Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo fought three blue-robed players from the Lan family while the unfinished Super Dimensional Instrument threatened District 022. With help from the wounded man, he killed or trapped two attackers, leaving one facing him.

• A force broke the barrier around the city center, and law enforcement players tried to contain the man there before he escaped their formation.
• The blue-robed players demanded Xu Huo hand over his item, so he used Hand of Time and Space and Time Power against one while the others imprisoned the city and attacked him.
• Xu Huo dodged the blue-robed players’ attacks and fought his way toward the city center, where one of them sliced through half the city and killed many players.
• The wounded man used Magnetic Attraction to pull one blue-robed player within reach, allowing Xu Huo to swallow him in dark matter.
• The wounded man warned Xu Huo that the unfinished Super Dimensional Instrument could make everyone vanish if it broke, and the last blue-robed player demanded to know why Xu Huo was interfering in the Lan family’s affairs.

Xu Huo helped Lan Fangzhi reclaim the unstable Super Dimensional Instrument while District 022’s players fought to seize it. After District 022 unleashed a spatial shock that destroyed the city, the two escaped to another Sub-district with the Instrument.

• Xu Huo killed a blue-robed attacker with Time Power after the man trapped him and Lan Fangzhi under crushing pressure.
• Lan Fangzhi explained that the Super Dimensional Instrument was an unfinished Lan family shield that generated unstable Transdimensional Space Power, and Xu Huo offered to help retrieve it.
• Xu Huo surrounded the Instrument with Time Power, preventing District 022’s law enforcement players from reaching it.
• District 022’s players withdrew, then a spatial shock swept through the city and crushed the remaining people as Lan Fangzhi retrieved the Instrument.
• Lan Fangzhi transported the survivors near the city center to another city, and he and Xu Huo used a Return Ticket to leave District 022.

Xu Huo learned from Lan Fangzhi about the unstable Super Dimensional Instrument, how tightly such devices were controlled, and the advantages and constraints of A-class Wormhole Points. He then asked Lan Fangzhi about the Old Holy Sword Society and the attack on District 022.

• Lan Fangzhi separated the Super Dimensional Instrument into its chip and activation device and explained that the chip contained dangerous Transdimensional Space Power.
• Lan Fangzhi said the chip had likely come from a Ticketless Wormhole Point and that he had recovered it so it could not be used as a weapon against District 022.
• Lan Fangzhi explained that Super Dimensional Instruments were difficult to obtain and that most were restricted to registered use within their Sub-districts.
• Xu Huo said Transdimensional Space Power could interfere with Time Power, then asked Lan Fangzhi about Temporal Evolvers at A-class Wormhole Points.
• Lan Fangzhi described the strict controls and benefits of A-class Wormhole Points, and Xu Huo asked about the Old Holy Sword Society and the attack on District 022.

Lan Fangzhi told Xu Huo about the Holy Sword Society, the attack on District 022, and the elusive Bookworm before Xu learned more about District 022’s turmoil and its secret dealings. Xu copied the files for Lan Fangzhi and boarded a train to B11-003, where a crew-cut young man asked to inspect his saber, Green Moss.

• Lan Fangzhi explained that the new Holy Sword Society controlled A49-023 and had recently attacked a B-class sub-district to intercept trucks carrying trafficked Players.
• Lan Fangzhi described the rushed attack on District 022 and warned Xu Huo that the person using the name Bookworm might be an impostor.
• Xu Huo contacted Chai Sheng, Zhou Juanjuan, and the others, and learned from Zhou Juanjuan that District 022 was engulfed in Player War and that Leijie wanted to become a Player.
• Zhou Juanjuan gave Xu Huo files revealing District 022’s secret dealings with other governments and Player organizations, and Xu copied them for Lan Fangzhi.
• Xu Huo boarded a train to B11-003, checked for messages, and examined Green Moss before a crew-cut young man asked to see the saber.

Xu Huo heard Players discuss Aliens and the mysterious space around the dimensional tracks, then returned to his carriage. When a group of Players attacked him after lights-out, he quickly killed the silver-haired man who had targeted him.

• Xu Huo left after the crew cut man approached him and listened to Players in the dining car discuss the Aliens, dimensional tracks, and rumors about Game Government Base members.
• A green-haired female Player and a short-haired man talked about Players from A-class wormhole points, while other Players discussed Alien attacks and their behavior.
• The silver-haired man watched Xu Huo in the dining car, then returned to their carriage with the green-haired woman and the crew cut man.
• Two Players boarded the train, and after evening came, three men positioned themselves near the Transfer Carriages and rear carriage door before the lights went out.
• The silver-haired man rushed Xu Huo with a knife prop, but Xu Huo stopped the attack, seized him from behind, and snapped his neck.

Xu Huo survived a late-night attack aboard the train, then traveled with Tang Xu into the desert outside Hope City. After Xu Huo rescued a woman thrown from another flying vehicle, Tang Xu’s rival pursued them and demanded they abandon her.

• Xu Huo used his mental influence to expose and kill the silver-haired attacker, while a gemstone-handed Player killed two other attackers who fled into the next carriage.
• Xu Huo took the silver-haired man’s artifacts and rested; the next morning, he met Tang Xu, who invited him to travel together to B11-003.
• Xu Huo and Tang Xu left the Station in Tang Xu’s luxury flying vehicle and discussed the desert, Hope City, and a possible hunting trip.
• Xu Huo used a Mental Portal to save a young woman who had been thrown from a passing vehicle.
• Tang Xu’s rival pursued them and demanded that they throw the woman back into the desert.

Xu Huo and Tang Xu rescued a woman who had sold herself to Hui Peng, and Tang Xu freed her by burning her contract. Tang Xu then explained why self-sale remained legal in Zone 003.

• Tang Xu told Xu Huo that Hui Peng legally owned the woman because she had sold herself, and Hui Peng refused to sell her.
• The woman condemned the Hui family for making her parents ill in potion trials, then jumped from the aircraft.
• Xu Huo froze Hui Peng and his players with a look, forcing Hui Peng to hand over the contract.
• Tang Xu burned the contract and offered the woman a job so she could escape the Hui family.
• Tang Xu explained to Xu Huo that Zone 003 allowed people to sell themselves, despite protests against the practice.

Xu Huo arrived in Liujin City with Tang Xu, explored the desert metropolis, and learned about its brutal history and dangerous Sand Whale hunts. He booked a mental healing treatment for two days later and spent the afternoon visiting the city’s attractions.

• Xu Huo and Tang Xu entered Liujin City, where Tang Xu told him how a powerful musician’s family had been killed and the musician forced to sell his famous hands.
• Tang Xu spotted an upcoming Sand Whale hunting show, booked seats, and brought Xu Huo to his luxurious villa.
• After breakfast, Tang Xu arranged for a secretary to show Xu Huo around while he renewed a contract.
• Xu Huo booked a mental healing treatment for two days later and visited Liujin City’s attractions, including exhibits of desert fungi and mutant animals.
• Xu Huo learned that Sand Whales were swarming insects hunted as a popular attraction, and he bought two live ones.

Xu Huo explored Liujin City with Tang Xu, learned about Zone 003’s lawless trade in Aliens, and bought two One-Time Items before attending a Sand Whale hunt. The hunt had not yet begun when Xu Huo learned that the same woman owned Liujin Game and many of the city’s companies.

• Tang Xu told Xu Huo that retired players provided mental healing services in Liujin City, and Xu Huo decided to try them.
• Xu Huo read reports that the Holy Sword Society had seized a train carrying imprisoned players and learned about Zone 003’s trade in experimental Aliens.
• Xu Huo visited private venues with Tang Xu, bought a fog-releasing item and a target-marking item, and watched Tang order the company to sell off its stamina Potion stock.
• Xu Huo and Tang Xu boarded a spherical sightseeing vehicle to watch Liujin Game’s Sand Whale hunt.
• Tang Xu told Xu Huo that the new owner behind Liujin Game and many other companies was a woman.

Xu Huo reunited with Unpolished Jade in Liujin City, where she offered him a vast collection of powerful items and instruments in gratitude for saving her life. He asked her to arrange non-game-area simulation instruments instead, and the chapter ended as a hunting show began with a swarm of Sand Whales devouring Mutant Animals.

• Xu Huo recognized Unpolished Jade and joined her group aboard an aircraft with Tang Xu.
• Unpolished Jade explained that she had inherited a large family estate and presented Xu Huo with a list of valuable items and instruments as repayment.
• Xu Huo declined the collection as offered and asked Unpolished Jade to help acquire small- and large-scale non-game-area simulation instruments.
• Unpolished Jade agreed to have her think tank arrange the purchases, and she and Xu Huo toasted their friendship.
• The hunting show began as aircraft drove Mutant Animals from the sand, and a massive swarm of Sand Whales devoured them.

In Liujin City, Unpolished Jade told Xu Huo about the challenges of managing her newly inherited businesses and asked him to help assess whether people close to her could be trusted. They settled on a plan for him to assist when her relatives and friends came for mental therapy, then listened to a pianist perform.

• A Sand Whales hunt sent churning sand toward sightseeing aircraft, and an Alien sprayed venom into one aircraft, knocking its passengers unconscious before Liujin Game staff rescued them.
• Unpolished Jade returned to Liujin City with Xu Huo and explained that she had inherited her grandfather’s businesses but was unsure which people in the family she could trust.
• Unpolished Jade asked Xu Huo to help assess several relatives and friends coming for mental therapy, and he agreed.
• Unpolished Jade told Xu Huo she had prepared a gift for Yan Jiayu and invited a pianist known as the "Hand of Genius" to perform.
• Xu Huo listened as the pianist performed, while Unpolished Jade explained that a player from an A-class wormhole point had bought one of the musician’s hands.

After lunch with Unpolished Jade, Xu Huo met Tang Xu, who asked him to treat his comatose fiancée, Miss Zeng, a B-class Mental Evolver. After reviewing her treatment records and learning that her Spiritual World seemed to change with each attempt to enter it, Xu Huo asked Tang Xu whether he had ever seen its core Manifestation.

• Unpolished Jade invited a musician to lunch, where he spoke bleakly about the sun and Xu Huo replied that being unnoticed might be a good thing.
• Xu Huo and Unpolished Jade parted after lunch, and Xu Huo met Tang Xu, who admitted he needed help.
• Tang Xu explained that Miss Zeng had remained comatose for over three months after returning from a Dungeon, and that Doctors who tried to treat her had suffered serious Aftereffects.
• An expert described the hospital’s two mental-therapy methods and warned that entering Miss Zeng’s unstable Spiritual World was dangerous.
• Xu Huo reviewed Miss Zeng’s records, noticed that Doctors had encountered different Spiritual Worlds, and asked Tang Xu about her core Manifestation.

Xu Huo entered Miss Zeng’s unstable Spiritual World and found that several other worlds had been implanted within her own. At the doorway to her childhood home, he saw Dou Shengnan’s face and realized the figure was not actually her.

• Tang Xu authorized Xu Huo to enter Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World while experts monitored her condition.
• Xu Huo crossed Miss Zeng’s forest, underground tunnel, and pitch-black world, where painful faces surrounded him.
• Xu Huo found Miss Zeng’s original Spiritual World, a ruined street overrun by fragments of other worlds, and suspected someone had implanted them.
• Miss Zeng’s child personality appeared and ran toward the forest as Xu Huo continued down the street to a red-roofed house.
• When Xu Huo opened the house’s door, Dou Shengnan’s face appeared, and Xu Huo stopped his attack after realizing she was not really Dou Shengnan.

Xu Huo used Mirror Space inside Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World to separate her from Dou Shengnan’s shadow, but the power nearly destroyed her mind. Miss Zeng woke after her Spiritual World recovered, and Xu Huo realized Mirror Space could deliver a fatal blow in a mental contest.

• Miss Zeng began bleeding and convulsing as Dou Shengnan’s shadow overwhelmed her mind, while Tang Xu and the experts failed to enter Xu Huo’s Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo tested Mirror Space on himself and saw three personalities emerge briefly from his body.
• Xu Huo used Mirror Space on Dou Shengnan’s shadow, exposing Miss Zeng behind it and causing her to suffer severe mental damage.
• Miss Zeng’s childhood personality destroyed the objects sustaining the other Spiritual Worlds, restoring her own world and allowing her to wake.
• Xu Huo told the experts to examine Miss Zeng and concluded that Mirror Space could fatally overpower an opponent’s conscious self.

Xu Huo learned that Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World had been invaded by powerful mental energy and suspected Dou Shengnan might be involved. He asked Unpolished Jade to search for her, and a tip pointed them toward an unstable Mental Evolver recovering in Liujin City.

• The experts confirmed Miss Zeng was conscious and unharmed, and Xu Huo asked to speak with her privately.
• Miss Zeng said she had lost consciousness after encountering someone, while multiple forces disrupted her Spiritual World and confused her sense of self.
• Tang Xu found that surveillance showed Miss Zeng collapsing soon after leaving a Dungeon, but Miss Zeng said the recorded timing was wrong and someone had tampered with events.
• Xu Huo considered whether Dou Shengnan had left an anchor in Miss Zeng’s Spiritual World and suspected she might have evolved again.
• Xu Huo asked Unpolished Jade to search for Dou Shengnan by checking the area around Miss Zeng’s return, related institutions, and mental-treatment facilities.
• Unpolished Jade received a tip that a Player had been recuperating in Liujin City’s wealthy district after an attack on a treatment hospital, with screams sometimes heard from the residence.

Xu Huo confronted the weakened Dou Shengnan at her lakeside villa, where she attacked him with her Spiritual World and prepared weapons. Their fight remained unresolved as she launched another assault.

• Lili cared for Dou Shengnan, whose poison and injuries had left her frail and nearing death.
• Xu Huo arrived at the villa district, and Dou Shengnan used her Spiritual World to attack him.
• Xu Huo broke through Dou Shengnan’s mental assault and forced her back into her wheelchair with his Bone Ring.
• Xu Huo questioned Dou Shengnan about someone helping her plant an anchor in another person’s Spiritual World, but she vanished into the darkness.
• Lili remained frozen as Xu Huo destroyed the surrounding energy weapons, then Dou Shengnan attacked him with a needle and tightening thread.

Xu Huo fought Dou Shengnan across her Spiritual World, using artifacts, Space Power, Time Power, and his mental personalities while she tried to protect Lili and repel him. After escaping his attacks twice, Dou Shengnan engulfed him in a mental assault, but Xu Huo summoned a Book Tower that began swallowing the faces and spread his white mental strength through her world.

• Xu Huo trapped Lili with Time Power and spatial attacks, leaving him rapidly aged when Dou Shengnan caught him.
• Dou Shengnan teleported Lili away and confronted Xu Huo, who trapped her in Mirror Space and commanded her to cut her own throat.
• Xu Huo and Dou Shengnan battled with their Manifestations, artifacts, and mental strength, turning the Villa district into a battlefield.
• After tiring, Xu Huo summoned his childhood personality, which surged into Dou Shengnan's Spiritual World and exposed her figure.
• Dou Shengnan escaped Xu Huo's Time Power and Mirror Space, then filled her Spiritual World with phantom faces that swallowed him.
• Xu Huo summoned a gigantic Book Tower that began imprisoning the faces and spread his white mental strength across the Spiritual World.

Xu Huo defeated Dou Shengnan after an unknown attacker struck her, then learned that her Doctor was connected to Stellar Pharmaceutical Group. He asked Unpolished Jade to ban sales of AS-01CL ore to draw out anyone seeking it, and prepared for the next step at her residence.

• Dou Shengnan's Spiritual World collapsed, and a pebble from an unknown source pierced her head, leaving her vulnerable to Xu Huo.
• Dou Shengnan launched a final mental-energy attack and struck Xu Huo with a golden cone, but he survived and killed her before she could send information to her companions.
• Xu Huo collected Dou Shengnan's belongings and concluded that the Ghastly Sound Knights might come to Liujin City after learning what she had discovered.
• Xu Huo told Unpolished Jade that he wanted to find the Doctor who treated Dou Shengnan, whose clothing bore the Stellar Pharmaceutical logo.
• Xu Huo asked Unpolished Jade to halt sales of AS-01CL ore so he could watch for anyone trying to obtain it, and she ordered her Secretary to arrange the ban.
• Unpolished Jade told Xu Huo that the venue and equipment were ready at her residence, where they would proceed in a sealed basement.

Unpolished Jade gave Xu Huo the Super Artifact Sky Light Domain and explained her family’s inheritance rules and hopes for his future support. They agreed to a tentative friendship, then discussed how to transport the oversized simulation instrument.

• Unpolished Jade gave Xu Huo Sky Light Domain, a Super Artifact with three long-lasting defensive modes, as thanks for his help.
• Unpolished Jade explained that her family’s inheritance laws were designed to protect her and preserve her family’s wealth if she died.
• Unpolished Jade said she hoped Xu Huo would become a friend of her family and help them if he could, and Xu Huo agreed to help if he was able.
• Unpolished Jade promised not to reveal Xu Huo’s secrets and offered to help him before he became a Super Player.
• Xu Huo and Unpolished Jade discussed transporting the oversized simulation instrument by cargo Dimensional Train, which required him to provide a receiving station.

Xu Huo watched the Game Government Base suppress a Space Artifact tornado that had destroyed Stellar Pharmaceutical’s factory, then saw footage expose the company’s brutal experiments on a Zone 003 player. As players demanded answers from the Game Government, Xu Huo heard an unseen person say, “What a pity,” but could not locate the speaker.

• Xu Huo arranged with Unpolished Jade to keep the spatial instruments’ delivery quiet and spent two more days in Zone 003 investigating Miss Zeng’s attack and the Doctor from Dou Shengnan’s Spiritual World.
• A Space Artifact unleashed a massive tornado that destroyed Stellar Pharmaceutical’s factory, and the Game Government Base used instruments to weaken it without confronting the tornado directly.
• A masked player retrieved the Space Artifact and threw a Communicator that briefly showed a Zone 003 player undergoing what appeared to be illegal brain experiments at Stellar Pharmaceutical.
• Angry players surrounded the Game Government Base, while Liujin City enforcement players sealed off the factory and Xu Huo watched from outside the cordon.
• Xu Huo heard an unseen person sigh, “What a pity,” but could not find the speaker.