Recaps

Lu Xiu completed Dark Souls, altered its world to help players, and led Nine Provinces to victory in the speedrun contest. As the group battles began, the Creator debuff exposed her to both Prison Rock players and Dark Souls bosses.

• Lu Xiu linked the First Flame, earned an SSS clear, and unlocked Placement along with the Lord of Cinder skill and Sunlight Spear.
• Players from Nine Provinces and Prison Rock struggled through Dark Souls as Lu Xiu completed another run and helped Solaire regain his resolve.
• Jian Li linked the First Flame while Jian Ning turned away and chose to become the Dark Lord, and Lu Xiu later reassured Jian Li about their friendship.
• Lu Xiu added Sister Friede’s Ariandel Chapel to the Painted World and placed Darkeater Midir in a cavern beneath Firelink Shrine.
• Nine Provinces won the speedrun contest with 36 first clears to Prison Rock’s 21, gaining fifty capital districts.
• The system assigned Lu Xiu to the first group-battle tier and gave her a Creator debuff that drew monsters and bosses to her location.
• Lu Xiu landed in Gwynevere’s bedchamber, failed to obtain the Lordvessel, and entered Ornstein and Smough’s hall, where Prison Rock players and the bosses turned on her.

Lu Xiu led Nine Provinces through shifting boss arenas and defeated Prison Rock’s leaders while securing the Core Bonfires. Nine Provinces won the battle, and Lu Xiu returned home as its celebrated star player with new questions about the Play Society.

• Lu Xiu drew Ornstein and Smough through Anor Londo, using their attacks to devastate Prison Rock’s forces before reaching Sen’s Fortress and finding Finn waiting there.
• Finn trapped Lu Xiu in his Edge-less Prison Domain, but she located Jian Ning’s invisible threads, sealed her skill, defeated Finn, and blacklisted Jian Ning and her allies.
• Lu Xiu joined Nine Provinces at the lake, helped defeat the Hydra and Sanctuary Guardian, then defeated Artorias and lit Oolacile’s two Core Bonfires.
• Prison Rock claimed a Core Bonfire in the Painted World, but Zane’s killing of Priscilla turned Anor Londo’s NPCs against them, forcing him to flee Gwyndolin and the Silver Knights.
• Lu Xiu led Nine Provinces into Midir’s lair, where her Lord of Cinder Domain protected and revived her allies as they overwhelmed Prison Rock and killed Zane, Finn, and Gareth.
• Lu Xiu defeated Gallagher in the Duel Arena, then helped Jian Li and Shen Nian kill Midir and lit Firelink Shrine’s Core Bonfire, securing Nine Provinces’ victory.
• After the system named Lu Xiu star player and awarded her 10,000 merit points, Cheng Xiu identified Jian Ning’s organization as the Play Society, and Lu Xiu returned home to a flood of messages and friend requests.

Lu Xiu placed and cleared the Witch instance, gained control of its reality-overwrite area, and helped secure Nine Provinces’ victory over Prison Rock. With new powers and systems opening up, she began building a Monster Hunter multiplayer dungeon and prepared to draw players into it.

• Lu Xiu took first place in the battle merit rankings, then met Priscilla and watched Nine Provinces defeat Prison Rock as the system announced multiplayer dungeons and negotiations over occupied territory.
• Lu Xiu placed the Witch instance at the Abandoned Residential Complex, where Ellen and Viola retained their memories and the dungeon began spreading beyond its intended bounds.
• Lu Xiu kept Ellen and Viola from fighting for thirty minutes, cleared the dungeon, and became its Lord of the Realm with control over the reality-overwrite area.
• Lu Xiu expanded the altered forest and tested its monsters, while Prison Rock’s delegation brought her cooldown items and Alicia’s crystals during negotiations.
• Lu Xiu signed the agreement requiring Prison Rock players to surrender half their Survival Points and give every Nine Provinces player a random A-rank skill, and Nine Provinces was declared the winner.
• Lu Xiu used her root skill to create the Miracle Armament Judgment and gained the Mythical skill Power Accumulation, while new multiplayer and Architect functions reopened.
• Shen Nian and Jian Li entered a multiplayer instance with Liana from Franca, where Lu Xiu’s Afterimage killed Shen Nian and Liana before Liana warned Princess Rosalind about Nine Provinces’ strength.
• Lu Xiu built a Monster Hunter: World dungeon, tested its weapons and monsters, and decided to clear it and make a promotional video after players pleaded for its release.

Lu Xiu brought Monster Hunter into the real world, manifesting Astera in Jade Capital and using its weapons and systems to fight the monster tide. Astera’s NPCs and equipment drew players and foreign leaders toward Nine Provinces as Lu Xiu returned to the frontline to test new gear.

• Lu Xiu cleared Monster Hunter, unlocked pre-placement, and chose a coastal metropolis for its physical entrance as the instance opened with Mythic rewards.
• Rosalind and other players struggled through Monster Hunter’s increasingly difficult hunts, while Lu Xiu sent Yan Fushou equipment that could be crafted from dungeon materials.
• Lu Xiu traveled to Jade Capital and cleared the offline instance, causing Astera and its NPCs to materialize in the city.
• When a monster tide struck, Lu Xiu fought along Jade Capital’s defensive line, drove back Crawlers, and killed two Variant Monsters.
• Lu Xiu and Astera’s Smithy used real-world monster parts to create the S-rank Yama Type I bow, and she placed a Lordvessel Bonfire at Astera.
• Footage of Lu Xiu’s fighting spread widely, and the Coordination Bureau’s senior leader thanked her while officials tested the new equipment.
• Astera reopened to players, its Smithy offered S-rated gear made from monster materials, and leaders across regions hurried to contact Lu Xiu.
• Lu Xiu said she would return to the frontline to hunt Variant Monsters and test equipment made from combined real-world and dungeon materials, as High Sequence players flooded Jade Capital’s defense zones.