Arc 2The Blood Moon and Beyond

Li Yun guided newcomers through a Blood Moon trial, then explored his evolving abilities and the Main God Platform’s growing economy as more users entered the game. After investigating an anomaly in the Star Realm, he recognized it as a remnant of the Heavenly Heart and allowed it to merge with the world.

  • Li Qingzhi guided the newcomers through the ruined city, while Li Yun noticed the trial’s hidden dangers and the signs of a powerful presence in the tower.
  • Li Yun tested the Blood Moon’s effects, learned that its light came from Divine Child Fetal Blood, and rejected the side quest to reach the moon.
  • Li Qingzhi and the newcomers survived by hiding until the trial ended, and the returning users crowded the Main God Platform as veterans and opportunists sought to recruit or trade with them.
  • Li Yun earned a Rare Grade Exchange Card and chose Electric Current Drive, then tested its bioelectric abilities after settling into a rented house.
  • Fang Yishu cleared a fogbound vehicle trial and returned with a Phantom Cloak, while reports about the Main God spread among users, researchers, and governments.
  • Li Yun watched buyers compete for scarce Main God resources as researchers anticipated a widening divide between users and ordinary people.
  • An administrator summoned Li Yun to a frozen world in the Star Realm, where he identified a drifting light as a trace of the Heavenly Heart and allowed it to merge with the world.
Chapters 26–50 Vol. 1 Read

Ch. 26Guides and Veterans

Li Qingzhi awakened in a ruined city as a veteran user assigned to guide a group of newcomers, but he was unsettled by Li Yun, a composed young man who had woken even earlier. After the newcomers stirred and the survival timer began, Li Qingzhi silenced their panic with a display of psychokinesis and prepared to explain the situation.

  • Li Qingzhi checked his mission panel and confirmed he was a Guide tasked with helping newcomers clear the trial.
  • Li Qingzhi watched Li Yun sharpen a rusty steel bar and wondered whether the young man was another veteran or an unusually capable newcomer.
  • Li Yun gave a piece of cloth to a shivering, malnourished boy, then greeted Li Qingzhi and introduced himself by his surname.
  • The newcomers began waking, and Li Qingzhi used psychokinesis to stop a blonde girl from screaming.
  • After the seventy-two-hour survival countdown began, Li Qingzhi drew the crowd's attention by floating and shattering a stone, then prepared to explain their situation.

Ch. 27Details and the Beginning of Action

Li Yun absorbed the Main God Game’s information and assessed the newcomers and their guide, Li Qingzhi, while identifying a dangerous enhancement method that could harm users. As the mission timer began, Li Qingzhi led the confused tourists away from the exposed street to find shelter and learn what dangers awaited them.

  • Li Yun accessed his temporary personal panel and recognized that the Main God had arranged for Li Qingzhi to guide and protect the newcomers.
  • Li Yun noticed that Li Qingzhi’s mental power relied on a risky enhancement that could damage his brain, and he recorded the concern for possible exchange restrictions or warnings.
  • A newcomer from India knelt and kowtowed, and Li Yun identified him as a likely devotee of Vithoba from a lower caste based on his forehead mark, clothing, and physical signs of labor.
  • Li Qingzhi pulled the Indian man to his feet and, after the mission timer began, decided to move the newcomers somewhere safer.
  • Li Qingzhi ordered the tourists to follow him through the ruined streets while he searched for a route and considered how to gather information about the mission world.

Ch. 28Moving Forward and Making Decisions

Li Qingzhi struggled to manage the unruly newcomers as he and Li Yun considered the dangers of their survival trial and searched for shelter before nightfall. Li Yun urged them to investigate the distant high-rises, noting the unsettling lack of birds and the possibility that unseen dangers were waiting.

  • Li Qingzhi vented to Li Yun about the troublesome newcomers, while Li Yun questioned why their group had encountered almost no dangers during the seventy-two-hour survival trial.
  • Li Qingzhi ordered the newcomers to keep up or fend for themselves, then continued searching for a place to shelter before darkness fell.
  • Li Qingzhi sensed watchful gazes from the distant high-rises but found only empty, silent windows when he looked.
  • Li Qingzhi asked Li Yun whether they should seek shelter in the high-rises or nearby houses, and Li Yun argued that the houses offered little protection or supplies.
  • Li Yun chose to investigate the high-rises and pointed out that the group had seen almost no birds, even after the rain stopped.

Ch. 29Inside the Building

Li Yun led the exhausted group into a ruined commercial tower, armed them with baseball bats, and secured the entrance to the underground parking passage before guiding them upstairs. At a window, Li Qingzhi glimpsed a red shadow in the sky, suffered a violent reaction, and received an exploration score as Li Yun listened to distant, maddened howls and voices.

  • The group reached a dark, damaged commercial tower, where Li Yun took baseball bats from his backpack and gave one each to Li Qingzhi and an elderly white man.
  • Li Yun closed and chained the doors to the underground parking passage, then led the group toward the stairwell and upstairs.
  • Li Qingzhi struggled with the pitch-dark stairwell as Li Yun tapped the walls with his bat while they climbed.
  • At a window, Li Qingzhi noticed the outside light turning red and looked up at a red shadow flickering behind the clouds.
  • Li Qingzhi collapsed with blood running from his nose and received an Exploration Score increase after acquiring partial information about the world.
  • Li Yun closed his eyes and listened to distant howls and nearby human voices filled with madness and pain.

Ch. 30Blood Moon and Changes

As the blood-red moon transformed the ruined city and its creatures, Li Yun tested the effects of its light while the exhausted survivors watched from a high-floor office. Li Qingzhi spotted the missing tourist turning into a monster nearby, and Li Yun concluded that the trial was likely meant to be survived by gathering information and hiding rather than fighting.

  • Old Li woke and warned that the moon looked blood-red, while Li Yun tested the moonlight by exposing his hand and watching it begin to mutate.
  • The survivors took turns looking outside and saw black creatures pouring from the ruins, gathering and fighting beneath the red moon.
  • Li Qingzhi spotted the missing blonde tourist near the building, transformed by the moonlight into a grotesque creature.
  • Li Yun pulled Li Qingzhi away from the window after noticing that his eyesight was changing and exposing him to danger.
  • Li Yun reasoned that the trial's threats could likely be avoided by staying inside and away from the moonlight, then decided to run and hide.

Ch. 31What He Saw and... the Side Quest!

Li Yun stopped Old Li from being drawn into a dream by the blood-red moon and glimpsed the moon’s monstrous nature through his perception. His exposure to the moonlight began causing strange changes in his hand, and he refused a newly offered side quest that would raise the mission’s difficulty to four stars.

  • Li Yun knocked Old Li unconscious to interrupt his second episode of being drawn into a dream, then helped him recover.
  • Through his mental connection with Old Li, Li Yun saw a gigantic blood-red moon that resembled an eye watching those who looked at it.
  • Li Yun noticed faint supernatural effects in his moonlit hand, including a halo and the ability to draw a small fragment toward his palm.
  • The Main God revealed that the moonlight came from Divine Child Fetal Blood and offered Li Yun the four-star side quest Mystery of Divine Blood.
  • Li Yun rejected the side quest, which would have voided his main mission and required him to reach the moon within fourteen years.

Ch. 32Main God: I can't save them. I really can't...

Li Yun watched the Blood Moon’s horrific effects outside and warned Li Qingzhi that the upper floors were likely occupied by a powerful anomalous presence. He kept the group on the eighth floor, believing that surviving the three-day trial depended on avoiding dangers they did not understand.

  • Li Yun observed how the deepening Blood Moon transformed the creatures outside into grotesque, violent monsters, some of which grew into enormous masses of fused flesh.
  • Li Qingzhi thanked Li Yun for saving him and suggested that the group move up several floors, but Li Yun refused and explained that they should not disturb the building’s unseen host.
  • Li Yun reasoned that the lack of birds meant something in the city’s high places drove them away or killed them, and urged Li Qingzhi to rest rather than investigate.
  • Li Yun recalled sensing a powerful life presence beginning around the fourteenth or fifteenth floor and concluded that an anomalous creature likely occupied the building’s upper levels.
  • Li Yun reflected that the Main God had assigned perceptive guides like himself and Li Qingzhi to help newcomers avoid hidden dangers during the trial.

Ch. 33Return, and "Default"

Li Qingzhi returned from the Newcomer Trial and received the Main God’s refresh service, while Li Yun’s unusual abilities astonished Old Li. When Kutanda collapsed before choosing whether to activate an ID, the Main God ruled that his silence counted as default activation, leaving Li Yun quietly amused by its decision.

  • Li Qingzhi and the newcomers survived the mission by hiding and gathering supplies until the countdown ended, then returned to the Main God Platform.
  • The Main God purified Li Qingzhi’s slight Divinity contamination and restored his health and clothes through its refresh service.
  • Old Li realized Li Yun was a newcomer, and Li Yun suggested his mental ability had awakened during the trial.
  • Kutanda collapsed from exhaustion, and the Russian checked him and said he needed nutrition and rest.
  • The Main God asked Li Yun whether Kutanda should be removed from the platform if he remained unconscious, then ruled that his failure to choose counted as default activation of his ID.

Ch. 34Interlude I

Li Qingzhi and the others witnessed a vast, chaotic influx of people returning to the Main God Platform from mission worlds around the globe. Wang Cheng tried to recruit newcomers and gather information, but his scattered team struggled to find one another amid the crowd.

  • Countless white lights brought people back to the Main God Platform, revealing a crowd far larger and more international than before.
  • Li Qingzhi observed that the Main God's protective boundary kept people about thirty centimeters apart and prevented direct interference.
  • Wang Cheng ordered Wenshu and others to recruit newcomers, prioritizing Asians and people from their country.
  • Wang Cheng found Old Pei, who said their large group had been scattered across the crowded platform and could not locate its members through numbered communications.
  • Old Pei reported that a female Visitor had come from Liezhidundeng, prompting Wang Cheng to request that the information be added to their report.

Ch. 35Interlude II

Lu Yansheng and He Qiu rejoined Du Qifeng after their missions and compared their injuries, equipment, and discoveries about cultivation and staying in a mission world after completing its objective. As a vast crowd of newcomers gathered on the platform, a veteran user began selling advice while Du Qifeng watched.

  • Lu Yansheng told Du Qifeng and He Qiu that his gun had been damaged in a battle-royale mission and that repairs cost five Universal Points.
  • He Qiu explained that cultivation had persisted after his mission and that he had stayed for three extra days to train after completing his objective.
  • The three men noticed the immense, diverse crowd of people returning to the Main God Platform and sensed that the growing number of newcomers had changed the situation.
  • Veteran users realized that returning closer to the Main God Light Sphere could provide an advantage, as more free treatment beams appeared in the inner circle.
  • A masked veteran used a golden megaphone to advertise his experience and offer advice to newcomers for five Universal Reward Points.

Ch. 36Interlude Three

Zhang Yi, a former scammer turned Level 1 Main God user, tried to profit from newcomers by exploiting their lack of experience. Li Yun observed several users attempting to recruit or deceive the newcomers, while Lu Yansheng received Zhang Yi’s proposal to split the proceeds of his scheme.

  • Zhang Yi reflected on his past and recognized the Main God Game as a chance to build wealth and pursue his ambitions.
  • After studying the Main God's trading rules, Zhang Yi used an All-Server Announcement Golden Megaphone to pitch trades to newly arrived users.
  • Lu Yansheng recognized Zhang Yi’s tactic and received his message proposing that they share the proceeds; the Main God then offered Lu Yansheng an arbitration agreement.
  • Li Yun observed Zhang Yi and a self-proclaimed priest trying to exploit newcomers, but chose not to intervene because the trades were voluntary under the Main God's rules.

Ch. 37A Brief Interlude, Part Four

Li Qingzhi examined Li Yun’s recommended psychokinesis exchange and saw hidden details revealing its risks and origins. He then checked his mission evaluation and discovered that guiding newcomers had earned him a substantial bonus, leaving him surprised by the rewards.

  • Li Qingzhi enthusiastically recommended Tier-One Psychokinesis Development to Li Yun, who saw additional information showing its experimental origins and lingering burden.
  • Li Yun advised Li Qingzhi to prioritize earning points for a bloodline, energy system, or attribute improvements, but Li Qingzhi explained that the strengthening was affordable and helped justify his Guide task.
  • Li Qingzhi and the newcomers formed a protective ring around the unconscious youth while the others inspected their Main God screens.
  • Li Qingzhi checked his clearance evaluation and learned he had earned 82 Universal Points and one Common Exchange Card for a Common Grade mission performance.
  • Li Qingzhi discovered that ten of the thirteen Visitors he guided had cleared the mission, earning him 303 additional Universal Points and another Common Exchange Card because one Visitor received a Rare Grade evaluation.

Ch. 38Interlude Five

After reviewing his status and Rare Grade mission rewards, Li Yun asked the Main God why triggering the Divine Blood side quest had earned so many points and how he should use his resources. The Main God recommended low-profile, flexible exchanges that would not interfere with his ongoing evolution, and Li Yun examined a shortlist headed by Electric Current Drive.

  • Li Yun reviewed his detailed status panel and saw that he had earned 1,130 Universal Points and a Rare Grade Exchange Card for his mission performance.
  • Li Yun questioned the Main God about the 120-point reward for triggering the Mystery of Divine Blood side quest.
  • The Main God explained that gathering the information required facing the Blood Moon and would likely kill ordinary newcomers, but Li Yun's unusual nature let him do it safely.
  • Li Yun acknowledged that his personal involvement had distorted the Newcomer Trial's balance and asked how to handle his resources as an ordinary user.
  • The Main God advised Li Yun to choose flexible, low-profile exchanges that would not disrupt his body's unknown evolution, then displayed a shortlist led by Electric Current Drive.

Ch. 39New York Back Alley

Ethan Flores woke in a Brooklyn alley after experiencing the Main God Game and discovered that he had brought back a metallic transformation ability. He tested his new power and ended the chapter kneeling in gratitude, while Old Panko watched in shock.

  • Old Panko revived Ethan with a pungent herbal tequila mixture after finding him collapsed in the street.
  • Ethan recalled fragments of the Main God Game, including a swamp trial, the Main God, and an exchange called [X-Gene Random Low-Level Activation Awakening].
  • Ethan activated the ability and watched a metallic layer spread over his fingers and palm.
  • Ethan tested the transformed hand by striking a nearby storage bin and confirmed the ability was real.
  • Ethan knelt and thanked the Lord, while Old Panko stared at him in frightened disbelief.

Ch. 40Chapter Forty: I Don't Understand It, but I'm Deeply Shocked!

Wu Shaoyou discovered that Terror and Infinity had vanished from his files and online sources, while people around the world were urgently seeking copies and information about its Main God. He was left suspecting that the strange disappearance and lucrative inquiries pointed to something far beyond an ordinary takedown.

  • Wu Shaoyou searched his cloud drive and found that his copy of Terror and Infinity had disappeared, though his other novels remained.
  • Wu Shaoyou found forum posts confirming that other readers had lost their copies and that sites had removed the book.
  • Wu Shaoyou read reports of unfamiliar people asking detailed questions about the Main God and Main God Space, sometimes offering money.
  • Wu Shaoyou examined screenshots of international dark web bounties seeking early versions of the novel and information about powerful mythological figures.
  • Wu Shaoyou searched major engines in incognito mode but found no recent relevant discussions, and he began to suspect the purge was more than routine cleanup.

Ch. 41Moving House... and "Potential"

After moving into a detached rental, Li Yun awakened the Electric Current Drive potential and tested his new bioelectric abilities. He accidentally caused a brief neighborhood power outage, then asked the Main God about the strange remarks attached to the exchange description.

  • Li Yun accepted the keys to a nearby detached rental and settled into the mostly unfurnished house.
  • Li Yun used his emerging abilities to clean the house and described them as an instinctive influence.
  • Li Yun recalled awakening Electric Current Drive, which gave him bioelectric control, sharper senses, and a new perception of invisible fields.
  • Li Yun tested his power, accidentally cutting electricity to several nearby blocks before he and the Main God quickly contained the effects.
  • Li Yun reviewed the exchange description and asked the Main God to explain its remarks about a magnetic field powerhouse.

Ch. 42Official Website and Newcomer Trial

Fang Yishu explored the Main God Platform’s official website and found a forum report claiming that Tatus Donick had drawn a complete Sixth Tier extraordinary item from a Newcomer Blind Box. The report left her stunned by the possibility that the platform’s powers far exceeded anything she had imagined.

  • Fang Yishu opened the Main God Platform’s official website and entered its General Forum.
  • Fang Yishu noticed a post claiming that England user Tatus Donick had obtained a complete Sixth Tier extraordinary item from a Newcomer Blind Box.
  • The post described the item’s strange effects, Tatus Donick’s disappearance from the platform, and bounties seeking information about him.
  • Fang Yishu finished reading and sat in a daze, struggling to accept how much the Sixth Tier item challenged her understanding of reality.

Ch. 43Power Unknown! The Stronger the Opponent, the Stronger It Gets!

Fang Yishu entered a strange bus-station trial where passengers had to board the correct vehicle, and she chose a battered van after noticing a clue involving its driver and partly obscured license plate. The van plunged into the fog, and Fang Yishu awoke in an emergency room as the system announced that the main mission was complete.

  • Fang Yishu woke on a double-decker coach with nearly thirty other passengers at a fogbound station, where the Guide explained their mission to board the correct vehicle within twelve hours.
  • Fang Yishu observed that her stopped watch began moving only when vehicles with drivers and partly obscured license plates stopped at the station.
  • Fang Yishu boarded a badly damaged van driven by a bloodied man, and the Guide joined her with a limping middle-aged passenger.
  • The limping passenger praised the van's unknown power, and the bloodied driver accelerated into the fog with the three passengers aboard.
  • Fang Yishu awoke in an emergency room, where a voice called her another drowning victim from the vehicle, and the system announced that the main mission was complete.

Ch. 44Forum

Fang Yishu teased Ning Yu about her interest in Li Yun, then warned her that he seemed cold and advised her not to pursue him romantically. Meanwhile, Li Yun browsed the Main God forum, where users and private interests were already jockeying for rewards, resources, and influence.

  • Ning Yu asked Fang Yishu about Li Yun and his glasses, and Fang teased her about having a secret crush on him.
  • Fang agreed to pass Ning Yu Li Yun’s contact information but warned that he seemed cold and advised her to choose someone else if she wanted romance.
  • Li Yun felt a faint sensation that someone had called his name, but Main God found no abnormality and Li Yun returned to browsing the forum.
  • Li Yun read a post criticizing veterans’ extra rewards for guiding newcomers and noted how the system could widen the gap between users.
  • Li Yun discovered that a minor official in Deksasa State had posed as the Kamerican Federation to seek a deal, and he preserved the post as a warning while clearing other useless information.
  • Li Yun observed private groups and businesses using the forum to buy and trade Main God resources with real-world money.

Ch. 45You Look at Me, I Look at You, Mixue...

Fatty investigated unusual web-crawler activity tied to a novel and found high-paying requests for recovered copies, research, and rare lore. As he began analyzing encrypted traffic, an unseen gaze briefly watched him through his monitors.

  • Fatty told Tiger that targeted crawlers were searching old fiction forums, archives, and backup sites for specific keywords.
  • Fatty traced scattered network activity to overseas nodes but could not identify its ultimate source.
  • Fatty showed Tiger job postings seeking recovered pages, historical research, rare editions, and the novel’s supplemental lore.
  • Tiger invited Fatty to help the bureau investigate, but Fatty declined and agreed to meet him for a drink later.
  • After the call ended, Fatty analyzed encrypted traffic through overseas data centers, unaware that a faint silver streak watched him through his screens.

Ch. 46A Probe

The Anomalous Website Phenomenon Assessment Group failed to find a way to observe or contact the Main God official website through ordinary means. Tang Yuyang sent another carefully prepared message without receiving a response, while someone elsewhere was pursuing a different path.

  • Chen Guodong listened as researchers reported that only Main God users and people they authorized could see the official website.
  • The assessment group reported that optical, animal, and network tests had found no way to observe, trace, or communicate with the website.
  • Deng Linxu asked Tang Yuyang to send message forty-six to the forum.
  • Tang Yuyang posted the approved request for peaceful information exchange, but newer posts quickly pushed it down without a reply.
  • Tang Yuyang reflected on his routine as a first-round user and his recent mission world experience.

Ch. 47Assets

Mann Laval ordered the Laval Family to rapidly liquidate private assets and contract businesses to fund the acquisition of a mysterious, exceptionally valuable asset. He then spoke with Klud, who had secretly listened in and was preparing to pursue an opportunity involving a Life-prolonging medicine.

  • Mann told Arnaud Clermont to begin closing non-core businesses and rapidly sell or use family assets as collateral to raise funds.
  • Arnaud agreed to sell artworks, shares, factory assets, and wineries, and planned to fly to Bornido to speak with the family's old friends.
  • After Arnaud left, Mann sealed the office and called Klud out of the shadows.
  • Klud said he would not waste the Laval Family's support and noted that no King of Francia could ignore the opportunity or the Life-prolonging medicine.
  • Mann reminded Klud that no member of the Laval Family was unworthy of their place.

Ch. 48"This Work Suspected of Using AI..."

Ning Yu grew frustrated when Fang Yishu kept avoiding her, while Fang Yishu discovered online reports of supernatural changes and worried that the Main God Platform’s influence was reaching the real world. She examined a Phantom Cloak from her newcomer reward, uncertain what to make of the strange developments.

  • Ning Yu noticed Fang Yishu had stopped attending classes and working, and added another mark to her private list of grievances.
  • Ning Yu worried that the person whose contact information Fang Yishu had given her ignored her WeChat requests and phone calls.
  • Fang Yishu found online videos showing people with apparent supernatural abilities, often dismissed as AI-generated content.
  • Fang Yishu inspected her newly acquired Phantom Cloak and considered the dangers suggested by the strange changes appearing in the world.
  • Fang Yishu draped the cloak over her head after pressing its silver clasp produced no reaction.

Ch. 49Sharks Competing for Resources

Li Yun observed Main God Users and powerful financial groups competing to buy Universal Points, visitor slots, and other scarce resources while institutions tried to control information about the Main God Game. The chapter left the market in a state of rising demand and limited supply, as people anticipated that early Main God resources could determine who gained power in the future.

  • Li Yun browsed forum posts where users offered enormous sums for supernatural items, Universal Points, and first-generation visitor slots.
  • Li Yun explained that the Main God restricted exchanges such as real-world currency to protect stability, while powerful groups tried to conceal and profit from information about the game.
  • Yingjilige Secret Intelligence Service learned about the Main God after private financial groups and civilian users had already obtained information.
  • Main God Users continued to guard their Universal Points, while backed buyers raised offers to capture scarce resources before more competitors arrived.
  • Researchers projected that the Main God Platform's early resources could create a vast divide between people and enable a path of continued evolution.

Ch. 50"An Accident"

Li Yun investigated a frozen world and learned that a remnant of the Heavenly Heart he had encountered had drifted into it and resisted the Main God's authority. He allowed the remnant to merge with the world and restored the flow of time to see what would happen.

  • An administrator summoned Li Yun to inspect an anomaly in the Star Realm.
  • Li Yun found a world frozen in time, with a mysterious light slowly moving through it.
  • The Main God explained that remnants of Li Yun's abandoned exploration along the path of Divinity had drifted into the world and resisted its attempts to stop their integration.
  • Li Yun recognized the light as a trace of thought left by the Heavenly Heart when it had seen him.
  • Li Yun decided to let the remnants merge with the world and restored the flow of time.
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