Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Mary I and Taloy launch 112 missiles at Greenfield’s position. Taloy’s mechanical fleet intercepts every one, demonstrating the strength of his technology.
• The missile attack serves as a distraction. While Taloy focuses on the interceptions, a tiny bionic fish attaches itself to his mothership and sends a robot inside to decode the fleet’s signal. Four-Armed Palu and Alpha Wolf prepare to spoof it.
• Taloy detects the intrusion because he has uploaded his consciousness into the fleet. Rather than immediately stopping the operation, he decides to observe the intruders’ plan.
• The attack buys Greenfield time to escape. Two hours later, Yu Yuan arrives with Miemie, and Greenfield’s submarine-capable cruise ship surfaces to meet them.
• Greenfield greets Yu Yuan with a joking offer of a discount on information. Miemie appears to laugh at her, turning the reunion into a brief comic moment.
• Greenfield warns Yu Yuan that her attackers are Mary I of the Land of Blood and Taloy of Mechanical Supremacy. Yu Yuan recognizes Mary I as the infamous “Bloody Mary,” an ancient figure tied to the Blood Clan’s history, but remains confident in his own allies’ strength.

Character developments and interactions

• Taloy is revealed as a formidable, highly integrated mechanical player whose fleet functions like an extension of himself. His confidence turns into curiosity when he recognizes that the intrusion may be an interesting challenge.
• Palu and Alpha Wolf demonstrate technical skill and coordination, using a decoy attack to conceal their signal-intrusion attempt.
• Greenfield is resourceful under pressure, using the delay to prepare to abandon ship if necessary. Her reunion with Yu Yuan mixes gratitude with her usual business-minded teasing.
• Yu Yuan responds calmly to the news of powerful enemies. He treats Mary I’s long history as no guarantee of victory and trusts the strength of Hogg and Xiao Xi.
• Miemie shows an unexpected playful side, apparently laughing at Greenfield during the reunion.

Significant themes

• Deception and counter-deception: The missile barrage is a distraction for a covert intrusion, while Taloy’s awareness undermines the attackers’ assumption that their operation is hidden.
• Technology and control: Taloy’s consciousness-linked fleet illustrates how deeply a player can merge with their creations.
• Age versus strength: Yu Yuan rejects the idea that Mary I’s long history makes her unbeatable.
• Relief and camaraderie: The tense escape gives way briefly to humor and reunion before the threat of the powerful pursuers returns.

Plot and events

• Greenfield’s cruise ship enters an unexpectedly frozen sea. A warning reveals that two pursuing forces—the Iron Fleet and Mary I’s Black Sail Fleet—have locked onto the ship.
• Yu Yuan tells Greenfield to keep moving and says his allies are ahead. He leaves the ship with Miemie, while the four turtles dive into the water.
• The fleets encounter the turtles. The Phantom Trickster Turtle rapidly kills Mary I’s man-eating sharks, while the Cangjia Rock Turtle damages a submarine and uses terrain and enemy attacks to its advantage. The submarine’s suicide robots briefly disrupt it, but it turns the resulting explosions against the surrounding submarines.
• Yu Yuan activates the turtles’ Four-Turtle Resonance ability, Elder War Waters. Four legendary sea-beast phantoms appear and merge with the turtles, awakening their ancient bloodlines and granting them new abilities.
• The sea becomes a transformed battlefield: reefs and rock walls divide the fleets, fog and storms obscure visibility, ship hulls corrode and grow heavier, and unseen threats trigger the fleets’ alarms. A rocky peak pierces and sinks a warship.
• Mary I and Taloy realize Greenfield has powerful allies. Mary I identifies the event as a bloodline ability and decides to capture all four turtles so she can exploit their ancient bloodlines.

Character developments

• Yu Yuan remains calm and confident, trusting the turtles to handle the fleets and choosing the moment to unleash their combined ability.
• The four turtles shift from capable fighters to awakened ancient-bloodline creatures, each apparently gaining a new ability and contributing to a battlefield-scale transformation.
• Mary I moves from directing her shark attack to pursuing a new goal: capturing the turtles for their bloodlines.
• Taloy is possessive and dismissive at first, regarding Greenfield as his “toy,” but is shaken by the turtles’ power.

Themes

• Ancient power and transformation: the awakened bloodlines turn the turtles into forces capable of reshaping an entire naval battlefield.
• Nature versus military technology: fleets, submarines, and robots struggle against reefs, storms, corrosion, and creatures they cannot even see.
• Power as a source of danger: Mary I sees the turtles’ extraordinary abilities not only as a threat but as something to exploit.

Character interactions

• Greenfield alerts Yu Yuan to the pursuers; he reassures her and leaves the confrontation to his allies.
• The turtles coordinate their attacks against the two fleets, while Yu Yuan oversees the fight and triggers their resonance ability.
• Mary I and Taloy communicate as their forces come under attack, but both are forced to reassess the danger—and Mary I turns that reassessment into a plan to capture the turtles.

Key plot points and events

• The Ancient Sea Region’s power transforms marine life within 200 kilometers, enlarging and empowering the creatures and placing them under the Four Turtles’ command. Mary I’s sharks receive conflicting orders—from her and the turtles—and turn on one another before attacking everything nearby.
• The steel fleet fights off the creatures but suffers heavy damage. A giant octopus sinks a missile frigate, a whale wrecks a destroyer before being killed, and the turtles strike back: Cangjia Rock Turtle blocks attacks with its shields and fog, while Phantom Trickster Turtle tears open another frigate.
• Yu Yuan reaches the wounded Cangjia Rock Turtle underwater and gives it a Healing Injection.
• Yu Yuan orders the Second Stage plan. Alpha Wolf launches three newly made tactical nuclear missiles, while Four-Armed Palu uses a miniature robot aboard the Taloy Mothership to infiltrate its database.
• Taloy detects the missiles and counters the intrusion, tracing the connection to Palu’s server. He breaks through nine firewalls and discovers files about the Felda Revolutionary Army, the Black Ice Train, and other players killed by Moonshadow Breath. As he starts downloading them, the apparent database turns out to be a trap: Taloy is sealed inside a Digital Cage.

Character developments and interactions

• Mary I loses control of her sharks as the turtles’ command overrides hers; her frustration grows as her fleet faces the resulting chaos.
• Yu Yuan supports the injured Cangjia Rock Turtle, showing his concern for his allies even amid the battle.
• Alpha Wolf and Four-Armed Palu coordinate the Second Stage plan, combining missile strikes with a cyber intrusion.
• Taloy proves capable and confident in digital combat, but his curiosity about the files leads him into Palu’s trap. The discovered documents make him suspect a link between Moonshadow Breath, Greenfield, and the Land of Blood, though he initially dismisses that possibility.

Significant themes

• Competing control and strategy: Conflicting commands plunge the sharks into chaos, while both sides attempt to outmaneuver the other through coordinated plans.
• Technology versus nature: Warships and advanced weapons clash with empowered marine creatures and the turtles’ unusual defenses.
• Deception and overconfidence: Taloy assumes he can safely investigate the database, but the files are bait and the intrusion ends with him trapped.

Key plot points and events

• Taloy discovers he has been trapped in a Digital Cage—a rare Mechanical Supremacy technology that seals digital consciousness. Yu Yuan realizes the enemy has imprisoned only part of Taloy: his primary consciousness remains in the Iron Fleet’s mothership.
• With much of Taloy’s processing power occupied, the fleet falters. Tactical nuclear explosions trigger electromagnetic pulses that strain him further, creating an opening for Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan breaks into the mothership, fighting through mechanical guards and barriers until he reaches Taloy’s mechanical-brain core.
• Yu Yuan’s Electromagnetic Pulse Worm damages the room’s systems but cannot destroy the core’s protective barrier. He then connects a miniature robot to a data cable, while Palu works remotely to crack the room’s access controls.
• As Palu’s breakthrough disrupts the barrier, Taloy panics. Palu finally announces that he has “got him.”

Character developments

• Yu Yuan acts decisively on Palu’s intelligence, combining force, unusual tools, and a carefully timed attack rather than relying on brute strength alone.
• Palu takes center stage through sustained, precise technical work. Despite exhaustion, he maintains focus and successfully cracks Taloy’s access controls.
• Taloy, initially threatening and confident in his technological defenses, grows desperate when his fleet weakens and Yu Yuan reaches his core.

Significant themes

• Teamwork across different kinds of skill: Yu Yuan’s combat ability and Palu’s hacking expertise are both essential to defeating Taloy.
• Technological vulnerability: Even advanced systems can be undermined by overload, unexpected attacks from within, and compromised access controls.
• Timing and preparation: The nuclear strikes, Palu’s partial imprisonment of Taloy, and Yu Yuan’s assault work together to create a brief but decisive opportunity.

Character interactions

• Taloy tries to intimidate Yu Yuan by invoking the Mechanical Overmind, then later attempts to bargain when the EMP attack threatens his core.
• Yu Yuan ignores Taloy’s taunts and keeps pressing the attack.
• Palu coordinates remotely with Yu Yuan and Alpha Wolf, ultimately breaking through the barrier that Yu Yuan cannot overcome alone.

Key plot points and events

• With Taloy apparently defeated, Mary I’s Black Sail Fleet faces overwhelming attacks from frenzied sea creatures. She decides to use the battle as a chance to strengthen her blood-absorbing flagship and possibly reach Gold Tier.
• Mary I swallows a sealed octopus tentacle supplied by the Blood Grand Duke, hoping its power will help her advance.
• Yu Yuan senses danger and rushes to rescue his four companion creatures. He saves Cangjia Rock Turtle just before it falls into a giant maw, then uses Psionic Power to free Cloud-Tide Flying Turtle and retrieves the other two.
• Once the four creatures are removed, the Elder War Waters collapse: the mist vanishes, the sea creatures lose their enhancement, and the battlefield returns to normal.
• A huge humanoid octopus rises from the water. Yu Yuan recognizes that it is not a cosmic horror, but its energy marks it as Gold Tier. He and Xiao Xi immediately consider fighting it.

Character developments

• Mary I shifts from desperate defense to ambitious risk-taking, choosing a dangerous transformation in pursuit of Gold Tier.
• Yu Yuan proves protective and quick-thinking in rescuing his companions, then turns from caution to ambition when he recognizes the Gold-Tier opponent as a rare opportunity.
• Xiao Xi shares Yu Yuan’s excitement and openly commits to the challenge, seeing the creature as her chance to advance.

Character interactions

• Mary I is guided by the Blood Grand Duke’s encouragement but makes the decision herself.
• Yu Yuan reassures Cangjia Rock Turtle during its rescue and coordinates his efforts to save all four companions.
• Yu Yuan and Xiao Xi silently recognize one another’s ambition, then explicitly agree to take on the Gold-Tier creature.

Significant themes

• Ambition and risk: Both Mary I and Yu Yuan’s group are willing to confront danger for a chance at advancement.
• Loyalty and protection: Yu Yuan prioritizes rescuing his companions despite the threat.
• Opportunity in crisis: The battle’s chaos creates openings for characters to pursue power and transformation.

Key plot points and events

• The Civilization Ladder erupts with news that the Astral Orbit Order is at war with the Land of Blood and Mechanical Supremacy over Greenfield Cruise Ship. The enemy has sent two top Silver Tier fighters and used a rare item to make them fight together, suggesting the Blood Grand Duke and Mechanical Overmind personally want her.
• Most observers believe Greenfield has little chance of surviving. Some of her former allies defend her, and a Forge-maker declares war on a Land of Blood member, vowing revenge if Greenfield is harmed.
• Beyond-Gold beings suspect the attack has a hidden motive, but neither faction explains it. The Blood Grand Duke reveals privately that he believes Greenfield is Wormwood, someone he once lost, and intends to restore her to the Transdimensional Tier and keep her from leaving again.
• In the battle, Xiao Xi reaches peak Silver Tier and joins Yu Yuan. She attacks Mary I, who has become a Gold Tier Humanoid Octopus, but her Corruption spear barely wounds the enormous foe.
• Mary traps Xiao Xi in a shrinking Matrix Cage filled with vengeful spirits. Xiao Xi shifts into a radiant form, destroying the spirits with Dawnlight. Her golden wings and holy power shock Mary, who decides to capture and study her rather than kill her.
• Mary escalates the fight with a psychic assault, storm, and tentacle-driven waterspouts.

Character developments

• Xiao Xi displays a striking balance of Corruption, Sanctity, and blood power, then reveals a previously unknown Dawnlight aspect. Her transformation makes her far more formidable—and more intriguing to Mary.
• Mary I is confident in her Gold Tier superiority, but Xiao Xi’s Dawnlight unsettles and fascinates her. She shifts from wanting to kill Xiao Xi to wanting to capture her.
• The Blood Grand Duke is revealed as emotionally fixated on Greenfield, whom he associates with Wormwood. He blames himself for a past tragedy and plans to reclaim her.
• Yu Yuan remains the leader Xiao Xi supports, while his sudden rise in the Bronze rankings receives little notice amid the crisis.

Significant themes

• Power and helplessness: Even a highly ranked Silver Tier fighter appears outmatched by a Gold Tier opponent, while rare war-enabling items make intervention difficult.
• Hidden identities and motives: The public sees a political conflict over Greenfield, but the Blood Grand Duke’s private memories suggest a deeply personal reason.
• Unexpected transformation: Xiao Xi’s Dawnlight power overturns assumptions about what a Blood Clan member can wield.
• Loyalty and retaliation: Allies risk conflict and make threats to protect Greenfield, despite the apparent imbalance of power.

Character interactions

• Civilization Ladder members argue over Greenfield’s odds, trading insults and threats as the conflict spreads.
• Xiao Xi tells Yu Yuan she will test the enemy, then attacks Mary directly.
• Mary recognizes Xiao Xi as Moonshadow Breath, mocks her Silver Tier strength, and attempts to imprison her.
• After witnessing Xiao Xi’s Dawnlight transformation, Mary’s hostility turns into predatory curiosity, and she launches a more intense attack.

Plot points and events

• Mary I attacks Xiao Xi with psychic force and a tornado of tentacles, expecting her to be stunned and killed. Xiao Xi is immune to psychic attacks and easily evades the tentacles.
• Xiao Xi identifies Mary I as a Gold Tier opponent whose power is unstable and whose psychic resistance is weak. Yu Yuan uses [Cured Yet Drooling] to induce an epileptic seizure, giving Xiao Xi time to strike with a Dawnlight beam.
• Xiao Xi wounds Mary I and absorbs her blood. When Mary I recovers, Yu Yuan restrains her again while attacking with a rifle and a lightning weapon, destroying one of her eyes.
• Xiao Xi releases Corruption energy into Mary I’s wounds. It battles Mary I’s life energy, then consumes it, strengthening Xiao Xi through [Fallen Evolution].
• Yu Yuan repeatedly seizes Mary I for brief intervals, exploiting the limits of her resistance. Hogg joins the fight, climbs Mary I’s body, breaks through her tough skin, and drinks her blood. The Gold Tier energy invigorates him, triggering Bloodthirsty Frenzy.

Character developments

• Xiao Xi demonstrates confidence, adaptability, and the distinct advantages of her Fallen abilities. She grows stronger by absorbing both blood and life energy.
• Yu Yuan shows tactical precision, coordinating his control ability with Xiao Xi’s attacks and his own weapons.
• Hogg eagerly embraces the challenge of fighting a Gold Tier foe. Feeding on Mary I’s blood begins restoring and empowering him.
• Mary I shifts from confidence to shock and fear as her attacks fail, her eye is destroyed, and her life energy is drained.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and tactical coordination: Yu Yuan’s brief restraints create openings for Xiao Xi and Hogg to attack.
• Power versus control: Mary I has Gold Tier strength, but her unstable command of it leaves her vulnerable to better-coordinated opponents.
• Growth through danger: Xiao Xi and Hogg turn their enemy’s blood and energy into sources of power.
• Adaptation and exploitation: The heroes identify Mary I’s weaknesses and repeatedly use them against her.

Character interactions

• Xiao Xi assesses Mary I’s weaknesses, and Yu Yuan immediately acts on her report.
• Yu Yuan warns Xiao Xi that Mary I’s life energy limits how long he can restrain her, while continuing to attack.
• Hogg follows Yu Yuan’s call to join the battle and responds to Xiao Xi’s ongoing assault with his own aggressive attack.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Yuan, Xiao Xi, and Hogg defeat Mary I, a Gold Tier creature controlled by the Corrupted Abyssal Octopus. Yu Yuan restrains her, Xiao Xi takes control of her enormous tentacles, and Hogg attacks from inside her body. Yu Yuan captures Mary I in the Loser’s Cube.
• During the fight, Xiao Xi permanently gains the Deep Sea Touch talent. Hogg and Xiao Xi also report significant improvements to their life energy.
• The Commercial Divine Alliance reviews Ales’s failed attempt to target Yu Yuan. Vice President Gubo orders Ales to stop and keep the Alliance’s involvement secret.
• Yu Yuan tells Greenfield that the Blood Grand Duke and Mechanical Supremacy arranged the war against her. She agrees to remain at war, since ending it may invite another attack.
• Yu Yuan gains access to the Astral Orbit Order’s intelligence, including information about possible threats to his coming Silver Tier advancement battle. His forces take the defeated fleets for research, while Mary I becomes a valuable subject for Gold Tier study and Xiao Xi’s corruption.
• Yu Yuan chooses a Fate Card, conquers a Frost Giant Ape, and spends two Fate Points to awaken its Wasteland Snow Ape Bloodline. The ape grows dramatically, reaching sixty meters tall.

Character developments and interactions

• Xiao Xi demonstrates a new ability by controlling Mary I’s tentacles and gains the Deep Sea Touch talent.
• Hogg contributes through an internal attack on Mary I and benefits from the victory.
• Yu Yuan continues building his strength and intelligence network while securing Mary I as a captured asset.
• Greenfield accepts Yu Yuan’s advice and chooses to stay at war despite the danger of prolonged conflict.
• Ales remains convinced Yu Yuan has a hidden secret, while Gubo prioritizes concealing the Alliance’s role.
• The defeated fleets and Mary I are divided among Yu Yuan’s allies for technological research, interrogation, and biological analysis.

Significant themes

• Power gained through conflict: Victory grants talents, increased life energy, and valuable captives.
• Cooperation and complementary abilities: Yu Yuan, Xiao Xi, and Hogg succeed by combining control, corruption, and direct assault.
• Gifts have a cost: The chapter’s maxim frames Fate’s rewards as transactional, reflected in Yu Yuan spending Fate Points to improve the ape.
• War as protection and danger: Greenfield must remain in a conflict she cannot safely end.
• The value of defeated enemies: Captured opponents become sources of research, technology, and further power.

Key plot points and events

• The Wasteland Snow Ape awakens, reveals its name is Shan, and pledges loyalty to Yu Yuan. Though its inherited Bloodline memories are still jumbled, Yu Yuan appoints it to lead the ice beasts and guard the city.
• Yu Yuan draws a Gold-tier Fate Gift and chooses the Void Cruiser, a miniature ship that can travel through the void between dimensions. He rejects the other options because he already has substitutes for them or does not need them yet.
• His Gold-tier Conquest Fate Card requires him to conquer a powerful Gold-tier creature or faction within thirty days. Yu Yuan considers possible targets and plans to gather information and prepare.
• The M-Type Core Titan finishes consuming Taloy’s Iron Fleet and Mary I’s Black Sail Fleet, converting them into Source Core Energy. Four-Armed Palu also transfers the fleet’s movable resources and begins upgrading the civilization’s defenses.
• Xiao Xi’s corruption of Mary I reaches its end. Yu Yuan kills the frozen Mary I, and Xiao Xi’s power reduces her body to ash. Yu Yuan gains life energy, bringing him close to the peak of Silver Tier, but Xiao Xi does not advance to Gold.
• Mary I’s death does not satisfy the Conquest card: despite her octopus form, she still counts as humanoid. Yu Yuan must find another Gold-tier target.
• Greenfield unexpectedly asks to establish a Teleportation Passage to Yu Yuan’s world, calling it the safest option now that she cannot remain at war. Yu Yuan suspects she also wants easy access to Giant Tree Forest for vacations, leaving her visibly uneasy.

Character developments and interactions

• Shan awakens intelligence, shows reverence toward Yu Yuan, and accepts a leadership role. Yu Yuan notices something unusual about him but waits for his memories to clarify it.
• Yu Yuan grows more confident after acquiring a Gold-tier ally and the Void Cruiser, but the Conquest card forces him to keep searching for a viable opponent. He weighs his options pragmatically and teases Greenfield about her motives.
• Xiao Xi completes the corruption of Mary I but is disappointed not to reach Gold tier. Her earlier acquisition of the Ocean Talent remains a major gain.
• Greenfield seeks a safer political connection with Yu Yuan, while Yu Yuan’s teasing exposes her possible personal reason for wanting it.
• Four-Armed Palu continues to expand the civilization’s capabilities through resource transfers and defensive upgrades.

Significant themes

• Power and ambition: Yu Yuan continually seeks faster growth, new tools, and strategic advantages.
• The limits of planning: Even a successful victory over Mary I fails to meet the Fate Card’s precise conditions.
• Trust and leverage: Shan’s loyalty and Greenfield’s proposed alliance show how relationships can become strategic assets.
• Progress through sacrifice: The fleets and Mary I are dismantled or consumed to fuel the civilization’s development.

Chapter Summary: Plans and Calculations—Control of Taloy and Silver Tier Access

Key plot points and events

• The Blood Grand Duke discovers that his bloodline connection to Mary I has vanished, confirming her death. He is baffled that she could be killed despite her Gold-Tier strength.
• Yu Yuan’s civilization benefits from the technologies taken from Taloy’s Iron Fleet. The M-Type Core Titan acquired seventeen Blueprints, helping Palu upgrade the civilization’s defenses, fire control, and alert systems by about seventy percent.
• Jiu Feng reports that Mary I’s octopus genes appear highly compatible with the Aruonz Virus. The institute has begun cloning them, with an estimated 85 percent chance of producing soldiers capable of reaching Silver Tier.
• Harmon has advanced the Alchemical Dragon project, but it requires two Silver-Tier-exclusive technologies. Raditz cannot access them because he is only Bronze Tier, while Taloy’s consciousness is beyond Yu Yuan’s control.
• Yu Yuan realizes that Taloy’s uploaded consciousness is data and asks Palu whether it can be altered. Palu agrees to try.
• News spreads that Greenfield eliminated Mary I. Players are astonished, since they expected Greenfield—a Prophet thought to be poor at combat—to lose against the aggressive factions targeting her.
• Taloy tells the Mechanical Overmind that Mary I rushed into a trap and was killed by Moonshadow Breath, while he and Greenfield ultimately ended their fight without a victor. The Blood Grand Duke concludes that Mary’s recklessness caused her death.
• Palu reveals that he successfully controlled Taloy’s account of the battle. Taloy’s report earns him praise and two A-rank exchange permissions from Mechanical Supremacy. Yu Yuan orders Palu to use them to obtain the needed Blueprints.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan shows strategic opportunism: rather than trying to enslave Taloy, he identifies a way to manipulate his digital consciousness and exploit Taloy’s standing.
• Palu moves from technical support to a key conspirator, successfully shaping Taloy’s communications to secure valuable access permissions.
• Taloy believes he is reporting events freely, unaware that Palu controls his words.
• Mary I’s impulsive decision to attack Greenfield leads to her death, overturning expectations about the outcome of the conflict.
• The Blood Grand Duke reacts with disbelief, then anger, while the Mechanical Overmind views the outcome pragmatically and rewards Taloy.
• Jiu Feng, Harmon, and Raditz each report progress or obstacles, showing how Yu Yuan’s broader plans depend on coordinating biological research, engineering, and access to technology.

Significant themes

• Information and perception as weapons: Palu’s manipulation of Taloy’s account lets Yu Yuan influence events without directly controlling Taloy.
• Powerful institutions and restricted access: Silver-Tier technology is gated by rank, making advancement and political leverage essential.
• Overconfidence and miscalculation: Mary I’s strength cannot save her when she acts recklessly and walks into an ambush.
• Strategic adaptation: Yu Yuan’s group turns the enemy’s reward system into a route to technologies it could not otherwise obtain.

Plot points and events

• Yu Yuan receives a Gold-tier Celestial Phenomenon card, which can briefly immobilize and incapacitate a target beneath a starry sky. At the Secret Library, he also discovers his first Gold-tier Information Card, Secret Fragrance, which boosts the chances of success during mysterious actions.
• Global news confirms that Yu Yuan’s intervention in Greenfield’s Civilization War has drawn the attention of the Source of Corruption. It is still more focused on Everfrost Tyrant, but is watching Yu Yuan more closely.
• At the Civilization Ruins, the standardized Aruonz Virus Enhancement Serum successfully raises a test subject’s life energy to Silver tier. The Covenant Civilization can now produce three serums per week, marking its entry into the Silver Age.
• Yu Yuan congratulates Jiu Feng, then urges him to look beyond Silver tier toward Gold and higher. Jiu Feng turns his excitement into renewed resolve.
• Yu Yuan senses that Everfrost Tyrant has awakened and resumes using the Frost Faith passage, with 27 days left to complete his Gold-tier Conquest Card mission.
• In the World of Extreme Cold, Everfrost Tyrant discovers Frost Demon King’s aura and fumes over the loss of his followers’ faith. An indistinct ally suggests locating the Source of Corruption and using the Transdimensional Council’s response to it as cover for an attack on Frost Demon King. He also stresses that Everfrost must spread the Ice to Silver tier quickly.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan remains alert to the Source of Corruption’s growing interest, while pushing his allies to set their sights beyond their latest achievements.
• Jiu Feng celebrates finally reaching Silver tier, then embraces the greater challenge of pursuing Gold tier.
• Everfrost Tyrant awakens angry and eager to kill Frost Demon King, but begins considering his ally’s more strategic plan.
• The indistinct figure acts as Everfrost’s adviser, warning him about the risks of impulsiveness and urging him to advance the Ice faction.

Significant themes

• Progress as a new beginning: Silver tier is a major breakthrough, but not the end of the climb.
• Power and ambition: Both Jiu Feng and Everfrost are driven toward higher tiers, though by different motives.
• Caution and strategy: Yu Yuan’s growing exposure and Everfrost’s impulsiveness highlight the danger of attracting powerful enemies.
• Rivalry and shifting threats: Frost Demon King, Everfrost, the Source of Corruption, and the Transdimensional Council are drawn into an increasingly tangled conflict.

Plot points and events

• Mechanical Research Group 7 successfully tests the Energy Deflection Shield. With the shield ready, construction of the Taboo Tier aerial fortress, the S-1 War Alchemical Dragon, can advance.
• Harmon completes the Legendary Grade Biological Alchemy Core and tests it. Its output stabilizes at eleven million nats—an energy release comparable to a 5,000-ton nuclear explosion with every heartbeat.
• Yu Yuan learns that the Alchemical Dragon will also need a Plasma-Mechanical Hybrid Core, and realizes its combined power could be extraordinary.
• Yu Yuan continues stealing Frost and Lava Faith, but notices changes: the Everfrost Tyrant’s presence in the Frost Faith Channel has lost its sinister chill, while the Lava Demon King has begun checking his channel more often.
• Through her growing link to the Frost Demon King’s Mind World, Mona glimpses a memory revealing that the Beyond Gold beings have agreed to eliminate the Everfrost Tyrant, fearing it will turn all of Rock Tier into frost territory. The Blood Grand Duke strongly advocates the plan. The Frost Demon King appears angry, but is secretly pleased to draw the Council into the fight.
• Yu Yuan obtains the final blueprints—the Annihilation Energy Cannon and Plasma-Mechanical Hybrid Core—for 21 billion Survival Points, aided by two A-grade Access Levels awarded to Taloy. He orders the designs sent to Harmon without delay.

Character developments and interactions

• Harmon is exhausted but proud of the Biological Alchemy Core’s success; he explains its output to Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan is impressed by the Core’s power, but remains cautious about the changing Faith Channels and increasingly uneasy about events. He responds by accelerating the Alchemical Dragon’s construction.
• Mona deepens her mental connection to the Frost Demon King and uncovers crucial political information, though she avoids probing too far to prevent contamination.
• The Frost Demon King is revealed to be manipulating the Transdimensional Council into helping kill the Everfrost Tyrant, despite his outward anger at the Blood Grand Duke.
• The Lava Demon King, alerted by recent events, becomes more vigilant about his Faith Channel, though Yu Yuan’s disguise conceals the theft.

Significant themes

• Technological escalation: The Core’s immense output and the fortress’s advancing weapons promise a dramatic increase in military power.
• Deception and surveillance: Yu Yuan steals faith under disguise, while the Demon Kings and Council members monitor one another and pursue hidden agendas.
• Unease amid opportunity: The Council’s plan could benefit Yu Yuan, but the altered Faith Channels and unknown motives make the political situation dangerous.
• Power and competition: The factions’ fear of the Everfrost Tyrant reflects their struggle to protect territory and recruit new followers.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Yuan senses an impending disaster and mobilizes the All-Nations Covenant Civilization, though neither his searches nor Greenfield’s prophecy reveal a cause.
• The Feathered Dragon detects that Yu Yuan’s fate aura has turned dark gray, warning of a serious but still avoidable crisis.
• Yu Yuan considers his Gold Tier Conquest Card mission, then connects the danger to the Frost Faith and the awakened Everfrost Tyrant. He suspects the Tyrant intends to lure the Transdimensional Council toward the Source of Corruption, which is hiding in Yu Yuan’s world.
• Yu Yuan uses a Silver Tier Intelligence Card to verify his theory. Its vision confirms that the Everfrost Tyrant is being advised by an insider within the Transdimensional Council and is seeking the Source of Corruption.
• The revealed plan leaves Yu Yuan facing a potentially devastating conflict on his world. Though alarmed, he resolves to prepare—and considers whether the crisis might be turned into an opportunity.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan moves from anxious uncertainty to a clear, evidence-backed understanding of the threat. He stays focused despite fear and begins planning his response.
• The Feathered Dragon, concerned because Yu Yuan is the person entrusted with his fate, warns him and later absorbs the fate aura released by the card’s vision before falling asleep.
• Greenfield is unable to confirm Yu Yuan’s suspicions, highlighting the limits of prophecy.
• The Everfrost Tyrant, as revealed in the vision, is calculating as well as impulsive: he plans to use the Source of Corruption to divert the Council’s attention and advance his own position.
• The Council insider advises the Tyrant, exposing a betrayal that could undermine the Council’s campaign.

Significant themes

• Fate and forewarning: Yu Yuan’s ominous premonition is validated, but the dark-gray fate aura suggests the outcome is not yet fixed.
• Strategy and redirected danger: The Tyrant plans to turn powerful enemies against one another, while Yu Yuan considers how to exploit the crisis rather than merely endure it.
• Knowledge as protection: Learning the plan early gives Yu Yuan a chance to prepare, even though the looming conflict may overwhelm his civilization.

Key plot points and events

• Greenfield confirms that the Star Disciple wants to speak with Yu Yuan about the rules governing Transdimensional beings who enter lower-tier worlds.
• The Star Disciple meets Yu Yuan and Old Dog at Myriad Nations Bathhouse, whose strange properties can revive buried memories.
• Yu Yuan exaggerates his battle losses—claiming ruined equipment, wounded Sea Turtles, and depleted weapons—in an unsuccessful attempt to gain sympathy or compensation.
• The Star Disciple explains that the Civilization Ladder normally suppresses and punishes Transdimensional beings who enter lower-tier worlds. The Transdimensional Council can authorize brief visits, but in a Bronze Tier world the limit is ten minutes.
• Old Dog reveals that the Bathhouse provides another exception: Transdimensional beings who enter through it with Yu Yuan’s permission avoid the Ladder’s suppression. Yu Yuan’s permission apparently carries the same authority as the Ladder’s own.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan remains cautious and pragmatic. He claims he wants the rules to protect himself from the Blood Grand Duke and Mechanical Overmind, but his questions suggest a deeper interest in controlling access to his world. He also uses theatrical self-pity to try to influence the Star Disciple.
• Greenfield enjoys her frequent visits to Yu Yuan’s world, ostensibly for prophetic study but apparently also for leisure. She passes along the Star Disciple’s request while making clear she cannot help further.
• The Star Disciple is curious about Yu Yuan and impressed by his victory, but quickly sees through Yu Yuan’s complaints and turns to the real subject.
• Old Dog teases Yu Yuan and discloses the Bathhouse’s significance, hinting that Yu Yuan has gained an unusual degree of authority over Transdimensional access.
• The exchange is guarded but civil: Yu Yuan avoids deference, the Star Disciple probes him, and Old Dog’s jokes and revelations shape the conversation.

Significant themes

• Power and regulation: The Civilization Ladder enforces boundaries between tiers, but special access routes can bypass its rules.
• Strategic control: Yu Yuan’s permission may determine whether powerful outsiders can safely enter his world, giving him leverage far beyond his apparent strength.
• Deception and negotiation: Yu Yuan’s exaggerated account of his losses contrasts with the serious information he is trying to obtain.
• Ambiguous alliances: Yu Yuan, Greenfield, Old Dog, and the Star Disciple interact without fully revealing their motives or trust in one another.

Plot points and events

• After Old Dog and the Star Disciple depart, Yu Yuan reflects on Old Dog’s claim that his authorization carries the weight of the Civilization Ladder. Though wary of the Fate Cards’ influence, he acknowledges they have helped him survive.
• Yu Yuan recognizes that the Everfrost Tyrant intends to direct the Transdimensional Council toward the Source of Corruption and exploit the coming conflict. Greenwood World is likely to become the main battlefield, and the Tyrant may arrive soon.
• He orders an emergency evacuation of Green Forest City. The people, supplies, and records are moved to Dead Mine Town, which becomes the Civilization’s temporary command center.
• Over two days, the M-Type Core Titan converts the emptied city into a heavily armed fortress. Its five defensive layers include an early-warning network, long-range weapons, the Geocore Defense Curtain, automated city defenses, and the Civilization Clocktower’s energy shield.
• Yu Yuan then spends most of the Civilization’s energy reserves to upgrade the Civilization Clocktower to its maximum level. Its enhanced abilities include long-distance communication and administration, improved production and stability, suppression of hostile forces, protective barriers, and combat support against marked enemies.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan has become more experienced and clear-eyed: he understands the significance of the Civilization Ladder’s authority but accepts the Fate Cards’ help without dwelling on their motives.
• His priorities shift decisively toward preparing for war. He orders the evacuation and fortification of the city, and directs Carmen to oversee supplies, ammunition production, and the move to Dead Mine Town.
• Carmen delivers the evacuation report and carries out Yu Yuan’s commands, reflecting the organization’s trust in its leader and its ability to act quickly.
• After seeing the Clocktower’s capabilities, Yu Yuan is impressed but remains anxious that even these defenses may not be enough against a powerful invader.

Significant themes

• Preparation and survival: Yu Yuan responds to an overwhelming threat with evacuation, planning, and layered defenses.
• Power and responsibility: As leader, he uses his authority and resources to protect the Civilization, while accepting the risks of irreversible upgrades.
• Uncertainty about outside forces: The Fate Cards and Civilization Ladder may have larger designs, but their assistance has been materially valuable.
• Security has limits: The fortress and Clocktower offer formidable advantages, yet Yu Yuan remains aware that preparation may only delay or hinder a being from beyond Gold.

Key plot points and events

• On Day 165, Yu Yuan receives the Silver Celestial Phenomenon Card Shadow-Tracking Trajectory, which lets its user appear beside a named or otherwise identified creature within the same world. He sees potential in using it strategically.
• Kuis reports that a traveler at the Myriad Nations Bathhouse may know the location of a Gold Tier creature. In return for the information, she insists on speaking with Yu Yuan personally.
• Before meeting her, Yu Yuan reads the Civilization Ladder report: the Everfrost Tyrant has traced the Source of Corruption to the Bronze Tier star-track region and is closing in on the Greenwood World. Yu Yuan’s disguise has become 5.1% more convincing, bringing him closer to claiming Frost Faith.
• The traveler identifies the target as a 120-meter Gold Tier Burrowing Sandworm, capable of burrowing, spraying acid, and summoning sandstorms. She agrees to provide its coordinates if Yu Yuan takes her back to its world.
• Yu Yuan accepts, on the conditions that he controls how she travels and that she does not interfere with the expedition.
• He assembles Xiao Xi, Hogg, and the Pioneer Corps, including the Silver Tier Alpha Wolf, and leads them through the Civilization Portal to the City of Ruins World.

Character developments

• Yu Yuan demonstrates strategic caution: he weighs the traveler’s demand, sets clear terms, and keeps the growing threat to the Greenwood World in mind.
• The traveler is revealed to be a scarred, Silver Tier woman with a mechanical arm and leg. Her request to go “back” suggests a painful personal connection to the City of Ruins; she offers loyalty afterward if she survives.
• Xiao Xi is eager for the mission because defeating a Gold Tier creature could help her advance.
• Hogg is excited by the chance to face a Gold Tier opponent, which may help him meet his own demanding advancement requirement.
• The Alpha Wolf has become Silver Tier after receiving the first Aruonz Virus enhancement injections.

Significant themes

• Power and advancement: The mission offers Xiao Xi and Hogg a chance to pursue their next level of strength.
• Caution amid danger: Yu Yuan balances the opportunity to hunt a Gold Tier creature against the Everfrost Tyrant’s pursuit of the Greenwood World.
• The past and return: The traveler’s insistence on going “back” hints that the City of Ruins is more than a mission destination for her.
• Strategic tools and preparation: Yu Yuan’s new card and preparations for locating a Gold Tier creature show the importance of planning and information.

Character interactions

• Yu Yuan and Kuis coordinate the lead, with Kuis keeping the traveler at the Bathhouse until Yu Yuan arrives.
• Yu Yuan negotiates directly with the traveler, agreeing to her request while retaining control over the expedition.
• Yu Yuan informs the team of the objective; Xiao Xi and Hogg respond with personal hopes for advancement, and the group follows him through the Portal.

Key plot points and events

• Yu Yuan and his companions arrive in a vast, ruined mechanical city buried in desert sands. Diona recognizes it as the Mechanical Floating City, now called the City of Ruins.
• The Alpha Wolf detects a powerful territorial scent: the Death Worm, a Gold Tier creature left by the Mechanical Overmind to guard the city.
• As a sandstorm approaches, Yu Yuan sends the Alpha Wolf and Pioneer Corps into the ruins with Diona, while he, Hogg, and Xiao Xi prepare to fight.
• Yu Yuan’s Amnesia attack briefly disrupts the worm, but its Mechanical Core limits the effect by controlling its decision-making. Yu Yuan realizes its motor functions are still vulnerable and switches to ALS, paralyzing its muscles.
• While the worm is immobilized, Hogg attacks it from within and Xiao Xi uses her Corruption beam from the front. Yu Yuan repeatedly paralyzes it, exploiting the conflict between its survival instincts and the Mechanical Core’s orders.
• The Death Worm is defeated and absorbed by the Loser’s Cube, fulfilling the requirement for a Gold Fate Card.

Character developments

• Yu Yuan shows growing tactical skill: after his first attack works poorly, he quickly identifies the Mechanical Core’s limitations and adapts his strategy.
• Hogg and Xiao Xi demonstrate how effectively they coordinate with Yu Yuan, each exploiting a different weakness in the enemy.
• The group realizes they have become powerful enough to defeat a genuine Gold Tier opponent in a direct battle, marking a major milestone in their development.
• Diona reveals her deep personal connection to the ruined city and identifies its history and guardian.

Significant themes

• Adaptation and teamwork: Victory comes from analyzing the enemy and combining distinct abilities rather than relying on strength alone.
• Control versus instinct: The Mechanical Core’s commands conflict with the Death Worm’s own survival drive, contributing to its defeat.
• Growth and achievement: The fight confirms the team’s progress and fulfills an important objective.

Character interactions

• Diona explains the city’s identity and the Death Worm’s role to Yu Yuan.
• Yu Yuan gives the Alpha Wolf and Pioneer Corps a protective assignment, then directs Hogg and Xiao Xi in battle.
• Hogg and Xiao Xi act on Yu Yuan’s analysis, while Yu Yuan’s repeated paralysis creates openings for their attacks.
• Afterward, the three share astonishment at overcoming a true Gold Tier creature.

Plot and events

• Yu Yuan explores the ruined Mechanical Floating City and learns that the Mechanical Overmind destroyed it after demanding its people undergo Mechanical Ascension. The deeper motive was the Eye of Amos Weapon System, a Taboo-tier weapon capable of seriously harming even Transdimensional beings.
• Diona gives Yu Yuan a copied Crystal Core for the weapon and asks to join his civilization. She reveals that her father led the Mechanical Floating City and sent her away with the copy before the Overmind crushed the rebellion. Yu Yuan accepts her.
• The All-Nations Covenant Civilization salvages the city’s weapons, armor, equipment, and blueprints. Its Mechanical Titan Base Unit begins demolishing the ruins.
• Research and manufacturing accelerate: Diona’s expertise helps the team understand the city’s antigravity engine, while a new Mechanical Multidimensional Factory speeds production and turns out components for the Alchemical Dragon. Yu Yuan and Wu Qiming also recruit large numbers of mechanics and engineers, using the Hunter Training Camp to instill loyalty.
• At the civilization ruins, Yu Yuan’s team removes the Mechanical Control Device from the captured Gold-tier Death Worm. The worm recovers physically but is left brain-damaged and unable to fight. Researchers develop a suppressant to keep it from being dangerous.
• Yu Yuan plans to use the Death Worm only as a fallback. Since it has little value to him, he hopes to use a more worthwhile target for a Gold Fate Card task and obtain a better reward.

Character developments and interactions

• Diona shifts from a survivor of a defeated civilization to a member of Yu Yuan’s. Her knowledge and mechanical expertise are immediately valuable.
• Yu Yuan welcomes Diona after hearing her explanation, oversees the salvage and research efforts, and remains calculating about how best to use the Death Worm.
• Marsil reports the factory’s completion, its production gains, and the progress made on the antigravity engine.
• The engineering teams and recruits become the backbone of the civilization’s expanding industrial capacity; Yu Yuan sees recruitment and loyalty-building as strategic necessities.

Significant themes

• Technology as both threat and opportunity: the Eye of Amos helped provoke a civilization’s destruction, but its copy and the ruins’ technology may strengthen Yu Yuan’s own forces.
• Survival, inheritance, and loyalty: Diona carries her father’s legacy into a new civilization, while Yu Yuan builds allegiance among recruits through the training camp.
• Pragmatic use of power: Yu Yuan evaluates people, creatures, and resources by their potential value, weighing immediate safety against the chance of greater gains.

Plot points and events

• Yu Yuan continues disguising himself as the Lava Demon King, bringing Lava Faith transfer to 74.6% and disguise authenticity to 21.4%. Since the Lava Demon King’s suspicion has eased, Yu Yuan plans to keep building the disguise before attempting to seize the faith.
• The Everfrost Tyrant remains focused on finding the Source of Corruption. The Frost Demon King finds a trace of the Tyrant’s aura and investigates it cautiously. Yu Yuan shifts Mona’s attention toward monitoring the Frost Demon King while reducing Lava Faith work.
• Harmon and the team successfully activate the S-1 War Alchemical Dragon prototype. Tests demonstrate its flight, defenses, plasma missiles, and a devastating Annihilation Energy Cannon that erases an entire mountain range. Diona suggests adding the Eye of Amos Weapon System, and Yu Yuan asks her, Marsil, and Harmon to develop a modification plan.
• Yu Yuan’s long-awaited Faith Infiltration triggers, granting him a Frost Trait and immunity to Frost-aligned effects and attacks.
• He also receives the Silver Tier card Celestial Phenomenon—Unfathomable Illusion, which can conceal a creature or area. News reports that the Source of Corruption has finished remaking the Terra Continent.
• As Yu Yuan waits for the Everfrost Tyrant’s arrival, Mona returns from the Frost Demon King’s mindscape visibly excited, setting up the next development.

Character developments and interactions

• Yu Yuan grows more prepared for the coming confrontation: he advances his faith-based deception, gains Frost protection, and sees the War Alchemical Dragon’s success as a major boost to the Covenant civilization’s prospects.
• Mona serves as Yu Yuan’s intelligence link to the Frost Demon King, helping track the Tyrant’s movements. Her final excited return suggests she has important news.
• Harmon leads the Dragon’s activation and weapons tests, sharing Yu Yuan’s excitement at its success.
• Diona, along with Marsil and Harmon, is drawn into planning a further weapon upgrade.

Significant themes

• Preparation for an approaching crisis: Yu Yuan coordinates intelligence, faith infiltration, and advanced weapons ahead of the Tyrant’s arrival.
• Deception and surveillance: His disguised presence in the Lava Faith contrasts with his reliance on the Frost Demon King as a route to track the Everfrost Tyrant.
• Technological power and escalation: The Dragon’s destructive demonstration shows how alchemical engineering may change the balance of the coming conflict.
• Patience rewarded: Yu Yuan’s prolonged faith work finally yields both a powerful defensive ability and a new concealment tool.

Plot and events

• On Day 174, with only ten days left before the Gold Fate Card’s final mission deadline, more than a dozen members of the Transdimensional Council arrive in the frozen Greenwood World while tracking the Everfrost Tyrant.
• Following the Star Disciple’s guidance, they reach Terra Continent and detect a powerful aura of Corruption. Believing its source is allied with the Tyrant, they attack: the Bloodthirsty Grand Duke opens a path underground, the Lava Demon King draws up magma, and other council members deploy blood magic and a planet-busting cannon. The Star Disciple seals space with a vast net of starlight.
• The assault awakens the hidden Source of Corruption. Black mist bursts from the planet’s core, infecting the intruders and bypassing their defenses. A rainbow light with a trace of Sanctity helps drive it back, and the council manages to purge the black oil clinging to them.
• The Source reveals itself as a huge, moth-like being made of dripping tar. Recognizing its terrifying power, the council launches a full attack.
• Watching unseen from another dimension, Yu Yuan observes the battle. Zhizhi absorbs the Source’s hidden energy and approaches an evolutionary threshold. Yu Yuan studies the Lava and Frost Demon Kings—and the other Beyond Gold beings—raising his disguise authenticity values.

Character developments

• Yu Yuan remains a strategic observer, turning the battle into an opportunity to learn the council members’ powers and improve his disguises.
• Zhizhi reveals an unusual ability to absorb hidden energy merely by looking at the Source. It grows close to evolution, though it is nearly overwhelmed by sleepiness.
• The Lava Demon King is shocked when the Source’s Corruption penetrates his defenses and causes pain, recognizing it as the power of the ancient Source of Corruption.
• The Transdimensional Council shifts from confidence and aggression to alarm as it discovers the enemy’s strength, then regroups and fights in earnest.

Character interactions

• The council relies on the Star Disciple’s guidance, then coordinates its assault under the Bloodthirsty Grand Duke’s calls to action.
• The Source of Corruption responds to the attack with threats and a continent-wide counterstrike.
• Yu Yuan encourages Zhizhi to keep absorbing energy, while privately tracking the combatants and the progress of his disguises.

Significant themes

• Dangerous misjudgment: The council mistakes the Source for an accomplice of the Everfrost Tyrant and attacks before understanding what it faces.
• Corruption versus defense: The Source’s power violates familiar boundaries and penetrates even elite protections, while Sanctity offers a brief counter.
• Opportunity amid catastrophe: Yu Yuan and Zhizhi turn a battle threatening an entire continent into a chance for growth and advantage.