Chapter Summaries

Ji Xinghe recovered from the monster attack, prepared supplies, and checked the damage to her Protective Shield and her own mutation value. Seeing Area 66’s population fall sharply, she worried that the losses would leave the region at a disadvantage when regions merged next month.

• Ji Xinghe reassured Xiao Xi and let her hunt monsters on her own, leaving meat by the Shelter so she could recover if injured.
• Ji Xinghe checked the Protective Shield’s remaining energy, purified her mutation value, and queued up Storage Boxes for the monster corpses.
• Ji Xinghe drained attributes from the corpses and collected meat and 39 chests after the battle.
• Ji Xinghe read the Chat Channel as players described damaged Shelters, rising mutation values, and despair; one player posted a video of himself jumping into the sea.
• Ji Xinghe saw that Area 66 had only 60,945 people remaining and feared its shrinking population would weaken it in the coming regional merger.

On Survival Calendar, Day Five, Ji Xinghe prepared to go to a dungeon while collecting resources and making room in her backpack. She automated her treasure-chest fishing and stored her monster corpses, leaving another batch of Wooden Fences in production as the market became saturated.

• Ji Xinghe sold her Wooden Fences, then read Where's My Hair's explanation of multiplayer dungeons and their quests in the Chat Channel.
• Ji Xinghe arranged to meet Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou and the others in two hours, then collected the finished Wooden Fences and started making 100 Storage Boxes.
• Xiao Xi showed Ji Xinghe fifteen Deformed Monster corpses, and Ji Xinghe Drained them to raise her attributes.
• Ji Xinghe set up the Automatic Fishing Device with her level-three Fishing Rod and asked Xiao Xi to guard it.
• Ji Xinghe collected the Storage Boxes, stored her monster corpses, and started making another twenty thousand Wooden Fences after her previous stock sold out.

Ji Xinghe equipped Xiao Xi with Soft Armor and a Storage Grid, then joined a multiplayer dungeon with four other players. The group received a timed quest to find Lan Xi and escort her to Yunqi Wu, and began introducing themselves.

• Ji Xinghe gave Xiao Xi Soft Armor with five Space Grids and stored Deformed Meat for her to eat.
• Ji Xinghe packed her supplies and accepted Wu Ou's invitation to join a Multiplayer Dungeon with Player 001.
• Ji Xinghe arrived on a forest trail with Ruoshui Sanqian, Wu Ou, and Monster Slayer.
• The dungeon system assigned the group a thirty-six-hour Chain Quest to find Lan Xi and escort her to Yunqi Wu.
• Wu Ou and Monster Slayer introduced themselves, and Ruoshui Sanqian recognized Monster Slayer as the former butcher who had tried to sell her meat.

Ji Xinghe raced ahead toward the moving NPC while her slower teammates tried to keep up. She defeated a Spotted Tiger on the way and continued toward the green dot, leaving the others to pass the wreckage behind her.

• Ji Xinghe compared the group’s speeds, then set off ahead to scout while Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou lent Swift Boots to Pray for the God of Wealth's Love and Monster Slayer.
• Xiao Xi emerged from Ji Xinghe’s cloak as she followed the green dot, which shifted around as though avoiding someone.
• Ji Xinghe encountered a Spotted Tiger and killed it with Wood Arrow and Golden Sword Technique.
• Ji Xinghe used Drain twice on the tiger’s corpse, then stored it in her backpack and continued toward the NPC.
• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou, Pray for the God of Wealth's Love, Ruoshui Sanqian, and Monster Slayer reached some wreckage and hurried onward without stopping.

Ji Xinghe encountered Yao Shu and accepted an optional quest to find Lan Xi, which matched her main quest. After receiving Lan Xi’s portrait, she found a scrap of a Witch’s hat and hid it as the search party approached.

• Ji Xinghe overheard Yao Shu’s group searching for Lan Xi and hurried toward the green quest marker.
• Ji Xinghe met Yao Shu, who offered an optional quest to find her supposedly kidnapped friend Lan Xi.
• Ji Xinghe accepted the quest, gaining Yao Shu’s favorability, and received a portrait of Lan Xi.
• Ji Xinghe noticed a scrap of rare black cloth from a Witch’s hat and stepped on it to hide it as footsteps approached.

Ji Xinghe found the injured Lan Xi hidden underground and began escorting her toward Yunqi Wu with the other four players. The group set out together, prepared for the hunters and other dangers they expected to face along the way.

• Ji Xinghe found the concealed burrow and uncovered the unconscious, bloodied Lan Xi, completing the first-stage mission.
• The system activated the mission to escort Lan Xi to Yunqi Wu and gave the players a time limit of 33 hours, 21 minutes, and 52 seconds.
• Ji Xinghe bandaged Lan Xi's leg, gave her an HP Recovery Potion, and carried her toward the destination.
• Ji Xinghe met up with Pray for the God of Wealth's Love, Ruoshui Sanqian, Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou, and Monster Slayer, and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou took over carrying Lan Xi.
• The group continued toward Yunqi Wu as Ji Xinghe urged everyone to stay alert and listened to them describe their experiences in the Survival World.

Ji Xinghe and her companions escorted the rescued witch Lan Xi toward Yunqi Wu, but Yao Shu and her Armored Guards intercepted them and demanded Lan Xi. Ji Xinghe refused to hand her over, and both groups prepared for a fight.

• Ji Xinghe accepted Lan Xi's offer to brew two potions in return for rescuing her, and Lan Xi gradually relaxed among the adventurers.
• As the group passed Stone Mountain, they heard approaching armor and footsteps and encountered Yao Shu with her Armored Guards.
• Lan Xi recognized Yao Shu as the person who killed Ruo Ruo and reached into her cloak while the guards moved to take her.
• Ji Xinghe explained that she had accepted an optional quest and refused Yao Shu's offer of twice the reward to surrender Lan Xi.
• Yao Shu invoked her aunt, the High Priest of the Witch Clan, but Ji Xinghe mocked her claim and her companions took a protective stance.
• An Armored Guard shouted at the adventurers, and Yao Shu's smile disappeared as she waved her hand.

Ji Xinghe fought Yao Shu while her teammates battled the Armored Guards, and Yao Shu poisoned her with a trap that reduced her attributes. Ji Xinghe used Love's Embrace on Yao Shu, who suddenly approached her and formed a heart with her hands.

• The Armored Guards charged Ji Xinghe and her teammates, who fought while retreating and protecting Lan Xi.
• Ji Xinghe broke through the fighting to attack Yao Shu, dodging her Entangling Silk Poison and firing Wood Arrows that cut Yao Shu's HP in half.
• Yao Shu's Cloud Pattern Cauldron pursued Ji Xinghe, while poison gas from the broken bottle triggered a 24-hour debuff that reduced Ji Xinghe's attributes.
• Ji Xinghe's Shield Bracelet blocked the cauldron's hit, and Yao Shu admitted the poison came from gas released when the bottle broke.
• Ji Xinghe cast Love's Embrace on Yao Shu, who froze and then approached Ji Xinghe to form a pink heart with her hands.

Ji Xinghe and the escort party rested in a cave, where Lan Xi recovered her spirits while sharing food with them. Ji Xinghe examined their new equipment before Ruoshui Sanqian offered her armor and a broadsword in gratitude.

• Ji Xinghe led the exhausted group to a cave and called for a half-hour rest.
• Monster Slayer and Ruoshui Sanqian offered to take turns carrying Lan Xi, while the group shared food and chatted with her.
• Ji Xinghe inspected two bottles of Entangling Silk Poison, a Cloud Pattern Cauldron, and a Magic Defense Necklace, then swapped necklaces.
• Ruoshui Sanqian offered Ji Xinghe a suit of armor and a broadsword, crediting her with finding Lan Xi and defeating Yao Shu.

An earthquake struck the Dungeon as Ji Xinghe’s group escorted Lan Xi toward Yunqi Wu, forcing them to flee a collapsing cave and fight their way through monsters. Ji Xinghe warned her teammates that the High Priest of the Witch Clan had become their enemy, while Lan Xi revealed the High Priest was Yao Shu’s aunt and was told not to hide anything else.

• Ji Xinghe’s group rescued Lan Xi from the shaking cave and escaped as it collapsed behind them.
• Ji Xinghe led the group toward Yunqi Wu, and she and Ruoshui Sanqian fought monsters while the others helped them keep moving.
• Ji Xinghe received system warnings that the High Priest of the Witch Clan’s favorability had fallen to -165, triggering a deadly feud.
• Ji Xinghe told her teammates that killing Yao Shu had made them enemies of the High Priest.
• Lan Xi revealed that Yao Shu was the High Priest’s niece, and Ji Xinghe warned Lan Xi not to conceal information from the group.

Ji Xinghe and her teammates prepared to leave Yunqi Wu, but the Witch Clan High Priest confronted them over her murdered family. The Saintess stopped the confrontation and invited the group to a banquet and the clan’s Treasure Vault, and they set off with a guide while Ji Xinghe warned her teammates to stay alert.

• Ji Xinghe refused to wait for Lan Xi’s promised potions and urged the group to leave because they had offended the High Priest.
• The High Priest confronted the visitors and accused them of being connected to her family member’s assassination, but the Saintess intervened and reprimanded her.
• The Saintess invited Ji Xinghe and her teammates to a Witch Clan banquet and offered each of them an item from the Treasure Vault.
• Ji Xinghe consulted her teammates, and they agreed to accept the invitation while keeping their escape option ready.
• Witch Maid Xiao Lan guided the group up Yunqi Wu’s misty steps, and Ji Xinghe warned her teammates that the High Priest remained resentful.

At the Witch Clan banquet, Ji Xinghe and her companions received healing potions and discovered that Bamboo Worms increased Strength. They later visited the Treasure Vault, where Ji Xinghe chose an Alchemy Scroll and all five women left with one treasure each.

• Lan Xi gave Ji Xinghe and the other four women two exclusive healing potions apiece and offered them the Witch Clan’s help.
• Ji Xinghe and her companions watched the dancers and talked about keeping handsome men as they grew stronger.
• Monster Slayer discovered that eating Bamboo Worms increased Strength, then urged the four women to eat them too.
• Xiao Lan escorted the five women to the Treasure Vault and said each could choose one treasure from the first floor.
• Ji Xinghe chose an Alchemy Scroll, and ten minutes later all five women had selected a treasure without triggering the vault’s restrictions.

Ji Xinghe learned Alchemy, became the first player to unlock a secondary profession, and spent the night in the Witch Clan’s guest quarters. After the Saintess stopped Lüshu from attacking the guests until after the Star Moon Selection, Ji Xinghe and her companions ate breakfast and prepared to leave.

• Ji Xinghe drained attributes from the monster corpses she had claimed and sent seven corpses each to her four companions.
• Ji Xinghe learned the Alchemy Scroll, unlocked the Novice Alchemist profession, and received a global first-place reward that she assigned to Spirit.
• Lüshu planned to attack Ji Xinghe’s group, but the Saintess ordered her to avoid bloodshed until after the Star Moon Selection and warned her about her niece’s actions.
• Ji Xinghe woke the next morning with five hours of poison remaining, then joined her companions for breakfast.
• Xiao Lan led Ji Xinghe and her companions out of the guest quarters.

Ji Xinghe and her companions were ambushed by witches and armored guards after leaving Yunqi Wu, and she fought back while her allies held off the attackers. She killed a witch and collected her corpse and poison, but the witch’s blood poisoned her, leaving her to rely on a Universal Antidote.

• Witches led by Guan Xin and another witch pursued Ji Xinghe’s group after they left Yunqi Wu and attacked them with Poison Arrows and Armored Guards.
• Ji Xinghe and her companions fought back with magic, weapons, vines, water, stones, and arrows as the guards charged.
• A witch’s Poison Needles cut the group’s Attribute Values in half and caused them to vomit blood, while Xiao Xi pulled Ji Xinghe away from the shots.
• Ji Xinghe used Love’s Embrace on the witch, who approached her while making a heart gesture, and confiscated the witch’s pouch of Poison Needles.
• Ji Xinghe killed the witch with her Star Feather Sword, but the witch’s poisonous blood burned and swelled her hand; she took a Universal Antidote and stored the corpse in her backpack.

Ji Xinghe led her team to a hidden cave after clearing the guards, where they divided the spoils and rested beside a small Iron-Eating Beast. The cub grew curious and allowed Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou to pick it up.

• Ji Xinghe and her teammates defeated the remaining guards, gathered their equipment, and shared Antidote Potions with teammates who needed them.
• Ji Xinghe led the group along a secluded mountain path to a concealed cave and checked that it was safe before letting everyone rest.
• Ji Xinghe and the others divided the armor, broadswords, Poison Needles, and Toxic Blood from the defeated enemies.
• The Iron-Eating Beast cub grew curious about the group, and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou picked it up and stroked it.

Ji Xinghe saved the wounded Iron-Eating Beast after learning it had offered the Qingfu Kailing Fruit to ensure its cub would be taken in. The group agreed to care for the mother and cub, and Ruoshui Sanqian asked whether they would accept being separated between her and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou.

• The Iron-Eating Beast spat out a Qingfu Kailing Fruit, then wounded itself further and pushed its cub toward Ji Xinghe's group.
• Ji Xinghe gave the Iron-Eating Beast an HP Recovery Potion and promised to take in both it and its cub, while Ruoshui Sanqian urged it to survive.
• After the Iron-Eating Beast recovered, Ji Xinghe inspected the fruit and learned it could unlock a beast's innate talent.
• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou said she wanted the cub and had a pet Contract Scroll, while the others declined to take it; Ruoshui Sanqian offered to take the mother.
• The Iron-Eating Beast agreed to let the mother and cub go to separate people, and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou wondered whether they could leave the Dungeon without a Contract Scroll.

Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou contracted the young Iron-Eating Beast and named it Tuanzi, while Ji Xinghe’s group gained the adult beast’s help and received saved herbs and Red Berries. After the berries increased everyone’s Constitution by different amounts, Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou wondered whether Ji Xinghe had 11 Luck.

• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou used a Contract Scroll to make the young Iron-Eating Beast her pet, named it Tuanzi, and gave Ji Xinghe a red packet as compensation.
• Ruoshui Sanqian told Ji Xinghe that another person had demanded an exorbitant price for help, and she wanted to wait rather than give up scarce supplies.
• Ji Xinghe asked the adult Iron-Eating Beast to lead them to the Qingfu Kailing Fruit tree, and it agreed after warning them about a guardian beast and asking time to recover.
• The adult Iron-Eating Beast gave Ji Xinghe its saved herbs and Red Berries to thank the group for saving it and its young.
• Ji Xinghe divided the Red Berries among the group, and the players gained varying amounts of Constitution after eating them.
• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou asked Ji Xinghe if her Luck was also 11 points after Ji Xinghe gained two Constitution from her berries.

Ji Xinghe and her companions followed an Iron-Eating Beast down a dangerous cliff to find the Qingfu Kailing Tree. They killed the Black Snake guarding it, then discovered the rare spirit tree bearing fruit.

• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou secured Tuanzi to herself, and the Iron-Eating Beast led the group down the cliff.
• The group reached the rocky outcrop where the Qingfu Kailing Tree stood and found the Black Snake in its cave.
• Ji Xinghe used Love's Embrace to immobilize the Black Snake, and the group killed it with a combined attack.
• Ji Xinghe checked the cave for other creatures and examined the Qingfu Kailing Tree, which bore more than ten fruits.

Ji Xinghe and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou asked the Chat Channel to help Ruoshui Sanqian find a Contract Scroll and Contract Stones. Ji Xinghe traded Light Orbs with May Peace for a Contract Scroll and gave it to Ruoshui Sanqian in exchange for a few Wow Coins.

• Ji Xinghe suggested that she and Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou search the Chat Channel for Contract Scrolls and Contract Stones for Ruoshui Sanqian.
• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou and Ruoshui Sanqian posted requests to buy Contract Scrolls and Contract Stones, prompting other top-ranked players to join in.
• May Peace offered Ji Xinghe a Contract Scroll in exchange for Light Orbs, and Ji Xinghe agreed to trade 38 Medium Light Orbs and 14 small ones for the scroll and 900 Wow Coins.
• Ji Xinghe added May Peace as a friend and confirmed their trade.
• Ji Xinghe handed the Contract Scroll to Ruoshui Sanqian, who thanked her and offered to pay her in Wow Coins.

Ruoshui Sanqian formed an Equal Contract with the adult Iron-Eating Beast, and Ji Xinghe suggested the group return from the Dungeon together. Before leaving, they shared a feast on the cliffside, where they ate, drank, and traded stories.

• Ruoshui Sanqian formed an Equal Contract with the adult Iron-Eating Beast.
• Ji Xinghe noted that little time remained in the Dungeon and suggested everyone head back together.
• Ou Ou Ou Ou Ou proposed a group meal, and Ji Xinghe agreed to hold a feast.
• The group opened their Food Packs, shared wine, and cooked hot pot on a makeshift stove.
• Ji Xinghe and the others ate and drank together, told stories, and then threw their leftover Trash into the Trash Bin.
• Pray for the God of Wealth's Love looked at everyone reluctantly, her gaze settling on Ji Xinghe.