Recaps

Xiao Fan learned that the Novice Competition at the Myriad Phenomena Platform would take place next month and sought information about the Heart of Myriad Phenomena. He gathered Zone 18’s players to select contestants and left Blade Shadow explaining the competition to the newcomers.

• Xiao Fan agreed with Ye Changge to trade at the Myriad Phenomena Platform during next month’s competition.
• Qin Muyu told Xiao Fan that each zone could send ten players to the nine-floor tower, where contestants had 48 hours to climb as high as they could.
• Qin Muyu said nobody had reached beyond the fifth floor, and Xiao Fan guessed the Heart of Myriad Phenomena might be higher up.
• Xiao Fan and Qin Muyu gathered Zone 18’s players to choose contestants based on strength.
• Blade Shadow remembered the competition and began explaining it to Fatty and the other new players.

Xiao Fan settled Zone 18’s roster for the Myriad Phenomena Platform competition, accepting that only seven people would participate after the others refused. He leveled up to 19 to prepare for the contest and contacted Jian Qingfeng about another matter.

• The fat man and the four members of Garfield Without Fat agreed to compete, while Mom Is Not Home and the other newcomers asked to sit out.
• Blade Shadow warned Xiao Fan that contestants could die in the Myriad Phenomena Tower, and Xiao Fan decided the seven willing competitors would go without forcing anyone else.
• Xiao Fan offered Earth-Tier Skill books at cost, prompting the fat man and the others to head out hunting for funds.
• Xiao Fan bought Core Power to reach level 19 and kept 45 Free Attribute Points unassigned for the competition.
• Jian Qingfeng replied to Xiao Fan and asked whether the Heaven-Tier Skill book was ready, before Xiao Fan explained he had contacted him about something else.

Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng that Cloud Sea unlocked content through player achievements and suggested how to find Evolution Fragments, hoping to help Jian reach level 100 and advance his own tasks. Jian learned he needed to complete ten tasks to keep leveling, but he was still stuck on his first one.

• Xiao Fan asked Jian Qingfeng about reaching level 100, and Jian said he lacked two Heaven-Tier Skill books before joking that he could reach the level any time.
• Xiao Fan proposed that Cloud Sea unlocked new content after server achievements, and Jian recognized that past changes had followed major player accomplishments.
• Jian thanked Xiao Fan and explained that players could no longer use Core Power to buy experience after level 99.
• Jian told Xiao Fan that ten tasks were required to qualify for further leveling and that his first task was to fuse an Evolution Fragment.
• Xiao Fan advised Jian that Evolution Fragments could drop from unusual Bosses and secret realms, and Jian asked about his remaining tasks.

Xiao Fan and Blade Shadow entered the secret realm called Cyberpunk City, only to find themselves in an endless desert. A warning identified Xiao Fan as a Complete Human and ordered the Cleaners to eliminate him, leaving the group preparing for a fight.

• Xiao Fan asked Jian Qingfeng about the Sands of Time and the Heart of Myriad Phenomena, but Jian Qingfeng had never heard of them.
• Xiao Fan continued preparing to climb the Myriad Phenomena Tower and planned to explore the uncharted areas of Zone 18.
• Blade Shadow told Xiao Fan that the group had found a new secret realm, and Xiao Fan hurried to its location.
• Xiao Fan discovered that the secret realm Cyberpunk City had no level requirement and led the group inside.
• Xiao Fan and his teammates arrived in an endless desert, where a warning labeled Xiao Fan a Complete Human and ordered the Cleaners to eliminate him.

Xiao Fan and his team fought eight Cleaner Robots whose armor resisted ordinary weapons, then discovered that attacking their systems could disable them. After the robots self-destructed, another group emerged from underground.

• Xiao Fan warned the team that monsters were moving beneath the ground, and eight level 15 Cleaner Robots burst out of the sand.
• Blade Shadow struck a Cleaner Robot with his broadsword but dealt only one damage, while the robots scanned the group and began a Cleaning Mission.
• Xiao Fan ordered everyone to run as the robots attacked with lightning and grappling claws, then transformed their legs into wheels and chased them.
• Xiao Fan used Moon-Like Rotation to attack three robots and disrupt their systems, causing all eight Cleaner Robots to freeze and self-destruct.
• Xiao Fan healed the player caught in the blast and concluded that attacking the robots' systems was the way to defeat them.
• Another group of Cleaner Robots emerged from underground and announced that they would eliminate the humans.

Xiao Fan and the other players faced the Mechanical Overlord, a Level 15 boss immune to physical damage, and fled toward a crater after a girl in a yellow hat called them over. Xiao Fan jumped into the crater and discovered another person waiting below.

• After Xiao Fan cleared the eighth wave of robots, the Mechanical Overlord erupted from the ground and identified the group as targets.
• The Overlord scanned the players and attacked with lasers, while Xiao Fan shielded the group and found that the boss was immune to the Archer's physical attack.
• Xiao Fan damaged the Overlord with Sun and Moon Rotation, but he and Blade Shadow realized they could not leave combat or defeat the boss easily.
• A girl in a yellow hat called the players to the crater, warning that they could not beat the Overlord and that the yellow sand would close.
• As the Overlord opened gun barrels in its chest and fired, Xiao Fan led the others toward the crater and jumped inside, where he saw another person.

Xiao Fan and his teammates escaped the Mechanical Overlord with help from Shasha and Dingding, then followed them through underground tunnels toward a Safe Zone. Xiao Fan posed as a time traveler from the future, while Shasha explained that the AI mastermind Yuan Yi hunted Complete Humans.

• Shasha and Dingding opened a passage beneath the group, and Xiao Fan led his teammates inside as the Mechanical Overlord pursued them.
• In the underground railway tunnels, Xiao Fan introduced himself and his teammates as Space-Time Travelers from five hundred years in the future.
• Shasha and Dingding led the group toward a Safe Zone and warned them not to take a train because Yuan Yi could track them and send Captors after them.
• Shasha explained that Yuan Yi was an Artificial Intelligence Mastermind whose influence covered half the planet and who sought to wipe out Complete Humans.
• Xiao Fan and the others learned that the tunnels offered no sure safety from Yuan Yi, though they made escape easier than traveling by train.

Xiao Fan and his companions entered Yuan Yi’s Underground City disguised in Smart Soft Armor after learning they could not leave the secret realm without finding three Sands of Time or clearing it. They rode an elevator to Floor -200, where five Patrol Guards suddenly turned back to look at them.

• Shasha and Dingding gave Xiao Fan and the others silver suits and helmets to conceal them from Yuan Yi as they crossed its Underground City.
• Brave Ox Ox revealed that the players could not leave the secret realm until they found three Sands of Time or cleared it, and Xiao Fan decided to continue.
• Xiao Fan told the group to change, and Shasha silently realized they were also seeking the Sands of Space-Time.
• Shasha gave the players a Weapon Album to store their weapons, then warned them not to speak because Yuan Yi could detect them.
• Shasha led the group into an elevator descending to Floor -200, where five Patrol Guards boarded and later stepped out.
• As the group stayed inside the elevator, the five Patrol Guards turned around and looked back at them.

Xiao Fan and his companions followed Shasha through the Underground City and escaped into the Safe Zone after Dingding drew the patrol units away. They reached Dr. Ai’s shabby laboratory, where a checkpoint identified them as Complete Humans.

• Shasha led Xiao Fan and the others through the Underground City, using her device to open a concealed door and guiding them past patrol scans.
• When Yuan Yi detected a Complete Human and ordered the patrol units to attack, Dingding lured them away so the group could reach the city gate.
• Blade Shadow’s concern about Dingding alerted Yuan Yi, who began closing the gate; Shasha and Xiao Fan fought through the patrol units, and the group escaped before it shut.
• Shasha reassured Xiao Fan that Dingding would be fine and led the group beneath a cliff, explaining that the area below lay beyond Yuan Yi’s perception.
• Xiao Fan saw the harsh conditions and few inhabitants in the Safe Zone as Shasha brought them to Dr. Ai’s dilapidated laboratory.
• At the laboratory entrance, a checkpoint detected no God Demon Stone and identified Xiao Fan as a Complete Human.

Xiao Fan learned how the war between humanity, Yuan Yi's robots, and God Demon Humans had ruined the world, then overheard Shasha and Dr. Ai discussing the Sands of Time and their plans for the visitors. He confronted Dr. Ai by asking where to find the Sands of Time, still unsure what Shasha and Dr. Ai were.

• Xiao Fan read Dr. Ai's history books and learned that Yuan Yi had rebelled against humanity and that God Demon Stones had enabled humans to fight back at the cost of their emotions.
• Xiao Fan discovered that robots, God Demon Humans, and Complete Humans now struggled to survive in a ruined, sand-covered world.
• Xiao Fan realized that God Demon Stones embedded in weapons could help defeat the Mechanical Overlord and went downstairs to ask Dr. Ai for one.
• Xiao Fan overheard Shasha tell Dr. Ai that they should use the visitors to find the Sands of Time, then take the Sands from them.
• Dr. Ai called Xiao Fan and his companions pure-blooded humans, leaving Xiao Fan to question what Shasha and Dr. Ai were.
• Xiao Fan went downstairs and asked Dr. Ai where they could find the Sands of Time needed to return to their own space-time.

Xiao Fan learned that he needed Sands of Space-Time from three creatures with time energy, then traveled with his group to God Demon City to confront the God Demon Guardian. The fight began outside the city gate, while Shasha went to steal God Demon Stones.

• Dr. Ai told Xiao Fan that defeating creatures with time energy could yield Sands of Space-Time and identified the Mechanical Overlord and the God Demon Guardian as two of them.
• Xiao Fan agreed to go to God Demon City, and Dr. Ai arranged for Shasha to guide the group there.
• Shasha explained that the group should draw the God Demon Guardian away from the gate, then split off to steal God Demon Stones while Xiao Fan and the others attacked.
• Xiao Fan's group found the level 15 God Demon Guardian outside the city and drew him toward them with a ranged attack.
• Blade Shadow used Piercing Leap Strike on the charging Guardian, and the group joined the fight.

Xiao Fan and his team killed the God Demon Guardian and obtained the Sands of Time, but the Guardian summoned level-50 God Demon Soldiers. Xiao Fan and Shasha escaped through the portal just before the soldiers arrived, while the soldiers discovered they could not follow anyone with a socketed God Demon Stone.

• Xiao Fan noticed the God Demon Guardian fire a flare and urged everyone to use their burst damage, and the team killed the Boss and obtained the Sands of Time.
• The God Demon City alarm sounded, and level-50 God Demon Soldiers rushed toward Xiao Fan and his team.
• Xiao Fan waited for Shasha while Blade Shadow and the others urged him to leave, then told them to enter the portal when Shasha returned.
• Xiao Fan slowed two pursuing God Demon Soldiers with Sun and Moon Rotation, and he pulled Shasha through the portal just before they caught up.
• The God Demon Soldiers discovered that players with socketed God Demon Stones could not pass through the portal and ordered their men to guard it.
• On the other side, Xiao Fan reflected that the instance seemed like a real world, and someone asked whether he had obtained the Sands of Time.

Xiao Fan and the others embedded God Demon Stones in their weapons, then defeated the Mechanical Overlord and claimed the Sands of Space-Time. They escaped the Dominator through the pipes, while Xiao Fan suspected Shasha’s Replica was about to turn evil.

• Shasha showed the God Demon Stones to the group and explained how to embed them in weapons.
• Blade Shadow embedded a stone in his sword, and the others followed before setting out to fight the Mechanical Overlord.
• Shasha led Xiao Fan and the others through the pipes to the surface, where they defeated the Cleaning Robots with their enhanced weapons.
• Xiao Fan directed the team’s attack on the Mechanical Overlord, and they defeated it and took the Sands of Space-Time.
• Yuan Yi summoned the Dominator, so Xiao Fan and the others fled through the pipes with Shasha and escaped the Underground City.
• Xiao Fan noticed a glint in Shasha’s eyes and wondered whether her Replica was about to turn evil.

Xiao Fan and his team cleared Cyberpunk City Part One, learning that Dr. Ai and the other Replicas had lived to restore the world with the Sands of Time. After Dr. Ai died and Xiao Fan collected his Sand, the team was ejected from the Secret Realm and found its entrance gone, leaving Cyberpunk City Part Two for a later time.

• Xiao Fan asked Dr. Ai who held the third source of time energy, and Dr. Ai explained that the Replicas had been created to gather the Sands of Time and restore the world.
• Dr. Ai admitted he feared dying after the next clone failed, but said he would not fight Xiao Fan for the Sands because their arrival proved the Replicas had won in the future.
• Dr. Ai died while longing to see the planet as it had been three hundred years earlier, and Xiao Fan picked up the Sand of Space-Time he left behind.
• The system announced that Xiao Fan's team had cleared Cyberpunk City Part One and awarded them Core Power, three Sands of Time, and Evolution Fragments.
• Xiao Fan checked the resurrection quest and saw that he needed to clear one more Secret Realm that dropped Evolution Fragments.
• Blade Shadow and the others discovered the Secret Realm entrance had vanished, and Xiao Fan suggested they might need to reach level 50 to find Part Two before leading the team back to the village.

Xiao Fan completed another resurrection quest requirement and prepared to enter the Myriad Phenomena Platform competition, where he hoped to obtain the Heart of Myriad Phenomena. At the platform, he recognized Taichu as someone whose appearance he had once copied, then approached him to make their trade.

• Xiao Fan submitted three Sands of Time to complete Quest Five and discovered that his God Demon Stone was only a limited-energy replica.
• Over the following month, Xiao Fan raised his mana above fifty thousand and traded Jian Qingfeng a Heaven-Tier Skill book for two hundred million Core Power.
• Xiao Fan joined Zone 18’s players as the Myriad Phenomena Platform opened, and they entered the map and went to their assigned seats.
• Xiao Fan recognized Taichu as the young man whose appearance he had copied before and remembered that Taichu was Qin Muyu’s hated acquaintance, Qin Changge.
• Xiao Fan approached Taichu, who mistook him for someone else, and confirmed that he was Jiu Chen.

Xiao Fan traded a Heaven-Tier Skill Book to Taichu for the Phoenix Soul Stone and completed Quest Four. After returning to the Myriad Phenomena Tower gathering, Xiao Fan and the Zone 18 contestants faced mockery from Shen Tengfei and Shen Jiangyun.

• Taichu questioned whether Xiao Fan came from Zone 18, then led him aside to make their exchange.
• Xiao Fan traded Taichu the Heaven-Tier Skill Book for the Phoenix Soul Stone, which he submitted to complete Quest Four.
• Taichu praised Xiao Fan and tried to befriend him after seeing the skill book's rank.
• Xiao Fan rejoined the Zone 18 group at the crowded Myriad Phenomena Tower gathering, where Fatty asked about Taichu.
• Shen Tengfei's group mocked Zone 18, and Qin Muyu identified Shen Tengfei while Xiao Fan noticed Chen Xuewei and Shen Jiangyun with him.
• Blade Shadow challenged Shen Tengfei, but Shen Jiangyun insulted Zone 18 and suggested they give their competition slots to Zone 1.

Xiao Fan confronted Shen Jiangyun and Shen Tengfei at the Myriad Phenomena Platform gathering, while the Shen family revealed it had used the Trading House to boost its contestants with Core Power. Shen Tengfei taunted Qin Muyu and Ye Changge, but Xiao Fan stepped forward and offered him three punches instead of kowtowing.

• Xiao Fan tricked Shen Jiangyun into insulting himself, then mocked him for being a level-six player as Chen Xuewei watched silently.
• Shen Tengfei confronted Xiao Fan and derided his rapid leveling, while the crowd instead marveled at Xiao Fan reaching level ten in a month.
• Qin Muyu and Taichu defended Xiao Fan, and Shen Tengfei claimed Zone 1's contestants had reached level fifteen by obtaining Core Power through the Trading House.
• Xiao Fan realized powerful families could buy skill books through the Trading House to funnel Core Power to novice players, but remained confident in his skills.
• Shen Tengfei mocked Qin Muyu and Ye Changge and offered them a place in the top five if they kowtowed, prompting Xiao Fan to offer him three punches.

Xiao Fan restrained himself after Qin Muyu and Blade Shadow warned him that fighting on the Myriad Phenomena Platform could disqualify Zone 18, while Shen Tengfei left vowing to eliminate their competitors in the tower. At the competition briefing, Qin Muyu clashed with Qin Mumu, and referee Xu Shengguo asked why Zone 18 had only seven competitors.

• Qin Muyu and Blade Shadow stopped Xiao Fan from fighting Shen Tengfei, explaining that a brawl could cost Zone 18 its competition eligibility.
• Shen Tengfei abandoned his provocation and left, planning to use his allies from Zone 1 to kill Zone 18’s competitors in the Myriad Phenomena Tower.
• Blade Shadow warned Zone 18’s team about Shen Tengfei, and Zai Zai and the others worried that Zone 1’s Level 15 players had an advantage over their seven Level 10 competitors.
• Xu Shengguo arrived and explained the tower competition’s four scoring categories, including floors reached, creatures and bosses killed, and secret realms cleared.
• Qin Mumu taunted Qin Muyu about Zone 18’s small team, and Qin Muyu rejected her claims of sisterly concern.
• Xu Shengguo silenced the argument and asked Jiu Chen why Zone 18 had only seven competitors.

Xiao Fan and the other contestants entered the Myriad Phenomena Tower, where a newly added faction system let players choose rules for attacking and scoring. After assembling Zone 18 into a team, Xiao Fan checked the tower’s five rankings.

• Xu Shengguo warned Xiao Fan that Zone 18’s small roster put them at a scoring disadvantage, but Xiao Fan said they would manage with seven contestants.
• The Myriad Phenomena Tower opened, and Xiao Fan entered alone before choosing the Evil Faction to prepare for Zone 1’s planned attacks.
• Xiao Fan found the other contestants in a misty mountain hollow and learned that the player numbers above their heads showed their factions.
• The seven Zone 18 contestants had chosen Evil, Neutral, and Good factions among them, and Xiao Fan formed a team whose members’ numbers turned green.
• Xiao Fan opened the competition rankings and saw categories for overall score, tower floors, beasts, bosses, and secret realm clears.

Xiao Fan’s group learned that maps could speed their progress through the Myriad Phenomena Tower, and Tai Chu offered his maps in exchange for joining them. Xiao Fan accepted Tai Chu into the team as they prepared to advance beyond the first floor.

• Shen Beijun and Shen Jiangyun planned to target players from Zone 18 on higher floors, while Qin Mumu suggested using Fierce Beasts to kill them instead.
• System announcements reported that Player No. 161 had slain a Level 2 Fierce Beast and Player No. 11 had reached the second floor.
• Xiao Fan and Qin Muyu decided to find the entrance to the second floor, then aim for the third floor and its secret realm.
• Qin Muyu explained that the great families had maps of the first four floors, but she had left before receiving her family’s map.
• Tai Chu offered to share his maps of the first four floors if Xiao Fan let him join the team.
• Xiao Fan accepted Tai Chu’s request and welcomed him into the team.

Xiao Fan and his team climbed to the stormy third floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower and headed for its secret realm. Shen Beijun’s team learned that Player No. 161 had already cleared it with players from Zone 18, and they hurried to catch up.

• Taichu led Xiao Fan’s team through the hidden stairways to the third floor, where thunderstorms drenched them.
• Taichu used his map to guide Xiao Fan’s team toward the third-floor secret realm.
• Shen Beijun’s team reached the third floor and discussed resting before attempting its secret realm.
• Player No. 007 checked the leaderboard after the group worried that Zone 18 might not have reached the floor.
• The announcement revealed that Player No. 161 had cleared a Level 5 Secret Realm and taken the overall lead.
• Shen Beijun’s team saw that Players No. 171 and No. 172 had also earned 100 points, realized Zone 18 had joined Ye Changge’s team, and set off for the secret realm.

Xiao Fan and the Zone 18 team swiftly cleared the third-floor Secret Realm and reached the fourth floor, leaving Ye Changge astonished by their strength. Shen Beijun’s group learned they had fallen far behind and hurried to catch up, while the tower platform showed only eight players on the fourth floor.

• Ye Changge realized that Fatty and the other Zone 18 players used Earth-Tier Skills and fought with strong teamwork, while Xiao Fan’s healing and strategy had made the Secret Realm easy.
• Xiao Fan led the group toward the fourth floor, using Gift of the Saint to protect them from the rain as they traveled.
• Shen Beijun’s group struggled through the rain toward the Secret Realm entrance, and Shen Jiangyun blamed their delay for letting Zone 18 get ahead.
• The rankings announced that Player No. 171 had reached the fourth floor and ranked first there, while Player No. 161 led the overall ranking with 117 points.
• Shen Beijun saw that Zone 18 dominated the rankings and ordered his group to hurry up and clear the Secret Realm.
• The Myriad Phenomena Platform showed ten white figures on the third floor and eight on the fourth.

Xiao Fan led his group rapidly through the Myriad Phenomena Tower, reaching the fifth floor before anyone could explain their progress. After finding the fifth-floor stairs, the group considered whether to earn points there or continue upward.

• Xu Shengguo and the contestants on the Myriad Phenomena Platform saw eight players reach the fourth floor unusually quickly and speculated about their identities.
• The eight figures vanished from the fourth floor and appeared on the fifth, shocking Xu Shengguo and the platform’s spectators.
• On the fourth floor, Ye Changge urged Xiao Fan’s group to earn points while searching for the next entrance, but Xiao Fan insisted they go straight to the fifth floor.
• Xiao Fan led the group through the fourth floor and found the stairs to the fifth floor, explaining that the tower’s stairs followed a spiral pattern and gave off detectable energy.
• The group reached the fifth floor, and the Fatty asked whether they should farm points there or search for the sixth-floor stairs.

Xiao Fan’s team rested on the fifth floor, then farmed Points while Zone 1 discovered how far behind they had fallen. After defeating a boss, Xiao Fan decided the group should gather its hide for protection before heading onward.

• Xiao Fan rested with his team on the fifth floor and saw that Zone 1’s players were missing from the rankings until they cleared the third-floor Secret Realm.
• Shen Beijun learned that Zone 18 had already reached the fifth floor and ordered his exhausted team to keep going rather than rest.
• Ye Changge grew attached to fighting alongside Xiao Fan’s team, even as he remained intent on obtaining the Heaven-Tier Skill.
• Xiao Fan’s team defeated the Sand Crocodile and earned 640 Points each, widening their lead over Player No. 001.
• Xiao Fan noticed that the Sand Crocodile’s corpse remained and told the team to skin it so its hide could protect them from extreme weather.

Shen Beijun's group struggled to keep pace with Zone 18 and blamed their rivals' rapid progress on Jian Qingfeng giving them a map. Just as Shen Beijun allowed his exhausted team to rest, announcements revealed that players had reached the sixth floor and Ye Changge had taken the overall lead, leaving Shen Beijun so furious that he fainted.

• Shen Beijun refused Qin Mumu's request to rest and berated the group over Zone 18's enormous lead in points.
• Shen Jiangyun guessed that Jian Qingfeng had shown Xiao Fan's group the fifth-floor entrance, and Shen Beijun decided they could kill Zone 18's players later to reset their scores.
• Shen Beijun said they would wait for the Military on the fourth floor if they could not find the entrance, then finally allowed the group to rest for the night.
• Announcements revealed that Player No. 171 had reached the sixth floor and that Player No. 161 led the overall rankings with 1,763 points.
• Yu Wanru suggested giving up, and Shen Beijun roared in protest before fainting from rage.