Recaps

The Star Titan learned that the Demon Army’s reward was still unknown, while Xu Lang sent scouts into Heaven’s Gate to investigate. Lü Qing chose to slow the ancestral blood’s erosion, leaving the Demon Race clearer-minded and less mutated as the approaching battle loomed.

• The Star Titan questioned Chen Mu about the NPC reward and learned that their comprehension had doubled.
• Cao Yaxuan, Chi Qingman, and Xu Lang discussed the Demon Army’s unusual resilience and decided to send scouts into Heaven’s Gate.
• Kui Zi sent drones, cyborgs, Mad Vanguards, and Strange Tales into Heaven’s Gate, while Xu Lang’s puppet wore the Black Crown and drew the Demon Army toward the Titan Building.
• Lü Qing considered the game’s two choices and rejected increasing the Demon Race’s attack power at the cost of sanity.
• Lü Qing chose to slow the ancestral blood’s erosion, granting the Demon Race greater sanity and making their mutated bodies more normal.

Xu Lang and his allies discussed the factions’ exclusive quests and the danger posed by NPCs whose combat power and martial arts comprehension could rise. When Xu Lang consulted powerful NPCs, they proposed delaying a direct fight with the Demon Army and eventually storming Heaven’s Gate to capture the Demon Emperor, while their reluctance to help revealed how their priorities had shifted.

• Xu Lang worried that the NPCs’ Survival quest could empower the Great Yin Empress enough to release Yinglong and threaten the battlefield.
• Kui Zi reported that the Demon Army’s atavism sickness had eased, and the group discussed the risks of powerful NPCs mutating as their comprehension grew.
• Xu Lang agreed to meet with the NPCs and sound them out, hoping to observe them with his Nightmare Eye.
• At the reception hall, Xu Lang explained the Demon Army’s reward and asked the assembled NPCs how they should respond.
• A burly NPC proposed that Xu Lang and the Titan Building hold out while gathering information, then lead top experts into Heaven’s Gate to capture the Demon Emperor.
• The NPCs endorsed the proposal without offering immediate help, and Mary recognized that their growing power and self-interest could make them difficult to control.

Xu Lang pressed the NPC factions sheltering in Mad King Building to share more of their martial arts so the players could complete their missions before Titan Building gained the initiative. Jialan agreed to help, and the collection effort began.

• Li Xin mocked Meng Huazhen, tricking him into turning around and provoking his anger.
• Free and Unfettered Monk and Jialan affirmed that the factions had agreed to a partnership with Xu Lang.
• Xu Lang warned that he might abandon the NPCs, prompting them to protest and insist they needed Mad King Building’s protection.
• Xu Lang asked the NPCs to reveal the martial arts they had withheld, while Mary warned that Titan Building could seize the initiative.
• Jialan agreed to help Xu Lang, and the Residents' Committee began gathering martial arts from NPCs across their factions.

Xu Lang tasked Zhang Dahai with infiltrating Heaven's Gate and retrieving the Heaven's Gate Blade and Sword Record before the Demon Army broke through its domain. After borrowing Xu Lang's powerful outfit effects, Zhang Dahai set out alone for Heaven's Gate.

• Players found that martial arts collection progress was far behind the Titan Buildings, and Zhang Dahai considered ways to help Xu Lang's task.
• Xu Lang summoned Zhang Dahai to the Demon King Castle and ordered him to retrieve the Heaven's Gate Blade and Sword Record from Heaven's Gate.
• Xu Lang warned Zhang Dahai that the Demon Realm would bring terrible luck and that the Demon Emperor might intercept him, then lent him an Outfit Link Heart bound to his outfit.
• At ten that night, Zhang Dahai activated the Outfit Link Heart and discovered it granted numerous powerful effects from Xu Lang's outfit.
• Zhang Dahai left the Mad King Building alone and headed for Heaven's Gate.

The Demon Race sent elite envoys to the Mad King Building, where Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable requested an audience with Xu Lang. Xu Lang revealed himself after observing them with the Nightmare Eye, and their negotiations began with Red Dragon Venerable struggling to control his temper.

• The Demon Army sent Black Lotus Venerable and another Venerable toward the Titan Building, while Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable approached the Mad King Building.
• The Mad King Building's defenses stopped attacking the envoys, and Wu Huihui allowed them to enter the Demon King Castle Reception Hall.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable requested an audience with the Building Lord, prompting players to suspect the demons wanted the NPC handed over.
• Xu Lang used the Nightmare Eye while invisible to inspect the envoys, their intentions, and their strength as they waited.
• Red Dragon Venerable lost patience and demanded to know where Xu Lang was, so Xu Lang emerged and challenged his impatience.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable restrained Red Dragon Venerable and praised Xu Lang, while Xu Lang noted their visit was supposedly not meant to start a fight.

Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable asked Xu Lang to expel the Mortal Realm martial artists, but he refused to betray his agreement with them. The Great Yin Empress and the NPCs began considering how to protect themselves, while the Demon Race ended its visit by inviting Xu Lang to become its Great Sage.

• Thousand-Eyes Venerable told Xu Lang that the Demon Race would offer compensation and friendly relations if the Mad King Building drove out the Mortal Realm martial artists.
• After news of the Demon Race emissaries spread, Zhao Wuchang and other NPCs gathered at the Great Yin Empress’s retreat and discussed seizing the building and taking players’ rooms.
• The Great Yin Empress turned away visiting leaders and ordered Hidden Official Li to suppress the curse affecting those present.
• Xu Lang sensed the curse’s suppression, refused the Demon Race’s offer, and told the Venerables to leave.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable said the Demon Emperor wanted Xu Lang to become the Demon Race’s Great Sage.

Xu Lang negotiated with the Demon Race for the position of Great Sage while Zhang Dahai returned from Heaven’s Gate with a valuable book. After securing a possible alliance and asking for a path to the Earthly Realm or Ghost Realm, Xu Lang remained uncertain about the Demon Race’s role in the game’s growing conflict.

• Thousand-Eyes Venerable offered Xu Lang the Great Sage position in exchange for helping the Demon Race attack the Titan Building without sending troops.
• Zhang Dahai returned through a Vortex Gate carrying a radiant jade-like book, which Xu Lang identified as something taken from Heaven’s Gate.
• Xu Lang agreed to become the Demon Race’s Great Sage if they found a way to the Earthly Realm or Ghost Realm, and he demanded a third of the Titan Building’s benefits.
• Xu Lang collected blood samples from Thousand-Eyes Venerable and Red Dragon Venerable for Sun Xue’s Divine Blood Laboratory.
• Thousand-Eyes Venerable told Red Dragon Venerable that Xu Lang’s book might be the core of Heaven’s Gate, formed from Primordial Origin Energy.
• Zhen Lu and Wang Yazhi joined Xu Lang afterward, and he said he suspected the Demon Race might not be their true enemy.

Xu Lang examined and gamified the Martial Dao Heavenly Book, discovering it was a level 30 Mythic wonder with powerful effects and strict binding requirements. He left its hidden function locked and rejected the chance to contribute it to the Dormitory Spirit, while his companions considered how he could meet the book’s requirements.

• Xu Lang sent Zhang Dahai away with two Legendary skill manuals and told Cao Yaxuan she could not read the jade book yet.
• Cao Yaxuan reported that Black Lotus Venerable and the others had returned to Heaven's Gate after receiving a poor welcome at the Titan Building, while Wang Yazhi said the NPCs were secretly plotting.
• Xu Lang examined the jade book with the Nightmare Eye and gamified it before midnight, revealing it as the level 30 Mythic Martial Dao Heavenly Book.
• The game offered Xu Lang the option to contribute the book to activate the Dormitory Spirit early, but he refused because it could benefit the Mad King Building.
• Wang Yazhi and Cao Yaxuan discussed the book’s reputation and Martial Dao realm binding requirements, and Wang Yazhi noted that Xu Lang’s ties to the Demon Race could make raising Human Race reputation difficult.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi worked to prevent trouble among the NPCs while preparing for the Demon Race’s next attack. Xu Lang also spied on Heaven’s Gate and saw the Demon Race gathering a stronger army, as Demon Emperor Lü Qing resolved to end the battle ahead of schedule.

• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi that he had asked the Demon Race to search for passages to the Ghost Realm and Earthly Realm to scare them, and Wang Yazhi urged him to sleep.
• Xu Lang stayed up to address possible trouble among the NPCs, sending Wang Yazhi to gather the mid- and lower-tier NPCs while he met with the Great Yin Empress and other top-tier NPCs.
• Xu Lang returned to Demon King Castle around two in the morning after making progress in winning over the Great Yin Empress and attempting to infiltrate Heaven’s Gate with Strange Tales.
• Xu Lang combined One-Eyed Twilight, Nightmare Eye, and Eye of Heaven to observe Venerables arriving behind Heaven’s Gate and organizing the Demon Race’s forces.
• Demon Emperor Lü Qing decided to bring the battle to an end ahead of schedule, while his growing authority among the Demon Race weighed heavily on him.

Xu Lang used Nightmare Coins and cross-category Fusion to create a perfect martial arts item containing knowledge of Martial Shattering of the Void. Meanwhile, the Titan Building struggled under the Blood Hatred Build’s battlefield system, then faced a massive Demon Race army attacking at night.

• Xu Lang consulted top-tier NPCs about Martial Shattering of the Void and used their knowledge to guide his Fusion experiments.
• Xu Lang fused a Legendary Grade book with low-tier cultivation methods, built a perfect mold, and successfully combined it with a Legendary Grade martial arts manual.
• Titan Building players blamed the Mad King Building for the Demon Army’s frenzy and resented being forced to buy armor and fight on the battlefield.
• A Titan Building player heard the approaching army, warned everyone to run, and the building sounded its alarm as the Demon Race army appeared on the horizon.

As the Demon Race army advanced under the venerables’ command, Forest Titan Cao Sen left Cao Weichen in charge of the Magic Forest and began his Ascension Trial. Meanwhile, Wu Bumei restored a Mad King Building player’s Sanity, then encountered Chen Shisan, who was passing through after completing a quest.

• The Steel Titan counted thirty-six Demon Race venerables and urged Cao Sen to hold the floors below the Magic Forest, while Cao Sen doubted their plans could change the looming crisis.
• Cao Sen put Cao Weichen in charge of the Magic Forest and departed to undertake the Ascension Trial, admitting he did not know whether becoming an Ascender could save the Titan Building.
• A Mad King Building player became increasingly contaminated by strange knowledge until a cleaner disturbed him while sweeping Mad Filth from beneath his feet.
• Wu Bumei restored some of the player’s Sanity and lent him three hundred thousand Copper Coins to wash at the House of Order.
• Wu Bumei asked Chen Shisan why he was on the Fifteenth Floor, and Chen Shisan said he had completed the Building Lord’s quest and was going to turn it in.

Xu Lang reviewed his new Celestial Being Limit status and considered how to meet its advancement requirements while Chen Shisan reported that the Space Insect Race had produced four self-reproducing Gold-Devouring Insects. Xu Lang rewarded Chen Shisan by giving him all four insects, leaving their partnership with a legion’s worth of potential.

• Wu Bumei asked Chen Shisan about the Building Lord’s mission, but Chen refused to explain and continued upstairs.
• Xu Lang examined the Celestial Being Limit status and its four possible conditions for advancing to Martial Shattering of the Void.
• Xu Lang reviewed his Nightmare Coin harvest and considered using Fusion to meet the status requirements and raise Chaotic Heaven Blade Ultimate to level fifty.
• Chen Shisan presented four self-reproducing insects: the Magic Gold-Devouring Insect, Elemental Gold-Devouring Insect, Gravity Gold-Devouring Insect, and Environmental Gold-Devouring Insect.
• Xu Lang praised Chen Shisan’s work and gave him all four Gold-Devouring Insects as his reward.

Xu Lang gave Chen Shisan the four Gold-Devouring Insects to develop for the Mad King Building, then turned his attention to the collapsing Titan Building. As he prepared to intervene, the Titan Council summoned the Titan Servant · Phantom onto the battlefield.

• Xu Lang gave Chen Shisan and his tenants the four Gold-Devouring Insects and ordered them to research the insects for the benefit of the Mad King Building.
• Xu Lang struggled to handle the Fusion order because only he could sense its esoteric techniques and it involved the Nightmare Lord.
• The Demon Army’s relentless assault devastated the Titan Building as more than seventy Venerables joined the battle and many dormitories and defenses were destroyed.
• Wu Huihui warned Xu Lang that the Titan Building’s collapse was about to worsen, and Xu Lang recognized that it was time to help.
• The Titan Council summoned the Titan Servant · Phantom in the Titan Building’s Safe Zone.

A Titan servant erased the Demon Army that had emerged from Heaven’s Gate, while the Blade Titan and her team destroyed the Demon Race’s Ancestral Blood Pool. The team returned to the Titan Building believing the Demon Emperor was unlikely to pursue them, though Qing Song feared the Demon Race’s retaliation.

• Wang Tingting, Wu Huihui, and Xu Lang saw the enormous phantom but could not read its information.
• The Titan servant erased Demon Emperor Lü Qing’s seventy-odd venerables and the Demon Army outside Heaven’s Gate, forcing the survivors to retreat.
• Lü Qing learned that the Blade Titan and her subordinates had destroyed the Ancestral Blood Pool and decided to repair it himself despite his atavism sickness.
• The Blade Titan and her team celebrated their raid as they returned, while Qing Song worried that the Demon Race would retaliate.
• The green-haired young man reassured Qing Song that the Demon Emperor was unlikely to come out, and said his appearance might even be advantageous.

The Blade Titan's squad left Heaven's Gate but was ambushed by Chi Yi, a powerful demon general, and the two fought until reinforcements broke them up. After studying the Blade Titan and identifying Chi Yi, Xu Lang's allies debated whether to counterattack and decided to send Kui Zi's drones into Heaven's Gate first.

• The green-haired young man told Qing Song that the players could use Xu Lang's Blood Hatred ability to focus fire on the final boss, then wondered whether the Dormitory Survival Game had manipulated the conflict between the buildings.
• The Blade Titan's squad emerged from Heaven's Gate, where Chi Yi pursued them and cut down several players with a purple-lit slash.
• Qing Song and the unharmed players rescued the wounded and fled toward the Titan Building while the Blade Titan fought Chi Yi.
• Xu Lang watched the battle with Nightmare Eye and identified the horned demon as Chi Yi, Demon Emperor Lü Qing's number one general.
• After reinforcements separated the fighters, Cao Yaxuan and Zhen Lu argued over a counterattack, and Shirley recommended sending Kui Zi's drones into Heaven's Gate first.
• Wang Yazhi agreed with Shirley, and a group of invisible drones flew into Heaven's Gate.

Xu Lang considered the power of the Titans and the rewards of opening paths through the Three Realms before leaving the rooftop. In the Mist Zone, Qin Chuan led the last survivors of his group toward a cave, where he met Lin Zhao, whose Tianshu Fate Pattern shared a source with his Sirius Fate Pattern.

• Xu Lang decided the Blade Titan would be his first target if he fought the Titan Building and wondered what powers and rewards the Titans and the Three Realms might yield.
• Qin Chuan led seventeen Heavenly Wolf Gang members through the Mist Zone, relying on his Sirius Fate Pattern to evade a poisonous snake-tailed monster as the group dwindled to three survivors.
• Qin Chuan escaped across a cliff with an injured brother, treated him, and told the tall, thin survivor they could get out alive.
• Qin Chuan sensed a Fate Pattern like his own near a cave that his Fate Pattern identified as a path to survival, and he continued toward it with the two survivors.
• Inside the cave, Qin Chuan met a woman who recognized his Sirius Fate Pattern and introduced herself as Lin Zhao, bearer of the Tianshu Fate Pattern.

Lin Zhao revealed that she was a former Greedy Wolf and asked Qin Chuan to help awaken the other Astral Fate Pattern holders and find Ziwei, but he rejected heaven's will and fought her. After Chen Silu joined them, the three made peace and headed toward Heaven's Gate, where Xu Lang's Strange Tales ambushed them.

• Lin Zhao told Qin Chuan that she had revived, learned the secret of their Greedy Wolf Fate Pattern, and intended to awaken the other Astral Fate Pattern holders and find Ziwei.
• Qin Chuan refused to submit to heaven's will, and Lin Zhao attacked him using her Fate Pattern's ability to devour enemies and gather fortune.
• Chen Silu arrived during the fight and helped bring Qin Chuan and Lin Zhao to an uneasy reconciliation.
• The three left the Mist Zone together, following their growing sense of where Heaven's Gate lay.
• Xu Lang's Strange Tales from the Black Town forbidden zone appeared ahead and trapped the three, who began fighting back with their different strengths.

As Xu Lang’s Strange Tales pushed the Dormitory Survival Game toward greater danger, powerful NPCs across the Mist Zone sensed the unfolding conflict and began moving. Skin Marries Bone joined the fight against the three, who endured wave after wave of deadly attacks until seven spears tore through the Strange Tale domain.

• A crowned figure inferred from the Strange Tales’ actions that Xu Lang had discovered something unusual about the star warriors and was forcing the Survival Game to advance its settings.
• A man on a blood-red cliff felt the Seven Killings Star’s killing intent draw him toward a more worthy target, then flew off after growing stronger by hunting monsters in the Mist Zone.
• A young man at an academy emerged from a long chess-playing trance, used One Move Resolves Two Ladders to travel a hundred li, and left the ancient secret realm.
• A white-haired old man at Slanting Moon and Three Stars Cave sensed that two Greedy Wolves faced a dangerous fate, then went to fetch Brother Wenqu before the temple vanished.
• Skin Marries Bone entered the battle against the three, who repeatedly unleashed their potential and survived more than a dozen rounds of danger before seven spears ripped through her domain.

Baili Tu destroyed Skin Marries Bone’s wedding-gown form, but she transformed into a stronger soul that fought back as Qin Chuan and Chen Silu fled. A mysterious young man appeared and used a flute to soothe the soul, turning the battle against her.

• Baili Tu used his seven blood-qi spears to destroy Skin Marries Bone’s wedding-gown form and collapse her uncanny domain.
• Skin Marries Bone re-formed in a mourning robe and revealed that she had transformed from skin to bone and now stood before them as a soul.
• Baili Tu told Qin Chuan to evacuate the others because Skin Marries Bone grew stronger when more people reminded her of her death, then stayed to fight her.
• Qin Chuan and Chen Silu fled and encountered a young man with a jade-green flute beside an unfinished Go board.
• The young man played one note that soothed Skin Marries Bone’s vortex, shifted the fight, and excited Xu Lang in the shadows.

Xu Lang used Tanlang Star as bait, while the astral warriors fought Skin Marries Bone and opened a rift that released the gate gods Shentu and Yulei. A mysterious figure then emerged from the rift and targeted the warriors’ Fate Patterns, leaving Lin Zhao, Baili Tu, Wang Yi, and Qin Chuan facing a far greater threat.

• Xu Lang considered using the astral warriors as a resource and wondered whether capturing them would draw out Ziwei Star.
• Wang Yi used his flute to suppress Skin Marries Bone, allowing Baili Tu to pierce the vortex and destroy her.
• Shentu and Yulei emerged from the opened rift and confronted the warriors, with Yulei injuring Baili Tu and Shentu recognizing Lin Zhao’s incomplete power.
• A mysterious voice ordered Shentu and Yulei to stand down, then sent a black-mist figure out of the rift to identify the hidden main stars and examine Lin Zhao’s soul.
• Lin Zhao’s false Tanlang Fate Pattern spun wildly as the black-mist figure showed interest in the warriors’ Fate Patterns, and Qin Chuan joined Lin Zhao, Baili Tu, and Wang Yi against it.

Xu Lang withdrew the black mist figure, leaving Shentu, Yulei, Skin Marries Bone, and the ghost infant to fight Qin Chuan, Chen Silu, Lin Zhao, Baili Tu, and Wang Yi. The four warriors damaged or destroyed their enemies’ powers, but Shentu restored its domain as the ghost infant advanced on Chen Silu.

• Xu Lang withdrew the black mist figure, which retreated after sensing Xu Lang’s presence; Shentu, Yulei, Skin Marries Bone, and the ghost infant remained on the field.
• Wang Yi used black and white Go stones to break through Shentu’s overlapping domains, while Yulei attacked Qin Chuan and Lin Zhao intercepted the strike, damaging Yulei’s halberd.
• Baili Tu pierced and shattered Skin Marries Bone, then absorbed her resentment and hatred, transforming his Seven Kills Fate Pattern.
• Wang Yi shattered Shentu’s domain with a final stone, but Shentu planted its halberd and restored its power as a city with four gates.
• Lin Zhao warned that Shentu and Yulei were going all out, while the ghost infant survived Skin Marries Bone’s destruction and crawled toward Chen Silu.

Chen Silu used the Sword of Checks and Balances to destroy the ghost infant’s bodies, while Baili Tu and the others struggled against powerful Strange Tales. The Heavenly Mechanism Elder and Li Wenchang arrived and freed Baili Tu from Skin Marries Bone’s corruption, but Skin Marries Bone remained bound to him.

• Chen Silu manifested the Sword of Checks and Balances, discovered how it revealed the ghost infants’ weaknesses, and destroyed both of their bodies, though he sensed the Strange Tale was not truly dead.
• Baili Tu resisted Skin Marries Bone’s illusion by spitting blood onto his spear, but his attack injured his own Seven Kills Fate Pattern and left him vulnerable to her again.
• Shentu broke through Wang Yi’s game, while Wang Yi damaged the east gate’s plaque before Shentu struck him away and began repairing the gate.
• Yulei gained the advantage over Lin Zhao and Qin Chuan as the fighters faced worsening battles across the four fronts.
• The Heavenly Mechanism Elder and Li Wenchang arrived, and Li Wenchang used a written character to remove the corruption from Baili Tu’s Fate Pattern.
• Skin Marries Bone reappeared on Baili Tu’s back and reminded him that she was still bound to him.

Li Wenchang and the others drove off Shencha and Yulei while trying to save Baili Tu, then encountered Wang Dalong, a strange man who healed Baili Tu with money and invited them to Black Town. Baili Tu attacked Wang Dalong, but Wang Yi’s game piece unexpectedly blocked the spear.

• Heavenly Mechanism Elder said Baili Tu’s tainted Fate Pattern could only be saved by shattering and reshaping it, and Wang Yi urged Li Wenchang to help defeat Shentu instead of aiding Qin Chuan and Lin Zhao.
• Li Wenchang joined Wang Yi and Chen Silu against Shencha, forcing him to retreat into the Strange Tale dimension; Yulei also withdrew as the eerie domain faded.
• Wang Dalong emerged from the forest, claimed to be an opinion leader from Happy Residents Street, and invited the group to Black Town to meet Yingzhao.
• Wang Yi accepted Wang Dalong’s offer of money for Baili Tu’s treatment, and the banknotes immediately healed Baili Tu’s injuries.
• Baili Tu sprang up and thrust his spear at Wang Dalong, but Wang Yi’s white game piece blocked it against his will.

Wang Yi fell under the influence of the man in the white suit and launched a deadly attack on Baili Tu. As the enormous chessboards began grinding the battlefield between them, Baili Tu fought to destroy the white board.

• The man in the white suit urged Wang Yi to attack Baili Tu, and Wang Yi unfurled a chessboard and went after him.
• Qin Chuan attacked the man in the white suit, while his words also unsettled Lin Zhao; Wang Yi was pulled away and protected by his bodyguards.
• Chen Silu called out to Wang Yi and Baili Tu, but the Heavenly Mechanism Elder said the effect was a rule rather than an illusion.
• Wang Yi conjured huge black and white chessboards above and below the battlefield, trapping Baili Tu between them.
• Baili Tu summoned seven blood-red spears as the boards rotated and began tearing through his barrier.
• Baili Tu stabbed a spear into the white chessboard and sent blood-red energy through it to try to destroy it.

Wang Yi trapped Baili Tu in the Heaven and Earth Chessboard, where every square unleashed a deadly unfinished game and left him fighting with little hope of escape. Lin Zhao spotted that Wang Yi’s gaze betrayed a weakness in the setup, and Li Wenchang identified the northeastern corner as the place where its momentum began.

• Wang Yi’s Heaven and Earth Chessboard blocked Baili Tu’s spear and revealed an unfinished game whose force neutralized his attack.
• Baili Tu was wounded by the board’s killing arrays, then forced his way between squares while choosing not to rely on Chen Silu and the others.
• Baili Tu endured repeated attacks as he searched for a way out, but the board’s edge and its ring of arrays drove him back.
• Qin Chuan tried to reach the man in the white suit, but Lin Zhao held him off while recalling that every game had a gap in the player’s heart.
• Lin Zhao noticed Wang Yi looking toward the northeastern corner and called Li Wenchang’s attention to it.
• Li Wenchang recognized that the northeastern corner’s unfinished game gathered momentum inward and was where Wang Yi had begun building the setup.