Chapter Summaries

Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou used their new abilities together to transform their wrecked vehicle into a living war chariot as the fighting on Companion Star S-1 settled into a chaotic stalemate. With battlefield scavenging too dangerous for many players, high-level players began returning to the Titan Divine Body’s Lobar Bronchus region to level.

• Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou combined their powers to rebuild the junk vehicle with flesh and bone, bringing it eerily to life.
• The Earth Dragon drove off a wounded Tier Five Starry Sky Behemoth, and both Tier Five combatants withdrew rather than risk destroying Companion Star S-1.
• Tier Four behemoths continued fighting local creatures, the remnants of the Dark Spirit Race, Star Spirit Race scouts, and player scavengers across the planet.
• Players turned battlefield scavenging into a crowded business, trading materials and selling supposedly safe routes near the front lines.
• As Companion Star S-1 proved too dangerous for steady leveling, top players returned to the Lobar Bronchus region, where monsters were plentiful and straightforward to kill.
• After losing his gear to a Shadow Storm on the battlefield, one player returned to the Lung Leaf and urged his teammates to follow.

After Shadow City fell, Tian Ce proposed using native high-tier beasts to pressure the Dark Spirit Race while protecting key ecological zones. The Star Spirit Race leaders remained wary, but the Beast Driving Plan began recruiting player squads.

• Tian Ce and the player command group warned that the Tier Four beasts and remaining Dark Spirit Race forces made a direct advance impractical.
• Tian Ce proposed luring native beasts toward the Dark Spirit Race heartland, prompting the Star Spirit Race officers to warn that the plan could unleash a dangerous beast tide.
• Tian Ce outlined the Beast Driving Plan and a Protected Area Plan that barred players from attacking pregnant beasts, young beasts, and stable populations in designated zones.
• Elder Twilight Star recognized that the players wanted to turn the crisis into sustainable wartime pressure, and Tian Ce said they would make Tier Four beasts fight each other.
• The players began recruiting suicide squads for the Beast Driving Plan, attracting applicants with its high rewards and danger.

The players used Shadow Cores as bait to drive powerful ferocious beasts toward Dark Spirit Race outposts. The first beast tide destroyed its target, while Star Spirit mages watched in disbelief.

• Ci Beili and the Scientific Research Team fitted Shadow Cores with casings that allowed their Shadow Psionic Energy to leak out on demand.
• Players recruited suicide squads and Hunters to carry the cores into ferocious-beast habitats and lure the beasts east toward Dark Spirit Race outposts.
• A Hunter carrying a Shadow Core attracted a Rock-Spiked Deer and a massive tide of beasts, then dropped the core beside an outpost's defensive gate before respawning.
• The beast tide smashed through the outpost's shield and destroyed the base.
• Great mages in Star Spirit City observed the destruction and envied Father God's Kin for their ability to die and return.

Lin Ziye led the Fried Chicken and Beer Squad out of New Black Rock City to lure the beast tide toward the Dark Spirit Race's second sentry line. The squad headed east through the trenches, using Wind Beacons and Shadow Cores as they prepared to avoid direct fights and disrupt any Dark Spirit Race mages they encountered.

• Lin Ziye assigned roles: Redemption would silence enemy mages, Shadow would attack their backliners, Life in the World would draw monster aggro, and Happy Fat Otaku would provide shields and slows.
• The five squad members left New Black Rock City by its flank and moved east through player-dug trenches.
• Lin Ziye dropped Wind Beacons to speed up his teammates, while Happy Fat Otaku's Fat Shield protected the squad from wind pressure and flying rocks.
• Shadow scouted ahead and left safety markers as Redemption watched for unusual spiritual-energy fluctuations.
• Life in the World joked that the squad looked like food couriers, and Happy Fat Otaku quipped that delivery workers were usually not consumables.

Lin Ziye’s squad lured a powerful Wolf-Lizard toward a Dark Spirit Race outpost and used the beast to break through its defenses. A shadow-tainted bait drew nearby beasts into a horde that was headed for the second sentry line.

• Lin Ziye buried a Shadow Core beneath a tree and opened a slit in it, drawing a powerful Wolf-Lizard out of the forest.
• The squad fled toward an eastern canyon as Lin Ziye led the beast, Happy Fat Otaku slowed it with fat sludge, and Life in the World used taunts to redirect it.
• Redemption spotted a Dark Spirit Race scout squad blocking the canyon, while Shadow ambushed and killed its mage and Redemption suppressed the mage’s Shadow Scream.
• Life in the World engaged the scouts as the Wolf-Lizard charged into their formation, and Lin Ziye planted a second Shadow Core among the rocks.
• The Wolf-Lizard’s howl and the shadow aura drew nearby beast packs into a horde, which the system reported would hit the Dark Spirit Race’s second sentry line in seven minutes.

Lin Ziye’s squad successfully drove a beast tide into the Dark Spirit Race’s second defensive outpost, while Great Wall No. 1 prepared safeguards to protect Star Spirit territory and local wildlife. With wild high-level beasts stirring across the region, Lin Ziye led his team toward another nest.

• Lin Ziye’s five-man squad collapsed after guiding a raging beast tide toward the Dark Spirit Race, and Shadow teased Happy Fat Otaku about his weight.
• Great Wall No. 1 confirmed the first route had succeeded and ordered the players to prepare the second.
• Great Wall No. 1 announced protected areas and rules against hunting vulnerable or regenerating beast populations or leading a tide toward a Star Spirit city.
• The beast tide struck the Dark Spirit Race’s second defensive outpost, battering its shield as high-level beasts caused chaos nearby.
• Lin Ziye told his eager companions it was too early to celebrate and led them toward the next nest.

Dorm 119’s four Chaos Oddities joined a Beast Drive team to lure contaminated beasts toward a Dark Spirit Race outpost. As the team began its mission at the Starry Sky Pollution Woodland, a faint cry from deep inside left the magic-class players terrified.

• Players flocked to Beast Drive missions, where dying while luring beast hordes could still earn valuable rewards.
• The four members of Dorm 119 joined a large Beast Drive team despite warnings that the mission was dangerous.
• Wolf in Water volunteered to take the front line, and the raid leader accepted him as a potential punching bag.
• The team reached the contaminated woodland, confirmed the outpost’s location, and decided to avoid the dangerous central area.
• A faint cry came from deep within the fog, and every magic-class player in the team turned pale.

A two-hundred-player raid encountered a critically injured but powerful Star Beast Cub, whose attacks overwhelmed the squad. Wolf in Water discovered that surviving its blows increased his resistances, and Bro Don't pulled him out of danger as the battle continued.

• Mind Storm detected a high-tier entity, and a wounded, contaminated Star Beast Cub emerged from the woods and targeted the players.
• The Cub's sonic attack incapacitated the raid, while the players' mental, physical, and elemental attacks barely affected its scales.
• The Cub charged the frontline and crushed more than a dozen Divine Guards, breaking the players' formation.
• Wolf in Water charged the Cub's claw and survived the blow, gaining small increases to several resistances.
• Bro Don't transformed into a Flesh Giant and used Flesh Projection to pull the badly injured Wolf in Water out of the Cub's path.

The raid team retreated from the Polluted Star Beast Juvenile, using chained taunts, [Mind Storm]’s Low-Bandwidth Mind Network, and [Light in the Night]’s poison to slow its pursuit. As the injured players reached the western rocky slope, an approaching lifeform made the cub recoil and disrupted [Mind Storm]’s perception network.

• [Bro Don't] pulled [Wolf in Water] away from the cub’s claw, while Life Sages began treating his severe injuries.
• The raid leader ordered the players to retreat west as Divine Guards sacrificed themselves to distract the cub.
• [Wolf in Water] identified that the cub’s contamination worsened whenever it exerted itself, and [Mind Storm] organized the retreat with a Low-Bandwidth Mind Network.
• [Light in the Night] fired poison-tipped bolts into the cub’s abdominal wound, delaying its recovery and giving the players time to reach the rocky slope.
• The cub pursued the survivors, then stopped and retreated when a deep roar came from the forest, while [Mind Storm] sensed an approaching lifeform overwhelming his perception.

The players used blood, toxins, and Shadow Cores to lure a Polluted Star Beast Juvenile and an approaching underground predator toward the southern hollow, allowing the wounded squad to retreat west. The predators clashed out of sight, and some players turned back to seek the juvenile and its materials while the retreat continued.

• Mind Storm planned to lure the juvenile and the underground predator together, while Light in the Night prepared blood-and-toxin bait in a flesh pouch made by Bro Don't.
• The squad leader sent Ghost Blade players south with Shadow Cores and bait, and Light in the Night's crossbow shot drew the juvenile away from the wounded players.
• As the bait carriers relayed the cores toward the hollow, the underground predator emerged as a black-armored tentacle and followed the trail south.
• Light in the Night detonated the remaining bait pouches, and the juvenile pursued the scent into the hollow before an unseen clash sent a shockwave across the forest.
• The squad retreated west as the Combat Guild and Joint Research Group posted competing offers about the juvenile, and some players turned back to pursue the fight and its rewards.

The players lured the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower’s tentacles away from the Polluted Star Beast Juvenile and helped it break free. The rescued juvenile turned on the retreating players, leaving the rescue operation in chaos.

• Players gave up equipment and prepared to distract the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower after scouts identified it as a Tier-Three Lifeform.
• [Light in the Night] and [Bro Don't] sent Ghost Blades to lure three tentacles east with flesh sacs, costing several players their lives.
• [Bro Don't] used [Flesh Projection] to pull the juvenile’s wound together while a [Steel Bastion] drew its attention and died beneath its claw.
• The juvenile broke free by biting through the tentacle around its neck and tearing loose from another restraint.
• As the raid leader ordered a retreat, the juvenile attacked the fleeing players, killing a Divine Guard and the livestreamer.

The players and the wounded young beast struggled to escape the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower, and [Mind Storm] used [Chaos Impact] to break open a crystallized root wall. They reached a riverbed, but the Tier-Three pursuer remained close as the Scientific Research Team ordered them to hold their position until support arrived.

• The Thorn-Mouthed Burrower attacked from underground, killing two players and forcing the team to retreat while the young beast tore into one of its tentacles.
• [Bro Don't] severed his flesh connection to the young beast, and the team followed it toward a wall of crystallized roots blocking their way.
• [Light in the Night] found a weak point in the root wall, and [Mind Storm] gathered mana and linked with his three roommates to unleash [Chaos Impact].
• [Mind Storm]'s attack erased part of the roots, collapsing the wall and opening a gap that the captain led the team through.
• The Thorn-Mouthed Burrower smashed through the fallen roots as the players and young beast fled along the riverbed, suffering lingering [Severe Weakness] and [Chaos Erosion].
• The captain reported the young beast's condition and location to the Scientific Research Team, which said support was coming and told the team to hold out.

The players treated the severely injured Polluted Star Beast Juvenile in the riverbed, using Humus Hotbeds to contain its bleeding and pollution while keeping it alive. They learned that Starshine activated a dangerous mark on the juvenile, and the chapter ended with its condition stabilized somewhat and a misleading video claiming it had chosen Bro Don't as its owner.

• The players built a barricade around the juvenile's wound, left a southern escape route open, and prepared Humus Hotbeds as dressings.
• Bro Don't approached the juvenile and pressed the first Humus Hotbed against its wound; the tissue necrotized but contained the bleeding and pollution.
• The juvenile struck a barricade while Bro Don't applied a second dressing, injuring a player before retreating to guard its abdomen.
• Starshine activated a high-level mark left by Omen of Eternal Night, so the Star Spirit engineers dimmed the barrier and stopped shining into the wound.
• The players used nutrient gel, bait, and replacement dressings to slow the juvenile's decline and draw the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower away.
• Wolf in Water showed Bro Don't a viral video claiming the juvenile had recognized him as its owner, and Bro Don't denied it.

Players and a Star Spirit commander pinned down a severely injured Tier Three Star Beast long enough to change its wound dressing, but they could not tame it. As rescue shifts began, a new group of players arrived elsewhere and prepared for the Second Advancement.

• The young beast broke through the makeshift barriers, so the players withdrew while a Star Spirit commander prepared Gravity Anchoring in the exposed-rock riverbed.
• Players repeatedly baited and diverted the beast from the unfinished Star Rune, sacrificing two Divine Guards until the commander activated all three runes and pinned it down.
• Bro Don't and two Flesh Artisans replaced the beast's necrotic dressing while the commander maintained the spell, and the team leader warned that no players could remain during the handover to another commander.
• The team leader recorded the beast as ownerless and untamed, and Bro Don't told Wolf in Water to help with the next dressing shift.
• Elsewhere, players arrived through the Thunder Messenger's neuron transfer nodes and hurried toward the Joint Cleanup Team, calling for preparations for the Second Advancement.

Shield Worth More Than a Person’s team fought a wounded Fungus Beast when a Second-Order Proliferative Lesion burst through the exit and trapped them. As reinforcements were summoned, Ghost Blade sacrificed himself to lure it into a side branch, but it quickly returned, and Berserk Behemoth prepared to draw it away next.

• Shield Worth More Than a Person’s team cornered a Mutant Fungus Beast in a side bronchus and steadily wounded it with lightning, poison, and melee attacks.
• A Second-Order Proliferative Lesion broke through the passage wall and blocked the team’s only exit, while Shield Worth More Than a Person failed to taunt it and was badly injured.
• Thunder Lord sent the team’s location to nearby cleanup crews, and Ghost Blade and Berserk Behemoth gave their valuable gear to teammates before preparing to sacrifice themselves.
• Ghost Blade lured the Lesion into the left branch with Fungus Beast blood, but it killed him and returned to the main passage within moments.
• Berserk Behemoth moved to the right branch and called the Lesion toward him while the rest of the team continued attacking the wounded Fungus Beast.

[Shield Worth More Than a Person] advanced to Immortal Boundary Stele and helped hold back the Proliferative Lesion until reinforcements killed it. After the fight, [Bricklayer Gets Rich] respawned and discovered that the Skeleton Leviathan was dragging his old corpse away with other monster carcasses.

• [Berserk Behemoth] lured the Proliferative Lesion into a side branch, where it killed him after smashing his battered shield.
• [Shield Worth More Than a Person] and his teammates killed the LV39 Mutant Fungus Beast, allowing him to reach LV40 and choose Immortal Boundary Stele.
• [Shield Worth More Than a Person] used his new damage-reduction field to protect his teammates and stall the Proliferative Lesion until reinforcements arrived.
• The reinforcements and the team killed the Proliferative Lesion, and [Shield Worth More Than a Person] promised to make up for the decoys' losses.
• [Bricklayer Gets Rich] respawned and found the Skeleton Leviathan dragging his old corpse toward the material field.

[Bricklayer Gets Rich] recovered his equipment after the Skeleton Leviathan mistakenly hauled his old corpse to New Black Rock City. [Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] explained how the Leviathan’s wetware and skeleton worked, then agreed to test a fix for its mistaken pickups.

• [Bricklayer Gets Rich] chased the Skeleton Leviathan to the materials yard and warned the workers that it was carrying his corpse and equipment.
• [Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] stopped the Leviathan and helped [Bricklayer Gets Rich] retrieve his gear from the cargo pile.
• [Hannibal] showed that living nerves in a nutrient-filled sac guided the Leviathan, while [Bi Ren Liang Mou] controlled its skeleton’s movement and balance.
• [Hannibal] explained that the Leviathan mistook [Bricklayer Gets Rich]’s motionless, blood-covered corpse for familiar remains and dragged it along.
• [Hannibal] and [Bi Ren Liang Mou] repaired the armor and proposed teaching the wetware to recognize the corpse and detour around it.
• [Bricklayer Gets Rich] lent them his old corpse for another test, warning that any further mistake would require double compensation.

Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou tested whether the newly cultivated Skeleton Leviathan could learn to avoid Bricklayer Gets Rich's corpse and follow its route without a pilot. It returned to the material yard with a monster carcass and another player’s shield, prompting Liang Mou to order Hannibal to compensate the shield’s owner and require closer supervision next time.

• Bricklayer Gets Rich dragged his old corpse in front of the Skeleton Leviathan while Hannibal and Bi Ren Liang Mou trained it to detour around the body.
• After resting, the Skeleton Leviathan followed its established route to the Old Battlefield, avoided Bricklayer Gets Rich's corpse, and dragged back an ordinary monster carcass.
• The Skeleton Leviathan adjusted its footing to cross a damaged bone-plate road and picked up a blood-covered object along the way.
• At the material yard, a newly reshaped player reported that his shield was missing, and the players discovered it beneath the monster carcass.
• Bi Ren Liang Mou ordered Hannibal to compensate the shield’s owner and said someone would have to follow the Skeleton Leviathan and check everything it brought back.

Two Third-Order Star Spirit commanders carefully handed off gravity suppression of the Polluted Star Beast Juvenile while players tended its wound. The juvenile resisted, revealing a struggle between forces inside its wound, and the chapter ended as the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower returned and charged toward the rescue zone.

• The original commander ordered everyone out of the Star Runes’ range so the incoming commander could take over suppressing the Polluted Star Beast Juvenile.
• Wolf in Water retreated with supplies while Mind Storm restricted the dressing team to a few urgent alerts on the Low-Bandwidth Mind Network.
• Hua Qingwan reported that she saw no sign of the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower nearby, and the raid leader told her to stay where she could retreat.
• The commanders began overlapping their gravity fields, but the juvenile braced itself and collapsed the riverbed, splitting its dressing and exposing black patterns and pale marks inside its wound.
• The incoming commander told the research team not to probe the wound, and the two commanders stabilized their suppression without shining Starshine into it.
• Hua Qingwan warned everyone to run as the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower surged back beneath the forest toward the rescue zone.

The team evacuated while the commanders held back the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower, using blood from the injured cub to draw its tentacles away from their escape route. The cub broke free and fled into the forest, and [Light in the Night] found a dangerous fragment of its crystalline tissue as the group retreated.

• The incoming Star Spirit commander left the original commander to pin down the cub and flew south to intercept the Thorn-Mouthed Burrower while the team cleared an escape route.
• After [Hua Qingwan] reported that the Burrowing Beast was tracking the cub's True Blood, the team abandoned the temporary rescue zone and cleared the northern root-wall gap.
• Ghost Blade carried a True Blood-soaked dressing east as bait and was killed by the Burrowing Beast's tentacles, drawing them away from the escape route.
• The incoming commander suppressed the exposed tentacles, allowing the players to escape through the gap as the original commander withdrew [Gravity Anchoring].
• The cub charged through the gap, bit through a tentacle, and escaped into the forest while the commanders kept the Burrowing Beast from pursuing the retreating team.
• [Light in the Night] found a piece of the cub's crystalline tissue on a dressing, and a Star Spirit engineer isolated it while the team continued evacuating.