Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo left District 033 for Scepter City to search for Dr. Wu’s suspected P7S potion, entering the A-class instance King's Throne, where his mission was to become king. After settling into an inn, he witnessed a female player kill a man who had attacked a woman.

• Old Qi offered to hand over Holy Sword Society members who had offended Xu Huo, but Xu said he would deal with them himself.
• Xu Huo left Shi Sanjiu and used a Return Ticket to travel to a sub-district that might contain P7S potion.
• Xu Huo entered the A-class instance King's Throne in Scepter City, whose mission was to become king and whose rumored King's Treasure might contain the potion.
• Xu Huo rented a room at an inn and went to bed while other players stayed alert.
• A player dragged a woman from a room and threatened her, but a female player slit his throat with an invisible blade.

Xu Huo learned that the “King’s Throne” instance required Players to seize at least six of twelve cities, while powerful stay-behind Players kept outsiders out and ruled through brutal laws. He joined a group planning to cooperate with local rebels, then questioned whether electing one Player King would cause the rest to fail the instance.

• A female Player killed two people in the inn corridor and disappeared overnight after the gaunt innkeeper secretly alerted Scepter City and had her transported away.
• Xu Huo reviewed information about the instance and learned that capturing King City, Scepter City, Crown City, Sword City, and at least two other cities was necessary to claim the throne.
• Sixteen Players gathered near a school, where a crew-cut Player said he had contacted local rebels willing to help them and elect one of them King.
• Players debated who should receive the King's Treasure and whether becoming King alone would let everyone else clear the instance.
• Xu Huo warned that the other Players might fail the instance after a new King was elected.

Xu Huo proposed electing a King as a way to clear the King's Dungeon, then went to Scepter City to speak with its governor. He left the city's stranded players trapped by his Time Power and demanded that they call the governor out.

• Xu Huo argued that the Twelve Main Cities might elect a King together, though the others doubted the rulers would choose an outsider or risk the King's Treasure.
• Xu Huo decided that trying to elect a King was easier than building an alliance to seize power by force.
• Xu Huo left the Ticket players and used a transit passage to reach the hundred-story Scepter tower in Scepter City.
• Stranded players attacked Xu Huo, but he froze them with Time Power and killed the dozen or so who struck first.
• Xu Huo trapped the remaining players around the tower and demanded that they call Scepter City's governor out to discuss something.

Xu Huo confronted Scepter City’s players and negotiated with its six leaders, offering to clear the dungeon through an election rather than force. He promised to help the stranded players leave District 031, but Mr. Hu questioned whether Xu Huo could transport so many people.

• Xu Huo killed the punishment squad that attacked him and warned the players planning an ambush to stop interfering.
• The six officials of Scepter City arrived, and Xu Huo refused to enter their Spatial Artifact before agreeing to talk at a nearby arena.
• Mr. Hu warned Xu Huo that the many stranded A-class players and the possibility of citywide conflict made clearing the dungeon by force impractical.
• Xu Huo proposed that the Twelve Main Cities elect him King so he could claim the King's Treasure and leave without interfering in their affairs.
• Xu Huo offered to obtain a device to transport the stranded players out of District 031, and Mr. Hu asked whether it could carry so many people.

Xu Huo pressured Scepter City’s six administrators to help him clear the Dungeon, offering to transport stranded players to another sub-district and threatening to destroy the Dungeon if they refused. As the administrators debated whether to accept, they learned that Pengfei City had disappeared.

• Xu Huo gave Scepter City’s administrators half a day to decide whether to help him clear the Dungeon and requested a map of its twelve cities.
• Xu Huo left after revealing that someone had cleared the Dungeon before and that taking the King's Treasure had not caused it to collapse.
• Mr. Hu told Scepter City’s core members about Xu Huo’s offer, and the players argued over whether to leave or remain in control of the city.
• A player rushed in and announced that Pengfei City had disappeared.

After Pengfei City was destroyed, Mr. Hu chose to help Yu clear the Dungeon rather than risk a fight, while secretly preparing Scepter City to leave through a teleportation passage. He revealed his worsening regression and told the captured dissidents that taking the King's Treasure would not make the Dungeon disappear.

• A player reported that Pengfei City had collapsed into powder, and Mr. Hu said its destruction was a warning from Yu.
• Mr. Hu argued that Scepter City should cooperate with Yu, then captured the tattooed man and his allies when they tried to flee.
• Mr. Hu privately showed Scepter City's core members his regression symptoms and explained that cooperating with Yu might let them escape the Dungeon before his death destabilized the city.
• Mr. Hu ordered the core members to keep the teleportation passage secret and maintain calm, then went to confront the detained dissidents.
• Mr. Hu told the tattooed man that taking the King's Treasure would not affect the Dungeon and warned him to wait and behave rather than pursue Yu.

Xu Huo pressured Sword City, then confronted Crown City and King City, demanding their cooperation in clearing the King's Treasure Dungeon. After forcing their governors to meet him, he learned that an election for King would require participation from every city in District 031, not just the Twelve Main Cities.

• Xu Huo killed Sword City's former governors and many players, then demanded that the city help him clear the King's Treasure Dungeon or face a takeover by Scepter City.
• Xu Huo traveled to Crown City, where players from Crown City and King City blocked his way and an elder attacked him.
• Xu Huo froze the assembled players with Time Power and repeated his offer to help some of them leave District 031 before the Dungeon was cleared.
• Xu Huo cut through Crown City's wall and defenses, prompting Crown City's governor Mei Zheng and King City's governor Madam Lou Fei to meet with him.
• Mei Zheng explained that nominating Xu Huo as King would not be enough, because an election required participation from all cities across District 031.

Xu Huo set an election plan in motion and visited the District 031 Alliance Army to meet the rebels. He stopped in Baiyu City to watch children train, where a bold boy approached him.

• Xu Huo ordered the Twelve Main Cities, rebels, and remaining medium-sized cities to nominate candidates and prepare for an election, with negotiations to precede cross-Wormhole Point transmission devices.
• Mei Zheng and Lou Fei discussed how Xu Huo might handle the rebels, and Mei Zheng began arranging a meeting of the Main Cities.
• News of Xu Huo's appearance spread to the stranded Players, the five medium-sized cities, and the District 031 Alliance Army.
• Xu Huo visited three Alliance Army cities and saw their residents struggling with pollution, scarce resources, and poor living conditions.
• Xu Huo stopped in Baiyu City to watch children practice martial arts, and one boy came over to ask whether he was from the city.

Xu Huo secured the Allied Cities’ cooperation in choosing a representative for the Dungeon-clearing election and then headed to Xing City. There, stranded Players debated how to use his need for their participation as leverage, while the city’s leaders prepared to confront him.

• Xu Huo asked the Allied Cities to choose one representative to negotiate with him and join the election to clear the Dungeon.
• The Allied Cities agreed to start the election process, and Xu Huo left for Xing City after learning that the stranded Players there were especially dangerous.
• Players from the former Pengfei City reached Xing City and urged its leaders to oppose Xu Huo.
• A neatly dressed young man argued that Xu Huo needed their help to clear the Dungeon and would make concessions, and a bearded Player grabbed his face and called him a schemer.

Xu Huo wiped out the Cannibal Players in Xing City, rescued the remaining ordinary people, and moved on to Liao City. His actions alarmed the Twelve Main Cities, whose leaders began discussing whether to leave.

• Xu Huo killed ten Cannibal Players in a restaurant and learned that Xing City and Liao City had joined forces to ambush or negotiate with him.
• A young man told Xu Huo where Xing City's Cannibal Players gathered, and Xu Huo swept through the commercial streets, killing the Players there.
• Xu Huo let the young man collect items from the corpses, then asked about survivors from District 031 and took the remaining ordinary people to White Rain City.
• Xu Huo arrived in Liao City, where Players from Liao City and Lin City offered to help him clear the level without asking for anything in return.
• Mr. Hu, Mei Zheng, Hen Yu, Lou Fei, and other leaders of the Twelve Main Cities discussed Xu Huo's massacre, and a middle-aged woman asked whether they wanted to leave.

The Twelve Main Cities’ leaders debated whether to leave District 031 and how to respond if Xu Huo cleared the Dungeon. They agreed to prepare a trap for him, but Lou Fei refused to let them use King City, leaving them to find another location.

• A spiky-haired man argued that the city leaders should stay in District 031, while Lou Fei said she would remain in King City and Chan Juan challenged the older leaders to leave.
• Lou Fei said she had seen three Players clear the Dungeon without changing anything, but the others insisted they needed a backup plan in case Xu Huo’s actions threatened them.
• Gemstone Man proposed making Xu Huo King so he could enter the place where the King's Treasure was kept, then trapping him inside a container item.
• Mei Zheng and the other leaders agreed that they should take precautions against Xu Huo, while Lou Fei refused to let them turn King City into a battlefield.
• Lou Fei warned that Xu Huo’s powerful Defense Artifacts might indicate he came from a wealthy family whose members could seek revenge if he was killed.

Mei Zheng, Hen Yu, and Gemstone Man planned to exploit the election and target Xu Huo, while Lou Fei argued that helping him clear the Dungeon was the safest option. Meanwhile, Xu Huo became the leading candidate in the King election and drafted policies for District 031, including protections for ordinary people against stranded Players.

• Lou Fei urged the city administrators to help Xu Huo clear the Dungeon, but Mei Zheng and others discussed finding a way to kill him and take his wealth and teleportation device.
• Mei Zheng told Two Meters Tall to send his chosen candidate out of District 031 to wait at another Wormhole Point.
• After Xu Huo dealt with Liao City and Lin City, their Players agreed to support his election campaign and help persuade other cities.
• The King election spread across the Twelve Main Cities, allied cities, and settlements of stranded Players, with Xu Huo as the leading candidate.
• Xu Huo proposed welfare, technological farming, shared water sources, and revived laws, then drafted restrictions on stranded Players focused on protecting ordinary people.

Xu Huo advanced his election plans in King City while arranging the teleportation equipment and laying down rules for District 031. He prepared to receive players still clearing the dungeon and sent his newly acquired items to Yan Jiayu, while the election and equipment shipment remained underway.

• Players clearing the dungeon questioned why Xu Huo had become a candidate and considered contacting him to negotiate with the allied forces.
• In King City, Xu Huo ordered Lou Fei to prepare four reinforced rooftops for the teleportation equipment and withdraw everyone from the Castle.
• Xu Huo gave Lou Fei his draft laws, including a ban on massacring District 031's ordinary residents, and told the allied forces to review the provisions.
• Xu Huo invited players still within their clearing period to come to King City and instructed the Twelve Main Cities to handle anyone who interfered with the election.
• Xu Huo sealed the Castle with his Spiritual World, sorted useful items from the players he had killed, and sent boxes of them to Yan Jiayu in Ting City.

Xu Huo sent equipment to Nie Xuan to support District 014 and discussed preparations for the coming Sub-district fusion. After Players from King City arrived, Xu Huo showed the crew cut man proposed laws to restrain District 031’s ruling factions, and the man questioned whether the rules could work as intended.

• Xu Huo gave Nie Xuan most of the equipment he had gathered, asking him to prioritize Players below B-level.
• Nie Xuan warned Xu Huo that District 014 faced growing Dungeon appearances, scarce supplies, and possible attacks by the Ghastly Sound Knights, while urging him to protect his life.
• Players from King City and several Ticket Players arrived, and Xu Huo told them they could stay in the city and run errands during the election.
• The crew cut man said King City's forty-two Ticket Players could guard the castle while remaining indifferent to attempts by other factions to interfere.
• Xu Huo gave the crew cut man proposed laws that restricted the Twelve Main Cities' governors, required support for the Allied Army and ordinary people's cities, and prohibited human experiments.
• The crew cut man asked whether an item could enforce the laws as intended and warned that the bound Players might retaliate against ordinary people.

Xu Huo organized an election across the cities of District 031 while preparing equipment from Unpolished Jade to send trapped Players out of the Dungeon. As the second round began, sabotage failed and Xu Huo, Lou Fei, and Qu Hong advanced.

• Xu Huo told the crew cut man that Players stuck in the Dungeon would have to follow laws that the cities and Allied Army would help refine and publish.
• The Twelve Main Cities, the Allied Army, and other cities held a seven-day first round of voting, while Xu Huo's laws and welfare policies began taking effect.
• Troublemakers were killed during the vote, and seven candidates advanced; representatives from four cities where Players were stuck withdrew and helped fund Xu Huo's promised benefits.
• Equipment from Unpolished Jade arrived above King City, and rumors that it could send trapped Players out of District 031 spread throughout the country.
• Saboteurs failed to reach the equipment inside Xu Huo's Sky Light Domain, and King City Players killed six groups attempting to interfere.
• Xu Huo, Lou Fei, and Qu Hong advanced to the second round of voting.

The city representatives voted Xu Huo the new king while he negotiated with stranded players over a teleportation device that could let them leave. After the vote, Xu Huo sent the other representatives away and took the throne, but he still had not cleared the Dungeon.

• Xu Huo told the stranded players that a teleportation device was ready at a nearby Wormhole Point and offered them a way to settle there.
• When players demanded guarantees, Xu Huo tossed them the remote terminal, and Chan Juan caught it and threatened to destroy it if anyone rushed her.
• Xu Huo explained that the terminal needed to verify his identity and called the representatives to vote for a king.
• The Allied Army, small cities, stranded-city representatives, and nearly all the governors voted for Xu Huo, and Qu Hong announced his victory.
• Xu Huo received no Dungeon-clearance notification, sent the other city representatives back to their cities, and sat on the king's throne.

Mei Zheng trapped Xu Huo inside the King's Castle, intending to poison and imprison him in a container item before taking his treasures. As the city lords argued over the scheme and its consequences, Mr. Xiaoyao attacked Mei Zheng.

• When Xu Huo sat on the King's Treasure, Mei Zheng and the others sealed the throne room with barriers, Black Water, and swampy mud while Mei Zheng released poison inside.
• Mei Zheng revealed that the teleportation instruments could still be activated, reassuring players who wanted to leave District 031 and sending them to work on the machines.
• Mei Zheng and Lou Fei explained that a new King had to return to the King's Castle after reaching the King's Treasure to clear the dungeon, leaving Xu Huo vulnerable to Mei Zheng's container item.
• Lou Fei recalled that Mei Zheng had used the same method to kill two players who had cleared the dungeon, while the other city lords questioned what would happen if he killed Xu Huo.
• Hen Yu warned that Xu Huo's laws threatened the city lords' freedom, and Mr. Xiaoyao accused Mei Zheng of planning to escape with his container item before attacking him with the surging floor.

Xu Huo was trapped in an immense spatial illusion inside the King's Treasure, unable to reach the vault or leave. After using Transdimensional Space Power to cross a rift and compress the space's spatial entities, he found a way to move closer to the vault.

• Xu Huo discovered that the vault retreated whenever he approached, while his Personal Panel and items were disabled and he could not escape.
• Xu Huo walked for hours and watched the vault grow more distant as he searched unsuccessfully for the space's edge.
• Xu Huo used Transdimensional Space Power to pierce the space, was pulled through a rift, and emerged closer to the vault.
• Xu Huo began compressing spatial entities throughout the space and detected an unknown force pushing them aside at one spot.
• Xu Huo followed the spot and advanced several meters toward the vault.

Xu Huo injected the P7S Potion in the treasury and endured a seven-day hallucination before awakening with sharply enhanced physical and mental control. He discovered that his Space Power could form a tiny Kaleidoscope World, though he knew superdimension existed beyond it.

• Xu Huo found Dr. Wu’s P7S Syringe in the treasury and injected it after preparing himself.
• Xu Huo hallucinated Xu Zhi, Dr. Zhang, and his three other personalities as his consciousness was pulled into a struggle over his body.
• Xu Huo saw figures cut and replace a strand of black Mental Power before he plunged into darkness.
• Xu Huo woke seven days later, pushed aside his childhood personality, and sensed precise control over his body and King Fungus’s mycelium.
• Xu Huo shaped Space Power into a progressive polyhedron and refracted the treasury’s light into a tiny Kaleidoscope World.

Xu Huo emerged from the King's Treasure after ten days with greater control over Space Power and confronted the governors of the Twelve Main Cities. After learning who had made the container item outside the King's throne, he killed Mei Zheng and the other players involved, leaving King City silent.

• Xu Huo tested his improved control over Space Power, collected several items from the King's Treasure, and returned to King City.
• After ten days of waiting, Mei Zheng and the others saw the swamp shrink as Xu Huo emerged from the castle's great hall.
• Xu Huo questioned Lou Fei, who told him Mei Zheng had led the effort to make the container item outside the King's throne.
• Xu Huo used a Spatial Cutline to kill Mei Zheng, Hen Yu, Gemstone Man, and their accompanying players, then swept the area outside the castle.
• Xu Huo left the hall, lifted his Time Power, and stood in the quiet King City as the spared players watched him in fear.