Recaps

After the cross-realm battle, the Coordination Bureau debated whether Queenie and Zhang Chongshan had betrayed their sides or were acting as spies, while weighing Lu Xiu’s unexpectedly formidable combat abilities. Lu Xiu began planning a hand-to-hand combat dungeon, but the special event’s settlement announcement revealed widespread deaths among core architects and a disastrous world rating.

• Cheng Xiu argued that Queenie might have defected to infiltrate the Nine Provinces and gather information about Lu Xiu, and Yan Fushou agreed that her intelligence could not be trusted.
• Wei Yidong asked whether Zhang Chongshan might also be acting undercover, and Cheng Xiu said they would have to wait for the returning players to learn what had happened to him.
• The Strategy Group described Lu Xiu’s exceptional combat skills, and Yan Fushou decided she no longer needed close personal protection, but Jian Li insisted that it was still necessary.
• Back at her apartment, Lu Xiu reviewed the battle and decided to design her next dungeon around Sifu so she could develop unarmed combat skills.
• The system announced that the special event had ended, rated the Nine Provinces IV and the world V, and reported that only the Nine Provinces and Franca had won while many regions had lost core architects permanently.

Lu Xiu read the forums’ reactions to the special event and worried about regions shattered by betrayal before deciding to focus on strengthening herself. At the Coordination Bureau, Shen Nian reported on the battle at Prison Rock and demonstrated her new skill by accidentally splitting Yan Fushou’s teacup and cutting off some of his hair.

• Lu Xiu browsed the Nine Provinces forum, where players celebrated the victory, cursed Zhang Chongshan, and speculated about Lu Xiu’s identity.
• Lu Xiu viewed a defeated region’s forum and saw players grieving their dead architects and condemning the vanguard members who had betrayed them.
• Lu Xiu considered how fractured regions might fare in future events, then set aside her worries and returned to strengthening herself.
• Yan Fushou questioned the five surviving Strategy Group players about Prison Rock, and Shen Nian described its wasteland environment, ruthless fighters, and the team’s effort to help her kill its core Architect.
• Shen Nian explained her void-like title skill and demonstrated her new blade skill, accidentally cutting Yan Fushou’s teacup in half and sending his remaining hair flying.

After Shen Nian demonstrated her new spatial-slash skill, Yan Fushou ordered reports on the Prison Rock operation and planned to question Queenie for intelligence. Imprisoned in the Coordination Bureau, Queenie searched Nine Provinces’ forums and dungeon library, then was stunned to find that all four of Lu Xiu’s dungeons were S-rank or higher; the Bureau’s director decided to let her try them as reconnaissance.

• Shen Nian accidentally cut off a large portion of Yan Fushou’s hair while demonstrating her spatial-slash skill, and Yan ordered her and the others to submit detailed reports.
• Yan reminded Shen Nian to continue contacting Lu Xiu and planned to compare Queenie’s intelligence with the operation reports to investigate Prison Rock’s dungeons and Zhang Chongshan’s possible betrayal.
• After more than ten hours of questioning, Queenie returned to her heavily fortified cell and decided to survive, explore Lu Xiu’s dungeons, and eventually pass intelligence to Prison Rock.
• Queenie searched Nine Provinces’ forum for praise of Lu Xiu but instead found players angrily complaining about Outlast and another dungeon.
• Queenie checked the Dungeon Library and discovered that Lu Xiu had made only four dungeons—Resident Evil and Outlast were S-rank, while Sekiro and Titanfall were SS-rank.
• Yan Fushou proposed sedating Queenie, but the old man refused and decided she should test Lu Xiu’s dungeons so the Coordination Bureau could learn how difficult they were for Prison Rock players.

Queenie entered Lu Xiu’s Instances expecting to mine their rewards for Prison Rock, but Resident Evil and Sekiro repeatedly overwhelmed her. She adapted to Sekiro’s combat rules enough to defeat the Samurai General, only to be broken by the Chained Ogre.

• Queenie saw that Lu Xiu had only four highly rated Instances and decided to clear them and pass their designs to Prison Rock.
• Queenie entered Resident Evil, was frightened by its survival-horror challenges, and returned to her cell after less than an hour.
• After resting, Queenie tried Resident Evil again, lasted longer, and concluded that she should switch to a combat Instance.
• Queenie entered Sekiro and repeatedly died while struggling to adapt to its unfamiliar combat mechanics.
• Queenie finally defeated the Samurai General, then encountered the Chained Ogre and was ejected after dying.
• Two Coordination Bureau guards agreed that Lu Xiu’s Instances broke everyone equally, including themselves.

Queenie’s repeated attempts at Lu Xiu’s dungeons left her furious and bewildered, while Zhang Chongshan unexpectedly cleared Derek’s dungeon on his first try. The Prison Rock guards realized his high rating could reveal intelligence and moved to knock him out.

• Queenie skipped Titanfall and entered Lu Xiu’s newest dungeon, Outlast, but returned in under ten minutes and began posting curses about Lu Xiu.
• Yan Fushou had Queenie brought to the interrogation room, where she asked how people stopped themselves from killing their constructor.
• Zhang Chongshan emerged from Derek’s dungeon and remarked that it had seemed unusually simple.
• The Prison Rock players saw Zhang Chongshan’s high rating and realized he had cleared Derek’s dungeon on his first try.
• A Prison Rock warrior ordered the others to knock Zhang Chongshan out before he could gather more intelligence.

Lu Xiu constructed a nightclub combat instance filled with superpowered enemies and designed an unarmed deflection system to help her withstand stronger opponents. After testing it and finding the early fights brutally difficult, she adjusted the progression notes and repeatedly practiced, rapidly improving her ability to deflect attacks.

• Lu Xiu built a nightclub scene populated by powerful thugs whose punches wielded lightning and fire.
• Lu Xiu designed the protagonist's combat around deflecting attacks, since hard blocks caused heavy health and posture damage.
• Lu Xiu tested the mechanics, deflected a lightning punch, then was struck by a faster follow-up and stopped the test.
• Lu Xiu added notes to lengthen early enemy combos and adjust the protagonist's attributes and deflection timing as age increased.
• Lu Xiu repeatedly re-entered the fight, refining her movements and learning to handle attacks from multiple enemies.

Shen Nian, displaced after Lu Xiu accidentally blasted open her apartment wall, asked to stay with Lu Xiu while repairs were underway. Lu Xiu refused, and Jian Li reacted with an ominous glare as Shen Nian considered Lu Xiu’s joking condition of wearing a maid outfit.

• Shen Nian learned her apartment would remain under repair for some time and decided she could not bear another night in a hotel.
• Shen Nian met Jian Li outside Lu Xiu’s apartment, and the two went upstairs to find Lu Xiu.
• Lu Xiu instinctively pinned Shen Nian when she reached to move hair from Lu Xiu’s face, then apologized and said muscle memory had taken over.
• Shen Nian praised Lu Xiu’s combat technique, while Lu Xiu hinted that the dungeon she was building would be revealed later.
• Shen Nian asked to stay with Lu Xiu, but Lu Xiu refused and jokingly said she might reconsider if Shen Nian wore a maid outfit.
• Jian Li fixed Shen Nian with a blank, oppressive glare as Shen Nian seriously considered the maid outfit condition.

Shen Nian fled from Jian Li’s killing intent while Lu Xiu returned to building her instance. At the Coordination Bureau, Yan Fushou reviewed intelligence from Prison Rock and decided to share it publicly so Nine Provinces constructers could learn from its dungeon designs.

• Shen Nian offered to wear a maid outfit to appease Jian Li, then watched Jian Li’s hostility vanish when Lu Xiu invited them inside.
• Jian Li gave Lu Xiu a wafer biscuit, and Lu Xiu entered the construction space, leaving Shen Nian and Jian Li alone.
• Shen Nian messaged Yan Fushou about Jian Li’s reaction, and Yan Fushou explained that Jian Li had wanted to ask Lu Xiu to live together.
• Yan Fushou reviewed Queenie’s intelligence about a Prison Rock combat dungeon and discussed frontline soldiers’ progress clearing Sekiro and the Titanfall Instance with Li Shengkai.
• Yan Fushou asked Li Shengkai to have his division’s constructers try recreating the Prison Rock dungeon and planned to send the intelligence to Lu Xiu.
• Yan Fushou decided to seek approval to publish the intelligence on the forum so constructers across Nine Provinces could study Prison Rock’s dungeon concepts.

Lu Xiu dismissed a Prison Rock bare-handed combat instance as too crude to help with her training, then returned to practicing her own roleplay instance. Meanwhile, the framework Yan Fushou shared inspired the Nine Provinces' Architects to pursue a new direction, and a Spirit Pivot Construction Group member believed he had finally solved his design.

• Lu Xiu rejected the Prison Rock instance framework because it lacked the mechanics and restrictions she wanted, then continued training in her office-building scene until exhaustion drove her to leave the Construction Space.
• Lu Xiu found Jian Li and Shen Nian still waiting in her apartment; Shen Nian announced that they would stay for a day, and Jian Li offered Lu Xiu a wafer before leaving with her.
• Yan Fushou posted the Prison Rock instance framework on the forum, prompting players and Architects to discuss its bare-handed combat design as an alternative to copying Lu Xiu's roleplay instances.
• Jin Yi urged the Spirit Pivot Construction Group to use the framework, and the group discussed combining its design with ideas from Lu Xiu's instances.
• Queenie regretted revealing the Prison Rock framework but decided it would not change the balance between the regions; over the following days, Nine Provinces' Architects began designing conventional instances inspired by it.
• A Spirit Pivot Construction Group member excitedly declared that he had figured out how to make his instance, while Lu Xiu announced that she had finally finished something.

Lu Xiu finished building the Sifu dungeon and was forced to wait for the system’s promotional countdown before entering its live verification run. Meanwhile, Yan Fushou tried to persuade Queenie to reveal more Prison Rock dungeons, but the new-release preview for Lu Xiu’s instance appeared before she could answer.

• Lu Xiu completed the Mortal Martial Arts dungeon, named it Sifu, and prepared to test it, but the system delayed her for a five-minute promotion.
• Queenie watched Nine Provinces players discuss the Prison Rock framework while repeatedly drawing inspiration from Lu Xiu’s dungeons.
• Yan Fushou offered to release Queenie from prison if she provided intelligence on at least three Prison Rock dungeons, but she refused to give up her remaining information.
• A system projection announced Lu Xiu’s new Sifu dungeon, leaving Queenie and Yan Fushou stunned.
• After the countdown ended, Lu Xiu entered the rainy martial arts hall and began her verification run.

Lu Xiu’s new instance, Sifu, appeared to use Prison Rock’s framework, but its verification footage showed her defeating superpowered enemies bare-handed with precise technique. The reveal stunned players and Architects, while Queenie realized Sifu had little in common with Prison Rock’s instance.

• The system announced Lu Xiu’s independent unarmed-combat instance, Sifu, and promised live footage of her verification clear.
• Players and Architects across the Nine Provinces feared that Lu Xiu’s instance would outclass their own plans, and they gathered to watch the footage.
• In a nightclub, Lu Xiu’s protagonist deflected and countered superpowered attackers without using visible skills, defeating them with bare-handed technique.
• The footage ended with Sifu’s “Coming soon” announcement, leaving players and Architects stunned by Lu Xiu’s combat ability.
• Queenie demanded to know why Sifu’s roleplay combat differed so much from Prison Rock’s instance, and Yan Fushou told her it had nothing to do with Prison Rock.

The builders’ verification footage of Lu Xiu’s bare-handed dungeon shocked Queenie and led her to suspect Lu Xiu was an apostle, while Yan Fushou learned that she could not be asked for the dungeon strategy because of divine intervention. Inside the dungeon, Lu Xiu defeated her senior brother Yang with ease and regretted that he died before she could fight him longer for skill drops.

• The verification footage showed Lu Xiu dodging superpowered enemies and armed attackers without using visible skills, leaving Queenie and the viewers stunned.
• Queenie asked Yan Fushou about the builders’ ratings, then speculated that Lu Xiu might be an apostle from a Class I or Class II world.
• Yan Fushou explained the Goddess Intervention incident that prevented them from asking Lu Xiu for her strategy, and Queenie refused to explain what she knew about apostles.
• After Queenie was taken from the interrogation room, Yan Fushou wondered about apostles while Lu Xiu continued fighting Yang inside the dungeon.
• Lu Xiu defeated Yang without taking damage, then struck him until his health reached zero and regretted that he had died before she could try for more skill drops.

Lu Xiu cleared her Sifu dungeon without embracing its intended lessons in martial virtue, earning an SSS clear and powerful new skills. Back in her apartment, she decided to test Neutralize with Jian Li and Shen Nian, then launched Sifu for players despite recognizing its difficulty might be excessive.

• The system mocked Lu Xiu for defeating every enemy without dying or showing martial virtue, then gave her dungeon an SS rating and her clear an SSS rating.
• Lu Xiu reached Constructor Level 8 and received Extraordinary · Remnant, which let her imbue her limbs with fire, lightning, or metal attributes and stabilize herself with the earth aspect.
• Lu Xiu received a True Copper Coin, attribute rewards, and the SSS first-clear skill Neutralize, which could redirect unarmed attacks and their attribute energy.
• Lu Xiu returned to her apartment, messaged Jian Li and Shen Nian to arrange a test of Neutralize, and read players discussing the new Sifu dungeon on the forum.
• Lu Xiu checked the dungeon rewards, realized she had left its combat sections very difficult, and launched Sifu for players without changing it.

Jiang Qiu entered Lu Xiu’s new martial-arts dungeon confident that her strength and fighting skills would make it easy, and she quickly defeated the prologue’s opponents. After the story shifted her into the weak body of the revenge-driven protagonist, she discovered that even the first thug was a superpowered enemy who could overwhelm her.

• Jin Yi hesitated to enter Lu Xiu’s new dungeon, fearing it would undermine the Construction Club’s own action-instance project.
• Jiang Qiu entered the dungeon convinced that her strength and skill with fists and kicks would suit its hand-to-hand combat.
• Jiang Qiu played the powerful villain in the prologue, defeated the old sifu, then witnessed the villain kill the child protagonist before she resurrected as that child.
• Jiang Qiu watched the protagonist train and grow up, then took control of him with far lower stats than the villain had possessed.
• Jiang Qiu entered an alley expecting an ordinary thug, but he dodged her punch, ignited his fist with flames, and sent her crashing into an electric scooter.

Jiang Qiu struggled through Lu Xiu’s dungeon, where powerful enemies and a punishing deflection mechanic left her repeatedly dying and aging. After discovering that deaths increased her Strength but also reduced her Agility and health as she aged, she reached age sixty, broke down, and charged out of her office threatening to go after Lu Xiu.

• Jiang Qiu defeated two superpowered slum enemies by dodging and attacking, then failed to deflect a third enemy’s blow and barely survived the fight.
• Jiang Qiu reached a drug workshop, died to its enemies, and revived at full health with increased Strength, believing death was meant to make her stronger.
• Jiang Qiu died again and noticed that each death added more years to her age while her Agility began to decline.
• Jiang Qiu fought through a corridor packed with superpowered thugs, aging to sixty and realizing that repeated deaths also shortened her health bar.
• Jiang Qiu pushed toward another group of enemies, then emerged from the dungeon in reality and stormed out of her office with a blade, threatening to die at Lu Xiu’s house.
• Jiang Qiu’s secretary tackled her and clung to her leg, begging her to calm down.

Jin Yi and Sun Yi were shaken by the brutal difficulty of Lu Xiu’s new instance, [Sifu], and considered how its mechanics might influence their own instance designs. As players flooded the forums with complaints and bait posts, Sun Yi began reconsidering his proposal before learning that Jiang Qiu had arrived at the Coordination Bureau after being driven to a breaking point by the instance.

• Jin Yi left [Sifu] frustrated by its punishing enemies, parry timing, and aging mechanic, then reconsidered whether to revise the Spirit Pivot Construction Group’s instance proposal.
• A forum poster deceptively praised [Sifu] as a satisfying power fantasy, then admitted the post was bait intended to lure other players into the punishing instance.
• Players filled the forums with complaints about [Sifu]’s overwhelming difficulty and said they could see no way to clear it.
• Sun Yi revealed that he had also entered [Sifu] and been beaten, then noticed similarities between its unarmed combat design and his own proposal based on the Prison Rock framework.
• After hearing a commotion at the Coordination Bureau, Sun Yi learned that Jiang Qiu of Longsword Guild had arrived after playing Lu Xiu’s instance and becoming extremely tilted.

Yan Fushou heard Jiang Qiu and Jian Li’s assessments of Lu Xiu’s new combat instance as he dealt with the people arriving at the Coordination Bureau. Lu Xiu checked the forum and found no reports of anyone clearing it, leaving her to wonder whether players could succeed without help.

• Yan Fushou told his secretary to bring Jiang Qiu to his office after she asked to meet Lu Xiu and the director.
• Jian Li said she could not clear Lu Xiu’s instance in one run and advised Yan Fushou that its difficulty depended on exceptional personal skill.
• Jiang Qiu apologized for losing her composure and offered to serve three months on the front line in exchange for meeting Lu Xiu and asking how she cleared the instance.
• Wei Yidong entered Yan Fushou’s office complaining about the instance, followed by Shen Nian.
• Lu Xiu browsed the forum, found no posts from players who had cleared the instance, and wondered if it still could not be cleared without help.

Lu Xiu wondered why players had not cleared Sifu and considered making easier dungeons to help them work up to it. After accidentally striking herself with her copper coin while showing off its power, she opened the door to find Li Shengkai and Sun Yi, who had come to ask her about making a lower-tier dungeon based on Sifu.

• Lu Xiu questioned why players had not mastered Sifu’s parry-and-counter combat and decided to wait before resorting to her plan of creating easier dungeons.
• Lu Xiu examined the powerful copper coin reward and tried to activate it while shouting “The World,” but a doorbell startled her and the coin hit her forehead.
• Lu Xiu opened the door and met Li Shengkai, the director of the Dungeon Resource Management Division, and his subordinate Sun Yi.
• Sun Yi proposed adapting Prison Rock’s barehanded-combat framework into a lower-tier dungeon that could prepare players for Sifu.
• Li Shengkai explained that he had come to ask Lu Xiu about the proposal, though he had arrived without preparing how to make the request.

Lu Xiu explained the rigorous martial-arts design behind Sifu and showed Sun Yi how its Neutralize mechanic worked, leaving him and Li Shengkai overwhelmed by the demands of creating a high-quality instance. When Jiang Qiu questioned how Neutralize could work against several attackers, Lu Xiu said players had to anticipate their moves and manage them in sequence.

• Li Shengkai and Sun Yi asked Lu Xiu for advice on designing a lower-tier hand-to-hand combat instance, and she told them to establish a clear martial-arts framework for its enemies first.
• Jian Li, Jiang Qiu, and Shen Nian arrived, and Lu Xiu explained that Sifu's major enemies had individually designed movements that she had refined using the Visual Mental Imagery Construction Method.
• Lu Xiu demonstrated that Neutralize required striking an enemy's wrist or elbow at the precise moment an attack released its power, and said every enemy attack needed a defined timing window.
• Lu Xiu said an Architect should test the mechanic by learning it and fighting through the instance, leaving Sun Yi and Li Shengkai stunned by the workload.
• Jiang Qiu questioned how Neutralize could handle multiple attackers, and Lu Xiu explained that players had to anticipate attacks, prioritize threats, and combine counters with dodges.

Lu Xiu explained why her Sifu dungeon demanded extreme skill, then advised Sun Yi on designing a lower-tier substitute. Jiang Qiu challenged Lu Xiu to a fight, but her mispronunciation of “attainment” left the group awkwardly embarrassed.

• Jiang Qiu criticized Sifu’s difficulty, and Lu Xiu defended its high standards while advising players to judge dungeons by their ratings and entry costs.
• Lu Xiu told Sun Yi to wait for a lower-tier substitute dungeon and explained that dungeon construction depended on theme, framework, and pushing mechanics to their limits.
• Sun Yi thanked Lu Xiu for her guidance, and she suggested temporary environmental weapons and a Focus meter with a guaranteed-hit finishing move to make his dungeon more forgiving.
• Sun Yi eagerly recorded Lu Xiu’s ideas while Li Shengkai, Jiang Qiu, Jian Li, and Shen Nian marveled at her talent and wondered why she made such difficult dungeons.
• Jiang Qiu asked to challenge Lu Xiu, explaining that she wanted to test Lu Xiu’s skill with fists and kicks, but Shen Nian corrected her mispronunciation of “attainment,” embarrassing her.

Lu Xiu sparred with Jiang Qiu in the Coordination Bureau’s Training Ground, adapting to the guild leader’s rapid attacks before defeating her with Lightning. Lu Xiu then scolded Jiang Qiu for dismissing the Sifu Instance as too difficult, while Fan Lixin reentered Sifu to learn a move he had noticed.

• Jiang Qiu challenged Lu Xiu to a sparring match, and they met in the Coordination Bureau’s underground Training Ground.
• Jiang Qiu overwhelmed Lu Xiu with a rapid series of close-range attacks, but Lu Xiu gradually learned their rhythm and Neutralized them.
• Jiang Qiu pulled back and charged into a powerful punch, which Lu Xiu met head-on with her Metal Aspect before switching to Lightning and paralyzing Jiang Qiu.
• Lu Xiu caught Jiang Qiu and criticized her for abandoning her speed advantage, then argued that Sifu was meant to train players under pressure rather than be made easy.
• Jiang Qiu explained that the verification footage had made Sifu seem easier, and Lu Xiu described her own struggles while making the Instance and defended its difficulty and rewards.
• Fan Lixin studied his Sifu clear results, noticed a move he wanted to learn, and entered the Instance again.

Lu Xiu confronted top players’ double standard toward her player-created instances, and Jiang Qiu apologized for judging Sifu without attempting to clear it. After learning that even other talented players found her instances challenging, Lu Xiu discovered that Yan Fushou considered her a genius even without her unusual advantages.

• Lu Xiu challenged the players for assuming a player-created instance should be easier, while they reacted with shock to her reward of evolving one skill below S-rank.
• Jiang Qiu realized she had judged Sifu unfairly because Lu Xiu created it, apologized, and promised to return to the instance until she cleared it.
• Lu Xiu explained that players could offer feedback but should clear an instance before judging it, and Jiang Qiu asked about Lu Xiu’s technique for neutralizing attacks.
• Lu Xiu began drafting a forum explanation, then asked Yan Fushou, Shen Nian, and Jian Li how difficult her instances were for talented players.
• Yan Fushou told Lu Xiu she belonged among the very top geniuses even without her special skills or instance-creation talent, leaving her surprised by the possibility that she was a genius.

Yan Fushou urged Lu Xiu to keep making top-tier dungeons, while Jian Li and Shen Nian staged clumsy falls to avoid questions and get close to her. At Longsword Guild headquarters, Jiang Qiu returned without revealing whether her meeting at the Coordination Bureau had gone well.

• Yan Fushou told Lu Xiu not to lower her dungeon difficulty, arguing that other constructors could make easier dungeons while hers should remain top-tier.
• Lu Xiu confirmed that clearing the Sifu dungeon could evolve skills below S-rank.
• Jian Li pretended to trip so Lu Xiu would catch her, then admitted she wanted to evolve a low-level skill.
• Yan Fushou abandoned his questions about the dungeon’s details and asked why Lu Xiu had made it focused on hand-to-hand combat.
• Shen Nian staged a fall to stop Lu Xiu from revealing that the dungeon idea had been hers, while Jian Li glared at her.
• Jiang Qiu returned to Longsword Guild headquarters, where her secretary asked if the Coordination Bureau had beaten her out.

After reading a player's account of clearing Lu Xiu's Sifu dungeon and its rewards, Jiang Qiu reentered the instance to study its enemies instead of dismissing them. She learned that the dungeon taught progressively subtler martial arts, and pushed onward through the corridor with almost no health remaining.

• Jiang Qiu admitted Lu Xiu had taught her a lesson, instructed the Strategy Group to stop complaining about the dungeon, and prepared to enter it again.
• Jiang Qiu read Du Shu of Tingqiao's forum post describing the dungeon's martial arts and powerful rewards, then decided to test its lessons herself.
• In the slums, Jiang Qiu watched the tank-top thug's stance and movements, dodged his attacks, and recognized the physical cues behind his strikes.
• Jiang Qiu advanced through the slums and drug factory, noticing that enemies' attacks became more concealed and refined, while group assaults and one-on-one fights used distinct tactics.
• After realizing the dungeon gradually taught players to read and learn from enemies, Jiang Qiu pressed onward through the corridor despite having almost no health left.

Fan Lixin explained to Yan Fushou that Sifu was a valuable combat-training instance despite being unsuitable for mass deployment, while players increasingly recognized its realistic fighting techniques. At Prison Rock, Helag rejected the idea of imitating the instance and suspected Zhang Chongshan had given them false intelligence.

• Fan Lixin told Yan Fushou that Sifu's enemies used realistic, learnable combat techniques, and recommended the instance for talented fighters such as Wei Yidong.
• As top players reentered Sifu, they began studying enemy movements and discussing martial arts, Neutralize, and the instance's practical combat design.
• Queenie watched the forum's changing reaction and worried that Prison Rock had underestimated Lu Xiu's instance, though she hoped its Nine Provinces traitor had warned Lord Helag.
• At Prison Rock's Stargazing Platform, the leader asked Helag to imitate Sifu, but Helag called the idea impossible and accused Zhang Chongshan of providing false intelligence.
• The leader turned to Zhang Chongshan after Helag's accusation, and Zhang protested that the Prison Rock group was incompetent.