Recaps

Zijin learned from Dali that a large rock ant colony lived west of the Monster Region and considered it a source of earth-element Magic Beast blood for breaking the Seal on Jiu Chen’s Dragon Token. She then asked Dali how he had come to this world, but a sudden change interrupted his answer.

• Zijin asked Dali where the Monster Region had the most earth-element Magic Beasts, and he directed her to the rock ant territory in the west.
• Dali warned Zijin that the colony’s queen was at least level 295, while the ordinary rock ants lived in large numbers.
• Zijin decided to wait for Jiu Chen to leave the secret realm before traveling west to hunt rock ants for their blood.
• Zijin asked Dali how he had come to this world, and a sudden change occurred as he began to answer.

Zijin tested whether Dali could explain where it came from, but an invisible force prevented it from speaking about its origins. She believed Dali and dismissed the question, leaving it astonished by how approachable she was.

• Dali tried to tell Zijin that it came from the same place as Bao Bao, but its words turned into screams.
• After repeated attempts, Dali realized it could not speak about its origins and explained the restriction to Zijin.
• Zijin believed Dali and said she had only asked casually.
• Zijin wondered why invisible rules restricted communication even between beasts, as they had with Bao Bao and Jiu Chen.
• Dali was surprised that Zijin accepted its explanation without questioning it.

Xiao Fan defeated the Amethyst Beast, the Boss of Secret Realm Second Layer, after a difficult fight. He reflected on the Boss’s Mirror Transformation and the layer’s lack of a shop as he stood over its corpse.

• Xiao Fan struck the Amethyst Beast with two sword attacks, reducing its health to zero.
• The Amethyst Beast crashed onto the glass floor, and Xiao Fan complained that his two puppets had been destroyed.
• Xiao Fan recalled that Mirror Transformation hid the Boss among countless reflections and restored its health if he failed to find it in time.
• Xiao Fan noted that the second layer had no shop, leaving Beast Cores as his only way to strengthen himself and his puppets.

Xiao Fan repeatedly failed to identify the Amethyst Beast’s true body during Mirror Transformation, losing his progress and two puppets to the penalty. As he searched the points shop for another solution, he suddenly realized that skills might be the key.

• Xiao Fan recalled that his previous two attempts had ended when he failed to identify the Boss’s true body and its health returned to full.
• On his third attempt, Xiao Fan watched the Amethyst Beast enter a mirror but guessed wrong, triggering the mechanic’s penalty.
• The Boss returned to full health, its reflections exploded, and the attack devastated Xiao Fan and destroyed his two puppets.
• Xiao Fan questioned whether the true body was actually where the Boss appeared to enter the mirror and searched the points shop for a way to identify it.
• While dodging the Amethyst Beast and preparing a sword combo, Xiao Fan stopped as an idea about skills came to him.

Xiao Fan found a way to use Puppetry to identify the Boss when it entered the mirror surface. He prepared to test the plan as the Boss’s health neared fifty percent.

• Xiao Fan dismissed Flower Grafting after recalling that using it to swap the Boss with a puppet had reset the Boss’s health.
• Xiao Fan searched his unused skills and settled on Puppetry, which could control a target and let him use its skills and moves.
• Xiao Fan reasoned that controlling the Boss as it entered the mirror would make its movements visible among its static reflections.
• Xiao Fan noted that his mana was at seventy-three percent and decided to summon the Big Iron Pot to recover after control ended.
• Xiao Fan checked the Boss’s health and saw that it was 0.1 percent away from fifty percent.

Xiao Fan used Puppetry to control the Amethyst Beast and forced it to reveal its true position during Mirror Transformation. After striking the true body and restoring some mana, he watched the mirrored maze shatter and the Amethyst Beast land in the plaza, where the battle continued.

• Xiao Fan used Puppetry on the Amethyst Beast, rapidly spending his mana as he attacked and pushed its health below 50%.
• The Amethyst Beast triggered Mirror Transformation and vanished among identical images, while Xiao Fan retained control and received a five-second search limit.
• Xiao Fan activated Wind Fire Wheels, making the Amethyst Beast’s true body stand out as a spinning figure among the motionless images.
• Xiao Fan realized the Amethyst Beast had hidden northeast, opposite the direction it appeared to flee, and struck it with the mirror-breaking item.
• Xiao Fan canceled Puppetry, recovered mana and health at the giant iron pot, and watched the mirrored maze shatter as the Amethyst Beast was dragged back into the plaza.

Xiao Fan defeated the enraged Amethyst Beast after its health had fallen to twenty-five percent. A crystal staircase appeared, and the system offered him a choice to leave with his rewards or accept a higher-difficulty challenge.

• Xiao Fan noticed that the Amethyst Beast showed genuine anger and frustration, unlike the other mechanical creatures in the secret realm.
• The Amethyst Beast raged over being exposed by a BUG, while Xiao Fan mistook its fury for frustration over lost health.
• Xiao Fan launched a barrage of attacks and reduced the weakened Amethyst Beast's health to zero.
• The Amethyst Beast disintegrated, and its crystal fragments formed a purple staircase in the square.
• Xiao Fan approached the staircase and received a choice to leave with his current rewards or accept a higher-difficulty challenge; the secret realm had 2:21:36 remaining.

Xiao Fan entered the secret realm’s third level and found himself in a dim ancient palace with an empty altar shaped to hold an egg. After finding no mechanism on the walls, he began searching the floor.

• Xiao Fan entered the next level of the secret realm with only a little over two hours remaining.
• Xiao Fan discovered a black stone altar with a clean, egg-shaped recess and wondered where the egg had gone.
• Xiao Fan searched the palace walls and upper reaches for a mechanism but found none.
• Xiao Fan turned his attention to the floor.