Chapter Summaries

Xuan Zi mastered Gragas's engage and helped Huo Yuhao kill Ice Empress and Yuumi, while a four-person gank on Lu Yuan ended with Wang Dong dying and Lu Yuan trading his life for him. As Shrek's team focused on mid and bottom, Wang Qiuer destroyed the inhibitor and challenged them to defend their high ground.

• Xuan Zi used Gragas's Flash and Body Slam to knock Ice Empress into Huo Yuhao's Gold Card, and they killed her beneath the tower.
• Huo Yuhao killed the dismounted Yuumi, reached level six, and used Destiny to reveal the enemy team's positions.
• Huo Yuhao, Xuan Zi, Xu Sanshi, and Wang Dong ganked Lu Yuan, but Lu Yuan cleansed Huo Yuhao's stun, killed Wang Dong, and was then killed by Huo Yuhao and Xu Sanshi.
• Lu Yuan warned Huo Yuhao to check top lane, where Wang Qiuer had destroyed both towers and killed Bei Bei beneath the inhibitor turret.
• Wang Qiuer destroyed Shrek's inhibitor and taunted Huo Yuhao's team to defend its high ground.

With Shrek's base under siege, Huo Yuhao led a desperate attempt to steal Baron, but Wang Qiuer wiped out the team with a pentakill and the red team destroyed their Nexus. After Lu Yuan explained that Shrek were only Iron rank, the defeated players resolved to improve.

• Huo Yuhao proposed that Shrek ambush the red team at Baron, and Xuan Zi agreed to lead the steal.
• Di Tian soloed Baron while Wang Qiuer guarded the pit, and Huo Yuhao's ultimate revealed Shrek's five-man approach.
• Shrek's teamfight abilities initially struck the red team, but Wang Qiuer stunned all five attackers and killed them in a pentakill.
• Di Tian secured Baron, and the red team used the buff to push down Shrek's base and destroy the Nexus.
• Lu Yuan praised Shrek's coordination, explained the game's ranks, and told them they were Iron rank, stirring their determination to improve.

Lu Yuan introduced ranked matches to test the Shrek group’s League skills, and their placement results revealed how far they had to climb. As the youths vowed to improve, Jing Hongchen learned of the gaming device and set out to investigate it in Shrek City.

• Lu Yuan unlocked ranked matches and challenged the Shrek group to complete their placement games.
• Xu Sanshi placed Iron IV, Bei Bei Iron II, and Wang Dong Bronze IV, while Lu Yuan explained that they lost by neglecting towers and objectives.
• Huo Yuhao used his Spirit Eyes and Mental Detection to earn Bronze I with seven wins and three losses.
• Xuan Zi unexpectedly placed Silver IV, while Wang Qiuer and Di Tian had already reached Gold.
• Bei Bei, Xu Sanshi, and Huo Yuhao vowed to climb the ranks after Lu Yuan warned that Sun Moon Empire players would soon arrive.
• Jing Hongchen read a report about the device in Shrek City and ordered a carriage so he could investigate it himself.

Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Team visited Lu Yuan’s internet cafe, where they discovered League of Legends and quickly put their Soul Engineer skills to use in the game. After Jing Hongchen offered to buy the system and settled for membership cards, Xiao Hongchen challenged Bei Bei to settle their rivalry in a match.

• Jing Hongchen arrived at the internet cafe with Xiao Hongchen, Meng Hongchen, and Ma Rulong, and the group found the Shrek Seven Monsters playing League of Legends.
• Xiao Hongchen confronted Huo Yuhao, but Di Tian’s dragon’s might disabled Xiao Hongchen’s metal spheres and made Jing Hongchen realize how powerful Di Tian was.
• Lu Yuan stopped the confrontation and introduced Jing Hongchen and the Sun Moon Team to the game, where Jing Hongchen recognized its potential as a Soul Tool simulation system.
• Xiao Hongchen chose Jayce, Ma Rulong chose Viktor, and Meng Hongchen chose Singed as the Sun Moon Team used careful calculations and tactics to win their first game.
• Jing Hongchen offered Lu Yuan ten billion Gold Soul Coins for the system, but Lu Yuan refused and Jing Hongchen bought membership cards for Mingde Hall’s core disciples.
• After Bei Bei failed his Iron promotion match, Xiao Hongchen mocked his Jayce play and challenged him to face off in the game.

After Ice Empress summoned Snow Empress to help with her losing ranked matches, Snow Empress discovered a love for gaming and became the Far North trio’s jungler. By nightfall, she was eagerly asking Lu Yuan to buy her a skin.

• After five straight losses, Ice Empress called Snow Empress to recruit her as a teammate.
• Snow Empress arrived at the internet café, but Lu Yuan persuaded her to stay by offering her Sprite.
• Lu Yuan taught Snow Empress to play Anivia, and she quickly mastered the champion’s crowd-control tactics.
• Snow Empress agreed to join Ice Empress and Tian Meng in ranked games as their jungler, despite their top laner’s protests.
• Snow Empress asked Lu Yuan to give her the Festival Queen skin.

Snow Empress joined Lu Yuan’s internet cafe to escape her impending heavenly tribulation, then froze Du Busi after he barged in and disrupted the customers. Lu Yuan restrained Du Busi and made him work off his debt by playing games until he reached Challenger.

• Snow Empress’s unstable power nearly erupted during a match, but Lu Yuan suppressed it and offered her and Ice Empress jobs at the internet cafe.
• Snow Empress signed Lu Yuan’s contract and agreed to work as an attendant, refusing to clean.
• Du Busi kicked in the cafe door while searching for Huo Yuhao and interrupted Snow Empress’s promotion match.
• Snow Empress froze Du Busi with Emperor’s Palm: Great Cold Without Snow and warned his followers not to make noise.
• Lu Yuan partially thawed Du Busi, explained that he had to repay the damage, and ordered him to play League of Legends until he reached Challenger.

Du Busi and the Body Sect became hooked on the game at Origin Internet Cafe, while Tang San tried to spy on the shop and was struck by its system firewall. Tang San’s divine consciousness was banned for a year, and Wang Dong returned to gaming as he decided to watch events from afar.

• Du Busi tried Sett, became thrilled by the brawling hero, and formed the Body Sect Tough Guy Team with Lang Ya and Yu Tao.
• Tang San sensed a surge of spiritual force, saw that Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong’s fate lines had changed, and traced the disturbance to Origin Internet Cafe.
• Lu Yuan detected Tang San’s unauthorized scan and ordered the system to counter it with an account ban and spiritual shock.
• The firewall repelled Tang San’s Purple Demon Eyes, injured him, and banned his divine consciousness for 365 days.
• Tang San chose not to investigate further, while Wang Dong returned to the game and joined Huo Yuhao and Du Busi’s team.

Niu Tian and Tai Tan came to take Wang Dong back, but Lu Yuan stopped Tai Tan from damaging the internet café with the establishment’s rules. Wang Dong challenged her guardians to a game of League of Legends, and after Tai Tan discovered Malphite’s ultimate, the two guardians became eager to keep playing.

• Niu Tian and Tai Tan entered the internet café, and Lu Yuan’s rules halted Tai Tan when he tried to grab the counter.
• Niu Tian and Tai Tan tried to take Wang Dong home, but she challenged them to beat her in a game before she would leave.
• Wang Dong helped Niu Tian and Tai Tan register accounts and choose Alistar and Malphite.
• Tai Tan’s Malphite was quickly defeated by Riven, while Niu Tian struggled as an Alistar support.
• Wang Dong taught Tai Tan to use Malphite’s ultimate, and he scored a double kill against three enemies.
• Niu Tian asked Lu Yuan to top up more Gold Soul Coins so he could buy a Cowbell Alistar skin, while Tang San remained unaware that his guardians were hooked on the game.

Lu Yuan introduced Left 4 Dead 2 to ease tensions between the factions, but the eight-player team repeatedly injured one another with friendly fire. The group reached the next hotel floor with half its members downed, leaving Huo Yuhao wondering how the game could promote friendship.

• Lu Yuan announced a cooperative zombie survival game and put the group in an eight-player room with double monsters and friendly fire enabled.
• The players grabbed the scarce medkits and entered the hotel corridor, where Tai Tan accidentally shot Niu Tian.
• Wang Qiuer charged into the zombie horde with a fire axe while Snow Empress shot zombies from behind, and Di Tian accidentally riddled Tai Tan with bullets.
• Huo Yuhao urged everyone into the elevator, where cramped players accidentally fired on one another and triggered a panicked exchange of gunfire.
• The elevator opened on the next floor with half the team downed, and Wang Dong called the game friendship-ending as Lu Yuan watched approvingly.

Huo Yuhao's team fought through Dead Center to retrieve cola for the gun shop owner, but Tai Tan accidentally threw the quest item into a burning oil tanker during a zombie horde. The team had to return to the supermarket and start the objective again as their Left 4 Dead run continued.

• Huo Yuhao assigned the four most badly injured teammates medkits before the group left the gun shop to fetch cola.
• Smokers grabbed Niu Tian and Tai Tan, and Di Tian accidentally shot Niu Tian before Snow Empress killed both monsters with precise sniper shots.
• Wang Qiuer carved through the zombie horde with a fire axe as the group reached the supermarket and Tai Tan took the cola case.
• A Boomer covered Tai Tan in bile, and he panicked and threw the cola case into a burning oil tanker.
• Niu Tian grabbed Tai Tan by the throat at the internet cafe, while Huo Yuhao saw the quest reset and Lu Yuan told the team to return to the supermarket.

Huo Yuhao’s group entered a mall safe room and tried to navigate the next stage without triggering its zombie alarm, but Niu Tian accidentally shattered a warning window. The resulting horde left three teammates incapacitated as the survivors shut off the alarm, and Niu Tian wondered whether they could respawn.

• Di Tian demanded the team’s last medkit, but Snow Empress kept it for Ice Empress while Huo Yuhao warned everyone not to break the mall’s alarmed glass.
• Niu Tian startled at a zombie and fired his M16, shattering a warning window and setting off the alarm.
• The eight teammates crowded onto an escalator as they fled, and Charger knocked Snow Empress and Ice Empress over the railing before incapacitating Di Tian.
• Tai Tan killed Charger with his shotgun but also incapacitated Di Tian, leaving three members down as Huo Yuhao led the survivors to the alarm panel.
• Huo Yuhao shut off the alarm while Di Tian, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress were mobbed by zombies below, and Niu Tian asked whether they could respawn.

Huo Yuhao’s group fought through the mall’s final stage, filling the race car with gas while two Tanks incapacitated most of the team. Four survivors escaped Dead Center, and Lu Yuan prepared to send the group into the Dark Carnival stage.

• Huo Yuhao divided the group into teams to fight infected, gather gas cans, and fuel the race car.
• Two Tanks attacked the atrium; one incapacitated Di Tian, while the other crushed Niu Tian and Tai Tan as they shielded Wang Dong.
• Wang Qiuer killed one Tank with her chainsaw, and Huo Yuhao’s group filled all thirteen gas cans and escaped in the race car.
• The results screen named Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Wang Qiuer, and Snow Empress as survivors, while Di Tian, Niu Tian, Tai Tan, and Ice Empress were casualties.
• Lu Yuan announced that the next stage would be Dark Carnival, and Tai Tan pretended not to hear his warning about throwing out cola.

Huo Yuhao’s team found a gnome doll that unlocked an achievement and decided to carry it to the rescue helicopter. Tai Tan died saving the doll from falling off the roller coaster tracks, but it respawned in the safe room, where Ice Empress picked it up again.

• The team chose melee weapons and fought their way to the amusement park, where Huo Yuhao won a gnome doll by scoring at least 750 in a shooting game.
• After an achievement required them to bring the gnome to the rescue helicopter, Ice Empress carried it while the others protected her.
• Huo Yuhao activated the Screaming Oak Roller Coaster, drawing a horde as the team raced along the tracks.
• A Smoker grabbed Ice Empress and the gnome fell, so Tai Tan dove to catch it and plunged to his death.
• The gnome respawned in the safe room, where Ice Empress picked it up and vowed to throw it into the helicopter blades after they cleared the level.

Huo Yuhao’s group activated the stadium concert to summon a rescue helicopter, then fought off hordes of zombies and two Tanks. They escaped by helicopter with the gnome doll, unlocking two achievements, and later discussed the game back at the internet cafe.

• Huo Yuhao’s group stocked up and took positions before starting the music and fireworks, which drew zombies to the stadium stage.
• Wang Qiuer, Di Tian, Niu Tian, and Tai Tan fought the zombies as Snow Empress covered them from the roof.
• Niu Tian charged a Tank and was knocked into the stands, while Huo Yuhao warned the others to use fire and keep their distance.
• Snow Empress shot down one Tank as Tai Tan evaded it, and Wang Qiuer and Di Tian defeated the other.
• Huo Yuhao’s group boarded the rescue helicopter with the gnome doll and unlocked the Wary Gnome and Superstar achievements.
• Back at the internet cafe, Niu Tian complained about the Tank’s strength, while Ice Empress said she wanted the doll so she could stab it with needles.

Lu Yuan introduced Left 4 Dead’s Versus Mode, where Di Tian’s Infected team ambushed and eliminated Huo Yuhao’s Survivors on the Hard Rain map. After the teams switched sides, Huo Yuhao planned a dirty strategy for the next round.

• Lu Yuan explained Versus Mode, and the group formed two teams for a match on Hard Rain.
• Di Tian, Wang Qiuer, Ice Empress, and Snow Empress chose their Special Infected roles and planned an ambush in the sugarcane field.
• The Infected attacked together, dragging Tai Tan away, pinning Niu Tian, and trapping Huo Yuhao while acid blocked Wang Dong’s rescue.
• Di Tian’s team eliminated all four Survivors, and the defeated players called for another round.
• Lu Yuan announced that the teams would switch sides, and Huo Yuhao told Niu Tian and Tai Tan to follow his plan to play dirty.

Huo Yuhao’s team used the Infected’s abilities to overwhelm Di Tian’s Survivors in Versus Mode. After their victory, Lu Yuan introduced The Parish, a more dangerous map that excited Wang Qiu’er.

• Huo Yuhao explained how Tai Tan’s Boomer could blind Survivors and attract a horde, then told him to wait for a signal.
• Di Tian led Wang Qiu’er, Snow Empress, and Ice Empress into the sugar mill elevator, where Tai Tan dropped in and exploded after Di Tian shot him at close range.
• Wang Dong covered the elevator floor in acid while the blinded Survivors were attacked by Zombies, and Niu Tian’s Smoker pulled Wang Qiu’er away from the group.
• Huo Yuhao rode Di Tian with his Jockey and steered him into the acid, while the horde and acid eliminated the remaining Survivors.
• Di Tian complained about Huo Yuhao riding on his head, but Lu Yuan announced that they would switch to The Parish, prompting Wang Qiu’er to become excited about playing Charger.

Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong fought their way across the Bridge map while Wang Qiuer and Di Tian used special infected to kill Niu Tian and Tai Tan by knocking them into the river. They escaped Snow Empress’s Tank and reached the helicopter, then agreed not to bring the dads along next time.

• Huo Yuhao warned his team that falling into the Mississippi River meant instant death, but Niu Tian doubted the danger.
• Wang Qiuer charged Niu Tian off a bus roof and into the river, killing him.
• Di Tian rode Tai Tan as a Jockey and steered him off the bridge into the river, killing him too.
• Snow Empress blocked Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong with a Tank, but they used adrenaline to dodge her concrete slab and pass the blockade.
• Huo Yuhao shoved the Ice Empress away, and he and Wang Dong escaped aboard the helicopter.
• At the internet café, Niu Tian and Tai Tan realized their forms could not swim in the game, and Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong agreed not to bring the dads next time.

Huo Yuhao used the Tank and environmental physics to defeat Di Tian's survivor team in Left 4 Dead 2. After Di Tian accused him of cheating, Lu Yuan proposed an eight-player free-for-all race, leaving the group eager for revenge and competition.

• Di Tian's team advanced across the bridge, but Huo Yuhao told his teammates to wait as he prepared to use the Tank near the finish.
• Huo Yuhao punched a sedan into Di Tian and Wang Qiuer, incapacitating them and blocking Ice Empress and Snow Empress's line of fire.
• Tai Tan exploded as a Boomer, covering the incapacitated players and Ice Empress in bile, while Huo Yuhao knocked Snow Empress down with a second car.
• Wang Dong spat acid at the incapacitated survivors, and the game announced that Di Tian's team had been wiped out.
• Di Tian accused Huo Yuhao of cheating, but Huo Yuhao explained that he had calculated the cars' trajectories using the game's physics engine.
• Lu Yuan proposed an eight-player free-for-all race with any means allowed, and Di Tian eagerly accepted the challenge.

Lu Yuan sent eight players into a race for four helicopter seats, and their scramble left four winners escaping while the others were eliminated. Back in the internet café, Di Tian confronted Huo Yuhao over the game as Wang Qiuer argued with Tai Tan.

• Lu Yuan explained that only four of the eight players could escape, and the group spawned in the hospital safe room.
• Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Snow Empress, Wang Qiuer, and Di Tian got into the elevator, while Wang Qiuer and Di Tian closed the doors on Tai Tan, Niu Tian, and Ice Empress.
• After the elevator reached the rooftop, Huo Yuhao threw a pipe bomb at Di Tian, and the blast sent him over the edge after Snow Empress and Wang Qiuer helped kill the Tank.
• Wang Dong struck Di Tian's fingers, causing him to fall, and Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong, Wang Qiuer, and Snow Empress boarded the helicopter.
• Back at the internet café, Di Tian confronted Huo Yuhao, while Tai Tan and Niu Tian demanded an explanation from Wang Qiuer; Lu Yuan ended the Left 4 Dead experience.

Lu Yuan introduced God of War to the cafe’s powerful guests and demonstrated how Kratos defeated Baldur on maximum difficulty through skill and precise reactions. The guests eagerly asked to play, ready to test themselves in Midgard.

• Tai Tan, Niu Tian, and Wang Qiuer asked Lu Yuan for a game where they could use their strength and fight powerful opponents.
• Lu Yuan launched God of War on maximum difficulty and controlled Kratos through a battle against Baldur.
• Lu Yuan used precise parries, axe attacks, and dodges to defeat Baldur without losing health.
• Lu Yuan told the guests that Kratos relied on his body and fighting skill rather than Soul Skills, and called the game a lesson in combat.
• Tai Tan, Di Tian, Wang Qiuer, and Huo Yuhao asked to play God of War, and Lu Yuan welcomed them to Midgard.