Recaps

Li Yun built the Main God trials, watched newcomers survive and claim rewards, and began uncovering how the Azure Jade Mirror could shape living possibilities. As authorities investigated the game and He Qiu’s group resisted recruitment, Li Yun entered the next trial himself, weakened in a ruined city.

• Li Yun used the Azure Jade Mirror to create the Main God system and launch a zombie trial, where He Qiu, Du Qifeng, Lu Yun, Wang Yawen, and Zheng Defa survived and returned to the Main God Platform.
• Li Yun increased the first-round rewards and added a blind-box draw, while Du Qifeng received a battered second-tier Poor Man's Shield and He Qiu later extracted a Yellow Sprout Pill and a cultivation method.
• Xie Lei failed the Parasite Crisis trial and lost access to the Main God system, while He Qiu’s reinforcement produced a cultivable possibility that merged with him.
• A laboratory confirmed that a mysterious Nanite Repair Fluid regenerated Subject 002’s missing forearm, and hospital staff and officials investigated the growing number of coma cases.
• Li Yun’s attempt to merge with a Demigod-level version of himself revealed the danger of losing his identity, while his supernatural abilities began to emerge in the real world.
• Officials began forming the National Special Affairs Investigation and Administration Bureau, while Wang Cheng tried and failed to recruit He Qiu, Du Qifeng, and Lu Yansheng into the Reserve National Team.
• The next trials began, and Li Yun entered a ruined city with his abilities greatly reduced, where he rescued an unconscious newcomer and gathered stones and rebar as weapons.

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.

The newcomers entered a world where Old Demon Black Mountain rose to power and restored reincarnation, while rival groups followed the intertwined trails of Yan Chixia, Chen Jingqiu, and Cihang Pudu. The arc left the groups converging on the capital as Cihang Pudu prepared for a coming calamity and considered a sacrifice.

• Chiguan’s radiance merged with Old Demon Black Mountain, who gained new powers and a requirement of twenty-seven million merits, while Li Yun stopped time and added the world to the next mission round.
• Tang Yuyang’s team entered the A Chinese Ghost Story mission and discovered that Chiguan’s passage had scarred the sky and stirred a prophecy about an Earth Sovereign.
• Old Zhan, Fang Yishu, and their companions joined Ning Caichen on the road to Lanruo Temple, where Yan Chixia drove off Tree-Demon Granny and rescued Zhiqiu Yiye.
• Old Demon Black Mountain subdued the Netherworld’s demons and ghosts, then formed the Reincarnation Disc and declared himself the Central Wutu Virtue-Bearing Wheel-Holding Earth Sovereign.
• Chen Jingqiu met a white-haired stranger who urged him to take a sword and reach Great Zhou’s capital before the full moon.
• Tang Yuyang convinced Monk Baiyun that Cihang Pudu was a demon, and White Cloud agreed to accompany the group to the capital.
• Yan Chixia’s group and other users reached the capital, while Cihang Pudu rejected a proposal to kill Yan Chixia and arranged to lure people to Longliu Inn.

Chen Jingqiu wielded the Xuan-Yuan Sword to defeat Cihang Pudu, and the returning users faced new rules, dangers, and scrutiny in the real world. The arc left Li Yun monitoring threats to users while He Qiu accepted protection from Wang Dansheng.

• Cihang Pudu revealed his stolen powers and transformed into a colossal false Buddha, but Yan Chixia summoned the Xuan-Yuan Sword and battled him alongside White Cloud Monk, Xiahou, and Zhiqiu Yiye.
• The white-haired man urged Yan Chixia to let the Otherworlders wield the sword, and after the others failed, Chen Jingqiu became Emperor for the night and drew it.
• Chen Jingqiu defeated Cihang Pudu, then the users returned to the Main God’s realm, where Chen Ruiping found his memories sealed and his rewards locked.
• Tang Yuyang learned that users could qualify for Level-Two status, while Li Ce described receiving a Dimension Key that could bring A Chinese Ghost Story into a future mission.
• Authorities approached He Qiu as a First-Test User and warned him that users and their families were being targeted, while investigators examined a murder involving a strange burn and Taoists tracked the killer’s traces.
• Fang Yishu reviewed her mission rewards, and Li Yun told the Main God to monitor dangerous items and preserve the consciousnesses of deceased users.
• Ethan Flores drew FBI attention as he expanded his control, while Jason and Doctor Hansen awakened the Red Queen, whose takeover overwhelmed the facility’s network and power.
• Wang Dansheng showed He Qiu evidence of attacks on First-Test Users, gave him a marked map and a custom phone, and told him his residential complex was under guard.