Recaps

Xiao Fan deduced that the players’ trouble in the Dungeon came from accumulating a freezing status while fighting Ice Wolves and from missing a way to remove abnormal effects. After giving Zhou He two possible solutions and collecting payment, Xiao Fan logged off and received an invitation to visit the school the next day.

• Xiao Fan questioned Zhou He about the Boss and Ice Wolf fights, then inferred that attacking the Ice Wolves built up a freezing status and that the Boss’s red health bar signaled a later loss of control.
• Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng told Xiao Fan that the affected players had grown progressively colder before freezing, and Xiao Fan explained his theory about the Boss’s health thresholds and a needed status-removal item.
• Zhou He asked Xiao Fan for a solution, and Xiao Fan suggested creating a skill to remove negative conditions or pausing Ice Wolf attacks until the freezing buildup subsided.
• Xiao Fan asked Zhou He to transfer the promised money to his aunt’s bank card and logged off for the night.
• Xiao Fan received a message from the chubby guy asking whether he would join the school’s visit to teach the juniors about the game.

Xiao Fan agreed to return to Sea City No. 1 High School with his younger cousins and learned that the eight million yuan he had earned for analyzing a Secret Realm had reached his aunt’s account. At school, he reunited with his chubby friend, who celebrated that Zhang Chao and Zhang Yuanyuan were only Level 3 while he had reached Level 5.

• Xiao Fan refused to attend the school gathering until Xiao An expressed excitement about going with him, prompting Xiao Fan to agree.
• Xiao Fan explained to his aunt and uncle that the eight million yuan was payment for helping someone analyze a Level 80 Secret Realm, and reassured them that he could handle the risk.
• Xiao Fan’s aunt offered to save the money for his future marriage, but Xiao Fan said he had earned it to improve the family’s circumstances.
• Xiao Fan went to Sea City No. 1 High School with Xiao An and Xiao Le for the graduates’ gathering about life in the Novice Villages.
• The chubby guy told Xiao Fan that Zhang Chao and Zhang Yuanyuan were only Level 3, while he had reached Level 5, and celebrated their poor progress.

Xiao Fan and the Fatty attended a school event, where Li Li mocked Xiao Fan for being assigned to Zone 18 and challenged the Fatty to fight after school. Later, Shen Jiangyun, Chen Xuewei, and Zhang Yuanyuan confronted classmates who had discussed Chen Xuewei, and the chapter ended as the Fatty called Zhang Yuanyuan out for staring at him.

• Xiao Fan arrived with the Fatty and refused the homeroom teacher's request to speak about Zone 18 after Li Li mocked him.
• The Fatty defended Xiao Fan and challenged Li Li to fight after school, and Xiao Fan looked forward to testing his strength.
• Xiao Fan and the Fatty listened as classmates compared their Novice Zone experiences and discussed Chen Xuewei's level.
• Shen Jiangyun rebuked the classmates for talking about Chen Xuewei, and they apologized to her.
• Zhang Yuanyuan glared at Xiao Fan and the Fatty, and the Fatty angrily asked why she was staring at him.

Xiao Fan and the Fatty met Chen Xuewei, Zhang Yuanyuan, and Zhang Chao, whose taunts led the Fatty to reveal he had reached level five in Zone 18. The crowd dismissed his claim, leaving him and Xiao Fan surrounded by disbelief and mockery.

• Chen Xuewei greeted Xiao Fan and asked why he had gone to Zone 18, while Xiao Fan hinted that her parents were responsible.
• Shen Jiangyun questioned Xiao Fan, and Zhang Chao introduced him as a Zone 18 player; the Fatty then berated Zhang Chao for his poor progress in Zone 2.
• Zhang Chao mocked the Fatty for transferring from Zone 2 to Zone 18, and Li Li joined in as the crowd learned about the transfer.
• The Fatty declared that he had reached level five after spending over half a month in Zone 18.
• Zhang Yuanyuan, Li Li, and the others laughed at the Fatty’s claim, comparing his level to Chen Xuewei’s level six in Zone 1.

Xiao Fan called the students gathered at the venue trash and defended his claim that Zone 18's new players had reached high levels. After the homeroom teacher ordered him to represent Zone 18 in a speech, Chen Xuewei realized her family had helped send him there and struggled with guilt.

• Xiao Fan called everyone at the venue trash, and the fatso admired his boldness.
• Zhang Chao mocked Xiao Fan's claim that Zone 18 had many level-five and level-six players, while Shen Jiangyun hid his anger.
• The homeroom teacher told Xiao Fan he had to give a speech for Zone 18 and warned him not to distort the facts.
• Xiao Fan agreed to speak truthfully, and the homeroom teacher arranged for Chen Xuewei and Shen Jiangyun to speak for Zone 1.
• Chen Xuewei realized her parents had arranged Xiao Fan's assignment to Zone 18 and felt she could not face him.
• Zhang Yuanyuan noticed a device being carried toward the stage, and Chen Xuewei said it was a newly developed level-testing device.

Xiao Fan and the Fatty were challenged to prove their game levels with a Level Tester, but the school event began before they could use it. After learning Shen Jiangyun belonged to the Shen Family, Xiao Fan decided to target him and rejected Zhang Chao’s demand that he apologize.

• Shen Jiangyun offered the Level Tester for public use, and Zhang Chao urged Xiao Fan and the Fatty to test their levels.
• Chen Xuewei tried to stop Zhang Chao from pressuring Xiao Fan, while Shen Jiangyun hid his anger and postponed the test.
• The school event began, and Shen Jiangyun and Chen Xuewei shared advice about Zone 1 with the students.
• Xiao Fan learned Shen Jiangyun was from the Shen Family and resolved to make trouble for him.
• Zhang Chao demanded that Xiao Fan kowtow and call himself trash, but Xiao Fan refused and warned that he only kowtowed to the dead.
• The principal introduced the Level Tester and cited Ye Bugu’s rise from a Yellow Rank Skill Chain to a Heaven-Tier Skill.

Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He came to Sea City No. 1 High School to find Xiao Fan, whom they suspected was the knowledgeable player they had met on the forum. As Xiao Fan headed to meet them, Principal Yu tried to buy his silence about the school’s role in his admission, but Xiao Fan refused and told him to speak to Jian Qingfeng instead.

• The principal announced that Jian Qingfeng would visit the school, interrupting Chen Xuewei and the other student’s level test.
• Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He reviewed evidence linking the forum account to Xiao Fan and went to Sea City No. 1 High School to meet him.
• Zhou He asked Principal Yu whether Xiao Fan was present, and the principal confirmed that he was.
• The students speculated about why Jian Qingfeng wanted Xiao Fan, while Li Li suggested that he might be in trouble.
• Principal Yu offered Xiao Fan a Mystic Rank Skill Chain to let the admission-letter matter go, but Xiao Fan called it worthless and told Yu to say his warnings to Jian Qingfeng.

Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng tracked down Xiao Fan after recognizing his forum posts and tried to recruit him to Zone 1. Xiao Fan refused to leave Zone 18 and revealed that he had led its Level 10 Trial Secret Realm first clear, leaving both men stunned.

• Principal Yu introduced Xiao Fan to Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng, who confirmed his identity as the forum user I Really Submit.
• Zhou He asked how Xiao Fan had analyzed the Boss mechanics and Glacier Secret Realm, and Xiao Fan said his insights came from playing games.
• Jian Qingfeng learned that Xiao Fan had reached level ten in less than two months, and Zhou He invited him to transfer to Zone 1.
• Xiao Fan firmly refused to leave Zone 18 and explained that its players could level normally because they had cleared the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm.
• Xiao Fan admitted that he had led the Trial Secret Realm's first clear, shocking Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng.

Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He how the Chen Family had forced his assignment to Zone 18, prompting them to investigate the interference. At the school event, the fat guy stunned the students by revealing he had reached Level 5 after transferring to Zone 18, just as Jian Qingfeng returned.

• Xiao Fan described how his group cleared the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm, and Jian Qingfeng asked why he had been assigned to Zone 18 despite his talent.
• Xiao Fan explained that he had ranked first in the city but was threatened by the Chen Family of Sea City when he tried to appeal his assignment.
• Jian Qingfeng smashed a table in anger, and Zhou He said the Chen Family must have someone behind it and promised to investigate.
• Shen Jiangyun resented Xiao Fan's success while the school event continued, and the students jeered when the fat guy represented Zone 18.
• The fat guy tested at Level 5, shocking the crowd; he mocked Zhang Chao and Zhang Yuanyuan, and someone announced that Jian Qingfeng had arrived.

Xiao Fan arrived at Sea City No. 1 High School with Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He, drawing attention from his cousins and classmates. Zhou He exposed Principal Yu’s role in staying silent when Xiao Fan’s grades were changed, then showed the school Xiao Fan had reached Level 10 before dismissing the principal and ending his teaching career.

• Xiao An and Xiao Le recognized Xiao Fan beside Jian Qingfeng, and Xiao An’s classmates apologized for doubting her cousin.
• Shen Jiangyun realized Xiao Fan seemed to be on good terms with Jian Qingfeng and reconsidered his plan to target him.
• Zhou He confronted Principal Yu for failing to defend Xiao Fan when his grades were changed, and Principal Yu admitted he had been wrong.
• Xiao Fan tested at Level 10, astonishing Principal Yu and the students watching.
• Zhou He removed Principal Yu as principal and barred him from teaching, then asked Xiao Fan whether he was satisfied with the outcome.

Xiao Fan exposed the school’s role in switching his exam scores, then left the school gathering with the Fatty after Li Li fled. Back home, he browsed the forums and found a popular poll featuring Yun Zhongyao, a level 70 healer affiliated with the Qin Family.

• Zhou He revealed that Principal Yu had allowed Xiao Fan’s exam scores to be switched, angering the students and vindicating Xiao An and Xiao Le.
• The Fatty told the students that Xiao Fan had already led a team through the Zone 18 Trial Secret Realm, while Zhang Chao and the others struggled to believe him.
• Chen Xuewei apologized to Xiao Fan as Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He left the school after the event ended.
• Xiao Fan and the Fatty tried to find Li Li, but he had fled the gathering and they could not catch him.
• Xiao Fan added Ye Bugu and Qin Muyu as contacts, then browsed the forums and noticed that popular poll leader Yun Zhongyao belonged to the Qin Family.

Xiao Fan used his administrator privileges to silence Yun Zhongyao’s supporters, then found a forum post claiming that players who stayed in Cloud Sea during the shutdown were erased from reality and from others’ memories. After discussing Chen Xuewei’s copied healing method and Shen Tao’s strength with Qin Muyu, Xiao Fan waited through the seven-day update and Cloud Sea finally came back online.

• Xiao Fan banned Yun Zhongyao’s supporters from posting in a forum discussion about Qin Muyu.
• Xiao Fan read a post from a player who remembered that his twin brother had stayed in Cloud Sea when it shut down, and he explained that the brother’s existence had been erased from reality.
• Xiao Fan told Qin Muyu that Chen Xuewei had learned his Blood Bar Healing method through Gift of the Saint, and he planned to have Zhou He spread it across the Dragon Nation.
• Qin Muyu warned Xiao Fan that Shen Tao was level seventy and had manifested his attributes and skills, so Xiao Fan should avoid confronting him until he grew stronger.
• Xiao Fan spent seven days learning about the game and the world beyond Novice Village while Cloud Sea updated, then the game came back online.

Seven days after the update, Xiao Fan returned to Cloud Sea and explored the new features, including skill-book creation and building construction. His attempt to create a control-breaking skill book failed review, leaving him determined to earn enough Core Power and materials to use the new systems.

• Xiao Fan read the update details, learning about the Trading House, skill books, guilds, resurrection, construction, and the removal of attribute-point purchases.
• Xiao Fan entered the game, greeted Fatty and the others, and chose to create a skill book without attribute or trait requirements.
• Xiao Fan wrote a detailed control-breaking skill book for Zhou He and paid 5,000 Core Power to submit it for review.
• Xiao Fan found the Trading House empty and saw that he did not meet the level requirement for Guild Gameplay.
• Xiao Fan designed a building but discovered that extracting it required 50,000 Core Power, wood, and stone, which he lacked.
• The system rejected Xiao Fan's skill book and declared the creation attempt a failure.

Xiao Fan repeatedly failed to create a skill book until studying one bought from the Trading House helped him understand the requirements. His next attempt succeeded, but extracting the book cost 100,000 Core Power, and its appearance in a burst of red light alarmed the residents of Zone 18.

• Xiao Fan failed ten attempts to create a skill book, spending 50,000 Core Power without success.
• Xiao Fan found a Yellow Rank skill book in the Trading House and bought it for 20,000 Core Power, only to recognize it as a common skill he had learned in high school.
• Xiao Fan studied the book, tried creating a skill again, and received a successful system review.
• Xiao Fan learned extraction cost 100,000 Core Power, borrowed 1,000 Core Power from Wind Snow Traveler, and paid to extract the book.
• Red light flared from Xiao Fan's hut, drawing the fat guy and Qin Muyu inside, where they found Xiao Fan holding a red skill book.

Xiao Fan created the Earth-Tier skill book Soul Suppressor, explored the new game mechanics, and earned a fortune selling wood. The chapter ended with Zhou He finally sending him a friend request.

• Xiao Fan learned that Soul Suppressor was an Earth-Tier skill book requiring a musical instrument weapon, and its creation left him 1,000 Core Power in debt.
• Xiao Fan found that the resurrection skill was unavailable and that the game interface gave him no way to learn how to create it.
• Xiao Fan planted Seven-Colored Flowers in the Southwest Forest and sold harvested wood, raising his Core Power to 50,000 as prices fell.
• Xiao Fan returned Wind Snow Traveler's axe and repaid the 1,000 Core Power, then promised to sell him skill books at a discount.
• Xiao Fan received a friend request from Zhou He.

Xiao Fan offered Zhou He an Earth-Tier Soul Suppressor skill book that could counter the Glacier Secret Realm’s freezing attacks, though it required a musical instrument as a weapon. Jian Qingfeng bought and learned the skill by replacing an old one, leaving the team better prepared for its next expedition.

• Zhou He thanked Xiao Fan for sharing a healing method and discussed the country’s plans to explore the Glacier Secret Realm again.
• Xiao Fan told Zhou He he had created an Earth-Tier control-removal skill book and explained that it required a musical instrument as a weapon.
• Zhou He offered two million Core Power for the skill book, and Xiao Fan agreed after disclosing its weapon requirement.
• Jian Qingfeng revealed that he owned a flute, so Zhou He arranged to buy the skill book for him.
• Jian Qingfeng learned Soul Suppressor by replacing one of his seldom-used skills.

Jian Qingfeng learned Xiao Fan’s Soul Suppressor skill and joined Zhou He’s team to test a new strategy in the Level 80 Glacier Secret Realm. Zhou He explained that the Ice Wolf’s attacks might inflict hidden Frozen Marks, leaving the team hopeful that they could finally prevent their members from freezing.

• Jian Qingfeng learned Soul Suppressor, which could cleanse control effects and reduce damage, though he and Zhou He did not yet know how it worked in practice.
• Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng led twenty players into the Glacier Secret Realm and chose the main road to fight the Ice Wolf instead of taking the dangerous side route.
• Zhou He told the team that a mysterious master had analyzed the Ice Wolf’s red health bars and freezing effects, persuading them to test the strategy.
• Da Fei and the other players recalled feeling increasingly cold during Ice Wolf fights and agreed that they might have been accumulating invisible Frozen Marks.
• Jian Qingfeng asked why the team had not reported the cold sensation earlier, and Da Fei asked whether the master had explained how to stop it.

Zhou He’s team tested Xiao Fan’s advice for avoiding the Ice Wolves’ freezing effect and advanced through increasingly large packs. When Da Fei was frozen during the final wave, Jian Qingfeng used Soul Suppressor, and the ice disappeared.

• Zhou He’s team fought the first two Ice Wolf waves, using the Doctors’ new Blood Bar Healing skills to keep the players in the fight.
• During the third wave, players warmed up off to the side and returned safely, confirming Xiao Fan’s advice worked.
• Jian Qingfeng used Clear Wind Sword Shadow to help the team fight the fourth and final wave of Ice Wolves.
• Da Fei kept attacking while marked by the freezing effect and became trapped in ice despite his companion’s warning.
• Jian Qingfeng activated Soul Suppressor with his Short Flute, and its red ripple swept over Da Fei and removed the ice.

Jian Qingfeng saved Da Fei from being frozen with a flute skill Xiao Fan had created, and Zhou He’s team found the Antidote Xiao Fan had predicted. Back in Zone 18, Xiao Fan helped fund a wall against the Beast Tide and began working on a healing skill book.

• Jian Qingfeng’s flute skill removed the ice trapping Da Fei and restored his strength, and Zhou He warned the team not to risk their safety for damage.
• Zhou He picked up an Antidote from the last Ice Wolf and confirmed it could remove Wolf Poison, matching Xiao Fan’s analysis of the Dungeon.
• Zhou He messaged Xiao Fan that the Dungeon matched his predictions, and Xiao Fan warned him that the Ice Wolf BOSS might also have a freezing skill.
• Wind Snow Traveler organized Zone 18 to build a wall around Novice Village, and Xiao Fan paid the 50,000 Core Power extraction fee.
• Xiao Fan began creating a healing skill book and searched for a way to make healing work with ordinary weapons.

Zhou He’s team defeated the Ice Wolf King by following Xiao Fan’s advice and using Jian Qingfeng’s flute skill to save players from the boss’s tornadoes. Back in Zone 18, Xiao Fan successfully created and extracted a Heaven-Tier skill book: Dispel Curse.

• Zhou He’s team used an Antidote to cure Da Fei when the Ice Wolf King poisoned him, then followed Xiao Fan’s advice to avoid freezing and watch for boss mechanics.
• When the Ice Wolf King summoned tornadoes at ten percent HP, Xiao Hei, Da Fei, and a Doctor were swept up and began losing health.
• Jian Qingfeng used Soul Suppressor to free the Doctor and reduce the damage the tornadoes dealt, allowing the Doctors to keep Xiao Hei and Da Fei alive.
• Zhou He’s team killed the Ice Wolf King without a casualty and credited Xiao Fan’s advice and Jian Qingfeng’s timely skill.
• Xiao Fan succeeded on his fifteenth attempt to create a skill book, spent one million Core Power to extract it, and obtained the Heaven-Tier skill Dispel Curse, which made all teammates untargetable and immune to damage for three seconds.

In the level 80 secret realm, Zhou He's party claimed extra lives and encountered Snow Lotus, the second BOSS. They learned to watch for her mechanics, but her aerial attack killed them before they could react.

• Jian Qingfeng took a Red Orb and gained an Extra Life, after which the party each claimed one and the Ice Tree vanished.
• The System announced that a hidden player had created a Heaven-Tier Skill Book, bringing the known total of Heaven-Tier Skills to eight.
• The party found Snow Lotus, a humanlike level 80 BOSS, and began fighting her in the plaza.
• At eighty percent HP, Snow Lotus spun and sent petals flying; the party survived the attack with damage reduction and healing.
• At fifty percent HP, Snow Lotus rose into the air and spread Black Lotuses that rooted Da Fei and drained his HP; Jian Qingfeng freed him with Soul Suppressor.
• Snow Lotus plunged toward the ground and sent out a shockwave, and a system notification told the party, “You have died.”

Xiao Fan analyzed the Snow Lotus’s instant-kill mechanic and concluded that players could avoid it by standing in the Black Lotuses. When Zhou He asked whether there was another option, Xiao Fan offered one for ten million Core Power.

• Xiao Fan discovered he could not duplicate the Heaven-Tier Dispel Curse skill book and considered selling it.
• Zhou He asked Xiao Fan to analyze the Snow Lotus after its mechanic killed the party, including level-99 Jian Qingfeng.
• Xiao Fan reasoned that the mechanic could be dodged and identified the Black Lotuses as the players’ shelter.
• Zhou He told Jian Qingfeng and the others Xiao Fan’s theory, but the group hesitated to risk their last life on it.
• At Jian Qingfeng’s suggestion, Zhou He asked Xiao Fan for another way, and Xiao Fan offered one for ten million Core Power.

Xiao Fan sold Zhou He the Heaven-Tier skill book Dispel Curse, which Zhou He learned to counter the Glacier Secret Realm Boss’s mechanics. Zhou He’s public acquisition strengthened the national forces, leaving rival factions like the Shen Sect frustrated.

• Xiao Fan offered Zhou He a Heaven-Tier skill book for ten million Core Power, and Zhou He asked Jian Qingfeng to lend him fifty million.
• Xiao Fan received Zhou He’s offer of one hundred million Core Power and prepared to list the skill book on the Trading House at 10:30.
• Zhou He bought the skill book, learned Dispel Curse, and allowed the system to announce his identity.
• Zhou He discovered Dispel Curse made him and his teammates immune to damage and control effects for three seconds, then faced questions from Jian Qingfeng and the team.
• The National Team celebrated Zhou He’s new Heaven-Tier skill, while Shen Long and other rival factions grew grim and Trading House watchers regretted missing the purchase.

Xiao Fan decided to remain in Zone 18 to hunt for Evolution Fragments, while Zhou He led the group into battle against Snow Lotus. The group survived the dungeon’s wipe mechanic with Zhou He’s Heaven-Tier Skill, but Snow Lotus transformed into Black Snow Flower, leaving them to face an unknown second phase.

• Xiao Fan admired Jiu Chen’s Core Power and decided to stay in Zone 18 until he could gather Evolution Fragments from Wild Bosses and dungeons.
• Zhou He told the dungeon group to save their attacks and take positions in Black Lotuses for Snow Lotus’s fifty-percent-health mechanic.
• When Snow Lotus rose into the air, Zhou He used Dispel Curse to cover the players with a Golden Talisman and prevent the attack from killing anyone.
• The group resumed attacking and saw Snow Lotus transform into the level-80 Boss Black Snow Flower.
• Zhou He ordered everyone to keep fighting and worried that Black Snow Flower’s second mechanic could be dangerous.

Zhou He's group brought the Black Boss to 0.1% health, triggering a final assault of rapidly appearing lotuses and snowflakes. Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng used their Heaven-Tier Skills to reach and kill the Boss, and Frozen Dwarf Tree appeared with forty Crimson Orbs.

• The Black Boss began flickering between her white and black forms at 0.1% health, then fused into a half-white, half-black figure and became untouchable.
• Lotuses and snowflakes repeatedly struck and froze the scattered players, leaving the party struggling to survive.
• Zhou He guessed that the attack would continue until the Boss died, and Jian Qingfeng agreed to use their Heaven-Tier Skills to reach her.
• Zhou He activated his skill, and Jian Qingfeng used his own to appear behind the Boss and kill her with seven sword slashes.
• The golden light made the players ethereal, protecting them from the ongoing attacks, and Frozen Dwarf Tree appeared with forty Crimson Orbs.