Recaps

After the failed attack on the players, Bai Fu gained a faction reward and further earned the Wildfire Gang Boss’s esteem, while Cao Wenliang was blamed and dismissed. Enraged, Cao Wenliang went to kill Bai Fu, who waited for him on a rooftop platform.

• The External Affairs Department Minister blamed Cao Wenliang for the costly attack and led Bai Fu back to the Wildfire Gang, where she earned 3,000 experience points and the Wildfire title for ranking first in faction contribution.
• Bai Fu learned that the players had profited from the battle and planned to use Profession Knowledge Books to strengthen them while keeping their loyalty.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss praised Bai Fu for taking responsibility and protecting morale, then kicked Cao Wenliang when he tried to defend himself.
• Cao Wenliang, furious over the Boss’s treatment, armed himself and went out to kill Bai Fu.
• Bai Fu stood on a two-story platform and acknowledged Cao Wenliang as he approached.

Bai Fu lured Cao Wenliang into a fight, weakened him, and killed him after taking his gun. The next day, the Wildfire Gang suspected Outsiders were responsible, but a mysterious blue-haired woman questioned that theory, and the Boss summoned Bai Fu for a new mission.

• Bai Fu used her skills and Cao Wenliang’s exhaustion to gain the advantage, dodged his attack, and kicked him down.
• Bai Fu survived Cao Wenliang’s gunfire, took his pistol, and killed him after stunning him with another kick.
• Bai Fu hid Cao Wenliang’s body, and the Wildfire Gang discovered it the next day.
• A blue-haired woman argued that the Outsiders probably had not killed Cao Wenliang because the scene lacked signs of their usual dirty tricks.
• The Wildfire Gang’s Boss ordered an attendant to fetch Bai Fu for a new mission.

Bai Fu arranged for players to collect Type II Deformed Insect Poison Sacs, rewarding them with experience, favorability, and payment from the Wildfire Gang. After the players gathered all 50 sacs, Bai Fu learned that Outsiders had repeatedly returned after being killed, bringing their ability to revive closer to discovery.

• Bai Fu accepted the Wildfire Gang Boss's quest to collect 50 Type II Deformed Insect Poison Sacs and received access to 50,000 Credit Coins.
• An Ya recruited Digging Princess to help find Poison Sacs, and Digging Princess triggered a commission quest that brought other players into the effort.
• Bai Fu let the players collect the sacs and promised to pay them 200 Credit Coins each, winning their gratitude and agreeing to seek a Profession Knowledge Book for them.
• The players gathered all 50 Poison Sacs, but Bai Fu heard that Outsiders had appeared again after being killed, suggesting their ability to revive might be exposed.

The Wildfire Gang Boss concluded that the Outsiders could revive after death and sought help from Yulia and the Truth Society, prompting Number Seven to investigate them. Bai Fu turned in the Poison Sacs, leveled up, and gave the players a copied boxing manual before encountering Number Seven threatening a player.

• The Wildfire Gang Boss inferred that the Outsiders were undying and told Yulia about them in the Truth Society's hidden laboratory.
• Yulia ordered Number Seven to investigate whether the Outsiders were connected to the Gene Primordial, and he left to do so.
• Bai Fu turned in the Poison Sacs, received experience and reputation, raised her Spiritual Apprentice to Lv. 8, and asked the Wildfire Gang Boss for more quests.
• Bai Fu copied Basic Boxing Tutorial and gave the copy to Digging Princess, delighting the players and viewers.
• Bai Fu spotted Number Seven choking a stall owner and used Spiritual Vision on him.

Bai Fu investigated Number Seven, a powerful Truth Hunter who attacked the players’ base, and waited until his device and the players’ improvised tactics left him vulnerable. She killed him, collected his equipment and badge, and reassured the surviving players.

• Bai Fu examined Number Seven’s status and followed him to the players’ new base.
• Number Seven attacked the players, killing several and defeating Digging Princess when she challenged him.
• The players overwhelmed Number Seven with traps and coordinated attacks, forcing him to use a device that paralyzed everyone nearby.
• Bai Fu shot Number Seven, pretended to be paralyzed by his device, then struck and killed him when he lowered his guard.
• Bai Fu collected the Spiritual Energy Restraint and a Truth Society badge, then comforted the surviving players.

Bai Fu helped the players gain experience by guiding them toward Number Nine, while Number Nine released lure bait to delay an expected attack on the Wildfire Gang. The bait threatened to draw mutant creatures across the Abandoned Cooling Plant, leaving Bai Fu racing to contain the danger.

• After Number Seven's death, Bai Fu gained popularity and decided to use the players to help her level up.
• The Wildfire Gang Boss tasked Bai Fu with informing the players about Number Nine, and she accepted the hidden mission.
• Bai Fu spotted Yago Kaufman and Xia Shi, then saw Number Nine watching Xia Shi and alerted the players to his whereabouts.
• The players ambushed Number Nine, but he activated a Spiritual Energy Restraint, smashed the lure bait, and escaped toward the Wildfire Gang.
• Bai Fu used Spiritual Vision to learn the damaged lure bait could attract mutant creatures within five kilometers for a month, then hid An Ya in the basement and rushed back to the Wildfire Gang.

Bai Fu returned as Yulia used her [Envoys] ability to control players and protect Number Nine, while Yago and Xia Shi tried to stop the Truth Society agents. Bai Fu wounded Number Nine, but he mutated before he could die; after realizing she could exploit Yulia’s control to kill players and gain experience, Bai Fu prepared to use that crooked leveling method.

• Yulia emerged from the hidden door and controlled players whose Inspiration was below 15, allowing Number Nine to escape their attack.
• Yago and Xia Shi confronted Yulia, but she used controlled players as shields while the players casually discussed the threat of an incoming Insect Tide.
• Bai Fu identified Yulia’s control range and secretly used Frenzy on Number Nine before shooting him twice, with the second bullet striking his heart.
• Number Nine injected a drug, mutated into a monster, and lost his bleeding status as Yulia took control of him.
• Bai Fu realized she could let Yulia control her, then kill players for experience without losing their Favorability, and resolved to use the tactic to level up.

Yulia controlled Bai Fu and forced her to attack the players, but Bai Fu secretly held back while accumulating experience and waiting for a chance to break free. As the players rallied around her, Yulia ordered a retreat underground, and Bai Fu reached 11,945 experience before fixing her gaze on mutated Number Nine as the final piece of her plan.

• Yulia used [Envoys] to control Bai Fu, prompting the players to split between distracting Bai Fu and helping Yago and Xia Shi fight Yulia.
• Bai Fu attacked the players with conspicuously weak blows, and Digging Princess concluded that she was resisting Yulia’s control to protect them.
• The players encouraged Bai Fu, while Yulia grew furious and ordered her controlled minions to kill them and cover her retreat underground.
• Bai Fu continued attacking while secretly leveling up Spiritual Apprentice to Lv9 and saving her free attribute points for a chance to escape control.
• As Yulia tried to retreat, Bai Fu’s experience reached 11,945, and she focused on mutated Number Nine as the last piece of her plan.

Bai Fu broke free of Yulia’s control and defeated her with a series of powerful punches, though Yulia’s body turned out to be a false one. Bai Fu entered the laboratory after receiving a quest to stop the approaching Insect Tide at the Abandoned Cooling Plant.

• Yago’s shot struck Mutated No. 9 instead of Yulia, and Bai Fu reached Yulia while still under her control.
• Digging Princess charged at Yulia, distracting her long enough for Bai Fu to break free, kill Mutated No. 9, and prepare her skills for a stronger attack.
• Bai Fu punched Yulia repeatedly as Yago, Xia Shi, and the players joined the fight; Yulia’s attempt to flee failed.
• Yulia told Bai Fu that laboratory bait might redirect the Insect Tide, then Bai Fu killed Yulia’s False Body and received the Insect Tide Invasion quest.
• Bai Fu entered the hidden laboratory, while the players celebrated and Digging Princess rallied her livestream chat to the Fu Sect.

After Bai Fu defeated Yulia, she found lure bait and enhancement medicine in the laboratory, then joined the effort to defend the Abandoned Cooling Plant from the Insect Tide. With the fence collapsing and no safe way to deploy the bait, Bai Fu took Yago’s car and drove toward the wilderness to draw the insects away, leaving the players watching her head toward danger after sunset.

• Digging Princess replayed Bai Fu’s furious attack on Yulia, and her livestream reached the game’s highest popularity as players celebrated Bai Fu.
• Bai Fu found the lure bait, a stronger pistol, medical supplies, and two bottles of unfinished enhancement medicine, then diverted Yago and Xia Shi’s attention from the laboratory.
• Yago, Xia Shi, and the players saw the Insect Tide overrunning the outskirts of the Abandoned Cooling Plant as residents fled and the fence began to collapse.
• Bai Fu volunteered to carry the lure bait away from the plant, and five players joined her in Yago’s car despite her attempt to go alone.
• After the players created an opening in the Insect Tide, Bai Fu waved goodbye and drove toward the wilderness to lure the insects away.

Bai Fu drew the Deformed Insects away from the Abandoned Cooling Plant, and the players helped her break through the swarm and redirect it. After Bai Fu jumped from the pickup to hold back the insects, Patrick Star returned to find her missing, leaving her fate uncertain.

• Bai Fu used a Spiritual Energy Restraint to freeze nearby Deformed Insects and help the pickup break through the swarm.
• Digging Princess organized the evacuees while Xia Shi forced them to follow her instructions and head for the Temporary Shelter.
• Convert to My Fu and the other players jumped from the pickup to lure Deformed Insects away as Bai Fu and Pai Da drove on.
• Bai Fu judged that they needed to go farther from the Abandoned Cooling Plant, then gave Pai Da the lure and Spiritual Energy Restraint before jumping out to hold off the insects.
• Pai Da drove away with the lure, drawing the Deformed Insects after him, while Bai Fu escaped toward the Abandoned Cooling Plant.
• Patrick Star returned in a pickup and searched the wilderness for Bai Fu, but found no trace of her.

Bai Fu returned from the Wildfire Gang with valuable supplies and an enhancement serum, then completed the Insect Tide Invasion quest and learned that the players had been forced offline for maintenance. She reunited with Yago and Xia Shi and planned a monument for the fallen players, hoping it would intensify their emotions when they returned.

• Bai Fu searched the Wildfire Gang’s library, vault, and supply depot, finding three class knowledge books, more than 170,000 Credit Coins, weapons, and other supplies, then took one bottle of Yulia’s enhancement serum.
• Bai Fu completed [Insect Tide Invasion], earned 40,000 experience, three attribute points, and [Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (4)], and put her attribute points into Constitution.
• Bai Fu brought An Ya the loot and saw an announcement that Above the Stars would shut down for four hours of maintenance, forcing the players offline before she could make her planned return.
• Xia Shi and Yago saw Bai Fu return alive to the Abandoned Cooling Plant, where she told them she had survived by drawing the mutated insects away.
• Bai Fu pretended to grieve for the fallen players and proposed building a monument for them, hoping the players would see it when the game came back online.

The Chairman ordered Yulia to receive a stronger proxy body and sent assassins after Bai Fu, Yago, and Xia Shi. Bai Fu gained the Luck talent, evolved into Evolution Blood, and left for Lynn with Gene Primordial’s reinforcements; after the game reopened, Digging Princess found a monument bearing Bai Fu’s name and realized she had misunderstood Bai Fu’s departure.

• The Chairman questioned Yulia about the failed operation, promised her a stronger proxy body for completing his tasks, and ordered an attack on Bai Fu, Yago, and Xia Shi.
• Bai Fu built a monument for the players, then received the Wildfire Gang’s leadership and the Boss’s savings before renaming the faction Silent Court.
• Bai Fu gained the Luck talent, used it to absorb Yulia’s enhancement potion, and unlocked the Evolution Blood template with greatly increased stats.
• Gene Primordial’s reinforcements arrested the Wildfire Gang’s Boss, questioned Bai Fu and her companions, and invited Bai Fu to Lynn, where she agreed to go.
• After the game reopened, Digging Princess heard that Bai Fu had left and feared she was dead until she found the memorial monument bearing Bai Fu’s name.

Digging Princess discovered that Bai Fu had survived and used her livestream to reveal Bai Fu’s memorial for the players, sending her popularity soaring and drawing players toward Zu Yuan Star. Bai Fu arrived in Lynn while the Iron Rain Guild chose to join The Truth Society and pursue missions against her.

• Digging Princess learned from a scavenger that Bai Fu had returned to the Abandoned Cooling Plant and traveled to Lynn, then opened a livestream to reveal the memorial Bai Fu had built for the players.
• Players learned that Bai Fu had survived, remembered their first meeting with her, and rallied to find her in Lynn, causing Zu Yuan Star’s player limit to fill.
• Bai Fu watched Digging Princess’s stream and planned to use her as an example to attract players, while considering Xia Shi’s Strong Luck talent and learning that The Truth Society had placed assassination bounties on them.
• Bai Fu arrived in Lynn with Xia Shi and An Ya, carrying a suitcase and welcoming the new settlement.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky led the Iron Rain Guild toward Lynn to join The Truth Society, intending to gain faction missions and contribution by helping it deal with Bai Fu.

Bai Fu stayed with Xia Shi in Lynn and entered the Fourth Division’s archive to study advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge. She unlocked the Spiritual Energy Priest class, gained new skills, and began considering how to use Combat Etiquette against future opponents.

• Xia Shi invited Bai Fu and An Ya to stay at her apartment near the Fourth Division, and Bai Fu agreed.
• Xia Shi took Bai Fu to the Fourth Division’s archive, where Bai Fu began reading Advanced Applications of Psychic Power.
• Chief Lu Yuelin reviewed Bai Fu’s file, paused the investigation, and ordered Xia Shi to keep her nearby because The Truth Society had placed an assassination bounty on her.
• Bai Fu finished reading, spent 20,000 EXP to unlock Spiritual Energy Priest, and learned four new skills.
• Bai Fu raised Spiritual Energy Priest to Level 2, invested her free attribute points in Constitution, and considered ways to exploit Chain Reaction and Combat Etiquette.

Bai Fu met Lu Yuelin, received a medal, prize money, and a map, then used her knowledge of the factions to plan how to strengthen her bond with the players. Digging Princess traveled to Lynn to find her and finally reunited with Bai Fu and An Ya beneath a streetlamp.

• Bai Fu considered ways to use Combat Etiquette to make an enemy hurt themself, then met Lu Yuelin and asked for Gene Primordial's advanced spiritual energy knowledge.
• Lu Yuelin said he would apply for access to the knowledge, gave Bai Fu a map of Zu Yuan Star, and added meal vouchers and discount coupons.
• Bai Fu studied the map and faction histories, then learned that Digging Princess was traveling to Lynn and planned a warm reunion that would deepen her connection with the players.
• Digging Princess arrived in Lynn and searched the settlement for Bai Fu, growing tired and thirsty as she came up empty-handed.
• Digging Princess spotted Bai Fu and An Ya beneath a streetlamp, and the livestream comments erupted as she recognized them.

Bai Fu reunited with Digging Princess in Lynn and spent the evening treating her to dinner, showing her around, and giving her lodging and money, drawing a huge audience to the livestream. After Digging Princess asked to hear about Bai Fu’s past, Bai Fu agreed to sit with her, leaving the players waiting to hear her story.

• Bai Fu recognized Digging Princess, staged an emotional reunion, and welcomed her back while An Ya checked that she was alive.
• Bai Fu took Digging Princess and An Ya to dinner, then showed them around Lynn, including its amusement park and Radio Tower, while Digging Princess livestreamed the outing.
• Players shared the livestream widely, boosting Bai Fu’s popularity and bringing new players to Above the Stars.
• Bai Fu booked Digging Princess a room for five nights and gave her 500 Credit Coins, promising to bring her Profession Knowledge Books later.
• Digging Princess told Bai Fu she wanted to help fulfill her wish and asked about her past, so Bai Fu asked to come inside and sit with her.

Bai Fu manipulated the players into pursuing Advanced Classes so they could grow strong enough to help her, while concealing her identity and true power. After leaving the inn, she discovered that the Truth Society had sent an armed assassin to kill her near Xia Shi’s home.

• Bai Fu praised the players as true Braves, then warned Digging Princess that their current strength made helping her too dangerous.
• An Ya revealed that Bai Fu was injured and hinted at her immense power, prompting the players to speculate about the Silent Court and Bai Fu’s identity.
• Bai Fu set reaching the Advanced Class threshold as a condition for discussing more and gave Digging Princess the quest “Improve Your Strength.”
• The players began grinding to advance, while Sword Aura Piercing Sky planned to gather information on Bai Fu as a token for joining the Truth Society.
• Bai Fu found a forum post calling her a possible final boss, then noticed Xia Shi’s home was dark and the agents assigned to protect her were missing.
• A Truth Society assassin appeared in the hallway and threatened Bai Fu, who told An Ya to get behind her and prepared to test her newly unlocked Advanced Class.

Bai Fu protected An Ya and fought off the Truth Society assassins sent to kill her, using Combat Etiquette to turn their weapons against them. After defeating the attackers, she returned to Xia Shi’s room and waited with a grenade launcher for the person directing the assassination.

• Bai Fu used Spiritual Vision to assess the Elite Assassin, then immobilized him with Combat Etiquette and forced him to shoot himself before finishing him with a headshot.
• Bai Fu contacted the remaining assassins by walkie-talkie, learned that more were nearby, and brought An Ya to a protected corner to wait.
• Two assassins confronted Bai Fu, and she used Combat Etiquette to make the tall assassin appear to be shot by his partner before shooting him herself.
• Bai Fu survived the short assassin’s gunfire, killed him, and taunted the person speaking over the walkie-talkie until the connection was cut.
• Bai Fu took An Ya back to Xia Shi’s room, retrieved a grenade launcher, and waited by the fourth-floor window for the person behind the attack.

After Bai Fu killed three assassins sent by the Truth Society, the Fourth Division discovered the attack and raised suspicions of a mole in its ranks. The Truth Society increased the bounty on Bai Fu, triggering a mission, while players began arriving in Lynn to support her.

• Bai Fu waited for the assassin who had threatened her over the radio, then gave up and put away her Grenade Launcher.
• Xia Shi and the Fourth Division found Bai Fu unharmed and learned that she had killed the three assassins, including the B-Rank Assassin Hyena.
• Xia Shi suspected a mole had enabled the attack, while Bai Fu told Xu Hong she was a Spiritual Energy Priest.
• Xia Shi told Bai Fu that the Truth Society had raised her bounty to A-Rank and promised to kill her within half a month, triggering the mission [Shadow of Truth].
• Bai Fu learned that the Fourth Division was preparing a raid on a Truth Society base and unlocked the [Gunner] profession.
• Players including Patrick Star, Black Tiger Afu, Calamity Dragon, Convert to My Fu, and Sword Aura Piercing Sky arrived in Lynn to join Bai Fu.

The Fourth Division debated how to uncover the Truth Society spy, while the Truth Society decided to use Bai Fu as bait. In Lynn, Convert to My Fu and the other players exploited loan sharks to raise money for weapons, leaving the chapter with the players celebrating their scheme and Bai Fu stunned by their behavior.

• Li Cheng proposed using Bai Fu to lure out the spy, and Lu Yuelin postponed the decision while the division awaited headquarters’ response.
• The Truth Society chairman learned Bai Fu had killed her three assassins and ordered his people to let her live temporarily while the Intelligence Bureau focused on her.
• Convert to My Fu and the arriving players split up in Lynn to find quests and gain experience, while Bai Fu watched his livestream.
• Convert to My Fu borrowed five thousand Credit Coins from Knife Bro by offering his body as collateral, bought weapons, then killed Knife Bro and himself when the lender’s men confronted him.
• Convert to My Fu told Pai Da and the others about the scheme, and the players borrowed money from several loan sharks, hid part of it, and respawned after fighting them to collect twenty thousand Credit Coins.
• The livestream audience marveled at the players’ trick, while Bai Fu was left speechless.

Players exploited gangs for money and experience, while Sword Aura Piercing Sky’s guild schemed to gather intelligence on Bai Fu for the Truth Society. Bai Fu unlocked a new Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain by inspecting the Fourth Division’s hard drive and agreed to help bait out its spy, who was secretly Li Cheng; the next day, she asked Sword Aura Piercing Sky to investigate something for her.

• Players across the star systems copied Convert to My Fu’s money-making scheme, and Summer Snowing became the server’s top player after destroying a gang with bombs.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky directed the Iron Rain Guild to raise Bai Fu’s Favorability and gather information about her to use when joining the Truth Society.
• Bai Fu gave An Ya and Advanced Knowledge books to Digging Princess, then went to the Fourth Division to discuss cooperation and inspect its advanced Spiritual Energy data.
• Bai Fu unlocked Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (2) and learned the Spiritual Energy Shield skill before agreeing to help the Fourth Division draw out its spy.
• Li Cheng privately contacted the Truth Society and revealed his plan to kill Bai Fu after the Fourth Division’s operation began.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky failed to get useful information from An Ya, then Bai Fu asked him to investigate something because she could not move around.

Bai Fu recruited players to act as bait while the Fourth Division raided the Dark Web’s Lynn base to find the spy targeting her. The raid recovered hard drives, but the chapter left Sword Aura Piercing Sky anticipating a chance to impress Bai Fu when she arrived at the hotel.

• Xia Shi told Bai Fu that the Fourth Division planned to raid the Dark Web’s Lynn base and explained its suspicion that the spy used the Dark Web to contact the assassin and the Truth Society.
• Bai Fu decided to use the players as bait and recruited Digging Princess, Calamity Dragon, and Convert to My Fu to help identify who was watching her.
• Digging Princess agreed to impersonate Bai Fu using a mask, matching clothes, and a recording of Bai Fu’s voice, while Sword Aura Piercing Sky resolved to win Bai Fu’s favor during the operation.
• Bai Fu joined Xu Hong and the Fourth Division squad in raiding the Dark Web base, where she warned Xu Hong about an ambusher and subdued him after a bullet struck Xu Hong’s spiritually strengthened skin.
• Xu Hong’s squad seized several hard drives and detained the Dark Web operators, completing Bai Fu’s quest and earning her 5,000 EXP.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky waited at the hotel, planning to protect Bai Fu and gain her favor, then shouted to the squad that Bai Fu had arrived.

Bai Fu and the players used Digging Princess as bait to draw out Li Cheng’s assassins, then fought them in an ambush. Bai Fu killed Shadow Snake and helped defeat another assassin, while one survivor escaped to report back to Li Cheng, who discovered that someone had followed him.

• Bai Fu returned to Xia Shi’s residence, learned about Xia Shi’s estrangement from her father, then secretly left to coordinate the players’ trap.
• Digging Princess disguised herself as Bai Fu and walked toward the abandoned hospital while the players watched for the assassins.
• Li Cheng ordered four assassins to capture Bai Fu alive or kill her, but Calamity Dragon spotted them approaching the players’ ambush.
• A female assassin subdued Digging Princess, but the players attacked; they overwhelmed the assassins with coordinated gunfire and fearless charges.
• Bai Fu arrived, shot Shadow Snake, and killed her after she used her shadow ability to reach a rooftop; Bai Fu and the surviving players defeated another assassin and let the last one escape under surveillance.
• The surviving assassin showed Li Cheng footage of the fight, and Li Cheng ordered him to kill the person following him.

Bai Fu defeated the Truth Society’s assassins, gained the Shadow of Truth title, and accepted a mission to destroy the organization. After learning that Li Cheng had arranged the assassination, she waited for him to act while the Dark Web dubbed her White Death and Iron Rain Guild prepared to approach the Truth Society.

• An assassin killed an Iron Rain Guild player who had tracked him, but Li Cheng then killed the assassin and buried both bodies to conceal his role in the attack.
• Bai Fu received the Shadow of Truth title, leveled up, and accepted the story mission The Truth Unknown, whose objective was to destroy the Truth Society.
• Bai Fu praised Sword Aura Piercing Sky and the other players, then met Xu Hong and the Fourth Division, who were stunned by the assassins she had defeated.
• Digging Princess identified Li Cheng as the person behind the assassination, and Bai Fu decided to wait for him to strike before taking action.
• News of Bai Fu’s victories spread across the Dark Web, where people nicknamed her White Death; Bai Fu placed a bet that she would soon teach the Truth Society a lesson.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky gathered the Iron Rain Guild and told them to find the Truth Society and prove their sincerity.