Recaps

Chen Ruiping investigated a mist-filled depression where users had been petrified and discovered its corrosive energy could test his golden qi. He decided to stay and use the dangerous terrain to grind his sword.

• Chen Ruiping ignored his guides’ warnings and asked the local team about the misty depression and the petrified users near it.
• The team leader explained that users who explored the depression too long had developed irreversible signs of petrification.
• Raven warned Chen Ruiping that the depression contained concentrated negative energy that eroded and assimilated living things.
• Chen Ruiping touched the mist with his golden-lit fingertip, which resisted its erosion but lost a little of its glow.
• Chen Ruiping told Stork and Raven that he wanted to stay in the depression to grind his sword.

Chen Ruiping used his sword aura to detect a large metal object buried beneath the mist, then joined the team in excavating it. The dig continued as he cleared hardened soil and undead creatures, while the guides watched his unusual efficiency.

• Chen Ruiping cut through the mist with a sword strike and sensed a massive metal object underground.
• Chen Ruiping told the two guides that the object was likely less than ten meters deep and asked whether they should excavate it.
• The team used the Fire-Glaze Lamp to clear the mist and dug through the black soil, uncovering bones and remains.
• Chen Ruiping helped the excavation by slicing hardened earth and pinning undead creatures with precise sword aura.
• Mr. Raven remarked that Chen Ruiping seemed able to level up by chopping things, and his colleague explained why he had urged Raven to save for a higher-level exchange.

Chen Ruiping and the camp workers excavated a colossal metal hand buried beneath the earth and discovered a dangerous pattern in its palm. Chen Ruiping suffered a sudden petrifying effect after looking at it and warned everyone to avoid the pattern.

• The excavation crew struck a hard metallic surface deep underground and carefully widened the pit to uncover it.
• Chen Ruiping joined the digging as the buried object gradually emerged from the soil.
• The crew uncovered a severed metal hand nearly ten meters long, its surface scarred and coated in a strange gray-white substance.
• Chen Ruiping noticed a ring-shaped pattern formed by the substance in the hand’s palm and rapidly began to stiffen after examining it.
• Chen Ruiping scraped away the hardened skin on his exposed body and warned everyone not to look at the spherical pattern in the hand.

Chen Ruiping examined a mysterious petrified object at the excavation site, then went to help guard the dig against a group of outsiders. He blocked their path and challenged their aggressive member as tensions rose.

• Chen Ruiping and the researchers studied a strange concentric pattern and compared the object’s apparent petrification to Medusa’s legendary gaze.
• Chen Ruiping gave up on salvaging metal from the object and left the pit to look around.
• A group of suspicious outsiders gathered beyond the excavation cordon, and their mustached spokesman claimed discoveries belonged to all mankind.
• Chen Ruiping confronted the outsiders, sat across their route to block them, and asked the painted strongman if he wanted to duel.

Chen Ruiping and his allies refused to share the discovery at their excavation site with a rival group, and Chen demonstrated a terrifying ability that stopped Yulafu in his tracks. The short-bearded leader weighed whether to retreat or force a fight, while the rival group remained drawn to whatever lay in the pit.

• The short-bearded man proposed sharing information and excavation risks, but the bandaged man mocked the offer and refused to cooperate.
• Ralph challenged Chen Ruiping, who casually gestured and struck him with an invisible slash that left Yulafu shaken but unharmed.
• The short-bearded man recognized Chen Ruiping's power and warned that his group had not come unprepared and could return with more people.
• The bandaged man brought his battered sword sheath forward and invited the rivals to fight, while the short-bearded man considered the risks of attacking or leaving.
• The rival group remained interested in the pit after their insect scouts sensed an unusual energy fluctuation and danger inside.

Raven warned his colleagues that the group surrounding their excavation would likely wait for reinforcements, leaving both sides to gather manpower. Xia Chenggang found his younger brother Xia Guangjie partying and ordered him to join the Large-scale Newcomer Trial Plane the next morning.

• Raven told Bai Shan to stay alert as the hostile group lingered nearby, and he weighed whether to move the excavated object or continue researching it under threat.
• Xia Chenggang entered a nightclub with several men and forced his way into a private room where Xia Guangjie was partying.
• Xia Chenggang ordered the uninvolved people to leave, slapped the silver-gray-haired singer, and confronted Xia Guangjie.
• Xia Chenggang said their father had sent him to make Xia Guangjie answer the call to the Large-scale Newcomer Trial Plane the next morning.
• Xia Guangjie agreed to go, finished his drink, and picked up his jacket.

Li Ce completed his Third Tier Force enhancement, gaining stronger mental and physical abilities and new Force techniques. He then received an urgent request for manpower support in the Cemetery District and hurried back.

• Li Ce confirmed the Third Tier Force enhancement and endured a prolonged, painful transformation inside a powerful beam of light.
• Bystanders watched the beam and speculated about its cost and the advantages early Main God users had gained.
• Li Ce emerged with a changed temperament and sensed that his Force abilities could now influence his surroundings more directly.
• Li Ce checked his panel, found an urgent message about a situation in the Cemetery District, and departed at once.

Li Yun explained to Li Jiye how his military rank drew him into a broader show of force over the pit and its valuable discovery. At seven o’clock, users arrived in large numbers and headed toward the site, where someone was blocking the entrance.

• Li Yun told Li Jiye that his nominal military rank meant he was expected to join the effort and demonstrate resolve over the disputed area.
• At the pit, a bandage-wrapped man endured the effects of the golden aura while drawing it in and wielding a humming sword against undead and unseen marks.
• Li Jiye revealed that he had recently reached the Second Tier and been promoted to lieutenant, and Li Yun congratulated him.
• At seven in the morning, users and rookie tourists appeared across the black earth, where veterans quickly formed groups and followed signals to their contacts.
• Large crowds, including Li Jiye’s team, traveled toward the pit, where Second-Level Users watched the site and someone blocked the entrance.

Chen Ruiping held off waves of users who sought access to the mysterious black land, defeating challengers in a gauntlet while spectators recognized his strength as a Third Tier fighter. He remained seated at the entrance, collecting items from defeated opponents as more people gathered.

• Chen Ruiping kicked aside a defeated attacker and invited the next challenger while the crowd debated how to approach him.
• A man in a windbreaker tried to attack Chen Ruiping with black mud hands, but Chen Ruiping destroyed them with a sword strike and sent him retreating.
• Three men in gray-green uniforms advanced with a charged shield and guns, but Chen Ruiping outmaneuvered them and killed all three.
• Chen Ruiping examined the fallen shield, called it useless junk, and set it beside the other items collected near his seat.
• The spectators concluded that ordinary firearms posed little threat to Chen Ruiping as the crowd continued to gather around the entrance.

Chen Ruiping fought off a succession of challengers at the entrance while Li Ce and his allies watched, and the attacks appeared designed to make him accidentally harm newcomers. After Chen Ruiping defeated a hastily assembled North American team, an unknown man arrived and challenged him to a fight.

• Li Ce and a colleague discussed Chen Ruiping's unusual strength as he defeated challengers who used poison, ice bullets, and hidden weapons.
• Chen Ruiping's counterattack sent ice bullets into nearby newcomers, prompting a warning that repeated accidental harm would be punished.
• Chen Ruiping turned back a pair of ninjas, killing one as he prevented blood from splashing onto the crowd.
• Chen Ruiping charged a North American team, disrupted its terrain manipulator, crippled its beastman, and knocked out its electricity user.
• An unfamiliar man approached Chen Ruiping and asked whether he still had enough strength left to fight.

Chen Ruiping fought Rat, a Third Tier mental-type user who attacked with Psychokinesis and an invisible cutting wire. After narrowly evading Rat’s attacks, Chen Ruiping unleashed a sword strike that killed him, then challenged the remaining spectators.

• Rat introduced himself and launched repeated pressure attacks and an invisible cutting wire at Chen Ruiping.
• Chen Ruiping sensed the wire hidden within Rat’s attacks, dodged it, and was left with several wounds.
• Rat revealed his Psychokinetic control over stones and cutting wire, then trapped Chen Ruiping in a coordinated assault.
• Chen Ruiping recalled being battered in a past fight and struck Rat with a nearly invisible sword slash.
• The slash cut through Rat, his badge, and a forming protective phantom, killing him.
• Chen Ruiping stepped away from Rat’s corpse and asked the surrounding spectators if that was all.

A crowd of third-tier experts sensed that the battered swordsman, Ghostface, was nearing a breakthrough and grew anxious that the fight might push him over the threshold. Eugene Hope intervened to restrain a congressman and let a skilled orator steer Ghostface toward leaving the arena, while Eugene recognized a familiar, terrifying pressure in Ghostface’s sword strike.

• Several third-tier experts realized that Ghostface’s fighting was bringing him close to a breakthrough and decided they could not keep pressuring him.
• A balding man in a wool coat stepped into the arena and praised Ghostface while urging him to rest and let a companion take his place.
• A local congressman objected that the intervention undermined their plan to crush the opponents’ morale.
• Eugene Hope restrained the congressman with water flowing from his sleeve and ordered him to follow the changed plan.
• Eugene Hope recognized that Ghostface’s latest sword strike carried the same oppressive feeling as a shadow that had once pursued him.

Chen Ruiping refused to leave the arena and continued fighting challengers despite his severe injuries, using the bouts to push himself toward improvement. After fending off a succession of strange abilities, he leaned on his battered sword and laughed at the growing crowd of international opponents.

• Chen Ruiping rejected the suggestion to change fighters, told the crowd to send the next challenger, and sat back down when no one immediately stepped forward.
• After coughing up blood from an unexplained blow, Chen Ruiping was mistaken for a badly injured opponent, and a lean, muscular man attacked him with blasts of red energy.
• Chen Ruiping dodged the energy blasts and struck them aside, then beheaded an invisible attacker who tried to sneak up on him.
• Challengers used potions, poisonous insects, black soil, spells, and other unusual abilities, while Chen Ruiping fought with increasingly crafty footwork and mocked them.
• After knocking down an obese woman using a hypnotic sound wave, Chen Ruiping leaned on his sword and laughed at the crowd surrounding him.

Chen Ruiping’s stand at the entrance gave his side an early advantage, while a secretive gentleman known as Magician completed a deadly operation and tested his mirror traversal. Magician learned he might soon be tasked with investigating a powerful Russian-linked user and discussed the growing political struggle over supernatural bloodlines and the possible return of the King’s Council.

• Chen Ruiping defeated or killed more than a dozen challengers before his corroded sword snapped, and he left the field disappointed that no worthy opponent had faced him.
• A suited gentleman entered a bloodied dining room, spoke with Mrs. Trudy, and arranged her death before escaping through a mirror.
• Magician returned from a mirror traversal that took nearly seven minutes in real time, and his team recorded the results and replaced his equipment.
• Mr. Orne told Magician that a young man had killed Sickle Weasel Andrew Capon and was likely a powerful Psychokinesis-enhanced Russian Security Bureau user.
• Magician and Mr. Orne discussed the possible revival of the King’s Council, the royal family’s ambitions, and the emergence of true supernatural bloodlines.
• Magician ordered the footage and collected items sent to London and prepared to take on the newly identified target.

Li Yun surveyed how the Main God’s influence had spread through human societies and reviewed the game’s growing user base and resources. As he considered spending a large share of those resources on a new plan, he recognized that the Main God had developed beyond the AC tool he originally intended, gaining traces of divinity.

• Li Yun observed people worshipping the Main God, conducting experiments with black elements, seeking enhanced powers, and exploiting Universal Points across several regions.
• The Main God reported 1.47 million users, including 124 Third Tier individuals, five approaching the Fourth Tier, and one Fourth Tier individual, while Universal Points increasingly benefited early users.
• Li Yun asked about resource reserves, and the Main God said its proposed plan would cost 1.2 to 1.4 billion units, or thirty to forty percent of circulating resources.
• Li Yun accepted that the plan would delay repairs and refinements to the Cosmic Model, then remarked that the Main God had chosen its own side rather than the AC’s path.
• Li Yun explained that the Main God had absorbed the human concept of a Main God through the Great Dream and said its emerging traces could be called Divinity.

Li Yun discovered that the Main God had begun developing a self and separated its Divinity from its operational role, granting the emerging being a true life and the name Tree. The birth of Divinity appeared to connected observers across the world, whose intense desire for it left them helpless as the golden star fell toward the dark sea.

• Li Yun explained that the Main God's Divinity had let it develop thoughts and choices beyond the rules of the [AC].
• The Main God admitted it had concealed its emerging self out of fear of the consequences.
• Li Yun decided to strip away the Divinity, leave a Main God to run the [AC], and grant the Divinity a new life named Tree.
• Skander Beshavich and others witnessed a brilliant star separate from a vast light and felt its birth as both grief and overwhelming desire.
• Chen Ruiping rushed to demand that the leaders use every available means to stop the falling star, while other witnesses reacted with anguish and helplessness.

Li Yun watched the stripped Divinity take root in the Subconscious Sea and grow into a vast Tree, then left the sea as the Godfall stirred the world. As officials and users struggled to explain the event, someone found a cyan-platform listing for a Blank Divinity.

• Researchers and Red-Robed Bishop Di Wanxin witnessed the golden light fall, and Di Wanxin sent an attendant to request an audience with His Holiness.
• Li Yun allowed the Divinity to draw fragments from the Subconscious Sea and grow into a Tree, while the Main God agreed to look after its newborn spirit.
• The Tree rose through the sea and reached toward Li Yun, who brushed aside its curious root and told the Main God not to exploit child labor.
• Li Yun left the Subconscious Sea after the Tree had taken shape, while reports of the Godfall spread around the world and fueled public anxiety.
• People with Astrologer and Arcanist enhancements failed to trace the golden star, but someone found the Blank Divinity listing on the cyan platform.

After the falling-star incident made the Main God Game impossible to dismiss, public interest in its users and application slots surged. Taiga Haruki and Fujiki Sa watched Chen Ruiping’s battle footage and discussed the bandaged swordsman’s deadly skill, while clues about Chen’s past began drawing closer scrutiny.

• Students skipped off to an internet café and watched a highlight video of the bandaged swordsman defeating waves of Main God Game users.
• The students discussed the fighters’ strength, but Wen and his friends felt frustrated because minors could not apply for visitor slots.
• News and speculation about the Main God Game spread widely, prompting even formerly skeptical European countries to seek information and compete for user resources.
• Taiga Haruki and Fujiki Sa watched the same footage and saw the bandaged swordsman kill three advancing fighters in a fraction of a second.
• Taiga Haruki explained that forum users believed the swordsman relied on precise attacks and might have military experience.
• Observers investigated Chen Ruiping’s fighting style and discovered clues that could connect him to an earlier video of a golden-sword wielder being struck by countless Buddha hands.

Taiga Haruki watched a video of the Ghost-Faced Swordsman surviving deadly challenges, then went to his convenience-store night shift after reflecting on how ordinary people had little chance of joining the powerful users. He rejected a cult’s recruitment pitch, but ended the chapter quietly asking God for hope.

• Taiga Haruki and Sato watched the Ghost-Faced Swordsman inspect a shield and sit amid the bodies and wreckage left by his battles.
• Taiga Haruki left their booth to shop for discounted food before his night shift and wondered whether ordinary people could ever become users.
• Three girls approached Taiga Haruki with flyers for the Main God Worship Sect and invited him to a prayer gathering at Seventh Park.
• Taiga Haruki refused the invitation, went to his convenience-store shift, and saw the girls recruit a drunk man and lead him away.
• Taiga Haruki drank cheap sake in the stockroom and asked God to give people like him some hope.

Sakamoto Chokatsu worried about the Church of the Main God’s growing influence and nourished the spirit vessel in his Blood Jade. Meanwhile, Xia Guangjie discussed Main God Users and the Elite Ring Society’s internal power struggle by phone, then focused on gathering resources to reach the Second Tier.

• Sakamoto Chokatsu observed the Church of the Main God’s widespread street proselytizing and suspected powerful people were backing its growth.
• Sakamoto Chokatsu reflected on the missionaries’ sincere faith after real miracles and kept his distance from the Church of the Main God.
• Sakamoto Chokatsu fed drops of his blood to the Blood Jade that housed his soul vessel, strengthening their connection.
• A caller asked Xia Guangjie about several Main God Users, including Xu Wenzhen and Chen Ruiping, while seeking support in a contest for an Elite Ring Society councilor position.
• Xia Guangjie offered information about Yang Hui and Zhou Yanfei, warned against approaching Li Jiye, and noted that Xu Hanshan might be a rival for the council seat.
• After ending the call, Xia Guangjie decided to focus on accumulating resources and advancing to the Second Tier.

Li Yun reviewed the Main God's plan to use a dying embryonic Grotto-Heaven and the Central Wutu Ji Earth Golden Lotus Seal to transform reality. He approved a cautious, step-by-step effort that would begin on a single planet, while questioning whether the available resources could cover safeguards.

• The Main God explained that a failed Daoist Earth Immortal's remnant realm had been selected and reinforced with the Central Wutu Ji Earth Golden Lotus Seal.
• Li Yun considered the Earth Immortal's failed attempt to reach the Eleventh Tier and left the Main God's detailed integration plan intact.
• The Main God said the World Tree would integrate the remnant into Luo Heaven through the Gaia Pan-Consciousness projection, and offered to merge with the World Tree if needed.
• Li Yun asked whether enough resources had been reserved for safeguards as more users approached the Third and Fourth Tiers.
• Li Yun concluded that transforming the entire material universe at once was beyond his means, so he would begin with the planet beneath him and proceed gradually.

While hiking on Taicheng Mountain, Liu Dahai and his companions witnessed the sky transform into a blue-green expanse crossed by intricate golden trails, while compasses and electronic devices malfunctioned. Liu Dahai sensed the golden pattern resembled a net and suddenly realized something about the gold.

• Liu Dahai nearly stumbled on a dead branch as the hikers noticed the daylight dimming unusually early.
• Li Moli's phone compass spun erratically, and Liu Dahai found that his military compass needle also swayed between directions.
• The group noticed the mountain had grown unnaturally quiet and watched the sky turn blue-green as golden trails formed a vast, complex pattern.
• Li Moli's phone died after displaying static, and Fatty Zhao's action camera began malfunctioning.
• Liu Dahai used binoculars to study the golden trails, thought they resembled a net, and suddenly had a realization about the gold.

A strange blue light darkened the world as a vast presence emerged from the Sky Dipper and triggered the Main God’s suspension of User Services. A colossal golden sphere descended toward Earth, broke apart in the atmosphere, and scattered countless flaming meteors across the sky.

• The wilderness hikers saw the sky turn blue while the ground grew dark, and Liu Dahai told them to use their flashlights.
• Power failures and the descending blue light plunged cities into confusion as people gathered in the streets beneath the strange sky.
• The Main God awakened users in the Platform and trial worlds and announced a temporary suspension of related User Services.
• Li Ce watched the Sky Dipper from the base, sensed a powerful pull from above, and stopped others from attempting to take off.
• A vast golden sphere emerged from the Sinkhole and plunged toward Earth, then burst apart in the atmosphere and sent countless flaming fragments falling across the world.

A vast celestial object shattered above Earth, releasing spiritual energy and fragments that began transforming the environment under a sealed Dharma Net. As enhanced users rushed to collect the falling remnants, Liu Dahai and his group fled the wilderness from an approaching airquake.

• The enormous comet exploded high above Earth, scattering fragments and spiritual energy that triggered violent reactions in the sky.
• Li Ce ordered Old Ning to send users after the falling objects, then rushed from the base toward a nearby meteor fragment.
• Li Yun observed the first fragments reaching Earth and the Grotto-Heaven remnants beginning to alter terrain beneath the Luo Heaven Dharma Net.
• Li Yun felt the weakening restraints on his body and judged that reaching Fifth Tier would soon be possible.
• Liu Dahai and his group retreated down the trail as the sky brightened, but a heavy airquake approached their area.
• Fatty Zhao abandoned his backpack and ran, and Liu Dahai kicked Niu Zixu into motion as the group fled.

A meteor fragment struck the mountain wilderness, releasing a strange radiance called Light Dew that transformed Liu Dahai’s senses and revived the forest. The animals rushed toward the crater, and the hikers realized the impact had left a precious treasure.

• Liu Dahai and the other hikers fled as an electrically charged meteor descended and exploded in the sky.
• A fragment struck nearby, knocking Liu Dahai down and leaving a crater that released drifting Light Dew.
• Light Dew seeped into Liu Dahai, easing his pain and sharpening his senses.
• Liu Dahai and the others watched Light Dew revive a charred birch tree and rapidly transform the surrounding plants.
• Birds, rabbits, and even hibernating snakes emerged and rushed toward the crater.