Chapter Summaries

Su Ye learned that 147 Gray Fog Civilizations had joined forces to launch the Crown of Kings event, which would culminate in a challenge for the throne. After four days of training, players across the Survival Road received the rules and learned the event would begin that night.

• The Great Xia team leader explained that launching the event cost a vast number of survival points and that the King's Challenge had nine stages guarded by fighters limited to Tier Three.
• Su Ye heard that players could rest between battles but would permanently lose their chance at the throne if they gave up, and the team leader warned him not to underestimate the guards.
• The Great Xia team leader said the ranked phase would last a month and that Great Xia could not directly intervene, then sent the five soldiers back, leaving five Secret Realm Crystals.
• Su Ye collected the crystals, ordered A Da to keep moving, and returned to the Training Room to improve his strength.
• Four days later, a region-wide announcement declared that Crown of Kings would begin at nine that night, with deadly 1v1 arena matches, five ranks, and a King's Challenge for players who reached King Rank.

Su Ye prepared the Gale Ranger for the Crown of Kings event, then entered his first ranked match and won easily against Chi Rong. He advanced to Bronze One-Star and chose to continue matchmaking.

• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng and Ember Iron to gather and smelt Tier Three materials so he could raise the Gale Ranger's level before the King challenge.
• Xing Meng found enough Tier Three materials to raise the Gale Ranger two levels, and Su Ye arranged to trade surplus items for more materials.
• At nine that night, the Crown of Kings ranked matches began, and Su Ye entered matchmaking with the Gale Ranger.
• Su Ye was matched against Chi Rong from C9 Zone in a Gladiator Arena, where Chi Rong's Tier Two Vehicle faced the Gale Ranger.
• Su Ye ordered A Da to ram Chi Rong, and the Gale Ranger shattered his shield and inflicted heavy damage, prompting Chi Rong to surrender.
• Su Ye won ten ranked points, reached Bronze One-Star, and continued matchmaking.

Su Ye climbed to gold rank, then stopped matching to focus on farming and smelting materials for a vehicle upgrade. After gathering nearly enough tier-three materials, he used a Designated Service Area Card to reach the Parking Lot Service Area and asked its manager about the best parking space.

• Chi Rong warned the C9 Zone group that Never Checks the Fuel Gauge had killed him instantly, while Su Ye defeated five more opponents and reached bronze two-star.
• Mo Yu delivered extra materials from a resource sale, and Su Ye told her to avoid risky matches while Ember Iron smelted materials for an upgrade.
• Su Ye matched through the night to reach gold, found himself alone on the Rankings, then surrendered to Sha Qi and dropped back to silver three-star while keeping access to the Rankings.
• Over the next half month, Su Ye ignored the event and farmed secret realms for resources, while Mo Yu and Whirlwind traded materials for Ember Iron to smelt.
• Su Ye used a Designated Service Area Card to travel to the Parking Lot Service Area and asked its manager the price of the best available parking space.

Su Ye parked the Gale Ranger in a First-Class Parking Space, began a vehicle upgrade with its time reduced by two-thirds, and relaxed with his companions while the Crown of Kings event continued. On the second day, Xi Po reached King rank and claimed first place on the server-wide leaderboard.

• Su Ye paid for a First-Class Parking Space after learning it could reduce vehicle upgrade time by two-thirds.
• Su Ye had A Da park the Gale Ranger, then began an upgrade using Tier Three materials, function modules, and the Heavenly Stem Earth-Shaking Disk.
• Su Ye and his companions enjoyed the Lounge and customized the Entertainment Room as the vehicle upgrade proceeded.
• Players across the server fought in Crown of Kings ranked matches while Su Ye stayed in the Parking Lot Service Area.
• On Su Ye's second day there, Xi Po reached King rank and appeared in first place on the leaderboard.

Xi Po became the first publicly known King-ranked player, sparking a surge of rank-ups across the server while C13 players wondered why Fuel Gauge had not appeared in the rankings. After three days of upgrades, Su Ye brought the Gale Ranger to level 40 and left the parking Service Area, choosing to keep the vehicle below tier four to avoid drawing the Gray Fog Civilization’s attention.

• Xi Po reached King rank first, prompting other top players to stop concealing their strength and push for King rank.
• More than a thousand players across the server reached King rank within a day, while C13 players speculated about Fuel Gauge’s absence from the rankings.
• Su Ye finished upgrading the Gale Ranger to level 40, with a maximum speed of 3,000 kilometers per hour.
• Su Ye decided not to upgrade the Gale Ranger to tier four because he feared attracting the Gray Fog Civilization’s scrutiny.
• Su Ye and his subordinates left the parking Service Area after he paid 381,500 Survival Coins for the first-class parking space.

Su Ye led the Gale Ranger into a canyon filled with Stone-Eater Insects and burned out the Tier Two swarm to collect its resources and corpses. After the battle, he ordered the Vehicle onward and planned to run Instances and secret realms that night.

• Fifteen detected more than five thousand Tier Two monsters ahead, and Su Ye ordered the Gale Ranger to advance and prepare its weapons.
• Su Ye recognized the monsters as Stone-Eater Insects, and Qingya explained that their corpses made good fertilizer and that they were weak to fire.
• Su Ye ordered Xing Meng to send fuel-carrying Drones over the canyon, then ignited the fuel with incendiary rounds from the Light Machine-Gun Turret.
• The Gale Ranger's Gravity Field stopped the insects that tried to escape, and the Drones finished them off.
• Xing Meng reported that the battle yielded seventy-three thousand Survival Coins, blueprints, potions, crystals, and insect remains; Su Ye gave the corpses to Qingya and ordered the Vehicle onward.

With five days left in the Crown of Kings event, Su Ye began pushing through ranked matches while considering the danger the final challenge posed to the Fivefold Race’s strongest players. He won his first match and rose to Gold One-Star.

• Mo Yu told Su Ye that he and Whirlwind had reached King Rank, and Su Ye said he would start ranking that night.
• Su Ye reviewed the leaderboard, reflected on the event’s deaths, and suspected the Gray Fog Civilization intended to eliminate the Fivefold Race’s strongest players in the King's Challenge.
• Su Ye decided to claim the Throne as quickly as possible, believing that doing so could end the later challenges and reduce the Kings’ incentive to compete.
• After dinner, Su Ye started matchmaking and entered a Mountain Forest arena with the Gale Ranger.
• Fifteen detected an enemy vehicle, and Su Ye ordered the Roof-Mounted Ballista to destroy it as soon as the battle began.
• The ballista pierced the enemy vehicle, giving Su Ye victory and raising his rank to Gold One-Star.

Su Ye climbed to King Rank just before the Crown of Kings event ended, then received his rank rewards. The King's Challenge was set to begin after the event, but its rules had not yet been announced.

• Su Ye rapidly gained ranked points through vehicle battles and reached Diamond One-Star after a night of matches.
• Over the following five days, Su Ye drove by day, explored resources and instances, and ranked up at night.
• Su Ye reached King Rank with less than an hour left in the event and told Mo Yu that he did not know the King's Challenge rules.
• The Crown of Kings event ended, and the server distributed rewards based on each player's rank.
• Su Ye received King Rank rewards, including 300,000 Survival Coins, equipment, skill items, and an event treasure chest, but considered them of little use.

Su Ye received a Starlight Scroll Treasure Map from the Event Chest after Qingya’s blessing increased his luck tenfold. He learned the rules of the King’s Challenge and considered its lethal risks, but remained eager to pursue the Supreme Throne and its rewards.

• Su Ye found that most of his King Rank rewards were useless to him, but valued the five Designated Service Area Cards and the Event Chest.
• Qingya gave Su Ye a blessing that increased his luck tenfold for ten seconds, and he opened the Event Chest.
• Su Ye obtained a Starlight Scroll Treasure Map that could only be activated in the Treasure Service Area.
• Su Ye read the King's Challenge rules: players had to defeat guards on nine stairways, and the first to reach the summit would claim the Supreme Throne.
• Su Ye recognized that the challenge could kill many elite players and draw the Gray Fog Civilization’s attention, but he looked forward to its rewards.

Su Ye entered the King's Challenge Space and realized that the ten-second surrender delay could make its challenges deadly. He obtained a Protective Jade Talisman that could shield players from Tier Three and weaker attacks for ten seconds, giving him a way to prepare for the staircase and a chance to profit from the other players.

• Su Ye entered the King's Challenge Space, saw the nine-level staircase and throne, and discovered that players could trade there.
• Mo Yu and Whirlwind found Su Ye and wanted to begin challenging the staircase, but he warned them not to rush in.
• Su Ye explained that surrender took ten seconds and could be interrupted by attacks, leaving players vulnerable to powerful monsters.
• Su Ye returned to his Vehicle and asked Ember Iron for an item that could protect players for ten seconds.
• Ember Iron gave Su Ye a Protective Jade Talisman that formed a ten-meter barrier against Tier Three and weaker attacks for ten seconds.

Su Ye turned Ember Iron’s Protective Jade Talisman into a Workbench blueprint and invested heavily in production to sell the talismans during the King's Challenge. With two tier-three Workbenches running, he began preparing to supply the growing market of players facing deadly challenges.

• Ember Iron showed Su Ye ten handmade Protective Jade Talismans and explained that a tier-three Inscription Blueprint could enable faster, though weaker, Workbench production.
• Su Ye visited the Commerce Tower and bought a tier-three Inscription Blueprint from Shang Yan for 420,000 Survival Coins.
• Su Ye copied the talisman’s design onto the blueprint and used a tier-three Workbench to produce a talisman in five minutes, discovering that its user would be immobilized while protected.
• Su Ye spent more Survival Coins on Workbenches and another blueprint, merged the Workbenches into a second tier-three machine, and doubled production to nearly six hundred talismans a day.
• Su Ye ordered Ember Iron to smelt tier-three materials so the Workbenches could keep running and prepare a large supply for sale to King players.

Su Ye prepared to sell his mass-produced Protective Jade Talismans and recruited Mo Yu and Whirlwind to advertise them with a challenge video. Whirlwind survived the second step using a talisman, and Mo Yu prepared to start selling as soon as the recording was posted.

• Su Ye set the price of each Jade Talisman at 288,000 Survival Coins and planned to use a recorded rescue as an advertisement.
• Su Ye gave Mo Yu and Whirlwind Jade Talismans and explained how they could protect them during the challenge.
• Mo Yu agreed to handle sales while Whirlwind took the role of actor and headed into the challenge.
• Su Ye and Mo Yu checked the Rankings and saw that some players had cleared the first step while others had died or narrowly survived.
• Whirlwind cleared the first step, then entered the second and used his Jade Talisman to escape a powerful monster.
• Su Ye asked Whirlwind to prepare the video for posting, and Mo Yu readied himself to sell the talismans.

Whirlwind posted a video showing a Tier Three Protective Jade Talisman saving him from a powerful Demon Spirit Race warrior during the King's Challenge. The demonstration drove players to seek out Mo Yu's talismans, while C13 Zone players helped defend his price.

• Whirlwind posted a video of a Demon Spirit Race warrior chasing and attacking his Vehicle in the ruins.
• Whirlwind surrendered, but the warrior attacked during the ten-second teleportation channel; Whirlwind's Protective Jade Talisman shielded him until he escaped.
• Su Ye watched the video as players praised the talisman's life-saving effect and asked where they could buy one.
• Mo Yu offered his limited stock of Tier Three Protective Jade Talismans for 288,000 Survival Coins each, prompting buyers to message him and others to bargain.
• Players from C13 Zone defended Mo Yu's price in the chat, and Ling Yue told Su Ye that the group had asked their people to help steer the conversation.

Su Ye’s Protective Jade Talismans remained in high demand, earning him 1.66 billion Survival Coins in three days. After leaving Mo Yu in charge of sales, Su Ye entered the King’s Stairway challenge and encountered a mocking opponent on the first level.

• Su Ye offered Ling Yue and the others priority on their talisman orders, then expanded production by acquiring more Tier Three Workbenches.
• Players shared stories of surviving deadly challenges with Protective Jade Talismans, driving sales to 1.66 billion Survival Coins in three days.
• Mo Yu told Su Ye that rival sellers had only managed to produce weaker Tier Two treasures, and Su Ye left sales in Mo Yu’s hands.
• Su Ye checked the Challenge Rankings, brought his Vehicle and companions into the stairway, and entered the first level.
• Su Ye arrived in a wasteland, where an enemy mocked him and challenged him to withstand a few slashes.

Su Ye cleared the first three levels of the King's Challenge with A Da and the Gale Ranger, then entered the fourth level, where a Dream Spirit Race monster prepared to attack him with illusions. The chapter ended before their confrontation began.

• A Da killed the Blade-Armed Race warrior on the first level, and Su Ye chose to continue.
• Fifteen detected an approaching monster on the second level, and Su Ye ordered the Roof-Mounted Ballista to kill it from a distance.
• A Da drove the Gale Ranger into the Minotaur on the third level, killing it with the vehicle's Ramming Horn.
• Su Ye reached the fourth level, where he faced a Dream Spirit Race monster that specialized in mental attacks and illusory dreams.

Su Ye cleared the fourth and fifth steps of the King's Challenge, taking first place in the rankings, then withdrew to keep his business running. Back in the Shop Service Area, he decided to buy Tier Three Natural Treasures so he could reach Tier Three and maximize his stats.

• Su Ye used the Gale Ranger's Energy Shield and Light Machine-Gun Turret to defeat the fourth-step guardian, then entered the top twenty in the rankings.
• Su Ye used the Gale Ranger's Radar, Life Detection, and Army-Breaker Cannon to find and destroy the Sandstream Tribe guardian, clearing the fifth step.
• Su Ye declined the sixth step and left the challenge, causing Never Checks the Fuel Gauge to take first place in the King's Stairway rankings.
• Ling Yue, Yan Kuang, Xiyun, Mo Yu, and Whirlwind praised Su Ye's strength, and Su Ye told Mo Yu and Whirlwind to continue running the business.
• Su Ye returned to his vehicle in the Shop Service Area and headed to the Commerce Tower to buy Tier Three Natural Treasures.

Su Ye browsed the Commerce Tower’s high-end treasures and bought the Seed of Evolution for one billion Survival Coins. The seed arrived in a jade box, and Su Ye prepared to use an item that would permanently double his attribute cap at every tier.

• Su Ye entered the Commerce Tower’s eighth floor and bought Tier Three Natural Treasures for more than 5.3 million Survival Coins.
• Su Ye examined the high-priced treasures but decided to focus on improving his current combat strength.
• Su Ye found the Gold VIP-exclusive Seed of Evolution, which reset current attribute points and permanently doubled attribute caps at every tier.
• Su Ye spent one billion Survival Coins to buy the seed, and a jade box appeared in the Lounge.
• Su Ye opened the jade box and saw the Seed of Evolution inside.

Su Ye consumed the Seed of Evolution, which reset his attributes but permanently doubled the attribute cap for each tier. He restored his strength, reached the new tier-two cap without advancing, and stocked up on tier-three treasures for a future breakthrough.

• Su Ye consumed the Seed of Evolution, resetting his attributes and doubling each tier's attribute cap while converting his accumulated attribute gains into free points.
• Su Ye raised both attributes past 20 to reach tier one, then learned that consuming Natural Treasures during the remodeling phase could not increase his attributes.
• Su Ye allocated his remaining points and consumed tier-two treasures until both attributes reached the new cap of 600.
• Su Ye declined the system's offer to advance to tier three so he could keep earning full rewards in the tier-two region.
• Su Ye spent another five million Survival Coins on tier-three Natural Treasures and stored them for his eventual breakthrough.

After spending several days training with his greatly increased stats, Su Ye prepared to resume the King's Challenge and push the Protective Jade Talisman market with more rewards. He entered the sixth-step challenge and found himself in a narrow cave as a grotesque monster appeared ahead.

• Su Ye left the Commerce Tower, and Xing Meng and A Da noticed that his strength had increased.
• Su Ye spent several days training with his spear and lightning skills while his King's Challenge ranking fell outside the top hundred.
• Su Ye accumulated over three billion Survival Coins from Protective Jade Talisman sales but refused Qingya's request for 1.5 billion to accelerate the Tree of Life's growth.
• Mo Yu told Su Ye that talisman sales had slowed, and Su Ye said he would spur spending by clearing more challenge steps.
• Su Ye entered the sixth-step challenge with the Gale Ranger and encountered a grotesque, skeletal figure in a narrow cave.

Su Ye cleared the Sixth and Seventh Stairs by using the Gale Ranger and his abilities to defeat the Bone Vein Tribe and Glazed Water Tribe fighters. He entered the Eighth Stair as his renewed first-place ranking astonished other players.

• Su Ye had A Da drive the Gale Ranger into the Bone Vein Tribe fighter, killing it and clearing the Sixth Stair.
• Su Ye entered the Seventh Stair, where the Gale Ranger landed on an island in the Endless Sea and faced a Glazed Water Tribe fighter.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to activate the Gale Ranger’s sealing, amphibious, and oxygen systems, then used Thunder Prison Cage to kill the underwater fighter.
• Su Ye cleared the Seventh Stair and returned to first place in the Rankings, prompting players and top-ranked competitors to speculate about his progress.
• Mo Yu and Whirlwind waited for their cousin to reach the Eighth Stair before selling Protective Jade Talismans, while Su Ye entered the Eighth Stair and felt stronger pressure.