Chapter Summaries

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.

Qin Muyu led Shen Beijun and the Zone 1 competitors into the seventh floor’s dense fog, where she attacked Shen Beijun and left them disoriented. She and the Zone 18 group escaped back to the stairwell, leaving their rivals lost and unable to earn Points.

• Shen Beijun reached the entrance to the seventh floor and planned to use Qin Muyu’s directions before killing her group and targeting Ye Changge’s team.
• Qin Muyu explained how to locate the next entrance, and Shen Beijun ordered her to lead the Zone 1 competitors through the fog.
• As Shen Beijun held Qin Muyu’s arm, she attacked him and vanished into the fog; Chen Xuewei warned the others that Qin Muyu was tracking them by sound.
• Ye Changge told Qin Muyu’s group to leave, and Qin Muyu followed beast sinew back toward the stairwell with Zai Zai and the others.
• Qin Muyu’s group left the stairwell to rest and resume earning Points, while the Zone 1 competitors remained lost in the fog.

Xiao Fan left the cabin to investigate the ship after the captain and crew were attacked, using his oil lamp to repel the nether beings. He found the captain and Elder Li dead and searched Elder Li’s room for clues when an old voice spoke behind him.

• Xiao Fan volunteered to leave the cabin, and Yi Kong persuaded the others to let him go by saying he could steer the ship out of the Mist Zone.
• Xiao Fan left the cabin and used his oil lamp to drive away a ghost face as he headed for the wheelhouse.
• Xiao Fan found the captain and crew dead in the wheelhouse, discovered a hole in its glass, and took the captain’s diary.
• Xiao Fan went to Elder Li’s room and found Elder Li dead in a wheelchair, with two nether beings fleeing from his oil lamp.
• Xiao Fan searched Elder Li’s room for clues, and an old voice suddenly asked what he was looking for.

Xiao Fan found Elder Li in a wardrobe and took the Black Box he said was needed to obtain the Water of Life. After leaving Elder Li in the hall, Xiao Fan explored Yi Kong’s room and was interrupted while about to open a suitcase.

• Xiao Fan found Elder Li hiding in a wardrobe beside his dead attendant and questioned the suspicious Moonlight Powder and dagger.
• Elder Li said Xiao Fan needed him to get the Water of Life, then pointed out a Black Box in a suitcase.
• Xiao Fan picked up the Black Box, triggering a system notification that his plot exploration progress had reached 50%, and then left it on the bed.
• Xiao Fan carried Elder Li to the hall, where Yi Kong’s men brought him inside and thanked Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan returned for the Black Box, then entered Yi Kong’s room and inspected his books, a photo with his younger sister, and a Rag Doll.
• As Xiao Fan approached a large suitcase, someone behind him asked who he was.

Xiao Fan found Yi Kong's sister, Yi Qing, living as a Rag Doll, then discovered that the Black Box contained only a blank book and that someone else aboard the ship could move around unseen. The Captain's Diary revealed how the Black Sea formed and how the search for the Island of Light trapped countless people on Glazed Island.

• Xiao Fan discovered that the Rag Doll in Yi Kong's room was Yi Qing, and he punched her after she threatened to report him to her brother.
• Xiao Fan carried the Black Box to the bridge, opened it, and found a blank Leather Book inside.
• Xiao Fan concluded that someone else on the ship had switched the Black Box while he was away escorting Elder Li.
• Xiao Fan read in the Captain's Diary that Yi Qing had died two years earlier and that Yi Kong was trying to use the Water of Life to bring her back.
• Xiao Fan learned that the Black Sea had formed ten years earlier and that people searching for the Island of Light had become trapped on Glazed Island.

Xiao Fan discovered that the ship’s captain had lied about crossing the Mist Zone and rushed to the hall as the Nether attacked. He rescued Yi Kong and the others by killing a Nether, revealing how powerful he was compared with the island’s inhabitants.

• Xiao Fan read the captain’s diary and learned that the captain had faked his successful Mist Zone crossings, while Moonlight Powder only temporarily held off the Nether.
• Xiao Fan heard screams from the hall and hurried back, fearing that Yi Kong and the others would be killed.
• Yi Kong warned the passengers to stay away from the walls after noticing that the Nether attacked people leaning against them, but the Bare-chested Man turned the crowd against Yi Kong and his companions.
• A Nether appeared behind the Bare-chested Man and turned him into a skeleton as the others panicked.
• Xiao Fan entered the hall, weakened the Nether with Sun and Moon Rotation, then used his oil lamp to destroy it.