Chapter Summaries

Sword Aura Piercing Sky and four guildmates tried to join the Truth Society, hoping to gain faction rewards, but Gido identified them from a video of their past remarks about Bai Fu. The Truth Society sent them to Doctor Luo as test subjects, and Sword Aura Piercing Sky contacted Digging Princess in desperation.

• Sword Aura Piercing Sky brought the Truth Society information about the Gene Primordial and claimed his group wanted to join.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky taunted rival guild leaders about the rankings and arena he expected to dominate.
• Gido recognized Dog Head Man and Wolong and Fengchu from Li Cheng's video and told Vice-Captain Qian to arrest the group.
• Gido revealed that Li Cheng had been a Truth Society spy and that his video had exposed the players.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky tried to blame the others, but Vice-Captain Qian sent all five players to Doctor Luo.
• Doctor Luo injected Sword Aura Piercing Sky with a Debilitating Agent and prepared to use him as a test subject, so Sword Aura Piercing Sky contacted Digging Princess.

Gido reported that Bai Fu’s supposed lackey had returned from the dead, prompting the Truth Society Chairman to hide the revelation. As the Gene Primordial prepared to attack Bagalos, Bai Fu learned the marked base was a decoy and discovered the players had found the real location.

• Gido returned to the break room, where Yulia said she was eager to confront Bai Fu, and reported the events at Bagalos Base to headquarters.
• Bernardo told the Chairman that Wolong and Fengchu seemed able to return from the dead, revealing that the Chairman had killed an innocent, corrupt Truth Society member during his purge.
• At the Gene Primordial’s pre-battle meeting, Lu Yuelin argued with the military representative, and the group decided the Intelligence Bureau would investigate before the operation began.
• Bai Fu noticed her quest progress had increased and used Spiritual Vision on Basque, whose hostile favorability made her suspicious.
• Digging Princess told Bai Fu that Sword Aura Piercing Sky and other players had been caught at Bagalos after sending back the real base’s location.
• Bai Fu realized the military’s map marked a fake base and turned to the more than one hundred players accompanying her.

Bai Fu led the Fourth Division and over a hundred players to Bagalos Base’s real entrance, where they launched an assault and she killed Vice-Captain Qian. As Carlos tried to seal the base behind a heavy iron door, Bai Fu appeared to be rising through it, leaving the fight poised to continue.

• Bai Fu warned Xu Hong that Bagalos Shelter was a decoy, then led him and the agents who trusted her to an ambush site while the others headed for the shelter.
• Digging Princess located the real entrance beneath a tavern and helped capture a Truth Society member, who revealed that the base held over two hundred people and was guarded by Vice-Captain Qian.
• Bai Fu and over a hundred players stormed the tavern and entered the base, while Xu Hong learned that the Truth Society had ambushed the agents and military forces sent toward Bagalos Shelter.
• Vice-Captain Qian used his powers against the players, but An Ya immobilized him and Bai Fu killed him with her shotgun.
• Carlos fled and ordered the heavy iron door lowered, but the door began rising again as he turned to face Bai Fu.

Bai Fu led the assault on Bagalos Base, killed Carlos, and battled Gido while Yulia used her ability to control players. Gido was unexpectedly shot dead by the controlled players, leaving Bai Fu facing Yulia, who wanted to talk.

• Bai Fu used Combat Etiquette to make the gate operator raise the gate, and Carlos surrendered before she shot and killed him.
• Bai Fu ordered the players to clear Bagalos Base, while Yulia helped Gido restore order and the players fought through the base.
• Yulia appeared and used her mind-control ability to turn some players against their allies, while Gido intercepted Bai Fu and attacked her.
• Bai Fu endured Gido's fiery blade and, with An Ya's help, stunned and wounded him when he called for Yulia.
• Yulia arrived with controlled players, who unexpectedly shot Gido dead as they passed him, then approached Bai Fu to talk.

Bai Fu faced Yulia, whose powerful false body had killed Gido and sought to capture Bai Fu for research. After surviving Yulia’s attacks and turning her own grenade ploy to her advantage, Bai Fu got behind Yulia and began a close-quarters fight.

• Yulia killed Gido, and Bai Fu identified her false body as an unawakened elite with a red threat level.
• Yulia crushed a Bagalos Base member and attacked players who interfered, revealing her fixation on Bai Fu and her desire to learn how Bai Fu escaped her control.
• Yulia used Envoys and a White Veil to attack the group, while Bai Fu tried to resist and discovered her Prayer Card skill failed against Yulia.
• Bai Fu tried to escape but found the exits locked, then fired repeatedly to drain Yulia’s Psychic Energy as players fought around them.
• Bai Fu pulled a grenade and threatened to detonate it; Yulia panicked and attacked indiscriminately, but Bai Fu survived the blast with a Spiritual Energy Shield Card.
• Bai Fu came up behind Yulia and hooked an arm around her neck in a rear naked choke.

Bai Fu defeated Yulia’s fake body inside the Bagalos Base and learned that Yulia wanted to meet her at Shelter No. 11 to offer Spiritual Energy Knowledge. After Bai Fu found an exit, Basque entered with soldiers and ordered them to kill her.

• Basque ordered the Gene Primordial forces to pursue the retreating Truth Society troops after learning that Bai Fu had breached the base, and his soldiers rescued the agents at Bagalos Shelter.
• Yulia bombarded the corridor with White Veil attacks, trapping the other agents and players behind collapsed concrete while Bai Fu held her in a chokehold.
• Yulia offered to share Spiritual Energy Knowledge if Bai Fu agreed to let her study her, and Bai Fu agreed to meet her at Shelter No. 11.
• Bai Fu drained Yulia’s spirit energy, suffocated her fake body, and shot it after it passed out.
• Bai Fu found another exit, but when Basque arrived and saw her alone, he ordered his soldiers to kill her, and a bullet struck her between the eyebrows.

Bai Fu survived Basque’s attempt to kill her at Bagalos Base, defeated his soldiers with help from the players, and uncovered a new quest about the Gene Primordial’s secret. She escaped toward the Geli Desert, while Convert to My Fu killed Basque’s trusted man at Bagalos Shelter.

• Basque ambushed Bai Fu and accused her of being a Truth Society spy, while Bai Fu warned the others that Basque was the traitor.
• Lu Ling hesitated to help either side, but Xia Shi defended Bai Fu and players rushed to her aid after hearing what happened.
• Bai Fu fought through Basque’s soldiers, and the players overwhelmed them when they arrived; Basque confessed that the general ordered her death because Li Cheng said she knew the Gene Primordial’s secret.
• Bai Fu accepted the Secrets Hidden in the Heart quest, captured Basque, and learned his own forces had been ordered to abandon him.
• Bai Fu killed Basque, escaped with An Ya and Digging Princess, and completed the Bagalos faction conflict quest on the road to the Geli Desert.
• Convert to My Fu killed Basque’s trusted man at Bagalos Shelter after he tried to kill Bai Fu.

After settling the Bagalos quests, Bai Fu gained the Otherworldly Erosion skill and continued toward the Geli Desert, while the Truth Society and Gene Primordial both placed bounties on her. She learned an offensive psychic skill and prepared to test her new power as the factions reeled from the fallout.

• Bai Fu received experience, attribute points, and the Otherworldly Erosion skill for her role in destroying Bagalos Base, then planned to learn offensive psychic skills before meeting Yulia.
• Convert to My Fu killed Basque's trusted aide and herself, while Lu Yuelin shielded Xia Shi from questioning and passed on Bai Fu's message of support to her.
• Xia Shi heard that Songshan Settlement had been attacked by the Truth Society, and Yulia reported Bagalos Base's destruction to the Chairman, who ordered a three-million-credit bounty on Bai Fu before learning the Songshan raid had succeeded.
• Bai Fu traveled with Digging Princess and An Ya, withheld her location from Sword Aura Piercing Sky, and learned Spiritual Energy Attachment at a large settlement.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky regretted backing the Truth Society and sought another chance to earn Bai Fu's favor through Digging Princess.

Bai Fu learned that both the Truth Society and the Gene Primordial had placed bounties on her, then planned to recruit players into the Silent Court to help her oppose the powerful factions. She invited Digging Princess to join and gave her a Spiritual Energy Priest knowledge book, leaving the players abuzz after Digging Princess announced her new faction membership.

• Bai Fu visited Shelter No. 7 and heard that the Truth Society had put an 800,000 Credit Coin bounty on her while the Gene Primordial offered a million.
• Bai Fu bought intelligence about the Truth Society's attack on the Gene Primordial, Shelter No. 11, and Yulia, whose history as the Watchers' Black Crow contradicted the report that she had died.
• Bai Fu decided to develop her strength and recruit players into the Silent Court so they would share her interests and help her fight the two major factions.
• Bai Fu warned Digging Princess that the journey toward the Silent Court would be long and dangerous, and Digging Princess chose to go with her.
• Bai Fu invited Digging Princess into the Silent Court and gave her a Spiritual Energy Priest Profession Knowledge Book; Digging Princess accepted and posted the news on the community.

After reaching Shelter No. 11, Bai Fu learned from Old Nissen that Yulia had once protected the area and that Red Sand now preyed on its people. When Red Sand returned to hunt for the wanderers Bai Fu had killed, she revealed that Yulia had sent her and prepared Digging Princess to demonstrate a combat card.

• Bai Fu used the community forums to advertise the Silent Court, inviting interested players to meet her at Shelter No. 5 while Sword Aura Piercing Sky arranged to scout ahead.
• Bai Fu killed several Red Sand wanderers who had blocked her vehicle, then drove to Shelter No. 11 and questioned Old Nissen about Yulia Vivian.
• Old Nissen told Bai Fu that Yulia had been a kind and powerful protector whose death left Shelter No. 11 vulnerable to Red Sand and other gangs.
• Red Sand raided Shelter No. 11, claiming they were searching for the people who had killed their members.
• Bai Fu told Old Nissen that Yulia had sent her and gave Digging Princess a Spiritual Energy Shield card to use against the wanderers.

Digging Princess used Bai Fu’s Spiritual Energy Shield Prayer Card to defeat a group of drifters on livestream, drawing players toward Shelter No. 5 and boosting interest in Bai Fu’s faction. Old Nissen revealed his past and how Yulia was captured by the Truth Society, then offered Bai Fu items Yulia had entrusted to him.

• Digging Princess livestreamed herself preparing to attack ten drifters, while Bai Fu and Old Nissen followed nearby.
• Digging Princess activated Bai Fu’s Prayer Card, survived the drifters’ gunfire, and routed them despite her poor aim; Bai Fu had disabled their vehicle’s tires.
• Digging Princess showed the Prayer Card to viewers, and its 450 shield points convinced many undecided players to travel to Shelter No. 5 and join the Silent Court.
• Bai Fu asked Old Nissen about his identity and Yulia’s capture, and he revealed he had led Watchers Camp before the Truth Society chairman controlled a Giant Sandworm and captured Yulia.
• Bai Fu told Old Nissen that many people as strong as Digging Princess supported her, and Old Nissen offered her items Yulia had entrusted to him.

Bai Fu learned Spiritual Energy techniques from Little Yulia, unlocked the Apprentice Psychic Artist profession, and agreed to work with Yulia against the Truth Society. After accepting a quest to eliminate Red Sand Camp and its A-Rank Assassin, she arrived at Shelter No. 5 and rescued the players who had been targeted for information about her.

• Bai Fu learned Spiritual Energy Perception and Superpower Burst from Little Yulia, completed Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (7), and replaced her Spiritual Energy Priest profession with Apprentice Psychic Artist.
• Yulia revealed that she had been connected to the rag doll and confronted Bai Fu for tricking it, but agreed to work with her against the Truth Society in exchange for Bai Fu answering a question about Li Cheng.
• Bai Fu accepted Yulia's Trial, which required her to eliminate Red Sand Camp and kill its hired A-Rank Assassin, then set out for Shelter No. 5 with Digging Machine and An Ya.
• Sword Aura Piercing Sky, Patrick Star, Convert to My Fu, and other players arrived at Shelter No. 5, where a skinny man tried to force them to reveal Bai Fu's location.
• Bai Fu appeared and shot the skinny man before he could harm the players.

Bai Fu killed the assassins who attacked her, brought the players to Shelter No. 11, and prepared them for a campaign against nearby Wanderers. When Red Sand Camp arrived seeking the people responsible for its missing men, the players attacked them, and Bai Fu let the fight unfold.

• Bai Fu used her Spiritual Energy abilities to kill the four assassins at Shelter No. 5 while nearby players recorded the fight and celebrated her strength.
• Bai Fu drove the players to Shelter No. 11, told them she would test their strength before taking them on a mission, and began making Spiritual Energy Shield Cards.
• Old Nissen told Bai Fu that the players were eagerly helping shelter residents, and Bai Fu asked An Ya to have them return the things Digging Princess had stolen.
• Red Sand wanderers arrived at Shelter No. 11 looking for the people who had made two groups disappear and learned that outsiders had recently come to the shelter.
• The Red Sand group confronted the players in Old Nissen's tavern, and Patrick Star led the players in attacking them as Bai Fu told them to leave two alive.

Bai Fu and the players launched an attack on Red Sand Camp after learning its defenses were weakened, using Mutated Sand Worm Poison Sacs and a trap to draw out Marco. Bai Fu injured Marco and confronted the masked psychic Rattlesnake, while the players pushed toward the camp.

• The players interrogated two Red Sand Camp wanderers, and Bai Fu learned that Marco, the A-Rank psychic Sidewinder, and a poison-making doctor were among the camp’s key figures.
• Old Nissen agreed to help plan the assault, while the players bought Spiritual Energy Shield Cards and Sword Aura Piercing Sky proposed attacking with Poison Sacs.
• Bai Fu revealed to Old Nissen that the players could return from the dead, and the group set a trap near Red Sand Camp before luring its residents out.
• The players hurled Poison Sacs at the wanderers, and Black Tiger Afu charged into their disrupted formation before Marco struck him down.
• Marco chased the retreating players into their trap, where a grenade and a sniper shot left him badly injured; Bai Fu then attacked him with a Grenade Launcher.
• A masked man rescued Marco, and Bai Fu identified him as Rattlesnake before sending the players to deal with the remaining camp residents.

Bai Fu killed Rattlesnake, captured Red Sand Camp, and recruited its surviving pharmacist while securing supplies and new allies for Silent Court. After learning what Little Yulia knew about the World War and the Truth Society, Bai Fu accepted a quest to find Graham and impersonated Rattlesnake to contact the Truth Society.

• Rattlesnake stunned Bai Fu with a mental attack, but she used An Ya’s Combat Etiquette Card to turn him around, then killed him and earned XP and a one-time Mental Omen skill card.
• Bai Fu led An Ya and the players to Red Sand Camp, defeated its remaining defenders, and recruited pharmacist Cui Jiming after learning the Gao Family supplied the camp’s weapons.
• Bai Fu held a medal ceremony for the players joining Silent Court, while Digging Princess began filming material for a video series about the faction.
• Bai Fu spent XP to maximize Primary Card Making, then learned from Little Yulia that the World War followed the arrival of a visitor from beyond the heavens and that Li Cheng had learned this from the Truth Society’s chairman.
• Little Yulia asked Bai Fu to locate Graham near the Railroad Guild so she could rescue prisoners, and Bai Fu received a quest to find him.
• A day later, Bai Fu used Rattlesnake’s ID Card to contact the Truth Society on the Dark Web, claiming she had killed Bai Fu.

Bai Fu posed as an assassin who had killed her to lure the Truth Society into revealing its hidden base near Ilinas and claim the bounty. As she prepared the trap, players spread news of her supposed death, and Bai Fu waited for the Truth Society to come collect the fake corpse.

• Yu Wei and Bernardo received Rattlesnake’s claim that Bai Fu was dead, verified it with photos, and sent Graham to retrieve her body.
• Bai Fu used Rattlesnake’s identity to confirm the Truth Society had a base near Ilinas and arranged a trade deal with Gao Yuan of the Gao Family.
• Bai Fu synthesized a Spatial Disorder Prayer Card, then returned to Red Sand Camp, where Cui Jiming had made Rice-Eating Immortal look like her.
• Bai Fu’s player delivered Rice-Eating Immortal’s body to the Dark Web office in Ilinas and demanded that the Truth Society verify it and pay the bounty.
• A Truth Society player posted that Bai Fu was dead, prompting the community to believe the news while Bai Fu waited for Graham’s people to arrive.

The Truth Society announced Bai Fu’s apparent death and escorted her supposed body toward headquarters, while players secretly used the convoy to locate the organization’s base. After the Society took the body to its laboratory, it vanished, and Bai Fu posted proof that she was alive, leaving the Chairman furious and humiliated.

• The Chairman learned that Bai Fu had supposedly died, confirmed the body’s identity, and ordered Bernardo to publicize the news and researchers to study her body.
• Bernardo spread the death announcement with photos, prompting reactions from Xu Hong, Xia Shi, the Gene Primordial, and others.
• Players following Bai Fu attacked the convoy carrying her body, then let The Truth Society capture three of them so they could be taken to its base near Ilinas.
• Graham brought the supposed body to headquarters, where the Cryogenic Device opened and Bai Fu’s body vanished from the laboratory.
• The Chairman realized the Society had been tricked, and Bernardo reported that Bai Fu had posted proof of her survival on the Dark Web.

After exposing the Truth Society’s false report of her death, Bai Fu expanded her player force and planned to build a commission platform with the Gao Family. When the players cleared two wanderer camps, her progress accelerated, and the 1.1 update finally upgraded her role to an Important Hidden-Plot Participant.

• The Truth Society raised the bounty on Bai Fu to three million and launched a retaliatory attack on the Gene Primordial, while the Gene Primordial stayed silent about rumors that Bai Fu was its agent.
• Bai Fu returned toward Shelter No. 11, discovered that indirect damage from the Truth Society’s attack increased her quest contribution, and began planning to use players to expose enemy bases.
• Bai Fu proposed that the Gao Family pass commissions to the Silent Court’s players, and Gao Yuan agreed to discuss a platform after they cleared more wanderer camps.
• Bai Fu led more than seventy players to eliminate two wanderer camps, earning 120,000 EXP and bringing her closer to the level needed to confront Graham.
• After the 1.1 update forced players offline, Bai Fu’s character role changed from Extra to Important Hidden-Plot Participant.

After her character corrections elevated her to Regional Boss and unlocked new Silent Court features, Bai Fu recruited Old Nissen and Sean to help rebuild the Geli Desert. She left to seek support from Gao Yuan as the players’ return approached, and noticed Digging Princess had posted a new video.

• Bai Fu received a perfect Evolution Blood template, stronger Otherworldly Erosion, Spiritual Energy Affinity, and a Regional Boss classification, along with new Silent Court and Geli Desert quest updates.
• Bai Fu leveled up Apprentice Psychic Artist and raised her Inspiration, then saw Shelter No. 11 growing safer after the destruction of Red Sand Camp.
• Sean thanked Bai Fu for avenging his parents, and Bai Fu recruited him to guide players on missions.
• Bai Fu persuaded Old Nissen to join the Silent Court by promising to pursue the Watchers’ unfinished goals and rebuild the Geli Desert.
• Bai Fu left to ask Gao Yuan for people and saw that Digging Princess had posted the first episode of Silent Court News Express.

Digging Princess’s video and the version 1.1 trailer convinced many players that Bai Fu and the Silent Court were central to the new storyline, drawing a rush of recruits to Shelter No. 11. As Darkmoon Tide opened, at least two hundred players appeared there, leaving Gao Yuan awed by Bai Fu’s influence.

• Digging Princess released a video comparing the Silent Court favorably with other factions, while commenters challenged its travel costs and limited missions.
• Bai Fu watched the debate as Sword Aura Piercing Sky dodged Hei Si’s questions about his plans by telling him to wait and see.
• The official version 1.1 announcement revealed a new Novice Village at Geli Desert Shelter No. 11, and the trailer featured Bai Fu driving through the desert.
• Digging Princess declared Bai Fu might be the new version’s protagonist, prompting players to dismiss earlier doubts and plan to join the Silent Court.
• Bai Fu asked Gao Yuan to prepare shops and mission services for incoming players, and he agreed to take the risk.
• When Darkmoon Tide launched, at least two hundred players arrived at Shelter No. 11, where An Ya welcomed them as the novice guide.