Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo investigated possible Feng Clan detention sites and learned how the Player Family suppressed descendants with Feng Clan blood. He discovered that Ding Yu, a supposedly inept youth, was secretly engraving an eye on a Metal Plate, then watched the workshop man search Ding Yu’s room without noticing him.

• Xu Huo examined an abandoned mining island and learned from a Fortune Spring Region family member which relatives carried Feng Clan blood.
• Xu Huo chose Ding Yu from a list of youths under observation and learned that the family had sent him away to train as a craftsman.
• Xu Huo watched Ding Yu secretly carve an eye into a Metal Plate in an empty house after work.
• Xu Huo brought Ding Yu and his tools back to his room when someone from the workshop approached.
• Ding Yu hid his tools before a workshop man searched his room, while Xu Huo stood unseen in the corner.

Xu Huo questioned Ding Yu about the Feng Family and learned that he wanted to find his relatives but was not yet set on revenge. Xu Huo then investigated the Zhu Nuo Family’s territory and discovered nearly fifty Feng descendants being used as expendable test subjects in a Mutated Plant cultivation zone.

• Ding Yu told Xu Huo that his mother had belonged to the Feng Family and that he wanted to find the clan and return to it.
• Xu Huo warned Ding Yu that the Feng Family’s descendants were scattered and exploited, then asked whether he wanted to kill their enemies; Ding Yu said he did not know.
• Xu Huo took Ding Yu’s toolbox and told him not to return to the empty house because his trail had been exposed.
• Xu Huo investigated suspected Feng descendants, found that the List was inaccurate, and noticed that a perceptive woman spotted him.
• Xu Huo entered a city dominated by Zhu Nuo Family businesses and traced its workers to a cultivation zone for Mutated Plants.
• Xu Huo discovered nearly fifty Feng descendants working dangerously close to Mutated Plants, where the Zhu Nuo Family treated them as disposable test subjects.

Xu Huo retaliated against the Zhu Nuo Family’s players after they threatened him near their factory, then traveled to the Flying Bird Region to confront Gene Anderson. He left Gene with no choice but to take him into the Zhu Nuo Family’s wedding.

• A burly man confronted Xu Huo and threatened to send him into the Zhu Nuo Family’s factory as a consumable.
• Xu Huo defeated the players who attacked him and killed the survivors after accusing the Zhu Nuo Family of presuming his guilt.
• Xu Huo traveled to the Flying Bird Region and found Gene Anderson aboard a cruise ship hosting an aircraft exhibition.
• Xu Huo appeared beside Gene, stopped his bodyguard from calling for help, and told Gene to take him into the Zhu Nuo Family’s wedding.

Xu Huo used Gene and the Anderson Family’s information to attend the Zhu Nuo Family wedding in disguise, searching for people connected to the Dream Factory and Feng Lanni’s Cursed Box. The celebration ended abruptly when the bride stabbed the groom with the Chest Emblem, and he collapsed from apparent poisoning.

• Xu Huo forced Gene to bring him to the wedding, warning him that the Anderson Family could not escape his attention if they caused trouble.
• Gene gave Xu Huo information about the wedding guests, Zhu Nuo Family members, and security equipment after consulting with the Anderson Family elders.
• Xu Huo disguised himself as Gene’s bodyguard and traveled with him to the wedding island, then entered the venue without being detected.
• Xu Huo sat beside Gene among the guests and applauded as the bride and groom exchanged vows.
• The bride drove the Chest Emblem into the groom’s chest, and he collapsed with purple lips after pulling it out.

At a wedding, a bride revealed herself as a Feng Clan descendant and led an attack against the Zhu Nuo and Wicks Families. The Feng Clan fighters were subdued, but the bride killed herself after warning that the families would suffer retribution.

• Gene realized the groom’s murder had been planned, and the groom’s father revealed that the dead man had not been his real son.
• The bride declared herself a Feng Clan descendant, while hidden accomplices triggered poison, mental interference, and Mutated Plants throughout the venue.
• The guests protected themselves from the attacks, but players discovered that their tickets and items had been locked and one player died at the containment barrier.
• The Wicks Family head ordered the Feng Clan members killed, and the players subdued them within half a minute.
• The Zhu Nuo Family head threatened to send the bride to the Breeding Garden, so she killed herself and cursed the families; he ordered the players to cut out her tongue.

Xu Huo intervened at the wedding to save the Feng Family bride and demand the Cursed Box taken by the Zhu Nuo Family. After demonstrating overwhelming spatial power, he abducted the Zhu Nuo Family members present and brought the bride and her companion’s body to the Anderson Family’s territory.

• Xu Huo appeared beside the bride, treated her with an Antidote, and incapacitated the players surrounding them.
• Xu Huo told the assembled families that he had come to retrieve a Cursed Box stolen from the Dream Factory dungeon by the Zhu Nuo Family.
• When District 009 objected to his killing players, Xu Huo threatened to wipe out a player family and immobilized the Zhu Nuo Family with spatial power.
• The head of Wicks ordered the non-game venue simulator switched off, causing more than half the people at the wedding to vanish, and Xu Huo left with the bride, her companion’s body, and the Zhu Nuo Family members present.
• Gene reported the incident to his family elders, while the Zhu Nuo Family sought help from the District Government and other player families.
• Xu Huo arrived on the Anderson Family’s territory as the other families tried to find him.

Xu Huo interrogated captured Zhu Nuo Family members at the Anderson Family’s venue, while the bride learned that the Cursed Box was empty and the Zhu Nuo Family had committed atrocities against the Feng Family. After the bride took revenge on the captives, she began telling Xu Huo about the Feng Family’s history.

• Gene’s family hid Xu Huo and the captured Zhu Nuo Family members in a sealed room, where one captive recognized the Anderson Family’s location.
• Xu Huo questioned the captives and learned that a senior Zhu Nuo Family member had received the Cursed Box, but the man said it was empty.
• The bride explained that the Zhu Nuo Family’s Breeding Garden had subjected Feng Family members to horrific experiments involving aliens and mutant animals.
• The bride attacked the Zhu Nuo Family captives and used her ring to take an eye from each of them, declaring that retribution had come.
• Xu Huo took the bride out of the room, and after she changed and calmed down, she began describing how the Feng Family had been a nation founded by multiple ethnic groups.

The chapter traced how the Feng Clan went from leading the Survivors who founded the Feng Kingdom to being hunted and abused by Player organizations. It left the Feng Clan’s hatred rooted throughout District 009, passed down through generations and driving repeated rebellions and revenge.

• The Feng Clan helped ordinary people and Players establish the Feng Kingdom and guide its early recovery.
• Player organizations began abducting and experimenting on Feng Clan members, prompting the government’s core personnel to destroy registration records and conceal the true Feng Clan.
• As the Feng Clan tried to become Players to defend themselves, failed transformations and fabricated accusations turned public opinion against them.
• The Zhu Nuo Family witnessed a Feng Clan man who had become an Alien say farewell to his pregnant wife and concluded that Feng Clan members could produce intelligent Aliens.
• Player organizations expanded their hunt into a campaign of abuse and experimentation against anyone associated with the Feng surname, including innocent ordinary people.
• The surviving Feng Clan and their descendants continued to carry deep hatred, rebelling against the Player Family and seeking revenge across generations.

Xu Huo learned why the Feng Clan’s descendants continued resisting District 009 and negotiated with the Zhu Nuo family to free them in exchange for their release. When the family head refused, Xu Huo inferred that the Cursed Box contained seeds from Dream Factory’s powerful Mutated Plant and decided to obtain them.

• The bride explained that hatred between the Feng Clan and the Player Family could only end when every Feng Clan member or enemy died.
• Xu Huo offered to let the Zhu Nuo family leave if they handed over Feng Clan descendants held in the Breeding Garden, Dungeons, and elsewhere.
• A middle-aged man considered the deal, but the Zhu Nuo family head refused to surrender the Feng Clan descendants despite his relatives urging him to agree.
• Xu Huo guessed that the Cursed Box contained seeds from the giant Mutated Plant in Dream Factory, and the family head’s reaction confirmed his suspicion.
• Xu Huo said he would find a way to obtain the valuable seeds.

Xu Huo uncovered that Feng Lanni's corpse had contained valuable Mutated Plant seeds, which the Zhu Nuo family had taken and hidden. After killing the family head, he found Feng Lanni's preserved body and planned to investigate the family's plantations and rescue Feng Clan descendants.

• A Zhu Nuo family member told Xu Huo that Feng Lanni's corpse had contained many kinds of seeds and that the family head had rewarded him after taking the body.
• Xu Huo deduced that Feng Lanni may have cultivated unusually valuable Mutated Plants and questioned the Zhu Nuo family head about her corpse.
• Xu Huo killed the Zhu Nuo family head and found Feng Lanni's preserved body, an empty Cursed Box, and other Feng Clan specimens in the family's Storage Compartment.
• A captive told Xu Huo that the Zhu Nuo family cultivated Mutated Plants on remote islands and in secondary Sub-districts.
• Xu Huo told Gene he planned to take Feng Clan descendants out of District 009 and ordered him to provide a list of where the Zhu Nuo family held them.

Xu Huo rescued the Feng Clan descendants and gathered support from the Anderson Family while disrupting the Zhu Nuo Family’s operations. After accepting Gene’s detector for Super Dimensional Instruments, he left to confront the Zhu Nuo Family’s headquarters.

• Xu Huo stole Mutated Plant seeds and cultivation records, then disrupted several Zhu Nuo Family research sites to draw their attention away.
• Xu Huo took the Feng Clan descendants from their captors and asked the Anderson Family to handle the Breeding Garden rescue.
• Xu Huo learned from Qian Han that players inside Dream Factory were monitoring the Feng Clan descendants, then went to the Anderson Family instead of entering the instance.
• Frey Anderson offered the Anderson Family’s help and gave Xu Huo a container holding the Feng Clan descendants.
• Gene warned Xu Huo that the Zhu Nuo Family’s headquarters might be protected by a Super Dimensional Instrument and lent him a detector.
• Xu Huo accepted the detector and left for the Zhu Nuo Family’s headquarters as the family struggled to recover its abducted head and its reputation.

Xu Huo attacked the Zhu Nuo Family Manor and captured players from the family and its guests using his spatial abilities. He demanded that the Dream Factory’s people be brought to him in exchange for the hostages.

• The unaffiliated player organization’s members discussed their assignment to publicly kill an outer district player and agreed to retreat if he proved too strong.
• Xu Huo arrived at the manor, and his spatial threads overwhelmed the guards as the hired players fled.
• Several Zhu Nuo Family players attacked Xu Huo, but he escaped their ambush using the game item "My Heart is Gloomy."
• Xu Huo emerged in the main hall, blocked a barrage with ice, and used Kaleidoscope Threads to restrain players from the Zhu Nuo Family and three other families.
• Xu Huo held the restrained players hostage and demanded that the Dream Factory’s people be brought to exchange for them.

Xu Huo held members of the Player Families hostage and demanded that they exchange them for the people from the Dream Factory. When the families tried to contain and attack him, he used his mental power and spatial game item to kill or incapacitate many players, leaving them divided over whether to keep the simulation device active.

• Xu Huo threatened the Zhu Nuo Family with the hostages and demanded the release of the people from the Dream Factory.
• The Zhu Nuo Family activated interference devices, while members of the Mann Family and another Player Family warned them not to endanger their people.
• Xu Huo killed another player, then unleashed his mental power and black matter after a disguised attacker tried to strike him.
• Xu Huo used the black matter and spatial cuts to kill or remove more than ten players, including one of the Zhu Nuo Family's elderly men.
• The Player Families pulled back, and a Mann Family player demanded that the simulation device be shut off, but a Zhu Nuo Family elder insisted it stay active.

Xu Huo confronted the Zhu Nuo Family until District 009's Super Player, Mr. Huo, intervened and brokered a hostage exchange. Mr. Huo then slaughtered half the Zhu Nuo Family before suddenly attacking Xu Huo.

• The Zhu Nuo Family's old man took two Feng descendants hostage and threatened to kill them, but Xu Huo refused to yield.
• Mr. Huo destroyed the manor's sealing barrier and opened the Ticket channels, then offered to mediate between Xu Huo and the Zhu Nuo Family.
• Mr. Huo pressured the Zhu Nuo Family to agree to release the hostages, and Xu Huo returned their captured members from his container item.
• After several Zhu Nuo Family members attacked Xu Huo, Mr. Huo crushed them and killed half the Zhu Nuo Family present.
• Mr. Huo praised Xu Huo, then suddenly appeared before him and brought his hand down toward Xu Huo's head.

Xu Huo used "Gravity Field" to make Mr. Huo withdraw and won permission to take the Feng Clan survivors away, while Mr. Huo warned District 009 not to pursue him. Chief Executive Charles Huo then forced the Zhu Nuo Family to surrender much of its territory and holdings, leaving its members trapped as their power collapsed.

• Xu Huo activated "Gravity Field," causing Mr. Huo to retreat from his attack.
• Mr. Huo praised Xu Huo as a possible second Carmen Field and let him take the townspeople and the two old men away.
• Mr. Huo told the Chief Executive not to pursue Xu Huo and ordered him to deal with the Zhu Nuo Family.
• Chief Executive Charles Huo sealed the Zhu Nuo estate and demanded that the Zhu Nuo Family give up the Crimson Cloud Region and most of its holdings.
• The Zhu Nuo Family realized it had no choice but to comply after its family head was killed and its estate was blockaded.

After helping bring down the Zhu Nuo Family, Xu Huo escorted Eileen and the surviving Feng descendants to a hidden settlement in an abandoned Sub-district. He left them with Feng Lanni’s body and supplies, then wondered whether the protective mutated plants would preserve the clan’s history.

• The District Government seized the Zhu Nuo Family’s businesses and forced its players into government service or guard work, while the Sub-district’s families reacted warily to the Feng Clan’s role.
• Xu Huo released Eileen and the Dream Factory survivors in a mutated forest, where the Feng descendants mourned Feng Lanni and returned her body to the Cursed Box.
• Eileen asked about her adoptive parents, and Xu Huo said the weakened Zhu Nuo Family would likely leave them with few choices; he agreed to find another Sub-district for the other survivors.
• Xu Huo transported the survivors who needed relocation, then used a cross-Sub-district device to reach the abandoned Sub-district named by Bookworm.
• Xu Huo delivered Eileen and the Feng descendants to their settlement protected by mental-type mutated plants, accepted their notes on cultivation and devices, and gave them equipment from the Zhu Nuo Family.

After receiving the rest of his payment from Bookworm, Xu Huo traveled to another sub-district and stopped a violent fight aboard the Dimensional Train. He reviewed clues about Stellar Pharmaceutical’s hidden Laboratories, then enjoyed an unusually polite meal as the train crossed a snowbound landscape, where two new passengers complained about the cold and a broken window.

• Xu Huo received the remaining payment from Bookworm, gave Dr. Deng the potion formula, and kept the other Laboratory information for himself.
• Xu Huo restrained the fighting players across several train cars and warned them to stop or get off, leaving the passengers silent and wary.
• Xu Huo reviewed Bookworm’s information about Stellar Pharmaceutical’s site-selection criteria and concluded that asking a Super Player might be the best way to find the company’s Laboratories.
• As the train crossed an ice field, Xu Huo ordered a meal from the Conductor, whose exceptional politeness kept the other players subdued.
• Two newly boarded players complained about the cold and the large hole in the window.

Xu Huo rode a B-class train as the thawing landscape drew the passengers into conversation. He met A-class player Qiu Yuying, whose soothing tea and unusual presence eased the carriage, as she revealed she was traveling to the unstable Sub-district B22-007.

• Two young B-class players complained loudly about the train until another passenger warned them to stop, and they settled down.
• As the ice thawed and the sunset spread across the landscape, Qiu Yuying reflected on real-world beauty and approached Xu Huo.
• Qiu Yuying introduced herself as an A-class tea farmer and shared mutated tea with Xu Huo and the other passengers.
• Xu Huo sensed that Qiu Yuying had a soothing mental-type Evolution, while she chatted with the passengers over tea.
• Qiu Yuying said she was headed to Sub-district B22-007, and the two young players warned that factions there were at war.

Xu Huo and the other players faced an unusual alien attack aboard the train, followed by a pack of giant mutant beasts. The chapter ended as the players realized the beasts were charging to ram the train off the tracks.

• Several players boarded the train while fighting, drawing aliens that piled onto the carriage and tracked movement by sound.
• A giant tiger-lion mutant beast smashed through a carriage door, then prowled the roof and attacked the aliens outside.
• The beast called out with three roars, summoning a huge horde of mutant beasts along both sides of the tracks.
• The players tried to deploy a large defensive barrier, but it could not expand beyond an unseen boundary.
• The mutant beasts charged toward different sections of the train, apparently intending to ram it off the tracks.

Xu Huo saved the train from a massive Mutant Beast and Alien attack, then arrived in District 007 and crossed a Restricted Zone on foot. There, he was ambushed by armored players and seized one of them, criticizing his manners.

• Xu Huo split the approaching Alien horde and killed the Mutant Beasts attacking the train, allowing the players to survive until dawn.
• The players treated Xu Huo with new respect, and two days later he left the train at B22-007.
• Xu Huo found the area around the station devastated by fighting and used a District 007 Communicator to locate his destination.
• A Restricted Zone disrupted Xu Huo's teleportation device, so he walked across its unusual terrain instead.
• Aircraft surrounded Xu Huo, but he forced them down and overpowered the silver-armored player who attacked him.