Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo joined Li De and Cui Tan on a tour of Carmen Field’s battle sites while following the spreading scandal over devolved Players and hoping Ding Xiang stayed safe. Along the way, he met Sen Sen, who explained the risks of Perfect Evolution and the dangerous Chaos Space preserved at the next site.

• Xu Huo agreed to join Li De and Cui Tan on their sightseeing route after meeting them at a restaurant.
• Xu Huo learned that the test-subject scandal had spread across District 025 and other Sub-districts, while an unfamiliar account assured him Ding Xiang was safe but unable to move freely.
• At the first Ruins, Cui Tan asked whether Carmen Field had been a Perfect Evolutionist, and Sen Sen explained that completing Perfect Evolution required a full set of increasingly scarce Potions.
• Sen Sen joined Xu Huo, Li De, and Cui Tan on the tour and described the Chaos Space at the next battle site, where Carmen Field’s spatial construct remained and Players sometimes gained insights into Evolution.
• Sen Sen noticed Xu Huo’s silence, and he said he was new and had found listening to others helpful.

Xu Huo and the Players explored a chaotic battle ruin where colorful glimmers revealed fleeting Kaleidoscope Threads. By observing their paths, Xu Huo realized the glimmers avoided stable spatial bodies, giving him a clue to how Space Power connected and formed them.

• The Android led Xu Huo, Sen Sen, and fourteen Players through unstable Chaos Space to a relatively safe battle ruin and gave them two days to explore.
• The Players spotted colorful glimmers that appeared and vanished as Kaleidoscope Threads formed in the space around them.
• Xu Huo studied the glimmers, reasoning that they showed Space Power could connect without anyone controlling it.
• Xu Huo began predicting where new glimmers would appear and noticed that they avoided stable spatial bodies and barriers.

Xu Huo studied the chaotic Space Power in the training ground, trying to understand how Space Rays connected and whether he could use them to achieve the Kaleidoscope World. After thousands of failed attempts, he questioned his understanding of space and felt trapped at a dead end.

• Xu Huo observed the Space Rays and their naturally formed Kaleidoscope Threads while Li De, Cui Tan, and Sen Sen watched or experimented nearby.
• Li De recorded the visible streams of light, and he and Cui Tan shifted their attention to Xu Huo as he focused intently on a spot where Space Power gathered.
• Xu Huo tried to affect Space Rays beyond his controlled range by treating the surrounding space as a whole, hoping to reproduce the regular patterns needed for the Kaleidoscope World.
• After thousands of attempts, Xu Huo failed to form a world cube or manipulate distant Space Rays as Lawrence Li could.
• Xu Huo reconsidered his view of space as stable and paper-like, but could not find a way for a single point to affect an entire area.

Xu Huo practiced controlling Space Power in the Ruins and wondered how to influence it beyond his range of control. Sen Sen suggested that space might take a different form in higher dimensions, leaving the players debating an idea they could barely comprehend.

• Xu Huo examined how Space Rays connected and tried to understand the reach of Carmen Field's spatial control.
• Xu Huo formed a hollow cube with Kaleidoscope Threads, alarming nearby players and prompting the Androids to close the Ruins to new arrivals.
• District 001 warned the players inside Chaos Space not to disturb Xu Huo as he practiced.
• Sen Sen asked what was troubling Xu Huo, and he explained that he wanted to stir up Space Power beyond his range of control.
• Sen Sen speculated that dimensional trains and Wormholes might reveal different forms of space, while Li De argued that higher dimensions were beyond their understanding.

Xu Huo studied the connection between spatial filaments and Space Power while Players watched and discussed the limits of Spatial Evolution. After remaining motionless for two days, he caused his filaments to multiply and spread through the entire chaotic space, forming a vast web he could control.

• Sen Sen and the other Players discussed whether someone could break through the shackles of Space Rays, while Li De admitted he could not explain how he had evolved through space.
• Xu Huo shaped a hollow construct from spatial filaments and contemplated how they connected to the surrounding space.
• The Players watched Xu Huo remain motionless for two days, reluctant to interrupt his concentration.
• Xu Huo's four filaments multiplied exponentially and connected to nearby spatial constructs, linking their Space Rays into a vast web.
• Xu Huo flexed his fingers, making the web of filaments bend and rebound as the filaments spread throughout the chaotic space, including areas thousands of meters away.

After taking an Evolution Potion, Xu Huo broke through the limits on his control of Space Power and used Kaleidoscope Threads to form a brief, dangerous glimpse of a Kaleidoscope World. The threads vanished, and the Field family and District Government invited him to the Fielder Family estate, where he might access Ruins tied to Carmen.

• Xu Huo discovered that his control of Space Power had expanded, while Kaleidoscope Threads beyond his range could still form and become dangerous.
• Xu Huo told Sen Sen and the other Players to withdraw, but they stayed to watch as he deconstructed the threads and then made them reappear.
• Cui Tan and Li De compared the threads to Lawrence Li's Space Rays and Spider Lock as Xu Huo combined them into curved diamond-shaped polyhedrons.
• Xu Huo briefly created a scene resembling a tiny Kaleidoscope World, then let the structures disappear and told everyone to go out and eat.
• Representatives of the Field family and District Government invited Xu Huo to the Fielder Family estate and mentioned that Carmen's training records might give him access to restricted Ruins.

Xu Huo tested his Kaleidoscope Threads outside Chaos Space, unleashing a vast river of Space Power across the Field family estate. He ended the display before it reached the estate’s boundary and resolved to keep practicing his control.

• Xu Huo accepted the Field family’s invitation and returned to District 001 with Li De and the other players.
• Xu Huo sat on the guest tower’s terrace and practiced spreading his Kaleidoscope Threads through the stable space outside Chaos Space.
• Xu Huo’s threads passed through the estate’s woods and mountains, causing trees and rocks to crumble wherever they flowed.
• Field family players evacuated people from the threads’ path and alerted the District Government, but the Space Power stayed within the estate.
• Xu Huo stopped the threads and concluded that he needed more practice to control their precision in combat.

Xu Huo and the other players stayed at the Fielder estate, where Sen Sen Field revealed her identity and led them through Carmen Field’s residence. The group escaped a relentless Living Prop that cleaned the house and reached a room containing Carmen’s unusual collections.

• The Fielder Family invited Xu Huo and the others to choose formalwear for a welcome luncheon and dinner attended by important relatives.
• Li De told another player he suspected the Field family had betrayed Carmen Field during the war and failed to support him.
• Sen Sen Field arrived, confirmed that Sen Sen was her True Name, and offered to show the group around her Grandfather’s residence.
• Sen Sen introduced the Living Props in the residence, including a Cleaning Octopus that chased the group to scrub their shoes.
• Sen Sen shut the Cleaning Octopus out of an upstairs room and invited Xu Huo and the others to inspect Carmen’s unusual minerals and collected items.

Xu Huo toured the Fielder Family’s collection and entered a room through a painting that was a doorway to a mirrored space. Studying a Sub-class Stone gave him a new understanding of how Space Power could affect the human body, and the chapter ended with Li De suffering severe internal injuries after touching him.

• Xu Huo noticed a shadow in a mirror before a Mirror Hand lunged at his throat and withdrew.
• Sen Sen led the group through a painting that connected to a real room mirroring the first room, and she showed them that it faced a different direction.
• Xu Huo examined a Sub-class Stone and realized that minerals and evolved humans both contained densely gathered energy and Spacetime Rays.
• Li De touched Xu Huo’s shoulder, and cracks appeared across his skin as his organs were sliced open.
• Xu Huo grabbed Li De’s hand and said he would try to stitch his organs back together.

Xu Huo used his newly evolved Space Power to repair Li De’s injuries, then investigated the strange mirror in Carmen Field’s rooms. He confirmed that a shadow appeared in one mirror but not its matching counterpart and knocked on the mirror to test it.

• Sen Sen stopped Cui Tan from interfering and explained that Xu Huo’s disrupted Space Rays had injured Li De.
• Xu Huo used Space Power to stitch Li De’s wounds and seal a severed blood vessel, then helped him into a chair.
• Li De asked for a wheelchair, and Cui Tan pushed him while the other players marveled at Xu Huo’s ability to use Space Power for surgery.
• Xu Huo examined the special mirror, learned from Sen Sen that a Mirror Hand sometimes appeared in it, and returned to the previous room.
• Xu Huo saw the shadow lurking in the mirror and tapped its surface as if knocking on a door.

Xu Huo and the other Players watched a shadow emerge from the mirror and demonstrate strange powers before it singled him out. The shadow showed Xu Huo a repeating vision of figures fighting over an eye, then turned its gaze toward him.

• A shadow stepped out of the mirror and grew silver threads into a net that pulled the Players close.
• A pressure forced the shadow back down, but it then dug a hole in the floor and beckoned Xu Huo closer.
• Xu Huo recognized the shadow as spiritual energy carrying a message from Carmen Field and approached it.
• The shadow made the other Players vanish and showed Xu Huo a vision of tiny figures repeatedly fighting over an eye.
• After the masked figures finally won and were swallowed by the eye, the eye looked at Xu Huo.

Xu Huo interpreted the little people's battles as evidence that an eye had used Curved Time to ensure the masked figure's victory, and wondered what the eye represented. After the shadow left behind a strange, heavy pebble, Sen Sen and a Fielder family member arrived, and Li De challenged the family's expectations of the visiting Players.

• Xu Huo concluded that the eye had sided with the masked figure and may have used Curved Time to make its victory inevitable.
• The shadow transformed into a dark bead and then a haloed pebble, which Xu Huo picked up and stored.
• Sen Sen and a middle-aged man entered after the black space broke open, and Xu Huo told them the shadow had disappeared.
• The middle-aged man said the shadow demonstrated Carmen's Super Evolution Ability and asked whether Xu Huo had learned anything.
• Li De feigned surprise and asked whether the Players had to teach the Fielder family what they learned from Carmen's Relics before they could leave.

Xu Huo and the other players discussed the costs and risks of life as A-class players before attending a luncheon hosted by the Field family. Xu recognized that the family’s important members were monitoring the manor, then exchanged polite remarks with the elderly Lai'an.

• A middle-aged Field family member offered Xu Huo help accessing Carmen Field’s legacy, and Xu said he would ask if he needed anything.
• The players changed into formalwear and discussed expensive equipment, degradation-slowing Potions, and the risks of sharing genetic information with the Field family.
• The players asked Xu Huo about his leaderboard standing, but he said he had not paid much attention to it.
• Sen Sen escorted the group to a luncheon attended by Field family members responsible for external relations, while Xu Huo sensed that more important players were monitoring the manor.
• Lai'an welcomed Xu Huo and remarked on his youth and talent, and Xu replied that being born into the Field family was a kind of talent in itself.

Xu Huo and the other Players toured Carmen Field’s estate and watched recordings of Carmen’s training. Sen Sen warned Seventh Uncle that Xu Huo might be able to evade Abilities, while Carmen’s footage revealed his youthful ambition to live on through others’ memories.

• After the meal, one Player said something had happened at home, and Sen Sen let him leave the estate.
• Sen Sen showed Xu Huo and the others Carmen’s meditation room, but Xu Huo asked to see something more valuable before his scheduled trip to other battle ruins.
• While the group watched Carmen’s training footage, Sen Sen told Seventh Uncle that Xu Huo’s mental Evolution might let him evade Abilities and that the Field family should be cautious.
• Carmen’s recording greeted the visitors and described preserving himself in other people’s memories as a way to achieve immortality.
• The footage showed Carmen training his control over space-time power and gravity, and he dismissed his gravity Ability as useless.

Xu Huo and the other players watched Carmen Field’s footage, which explained how Abilities could evolve into powers beyond the common types. Xu Huo considered the Fielder Family’s knowledge and the unusual power he had encountered, while the players left without a clear path to follow.

• Li De questioned why Carmen’s opening remarks used old training footage, and Xu Huo considered what Carmen’s failed pursuit of gravity might mean.
• The updated footage showed a more mature Carmen explaining that any Ability could potentially develop into a Super Evolution power through repeated use and suitable dungeons.
• Li De and Cui Tan discussed the role of talent, professions, and Ability use in evolution, and Xu Huo said he had little talent for Abilities.
• Xu Huo recalled Suitcase Man’s terrifying Ability-derived power and noted that its evolution differed greatly from his own slow Ability upgrades.
• Xu Huo concluded that the Fielder Family likely had extensive knowledge of Ability Evolution that it would not share freely.

Xu Huo and the other players returned to the Fielder Family residence, where Sen Sen promised to arrange his visit to the Ruins closed to the public. Their conversation ended with Sen Sen revealing that she was not related to Carmen by blood.

• Li De warned Xu Huo that the Fielder Family might have hidden motives, while Xu Huo remarked that its members seemed comfortable to be around.
• Sen Sen told Xu Huo that the family would arrange for him to visit the closed Ruins after the Dinner Party, but said the District Government would accompany him instead of the other players.
• Li De and Cui Tan joked that they would stay in District 001 to see whether Xu Huo evolved again, and Xu Huo noticed Sen Sen growing impatient.
• Xu Huo asked whether Carmen had lived at the Fielder Family residence and which of his children Sen Sen descended from.
• Sen Sen said she was not related to Carmen by blood and explained that many people called his descendants had been adopted under his name after his death.

Xu Huo and his companions waited at the Field family manor as the family prepared for its Dinner Party. After the Field family allowed a young player to provoke Xu Huo, he realized they had decided against recruiting him and said they would leave after dinner.

• Xu Huo told Sen Sen that Carmen Field had been humorous, and Sen Sen left with a family member who needed to speak with her.
• Cui Tan identified the Field family head as Carmen’s cousin when he arrived with Daiting Field, who was running for governor.
• Sen Sen brought Xu Huo and his companions to their rooms, and the Field family sealed off their building with equipment to prevent clashes.
• A multicolored-haired young player challenged Xu Huo from outside the barrier, while the Field family elders made no effort to stop him.
• Xu Huo concluded that the Field family wanted to drive them away and said they would leave after dinner; Seventh Uncle and Sen Sen later apologized for the young player’s provocation.

Xu Huo and his companions attended the Field family’s Dinner Party after several outsiders arrived seeking him. At the banquet, he saw the family’s unity and confidence firsthand, leaving him to reconsider their strength and their past treatment of Carmen Field.

• A flamboyantly dressed middle-aged man forced his aircraft into Fielder Manor and insisted on joining the feast, while Seventh Uncle escorted him inside.
• Sen Sen warned Xu Huo that the middle-aged man was difficult to deal with before the Dinner Party began.
• Xu Huo entered the banquet hall with Li De and the others, raised a glass, and broke the Field family’s oppressive silence.
• The head of the Field family welcomed Xu Huo and his companions, then seated Xu Huo at the main table for the formal dinner.
• Xu Huo observed the Field family’s cohesion and concluded that their strength rested on deeper foundations than Carmen Field alone.

At a tense Field family dinner, Carroll Field returned and arranged to escort Xu Huo to the closed ruins, while Xu Huo thanked the family before leaving. Afterward, the family head acknowledged Xu Huo’s talent and said Carmen’s belongings could go to an outsider, though one woman argued they should stay with the family.

• Li De and his companions endured the Field family’s contempt during the banquet without provoking a confrontation.
• Carroll Field arrived unannounced, confronted the family over his mother and his exile, and accused Xu Huo of seeking the Field family’s benefits.
• Xu Huo said he had come only for a meal, and Carroll offered to take him to the closed ruins after dinner.
• The Field family head ordered Carroll to escort Xu Huo, and Xu Huo thanked the guests before leaving with Carroll while Li De and the others departed Fielder Manor.
• The family head said Xu Huo might have taken Carmen’s belongings from the Casket Mirror and accepted that an outsider could inherit them, but a woman insisted the possessions belonged to the Field family.

Xu Huo and Kailuoer explored a ruined district to investigate a gravitational vortex linked to Carmen Field and a possible dimensional passage. Kailuoer offered Xu Huo support, but Xu demanded to know what he would have to pay in return.

• The Fielder Family discussed Carmen Field’s legacy and agreed not to disturb Xu Huo, hoping Kailuoer could become his ally.
• Xu Huo and Kailuoer entered a destroyed district where spatial and temporal forces were in disarray.
• Kailuoer showed Xu Huo a gray vortex that pulled in matter and space, explaining that the Game Government had classified it as a gravitational-attraction passage capable of crossing dimensions.
• Kailuoer said Carmen had sought to evolve in that direction and hoped Xu Huo might learn something from the vortex.
• Xu Huo questioned Kailuoer’s motives for offering help, suggesting the effort reflected Carmen’s ideals more than Kailuoer’s.
• Kailuoer offered his assistance, and Xu Huo asked what he would have to give in exchange.