Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo and the Players searched underground for the Origin Stone while the group confronted the danger of starvation in the Dungeon. The Fei sisters survived the ordeal, and the older sister returned from apparent death using a one-use game item.

• Two vines destroyed two tunneling machines, but the third returned with soil samples that convinced the middle-aged glasses man the Origin Stone was nearby.
• A female Player who had entered the Dungeon returned alive but mortally wounded, and her younger sister grieved over her apparent death.
• Xu Huo noticed the older sister’s injuries reversing and congratulated her on her resurrection.
• The older sister explained that a one-use game item had brought her back to life, and Xu Huo arranged ordinary medicine for her.
• The Fei sisters told Xu Huo and the others that they were B-class Players whose relatives and friends had been killed after their group entered the Dungeon.

After Da Fei described surviving a deadly minigame, Xu Huo learned that the mutant vines made locating their origin stone difficult. He set out to investigate the area where sub-class stones had been found and cleared a vast section of the vine wall with Spatial Cutlines.

• Da Fei told Bingmei and the others how mutant beasts drove her into spatial disturbances, costing her a hand and a foot before the exit appeared.
• Bingmei questioned Da Fei about death and time reversal, but Da Fei reported no bodily changes after returning to the moment of her injury.
• Brother Ya failed to return, while the middle-aged glasses man and his companions worked to locate an origin stone.
• The middle-aged glasses man found two intact sub-class stones, and Xu Huo said he would inspect the area the next morning.
• After another tourist entered a survival minigame, Xu Huo led a group to the vine wall and used Spatial Cutlines to shred everything across a five-thousand-meter semicircle.

Xu Huo failed to reach the Origin Stone because the Mutated Vines regenerated too quickly, so he sent recording and sampling devices underground on Mutated Rats while his group waited for results. As the Mini-game continued selecting people, the survivors dwindled, and on the eleventh day the final two members of the five-person group were chosen together.

• Xu Huo stopped trying to reach the Origin Stone, shared several Sub-class Stones with the middle-aged glasses man and his companions, and asked them to build devices for recording footage and collecting samples.
• The female Player and her companions made three devices, which Xu Huo strapped to Mutated Rats and sent into underground passages beneath the Mutated Vines.
• The Mini-game selected Hat and Old Ping on the seventh night, and both disappeared into the black vortex.
• Xu Huo's group searched the city for companions, but the Mini-game selected more Players on the eighth, ninth, and tenth days, and none returned alive.
• On the eleventh day, the final two members of the five-person group were selected at the same time.

Xu Huo entered the Time Reversal mini-game, where streams of Time Power cut through a star-filled space and seemed to erase stars. He discovered that time had reversed around him when a marker he had carved as “20” changed to “19.”

• Tong Chuan bit the glasses man’s wrist and knocked him into the black vortex, while the female Player was also pulled into the Mini-game.
• Over the following days, the convoy dwindled to twelve people, and the driver broke down in tears as the group faced another night.
• On the seventeenth day, Xu Huo entered a new Mini-game with a child and told Big Sister and the others to keep going if he did not return soon.
• Xu Huo realized he had reached the place he was seeking and carefully navigated the star-filled space, where Time Power surged unpredictably.
• Xu Huo marked the ground with numbers as he walked, then saw his “20” marker change to “19” after a faint breeze passed.

Xu Huo entered a new Mini-game space filled with dangerous streams of Time Power, searching for the source of the Dungeon’s temporal anomalies. After marking his path as he advanced, he discovered that time had reversed around one of his markers.

• The glasses man and a female Player were pulled into the Mini-game, leaving fewer than twenty people in the convoy; over the following days, the group dwindled to twelve.
• On the seventeenth day, Xu Huo entered the Mini-game with a child and told Big Sister and the others to keep going if he did not return soon.
• Xu Huo recognized the new space as the place he had been searching for and cautiously navigated its shifting streams of Time Power.
• After noticing a faint breeze and finding no clear trace of it, Xu Huo carved numbered markers into the ground as he walked.
• When he looked back after marking the ground with a 20, Xu Huo found that the marker had become a 19 and realized time had reversed.

Xu Huo studied Curved Time in the Astral Space and realized it coexisted with other Time Powers throughout space-time. He learned to stir Curved Time without losing his memories and began sensing the many strands of time around and within himself.

• Xu Huo recorded when Curved Time appeared and discovered that each occurrence reversed time within an area of about three kilometers around him.
• Xu Huo sensed that Curved Time was woven throughout space rather than entering through a fixed point, and considered how it might coexist with other space-times.
• Xu Huo reached out and stirred Curved Time, reversing the numbers he had carved into the ground and sending nearby Time Powers flowing backward.
• Xu Huo retained his memories as time reversed and felt that his body held both forward-flowing and reversed time.
• Xu Huo sensed many overlapping Time Powers around him and felt that his body had become a passage through which different kinds of time could flow.

Big Sis and her companions encountered a well-equipped team of Players preparing for a Mini-game, then turned back toward Xu Huo’s location. In the Astral Space, Xu Huo advanced his control over Time Power and saw a person standing beside a river of stars.

• Tong Chuan spotted Players surrounding the group from nearby rooftops, and a purple-clad man questioned Big Sis about their dried meat.
• Big Sis told the purple-clad man that the person who brought the meat out had reentered the Mini-game, and the elite team left without confronting them.
• Big Sis decided her group should return toward where Brother Xu entered the Mini-game, and they headed back without removing their banner.
• The elite team used instruments to drive away Aliens and waited for the Mini-game to select its participants.
• Xu Huo practiced drawing Time Power in the Astral Space, learned to draw Time Rays from different directions, and considered whether special ore could form there.
• Xu Huo reached toward the stars and saw a flowing river of white light beside a black Abyss, with a person standing nearby.

Xu Huo saw a vision of his future self in the Astral Space, then returned to the Dungeon and attacked the Players who had detained his companions. After interrogating them about their research into Mini-games, he returned to Big Sis and the others, who explained how they had been captured.

• Xu Huo saw a familiar figure in the Astral Space point beneath his feet before the vision vanished and he returned to the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo used Time Power to kill sixteen of the twenty-eight Players and freeze or age the others.
• Xu Huo forced a purple-clothed woman and the silver-haired man in black to unlock a terminal, then found research on twenty-five Mini-game spaces but no records of Time Power.
• The silver-haired man in black stopped the purple-clothed woman from reporting the deaths and decided to follow Xu Huo.
• Big Sis and the others thanked Xu Huo, and Tong Chuan told him the Players had captured them and forced them to reveal where he had entered the Mini-game.

Xu Huo agreed to share Super Evolution notes with Big Sis and her companions, then took Big Sis aside to hear how she had gained a Special Evolution Ability. Big Sis recounted finding and consuming strange roots around a mysterious red object in a Dungeon, after which one of her Abilities could be used without limit.

• Xu Huo told Tong Chuan and Big Sis that he would give them copies of his Super Evolution notes after they left the area.
• Big Sis offered to share her experience with Ability Evolution, so Xu Huo took her to a rooftop several kilometers away.
• Big Sis explained that she had become an A-class player and gained a Special Evolution after a fortuitous encounter in a low-level Dungeon.
• Big Sis recounted how roots dragged her underground, where she ate them and followed their growth toward a red glowing object before losing consciousness.
• Big Sis said the red object and roots vanished, but she later discovered that one of her Abilities could be used without limit.

The woman explained how an origin stone had seemingly helped her Skin Hardening ability evolve, and Xu Huo suspected the stones in the dungeon might have similar effects. When the cross-sub-district instrument proved unusable, Xu Huo confronted the remaining players and began killing them rather than let them threaten him again.

• The woman told Xu Huo that her Skin Hardening ability had strengthened and changed after she encountered what she suspected was an origin stone.
• Xu Huo asked the woman and four others to move to another sub-district and stay away, but the silver-haired man in black revealed that the cross-sub-district instrument could not be activated because some spatial points were locked.
• The woman in purple offered an individual teleportation instrument that could send only one person out of the current space.
• Xu Huo killed two more players with time rays and immobilized the rest, leaving only the silver-haired man in black free.
• Xu Huo threatened the silver-haired man in black, saying the group could die there or outside and that he would retrieve their family's instrument.

Xu Huo and the others forced the silver-haired man’s group to take their places in the dungeon’s mini-games after learning their large teleportation device could not be activated. As the games claimed several people and injured others, Xu Huo gave Bingmei a teleportation device and let her leave ahead of the rest.

• The silver-haired man explained that the large teleportation device could not be activated and that the group’s remaining cross-sub-district devices could not guarantee a safe escape.
• Xu Huo confiscated the newcomers’ devices, and the silver-haired man’s group supplied food while no mini-game appeared on the nineteenth day.
• On the twentieth day, two members of the silver-haired man’s group entered mini-games; one returned severely injured, and the other never came back.
• The next morning, the driver and Bingmei were selected, and members of the silver-haired man’s group took their places; the mother and child were selected soon after, and only one of the three entrants survived.
• Xu Huo gave Bingmei a teleportation device and let her leave, and she promised to repay the eldest sister and the others.

On the twenty-fifth day, Xu Huo killed the silver-haired man in black, destroyed the remaining device, and entered the black vortex as the Dungeon ended. Da Fei and the others left with the mother and her children, while a wounded woman in purple arrived after they were gone; Xu Huo found himself in a pitch-black space.

• On the twenty-third day, no one was selected for a Mini-game, and Tong Chuan and Da Fei wondered whether the Player Family's team had outside support.
• On the twenty-fourth day, the silver-haired man in black was selected, and Xu Huo gave the final teleportation device to Da Fei for the next person chosen.
• The silver-haired man in black returned badly wounded and threatened Xu Huo after learning his companions were dead.
• On the twenty-fifth day, the driver used the teleportation device, and Xu Huo told the mother to choose someone else before killing the silver-haired man and destroying the large device.
• Xu Huo entered the black vortex as the Dungeon ended, while Da Fei and Tong Chuan took the mother and children out of District 007.
• Da Fei and Xiao Fei erased traces at the site, but a bloodied woman in purple emerged from a black vortex and raced toward the Dungeon entrance as Xu Huo stood in a pitch-black space.

Xu Huo struggled through a collapsing mental space, where Dr. Zhang and Carmen Field confronted one another before Xu Huo and his adult self forced Dr. Zhang underwater. He escaped into the Iceberg Space and discovered that striking snowflakes with Space Power let him grasp Curved Time, though repeated reversals made the space seem fragile.

• Xu Huo drifted toward oblivion in the darkness until a doctor-like figure urged him to leave his isolated inner world.
• Xu Huo saw his adult self, Carmen Field, and Dr. Zhang seated around a table, then sank underwater with his adult self as Carmen Field vanished.
• Dr. Zhang pulled Xu Huo and his adult self from the water, but both versions of Xu Huo forced Dr. Zhang back in with them.
• Xu Huo expanded his white Spiritual World through the darkness, pushed through black doors, and emerged in the Iceberg Space.
• Xu Huo repeatedly struck falling snowflakes with Space Power, used the resulting turbulence to grasp Curved Time, and reversed time by three seconds each time.
• After dozens of repetitions, Xu Huo sensed that the space around him had become dangerously fragile.

Xu Huo emerged from Carmen Field’s legacy with major advances in mental, space, and time Evolution, then tracked down the Fei Sisters. He found them sheltering with many others after the fighting spread, and learned the influx of people had made their Dungeon situation safer.

• Xu Huo broke through his mental limits, expanded his Spiritual World, and learned to connect and redirect Snowflake Spatial Entities through Space Rays.
• Xu Huo left the black space, completed the Dungeon, and received generous rewards including an A-rank time item.
• Xu Huo concluded Carmen Field had preserved an unusual collective space as a place for Evolution and recognized himself as the greatest beneficiary of the legacy.
• Xu Huo searched for the Fei Sisters, found an empty car marked with dried blood, and followed the trail toward them.
• Xu Huo found the Fei Sisters sheltering with dozens of people in a building beside a damaged tour bus, and Xiao Fei told him that fighting had spread across many cities.

Xu Huo and the Fei Sisters recovered a recording device and found that Mutant Rats were entering the Mutated Plants' territory, but the footage revealed no Origin Stone. Before they could leave, three Players ambushed them, and Xu Huo used Time Power and the Kaleidoscope Threads to defeat them.

• Xu Huo found the crushed recording device in the sewers, and the Fei Sisters watched footage of Mutant Rats entering the Mutated Plants' territory.
• Xu Huo decided to leave the Dungeon site intact, worrying that taking the Origin Stone or fighting the Player family could destroy it.
• Three Players attacked Xu Huo and the Fei Sisters, crushing their building and deploying a Hyperdimensional Space Barrier to restrict Time Power.
• Xu Huo sent streams of Time Power sideways through the city, aging the two Players in the sky and trapping the third.
• Xu Huo blocked the remaining Player's escape with the Kaleidoscope Threads, froze him with a Time Ray, and cut his throat with a Spatial Cutline.

After escaping the Dungeon, Xu Huo reunited with Wen Shenghe and Qiu Yuying, who were being hunted while trying to mediate District 007’s war. He proposed a plan to end the conflict by removing a major district’s designation, but whether it could clear the Dungeon remained uncertain.

• Xu Huo collected instruments after killing the Players in the Dungeon, and the Bee Instrument self-destructed before he left.
• The Fei Sisters traded two Sub-class Stones for instruments, and Xu Huo returned to District 007, where war had driven people through the Restricted Zone.
• Player Family members tried to surround Xu Huo as he emerged from the Dungeon, but he broke through and escaped by changing his appearance and clothing.
• Xu Huo found Wen Shenghe, Qiu Yuying, and other peace advocates being hunted, then helped them drive back their pursuers.
• Qiu Yuying explained that efforts to mediate District 007’s war had failed and that their group risked timing out of the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo proposed that the District Government and the opposing Players cooperate to remove a major district’s designation peacefully, though Qiu Yuying questioned whether the plan was feasible or would clear the Dungeon.

Xu Huo left negotiations over the war and visited Lady Feng, where a family connected to Carmen questioned him about the Restricted Zone Dungeon. When their opponents arrived with a Transdimensional Space Instrument to trap him on Blue Heron Islet, Xu Huo confronted them in the sky.

• Xu Huo urged Wen Shenghe and Qiu Yuying to seek terms to end the war, then left them to consider his proposal.
• Xu Huo visited Lady Feng with fruit and emerald jewelry, where a guest pressed him for information about Carmen’s special spaces.
• Xu Huo told the guest he had offended someone in the Dungeon and refused an offer to mediate his conflict with an A-class wormhole point’s Players.
• A group arrived at Blue Heron Islet carrying a Transdimensional Space Instrument, alarming Lady Feng’s other guests.
• Xu Huo moved into the sky and challenged the arrivals, asking whether they intended to perish with him after sealing the island.

Xu Huo unleashed Time Power inside the Player Family’s barrier, freezing most of his enemies and forcing the Super Dimensional Instrument to be shut down. After the barrier vanished, he attacked the fleeing Players, but a transparent glass sphere dropped into the Time Power and severed time itself.

• The Player Family trapped Xu Huo in a sealing barrier and attacked him with magma and a crystal arrow, but he evaded them using Dark Space.
• Xu Huo sent streams of Time Power through the Hyperdimensional Space Barrier, causing the rays to multiply and freeze Players across the islet.
• The Player Family leader ordered the Super Dimensional Instrument shut down, but its operators had been frozen and the Players continued to fall victim to the Time Rays.
• Lady Feng urged an unfamiliar face to help shut down the instrument, but its two operators recovered first and deactivated it.
• Xu Huo attacked the Players as they fled, rapidly aging more than a dozen of them until a transparent glass sphere expanded and severed time.

Xu Huo negotiated with the Du Family after escaping their Transdimensional Space Instrument, accepted the Super Artifact, and left after warning them he would visit again. The Du Family suspected he had concealed powerful abilities and wondered whether he might surpass Carmen Field.

• Xu Huo confronted the glass-bead holder, rejected the Du Family’s attempt to dismiss the conflict, and questioned how many Transdimensional Space Instruments they possessed.
• The Du Family offered to end the dispute, while the unfamiliar-faced man proposed a Jenkins Family gathering and Lady Feng advised Xu Huo not to push for more compensation.
• Xu Huo sensed hidden Ultra-A-class Players nearby and decided to leave rather than reveal more of his abilities or risk being trapped.
• Xu Huo warned the Du Family that he would visit them in the future, nodded to Lady Feng, and vanished.
• The Du Family wondered whether Xu Huo also possessed Mental Evolution, had evaded the instrument’s Time Power, or might eventually surpass Carmen Field.

Xu Huo reviewed the Super Artifact Lonely Arrow and the A-class time item Time Void, then shared Super Evolution notes and checked on developments in District 007. After drawing attention from the A-class Player community by posting about the Magician, he arrived at B02-001 and paid his respects at Carmen’s statue.

• Xu Huo examined Lonely Arrow’s tracking and multiplying arrows and reviewed the defensive time item Time Void.
• Xu Huo sent Tong Chuan and the others his Super Evolution notes, and they told him they had helped the mother and her two children settle in a peaceful Sub-district.
• Xu Huo checked District 007 and saw signs that the civil war was moving toward peace negotiations.
• Xu Huo posted a message about receiving an instrument from the Magician, bringing attention from A-class Players and an excited barrage of questions from Moth Art.
• Xu Huo arrived at B02-001, left a bouquet at Carmen’s statue, bowed, and departed.