Recaps

Lu Xiu fought Ornstein and Smough after the dungeon’s restrictions lifted, then used their aggression to turn the Prison Rock players’ attack into a massacre. She escaped toward the doorway while Nine Provinces’ players retreated.

• Lu Xiu deflected Ornstein’s spear and evaded Smough’s hammer, realizing the two BOSSes now fought with adaptive instincts and seamless coordination.
• Prison Rock players rushed Lu Xiu as Nine Provinces players tried to reach and protect her.
• Lu Xiu dodged past Ornstein and Smough, parried a Prison Rock player’s strike, and charged through the enemy formation, declaring herself the Train King.
• Lu Xiu escaped behind the Prison Rock players and urged the Nine Provinces players to run, leaving Ornstein and Smough to rampage through their opponents.
• The surviving Prison Rock players fled as Lu Xiu reached the doorway, and the Nine Provinces players withdrew after realizing she had escaped on her own.

Lu Xiu drew the Twin Princes out of their chamber and used her Jump Kit and movement skills to race through Anor Londo, with Ornstein and Smough pursuing her and devastating the corridor. She approached the main hall’s exit as spectators realized Prison Rock players were blocking the way ahead.

• The spectator portal opened, and millions of players watched Lu Xiu battle two bosses before drawing them out of their chamber.
• Lu Xiu equipped her Jump Kit, warned Nine Provinces players to retreat to the walls, and launched herself down the corridor with Ornstein and Smough chasing her.
• Lu Xiu dodged a Prison Rock player’s sword, and the pursuing bosses smashed through the corridor, crushing Prison Rock players while Nine Provinces players took cover.
• A Nine Provinces Strategy Group member cursed Yan Fushou for telling them to protect someone instead of relying on Lu Xiu.
• Spectators recognized Lu Xiu’s combat techniques and realized that more than a hundred Prison Rock players were blocking her route out of the main hall.

Lu Xiu led Ornstein, Smough, Silver Knights, and Anor Londo Giants onto the staircase where Nine Provinces and Prison Rock players were fighting. She deflected Thunder’s attacks, caught Enoch’s dagger, and maneuvered the Twin Princes into striking both Chosen players, leaving them critically wounded as she stood unharmed between the bosses.

• Lu Xiu burst from Anor Londo’s main hall with a monster army following her and charged toward the staircase battle between Nine Provinces and Prison Rock.
• Thunder and Enoch tried to stop Lu Xiu, while Fan Lixin ordered the Nine Provinces players to move aside and let her pass.
• Lu Xiu deflected Thunder’s great axe, caught Enoch’s dagger barehanded, and threw both Chosen players off balance.
• Lu Xiu withdrew into the Twin Princes’ attack path and sidestepped their spear and hammer, causing Ornstein and Smough to strike Thunder and Enoch instead.
• Thunder and Enoch were hurled down the staircase with critical injuries, while Lu Xiu remained standing unharmed between the Twin Princes as both livestream audiences watched.

Lu Xiu used the Twin Princes of Anor Londo to slaughter Prison Rock players as she ran through the outer district, and both factions began clearing her path. She reached the suspended platform connecting Anor Londo to Sen's Fortress, continuing her monster-pulling marathon.

• Lu Xiu deflected Thunder's attack and sidestepped Ornstein's spear, causing the boss to impale and kill Thunder.
• Lu Xiu dodged Enoch's Afterimage attacks, and Smough's great hammer crushed him as it fell.
• Lu Xiu ran through the Prison Rock players, using her evasions to redirect Ornstein and Smough's attacks and kill more than a hundred of them.
• Fan Lixin and the other witnesses watched the slaughter, while Prison Rock players and its Imperial Chancellor reacted with disbelief and despair.
• Both factions moved aside as Lu Xiu raced across a bridge with the growing monster horde behind her, and she reached the platform linking Anor Londo to Sen's Fortress.

Lu Xiu escaped Anor Londo by drawing its monsters to the terrace, trapping the Prison Rock players and giving Nine Provinces the advantage. She raced through Sen's Fortress toward Darkroot Garden, where she encountered Finn, a hostile Sequence 31 player, in place of the Titanite Demon.

• Lu Xiu flew away from the terrace as Ornstein, Smough, and the monsters filled it, blocking Anor Londo's routes and trapping the arriving Prison Rock players.
• Tessa led the Prison Rock players deeper into Anor Londo while Fan Lixin sent the Nine Provinces players after them.
• Lu Xiu reached the top of Sen's Fortress and ran through its traps and guards, reaching the exit in less than ten minutes.
• Lu Xiu passed the blacksmith's chamber and entered the room where the Titanite Demon should have been.
• Lu Xiu found Finn standing beside the demon's ash and saw his hostile-faction ID: Sequence 31.

Finn ambushed Lu Xiu outside Sen’s Fortress and trapped her in his weapon-countering Domain, forcing her into hand-to-hand combat. After Finn’s punch sent her into a wall, Lu Xiu sensed a mysterious woman in the Undead Parish who had manipulated her arm with invisible threads.

• Gallagher sent Finn to watch Sen’s Fortress and hunt for an opening to attack Lu Xiu, while Queenie warned him that Lu Xiu had built the Sifu dungeon.
• Finn confronted Lu Xiu alone and activated his Edge-less Prison Domain, which weakened bladed weapons and empowered his unarmed attacks.
• Lu Xiu put away the Nameless Blade and faced Finn with her fists, drawing alarm from Nine Provinces viewers and confidence from Prison Rock viewers.
• Finn charged and punched Lu Xiu, but an unseen force pulled her arm out of position; the blow drove her into a wall and cost her a third of her health.
• Lu Xiu sensed a woman in the Undead Parish manipulating invisible threads, and the woman smiled as she realized Lu Xiu had found her.

Lu Xiu used her abilities to discover that Jian Ning was secretly controlling threads from the Bell Tower, then stole and sealed Jian Ning’s Hunting Thread skill. After redirecting Finn’s attack with Neutralize, Lu Xiu accused Jian Ning of betraying her country and permanently blacklisted her from the Instance.

• Finn charged Lu Xiu, but she used her Jump Kit to wall-run past him and consumed Divine Confetti to increase her mental power.
• Lu Xiu activated Reverse Visual Imagery, located Jian Ning at the Bell Tower, and used Ellen’s Red Headband to steal and seal Jian Ning’s Hunting Thread for ten minutes.
• Jian Ning lost control of her threads and discovered that Lu Xiu had forcibly sealed her skill.
• Lu Xiu used Neutralize to redirect Finn’s punch, leaving him off balance and revealing threads spreading around her.
• Lu Xiu accused Jian Ning of betraying her country and permanently blacklisted her from the Instance.

Lu Xiu dominated Finn while using transparent threads to control Jian Ning and ring the Bells of Awakening from afar. As Finn and Jian Ning activated their invincibility skills at the same time, both broke free of her control.

• Lu Xiu revealed that Jian Ning was caught in her transparent threads, then used the threads to make Jian Ning ring the Bells of Awakening while she Neutralized Finn’s attacks.
• Lu Xiu overwhelmed Finn with close-range strikes and sent him crashing into a stone wall, while Jian Ning continued to ring the bell.
• Lu Xiu dragged Jian Ning from the Bell Tower and slammed her chin into the pavement, breaking her jaw.
• Finn fled toward the Black Forest, but Lu Xiu caught him in her threads and lifted him into the air, revealing an immense web surrounding her.
• Finn and Jian Ning activated their invincibility skills at the same moment, and golden light enveloped them both.

Lu Xiu used the skill she had stolen from Jian Ning to slaughter the Play Society members in Undead Parish while Jian Ning remained invincible. Jian Ning disabled the skill with her Domain Skill before it could kill everyone, then vowed to remember Lu Xiu as the threads vanished.

• Finn escaped into the passage to Darkroot Garden, while Lu Xiu chose not to pursue him and turned her attention to Jian Ning.
• Lu Xiu used transparent threads to bind the cat-eared girl and the Play Society members hiding near the Bell Tower, then hurled them against buildings and pillars until they were eliminated.
• Jian Ning watched the Play Society members die and laughed as she realized Lu Xiu had stolen and mastered her skill.
• With her invincibility nearly over, Jian Ning activated her Domain Skill to disable Lu Xiu's threads and said she would remember her.
• Lu Xiu's stolen skill vanished, and she calmly said she would remember Jian Ning too.

After executing the Nine Provinces traitors who attacked her, Lu Xiu abandoned her pursuit of Finn and headed to the lake area to meet allies. Jian Li apologized for Jian Ning’s actions, and Lu Xiu reassured her before joining the fight against the crystal monster; Shen Nian’s messages from Blighttown left Lu Xiu laughing.

• Lu Xiu memorized the traitors’ IDs for her blacklist, healed herself, and reflected on needing more skills and battle merits.
• Lu Xiu searched for Finn with Reverse Visual Imagery, found he had fled beyond her perception, and decided not to chase him through Darkroot Garden.
• Lu Xiu reached the lake area and told Jian Li and a round-faced player how Jian Ning had intervened and attacked her, leading Lu Xiu to defeat Jian Ning’s allies and blacklist her.
• Jian Li apologized for her sister, and Lu Xiu told her that Jian Ning was responsible for her own choices; Lu Xiu then agreed to join the fight against the crystal monster.
• Jian Li showed Lu Xiu Shen Nian’s messages about being stranded in Blighttown and harassed by blowdart enemies, and Lu Xiu burst out laughing.

At Firelink Shrine, Finn returned after Lu Xiu defeated him and warned the Prison Rock leaders that she was far more dangerous than expected. Gallagher abandoned the plan to hunt her and ordered his forces to seek and hold three Core Bonfires, while preparing to fight her if she came for them.

• Finn returned to Firelink Shrine and told the Prison Rock players to call Gallagher back.
• Finn admitted that Lu Xiu had beaten him one-handed inside his domain, forcing him to flee with an invincibility skill.
• Queenie suggested that Lu Xiu was a dungeon aggregate, combining abilities drawn from multiple dungeons.
• Finn advised Gallagher to avoid provoking Lu Xiu and instead win by occupying three Core Bonfires.
• Gallagher ordered the Prison Rock players to search around Firelink Shrine for its Core Bonfire and prepare to hold it.

Lu Xiu led Nine Provinces toward Oolacile to secure its Core Bonfires, intending to face the Sanctuary Guardian while the others supported her. The entrance instead dragged the entire group into the spirit temple, while Prison Rock players and Gallagher’s team discovered possible new entrances elsewhere.

• Lu Xiu defeated the Hydra with Jian Li as Nine Provinces’s main force reached the lake, then proposed capturing two Core Bonfires in Oolacile instead of chasing Prison Rock players.
• Wei Yidong revealed he had the Broken Pendant, and the group used it to summon Dusk and open the entrance to Oolacile.
• Lu Xiu warned the group she would hold the Sanctuary Guardian’s aggro, but an Abyssal arm emerged from the vortex and pulled all the Nine Provinces players inside.
• Lu Xiu led the group through the spirit temple toward a familiar fog gate as Gallagher and Queenie found another entrance at Firelink Shrine.
• A Prison Rock player spotted a church in the Painted World and asked Zane whether it had been there before.

The main livestream split into views of the Painted World, Firelink Shrine, and Oolacile as players noticed changes to the battlefields. Lu Xiu fought the Sanctuary Guardian alone with extraordinary precision, then let Nine Provinces attack while Prison Rock viewers complained that her advantage was unfair; Prison Rock’s core players began acting in the other viewpoints.

• The livestream split into three views, showing Lu Xiu at the Sanctuary Guardian, Zane near a church in the Painted World, and Gallagher and Queenie at a hidden entrance in Firelink Shrine.
• Viewers noticed the church and entrance had appeared as new battlefield changes, and suspected Lu Xiu was responsible.
• Lu Xiu faced the Sanctuary Guardian alone, dodging its lightning and rapid horn attacks with tiny movements before striking it and cutting off its scorpion tail.
• Jian Li and the other Nine Provinces core players joined the fight once Lu Xiu had drawn the Guardian’s attention, steadily lowering its health.
• Prison Rock viewers called Lu Xiu’s skill and dungeon knowledge unfair, while Prison Rock’s core players began acting in the other viewpoints.

Gallagher and Prison Rock’s team discovered Darkeater Midir beneath Firelink Shrine, where the dragon nearly wiped them out and forced them to flee. Meanwhile, Zane led Prison Rock’s other force into a newly appeared church in the Painted World, where they found a huge, bound crow-like priest holding a Lordvessel.

• Gallagher led Prison Rock’s core players down a newly opened passage beneath Firelink Shrine to investigate a dragon’s roar and claim its Core Bonfire.
• The team encountered Darkeater Midir, whose laser attack killed two players and left the survivors near death despite Gareth’s defensive domain.
• Midir attacked the survivors with flames and claws, killing another player and forcing Gallagher and Finn to order a retreat.
• Zane chose to explore a newly appeared church in the Painted World before heading to the familiar tower, and his force reached it without encountering enemies.
• Zane and Tessa opened the church doors and found a gigantic, bound crow-like priest clutching a golden Lordvessel.

Zane and the Prison Rock players defeated Sister Friede, only for Father Ariandel to revive her and begin a brutal second phase. As Prison Rock fled and viewers accused Lu Xiu of cheating, Lu Xiu had already defeated the Sanctuary Guardian in Oolacile.

• Zane and the Prison Rock players fought Sister Friede, whose speed, invisibility, and frost attacks killed seven core players before they finally defeated her.
• Father Ariandel broke his chains and struck the Lordvessel, engulfing Sister Friede in flames and reviving her for a second phase alongside him.
• Father Ariandel and Sister Friede attacked together, overwhelming Zane's team and forcing him to order a retreat.
• Nine Provinces viewers marveled at the bosses, while Prison Rock viewers accused Lu Xiu of setting a trap and regretted not going to Oolacile.
• Lu Xiu had already defeated the Sanctuary Guardian in Oolacile.

Lu Xiu led the Nine Provinces players to light Oolacile’s first Core Bonfire, then faced Knight Artorias, a boss whose speed and damage pushed her to her limits. As Lu Xiu continued fighting and lit the second Core Bonfire, Prison Rock’s leaders decided to unite their forces against one of their own bosses.

• Lu Xiu lit Oolacile’s first Core Bonfire after the Nine Provinces defeated the Sanctuary Guardian.
• Lu Xiu led the Nine Provinces core players through the Royal Wood toward the second Core Bonfire and warned them that its guardian was near the limit of what she could handle.
• Knight Artorias ambushed the party, killed one Nine Provinces player, and forced Lu Xiu to evade his rapid attacks while the others supported her from a distance.
• Artorias entered his second phase below half health, but Lu Xiu avoided every attack as his speed, strength, and area attacks increased.
• Zane and Gallagher regrouped with their players after learning that both Prison Rock forces faced timed bosses, while Finn proposed attacking one boss together.
• The system announced that Lu Xiu had lit Oolacile’s second Core Bonfire, prompting Finn to order Prison Rock’s players to unite and fight.

Lu Xiu defeated Artorias in Oolacile, lit the area's second Core Bonfire, and revealed that two more bosses remained. With Prison Rock claiming a Core Bonfire in the Painted World, she and the Nine Provinces team planned their next move toward Firelink Shrine.

• Lu Xiu defeated Artorias after dodging his unpredictable attacks, and the Wolf Knight bowed his head to her before dissolving into light.
• Lu Xiu lit Oolacile's second Core Bonfire, then leaned on Jian Li while Shen Nian retied her hair and accidentally called her "Master."
• After recovering, Lu Xiu agreed with Cheng Xiu that the team should claim another Core Bonfire and chose Firelink Shrine as their next destination.
• Prison Rock player Zane lit the Painted World's first Core Bonfire, reducing Nine Provinces' lead to two Core Bonfires to one.
• Lu Xiu warned the team not to provoke the Lord of the Abyss or the Ancient Dragon and revealed that Oolacile still had two bosses left.

Prison Rock celebrated capturing its first Core Bonfire after Zane killed Priscilla, but Finn’s suspicions proved justified when the kill triggered Gwyndolin’s hunt and turned Zane into a valuable target. As Prison Rock fled Anor Londo under attack, its former NPC allies—including Solaire—turned against it.

• After Zane reported that Priscilla was easy to defeat, Finn questioned why the Painted World’s Core Bonfire had such a weak guardian and urged Prison Rock to prepare for a fight at Firelink Shrine.
• Zane left a third of his forces to defend the captured Core Bonfire and led the rest toward Firelink Shrine, where they returned to Anor Londo and found it in its darkened state.
• Gwyndolin appeared and the system announced that Priscilla’s death had made Zane a hunted criminal, turned neutral and friendly NPCs hostile to Prison Rock, and made Zane’s death worth the points of a Core Bonfire.
• Fan Lixin and the Nine Provinces players watched from the hall’s exit as Silver Knights surrounded Prison Rock, while Zane used Mist Sea Abyss to cover the faction’s escape.
• At the Dragon Bridge, Solaire turned on Gran after the announcement and declared that Prison Rock did not deserve to call itself sun knights.
• Prison Rock players watched Zane flee Anor Londo with Gwyndolin and the Silver Knights pursuing him, while Fan Lixin attacked from the sidelines.

After Prison Rock players killed Priscilla and claimed a Core Bonfire, the system marked Zane for a hunt by Gwyndolin, and Lu Xiu led the Nine Provinces force toward Firelink Shrine. Zane reunited with Gallagher and Finn there as both factions prepared for an imminent battle, with Prison Rock planning to lure their rivals into Midir’s arena.

• Lu Xiu explained that claiming the Painted World’s Core Bonfire brought a severe penalty, and speculated that Priscilla was Gwyn’s illegitimate daughter.
• Cheng Xiu reported that Zane escaped a Nine Provinces ambush in Anor Londo, so Lu Xiu led the main force toward Firelink Shrine while some players guarded Oolacile.
• Lu Xiu’s group searched for Zane along the route but found no trace of him and continued toward Firelink Shrine.
• Zane arrived at Firelink Shrine with the last Prison Rock player beside him and reunited with Gallagher and Finn.
• The livestream showed both factions closing in on each other, while Prison Rock players discussed using Midir’s arena to ambush the Nine Provinces force.

Zane, Gallagher, and Finn lured the Nine Provinces players into Darkeater Midir’s arena, hoping the dragon would kill them and protect Zane’s Core Bonfire points. Lu Xiu unleashed her Domain Skill, Lord of Cinder, and the chapter ended with the Nine Provinces players rising from Midir’s Abyss Laser, alive and wreathed in flame.

• Zane agreed to lure the Nine Provinces players into Midir’s arena and die alongside them so Prison Rock could avoid giving up his Core Bonfire points.
• Jian Ning watched Firelink Shrine with Zhang Chongshan as the Nine Provinces and Prison Rock factions prepared for battle.
• Lu Xiu led more than three hundred Nine Provinces players down into Midir’s lair after Prison Rock retreated into the arena.
• A Prison Rock player trapped the Nine Provinces players in a gravity field while Zane attacked and Midir charged his Abyss Laser.
• Lu Xiu used Domain Expansion: Lord of Cinder, dispelling the gravity field as Midir fired his laser across the arena.
• After the laser struck, Lu Xiu and the Nine Provinces players rose unharmed, their bodies and weapons burning with the First Flame.

Lu Xiu activated her Lord of Cinder Domain, reviving the Nine Provinces players and empowering their attacks as she fought Midir. After the Nine Provinces began overwhelming Prison Rock, Gallagher, Finn, and Gareth used cooldown crystals to reset their Domains and charged at Lu Xiu.

• Lu Xiu's Lord of Cinder Domain gave nearly a hundred Nine Provinces players defense-ignoring attacks, immunity to disruption, and full-health revivals beside her.
• Lu Xiu deflected Zane's attack, impaled him with the Loathing Halberd, and killed him while Midir charged at her.
• Cheng Xiu led the revived Nine Provinces players into battle, where their reckless attacks and repeated revivals overwhelmed Prison Rock.
• Finn recognized that Lu Xiu's health was sustaining the Domain and urged Prison Rock to target her while Gallagher ordered their players to hold back the Nine Provinces' strongest fighters.
• Gallagher gave cooldown crystals to Finn and Gareth, then the three used their Domains and charged at Lu Xiu as she dodged Midir.

Lu Xiu outmaneuvered Midir and the Prison Rock fighters, killing Finn and Gareth with overwhelming attacks. She severed Gallagher’s Domain Skill and pulled him into an isolated Duel Arena for a one-on-one fight.

• Finn charged Lu Xiu, but she redirected his punch and used Midir’s attacks to throw him off balance and injure him.
• Gareth and Gallagher joined the fight, but Lu Xiu dodged their attacks and turned Midir into cover until Gallagher forced her back with Abyss Burial Prison.
• Finn and Gallagher layered their domains to restrict Lu Xiu, but she hurled a Sunlight Spear through them and instantly killed Finn.
• Lu Xiu slowed time with a Copper Coin and used Dragon Flash to instantly kill Gareth.
• Gallagher charged Lu Xiu, but she severed his Domain Skill and transported him to an isolated Duel Arena, where she invited him to fight.

Lu Xiu overwhelmed Prison Rock’s fighters with her combat skills and revival Domain Skill, then defeated Gallagher in the Duel Arena. As Gallagher vanished, he accepted that Queenie’s legend of an Apostle was true.

• Nine Provinces viewers watched Lu Xiu fight alongside Midir, kill Finn and Gareth, and begin a Duel Arena battle with Gallagher.
• Yan Fushou ordered a highly classified report on Lu Xiu’s unknown skills and recognized her as a strategic-level asset.
• Prison Rock viewers despaired over Lu Xiu’s strength, while some began praising her despite Gallagher’s ongoing fight.
• Gallagher stopped attacking when he realized he could not win and asked Lu Xiu if she was an Apostle; she genuinely did not know what he meant.
• Gallagher charged once more, but Lu Xiu perfectly deflected him and dealt the finishing thrust as his Posture Bar broke.
• As he vanished, Gallagher remembered Queenie’s legend and believed he had met the Apostle.

Lu Xiu defeated Gallagher and his allies, then joined Jian Li and Shen Nian in killing Darkeater Midir and lighting Firelink Shrine’s Core Bonfire. With Nine Provinces’ victory assured, Queenie failed to rejoin Prison Rock, while Jian Ning told Zhang Chongshan to remain with Prison Rock and live well.

• After Lu Xiu emerged from Audience’s arena, the Prison Rock players gave up resisting and the Nine Provinces players pressed their advantage.
• Shen Nian bombarded Lu Xiu with questions, and Lu Xiu used her crimson-eyed power to make Shen Nian bark like a dog before Darkeater Midir attacked.
• Lu Xiu drew Midir’s attention while Jian Li and Shen Nian attacked, and the three defeated the dragon.
• Lu Xiu lit Firelink Shrine’s Core Bonfire, giving Nine Provinces four Core Bonfires and making its victory certain.
• Queenie tried to rejoin Prison Rock, but the faction had too few survivors to hold a vote, leaving her stranded among Nine Provinces players.
• Jian Ning told Zhang Chongshan to stay with Prison Rock, then said he could remain there and live well.

Lu Xiu helped secure the Nine Provinces’ victory in the team battle, learned that Jian Ning led the dangerous Play Society, and returned home to find that the livestream had made her famous across the realm. The chapter ended with Lu Xiu overwhelmed by a flood of messages and friend requests.

• After Midir died, Lu Xiu joked with Shen Nian and joined Cheng Xiu’s group as the team battle wound down.
• Lu Xiu told Cheng Xiu about Jian Ning, and he identified her organization as the Play Society, whose members treated survival like a game.
• Lu Xiu asked whether the Play Society had ties to Franca, then waited out the remaining battle time with Shen Nian and Jian Li.
• The system announced the Nine Provinces’ victory, credited Lu Xiu as star player, and awarded her 10,000 merit points.
• Back home, Lu Xiu was swamped by messages and friend requests, and Shen Nian showed her forum posts celebrating the livestream and Lu Xiu’s appearance.