Recaps

Li Jiye raced to a fresh crater after sensing a fallen object and dug out a cracked, ice-cold crystal that restored his strength. He wrapped it in a shirt and fled, leaving behind two injured people who had tried to buy it from him.

• Li Jiye called his younger brother and learned that his parents were safe despite aftershocks in Shaanxi Province.
• Following a faint pull through the woods, Li Jiye found a fresh crater and dug several meters into the frozen soil.
• A black SUV crashed into a tree near the crater, and its injured occupants tried to persuade Li Jiye to leave the object for money.
• Li Jiye broke apart the frozen clump and uncovered a cracked crystal whose aura cleared his mind and erased his fatigue.
• Li Jiye wrapped the crystal in the young man's shirt and ran off in another direction as the injured pair called after him.

Academician Ji and other researchers reported that the comet’s global appearance and the world’s altered conditions defied known physical explanations, while fragment impacts coincided with shallow geological activity. As the authorities continued their investigations, officials worried about international competition and the Main God Platform’s announced reopening in three days.

• Academician Ji described evidence that the Azure Sky phenomenon weakened incoming starlight, and said the comet appeared without warning despite lacking the expected physical effects.
• Academician Ji reported that observation stations had detected meteorite fragments falling across multiple countries within a similar period.
• A younger researcher said tests found mostly stable fundamental physical laws, though some values had begun to deviate and special items’ energy signatures were weakening more slowly.
• Officials discussed how shallow geological activity overlapped with meteorite impact sites, including a fragment that struck San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge and sparked a fight.
• A female leader and a man with a recording pen worried that the world was changing too quickly and noted that the Main God Platform would resume operations in three days.

Lin Xiaoyang climbed onto an office building’s rooftop searching for an Extraterrestrial Object and found a bloodied corpse, a huge German Shepherd, and the blue crystal he sought. The dog noticed him as he hid nearby, leaving him to choose between fleeing and risking a grab for the crystal.

• Lin Xiaoyang climbed the building and forced his way onto the rooftop after finding the stairwell door locked.
• Lin Xiaoyang followed a fresh blood trail around the rooftop water tank and discovered a huge German Shepherd eating a human forearm beside a corpse.
• Lin Xiaoyang spotted a blue crystal near the dog and recognized it as the Extraterrestrial Object he had been searching for.
• The German Shepherd sensed Lin Xiaoyang and began preparing to pounce, while Lin Xiaoyang weighed whether to flee or snatch the crystal.

Lin Xiaoyang fought off a German shepherd and climbed down the outside of a high-rise while clutching a crystal, but he fell short of a window ledge and began to plummet. A mysterious figure standing in midair caught his leg and stopped his fall.

• Lin Xiaoyang used a rusty angle iron to distract the German shepherd, then grabbed the crystal as it bounced into reach.
• Lin Xiaoyang dodged the dog's bite, threw his belt and screwdriver at its eyes, and leaped onto an air-conditioner platform.
• Lin Xiaoyang climbed down the building's outer wall toward an open window while the German shepherd watched from above.
• Lin Xiaoyang tried to jump across a wide gap between ledges but fell short and began falling.
• A blurry figure standing in midair grabbed Lin Xiaoyang's leg and stopped his fall, then said he was better than a lot of people.

Li Yun rescued Lin Xiaoyang from a vicious dog and used the crystal he had found to release Numinous Spark that healed him. Li Yun returned the crystal and left Lin Xiaoyang to face the still-lurking dog alone.

• Li Yun carried Lin Xiaoyang back to the rooftop, and the dog fled when Li Yun looked at it.
• Li Yun drew the crystal from Lin Xiaoyang's pocket and released its Numinous Spark, which helped him recover and cough up black, polluted blood.
• Li Yun studied the crystal's energy, then returned it to Lin Xiaoyang and stopped him from kneeling in gratitude.
• Li Yun joked that he was a high-altitude littering administrator and told Lin Xiaoyang to figure out how to get down.
• Li Yun warned Lin Xiaoyang that the dog was still behind the water tank, then left.

After a meteor struck near town, Li Anshan and the residents stayed in a military-run quarantine camp while authorities investigated the impact site. Researchers found weak radiation and signs of slowed metabolism in nearby cell samples, but no visible changes in test animals.

• Li Anshan checked his phone after waking in the evacuation camp, where officials had restricted movement and provided residents with supplies and medical checks.
• Li Anshan's father scolded him for using his phone and said the earthquakes had repeatedly woken him and Li Anshan's mother.
• Li Anshan recalled that the meteor had seemed to veer away from the nearby mountain before crashing in the fields outside town.
• Researchers continued testing the impact site and reported that they had not found the meteor fragment, while nearby animals showed no visible abnormalities.
• A biological testing team reported that several cell samples placed near the crater showed signs of slowed metabolism.

Li Yun visited his grandfather’s grave on the overgrown mountain and left after tending to it. Nearby, mercenary Jason Benny secretly watched a military camp searching for meteorite fragments, until someone spoke to him from behind.

• Li Yun cleared a path through the rampant vegetation and reached his grandfather’s grave.
• Li Yun lit the old man’s tobacco pipe, sat beside the grave until evening, and added dirt to the mound before leaving.
• Jason Benny hid on the eastern hilltop and watched the military camp near the town while searching for information about the meteorite fragments.
• Jason took infrared photographs of the camp and wondered how to report his lack of progress to his employer.
• A gentle voice suddenly asked Jason what he was doing.

Li Jiye returned to his lodgings with two Meteorite Fragments after fighting off other users, then considered the cost of gathering them and the approaching reopening of the Main God Platform. He chose to rest and recover rather than continue searching for more fragments.

• Li Jiye cleaned the knife wound across his chest and examined the Dragon-Eye Crystal Pearl and the light-absorbing Tianhuang Stone he had acquired.
• Li Jiye recalled how other users had surrounded him at the impact site, where he used Psychokinesis to blind and defeat several of them before escaping with the fragments.
• Li Jiye absorbed the Dragon-Eye Crystal Pearl's Numinous Spark, gaining strength and endurance while most of its aura escaped and the crystal shrank.
• Li Jiye remembered the desperate fight over the Tianhuang Stone and reflected that veterans like him had an advantage over newer users.
• With less than a day before the Main God Platform resumed operation, Li Jiye decided to stop searching, rest, and focus on the platform.

Levinson and the other observers monitored Marcus Tynode as he began the required login process, but something went wrong when he chose Full True-Body Login Mode. A flash of gold left only his helmet, sensors, and cigarette ash in the cell.

• Levinson watched Marcus smoke in his glass cell while waiting for the scheduled activation.
• A warning came over the communicator, and the room's subjects returned to their beds and began the login process.
• Marcus's activation light stayed blue as his heart rate and breathing grew erratic.
• A researcher ordered the staff to terminate Marcus's process, but Marcus shouted that he chose Full True-Body Login Mode.
• A flash of gold swept through Marcus's cell, leaving his helmet, sensors, and cigarette ash behind.

Researchers investigated True-Body Traversal and learned that physical entry allowed users to interact with mental entrants while making death in mission worlds permanent and greatly increasing the rewards they could bring back. Du Qifeng then received a selection of mostly low-difficulty missions and considered the risks of choosing a True Body Mode mission.

• Researchers observed volunteers vanish and reappear through True-Body Traversal while their instruments failed to identify how it worked.
• A former soldier reported that physical entrants and mental entrants shared the same space and could interact, but physical entrants would truly die if killed in a mission world.
• Researchers concluded that physical entry allowed users to bring back nearly everything they gained, and an elder ordered a volunteer-led investigation and public warnings about the risks.
• Du Qifeng saw that his physical-body login offered more mission choices, mostly One-Star missions, and read the warning that death in True Body Mode was real.

Fujita’s late-night commute took him to the nonexistent Kisaragi Station, where he found signs of a bloody disappearance and became stranded. Du Qifeng rescued him from drawing danger with his screams, but Du Qifeng remained trapped at the station and sensed a powerful threat approaching.

• Fujita boarded a filthy, dim train after three days of overtime and fell asleep during the ride.
• Fujita woke alone at Kisaragi Station, where the train left without him and his phone and watch seemed unable to keep time.
• Fujita found a bloodstained Sakuraoka Middle School teacher’s badge and a newspaper dated April 19, 1980, and feared he had been spirited away.
• Du Qifeng seized Fujita and dragged him behind a newsstand, warning that his shouting could attract monsters.
• Du Qifeng recalled that the station’s maze-like paths led back to the platform and sensed an approaching danger despite the mission’s one-star-low rating.

Du Qifeng escaped a disguised taxi and fought a Balmian creature after a colossal figure’s light disrupted the strange street. An injured UGM officer arrived with a weapon and asked Du Qifeng to return the school badge he had found.

• Du Qifeng led Fujita through the dark station and hesitated at the street’s boundary, wary of the waiting taxi.
• Fujita entered the taxi first, but an explosion and a vast silver-and-red figure’s light exposed the driver as a Balmian creature.
• Du Qifeng dodged the creature’s gunfire, wounded its weapon hand with his guandao, and disarmed it.
• When the creature attacked at close range, Du Qifeng jammed a dumbbell into its jaws and pinned its stun baton hand.
• Du Qifeng ordered Fujita to retrieve the dropped gun, but an injured UGM officer arrived and said he had already notified the emergency center.
• The UGM officer apologized for the danger and asked Du Qifeng to return the school badge he had lost at the station.

Du Qifeng returned from a mission in True Body Mode and learned that repairing his injuries now cost Universal Points, while most of the items he had collected were worthless. Li Yun observed the risks and benefits of the new mode and intended it to push users toward the bodily cultivation required for higher tiers.

• Du Qifeng returned with a wound and learned that True Body Mode charged Universal Points for repairs.
• Du Qifeng appraised his Magnetic Energy Pistol and other collected items, discovering that their buyback value was low or nonexistent.
• The Main God detected biological genetic contamination in Du Qifeng and quoted 26 Universal Points to repair it.
• Li Yun watched users react to True Body Mode, from breaking free of bodily restrictions to panicking and forming groups.
• Li Yun explained that the Main God's new mode preserved users' essence for their return, while greater risks could help them break through to the Fourth Tier.

Li Ce showed the gathering footage of recent brutal crimes and police raids targeting users, then paused the recordings and asked everyone for their thoughts on the current situation.

• Special police officers raided a residential building and found three corpses with holes in their foreheads beneath blood-soaked cloths.
• Officers captured a skeletal man beside bags of shriveled objects, cash, and bank cards.
• Police pursued two suspects who used abilities to resist before being subdued and found with forged identification documents.
• An officer said the suspects had been abducting lone users, and the victims' whereabouts remained unknown.
• Li Ce paused footage of recent cases and asked the gathering to share their thoughts.

Li Ce warned gathered users against abusing their powers in reality, while Li argued that deterrence was necessary to maintain order. The state began quietly suppressing unstable forces, and Xia Guangjie received a warning to keep the Huanjing Association in line.

• Li Ce addressed hundreds of users, condemning those who used their abilities to exploit, harm, or experiment on ordinary people.
• Li Ce warned the users that disorder would turn society into a world of enemies and urged them to preserve stability.
• Li watched the confidential broadcast and told his companion that mutual deterrence was necessary to establish balance and order.
• State authorities secretly suppressed users who had become unstable, while media outlets remained conspicuously silent.
• Young Master Huang called Xia Guangjie and warned him to keep the Huanjing Association and its subordinates from causing trouble.

Xia Guangjie learned that guests at his villa were being seized and tried to arrange help, while a suspicious shipment containing captives was uncovered during an inspection. Elsewhere, Li Yun examined a strange liquid called the Holy Communion as Main God users’ growing power fueled conflict and disorder.

• A caller warned Xia Guangjie that guests at his villa outside Yanjing had likely been captured and urged him to distance himself from them, so Xia Guangjie called Young Master Xu for help with special goods.
• Li Laosan and the warehouse workers began unloading sealed crates of supposed compound fertilizer at an overgrown suburban warehouse.
• A man claiming to be from the Market Administration Bureau ordered a temporary inspection, and the workers discovered three bound people inside one crate among soil from the Sinkhole area.
• The inspector stopped the remaining crates from being opened, arranged for backup and a secure warehouse, and identified the shipment as controlled goods.
• Li Yun considered how Main God users were exploiting their powers to gain influence and examined a mercury-like substance called the Holy Communion.

After dying in a gladiator mission, Zhou Mingzhe recovered by drinking Spirit Dew supplied by the Huanjing Association. Li Yun discovered the hidden factory producing it and concluded that its crude alchemical process exploited living beings and Main God Game users, while the Main God explained that people near Meteorite Fragment fall sites had become valuable targets.

• Zhou Mingzhe woke from a gladiator nightmare and recalled winning five matches in a role-assimilation mission before dying and returning home.
• Zhou Mingzhe drank Spirit Dew, which eased his mental exhaustion and shortened his login cooldown despite his disgust at its taste and likely origins.
• Li Yun explored a concealed mountain factory and found workers processing blood, plants, soil, and live animals into Spirit Dew.
• Li Yun recognized that the factory’s silver basin used an imperfect alchemical ritual inspired by Holy Communion to extract spirituality from living matter.
• Li Yun told the Main God that people were exploiting users and creatures near Meteorite Fragment fall sites, and the Main God confirmed their heightened exposure made them valuable targets.

Li Yun confronted the people running a facility where humanoids were being processed in a silver reaction pool, then released his restraints and exposed the overwhelming energy of his true form. As the facility’s equipment failed and his body began to break apart under the strain, he prepared to strike with Killer Whale Overlord Fist.

• Li Yun rejected the Main God's offer to erase the facility and ordered the uninvolved people removed, leaving the rest to him.
• Li Yun released his restraint and sensed the vast currents of energy surrounding him as his body transformed into a brilliant, unstable high-energy form.
• Li Yun's appearance triggered an electromagnetic disturbance that disabled communications and equipment, heated the air, and trapped the facility's armed personnel at a distance.
• Li Yun realized that reality was slowly eroding his exposed form, but judged the reaction manageable and prepared to act.
• Li Yun announced, "A hundred thousand horsepower—Killer Whale Overlord Fist."

Li destroyed an entire mountain with a single vibration-filled punch, then reflected on how emotion had influenced his actions. Meanwhile, people trapped at a manor in a blizzard learned that the telephone line was cut and wild beasts were nearby, leaving them isolated and facing a dangerous journey outside.

• Li struck the mountain with a punch that reduced its structures, inhabitants, and rock to powder.
• Li dismissed the fading anomalies and walked across the settling gray-white plain, considering how emotion had affected him.
• The Main God remarked that Li could have left the victims intact for it to handle, and Li apologized for failing to hold back.
• Three people returned through the blizzard and reported that the telephone line was cut and wild-beast claw marks were nearby.
• The people at the manor realized that they were cut off and that crossing the blizzard could be dangerous.

He Qiu entered the Snowstorm Manor scenario as the obese detective Horton, where a blizzard cut off the guests and a murderer threatened them. Suspecting someone would stage fatal “accidents” before the next restart, he decided to muddy the waters and began raiding the manor’s food stores.

• He Qiu read the mission prompt and learned that he had to find the murderer and survive until the next restart.
• After inspecting the severed communication line and signs of a beast, He Qiu concluded that someone in the manor was acting suspiciously.
• He Qiu ignored a guest’s mockery and kept eating while considering how to disrupt the murderer’s plans.
• On the first night, He Qiu slipped out of his room and crept into the kitchen storeroom.
• He Qiu opened the storeroom and began feasting on its supplies, eyeing the nearby wine cellar.

He Qiu discovered that the estate’s food stores had been consumed overnight and used the resulting crisis to take control of the stranded guests. He proposed that everyone focus on surviving the next seven days, setting the scene for a brutal survival game.

• He Qiu staggered out of the kitchen at dawn after eating nearly all the estate’s food during the night.
• The estate owner told the guests that almost all the food, including the Stone Baguette, had been eaten, and led them to inspect the ransacked kitchen.
• The guests panicked and grew suspicious of one another after realizing the blizzard had trapped them without supplies.
• He Qiu entered the dining room belching, feigned an upset stomach, and displayed Detective Horton’s unloaded pistol to intimidate the guests.
• He Qiu urged the guests to focus on surviving the next seven days, confident that none of them could fight him.

He Qiu survived the seven-day hunger crisis at the villa and discovered that the guests and the building had been remnants of a repeating history. Horton thanked him for breaking the cycle, then vanished as the Main God recalled He Qiu and a fragmentary copy of the Secret Scripture of the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord began to burn.

• He Qiu fed the stranded guests frozen wine-and-flour bricks and avoided their attempts to draw him into schemes or obtain extra food.
• Seven days later, a supply convoy reached the villa, where the owner had died and the remaining guests were barely alive.
• The convoy, guests, and villa faded and decayed around He Qiu until he stood alone in the snowy ruins in his original body.
• Horton appeared as a fading spirit, thanked He Qiu for breaking the repeating cycle, and asked him to burn the book behind the villa owner's sins.
• A leather-bound book began burning, and the Main God announced that He Qiu had completed his main quest and would leave the mission world.
• He Qiu saw the book's item information identify it as a fragmentary copy of the Secret Scripture of the Seven Chapters of the Mysterious Lord before he vanished.

Sheng Xin visited the ruins of a Huanjing Association factory that had vanished along with the mountain and found only a broad plain of ash. He ordered a continued search for survivors and evidence, while suspecting that a powerful user had destroyed the site.

• Authorities sent a geological survey team to the area, but it found no major changes and left without discovering the true site.
• Sheng Xin arrived at the factory ruins and learned that the area had become a plain covered in gray ash.
• A subordinate reported that excavation and detection had found no equipment or people, and that the factory and mountain might have turned into ash together.
• Sheng Xin suspected another user had attacked with a Main God Platform weapon resembling a High-Energy Particle Disintegration Warhead.
• Sheng Xin ordered his team to search the area for another half day, find any survivors, and determine what had happened.

Li Yun dismissed the unrest surrounding the new supernatural order, while Fang Yishu entered a hidden underground black market to look for goods. After surveying its stalls and avoiding suspicious brokers, she continued deeper into the market without revealing what she wanted.

• Li Yun decided not to concern himself with the threats and unrest, focusing instead on work and profit.
• Fang Yishu traveled through the sewers, using her cloak and spiritual vision to conceal herself and follow traces toward a concealed entrance.
• A gatekeeper checked Fang Yishu’s card and let her pass through a rusted iron door into the Ghost Market.
• Fang Yishu surveyed the market’s stalls, spotting wilderness materials and dubious products such as a homemade Low-tier Tranquility Potion.
• Fang Yishu ignored brokers who asked what she was looking for and continued through the market without disclosing her needs.

Fang Yishu explored a black market and sensed that a jar of so-called Spirit Water contained spiritual energy along with disturbing traces of suffering and blood. After avoiding the seller, she found no worthwhile bargains and ended the chapter praying for better luck.

• Fang Yishu watched the black market’s barter deals and approached a stall selling Spirit Water.
• Fang Yishu mentally examined the jar and detected faint spiritual energy mixed with blood and traces of desperate suffering.
• Fang Yishu acted unimpressed and left the stall, sensing the seller’s gaze follow her briefly.
• Fang Yishu browsed other stalls, found no useful goods, and suspected two ores were bait for buyers.
• Fang Yishu pressed her palms together and asked the Main God to help her find an overlooked bargain.