Chapter Summaries

Su Li entered Eternal Realm as a randomly selected Little Skeleton and woke in a rain-soaked forest after a cutscene revealed how Rosalia had summoned him and fled the village with him. Once he gained control, he began exploring his new body, but his next action was interrupted by a cry for help.

• Su Li chose the random race option and became a weak Little Skeleton with no talents.
• In the opening cutscene, Rosalia summoned Su Li, and Lainer threatened them before taking Rosalia’s hidden Copper Coins.
• Rosalia carried Su Li out of the village and left him at the edge of the Forest of Death, promising to find a way to revive him.
• The cutscene ended, and Su Li dislocated his hand while trying to jump up before marveling at how real his skeleton body felt.
• A translucent blue window appeared, but Su Li was interrupted by someone crying for help.

Su Li escaped a lightning storm by finding a cave, leveled up, and gained two powerful talents as the server’s first Level 2 player. After boasting anonymously on the World Forum, he prepared to explore the cave’s depths.

• Su Li chose the survival quest and braved the storm until he found a cave and received EXP and Strength.
• Su Li broke his arm by flexing his increased Strength, then leveled up and healed; he assigned his free points to Constitution.
• Su Li became the server’s first Level 2 player and drew the All-Round Scholar and Dual Cultivation of Physique and Magic talents.
• Su Li read the World Forum, saw that most players were still newborns, and posted anonymously to reveal he had reached Level 2.
• Su Li closed the forum and decided to explore the dark depths of the cave.

Su Li accepted a safe monster-slaying quest, took a rusty sword and clothes from helpless Hollows, and trained with the weapon until he completed a hidden quest. The chapter ended with him gaining Strength and comprehending a skill, though the skill was not named.

• Su Li chose the low-difficulty quest to slaughter weaker enemies and ventured deeper into the cave.
• He discovered several Hollows, found they ignored him, and took a rusty sword from one that could not reach it.
• Su Li completed the weapon quest, leveled up, assigned his free points to Constitution, and took the Hollow's robe.
• He accepted a hidden quest to swing his sword 1,000 times and completed it, gaining Strength and comprehending a skill.

Su Li unlocked the Swordsman class and received a Blacksmith class, then explored a corrupted cave and forged a powerful weapon from a Crimson Rot Crystal. As he left the cave after gaining exploration experience, a hand reached from the mud and grabbed his leg.

• Su Li unlocked Basic Swordsmanship and the Swordsman class, earning the Blacksmith class as a first-server reward.
• Su Li tested the crimson pool and found that his undead body was immune to its corruption.
• Su Li found a Crimson Rot Crystal and fused it with his Rusty Iron Sword, creating the Corrupted Iron Sword with a chance to drain enemies' HP and turn the dead into servants.
• Su Li bound the Corrupted Iron Sword as his beginner weapon and gained experience for exploring the Corrupted Cave.
• Su Li left the cave after the rain stopped, but a hand reached out of the mud and grabbed his lower leg bone.

Su Li killed a Mutated Finger Bug and unexpectedly enslaved it, then used it to sneak around a huge Fingercreeper group and reach the Nameless Burial Mound. Inside a cave, he ambushed a skeleton warrior, leveled up, and prepared to explore deeper for treasure.

• Su Li killed the Mutated Finger Bug with his Corrupted Iron Sword, triggering Crimson Corruption and completing his quest.
• The bug revived as a Rotten Finger Bug servant, and Su Li named it Pipi Finger and ordered it to scout.
• Su Li spotted dozens of Fingercreepers led by a giant one, then skirted around them with Pipi Finger’s help.
• Su Li explored the Nameless Burial Mound and entered a cave with Pipi Finger.
• Su Li backstabbed and killed a Lv4 Wasteland Tomb Skeleton, reaching Lv4 and gaining two free attribute points.
• Su Li put both points into Agility and continued toward the depths of the tomb, expecting to find treasure.

Su Li defeated a powerful skeleton, collected his first valuable loot, and solved a tomb puzzle by finding treasure and crafting an Inferior Corrupted Pot from the Corruption Pool. The system recognized him as the first player to independently develop and craft an item, and began issuing a special reward.

• Su Li and Pipi Finger defeated the Lv5 Berserk Skeleton, and Su Li gained Strength, swordsmanship proficiency, a Small Soul Stone, and a broken battle axe.
• Su Li found a patterned stone door whose puzzle needed a missing key item, then searched the right passage and opened a treasure chest containing coins and five Cracked Pots.
• Su Li returned to the Corruption Pool and filled a Cracked Pot with Scarlet Rot Primordial Liquid, sealing it with Rotten Moss to craft an Inferior Corrupted Pot.
• The system announced that Su Li was the first player on the server to independently develop and craft an item, and began granting him a special reward.

Su Li unlocked the World Module, chose and disabled the More Enemies option, then set out to level up and seek evolution materials. After discovering several terrifying high-level areas, he reached a beautiful swamp, where something suddenly grabbed his ankle and shocked him.

• Su Li loaded the More Enemies module, turned it off, and learned that reaching Lv5 would unlock his first racial evolution.
• Su Li left Pipi Finger guarding the cave and headed away from the Mass Grave to search for weak monsters and evolution materials.
• Su Li hid as a Flame Dragon Lizard carrying a mutated Wild Boar entered its scorched cave, and he gained experience for discovering the Dragon Lizard Nest.
• Su Li explored the Erosion Wasteland, spotted the deadly Death Ritual Bird, and fled after gaining experience for discovering the area.
• Su Li reached a glowing-mushroom swamp, where a sticky appendage suddenly wrapped around his ankle and left him horrified.

Su Li killed an Abyss-corrupted slime, gained enough experience to reach level five, and returned to the Corrupted Cave to begin choosing an evolution path. The chapter ended as the system started displaying his available evolution options.

• Su Li stabbed the Abyssal Corroding Slime with his Corrupted Iron Sword, and Crimson Corruption made its two halves fight until it died.
• Su Li gained 200 experience and four attribute points, then concluded that killing Abyss-corrupted monsters brought unusually generous rewards.
• Su Li returned to the Mass Grave, activated the More Monsters mod, and killed a Wasteland Tomb Skeleton to reach level five.
• Su Li disabled the mod, fled to the Corrupted Cave, and ordered Pipi Finger to guard the entrance.
• Su Li opened the evolution panel, and the system began searching for paths suited to his attributes and experiences.

Su Li chose the rare Revered Corrupted Skeleton Soldier evolution, gaining access to dual-system prayers, while discussing an alliance with Pansi Dawang. After learning that native Adventurer Squads could attack monster players, Su Li completed his evolution and prepared to inspect his new powers.

• Su Li rejected the conventional skeleton paths and selected the Revered Corrupted Skeleton Soldier evolution.
• While waiting for his evolution to finish, Su Li read World Forum posts about other players' unusual beginnings.
• Pansi Dawang invited Su Li to join an alliance of monster players that also included a slime.
• Pansi Dawang warned Su Li that native Adventurer Squads could enter monster regions to hunt players.
• Su Li accepted the alliance in principle, then completed his evolution and examined his new power.

After evolving and leveling up, Su Li strengthened his skeleton, defeated three living corpses, and buried his character before logging off. Back at home, his sister Su Lin Yue noticed something strange about his appearance and asked how many rounds he had played overnight.

• Su Li inspected his new Revered Corrupted Skeleton Soldier stats, spent his free points on Constitution and Agility, and returned to fight with Pipi Finger.
• Su Li and Pipi Finger defeated three living corpses, earning experience, crystals, and rusty swords that Su Li recycled.
• When the system warned him it was 06:30, Su Li had Pipi Finger dig a pit, buried him in it, and disconnected so he could make breakfast for Yueyue.
• Su Li woke feeling unusually refreshed, noticed his underwear felt tight, and prepared breakfast for his younger sister, Su Lin Yue.
• Su Lin Yue stared at Su Li and asked whether he had secretly started working out, then demanded to know how many rounds he had played last night.

After Su Li returned to the real world, his sister mistook his exhausted appearance for the result of staying up all night for other reasons. Back in Aetherland, Rosalia fled her village after Lainer broke into her home and her attempt to summon death magic failed, while Su Li emerged from his grave in the Corrupted Cave.

• Su Li examined his dark circles and pale skin, but concluded that the game's strain had caused his appearance and logged back in.
• Su Lin Yue scolded Su Li for neglecting his health, refused breakfast, and left for school.
• Lainer broke into Rosalia's home searching for her, but she hid in the cellar until he left.
• Rosalia tried repeatedly to cast a spell from her black book, failed, and resolved to flee before Lainer returned.
• Rosalia packed a few belongings and the magic book, then slipped out of the village into the wilderness.
• Su Li broke through the earth in the Corrupted Cave and announced his return to Aetherland.

Su Li chose a cautious approach after a system quest warned him that a strong enemy was approaching, then learned that Mad Axe and Lainer were carrying the key to the Mass Grave ruins. He hurried ahead to prepare a surprise for them.

• Mad Axe seized Lainer and forced him to join the Wild Wolf Squad as a scouting vanguard.
• Su Li received the Strong Enemy Approaches quest and selected the option to gather intelligence and cause trouble rather than fight head-on or flee.
• Su Li followed the route toward the Undead Mountain Range, leaving Pipi Finger to guard the house.
• Lainer bribed Mad Axe, who explained that the Wild Wolf Squad had acquired the Golden Dragon Claw and sent him to record the ruins' gate puzzle.
• Su Li overheard them and recognized the key and the puzzle's answer, then decided to reach the Mass Grave first and prepare a surprise.

Su Li trapped Mad Axe and Lainer inside the Mass Grave, where he used a skeleton respawn ability and Inferior Corruption to overwhelm them. Mad Axe recognized the Corruption and searched for whoever had thrown it, while Su Li remained hidden nearby.

• Su Li hid outside the Mass Grave as Mad Axe and the injured Lainer arrived and entered the cave.
• Mad Axe tracked a small skeleton’s footprints, then fought through the Tomb Passage with Lainer as they advanced.
• Su Li sealed the entrance with three Inferior Corruption Pots before entering the cave and activating his module to respawn skeletons, including Elite Monsters.
• Mad Axe fought off the skeletons while Lainer begged to retreat, and Su Li watched from behind a Stone Pillar.
• Su Li threw another Inferior Corruption Pot between the two men, but Mad Axe dodged and recognized the liquid as Crimson Corruption before demanding that the attacker reveal himself.

Su Li waited for Mad Axe and Lainer to retreat, then seized Mad Axe’s backpack after Lainer betrayed him and knocked him into the Crimson Corruption. Mad Axe survived and chased Lainer into the forest, while Su Li kept the bag and completed his mission.

• Su Li stole finishing blows from Mad Axe’s wounded skeleton enemies and triggered a mission to obtain Mad Axe’s backpack.
• Mad Axe and Lainer found the cave entrance blocked by Crimson Corruption, and Mad Axe tried to use Lainer as bait to escape.
• After Lainer spotted Su Li, Su Li slipped away into the skeleton crowd while Mad Axe used Whirlwind Slash to clear a path.
• Lainer struck the exhausted Mad Axe with a Rusty War Hammer, stole his backpack, and ran for the cave entrance.
• Su Li cut the backpack strap, stored the bag, and completed his mission as Mad Axe survived the corruption and chased Lainer into the forest.

Su Li looted Mad Axe, killed him, and unexpectedly revived him as a powerful undead servant through Corrupted Enslavement. With Pipi Axe at his side, Su Li solved the Golden Dragon Claw door mechanism and opened the ancient ruin, where a shocking sight awaited inside.

• Su Li found coins, a Recording Scroll, and the Golden Dragon Claw in Mad Axe's bag, then decided to call Pipi Finger before entering the ruin.
• Su Li found Mad Axe dying from Crimson Corruption and killed him, earning experience and leveling up to Lv6.
• Mad Axe revived as a Corrupted Berserker under Su Li's control, and Su Li ordered Pipi Axe to fight for him.
• Su Li matched the door's rings to the bear, moth, and owl symbols on the Golden Dragon Claw and opened the ruin.
• Su Li looked inside the ruin and drew a sharp breath at what he saw.

Su Li learned the first stage of the Dragon Shout Unwavering Force and unlocked the Dragonborn class and quests in the Ancient Waterfall Tomb. He tested the shout against the Ghoul Tyrant, but his blast also knocked Pipi Axe off balance.

• Su Li entered the final chamber of the Ancient Waterfall Tomb and absorbed a rune from the Dragon Language Wall, gaining Unwavering Force, the Dragonborn class, and new quests.
• Su Li contemplated his future as a Dragonborn before deciding he needed to become human again.
• Su Li kicked open the sarcophagus and awakened the level 15 Ghoul Tyrant, which blasted him and Pipi Finger away with a Dragon Shout.
• Pipi Axe fought the Ghoul Tyrant while Pipi Finger tried to grab its leg, but the tyrant knocked Pipi Finger away with another shout.
• Su Li used Unwavering Force on the Ghoul Tyrant, staggering it but also hitting Pipi Axe from behind because friendly fire was enabled.

Su Li and his teammates defeated the Ghoul Tyrant, and Su Li collected valuable loot before enhancing his sword and choosing an explosive minion upgrade. He accepted a quest to kill a Flame Dragon Lizard for a mount and ended the chapter with an urgent message from Pansi Dawang.

• Su Li, Pipi Axe, and Pipi Finger worked together to kill the Ghoul Tyrant, earning Su Li experience, attributes, and class proficiency.
• Su Li looted Ebony Armor, a Dragon Stone, and a Weapon Enhancement Stone from the tomb.
• Su Li used the Enhancement Stone to raise his Corrupted Iron Sword to Common Lv30 and chose the Self-Destructing Infantry upgrade.
• Su Li accepted the Mount Trial quest to kill the Flame Dragon Lizard, hoping to evolve it with the Dragon Stone.
• Su Li opened the forum and received a private message from Pansi Dawang asking for help.

Su Li advised Pansi Dawang to choose an evolution path with special abilities, then logged out and discovered that playing the game seemed to have improved his health. After his sister Su Lin Yue deleted the explicit files on his phone, Su Li revealed he had kept backups and prepared to return to the game.

• Su Li advised Pansi Dawang to choose an evolution path with special abilities, and Pansi Dawang chose Phantom Dream Weaver.
• Su Li logged out after ordering Pipi Axe and Pipi Finger to guard the coffin, while Pansi Dawang began evolving and the blue Slime kept eating ore.
• Su Li noticed he felt stronger and had unusually smooth, pale skin after removing his helmet.
• Su Lin Yue confronted Su Li about his games, searched his phone, and deleted his explicit files.
• Su Li revealed he had backups in other hidden locations and announced he was returning to Aiseland Continent.

Su Li answered Rosalia’s desperate summoning and arrived in Twilight Town just as Lainer attacked her. He confronted the man who had caused him trouble, leaving their encounter poised to begin.

• Su Li chose to answer Rosalia’s summoning rather than ignore her or give her the runaround.
• Lainer cornered Rosalia and blamed her for his humiliation after he lied to Mara about Mad Axe’s death and the mutated skeleton.
• Rosalia cut her wrist and used her blood to cast a summoning spell as Lainer prepared to strike her.
• Su Li crossed through the magic circle and blocked Lainer’s knife with his sword.
• Su Li recognized Lainer and confronted him.

Su Li defeated Lainer and enabled Rosalia to take revenge, then formed an equal contract with her before his summoning ended. Rosalia gave him an object from around her neck just before he returned to the Ghoul Tomb.

• Su Li blocked Lainer's attack, knocked him down, severed his thigh tendons, and dragged him back to Rosalia.
• Rosalia recognized Su Li as Su Liya and hugged him, then accepted the Short Knife and killed Lainer herself.
• Su Li made a familiar secret gesture, prompting Rosalia to insist that he really was Su Liya.
• As his summoning ended, Su Li chose an equal contract with Rosalia and received a magical infusion that increased his Spirit by three and raised his maximum Magic.
• Rosalia pressed an object from around her neck into Su Li's hand, and he returned to the Ghoul Tomb.