Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan and Qin Muyu earned Points in Brave New World until Xiao Fan discovered that the server merger competition had begun. He decided to leave the Dungeon as soon as he had secured their rewards, while Dragon Nation’s match observers realized the Mirror City team was heading toward Falling Leaf’s team.

• Xiao Fan learned that Qin Muyu had earned 910,000 Points and agreed to let her collect the remaining Points herself.
• Xiao Fan and Qin Muyu received details about the server merger competition and realized registration had already ended.
• Xiao Fan confirmed he could leave Brave New World with his rewards, then urged Qin Muyu to keep earning Points before he departed.
• Zhou He’s observation group analyzed the competition and noted that Mirror City had split into two teams while other servers had split into three.
• The observers saw Mirror City advancing east toward Dragon Nation, where Falling Leaf was leading the City of Kings team.

As teams crossed Interstellar Canyon on the first day of the Fusion Challenge Tournament, their route choices repeatedly kept them from meeting, frustrating Shen Long and Quan Zhong. The day ended with only White Nation and Black Nation having fought, while the White Nation squad found and entered Mirror City's Guardian Tower.

• Shen Long celebrated the chance that Falling Leaf would meet Mirror City, and Quan Zhong promised to reward him after the tournament.
• Liu Chuisui led Mirror City's team down the route toward the map's center, avoiding Falling Leaf and angering Shen Long and Quan Zhong.
• Falling Leaf followed Biao Ge's suggestion to take the central route, and Dragon Nation's two teams and a Black Nation team also headed toward the center.
• A White Nation team and a Black Nation team met on the southwest route and fought until both sides had been wiped out twice.
• Mirror City's team chose to continue toward the White Nation and Black Nation battle, while Dragon Nation's teams met at the center and returned to their Guardian Tower.
• A Black Nation squad returned to its defensive tower, while the White Nation squad heading toward Mirror City's Guardian Tower found and entered it as the chaotic first day ended.

After the first day ended with Dragon Nation and Mirror City scoring no points, Iron Blood Blade used the team’s outside-assistance request to contact Zhou He. Xiao Fan analyzed the rules and map, concluded that the monsters and crucial competition advantages were hidden in the nebula regions, and Zhou He prepared to pass that insight to the contestants.

• Dragon Nation and Mirror City failed to score on the first day, and Falling Leaf’s team returned without encountering any opponents or monsters.
• Iron Blood Blade used the Guardian Tower’s assistance request to message Zhou He, while Biao Ge arrived too late to claim the chance.
• Zhou He sent Xiao Fan the observers’ detailed map and analysis, and Xiao Fan concluded that the contestants’ approach to the match was wrong.
• Xiao Fan inferred that the nebula-covered areas contained monsters whose rewards could provide tools such as teleportation, maps, or enemy positions.
• Zhou He saw that the contestants had avoided the nebula regions, trusted Xiao Fan’s certainty, and prepared to relay his analysis.

Zhou He sent Iron Blood Blade a strategy guide from Jiu Chen that urged the contestants to explore the Nebula Wild Zone. As Biao Ge objected to entering it, Falling Leaf argued that the risk was manageable and backed the plan.

• Zhou He waited until the other servers had used their requests for help, then sent Xiao Fan's guide to Iron Blood Blade.
• Iron Blood Blade learned that the contestants' actions were visible outside and that the other servers had also received maps of Interstellar Canyon.
• Biao Ge worried that the broadcast would expose his help to Mirror City and decided to shift the blame onto Falling Leaf.
• Iron Blood Blade read Jiu Chen's detailed strategy guide, which identified the nebula area as key to the match and urged them to act immediately.
• Biao Ge refused to enter the dangerous-looking nebula, but Falling Leaf argued that the rules allowed players to revive at their Guardian Tower after dying.

Dragon Nation’s competitors entered the Nebula Region to explore it, following Jiu Chen’s guide despite confusion from their observation team and mockery from the other servers. Iron Blood Blade vanished after stepping inside, but his voice soon answered from within.

• Falling Leaf led Dragon Nation’s fifty competitors to the Nebula Region, while Biao Ge agreed to go with them.
• The Dragon Nation observation team learned that Zhou He had sent the competitors a strategy made by Jiu Chen, instructing them to explore the Nebula Region.
• The other servers mocked Dragon Nation as its competitors stood at the nebula’s edge.
• Iron Blood Blade stepped into the Nebula Region and disappeared from sight, prompting alarm among his teammates.
• Biao Ge blamed the guide and celebrated Iron Blood Blade’s apparent death, until Iron Blood Blade’s voice called out from inside the nebula.

Iron Blood Blade led the Dragon Nation team into the Nebula Region, where killing Scoring Monsters unlocked increasingly powerful match functions. With the map function now revealing every server’s towers and players, the team continued exploring instead of joining the ongoing battles.

• Iron Blood Blade confirmed that players inside the Nebula Region became invisible to those outside, then led his team inside to explore.
• The team killed a Scoring Monster, opening the Scoring Page and revealing that White Nation and Black Nation led Dragon Nation in points.
• The team killed another monster and unlocked the Battle Broadcast System, which announced player kills and tower destructions in real time.
• After the team defeated a stronger monster, it unlocked the Map Function, showing every Guardian Tower and player’s exact location.
• Eight hours into the match, Iron Blood Blade refused to send his team into battle and ordered them to keep exploring for another function from Xiao Fan’s guide.

Dragon Nation’s team split between defending its Guardian Tower and continuing to explore the Nebula Region, but Black Nation used Speed-up Items to reach the undefended tower first. The chapter left Dragon Nation’s Guardian Tower on the verge of falling, with Iron Blood Blade’s team still hours away.

• After the Recovery Monster was killed, Dragon Nation’s players unlocked the ability to recover their condition outside combat or at the Guardian Tower.
• Falling Leaf realized that Mirror City’s forces had split into factions and that Mirror City had allied with White Nation players.
• Iron Blood Blade split the team, taking twenty-four contestants back to defend while Falling Leaf continued exploring with the others.
• Black Nation accelerated with Speed-up Items, leaving Iron Blood Blade’s defense squad far behind as they rushed toward Dragon Nation’s Guardian Tower.
• At the Observation Group, Zhou He silenced a player who speculated that Jiu Chen’s guide had caused Iron Blood Blade’s decision.
• Black Nation came within a hundred meters of Dragon Nation’s Guardian Tower while Iron Blood Blade’s team still had two hours of travel remaining.

The Black Nation squad attacked Dragon Nation’s unguarded Guardian Tower, but Dragon Nation’s players unlocked teleportation and returned just in time to defeat them. With the tower still standing, Iron Blood Blade prepared to earn points.

• The Black Nation squad found Dragon Nation’s Guardian Tower unguarded and began attacking it.
• Iron Blood Blade learned that the Black Nation squad was attacking their tower and feared Dragon Nation would lose.
• Falling Leaf and the other East District players killed the Teleport Monster, unlocking teleportation across the region.
• Iron Blood Blade and the other Dragon Nation players teleported to their Guardian Tower and wiped out the Black Nation squad.
• The Black Nation president learned that Dragon Nation had used teleportation and blamed his players for failing to discover it.

Falling Leaf killed a Teleport Monster in the Mirror City Server's Nebula Region, stripping the North District of teleport privileges and revealing his hostile plan. Meanwhile, Luo Xianning's Mirror City and White Nation alliance reconsidered its attack on the Dragon Nation Guardian Tower and chose to head toward the Black Nation Server, but their route forced them past the Dragon Nation tower.

• Falling Leaf led his team into the Mirror City Server's Nebula Region and had them kill a Teleport Monster, causing the North District to lose teleport privileges while earning his team 60 Points.
• Biao Ge realized Falling Leaf was not helping Mirror City and tried to warn him, but Falling Leaf demanded that he speak plainly.
• Luo Xianning's 26-player allied team approached the Dragon Nation Guardian Tower and found no sign of the 12 Dragon Nation players who were supposed to join them.
• Luo Xianning decided that attacking the Black Nation Server and then the White Nation Server offered a better chance to win than fighting Dragon Nation at its Guardian Tower.
• The allied team ruled out retracing its route and could not travel through the Nebula Region, leaving them to pass in front of the Dragon Nation Guardian Tower.

Luo Xianning's team passed Dragon Nation's Guardian Tower without attacking, while Iron Blood Blade and Falling Leaf used Jiu Chen's teleport strategy to prepare assaults on rival servers. Dragon Nation's players and observers became confident that the team competition was theirs to win.

• Luo Xianning led his team past Dragon Nation's Guardian Tower, and Iron Blood Blade realized their target was Black Nation's Guardian Tower rather than Dragon Nation.
• Iron Blood Blade stopped his team from attacking Luo Xianning's players because they could revive at Mirror City's Guardian Tower and reinforce its defenders.
• Iron Blood Blade teleported to Falling Leaf's central point and led his team into White Nation's Nebula Region to set up more teleport points.
• The players from other servers recognized Dragon Nation's advantage, while White Nation and Black Nation's presidents ordered arrests of players who had defected.
• Dragon Nation's Observation Group praised Jiu Chen's strategy, and Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng agreed that Dragon Nation was likely to win the team competition.

Xiao Fan confirmed that Dragon Nation’s contestants had unlocked the map functions, then returned to the competition after Qin Muyu reached one million Points. Falling Leaf’s team used teleportation marks to gather Dragon Nation’s forces at Jing City’s Guardian Tower, leaving its defenders overwhelmed as the tower’s health fell.

• Xiao Fan read Zhou He’s message confirming Dragon Nation had unlocked the map functions, and Qin Muyu thanked him after reaching one million Points.
• Falling Leaf’s team eliminated the Mirror City Server’s function monsters, prompting Biao Ge to stop resisting and switch sides.
• Falling Leaf’s team reached Jing City’s Guardian Tower, where eleven defenders prepared to fight the larger Dragon Nation force.
• Dragon Nation contestants placed invisible teleportation marks, allowing the rest of their team to appear beside the tower.
• Falling Leaf’s team kept teleporting back after deaths while attacking the Guardian Tower, and its health steadily dropped.

Dragon Nation destroyed White Nation’s Guardian Tower after first taking down Jing City’s, securing a commanding lead while Mirror City allied with White and Black Nations to target another tower. With 15 hours left, Dragon Nation continued clearing monsters and planning further moves, unaware that Luo Xianning’s uneasy alliance was heading toward a trap.

• Jing City’s Guardian Tower fell, eliminating its remaining defenders and pushing Dragon Nation to first place on the scoreboard.
• Falling Leaf rejected Iron Blood Blade’s suggestion to attack Black Nation’s tower and led Dragon Nation toward White Nation’s tower instead.
• Dragon Nation fought White Nation’s guards for half an hour without losing anyone, then destroyed White Nation’s Guardian Tower and gave its players extra points so Jing City would not finish second.
• Mirror City’s Luo Xianning destroyed Black Nation’s Guardian Tower with help from allied White and Black Nation players, then set out for White Nation’s tower while promising the allies land after the merger.
• Dragon Nation teleported into Black Nation’s South District, cleared its monsters, and began planning more moves with 15 hours left in the match.
• Eliminated Jing City and White Nation contestants learned that monsters in the Nebula Region unlocked useful functions, including the teleportation Dragon Nation had used.

The teams clashed along the southwest route, while Dragon Nation players secretly waited in the Nebula Region to strike. Luo Xianning exposed that Dragon Nation had a traitor among its contestants, but Biao Ge hid his betrayal by fighting against Jing City; Luo Xianning died and learned Jing City's Guardian Tower had been destroyed.

• Luo Xianning's team fought the Black Nation guard team, and Liu Chuisui arrived with the remaining White Nation team and another Black Nation team.
• Iron Blood Blade revealed the Dragon Nation contestants hiding in the Nebula Region and led them into the battle.
• Luo Xianning shouted that Dragon Nation contestants had promised to help Jing City, but the Dragon Nation players mistook the accusation for a scheme to sow distrust.
• Biao Ge fought fiercely against Jing City contestants to protect his cover, then attacked Luo Xianning before he could reveal their deal.
• Liu Chuisui killed Luo Xianning, who learned that Jing City's Guardian Tower had been destroyed and was sent back to Jing City Server.

The Dragon Nation Server won the team match after the other three factions were eliminated, giving it a chance to compete with Jing City Server for the tournament's overall victory. As Shen Long questioned Falling Leaf's loyalty, the system announced that one player from each server would compete in a three-day individual event featuring puppet creation and battles.

• The Dragon Nation contestants celebrated after the system ended the team match early, and the standings awarded Dragon Nation first place with 10 match points.
• Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng discussed how the result gave Dragon Nation a chance to challenge Jing City Server, crediting Jiu Chen's strategy and the teamwork of Iron Blood Blade and Falling Leaf.
• Iron Blood Blade and the other contestants returned to the server and received congratulations, while Quan Zhong confronted Shen Long over his faction's failure to help win.
• Shen Long defended his people to Quan Zhong but began to suspect Falling Leaf had betrayed him, and resolved to question him when he returned.
• The system announced that each server would select one player for a three-day individual competition involving puppet creation and paired matches.

The individual match of the server merger challenge used puppet battles, and Xiao Fan sent Zhou He his suspicions and advice from inside the Brave New World dungeon. The contestants were selected from each server, leaving Jian Qingfeng to face three former era-defining powerhouses and Saint Yuan Venerable, while the match's outcome remained uncertain.

• Zhou He gathered the registered Dragon Nation contestants to study Xiao Fan's creative approach and sent him the individual match rules.
• Xiao Fan questioned whether the puppet competition was as simple as it seemed, sent Zhou He possible explanations, and worried that Cloud Sea had lured him into the dungeon to exploit the server merger.
• The system selected Jian Qingfeng for Dragon Nation, Cannon for White Nation, Wang Abu for Black Nation, and Saint Yuan Venerable for Jing City Server.
• Zhou He recognized the contestants as powerful former leaders and grew concerned about Saint Yuan Venerable's strength, though Jing City's negative team-match points left Dragon Nation a chance.
• The White Nation president ordered the killing of traitors and their relatives, and his secretary pointed out that some traitors belonged to the president's own family.

The individual competition began with contestants tasked with creating five Puppets, each with unique skills, a Profession, and equipment, within twenty-four hours. Jian Qingfeng relied on Xiao Fan’s guide and began building coordinated Puppets, while the other contestants chose different ways to manage the demanding task.

• The rules required each contestant to create five Puppets, each with five unique skills, one Profession, and four unique pieces of equipment, before the countdown ended.
• Jian Qingfeng realized the difficult rules improved his chances, while Cannon, Wang Abu, and Saint Yuan Venerable worried they could not complete five Puppets.
• Zhou He recalled Xiao Fan’s accurate analysis and the extra materials he had prepared for the contestants.
• The twenty-four-hour countdown began, and five editable Puppets appeared before each contestant.
• Jian Qingfeng used Xiao Fan’s guide to plan a team of coordinated Puppets and began creating the first one.
• Saint Yuan Venerable and Cannon chose to make two complete Puppets, two partial ones, and abandon one, while Wang Abu chose to make five incomplete Puppets.

The first stage of the competition ended with Jian Qingfeng completing all five puppets perfectly, outdoing the other contestants. As Jing City players accused Dragon Nation of cheating, the system began announcing the second stage.

• Jian Qingfeng, Saint Yuan Venerable, Cannon, and Wang Abu struggled to finish creating and balancing their puppets before time ran out.
• The system announced that Wang Abu had three puppets at seventy percent completion, Cannon had two perfect puppets, and Saint Yuan Venerable had four puppets at seventy percent completion or higher.
• The system revealed that Jian Qingfeng had completed all five puppets at one hundred percent.
• Jing City players accused Dragon Nation of cheating, but the system ignored their demands for another check.
• Jian Qingfeng credited Xiao Fan's skill books, profession advice, and guide for helping him prepare, as the system announced that it would reveal the second stage.

After learning that all players could be randomly chosen to control their server’s puppets, Xiao Fan left Brave New World early to give himself a chance to help the Dragon Nation Server win. He raced toward the city gate as player selection was about to begin.

• The second-stage rules revealed that five players from each server would be randomly chosen to control puppets in battles on a competition map, and Dragon Nation Server drew White Nation Server as its opponent.
• Xiao Fan realized he could be selected and decided to leave Brave New World, despite his teammates’ objections, because he already had his exclusive reward and wanted to help protect the Dragon Nation Server.
• Xiao Fan exited the dungeon with generous rewards, including Lightning-Avoiding Fruit x1, and returned to Dragon City.
• With player selection set to begin in five minutes, Xiao Fan flew toward the residence by the city gate while the Crush Your Bird sisters spotted a golden figure approaching.

Xiao Fan tried to use I Kick Your Lung’s luck to get selected for the puppet-control match, but the first contestants chosen included his enemies Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei. Xiao Fan was ultimately selected too, leaving Dragon Nation hopeful but facing the risk that his rivals would turn against him.

• Xiao Fan asked I Kick Your Lung to make him get selected, and she loudly wished for him to join the puppet-control match.
• The system selected four Dragon Nation contestants, including Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei, while Xiao Fan was initially left out.
• Xiao Fan was selected as the final Dragon Nation contestant and appeared on the Sky Screen with the others.
• Dragon Nation players worried that Shen Beiwu and Chen Xuewei might join forces against Xiao Fan, while Quan Zhong believed Shen Beiwu would switch sides because of his feud with Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan and the other selected players arrived to choose among Jian Qingfeng’s five puppets, but the selection order left Xiao Fan with only the Archer or Healer. Chen Xuewei chose the Healer, leaving Xiao Fan the Archer as the match approached.

• Xiao Fan reunited with Jian Qingfeng, Chen Xuewei, and Shen Beiwu, whose shared history made Jian Qingfeng worry about the upcoming match.
• Jian Qingfeng introduced his five puppets: Swordsman, Warrior, Archer, Healer, and Assassin; Xiao Fan decided the Swordsman was the best one.
• The system forced players to select puppets in order, and Brother Heartless chose the Swordsman before Xiao Fan could act.
• Light Chant That Sorrow chose the Assassin, and Shen Beiwu chose the Warrior, leaving Chen Xuewei and Xiao Fan with the Healer and Archer.
• Chen Xuewei chose the Healer, leaving Xiao Fan to select the Archer when the system restored his ability to move.