Recaps

Eight contestants reached the sixth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower, shocking the spectators as Zone 1 claimed the feat for itself. Xiao Fan’s group faced the sixth floor’s dangers and planned to clear its secret realm before deciding whether to climb higher.

• Xu Shengguo saw eight contestants appear on the sixth floor, while spectators and Zone 1 players assumed they belonged to Zone 1.
• Shen Tengfei believed his team had left two members behind to complete a mission against Zone 18 and expected Zone 1 to secure the competition’s rewards.
• Zone 18’s spectators worried about their team’s results, while Blade Shadow privately suspected that Jiu Chen and the others were among the contestants on the sixth floor.
• Xiao Fan’s group used the animal hides prepared on the fifth floor to endure the sixth floor’s extreme cold.
• The group killed a Level 12 Ice Prison Rending Bear near the exit, and Xiao Fan proposed clearing the sixth-floor secret realm before hunting more beasts.

Xiao Fan and his companions searched the sixth floor for a secret realm and entered a Special Secret Realm called Heaven and Earth Myriad Phenomena. Faced with nine narrow paths and only eight team members, Xiao Fan warned that traveling together would be even more dangerous.

• Xiao Fan and Qin Muyu realized the sixth-floor Fierce Beasts had no fixed territories, making the whole floor their hunting ground.
• The group searched for a secret realm all day, killed two Bosses, and found an entrance after nightfall.
• The entrance offered an Ordinary Secret Realm or a Special Secret Realm, and Xiao Fan chose the special option, hoping to find the Heart of Myriad Phenomena.
• The eight companions arrived on a compass-shaped stone platform surrounded by nine paths above a bottomless abyss.
• The Fatty and Garfield Without Fat argued against splitting up, but Xiao Fan said traveling together could leave them unable to escape a trap.

Xiao Fan split the group across eight elemental paths, then used Thousand-Faced One to send a Ye Changge clone down the unassigned lightning path. On the fourth floor, Shen Beijun woke to find Ye Changge far ahead in Points and decided to go farm.

• Xiao Fan assigned Fatty and the others to eight of the nine elemental paths, while Qin Muyu suspected he had a hidden plan.
• After the group entered their paths, Xiao Fan used Thousand-Faced One to create a near-perfect Ye Changge clone.
• Xiao Fan sent the clone down the lightning path and controlled it alongside himself on the light path.
• Shen Beijun woke in a cave on the fourth floor and saw that Ye Changge had nearly 5,000 Points.
• Player No. 007 explained that Sister Wanru had taken the others out to farm Points while Shen Beijun was unconscious.
• Shen Beijun said he and the two players guarding him would go farm too.

The contestants saw Ye Changge and Xiao Fan dominate the Myriad Phenomena Tower rankings while the Military headed toward the fourth floor. Inside the special secret realm, Xiao Fan and the others collected elemental stones and placed them into the ground’s grooves, triggering a burst of multicolored light.

• Contestants were stunned to see Ye Changge and Xiao Fan leading all five Leaderboards with nearly 5,000 Points.
• The Military regrouped on the third floor and set out for the fourth floor to search for the entrance to the fifth.
• Xiao Fan completed multiple elemental trials and collected stones, while Qin Muyu warned that the group might need all nine stones.
• Qin Muyu mistook Xiao Fan’s Ye Changge clone for the real Ye Changge until Xiao Fan dismissed the skill.
• Ye Changge and the others arrived with their stones, and Xiao Fan reminded them of the order for placing them.
• All eight contestants placed their stones into the grooves, filling the space with multicolored light.

Xiao Fan and the others fought the Level 10 Chaos Elemental Envoy and discovered they had to use the colored beams to counter its changing elements. After they completed the Boss's mechanics and defeated it, the chapter ended.

• The Chaos Elemental Envoy appeared, and Xiao Fan told Fatty to draw its attacks while he healed the party.
• Xiao Fan realized the Boss's changing elements altered how much damage everyone dealt and took.
• When the Boss became immune to attacks, Xiao Fan ordered Fatty to lead it to the green beam, allowing the party to damage it again.
• A vine trapped Swift as Wind, and Qin Muyu and Ye Changge destroyed it so he could rejoin the fight.
• Xiao Fan directed Fatty to move the Boss to the correct beam as its form changed, and the party completed the mechanics and defeated it.

After clearing the Heaven and Earth Myriad Phenomena Secret Realm, Xiao Fan discovered that its Myriad Phenomena Token could unlock the Myriad Phenomena Tower's hidden tenth floor and lead to the Heart of Myriad Phenomena. On the fourth day in the tower, he planned to climb toward the ninth floor, but Qin Muyu and the others decided they would go with him in case the ultimate challenge required a team.

• Xiao Fan and his team cleared the level 10 Secret Realm, earning Core Power, an Elemental Evolution Fragment, and a Myriad Phenomena Token.
• Xiao Fan explained how the nine elements countered each other and how the team used the corresponding beams to fight the Chaos Elemental Envoy.
• Zai Zai checked the token and learned it could unlock the Myriad Phenomena Tower's hidden tenth-floor challenge, which rewarded the Heart of Myriad Phenomena.
• Xiao Fan realized the token gave him a lead on the Heart of Myriad Phenomena and decided he needed to climb higher before the tower closed.
• On the fourth day, Xiao Fan told the team he intended to reach the ninth floor, but Qin Muyu and the others proposed going with him in case the tenth-floor challenge required a team.

Shen Beijun’s exhausted group hoped to follow the Military District to the fifth floor and catch up with Zone 18, but leaderboard notices revealed that Player No. 161 had already reached the seventh floor and taken first place. The chapter ends with the group losing hope.

• Shen Beijun learned from the Leaderboard that the Military District had reached the fourth floor and planned to follow them toward the fifth.
• Shen Beijun argued that the entrance above the fifth floor must be easy to find, giving his group hope that they could catch up with Zone 18.
• Shen Beijun told the group to rest in a cave while they waited for the Military District.
• Player No. 161 cleared the Level 10 Special Secret Realm, reached the seventh floor, and claimed first place on the Overall Ranking.
• The group saw Player No. 161’s results, and their spirits sank into despair.

Xiao Fan led his group to the fog-shrouded seventh floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower, but sent the others back when the lack of visibility made the floor too dangerous. Determined to obtain the Heart of Myriad Phenomena and pursue the Resurrection Art quest, he continued alone, while observers on the Myriad Phenomena Platform realized the eight contestants had reached the seventh floor.

• Xiao Fan gathered his companions in the dense fog and warned that they should return to the sixth floor because they could not see the Fierce Beasts or find their way safely.
• Ye Changge, Qin Muyu, and the others urged Xiao Fan to retreat, but he insisted he needed to reach the ninth floor to obtain the Heart of Myriad Phenomena.
• Xiao Fan sent the others back to the sixth floor and walked onward alone, closing his eyes so he could sense danger around him.
• Xu Shengguo and his adjutant watched the eight silhouettes disappear from the sixth floor and realized the contestants had reached the seventh floor.
• Xu Shengguo was astonished that the contestants had surpassed the previous record by two floors in only four days.

Spectators debated whether the lone figure on the seventh floor was Ye Changge or Xiao Fan while seven figures descended to the sixth floor, and Zone 18 hoped they belonged to its team. On the fourth floor, Shen Beijun kept Zone 1 hunting despite their exhaustion as the Military District’s twenty-three contestants approached, and Shen Jiangyun waited for instructions.

• Eight white figures appeared on the seventh floor, then seven reappeared on the sixth while one remained above.
• Xu Shengguo and Zhou He speculated that the group was from Zone 18 and that the lone figure was Xiao Fan or Ye Changge.
• Players in Zone 18 hoped the seven on the sixth floor were their contestants, while Shen Tengfei worried that the group might not be from Zone 1.
• Shen Beijun canceled Zone 1’s rest after Ye Changge and the others reached the seventh floor, leaving the contestants to keep hunting Fierce Beasts.
• The Military District’s twenty-three contestants approached Zone 1’s Beast Zone, and Shen Jiangyun asked Shen Beijun what to do.
• Shen Beijun told Shen Jiangyun and the others to watch the Military District and follow if they made a move.

Lost in the fog on the seventh floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower, Xiao Fan heard Zijin and Red Hair fighting over Silver Moon Grass and realized he had entered a game story. Zijin carried him away from Red Hair, who transformed into a giant bird and pursued them.

• Xiao Fan spent nearly twelve hours searching the seventh floor but couldn't find the entrance to the eighth floor or retrace his route.
• Xiao Fan heard Zijin and Red Hair arguing and fighting over Silver Moon Grass, though the Tower Floor Ranking showed no other players on the floor.
• Xiao Fan realized he was trapped in a game story when the fight's sounds followed him wherever he went.
• Zijin ran toward Xiao Fan, warned him to flee from Red Hair, then swept him up in her golden wings and ran when he couldn't escape.
• Red Hair offered Zijin the Silver Moon Grass in exchange for Xiao Fan, then transformed into a giant dark red bird and chased them.

Xiao Fan discovered that Zijin and Red Hair were level 100 creatures while trying to escape their fight. As Red Hair closed in, Xiao Fan took out an Evolution Fragment that might help Zijin.

• Zijin fought Red Hair to protect Xiao Fan, but she was badly wounded and losing.
• Xiao Fan healed Zijin and learned that she was a level 100 Purple Cloud Spirit Sparrow, while Red Hair was a level 100 Crimson Flame Fierce Bird.
• Zijin flew away with Xiao Fan, but Red Hair pursued them and steadily caught up.
• Xiao Fan considered using an Evolution Fragment on Zijin and took it from his belongings.
• Zijin sensed the fragment and exclaimed that Xiao Fan had an Evolution Fragment.

Xiao Fan gave Zijin a Special Evolution Fragment, allowing her to recover, grow stronger, and gain lightning powers while fleeing from Red Hair. Zijin turned the chase around and began fighting Red Hair, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Zijin told Xiao Fan that an Evolution Fragment could restore her strength, and he placed his fragment on her back so she could absorb it in flight.
• As Zijin absorbed the fragment, her wounds healed, her aura strengthened, and her flight grew faster, making Red Hair realize she had used an Evolution Fragment.
• Red Hair tried to flee, but Zijin struck him with purple lightning and revealed that the fragment had given her lightning powers.
• Red Hair figured out Xiao Fan had supplied the fragment and begged Zijin to spare him, but she refused and attacked.
• Zijin dodged Red Hair's claw strikes and hit him with more lightning, enjoying her advantage in their fight.

Zijin defeated Red Hair after dodging its Flame Storm, then joined Xiao Fan as he investigated the seventh floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower. When Xiao Fan learned she knew where the staircase to the next floor was, Zijin agreed to take him there.

• Red Hair unleashed its Flame Storm, but Zijin used her wings to dodge it while carrying Xiao Fan.
• After the storm faded, Zijin killed the weakened Red Hair with lightning and swallowed something from its corpse.
• Zijin introduced herself to Xiao Fan, but game restrictions made parts of her speech and background unintelligible to him.
• Zijin told Xiao Fan that she and Red Hair had eaten nearly all the low-level Fierce Beasts on the seventh floor.
• Xiao Fan asked about a staircase to another floor, and Zijin said she knew where it was and carried him toward it.

Shen Beijun’s group learned that the Military District had found the entrance to the fifth floor and set out to reach it before them, hoping to pursue Zone 18. Their plans faltered when they heard Player No. 171 had already reached the eighth floor, though they took comfort in believing he had gone alone and might die there.

• Player No. 008 reported that a seven-person Military District squad had found the entrance to the fifth floor, confirming Shen Beijun’s suspicion that they had a map.
• Shen Beijun ordered Xiao Peng to lead the group toward the fifth-floor entrance so they could reach the seventh floor before the Military District squad and target Zone 18.
• The Tower announced that Player No. 171 had reached the eighth floor and taken first place in both the Tower Floor and Overall rankings, shocking Shen Beijun’s group.
• Player No. 008 checked the rankings and reported that only Player No. 171 had gone to the eighth floor while the other Zone 18 players remained on the seventh.
• Shen Jiangyun and Shen Beijun took comfort in the idea that Player No. 171 had split from his group and might be killed, but Chen Xuewei suddenly spoke.

Chen Xuewei persuaded Shen Beijun’s group to search for the upper-floor entrances and led them to the entrance to the fifth floor. Meanwhile, Xiao Fan reached the eighth floor and surged ahead in the rankings while Ye Changge’s group settled into a cave on the sixth floor.

• Chen Xuewei reasoned that Xiao Fan had found a way to locate upper-floor entrances and urged Shen Beijun’s group to find the Zone 18 players and learn their method.
• Shen Beijun’s group found the glowing entrance to the fifth floor beneath a river and prepared to go up.
• Ye Changge and Qin Muyu’s group found a cave on the sixth floor and decided to rest before hunting Fierce Beasts.
• The system announced that Xiao Fan had reached the eighth floor, earned 128 points, and ranked first in the Tower Floor Ranking.
• The system announced that Player No. 161 had defeated a level 16 Boss and ranked first in the Boss Slaying Ranking, while Xiao Fan’s total rose to 38,919 points and he remained first overall.

Xiao Fan explored the eighth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower with Zijin, who effortlessly killed its Fierce Beasts while he earned a single boss kill. As other players marveled at Player No. 171’s strength and rapid rise, Xiao Fan and Zijin headed for the ninth-floor entrance to seek the Heart of Myriad Phenomena.

• Ye Changge asked Qin Muyu to repeat that the player from Zone 17 had nothing to do with him, while the Fatty and the others celebrated Xiao Fan soloing a level-sixteen BOSS.
• Xiao Fan discovered that Zijin had followed him from the seventh floor to the eighth and learned that she killed Fierce Beasts with barely a touch.
• Zijin asked Xiao Fan to take her with him when he left the tower, but Xiao Fan was unsure whether he could bring her out.
• With three days remaining before the tower closed, Xiao Fan decided to find the ninth-floor entrance and obtain the Heart of Myriad Phenomena.
• Players from other zones discussed Player No. 171’s record-breaking scores, level nineteen, and the possibility that Zone 18 was rising.

Xiao Fan reached the ninth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower, leaving Shen Beijun and the others stunned and still struggling far below. On an island surrounded by seawater, Xiao Fan and Zijin faced a secret realm entrance, and he weighed whether to use his Myriad Phenomena Token before entering.

• Shen Beijun and the other contestants reacted with jealousy and alarm after the system announced Xiao Fan had killed a Level 16 Boss and climbed the rankings.
• Chen Xuewei admitted she had discovered a pattern that could lead them toward the next floor’s entrance, and Shen Beijun ordered her to guide them.
• The system announced that Player No. 171 had reached the ninth floor and held first place in both the Tower Floor Ranking and the Overall Ranking.
• Shen Beijun kicked Shen Jiangyun in a rage, then controlled himself and told Chen Xuewei to lead the group onward.
• Xiao Fan and Zijin arrived on an island surrounded by seawater, where Xiao Fan considered whether to use his Myriad Phenomena Token before entering the secret realm.

Xiao Fan and Zijin entered the Island of Light secret realm, where black water and Nether creatures made their boat move toward a decayed island. They reached the island, but Zijin struck down a mysterious black-robed figure before Xiao Fan could speak to him.

• Xiao Fan entered the Island of Light secret realm with Zijin and found himself on a boat floating on a black river.
• Xiao Fan tested the river with Zijin's Golden Feather, and the water corroded it into a lifeless black.
• A Nether creature attacked Zijin, who killed it with lightning, and Xiao Fan realized that killing Nethe creatures moved the boat forward.
• After repeated attacks, an island appeared, and Zijin carried Xiao Fan directly to it in her true form.
• Xiao Fan and Zijin found the island grotesquely decayed, and Zijin blasted a black-robed man who turned into smoke before Xiao Fan could approach him.

Xiao Fan cleared the Island of Light Secret Realm, then entered its sequel on the Myriad Phenomena Tower’s tenth floor to pursue the Heart of Myriad Phenomena. Meanwhile, the Zone 1 contestants reached the frozen sixth floor and learned that Player No. 171 had taken first place across the rankings.

• Xiao Fan and Zijin defeated the Ancient Heavenly Spirit and the Island of Light Lord, clearing the Level 15 Secret Realm and earning rewards.
• The system offered Xiao Fan entry to Island of Light II, where he had to complete a story quest to obtain the Heart of Myriad Phenomena, and he accepted.
• Zijin looked for Xiao Fan after he vanished, while the Zone 1 contestants found the sixth-floor entrance and arrived in a frozen wasteland.
• Chen Xuewei suggested hunting Fierce Beasts for their pelts, and Shen Beijun praised her as the group prepared to hunt.
• The system announced that Player No. 171 had reached the tenth floor and led the Tower Floor, Secret Realm, and Overall Rankings, leaving Qin Mumu stunned.

Xiao Fan chose the Mysterious Person role in the Island of Light secret realm and drifted across the Black River, discovering that an oil lamp kept the Nether creatures at bay. After a storm nearly capsized his boat, a ship rescued him, and he introduced himself to its three crew members.

• Xiao Fan chose Mysterious Person and found himself alone in a boat on the Black River, dressed like Dark Bone.
• Nether creatures gathered around Xiao Fan, but one turned to green smoke when it entered the boat's range.
• Xiao Fan realized the Nether creatures feared the oil lamp and held onto it as he drifted through the fog.
• The Black River grew violent, and a large ship appeared after the fog lifted.
• Three men pulled Xiao Fan aboard the ship, and he introduced himself as Jiu Chen while sizing them up.

Xiao Fan boarded a huge ship in the Black Sea, met Yi Kong, and learned that people who fell into the sea became Nether. Meanwhile, Zone 1 found the shelter of the Zone 18 contestants on the sixth floor of the Myriad Phenomena Tower and waited to ambush them.

• Xiao Fan introduced himself as Jiu Chen, claimed to be an explorer, and learned from Yi Kong that falling into the Black Sea turned people into Nether.
• Yi Kong revealed himself to be a Grand Prince and had Xiao Wang escort Xiao Fan to a cabin, where Xiao Fan locked the door and picked up an oil lamp for safety.
• Shen Beijun's Zone 1 team hunted Fierce Beasts on the sixth floor and gathered Points, while Qin Mumu and Shen Jiangyun grew increasingly irritated with him.
• Chen Xuewei led Zone 1 toward the seventh-floor entrance and found the cave where Qin Muyu and the other Zone 18 contestants had been staying.
• Shen Beijun and the Zone 1 team rested in the cave and waited for the Zone 18 contestants to return so they could ambush them.

Xiao Fan followed nighttime footsteps aboard the ship and overheard that it was bound for Island of Light, whose existence had transformed the Glazed Sea into the Black Sea. He returned to his room without learning more, then met Yi Kong for breakfast and concealed that he had heard the sailors’ conversation.

• Xiao Fan followed someone downstairs and overheard Yi Kong warn an old voice that bringing a stranger aboard meant one more pair of hands.
• Xiao Fan hid as sailors Lao Xu and Xiao He discussed the Black Sea, and Lao Xu revealed that it had once been called the Glazed Sea.
• Lao Xu said Island of Light had changed the sea, but the captain interrupted before he could explain further.
• Xiao Fan returned to his room and realized the ship was headed for Island of Light, though he did not know how to complete its storyline.
• The next morning, Xiao Fan told Yi Kong he had heard footsteps but claimed he had seen nobody.

Xiao Fan disguised himself as a mysterious adventurer and used his Gift of the Saint to convince Yi Kong to trust him and invite him to the Island of Light. Yi Kong explained the legend of the Water of Life, which he sought to cure his younger sister, and the chapter ended as the ship prepared to enter the Mist Zone.

• Yi Kong questioned Xiao Fan about his adventurer identity and unusual oil lamp, so Xiao Fan invented the mysterious adventurer Profession.
• Xiao Fan used Gift of the Saint on Yi Kong, whose fatigue vanished and who apologized for doubting him.
• Yi Kong invited Xiao Fan to travel with his group to the Island of Light, and Xiao Fan accepted.
• Yi Kong told Xiao Fan the legend of the Water of Life, said to bring the dead back to life, and explained that he sought it for his incurably ill younger sister.
• A servant told Yi Kong that the ship was about to enter the Mist Zone and that the captain had called everyone to assemble.

After the ship entered the Mist Zone, Xiao Fan gathered in a sealed hall with Yi Kong and the other passengers. Yi Kong persuaded them to open the door and retrieve Elder Li, but screams outside left everyone terrified.

• Xiao Fan received a notice that his plot exploration progress had reached 10% as the ship entered the Mist Zone.
• Yi Kong ordered everyone to gather in the ship’s enclosed hall, where crew members scattered powder along the walls.
• A servant reported that Elder Li and his attendants had not come downstairs, and Yi Kong asked the passengers to let his people retrieve them.
• Yi Kong promised that Elder Li could guide them on Island of Light and help them find the Water of Life, convincing the passengers to let the door open.
• Yi Kong’s servants rushed outside to fetch Elder Li, and screams sounded less than half a minute later.

Qin Muyu and her companions returned to their cave and found Shen Beijun and the other nine members of Zone 1 waiting inside. Shen Beijun demanded directions to the seventh-floor stairs and the method for finding the Myriad Phenomena Tower’s staircase, and Qin Muyu agreed to lead them there.

• The chubby guy and the others wondered why Xiao Fan had stopped replying, and Qin Muyu guessed he was attempting the tenth floor’s Ultimate Challenge.
• Qin Muyu sensed someone inside their cave and warned that the intruders were probably from Zone 1, whose ten members had all chosen the Evil Faction.
• Shen Beijun and the Zone 1 group confronted Qin Muyu and her companions, while Ye Changge traded insults with Shen Beijun.
• Chen Xuewei urged Shen Beijun to stop wasting time, and he demanded that Qin Muyu and Ye Changge reveal how to reach the seventh-floor stairs and locate the tower’s staircase.
• Qin Muyu agreed to lead Shen Beijun’s group, and he warned her not to deceive him.