Chapter Summaries

Bai Fu used the Silent Court’s services, quests, and Spiritual Energy knowledge to attract new players to Shelter No. 11 and establish herself as Version 1.1’s leading faction figure. After learning about Graham’s abilities and finding him away on a mission, she selected ten promising newcomers for an operation she presented as the Geli Desert’s main quest.

• An Ya welcomed more than two hundred new players to Shelter No. 11 and explained the settlement’s rules while veteran players helped guide them.
• Bai Fu’s daily quest, player shopping district, and faction shop drew newcomers to the Silent Court and offered convenient access to equipment, professions, and Spiritual Energy knowledge.
• Gao Yuan asked where the Undying came from, and Bai Fu said she did not know but considered them good partners.
• Bai Fu spent two days letting players settle in as news of Shelter No. 11 spread, while players supplied her with information about the Gene Primordial and the Truth Society.
• Bai Fu questioned Little Yulia about Graham and learned that he was a skilled dual-blade Martial Artist with a High-Speed Visual Capture ability.
• After learning Graham was away on a mission, Bai Fu assigned a sandworm quest and selected the ten best-performing newcomers for an important operation.

Bai Fu ambushed Graham after his raid on the Gene Primordial’s Biochemical Factory, using Silent Court players to weaken the Truth Society’s forces. She faced Graham in close combat and left him kneeling after detonating accumulated Otherworldly Erosion.

• Bai Fu took Silent Court veterans and newcomers to ambush Graham’s retreat while the Truth Society attacked the Biochemical Factory at Christopher Village.
• Graham’s agents captured the factory data and headed out, where Bai Fu’s first shot triggered the ambush and disabled their vehicles.
• Convert to My Fu recruited Truth Society player Overly Foolish Master, who returned and lured more than a dozen agents into the players’ trap.
• Graham charged into the battle and slaughtered players until Bai Fu shot him and challenged him with Kirilenko’s Electric Knife.
• Bai Fu endured Graham’s attacks, stacked Otherworldly Erosion on him, and detonated it, inflicting 192 damage and leaving him in the Light Wound state.

Bai Fu defeated Graham and his Truth Society agents, then captured Graham and forced him to speak with the Truth Society Chairman. Graham agreed to reveal the society’s secrets after Bai Fu used Combat Etiquette to make him appear to curse the Chairman.

• Bai Fu used Otherworldly Erosion and psychic explosions to turn the fight against Graham, while the players fought his agents.
• Bai Fu ordered the players to clear the surrounding enemies and faced Graham’s remaining agents herself.
• Bai Fu used Visual Mist, Chain Reaction, and Great Slaughter to devastate the agents and drive Graham into retreat.
• Bai Fu stopped Graham from reaching the vehicle by stabbing its metal body with her electric knife, then captured and questioned him.
• Bai Fu called the Truth Society Chairman and used Combat Etiquette to make Graham curse him, prompting Graham to agree to reveal what he knew.

Bai Fu interrogated and killed Graham, learning the Truth Society’s base locations and that its Chairman was an artificial human. She received a quest to rescue Yulia’s relatives and friends at Black Hawk Base, then prepared to involve several factions before attacking the base.

• Bai Fu forced Graham to reveal four Truth Society base locations, warn her that Yulia’s relatives and friends had died by suicide, and identify Qi Yuan as a dangerous mechanic at Black Hawk Base.
• Graham revealed that the Truth Society’s Chairman was an artificial human, triggering a hidden storyline and increasing Zu Yuan Star’s exploration progress.
• Bai Fu killed Graham, completed several quests, and received a new objective to rescue Yulia’s relatives and friends from Black Hawk Base.
• After the players wiped out the remaining Truth Society agents, Bai Fu gave Overly Foolish Master the choice to join the Silent Court or spy on the Truth Society, and he chose to become a spy.
• Bai Fu sent the base locations to Gao Yuan and Xu Hong, then prepared to resupply before going to Black Hawk Base; Xu Hong recognized her signature and rushed to alert Director Lu.
• Convert to My Fu posted the effects of his Combat Etiquette Prayer Card, prompting a commotion among the players.

After Combat Etiquette went on sale and Digging Princess and Calamity Dragon’s review made Spiritual Energy cards a sensation, nearly 200 new players joined Shelter No. 11. Bai Fu recruited former Watchers Camp survivors to help the Silent Court, then reviewed intelligence on her allies’ moves and Qi Yuan as she prepared to set out.

• Players discovered Combat Etiquette’s ability to control an opponent’s actions, and Bai Fu listed ten cards in the faction shop for 800 Credit Coins each.
• Digging Princess borrowed cards from Calamity Dragon, and the two launched Anya’s Mysterious Shop with an arena review that showed Calamity Dragon using the cards to defeat a 34-win-streak expert.
• The review sparked widespread interest in Spiritual Energy classes, drew nearly 200 new players to Shelter No. 11, and led Bai Fu to conclude that everyone loved her.
• After An Ya said she could not manage the growing crowd, Bai Fu asked Old Nissen and Sean to recommend reliable former Watchers Camp employees.
• Old Nissen and Sean brought six survivors to join the Silent Court; when they volunteered to accompany Bai Fu to Black Hawk Base, she told them to stay and help develop the Geli Desert and deal with the Rovers.
• Bai Fu read intelligence that Gene Primordial, the Railroad Guild, and the Old Republic had acted, and learned that Qi Yuan commanded mechanical swarms and specialized equipment.

Bai Fu led more than 500 Silent Court players toward Black Hawk Base while the Old Republic, the Railroad Guild, and the Gene Primordial prepared an ambush against its withdrawing forces. The battle began at Twilight Canyon, where Qi Yuan’s Mechanical Legion overwhelmed the allied forces until Bai Fu and her players attacked the convoy’s flank.

• Bai Fu prepared shield cards and weapons, left Little Yulia in Old Nissen’s care, and set out with over 500 players for Black Hawk Base.
• Damian’s allied forces planned to ambush the withdrawing Black Hawk Base troops, while Xu Hong and Yago discussed whether Bai Fu had sent the email revealing Truth Society bases.
• Bai Fu halted her convoy near Twilight Canyon, sent players to scout, and told the rest to stay quiet until she gave the order.
• Pedro led Black Hawk Base’s evacuation, but Damian’s forces opened fire as the convoy entered their ambush zone.
• Qi Yuan unleashed his Mechanical Bee Swarm and led Mechanical Dogs in an assault that broke through the allied forces’ flank.
• After scouts reported the battle, Bai Fu ordered over 500 players to attack the Black Hawk Base convoy, and Pedro spotted her approaching and called for Qi Yuan.

During the Silent Court's expedition, Bai Fu led the players against the Truth Society's forces and used her overwhelming strength to break through their lines. She rescued Yulia's family and friends and killed Pedro, leaving Qi Yuan furious and the battle still underway.

• Digging Princess and Calamity Dragon livestreamed the expedition and revealed Bai Fu's formidable stats, drawing excitement from her supporters and concern from rival players.
• Bai Fu gave the guild players Spatial Disruption cards and ordered them to hold off ordinary soldiers until the coalition broke through, while keeping the rescue vehicles as the priority.
• Qi Yuan's Power Armor overwhelmed Xu Hong and the coalition fighters, but Bai Fu led a charge that swept away the Truth Society's front lines.
• Bai Fu killed Luo Wan with close-range grenade blasts, then used Spatial Disorder cards and explosives to slaughter dozens of Truth Society soldiers.
• Bai Fu led the players to the vehicles holding Yulia's family and friends and ordered them driven out of the battlefield.
• Qi Yuan returned and struck Bai Fu with a shell, but Bai Fu used Mental Omen to immobilize Pedro and killed him with her electric blade.

Bai Fu and the Silent Court players defeated Qi Yuan and destroyed the Truth Society’s Black Hawk Base, then escaped with captured vehicles. As Bai Fu reviewed her rewards and prepared for her next steps, Xu Hong caught up with her and confirmed she was the white-haired fighter he had been looking for.

• Qi Yuan sent his Mechanical Dogs to explode near Bai Fu, but Silent Court players sacrificed themselves to destroy the machines and protect her.
• Bai Fu and the veteran players attacked Qi Yuan’s Power Armor, drove off the Truth Society members, and killed Qi Yuan after he ejected and tried to flee.
• Bai Fu ordered the surviving players to leave in captured vehicles, while Damian reported the battle and Xu Hong realized the white-haired fighter was Bai Fu.
• Bai Fu reviewed her quest rewards, gained the Summon True Spirit skill and Natural Breathing passive, and considered how to unlock an advanced profession.
• When Xu Hong followed Bai Fu’s convoy, she used a miniature True Spirit to scout his vehicle, then stopped to meet him.

Bai Fu clarified that she had no connection to the Gene Primordial, while Digging Princess’s theory that Bai Fu was Version 1.1’s protagonist spread among the players. After the Truth Society forced players into mutant transformations and the Gene Primordial restricted them, many players turned toward the Silent Court; Bai Fu returned to base, claimed a hidden quest reward, and prepared to advance her class.

• Bai Fu told Xu Hong that she was not a Gene Primordial agent and warned him against investigating Li Cheng without the Outsiders’ help.
• Xu Hong described Bai Fu as a new moon rising, and Digging Princess used his remark to convince players that Bai Fu was Version 1.1’s protagonist.
• The Truth Society’s Chairman ordered the mutant program expanded, causing newly recruited players to undergo forced transformations and sparking widespread anger.
• Players grew resentful of the Gene Primordial after its records were exposed and its leaders barred players from key roles, leading some to leave for the Silent Court.
• Bai Fu returned to base and claimed the hidden reward for completing Little Yulia’s Request (3), a reusable Psychic Energy Collector blueprint.
• Bai Fu planned a Silent Court prayer ritual to gather Psychic Energy from players, then raised Apprentice Psychic Artist to Lv. 16 and prepared to pursue an advanced class.

Bai Fu unlocked the Moonlight Dancer class, expanded her shop, and rallied players for a final assault on the Wanderer camps in the Geli Desert. As her supporters gathered to march, the powerful Makarov Family sought a meeting with her.

• Bai Fu created the [Darkmoon Eye] and [Summon Ghost!] Prayer Cards after spending experience points to synthesize their blueprints.
• Old Nissen taught Bai Fu the fundamentals of Moonlight Dancer, and she unlocked the beginner class along with the skills [Liuguang] and [Yicai].
• Bai Fu revamped An Ya's shop, began selling the new Prayer Cards, and announced a major mission to clear out the Wanderer camps in the Geli Desert.
• Players flocked to Shelter No. 11 and left the Gene Primordial to join Bai Fu, while their arguments with administrators sparked a heated discussion on the community.
• Bai Fu organized the players into teams and led them out from Shelter No. 11, while Gao Yuan learned that the Makarov Family wanted to meet her.

Bai Fu led the Silent Court and its players in defeating the united Wanderer camps at the Blue-Tailed Scorpion Camp. After Javier revealed that Carel had betrayed the Watchers to the Truth Society, Bai Fu killed him and received the Regional Main Quest [Elegy of the Watchers].

• Bai Fu led nearly a thousand players in attacking Wanderer camps across the Geli Desert, while the players rallied around her and condemned the Wanderers’ abuse of civilians.
• Wanderer leaders gathered at the Blue-Tailed Scorpion Camp to resist the Silent Court, and Bai Fu’s forces advanced after her scouting exposed their traps.
• The players broke through the camp’s defenses with Prayer Cards and coordinated attacks while Bai Fu defeated the leaders’ elite fighters.
• Javier begged Old Nissen to spare him and revealed that Carel had betrayed the Watchers by informing the Truth Society about Yulia.
• Bai Fu killed Javier and promised to deal with Carel, then received the Regional Main Quest [Elegy of the Watchers] as Old Nissen prepared to reveal a secret.

Bai Fu learned that an ancient research facility and a black stone tablet might explain the Geli Desert's origins and Yulia's powers, then accepted the Elegy of the Watchers and led the players to defeat the Drifters. After making the Silent Court the center of the region's quests and player benefits, she received a visit from the Makarov Family, who wanted to meet her.

• Old Nissen told Bai Fu about the Spiritual Energy Diffusion Committee's buried facility, its dangerous black stone tablet, and the strange light that awakened Yulia's spiritual energy.
• Bai Fu accepted the Elegy of the Watchers, whose branches included killing Carel, rescuing Yulia, restoring order, developing the Geli Desert, finding the lost facility, and uncovering Yulia's power.
• Bai Fu joined the players in wiping out the Drifters, then led them to clear the remaining camps and return to Shelter No. 11.
• Bai Fu offered players free Prayer Card exchanges and issued the Guardians of Order branch, making her and the Silent Court famous among players across multiple Novice Planets.
• Gao Yuan told Bai Fu that the Makarov Family wanted to meet her, and their representative arrived at her residence in a convoy of luxury armored cars.

Bai Fu accepted a Railroad Guild mission to steal research files from Gene Primordial’s Marine Biology Research Institute in exchange for a Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain. As she prepared to recruit players for the operation, the game’s official site featured her as the poster girl for version 1.1, leaving her excited about her growing prominence.

• Dallas Makarov raised Bai Fu’s Dark Web assassin rank to S-Rank and introduced her to Qiu Qingze of the Railroad Guild, who offered her advanced Spiritual Energy Knowledge for investigating Gene Primordial.
• Qiu Qingze gave Bai Fu a quest to obtain research files from Gene Primordial’s Marine Biology Research Institute, and Bai Fu requested an old map of the Geli Desert to help locate it.
• Qiu Qingze planned to send a team to pick Bai Fu up in two days, while the Railroad Guild secretly hoped to learn how she directed the Undying players.
• Bai Fu arranged a tournament to choose players for the mission, reserving places for Digging Princess, Calamity Dragon, and other publicity team members.
• The game’s official site posted videos using Bai Fu as an example for Spiritual Energy classes and main quests, and labeled her the Silent Court’s master and the Geli Desert Region Boss.
• Bai Fu realized the developers had made her version 1.1’s temporary poster girl and hoped her popularity would keep her safe.

Bai Fu boosted the Silent Court’s popularity by holding a special award ceremony for tournament winner Patrick Star, then led fifty players with the Railroad Guild toward the Marine Biology Research Institute. At the outpost, she met several S-Rank Assassins and learned the operation’s plan was to lure the Undying away, but she intended to try persuading the institute’s defenders to surrender instead.

• Bai Fu watched players praise Little Bai Fu and Digging Princess encourage them to raise Bai Fu’s Favorability.
• Patrick Star won the selection tournament, and Bai Fu awarded him a unique Martial Combatant Badge in front of the players.
• Bai Fu left Old Nissen in charge of the research-institute search, gave An Ya instructions, and traveled with fifty players to the Railroad Guild’s outpost near the institute.
• Bai Fu met Coyote, Ferreira, and Su Li, who was hostile because she believed Bai Fu controlled the Undying.
• Coyote proposed luring the Undying away from the Marine Biology Research Institute, but Bai Fu decided to see if she could persuade them to surrender.

Bai Fu led a Railroad Guild operation to draw the Gene Primordial faction’s defenders away from the Marine Biology Research Institute, but the players guarding the defensive line recognized her and surrendered en masse. Their new allies captured Cedric after learning he had been stealing their allowances and withholding medicine, and Bai Fu ordered him hanged from a lamppost.

• Bai Fu received a side quest to help prevent Gene Primordial players from reinforcing the Marine Biology Research Institute, then set out with Coyote, Su Li, and the action squad.
• Cedric praised the Undying while privately profiting from their medicine, food, and equipment allowances at the defensive line five kilometers from the institute.
• Bai Fu approached the defensive line alone, and the players received a quest offering one million experience points for killing her.
• The defenders recognized Bai Fu, watched the livestream chat urge them to surrender, and joined her side one after another.
• Bai Fu’s new allies seized Cedric and other personnel, whose accusations revealed that Cedric had embezzled their allowances and denied them medicine.
• Bai Fu ordered the players to hang Cedric from a lamppost.

Bai Fu turned the defensive line’s Undying against Cedric, killed him and a Gene Primordial elite agent, and hung them from lampposts. After securing the line, she planned to infiltrate the marine biology research center with the players and looked forward to the attention her exploits might bring.

• Bai Fu exposed Cedric’s fear as false remorse, stabbed him with her shock blade, and hoisted him from a lamppost as a warning.
• A Gene Primordial elite agent ambushed Bai Fu, but she dodged his attack, disoriented him with a Universal Card, and killed him with her shock blade before hanging him beside Cedric.
• Bai Fu told the players to reclaim the money Cedric had hidden, gained experience from the operation, and raised Moonlight Dancer to Lv. 10.
• Su Li asked Bai Fu how she had recruited the Undying, and Bai Fu proposed sending them into the research institute with Cedric’s corpse to help secure its research materials.
• The operation’s participants approved Bai Fu’s plan, and she led the excited players toward the front line while anticipating that her new popularity could earn her another power-up.

Bai Fu’s streetlamp stunt turned her into a viral icon, attracting new players and earning her the nicknames “Mom” and “Temptress.” She used information gathered through the players to launch an attack on the Marine Life Research Institute, where the chapter ended as both sides charged into battle.

• Players spread stickers and celebrated Bai Fu for rescuing them from Cedric and bringing them into the Silent Court.
• Bai Fu considered selling new outfits and saw her popularity grow after cosplayers and Fu Sect members promoted her on social media.
• Bai Fu decided to pursue an advanced class and complete her mission to obtain the fourth Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain.
• Bai Fu watched Calamity Dragon’s livestream and learned that the institute’s defenders were reorganizing and revealing its layout to the players.
• Bai Fu carried Digging Princess to the institute, broke through its defenses, and killed a guard with a Grenade Launcher.
• Su Li, Coyote, and Ferreira led their group into the battle as the institute’s guards charged Bai Fu.

Bai Fu and the players overwhelmed the Gene Primordial research facility, defeated its defenders, and seized its research data. After escaping with Su Li and the others, Bai Fu received Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (11) and learned that the facility had researched artificial humans.

• Bai Fu held off the facility guards with her shield, explosive bullets, and Summon True Spirit Cards while Su Li, Ferreira, Coyote, and the players attacked from other entrances.
• The facility’s person in charge lowered the blast doors, but players opened them for Bai Fu, who passed through each checkpoint and killed the person in charge before he could activate self-destruct.
• Bai Fu and the players collected the facility’s documents and data, while the group defeated the mutants and subdued the remaining staff.
• Bai Fu found records about artificial-human research and gave the materials to Su Li, then received the Railroad Guild’s advanced Spiritual Energy Knowledge data.
• Bai Fu and the others escaped with the prisoners and research materials, completing the commission and unlocking Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain (11).

Bai Fu advanced her class progression, investigated stolen research files, and learned that the Gene Primordial had turned against its Undying players. Meanwhile, the Railroad Guild improved its treatment of players after questioning them about Bai Fu, and Old Nissen reported finding the research institute.

• Bai Fu raised her Inspiration to 100 and sought sources for the advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge needed to unlock an Advanced Class.
• Pombaton found the Marine Life Research Institute stripped of its data and its Undying missing, then the Gene Primordial's Seven-Member Council decided to investigate the source of their powers instead of relying on them.
• Su Li warned the Railroad Guild that Silver Moon was extremely dangerous and urged it not to cross her.
• Bai Fu increased the Dark Web reward for advanced Spiritual Energy knowledge, returned to Shelter No. 11, and discovered files describing the Obsidian Project's artificial humans.
• Bai Fu learned that the Gene Primordial had sidelined or expelled its Undying players, while the Railroad Guild introduced player promotions after asking them about her.
• Bai Fu read that players were calling her a living bodhisattva, and Old Nissen reported that his group had found the research institute.

Bai Fu and the players uncovered a hidden underground level at the Psychic Research Institute, where they found evidence that an alien spaceship had brought psychic energy to Zu Yuan Star and that Obsidian caused dangerous mutations. She discovered the final Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain she needed to pursue an advanced class, but a swarm of sandworms appeared while she was studying it, forcing the players to defend her.

• Digging Princess gave Bai Fu maps that revealed the lost institute's location, and Bai Fu rewarded the expedition team with Explorer's Medals.
• Bai Fu took Little Yulia to the institute after promising to destroy the Truth Society and asking for her help investigating the place where her psychic talent awakened.
• Bai Fu found a hidden staircase beneath the ruined institute, and Little Bai Fu discovered a dead Psychic Prototype created using Obsidian.
• Bai Fu opened a bolted safe and read Meyer's journal, which revealed that an alien spaceship had arrived on Zu Yuan Star and that Obsidian could trigger mutations.
• Bai Fu gained exploration progress, triggered the quest to find the missing Obsidian, and located a terminal containing the final Spiritual Energy Knowledge Chain she needed for an advanced class.
• A swarm of sandworms appeared outside while Bai Fu studied the terminal, so she issued a quest and the players rushed to defend her.