Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo, Guo Xiaomao, and Keke crossed a landscape where space had been replaced and distorted, then fled as the dungeon’s space began to collapse. The spatial storm caught up with them despite the Sky Light Domain, leaving their survival uncertain.

• Xu Huo led Guo Xiaomao and Keke to a snowy landscape that had abruptly replaced part of the abandoned city.
• The three crossed the snowfield and continued through the gray world as Xu Huo sensed uneven changes in space.
• Gravity shifted sharply, pinning the three down before making them weightless and then crushing them with greater force.
• Xu Huo activated the Sky Light Domain and used the Hyper-Cube Device to escape with Guo Xiaomao and Keke as space disintegrated behind them.
• The spatial storm formed around the fleeing barrier, and Guo Xiaomao and Keke feared they were about to die.

Xu Huo rescued Guo Xiaomao and Keke from a spatial collapse by reaching an endless blue ocean that displaced the storm. The three continued across the unfamiliar water, unsure whether they were still inside the dungeon or headed toward the City in the Dome.

• Xu Huo, Guo Xiaomao, and Keke fell into collapsing space as the spatial storm caught up with them, and Xu Huo’s Kaleidoscope Barrier shattered.
• Xu Huo spotted a vast expanse of blue water and crossed into its space, where the expanding ocean pushed the spatial fragments and storm away.
• Xu Huo used Mental Portals to pull Guo Xiaomao and the badly injured Keke to safety, then treated Keke’s collapsing shoulder.
• Guo Xiaomao used a Self-Healing Agent to stop the bleeding from his severed foot and told Keke she could get a mechanical arm once they escaped.
• Xu Huo said they probably remained inside the dungeon because their Personal Panels were unchanged and tickets still did not work, and the three kept traveling toward the City in the Dome.

Xu Huo, Guo Xiaomao, and Keke crossed a shifting ocean into a ruined city, where they found the wounded Xiduo. Xiduo abandoned his pursuit of District 041, and Xu Huo sensed that some of the players who had entered the instance were still alive.

• Guo Xiaomao suggested the City in the Dome might be underwater, but the group found no way through the ocean until Xu Huo sensed the space changing and led them back onto solid ground.
• Xu Huo, Guo Xiaomao, and Keke entered a ruined city divided by a boundary where gravity had destroyed its two halves differently.
• Xu Huo spotted Xiduo in a collapsing building, and Guo Xiaomao invited him to join them against District 041.
• Xiduo said he had stopped chasing District 041 and explained that the unstable instance and the district’s powerful backing had made revenge seem impossible.
• Xu Huo looked to the left and realized that not everyone who entered the instance with them was dead.

Xu Huo’s group captured three players from District 041 but learned nothing from them before continuing toward the City in the Dome. They saw players desperately competing for shelter inside its glass conduits, and a sudden surge of gravity crushed everyone outside them to the ground.

• Xu Huo pulled three fleeing players from District 041 back and questioned them, but their self-destruct chips and unwavering silence kept them from revealing anything.
• Xu Huo ordered that the captives be kept alive to scout the way, and Xiduo restrained them with Spider Locks and said he would starve them to death.
• Xu Huo’s group crossed two more spatial shifts and reached an abandoned city, where they saw a distant domed city connected to long transparent conduits.
• Xu Huo’s group watched players inside the conduits pace mechanically while those outside begged or threatened to take their places.
• The rain accelerated and overwhelming gravity crushed people and objects throughout the abandoned city, leaving the players outside the conduits pinned to the ground.

Xu Huo and the others escaped a gravity disaster and learned that the glass tubes were safe zones in a Dungeon where players had to exchange places between inside and outside. An elderly woman urged the players to keep exchanging places through trust, but most dismissed her Ideal World as impossible.

• Xu Huo and the others reached the glass tubes as the abandoned city vanished, ending the doubled gravity and killing or stranding many players who had not escaped.
• Guo Xiaomao and the others saw that only a few dozen players had survived, with many outside the tubes left hunched and crippled.
• Xiduo tested the glass barrier, while Xu Huo recognized it as compressed Multilayered Space that could not be broken.
• An elderly woman argued that exchanging places between players inside and outside the tubes could benefit everyone if they trusted one another.
• Guo Xiaomao called the woman's vision an Ideal World that could never exist, and she replied that it was still worth hoping for despite her short time left to live.

Xu Huo learned about the City in the Dome, the proposed Glass Exchange Act, and the changes District 041 players suffered from repeated use of container items. After Guo Xiaomao and the others beat several District 041 players, Xu Huo exposed two more who had been watching.

• Xu Huo asked the old woman about life in the City in the Dome and learned that players had to leave or be expelled after thirty days.
• The old woman explained that the Glass Exchange Act proposed mandatory exchanges between the tube's interior and exterior every ten days, but few players supported it.
• The old woman said District 041 players were sometimes trapped in the dungeon and that repeated stays in container items could make their bodies unable to tolerate them.
• Xu Huo confirmed the old woman's explanation with Number Three, prompting Guo Xiaomao, Xiduo, and nearby players to beat the three bound District 041 players.
• Xu Huo pointed out two men watching from a distance and identified them as District 041 players despite their disguises.

Xu Huo entered the City in the Dome by exchanging places with a starving player, while the players outside scrambled to survive a sudden gravity imbalance and the appearance of an abandoned city. Inside, a spatial exchange replaced the city center with an orchard, and Xu Huo approached three observers with an offer to support the Glass Exchange Act.

• Xiduo restrained three players from District 041 with Spider Locks, while Xu Huo entered a spherical cabin and exchanged places with a woman, giving her food and promising to return within a day.
• Guo Xiaomao asked Xu Huo how he had managed the exchange, and Xu Huo replied that he had moved the woman with sincerity.
• The woman shared Xu Huo's promise with the surrounding players, then lost her food when a localized gravity imbalance crushed nearby people and a new abandoned city appeared.
• Most of the players near the glass passages fled into the newly appeared city, while many who remained were killed by the gravity imbalance.
• Inside the City in the Dome, a spatial exchange replaced the city center with a lush orchard, and players rushed to seize its fruit and trees.
• Xu Huo spotted three people watching from a second floor, went upstairs, and asked whether they would support the Glass Exchange Act.

Xu Huo subdued the players fighting over resources in the City in the Dome and forced them to vote on the Glass Act. After it passed unanimously, he began setting rules for players who had stayed more than ten days.

• Xu Huo used the gravity from his bone ring to make the players retreat, then removed spatial barriers around would-be attackers and proposed resolving the dispute peacefully.
• A speed-focused player attacked Xu Huo, but Xu Huo’s splitting crystal arrows pursued him and killed him after Xu Huo distracted him with a voice in his mind.
• Xu Huo asked the assembled players to vote on the Glass Act, and everyone voted in favor.
• Xu Huo declared the Glass Act passed and asked players who had been in the City in the Dome for more than ten days to stand on the left.

Xu Huo enforced the Glass Act and arranged for the longest-residing players to be exchanged out first while considering the dungeon’s lethal spatial hazards. As a storm gathered, he realized that the battlefields faced by super players could be far more dangerous than he had imagined.

• Xu Huo offered players an exemption from one exchange for reporting others, then directed them to persuade the glass-pipe residents to go out first.
• Players in the glass pipes were approached by small groups, while injured and weaker players asked Xu Huo to delay their exchanges until they recovered.
• Xu Huo questioned players about gravity failures and spatial exchanges, learning that weakened gravity could send people drifting into unknown spaces and that barriers might fail.
• Xu Huo considered how the dungeon’s hazards could reflect the battlefields super players faced and doubted he could defeat one without additional help.
• Xu Huo watched black clouds gather overhead as purple lightning flashed, and predicted a heavy rainstorm.

After a purple lightning storm devastated the abandoned city, Guo Xiaomao fought Number Three, who attacked him with abilities, artifacts, and homing missiles. Number Three nearly crushed Guo Xiaomao, but an unseen attacker struck him down with Kaleidoscope Threads.

• A purple lightning storm killed and injured players and damaged buildings across the abandoned city.
• After the Spider Locks on the three men from District 041 unlocked, Number Three attacked Guo Xiaomao and Keke, and Guo Xiaomao drove him out of the building.
• Guo Xiaomao and Number Three exchanged attacks across the ruined buildings, and Number Three used homing missiles to bring down a building and injure Guo Xiaomao.
• Guo Xiaomao used a shadow to distract Number Three, but Number Three countered and trapped him inside a shrinking flower bud.
• An unseen attacker struck Number Three with a gaze that left him incapacitated, and Kaleidoscope Threads shattered his body.