and equipment damage.
• Yan Ping’s group decided to escort Unpolished Jade’s party to the destination but not enter the underground Ruins.
• Two days later, Xu Huo and the others found a deep circular pit where the Mutated Plants bent away from the opening.
• As the group descended into the pit, Xu Huo asked Unpolished Jade to explain what valuable item she was seeking in the Ruins.

Unpolished Jade explained that recovering her aunt’s remains could secure her a vast inheritance and greater standing in her family. Xu Huo and the others descended deep underground, discovered a carved passage containing valuable minerals, and continued toward the ruins as they considered what might be living below.

• Unpolished Jade told Xu Huo that her grandfather’s inheritance included extensive businesses and that finding her aunt’s remains could improve her share and family status.
• Xu Huo and Unpolished Jade exchanged questions about their ambitions, then left their futures unresolved.
• The group descended nearly 20,000 meters underground, where their instruments detected breathable air and the sinkhole remained unchanged.
• They found a spacious passage carved into the rock, and Unpolished Jade suspected it had been made by the Survivors.
• Uncle Qiao identified valuable A-class mineral in the passage and suggested a large Mutant Animal might have carried it there.
• Yan Jiayu noticed an unusual fishy, fragrant smell, and Xu Huo urged the group to hurry deeper underground.

Xu Huo, Unpolished Jade, and the others searched the endless underground passages for the remains of Unpolished Jade’s aunt, following a strange scent that Yan Jiayu traced to mineral-fed plants. Their search revealed that a giant python had disguised its body as a passageway, leaving them to confront the mystery of its abnormal anatomy.

• Unpolished Jade and the group traveled through the passages but lost the locator signal and found no sign of people or Mutant Animals.
• Yan Jiayu and a middle-aged A-class player identified a passage by its unusual scent, and Yan Jiayu later discovered that plants had absorbed minerals that might have come from Mutant Animal waste.
• Unpolished Jade decided to continue the search, while Xu Huo reminded Yan Jiayu to keep her helmet on and asked when she expected to enter the Dungeon.
• A passageway snapped shut around the middle-aged player, but she escaped, cut it apart, and exposed a giant python hiding along the wall.
• Granny Qiao pulled the snake’s corpse free and examined its unusual membranous cavity, where rocks and grass had formed inside its body.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu traveled with Unpolished Jade’s group through the underground passages, questioning their motives and the reliability of their equipment. They found traces of human habitation and encountered two stranded B-class players who said the Dungeon had trapped them underground.

• Yan Jiayu suspected the Giant Python had been in suspended animation, and the group grew more cautious as they continued through the passages.
• During a break, Yan Jiayu questioned Unpolished Jade’s motives and equipment, while Xu Huo warned her that mental interference might be affecting them.
• Unpolished Jade changed their route after the passages became blocked by collapsed rock, and the group returned toward the sinkhole before exploring the opposite direction.
• The group found remnants of structures and signs of human habitation, giving Unpolished Jade hope that her aunt had passed that way.
• They encountered Zhuo Mingfeng and another B-class player, who said they had entered the Dungeon by accident and could not escape.

Unpolished Jade searched an underground settlement for her aunt’s remains and found a bracelet confirming that her aunt had died there. As the group visited a cemetery of unidentified graves, Xu Huo discussed the settlement’s unusual residents and arranged to return to the sinkhole.

• Zhuo Mingfeng brought Xu Huo and the others to an underground city where locals told Unpolished Jade to search a warehouse and a cemetery for her aunt.
• An elderly local recognized two people in Unpolished Jade’s group photo but said outsiders’ belongings were stored in a warehouse.
• Unpolished Jade found a broken bracelet bearing her aunt’s Laboratory emblem and asked Zhuo Mingfeng to take the group to the cemetery.
• Yan Jiayu told Xu Huo that many locals had genetic diseases and poor eyesight, and that Players were preparing for the Mobile Sub-district to move away.
• Zhuo Mingfeng led the group to the cemetery, where Unpolished Jade and the others began searching the graves.
• Xu Huo asked Zhuo Mingfeng about a huge rock-covered snake and requested help returning to the sinkhole; Zhuo Mingfeng agreed.

Xu Huo discovered that toxins and mental interference had made him and his companions hallucinate an underground ruin, and he began searching the real passages for Yan Jiayu. His Spiritual World was unusually quiet, and he could not find his other three personalities.

• Xu Huo saw a Giant Python swallow Yan Jiayu, then Granny Qiao attacked him and forced him into the chasm.
• Xu Huo used Transdimensional Space Power to escape the seemingly endless fall and found himself in a stone passage.
• Xu Huo vomited toxic blood and discovered King Fungus growing from his wounds while feeding on nearby ore.
• Xu Huo realized the underground ruins and the people they had seen were hallucinations caused by toxins and mental interference, and he set out to find Yan Jiayu and the others.
• Xu Huo opened his Spiritual World to resist the mental energy, but found that his other three personalities were missing from the Book Tower.

Xu Huo recovered the memories Dr. Zhang had erased and learned the truth about Xu Zhi’s death. As the three versions of himself emerged in the Book Tower, his mental energy transformed the Spiritual World.

• Xu Huo struggled against the underground mental energy, failed to enter the Mirror World, and resisted Dr. Zhang’s hallucinations.
• Xu Huo crossed the broken bridge in his Spiritual World and recovered memories of Dr. Zhang’s wager and Xu Zhi’s death.
• Xu Huo remembered that Xu Zhi had killed himself trying to save him after Xu Huo lost the wager with Dr. Zhang.
• Xu Huo’s grief unleashed his mental energy, causing the Book Tower to melt into black liquid.
• Xu Huo’s childhood, teenage, and younger selves emerged through three doors, each carrying a distinct object or weapon.

Xu Huo integrated his divided personalities and transformed his Spiritual World into a vast, shifting network of towers before awakening in the underground nest. He found a strange metal box containing three people, including a bounty hunter who wanted to remain hidden, and suspected they were searching for something.

• Xu Huo merged with his younger selves, turning his Spiritual World white before rebuilding it into countless shifting towers.
• Xu Huo opened a book that revealed a dagger, a playing card, and a black page, then closed it and awakened in the white nest.
• Xu Huo found that the King Fungus had cleared the toxins and Mutated Plants, then discovered a metal box buried beneath the plants.
• Xu Huo opened the box and found three people, including the Golden-eyed Player, who attacked briefly before proposing they separate and leave each other alone.
• Xu Huo questioned why the Golden-eyed Player wanted to stay and suspected that the three were looking for something.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu navigated the mental-energy interference in the underground passages and learned that the Golden-eyed Player was searching for a Super Artifact. The Golden-eyed Player’s directional instrument then pointed at Xu Huo.

• Xu Huo questioned the Golden-eyed Player about his search and learned that the man believed the underground passages had been dug by Mutated Plants.
• Xu Huo found Yan Jiayu trapped by Mutated Plants, freed her, and explained that the ruin and snake she had experienced were illusions caused by mental interference.
• The Golden-eyed Player admitted he was searching for items left by an injured Super Player and negotiated with Xu Huo to share whatever they found.
• Xu Huo expanded his Spiritual World to shield the Golden-eyed Player, who revealed that his directional instrument tracked the Sub-district’s most concentrated energy.
• The directional instrument spun rapidly and pointed straight at Xu Huo.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu followed the Golden-eyed Player’s instrument to a vast cavern rich in ore and Mutated Plants, where they began mining and Xu planted a sprouting Mutated Plant. After Xu buried the Nuwa Stone, mycelium emerged from his skin, while the plant adapted to the cavern and began releasing mental energy.

• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu followed the Golden-eyed Player’s instrument through a passage until they found higher-quality ore and dense Mutated Plants.
• The group entered a vast cavern filled with multicolored ore, and Xu brought out robots to begin mining.
• The Golden-eyed Player left to search nearby for the Super Artifact, while Xu and Yan Jiayu stayed behind to collect ore.
• Xu planted the sprouting Mutated Plant in a crack in the cavern wall and named it the Goddess Vine.
• Xu buried the Nuwa Stone, and mycelium began emerging from his skin until he had to remove his Protective Suit.
• The Goddess Vine adapted quickly to the cavern and began releasing mental energy.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu followed the Golden-eyed Player and his companions to an underground fissure, where they uncovered a trap involving a micro bomb and a swarm of snake-like Mutated Plants. The Players escaped into the fissure with the box, while Xu Huo used his metal box to stop the vines from targeting him and Yan Jiayu.

• Xu Huo rested among the Mutated Plants, then packed away the Nuwa Stone and King Fungus before leaving with Yan Jiayu and the Players.
• The Golden-eyed Player led them to an underground crevice where Yan Jiayu used a white Manifestation to retrieve human bones.
• One Player suddenly jumped into the fissure, but Yan Jiayu pulled him back and knocked him unconscious.
• Xu Huo sealed the fissure with Space Power, caught the Golden-eyed Player and the Player with the missing fingers, and confronted them about their plan.
• Snake-like Mutated Plants burst from the fissure and attacked Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu as the two Players escaped below with the box and their unconscious companion.
• Xu Huo set out his metal box, causing the snake vines lunging at them to stop as if they had lost their target.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu followed the snake vines deep underground and discovered their enormous main stalk, while the Golden-eyed Players searched for the artifact buried beneath it. The chapter left all of them near the artifact, with the Golden-eyed Players realizing that retrieving it could awaken the scale vine or trap them underground.

• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu were enclosed in a ball of rocks and snake-vine calyxes, which carried them deeper underground.
• Xu Huo found the snake vines' massive main stalk growing beside an underground water source and warned Yan Jiayu that disturbing it could force them to flee the sub-district.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu waited by the underground river as the Golden-eyed Players emerged from their box and approached the main stalk.
• The Golden-eyed Player explained that his relative had hidden an artifact beneath the scale vine to keep it from the game and future players.
• The Golden-eyed Players used a detector to locate the artifact, then realized it lay five thousand meters underground and that retrieving it could disturb the vine or leave them trapped.

Xu Huo retrieved a powerful Origin Stone artifact from the scaled vines’ main plant and escaped underground with Yan Jiayu after killing the three Golden-eyed Players who tried to take it. They later found Unpolished Jade unconscious and badly injured, with her two companions missing.

• Xu Huo entered the underwater passage and cut an artifact free from the scaled vines’ main plant, triggering a violent surge that swept him and the artifact into the river.
• Xu Huo used Time Power and Space Power to seize the artifact and escape the vines, while a force from above knocked the Golden-eyed Player’s artifact and metal cases into the water.
• Xu Huo retrieved the artifact and cases, then killed the three Golden-eyed Players when they tried to take the artifact back.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu escaped the underground current, agreed the likely Super Artifact made from Origin Stone belonged to Xu Huo, and searched for a way out.
• Yan Jiayu found a bag of personal effects containing a whistle marked Z.N. Jefferson, and Xu Huo kept the bag and a damaged Communicator to examine later.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu found Unpolished Jade unconscious near the sinkhole; Yan Jiayu treated her, and they noticed her two companions were missing.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu helped Unpolished Jade recover a nameplate bearing Edwards’s name, giving her a trace of her aunt and hope of securing her family estate. After the others left, Xu Huo learned from a recording how the Golden-eyed Player had pursued a hidden Super Artifact, then returned to District 011 when the Ticket channel opened.

• Unpolished Jade woke up, recognized Edwards’s nameplate, and said she could use it to secure her inheritance through the Game Government.
• Unpolished Jade gave Yan Jiayu a life-saving artifact and promised Xu Huo his share, then left with Yan Ping and the others using a teleportation item.
• Xu Huo sent Yan Jiayu to another Sub-district with the Inversion Ring and stayed behind to plant the Goddess Vine.
• Xu Huo watched a recording that revealed the Golden-eyed Player had recruited bounty hunters to search for a hidden Super Artifact after torturing a middle-aged man for information.
• Xu Huo put the rapidly growing Goddess Vine in a large box and returned to District 011 when the Ticket channel opened.

Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle and waited for news from District 039 while trying to meet Hua Han Werner, who had become difficult to reach. Roy Clemens later confirmed that the Werner family was cultivating a new candidate and offered to help Xu Huo find replacement items and instruments.

• Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle, where Mr. Dong told him Dr. Deng was visiting a friend and Meng Cun was in the garden.
• After resting, Xu Huo tried to arrange a meeting with Hua Han Werner, but the Werner family and Hua Han's residence both said he was unavailable.
• Xu Huo concluded that the Werner family had likely found a new investment while continuing its usual support for him, and he decided not to contact Hua Han again for now.
• Xu Huo began making social calls to replace items and instruments lost in Circus City.
• Roy Clemens told Xu Huo that a young Noble from a Sub-district had taken the Werner name and was appearing at important events as the family's new candidate.
• Roy offered to help Xu Huo find decent items and instruments, and Xu Huo invited him to dinner before they parted on good terms.

Xu Huo attended a secret auction with Roy Clemens, bought several items, and realized someone was deliberately driving up prices and sabotaging his private deals. He confronted Kag Herta, then received an evasive conciliatory gift from the Werner family before dawn.

• Roy Clemens took Xu Huo to an anonymous members-only auction, where Xu Huo bought a defensive Space Artifact and several other items.
• Xu Huo bid on Mother's Wings, but an unknown bidder repeatedly outbid him, and the same person interfered with his attempts to arrange private deals.
• Xu Huo recognized Kag Herta among a group from the Werner family and asked whether they had ordered the targeting.
• Kag Herta moved to pursue Xu Huo, but Xu Huo pinned him with Time Power and left the resort with Roy Clemens.
• Before dawn, two young Nobles arrived as Werner family representatives with a gift, but they did not explain Kag Herta's actions.

Xu Huo attended the banquet arranged by the Werner and Herta families and demanded an apology from Kag Herta. When the Herta faction tried to kill him, Xu Huo slaughtered the assembled players, though one escaped into the Station.

• Xu Huo accepted the invitation to the banquet and asked Lady Lily and Roy Clemens to investigate Kag Herta.
• Xu Huo arrived at Songtao Hotel, where the Herta family’s representatives tried to smooth over the dispute without Kag Herta present.
• Xu Huo demanded that Kag Herta apologize in person and threatened to kill the 123 players gathered on the floors above and below.
• Xu Huo destroyed the banquet floor and killed most of the players who attacked him, despite their device disabling items.
• Xu Huo killed more than 120 players, but one escaped the lockdown range and fled into the Station.

Xu Huo confronted Asis Werner and District 011’s elite players after attacking Kag Herta, using his Transdimensional Space Power to kill three A-class elites. As the standoff threatened to escalate, he offered Outer District Players notes on Super Evolution in exchange for killing anyone present.

• Xu Huo evaded the players and tracking devices pursuing him, then infiltrated Kag Herta’s residence and immobilized him with Space and Time Power.
• Asis Werner arrived with dozens of A-class players and demanded that Xu Huo release Kag Herta, but Xu Huo refused and warned that he would kill exactly 123 people.
• Asis ordered an attack and activated a large-scale blockade, but Xu Huo used his Spiritual World and Transdimensional Space Power to make three A-class elites and their equipment disappear.
• As the players and onlookers fell silent, Xu Huo invited Outer District Players to kill someone in exchange for his notes on Super Evolution.