Recaps

Li Yun adjusted the two trial dimensions, deciding to divide each day’s visitors between them as the world grew increasingly focused on the trials. Meanwhile, Wu Shaoyou and Cao Meng reacted to the approaching visitor drawing, as public interest and regret over missed opportunities spread.

• Li Yun and the Administrator discussed the difficulty and equipment in the Tokyo and Undead Cemetery trials, and Li Yun ordered daily visitors to be randomly split between them.
• Wu Shaoyou found Wang Lei and Yi Fangtian praying with assorted religious objects, then joined them by offering incense and praying for protection.
• As the seven o’clock drawing approached, people gathered around their screens to watch for the selection of daily registered visitors.
• Cao Meng regretted having rejected an earlier chance to become a First-Test User after news of the exchange list and its Beginner Life Elixir spread.
• Capital fueled a surge of interest in legends, religious beliefs, archaeological discoveries, and claims about ancient bloodlines.

Cao Meng was selected for the Newcomer Trial and awoke among thousands of people in a wasteland surrounded by undead. He learned that the trial was the Corrupted Heroes' Cemetery, where he had one day to earn ten hunting points to activate a Main God ID.

• Cao Meng waited anxiously for the daily draw and saw a congratulations message appear on his screen.
• Cao Meng fell unconscious and woke in a wasteland inside a barrier with thousands of other selected people.
• Cao Meng saw rotting corpses and skeletons wandering beyond the barrier as the crowd woke and reacted in confusion and excitement.
• Cao Meng read the trial details: he had to earn ten hunting points within one day, and users could not attack one another.

Wu Shaoyou woke in a protected alley in the Lost Tokyo trial, where he had to survive for twenty-four hours to qualify for a Main God ID. He discovered a Parasite and a Ghoul fighting nearby and remained hidden as their battle intensified.

• Wu Shaoyou woke alone inside a white barrier in an unfamiliar alley and realized he had entered the Main God Space.
• A screen identified the world as Lost Tokyo, set his objective as surviving twenty-four hours, and warned that non-native individuals could attract attention.
• After the barrier faded, Wu Shaoyou smelled blood and heard strange noises deeper in the alley.
• Wu Shaoyou crept toward the sounds and saw a Parasite with a bone blade fighting a Ghoul with four dark-red tentacles.
• The Ghoul shouted that he was not the Parasite's prey as the Parasite pressed its deadly attacks.

Wu Shaoyou fled after witnessing a Parasite battle a Red-Eyed Ghoul, then collided with an office worker who transformed into a Shocker Combatant. The chapter left him facing another apparent monster in the street.

• The blade-wielding Parasite wounded the Red-Eyed Ghoul, which hurled garbage at its opponent and escaped across the rooftops.
• The Parasite returned to human form, noticed Wu Shaoyou's hiding place, and left the alley without pursuing him.
• Wu Shaoyou raced away, terrified that both Parasites and Ghouls could pass as ordinary people.
• Wu Shaoyou collided with a middle-aged office worker, who grabbed his shoulder and transformed into a Shocker Combatant.

Officials analyzed the Cemetery and Tokyo Newcomer Trial districts, comparing their dangers and testing how missions, rewards, and Hunting Points worked. They recommended focusing on the Cemetery, while newly discovered special undead offered users a small Universal Points reward.

• A speaker presented evidence that the Cemetery required participants to hunt, while Tokyo required them to survive amid far deadlier threats.
• Officials reported that trial participants' bodies remained asleep in reality, time passed at the same rate in both places, and the Cemetery's Main God rules prevented users from interfering with missions or sharing Hunting Points.
• The experts recommended prioritizing the relatively stable Cemetery District to improve domestic tourists' clearance rate.
• The speaker explained that Application Draw participants who became users received only triple continuation rewards and no Newcomer Blind Box, unlike Random Draw participants.
• Officials revealed that users could earn a small amount of Universal Points by killing certain specially marked undead in the Cemetery.

Wu Shaoyou and Li Anshan landed in an active undead battle zone during the newcomer trial, where regional divisions and hostile Main God Users complicated their attempt to escape. After fleeing toward the area assigned to Asian users, Li Anshan confronted a dirt mummy and told Wu Shaoyou to run.

• Wu Shaoyou discovered that his roommate Li Anshan had also entered the trial without a protective barrier.
• Li Anshan pulled Wu Shaoyou toward a larger group of people as undead and fighters filled the battle zone.
• A heavily armored Black man warned them to leave the area, which he said was assigned to other newcomers.
• Li Anshan led Wu Shaoyou away in the direction the man indicated, but they encountered a dirt mummy rising from the ground.
• Li Anshan produced a spear and threw a dark green clay jar at the mummy while telling Wu Shaoyou to run.

Li Anshan and Wu Shaoyou were attacked by a Wandering Wraith, but Brother Wang and his team destroyed it with a fire talisman. Brother Wang warned them about the dangers and directed them toward a safer camp for users from their region.

• Li Anshan used a Voodoo potion to dissolve a corpse, but its Spirit Entity escaped and attacked him and Wu Shaoyou with mental shrieks.
• Li Anshan and Wu Shaoyou kept the wraith at bay until Brother Wang and his team arrived and burned it with a fire talisman.
• Brother Wang explained that the wraith was too weak to earn a reward and scolded the newcomers for entering a dangerous area without a team.
• Wu Shaoyou told Brother Wang that a Black man in chainmail had sent them there, prompting Brother Wang's team to complain about foreigners misleading newcomers.
• Brother Wang pointed Li Anshan and Wu Shaoyou toward a temporary camp and warned them about wraiths, dishonest users, and threats from foreign groups.
• Brother Wang's team left after their compass indicated another target, while Li Anshan and Wu Shaoyou thanked them for their advice.

Elder Ning outlined a plan to protect domestic newcomers and secure resource zones in the Cemetery District as user conflict intensified. Li Ce then warned that a powerful suspected user might be operating nearby and urged everyone to prepare for opponents beyond the Third Tier.

• Elder Ning explained that domestic users needed to protect newcomers, stabilize outposts, gather intelligence, and claim suitable territory in the Cemetery District.
• Elder Ning said foreign users were targeting scattered domestic newcomers and that future conflict was likely, while back home instructed them to settle user disputes in the trials and avoid suffering losses.
• A listener compared the struggle to an online game, and Elder Ning and the group discussed the possibility that It was permitting the concentrated competition.
• Elder Ning invited Second-Level User Li Ce to share his experience from the A Chinese Ghost Story mission world.
• Li Ce argued that user numbers were not the only measure of strength and reported sensing a living individual over a thousand kilometers away whose energy seemed stronger than known Third-Tier examples.
• Li Ce said the figure might be a user, an undead, or a sensory anomaly, but advised preparing for foreign groups to include people beyond the Third Tier.

Li Yun met Li Jiye, his former Newcomer Trial guide, who recruited him to help form a team for the upcoming Special Newcomer Trials. Li Yun considered joining rather than refusing outright, partly to maintain his public identity as authorities began organizing users for the trials.

• Hu Dingjun told Li Yun that a special gathering for local users would take place at noon and that an acquaintance wanted to meet him.
• Li Yun met Li Jiye, who explained that the authorities were organizing veteran users and recruits into teams for the Special Newcomer Trial Mode.
• Li Jiye revealed that he was a First-Tier Peak user and asked Li Yun to join his team as a strategist.
• Li Yun pointed out that Li Jiye had no other teammates, and Li Jiye admitted he had only just left the mountain base.
• Li Yun decided not to reject the invitation outright because refusing to enter the trials might make him seem abnormal to the authorities.

Li Yun and Old Li attended a crowded users' gathering, where they focused on the buffet and encountered several acquaintances. The chapter left Li Yun being enthusiastically invited to dinner by Yuan Zhengxin.

• Li Yun and Old Li entered the gathering and judged it to be a social event for users.
• Old Li suggested that they eat first, and the two loaded their trays with food from the buffet.
• Li Yun recognized Ning Yu and Fang Yishu, greeted them, and advised Fang Yishu about a dessert.
• Ning Yu began to ask Li Yun about a favor, but Yuan Zhengxin interrupted and invited him to dinner.

Li Yun and his companions chatted with Boss Yuan and Boss Zeng, who pointed out a powerful young man from Upper Capital surrounded by foreign users. Li Yun identified the older foreign guest as a likely Second Tier user carrying a concealed firearm and questioned whether he had a legal permit.

• Boss Yuan introduced Boss Zeng and exchanged business cards with Li Yun and his companions.
• Boss Zeng and Boss Yuan asked Li Yun about Third Tier users and learned that information about them remained scarce.
• Boss Yuan pointed out Young Master Xu, a wealthy young man from Upper Capital surrounded by people seeking his favor.
• Boss Yuan explained that Young Master Xu had recruited an older foreign user and was gathering users around himself.
• Li Yun examined the older foreign man, judged him likely Second Tier, and suspected he was concealing a small firearm.

Li Yun and the others attended a gathering where an official outlined government support for Main God Users and encouraged their participation in a large Newcomer Trial world. Later, Li Yun and his companions exchanged a brief look with the armed middle-aged white man, who reacted with nervous respect.

• Li Yun noticed signs that the middle-aged white man might be carrying a gun, making Boss Zeng cautious and drawing his attention to Li Yun's keen perception.
• A senior official announced government support for Main God Users, introduced an application linked to the Special Investigation Bureau, and hinted that users would be needed in the Newcomer Trial world.
• Li Yun declined Boss Yuan's offer to expand his network, while Miss Ning Yu added Li Yun as a friend and Old Li eagerly began eating.
• The middle-aged white man met the gazes of Miss Fang, Li Jiye, and Li Yun, then discreetly wiped sweat from his forehead as a companion asked what had happened.
• The white man told his companion that his luck was not bad and quoted the saying about hidden dragons and crouching tigers.

Li Yun and his companions left the reception before more guests could approach them, while Basim explored the Corrupted Heroes' Graveyard and discovered powerful undead and souls deeper in its dangerous lands.

• Li Yun identified Young Master Xu’s companion as a likely former bodyguard or spy, and advised the others to avoid him.
• Li Yun stopped Li Jiye from eating more, and the group left the reception before a blonde foreign guest arrived looking for them.
• Basim traveled more than ten kilometers from the safe zone, drawn by the graveyard’s deathly energy and its potential for his Shadow Fiend bloodline.
• Basim encountered dangerous undead, including a death knight, and retreated to a safer area about twelve or thirteen kilometers from the safe zone.
• Basim found souls far more valuable than any he had encountered before.

Basim hunted down and devoured a powerful banshee, then used the chaotic souls he had collected to defeat its consciousness and claim it as his own. The struggle left him exhausted but strangely calmer, while revealing the dangers and potential of his Shadow Fiend bloodline.

• Basim endured the banshee's despairing shriek and prepared himself before consuming the weakened Spirit Entity.
• He drew the banshee into himself and felt its intense resentment batter his will as he tried to digest and subdue it.
• The banshee's assault brought Basim back to memories of his young soldier days, when a modern military force crushed his side in the desert.
• Basim unleashed the fragments of souls he had bound and assimilated, drowning out the banshee's consciousness with their chaotic cries.
• After the struggle, Basim opened his eyes exhausted and drenched in sweat, but with a deeper red gaze and a calmer mental state.

Li Ce’s group tracked a powerful foreign user whose aura was rapidly growing, while Li Yun and the Main God observed the international users’ cautious response. The foreign user had reached Fourth Tier, and Li Yun hinted that the users had yet to discover the true danger hidden in the so-called Hero Cemetery.

• Li Ce reported that the foreign user’s aura had risen again, alarming the people gathered in the tent.
• The group discussed gathering information and making contact, but feared the foreign user was growing stronger through battle and might threaten even Third Tier teams.
• Li Yun covertly observed users from multiple countries spying on the area and called the foreign user a useful distraction for drawing their attention.
• The Main God said the countries were holding back from open conflict because they had sensed a Fourth Tier user, while preparations to deploy Fourth and Fifth Tier items were underway.
• Li Yun noted that most users had focused their efforts on the Hero Cemetery rather than Tokyo and wondered how they would react when they discovered the cemetery’s hidden danger.

Li Yun and the others arrived in a trial world alongside thousands of newcomers, while experienced users and teams waited outside the Main God’s light barrier. After the newcomers awakened and the barrier vanished, the trial began.

• The Main God’s light barrier appeared, and people outside organized teams to find and guide the arrivals.
• Li Yun, Li Jiye, Fang Yishu, and Old Li woke among the newcomers, and Li Yun assessed the unusually large number of high-tier users present.
• Li Yun recognized a red-robed bishop as a First-Test User who had once duped newcomers with claims about a damaged Bible.
• The bishop and other prominent users began speaking with representatives from different groups as more newcomers woke.
• Two newcomers removed waterlogged outer layers, revealing protective outfits they had brought into the world.
• The light barrier faded, beginning the trial.

Li Yun’s group arrived in a death-tainted region and sought advice from the organized reception camps despite tensions among national factions. The camp singled out Ning Yu for her healing ability, then assigned their team a guide as they set out to explore.

• Ning Yu shivered in the bleak region, and Li Yun said their reception team had already arrived.
• Li Yun led the group toward the reception workers, explaining to Fang Yishu that they could not avoid the conflicts and competition by becoming lone wolves.
• At the nearby camp, officials and other workers briefed the newcomers on local dangers, routes, outposts, and available bone weapons.
• The camp workers tried to persuade Ning Yu to stay because her healing ability was valuable, but she refused.
• A person in charge assigned the group an official with beginner-level physical enhancement to guide and support them as they explored.

Yan Zhengguan guided Li Yun, Old Li, and a group of newcomers through dangerous terrain toward a First Tier outpost, explaining how to survive among the undead. After Yan struggled against a Rotten Corpse, Li Yun killed it with a Locust Stone, and Li Yun urged Yan to stop taking responsibility for every newcomer.

• Yan Zhengguan warned the group about unstable ground and undead as he led them through the purple-black mud.
• A Rotten Corpse charged after the newcomers screamed, and Yan fought it with a bone club and then his fists.
• Yan called for help, and Li Yun pierced the Rotten Corpse's forehead with a Locust Stone.
• The group traveled for over an hour and reached an outpost within two kilometers that domestic users had opened as a First Tier area.
• Li Yun told Yan that he had done enough for the newcomers and advised him to leave them to their own fate and hunt monsters.

Li Yun led his team through the Death Cemetery, keeping them in a manageable area while making Li Jiye serve as the front-line tank. Meanwhile, Li Yun watched a Fourth Tier shadowy figure massacre users at a nearby gathering point.

• Li Yun’s narration explained that the trial worlds offered users chances to earn resources, while veteran users still held an advantage and newcomers could be exploited for their labor.
• After Old Yan left, Li Jiye became the team’s front liner and struggled to fight Skeletons with a shield and bone club as Li Yun teased him about the captain’s traditional role.
• Li Yun’s team headed toward the hills, then chose to hunt Second Tier undead five or six kilometers from the arrival point rather than risk encountering Third Tier enemies farther out.
• Li Yun turned his attention to a nearby gathering point, where a Fourth Tier shadowy figure pursued and slaughtered European and American users.

Basim attacked the forward camp, crushed its defenses, and taunted its users while searching for its leader. After taking a Third Tier Saraph Exorcism Crest from a reckless young man, he questioned a wounded survivor about who ran the camp.

• Klud Laval realized Basim had found him, but could only raise a defense and summon guards before Basim overwhelmed the camp.
• Basim discovered he could not seize the users' souls and felt a dangerous presence when he tried to pierce the mist around them.
• Basim provoked the survivors, and one user's altered gunfire wounded his companions while failing to harm Basim.
• A young man charged Basim with a marked ornament, but Basim restrained and killed him before taking his Saraph Exorcism Crest and pistol.
• Basim collected useful supplies and asked a wounded middle-aged man who was in charge of the camp.

Basim interrogated and killed a camp member, then discovered that a young man from the Laval Family had been secretly digging underground to study the buried corpses. The young man explained that the corpses grew stronger the deeper they were found, leaving Basim and the unseen observer intrigued by the discovery.

• Basim tortured a prisoner for information, learned that a camp administrator had foreseen danger, and killed him after extracting what he knew.
• Basim recalled how he had slaughtered the camp’s defenders and destroyed their watchtower, causing the survivors to flee.
• Basim found the suspected spy hiding underground and dragged him from his Shadow Stealth state with shadow claws.
• The young man from the Laval Family explained that the camp had been excavating the ground to investigate the corpses that awakened beneath it.
• The young man said deeper layers contained corpses that were increasingly difficult to damage.

Basim confronted Klud Laval over spying and demanded payment for his life, using black flames to destroy buried Third Tier corpses and demonstrate his strength. Klud tried to negotiate and offered money, but Basim’s countdown expired and the flames lunged at him.

• Basim unearthed several corpses and burned them until they collapsed, confirming they were at least equivalent to Third Tier monsters.
• Klud Laval recognized that Basim could not be fought head-on and abandoned his plans to challenge him.
• Basim questioned Klud about the camp’s experiments and threatened him for spying and offending him.
• Klud tried to make peace, apologize, recruit Basim, and offer money and protection, but Basim repeatedly interrupted him and counted down the time.
• Basim declared that time was up and sent the black flame pouncing onto Klud’s clothing.

Li Jiye fought three undead creatures while Li Yun and Fang Yishu watched, and his instincts awakened enough to help him survive their attacks. As Li Yun warned him to finish quickly, the group sensed an approaching mental scan.

• Li Yun teased Li Jiye about his supposed power of a hundred beasts while Fang Yishu worried that he was facing the undead alone.
• Li Jiye decapitated the skeleton after instinctively sensing danger and moving with unexpected precision.
• A beastlike undead creature nearly struck Li Jiye, but he dodged its pounce through an involuntary iron-bridge stance.
• Li Yun threw Li Jiye a bone club, and Li Jiye recognized that escaping stronger opponents was safer than fighting them head-on.
• Fang Yishu and Li Yun sensed a probing mental scan, and Li Yun warned Li Jiye that guests were approaching.

Li Yun’s group faced a second wave of dangers as Li Jiye fought the undead and an organized foreign team approached. The newcomers claimed the area belonged to their Gray Wolf team, leaving Li Yun’s group confronted over territory.

• Li Yun refused Fang Yishu’s suggestion to retreat and had her and Ning Yu stay nearby while Li Jiye continued dodging the undead.
• Li Jiye’s movements gradually grew faster even as he took wounds, drawing Fang Yishu’s attention.
• More than a dozen armed newcomers advanced in formation, carrying compact crossbows.
• A Walking Corpse charged the newcomers, and three of them worked together to kill it while the undead beast backed away from Li Jiye.
• The short-haired leader of the Gray Wolf team addressed Li Yun’s group and accused them of acting on territory the team had claimed.

Li Yun rejected the Grey Wolf Squad’s demand to leave and used the Tail Feather to defend his group and strike back. As the captain and another attacker were sent flying, Li Yun refused to hear their excuse and prepared to continue the fight.

• The Grey Wolf Squad surrounded Li Yun, Fang Yishu, Ning Yu, and the injured Old Li, then ordered them to leave the graveyard.
• Li Jiye favored retreat, but Li Yun chose to fight after criticizing the squad’s numbers and threatening behavior.
• A Grey Wolf Squad member attacked Li Yun with a blade, and a crossbowman fired a bolt at his neck.
• Li Yun caught the blade with two fingers and stopped the bolt with an invisible barrier before revealing the Tail Feather.
• Li Yun sent the Tail Feather sweeping through the incoming bolts and tossed the kukri to Old Li, urging him to return to the front line.
• The Tail Feather struck the Grey Wolf Squad captain and another attacker, while Li Yun dismissed the captain’s attempt to explain.