Recaps

Xiao Fan stole the Speed Monster from Zong Heng’s team and fought off the Mirror City players with Brother Heartless and Na Youshang. Zong Heng’s team retreated toward a cannon they alone could activate, leaving Xiao Fan to clear the monsters outside its range before withdrawing.

• Zong Heng sent his team to attack the Speed Monster while Xiao Fan and his companions secretly watched from nearby.
• The system merged the four servers’ chat channels, and players from all four servers began trading insults and arranging fights.
• Xiao Fan shot the Speed Monster’s final sliver of health, gaining its experience and speed buff for himself while the Mirror City team received nothing.
• Zong Heng ordered his team to fight Xiao Fan, but the Mirror City players lost their health-pack teammate as Xiao Fan covered his novice companions.
• Zong Heng led his team toward a cannon in Mirror City’s jungle, forcing Xiao Fan to stop pursuing them.
• Xiao Fan cleared the wild monsters outside the cannon’s range and then left with Brother Heartless and Na Youshang.

Xiao Fan’s opening assault left Mirror City without key resources, while Mirror City’s leaders debated using a powerful item to preserve their server. Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei abandoned their farming plan to help Mirror City directly, and Zong Heng saw Xiao Fan’s strength firsthand.

• Mirror City’s clan heads recognized Xiao Fan’s overwhelming battlefield dominance and debated whether to use Saint Yuan Venerable’s item to improve their chances in the final match.
• Shen Beiwu concluded that stealing development resources would not stop Xiao Fan, so he and Chen Xuewei headed to help the Mirror City players directly.
• Xiao Fan noticed Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei had left the jungle, suspected they were aiding Mirror City, and continued farming before sealing Mirror City’s health-pack player again.
• Zong Heng recalled dismissing rumors about Xiao Fan and watched the opening match reveal the strength of the player he had wanted to challenge.

Xiao Fan’s Dragon Nation team exploited Mirror City’s low health and hid in the grass, repeatedly disrupting Zong Heng’s attempts to farm. The chapter ended with Zong Heng unable to locate his opponents as the Dragon Nation players’ camouflage was revealed to spectators.

• Zong Heng’s team struggled to recover after losing their healing support and fled when Jiu Chen’s arrow nearly killed him.
• Xiao Fan stopped Brother Heartless from chasing, warning that a Mirror City player was aiming the Cannon at them.
• Zong Heng accused the Cannon operator of secretly helping the Dragon Nation and replaced him with Xiao Zhi.
• Zong Heng’s team returned to fight a jungle monster, but a hidden Dragon Nation player shot it dead and wasted their effort.
• The Mirror City players watching the match saw the Dragon Nation team disguise themselves with branches and leaves to blend into the grass.

Xiao Fan repeatedly stole Mirror City's jungle monsters with arrows, keeping Zong Heng's team underleveled until they traced the shots and prepared to counterattack with Cannon. When Xiao Fan stole another monster, Xiao Zhi fired two shells toward the arrow's origin, leaving the Dragon Nation players caught in the bombardment.

• Xiao Fan stole Mirror City's monsters while Brother Heartless and Na Youshang farmed elsewhere, leaving Zong Heng stuck at level three.
• A Mirror City player suggested following the arrows' trajectories to locate the Dragon Nation players and bombard their position with Cannon.
• Zong Heng ordered Xiao Zhi to save Cannon's ammunition for any further arrows, then led the team back to fight a wild monster.
• Xiao Fan shot the nearly defeated monster, stealing the kill and prompting Zong Heng to order Xiao Zhi to fire.
• Xiao Zhi tracked the arrow's direction and launched two Cannon shells toward its origin, engulfing the area in explosions.

Xiao Fan used Winding Arrow to conceal his position and keep the Jing City players from finding or killing him, leaving Zong Heng’s team trapped near Cannon and struggling to farm. As the match continued, one of Zong Heng’s teammates spotted a Dragon Nation player.

• After Xiao Zhi’s cannon bombardment, Zong Heng’s team searched the area but found no Dragon Nation bodies.
• Zong Heng lost his temper and challenged Jiu Chen to come out, and Xiao Fan fired an arrow that Zong Heng narrowly dodged.
• Xiao Fan explained that Jian Qingfeng’s Winding Arrow could bend its path and conceal where it came from, and he stayed hidden to keep the Jing City team from recovering.
• Dragon Nation and Jing City players argued in the combined-server chat while the match continued.
• At Cannon, Xiao Zhi asked Zong Heng what they should do, and another player shouted that he had spotted a Dragon Nation player.

Zong Heng and the Jing City team killed Chen Xuewei and Shen Beiwu with a cannon, unaware that the two Dragon Nation players had come to help them. After Zong Heng recalled Saint Yuan Venerable’s warning about two defectors, he realized the people they had killed might have been their allies.

• Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei followed the sound of a fight and were killed by Zong Heng’s cannon before they could react.
• Zong Heng and the other Jing City players celebrated the kills, while Shen Long left to placate City of Kings players and Quan Zhong decided to begin the next phase of the plan.
• Jing City and Dragon Nation players argued in World Chat about the match rules and the teams’ relative strength.
• Xiao Fan left the area and joined Brother Heartless and Na Youshang to farm monsters and collect Soul Crystals.
• Zong Heng remembered Saint Yuan Venerable had told them two Dragon Nation players had switched sides, and suspected Chen Xuewei and Shen Beiwu had been their allies.

After Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei joined Zong Heng’s Jing City team, they helped analyze Xiao Fan’s group and devise a plan to separate him from the two rookies. The Jing City players began developing, while Dragon Nation players outside the game learned who the traitors were and why Chen Xuewei resented Jiu Chen.

• Shen Beiwu accepted Zong Heng’s apology but was angered by his offer to make the Shen Family a vassal, and chose to keep helping because he hated Jiu Chen more.
• Shen Beiwu told Zong Heng’s group about Xiao Fan’s team and the three puppets, and explained that isolating Jiu Chen from Brother Heartless and Na Youshang could leave the rookies vulnerable.
• Zong Heng proposed a way to separate Xiao Fan from the two rookies, then led a search that confirmed the Dragon Nation players had left the area.
• Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei helped the Jing City players fight wild monsters and develop quickly, with Shen Beiwu tanking and Chen Xuewei healing.
• Dragon Nation players identified Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei as traitors, and learned that Chen Xuewei’s family had swapped out Xiao Fan’s college entrance exam score, leading him to Novice Village Zone 18.

Xiao Fan led Brother Heartless and Na Youshang into the main hall, where they ambushed three Jing City players and fought off their attempt to escape. Chen Xuewei appeared as a healer but unexpectedly healed Brother Heartless, leaving the Jing City player furious and the battle unresolved.

• Xiao Fan, Brother Heartless, and Na Youshang killed a Jing City player in the jungle, but Xiao Fan worried that sealing him immediately could give the opposing team time to recover him.
• Xiao Fan led the others to the right-lane elevator and had all three spend Soul Crystals to enter the main hall together.
• Xiao Fan trapped three Jing City players with Rain of Arrows, and the trio overwhelmed them as the recently revived player joined the fight.
• A Jing City player called for a healer, and Chen Xuewei emerged from the main hall.
• Chen Xuewei healed Brother Heartless instead of the Jing City players, prompting one of them to curse her.

Chen Xuewei betrayed the Jing City team at the main hall, helping Xiao Fan and his allies seal four opponents and secure Dragon Nation’s victory. After explaining that she wanted Dragon Nation to survive, she revealed where Zong Heng and Shen Beiwu were hiding so the match could end.

• Chen Xuewei healed Na Youshang and revealed her allegiance by helping Xiao Fan’s team defeat the Jing City players in the main hall.
• Brother Heartless and Na Youshang sealed the four defeated Jing City players, leaving only Zong Heng on their team and putting the match beyond Jing City’s reach.
• Jing City family heads accepted their impending defeat and planned to secure transferable resources and build ties with Dragon Nation before the server merger.
• A Jing City family head ordered an investigation into Chen Xuewei, while Dragon Nation and Jing City players traded insults in World Chat.
• Chen Xuewei told Xiao Fan that Zong Heng and Shen Beiwu were hiding in the grass behind the lift below the left lane, and said she wanted Dragon Nation to survive.

Xiao Fan’s group outmaneuvered the Jing City players and sealed all five, winning the match. The victory left Shen Beiwu bewildered as he searched for opponents who had already lost.

• Xiao Fan left Brother Heartless and Chen Xuewei to guard four sealed players while he and Na Youshang searched for Zong Heng.
• Zong Heng waited with Shen Beiwu at a lift, expecting Xiao Fan’s group to follow his ambush plan, but Shen Beiwu left to scout.
• The Assassin Puppet seized Zong Heng, and Jian Qingfeng’s arrow attacks kept him controlled until he died.
• Na Youshang revealed their leafy disguises and brought Zong Heng’s corpse to the main hall’s Seal.
• The system announced that the Dragon Nation players had sealed the Jing City players 5–0, leaving Shen Beiwu stunned.

Dragon Nation Server won the Server Merger Challenge, securing its survival as the planet’s sole server after the merger. Xiao Fan returned to Dragon Nation to receive Zhou He’s thanks, while a white-haired old man left Solitary Tower in Jing City Server.

• White Nation defeated Black Nation for third place, and Dragon Nation players celebrated their victory.
• A white-haired old man on Solitary Tower heard that Jing City Server had lost, shrank the tower into a streak of light, and left.
• The system announced Dragon Nation Server’s first-place finish in the individual competition, and the contestants returned to their servers.
• Zhou He bowed to Xiao Fan and thanked him for helping preserve Dragon Nation Server, and Xiao Fan said protecting it was his responsibility.
• The system announced the final standings, naming Dragon Nation Server the winner and the sole server to be retained after the merger.
• The system announced that the servers would go offline for maintenance and updates one day later.

After the server merge challenge, Xiao Fan reunited with his teammates and received Qin Muyu’s Butterfly Gem, which transformed into a unique ring called Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly. Its creator-linked origin and promise of a future special authority left Xiao Fan wondering whether Cloud Sea’s developer came from Earth.

• Xiao Fan returned home after the server merge competition, and Fatty and the others praised his victory and shared how much stronger they had grown in the Brave New World welfare dungeon.
• Xiao Fan reflected that the Lightning-Avoiding Fruit would help Zijin survive the Lightning Tribulation and reach level 300.
• Qin Muyu gave Xiao Fan the Butterfly Gem she had chosen in the dungeon, and he accepted it gratefully.
• Xiao Fan bound the gem, which became a butterfly-shaped ring named Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly, a unique item set by Cloud Sea's creator that could grant a special authority after accumulating enough energy.
• Xiao Fan told the others the ring's effect but kept his doubts about its Earth-related name and origin to himself.

As Cloud Sea shut down for a day, Xiao Fan tried to materialize Zijin but learned she could not be materialized during her special period. He flew Uncle and Aunt out of the overcrowded Login Administration, then helped Xiao An and Xiao Le with their Level 10 Trial Secret Realm; that night, he noticed a friend request from someone he recognized.

• Xiao Fan used his free materialization chance on Zijin, but the system said she could not be materialized during her special period.
• Xiao Fan flew Xiao Yi and Liu Xiujuan out of the packed Login Administration, while Xiao An and Xiao Le remained behind.
• The crowd recognized Xiao Fan as the famous Jiu Chen after seeing his golden wings.
• Xiao An and Xiao Le told Xiao Fan about their progress in Zone 18 and asked him about the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm.
• Xiao Fan explained how to clear the Secret Realm, then saw that someone had added him as a friend and recognized her.

Lan Feifei approached Xiao Fan on behalf of Baisheng Chamber of Commerce to seek help securing plots in Dragon City and Yanhuang City, but he rejected the proposed deal and blocked her. The chamber’s attempt to gain a foothold in the game was left without his support.

• Xiao Fan accepted Lan Feifei’s friend request and learned that Baisheng Chamber of Commerce’s chairman wanted to cooperate with him.
• Lan Feifei sent Xiao Fan the chamber’s proposal, but he found its offer insulting and stopped replying.
• Lan Feifei explained that Baisheng Chamber of Commerce wanted a safe-city headquarters and had chosen Dragon City as its target.
• After Xiao Fan returned from dinner, he told Lan Feifei the terms were unacceptable and blocked her.
• Lan Feifei tried to continue negotiating, but discovered Xiao Fan had blocked her.

Xiao Fan refused the Baisheng Chamber of Commerce, prompting Wang Tianqiong to seek a different partner after Zhou He also rejected him. The game servers reopened as the Blue Star Server, and Xiao Fan began reviewing what the merger had changed.

• Xiao Fan blocked Lan Feifei, told Zhou He to demand an outrageous price if the Baisheng Chamber of Commerce sought cooperation, and disabled new friend requests.
• Wang Tianqiong became furious when Lan Feifei reported Xiao Fan's refusal and ordered an attendant to approach Zhou He about cooperation.
• Zhou He refused Wang Tianqiong, who blamed Xiao Fan and considered turning to the City of Kings before Shen Long arrived to meet him.
• Xiao Fan's family logged in after saying goodbye, and the game announced that the Dragon Nation, White Nation, Black Nation, and Mirror City servers had merged into the Blue Star Server.
• Xiao Fan learned that Dragon Nation's content was fully retained and that Jing City Server had retained Black Face Village.

After the Blue Star servers merged, Xiao Fan read about the surviving systems, new features, and seven-day triple rewards before entering the game. He claimed a meager 200 Core Power reward and saw the newly combined playerbase flooding the World Channel.

• Xiao Fan learned that the Black Nation Server had retained the Player Battlefield and reasoned that removed systems would stop developing, though existing player data would remain and materials would be compensated.
• Xiao Fan read about server-wide broadcasts, a small merger reward, increased City Building Token drops, and seven days of triple experience, Core Power, and rewards; he wondered what Black Face Village Movie was.
• Xiao Fan entered the game and claimed his server merger reward, receiving only 200 Core Power.
• Xiao Fan opened the World Channel and saw players complaining about the reward, recruiting, seeking relatives, and arranging duels across the merged servers.

Xiao Fan explored the gameplay systems added by the server merge and discovered that the Butterfly ring had accumulated half its energy. He found that he needed a token to enter Black Face Village and that he could use Player Battlefield for PvP, while the Gem System could not upgrade his transformed equipment.

• Xiao Fan saw Shen Long and Cangqiong announce their recruitment and trade plans for City of Kings, then was shocked by the cost of a server-wide broadcast.
• Xiao Fan discovered that Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly had reached fifty percent energy and suspected the server merge had filled it halfway.
• Xiao Fan tried to enter Black Face Village but learned that he needed the map's token.
• Xiao Fan studied Player Battlefield's team formats, ranks, schedule, and matchmaking limits, then planned to use it to train for the Life and Death Contest.
• Xiao Fan redeemed his previously created handgun and confirmed that gems could only be socketed into equipment that had not undergone Armor Transformation.

After the servers merged, Xiao Fan’s party explored the crowded wilderness, saw the growing conflicts between players, and decided to tackle newly revealed Secret Realms. Back in Yanhuang City, Xiao Fan noticed that officials charged visitors from other servers and entered the battlefield with Ye Bugu’s party.

• Xiao Fan joined Fatty and the I Kick Your Lung sisters to leave the city and level up during triple event time.
• Qin Muyu explained the other servers’ distinctive player styles and revealed that some Jing City families had joined Dragon Nation; Xiao Fan chose not to probe her secrets.
• Xiao Fan’s party saw frequent fights between players from the four servers, cleared two Secret Realms, and found that someone had already killed the Wild Boss.
• Xiao Fan suggested that the party explore newly revealed Secret Realms the next day, since first-clear rewards were especially valuable during triple-reward time.
• The party returned to Yanhuang City, where Xiao Fan saw officials expel a Black Nation player for attacking someone and realized the city charged visitors an entrance fee.
• Xiao Fan formed a 20v20 battlefield party with Ye Bugu and accepted a match.

Xiao Fan’s team easily won three battlefield matches before facing a White Nation team armed with a rocket launcher. Xiao Fan held his team back while Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu went invisible to attack the rocket launcher, and the chapter ended as the White Nation team realized two opponents were missing.

• Xiao Fan’s team won three matches against Dragon Nation teams, raising his battlefield level to two.
• Xiao Fan matched into a 20v20 battle against a White Nation team with several ranged fighters and a rocket launcher.
• Xiao Fan ordered Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu to use stealth and take out the rocket launcher player while he stayed back to support his teammates.
• The White Captain ordered his team to approach and have the rocket launcher fire at Xiao Fan’s group, believing they had no way to ambush them on the simple map.
• Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu went invisible and moved behind the rocket launcher player as the White Nation team advanced.
• The White Nation team noticed Xiao Fan’s side seemed short of players, then heard a scream from behind.

Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu ambushed the White team, killing Rocket before escaping with their skills. Xiao Fan regrouped with them, and the Dragon Nation team wiped out the White team, giving Xiao Fan his fourth consecutive win.

• Qin Muyu killed Rocket while Ye Bugu failed to pick up his dropped rocket launcher, and the two retreated as the White team attacked.
• Ye Bugu used Phantom Shift to escape, and Qin Muyu turned transparent and disappeared when the White team attacked her.
• Xiao Fan pulled Qin Muyu back to the Dragon Nation team, which appeared behind the White team with him.
• Fatty challenged the White team to fight, and Xiao Fan and the others defeated them after their ranged advantage failed.
• Xiao Fan returned to his room after earning four consecutive wins.

Xiao Fan matched against Zong Heng’s Jing City team in his final Player Battlefield round. Zong Heng saw Xiao Fan as a chance to restore his standing, but Xiao Fan ignored his taunts and flew into battle with Armor Transformation.

• Xiao Fan recognized Zong Heng across the battlefield and realized his final match had paired him against the Jing City Server.
• Zong Heng blamed Xiao Fan and Chen Xuewei for his disgrace after the Puppet Tomb match and decided to defeat Xiao Fan to regain his family’s favor.
• Zong Heng’s teammates warned him that Xiao Fan ranked third on the planetwide Combat Power Leaderboard, but Zong Heng dismissed Xiao Fan’s strength and taunted him in chat.
• Xiao Fan stopped his teammates from replying and decided to end the match quickly after Zong Heng called him a coward and accused him of relying on dirty tricks.
• Xiao Fan activated Armor Transformation, spread golden wings, and flew toward Zong Heng’s team as Fatty and the others expected to be carried.

Xiao Fan overwhelmed Zong Heng’s team with a Thunder Dragon in the Player Battlefield, leaving Zong Heng and his companions terrified of his strength. The next morning, Xiao Fan prepared supplies and set out to spend several days leveling in the wilderness.

• Xiao Fan revealed golden wings and summoned a Thunder Dragon, wiping out Zong Heng’s team with one skill and securing his fifth battlefield victory of the night.
• After the match, Zong Heng and his teammates discussed Xiao Fan’s power, and several decided they might leave Zong Heng’s party.
• Zong Heng abandoned his grudge against Xiao Fan and chose not to warn his family about their plan to eliminate Jiu Chen.
• The next morning, Xiao Fan prepared to remain in the wilderness until the event ended, and Fatty suggested he bring extra supplies to sell at temporary settlements.
• Xiao Fan packed more supplies into his Space Ring and left the city with his party.

Xiao Fan disguised his face before leaving Yanhuang City with his team, while Li Aohan and Yun Pei arrived hoping to challenge Jiu Chen. Unable to find Jiu Chen, Li Aohan decided to target his teammates to draw him out.

• Xiao Fan used a skill to change his face, then led his team out of the city.
• Li Aohan questioned his followers about Jiu Chen's whereabouts, and they admitted they did not know.
• Yun Pei told Li Aohan that Jiu Chen's absence was understandable and urged him to focus on leveling during the remaining six days of the event.
• Li Aohan recalled his doubts about Xiao Fan's combat ranking and resolved to challenge him to prove his own strength.
• After failing to find Jiu Chen, Li Aohan decided to go after Jiu Chen's teammates and led his group out of the city.

Xiao Fan and his group headed for a new Level 65 Special Secret Realm amid growing tensions between Dragon Nation players and the merged servers. They found White Nation and Black Nation teams blocking the entrance, and the chapter ended with the Dragon Nation players looking to Xiao Fan for help.

• Xiao Fan and his group discussed crowded leveling zones, the risks of future conflict, and how Blood Bar Healing had reduced player deaths.
• Xiao Fan led the group toward a newly appeared twenty-five-person Secret Realm that still had its first clear available.
• Xiao Fan and his group arrived to find White Nation and Black Nation players blocking the entrance while two Dragon Nation teams faced them.
• A Dragon Nation player told Xiao Fan that the foreign teams claimed the Secret Realm for themselves and would not let others enter.
• The Dragon Nation player explained that his side had only three teams against at least ten foreign teams, leaving them unable to force their way past.

Xiao Fan joined two Dragon Nation teams facing foreign players who were blocking a secret realm entrance and preparing to seal it with a Barrier Stone. After introducing himself as Huang Quan and revealing he was level 90, he stood with the others as a new voice challenged the blockade.

• Xiao Fan and his companions approached the secret realm entrance to support two Dragon Nation teams outnumbered by White Nation and Black Nation players.
• The foreign factions sought to control uncleared secret realms and charge players for access, using scarce Barrier Stones to seal entrances.
• Flying Fish and Old Crab introduced themselves to Xiao Fan, who gave his name as Huang Quan.
• Xiao Fan told them he was level 90 and was carrying friends, giving the Dragon Nation teams some confidence.
• Foreign players mocked the Dragon Nation teams, but a voice behind Xiao Fan demanded to know who was blocking the entrance.