Chapter Summaries

After the auction ended, Su Ye collected its substantial proceeds and returned to his own road as the Cross-Zone Expedition Card expired. A zone-wide announcement then revealed that all surviving players in C13 would be forced into its first large-scale event instance the next morning.

• Mo Yu reported that the auction had concluded and handed Su Ye its Survival Coins, resources, and purchased lots.
• Su Ye thanked Mo Yu, told him to salvage the wrecked Vehicles, and left with A Da in the Gale Ranger.
• The Expedition Card expired, severing Su Ye's link to Mo Yu's road and reconnecting him to his original one.
• Su Ye weighed buying natural treasures at the Commerce Tower against using Survival Coins to acquire Instance Crystals.
• A region-wide announcement told every surviving player in C13 that the first large-scale event instance would open at six the next morning and forcibly teleport them inside.

As C13 Zone players discussed the dangers of the upcoming instance, Su Ye ignored requests to form a team and prepared to face it alone. He gave Mo Yu a Vulcan Gatling for protection and agreed not to interfere with Ling Yue’s group during the event.

• Players in C13 Zone discussed the upcoming instance and urged Su Ye to form a faction for protection.
• Su Ye decided that teammates would only burden him and wondered whether people from Great Xia would enter the instance.
• Su Ye told Mo Yu to stay safe and gave him a Vulcan Gatling for self-defense.
• Su Ye declined Ling Yue’s offer to cooperate, and Ling Yue secured his agreement that they would not attack each other.

Su Ye prepared for the zone-wide instance and was teleported with all the C13 Zone players to a wasteland. He learned that the event, Siege of the Hundred Races, would force players to reach one of five cities before monsters swept across the plain.

• The leaders of four clans and the heads of major factions promised Su Ye they would stay out of his way, and he warned the Auction Group not to cause trouble.
• Su Ye told A Da to rest, then used the Workbench to mass-produce ammunition before sleeping until morning.
• At six, Su Ye and the other players were forcibly teleported from the C13 Zone to a vast wasteland.
• Players recognized and admired Su Ye's tier-two vehicle, the Gale Ranger, while he ignored attempts to approach him.
• The instance announcement named the event Siege of the Hundred Races and warned players to reach one of five cities before monsters swept across the plain in five hours.
• Su Ye inspected the map and learned the traits of Longnight City, Ironwall City, Rainlisten City, Windhowl City, and Mistveil City.

Su Ye chose Windhowl City for its vehicle-weapon buff and arrived before the other players, then Ling Yue and a large force followed. After the system opened voting for a city lord, players debated whether Su Ye or Ling Yue should lead, while Ling Yue waited to cast his faction’s votes.

• Su Ye chose Windhowl City and drew many solo players and smaller factions to follow him there.
• The Fivefold Race leaders divided their forces among the five cities, and Ling Yue chose Windhowl City after the others settled on theirs.
• Su Ye drove into Windhowl City, learned the event rules, and selected a position near the east gate.
• Ling Yue’s convoy and a huge crowd of players arrived, triggering the opening of the city chat and a five-minute city lord election.
• Windhowl City’s players argued over whether Su Ye or Ling Yue was better suited to lead, while Ling Yue told his subordinate to wait until the final ten seconds to vote.

Su Ye won the election to become Windhowl City's Temporary City Lord and received a powerful seal with skills for defending and moving around the city. He appointed Ling Yue as Deputy City Lord, delegated the remaining appointments to him, and publicly placed the city's defenses under Ling Yue's command.

• Su Ye won the City Lord vote and received Windhowl City's seal, which granted him powerful combat and city-defense skills.
• Su Ye appointed Ling Yue as Deputy City Lord, and Windhowl City's players welcomed the decision.
• Su Ye teleported to Ling Yue at the West Plaza, where Ling Yue ordered his guards to lower their weapons.
• Su Ye asked Ling Yue to choose candidates for the remaining official positions and appointed Mo Yu as Vanguard Officer.
• Ling Yue selected candidates for the other positions, and Su Ye announced that all players must follow Ling Yue's orders during the city's defense.

Su Ye and Ling Yue prepared Windhowl City for the first monster wave, then Su Ye opened fire on the approaching zombies. The horde continued advancing from all four directions as the players readied their defenses.

• Su Ye left Ling Yue to organize the hundred thousand players into defensive sectors around Windhowl City.
• After five hours of preparation, Su Ye and Ling Yue spotted roughly two hundred thousand fast-moving zombies approaching the city from all four directions.
• Ling Yue ordered ranged attackers to hold their fire until the zombies entered range and confirmed that the city’s defenses were ready.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to fire the Roof-Mounted Ballista and Light Machine-Gun Turret, killing over a thousand zombies at the front of the horde.
• The players on the eastern wall cheered at Su Ye’s firepower and grew more confident in the defense.

Windhowl City’s players easily defeated the first zombie wave and began preparing defenses for the stronger waves ahead. Su Ye sent A Da to find the monsters’ spawn point, earning thousands of points through A Da’s kills before A Da died and Su Ye revived him.

• Mo Yu used a Vulcan Gatling to mow down zombies at the south gate while Su Ye and the players helped wipe out the first wave.
• Su Ye noticed that Ling Yue’s players used standardized bows and crossbows, suggesting Ling Yue had a hidden Workbench.
• Ling Yue ordered the players to treat the wounded, clear the battlefield, and build trenches and spike traps outside Windhowl City.
• Su Ye started producing more ammunition and sent A Da out to locate the monsters’ spawn point.
• A Da’s kills earned Su Ye more than three thousand points before A Da died, and Su Ye revived him with the Withered Guard Contract.

Su Ye learned that the second monster wave included ranged Goblins and left Windhowl City to intercept them before the siege. Ling Yue explained Su Ye’s plan to the city’s panicking players, restoring morale and uniting them to prepare the defenses.

• A Da told Su Ye that a horde of Goblins had spawned at the instance’s entry point, included ranged attackers, and advanced in five directions.
• Su Ye informed Ling Yue about the Goblins and said he planned to leave Windhowl City to attack the monsters before they reached it.
• Su Ye rode the Gale Ranger out of the city, and players feared he was abandoning them as he disappeared from sight.
• Ling Yue told the players that Su Ye had gone to intercept the monster army and urged them to prepare for ranged attacks.
• The players rallied behind Ling Yue’s call, set aside their racial divisions, and organized Windhowl City’s defenses.

Su Ye found a 200,000-strong goblin army marching toward Windhowl City and attacked it with the Gale Ranger’s weapons. He then left the vehicle to fight a thousand goblins alone, slaughtering them with ease while the main army remained ahead.

• Fifteen reported that the Radar had detected approximately 200,000 goblins, including ranged units, approaching Windhowl City.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen and A Da to attack the goblin army with the Gale Ranger’s Roof-Mounted Ballista and Light Machine-Gun Turret.
• The goblin leader rallied the army and sent more than a thousand goblins charging at Su Ye.
• Su Ye stopped the vehicle, took up the Soul-Severing Spear, and charged the goblins alone.
• Su Ye’s armor and strength made the goblins’ attacks ineffective as he used the Black Wind Set’s effects to slaughter the attackers.
• In less than three minutes, Su Ye killed all the goblins that had broken away from the main army.

Su Ye charged into a two-hundred-thousand-strong goblin army and slaughtered his way to its rear. After he killed the Goblin Chief, the army's morale collapsed and the goblins fled as Su Ye continued hunting them.

• Su Ye charged the goblin army and used his spear and Extreme Thunder to cut down hundreds of goblins while their attacks failed to seriously harm him.
• Su Ye carved a path through the army toward the goblin arbalesters and the Goblin Chief.
• Su Ye broke through the arbalester formation and killed the Goblin Chief with Cloud-Piercing Thrust.
• The Goblin Chief's death reduced the second-wave monsters' morale by 50% and all their stats by 30%, causing the goblin army to flee.
• Su Ye continued hunting the fleeing goblins as the death notification reached every player in Windhowl City.

Ling Yue and the players discovered that Su Ye had devastated the Goblin forces attacking all five cities, making the second wave an easy victory. Su Ye returned to the monsters’ spawn point to camp for the third wave, while A Da prepared a cookout.

• Ling Yue rallied Windhowl City's players as a battered, frightened Goblin force approached, and they charged out to attack.
• Ling Yue saw Yan Kuang’s video of Su Ye’s Gale Ranger slaughtering Goblins and learned that Su Ye had attacked the monsters heading for all five cities.
• The players cleared the weakened second wave in about fifteen minutes with almost no injuries, and many considered copying Su Ye during the third wave.
• Su Ye stopped firing, drove the Gale Ranger back to the spawn point, and decided to wait there for the next wave.
• Su Ye told A Da to prepare a cookout while they waited roughly eight hours for the third wave.

Su Ye and A Da attacked the third monster wave, a million-strong Troll army, with support from Fifteen and the Vehicle’s weapons. After a devastating cannon blast carved through the horde, Su Ye and A Da charged toward the five Troll Chiefs.

• Su Ye prepared for the third wave after his points reached nearly five hundred thousand.
• The third wave appeared as more than a million Trolls led by five first-tier Troll Chiefs.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to provide covering fire and charged into the Troll horde with A Da.
• The Troll Chiefs ordered their army to surround and kill the two attackers, but the battle continued for five minutes as the fighting drew closer.
• A powerful white beam from Su Ye’s Vehicle’s cannon annihilated hundreds of Trolls and cut a path toward the five Troll Chiefs.
• Su Ye and A Da charged down the newly cleared corridor toward the stunned Troll Chiefs.

Su Ye and A Da killed all five Troll Chiefs, triggering a collapse in monster morale. Su Ye then ordered the Gale Ranger’s weapons to fire and charged into the leaderless troll army.

• The Troll Chiefs were shocked by Su Ye’s Tier Two vehicle as he and A Da charged toward them.
• A Da engaged two Troll Chiefs while Su Ye killed the Scarred Troll Chief with one spear strike.
• Su Ye killed a second Troll Chief with a lightning-charged sweep, then crushed another’s head as fear weakened him.
• A Da killed the two Troll Chiefs he was fighting, and notifications reported that the monster armies’ morale and attributes had fallen.
• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to unleash the Gale Ranger’s weapons, then charged into the troll army alongside A Da.

Su Ye slaughtered the Trolls after their leader’s death weakened them, while the Whirlwind Team arrived hoping to farm points. They witnessed Su Ye fighting alone in the million-strong horde, and Whirlwind decided to record the battle and sell the footage.

• With the Troll leader dead and their attributes reduced, Su Ye cut down the weakened Trolls in great numbers.
• Whirlwind led the Whirlwind Team toward the third wave, hoping their Vehicles would let them farm points safely.
• The team saw more than a million Trolls and hesitated to charge.
• A notification announced the death of Longnight City’s monster leader, and regional chat revealed that Fuel Gauge had killed all five leaders.
• Whirlwind and his followers spotted Su Ye fighting inside the horde with his Vehicle and another figure, mowing down Trolls.
• Whirlwind abandoned the plan to farm points and ordered his team to record Su Ye’s battle to sell the footage.

Su Ye used the Gale Ranger’s Army-Breaker Cannon and his own strength to slaughter the third wave of monsters, while the Whirlwind Team recorded the battle. He continued farming monsters and waited at their spawn point for the fourth wave, with his points climbing toward a million.

• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to fire the Army-Breaker Cannon into a dense cluster of trolls, vaporizing tens of thousands of them.
• The Whirlwind Team recorded Su Ye’s attack and planned to sell the footage.
• Su Ye and A Da fought alongside the Gale Ranger for about an hour, killing over two hundred thousand monsters and driving the rest to flee.
• Su Ye chased down the remaining monsters until his points exceeded nine hundred thousand, then returned to the spawn point to await the fourth wave.
• Fifteen detected nearby players, but Su Ye told it to leave them alone unless they interfered.
• Su Ye repeated his strategy against later monster waves, using the cannon and targeting each wave’s leader as his points rose rapidly.

Su Ye led A Da and Fifteen through the ninth wave, killing its leaders and wiping out the Minotaur army before the event ended. The surviving players celebrated and opened the exchange shop, but a hidden boss carrying a three-million-point prize pool was set to appear in five minutes.

• Su Ye and his companions attacked the ninth wave of Minotaurs, with Fifteen's Army-Breaker Cannon blasting a huge gap through their ranks.
• Su Ye killed all five Minotaur leaders, triggering morale and stat reductions for the ninth-wave monsters across several cities.
• Su Ye pursued the fleeing Minotaurs with Fifteen and exterminated the remaining monsters outside Windhowl City.
• The event ended after all players survived nine waves, and the exchange shop opened as players thanked Su Ye and he confirmed his lead with over seven million points.
• A red notification announced that all five cities had met the hidden mechanic's conditions and a hidden boss with a three-million-point prize pool would spawn in five minutes.

Su Ye raced to the event instance’s center and killed the Tier Two boss, Tengchuan An, with his vehicle’s weapons before other players arrived. He claimed all three million points and left the instance, while the remaining players were left wondering what the boss looked like and how powerful Fuel Gauge was.

• Su Ye ordered Fifteen to drive at full speed toward the instance center after learning the hidden boss offered three million points.
• Su Ye identified the boss as Tengchuan An, a powerful Tier Two enemy, and ordered Fifteen to charge the Army-Breaker Cannon and fire the vehicle’s other weapons.
• The Army-Breaker Cannon, Roof-Mounted Ballista, and Light Machine-Gun Turret killed Tengchuan An in one volley.
• Su Ye received all three million points for dealing 100% of the damage and left the event instance.
• The players arriving too late erupted into speculation about who had killed the boss and how strong Fuel Gauge was.

Su Ye spent the points he earned from the event on the Dark Hunter Vehicle template, blueprints, potions, and other supplies, then upgraded his Eye of Detection to tier two. After checking the extra reward for defending the city, he had A Da continue down the highway.

• The major faction leaders reacted in shock after Su Ye's solo victory ended the instance, while Su Ye returned to his stretch of highway unaware of their response.
• Su Ye examined the exchange shop and bought the Dark Hunter Vehicle template, which would let his Vehicle damage spirit-type monsters once it reached tier three.
• Su Ye spent his remaining points on three blueprints, tier two Attribute Potions, and single-use items for fighting monsters and spirits.
• Su Ye used a Tier Two Equipment Rank-Up Card to upgrade his Eye of Detection to tier two and sorted through his other supplies.
• Su Ye considered how other players might gain talents and Workbenches, then checked the extra reward for successfully defending the city and had A Da keep driving.

After defending Windhowl City, Su Ye received a powerful seven-day blessing and reunited with Great Xia Soldiers, gaining the Thunder Surge skill and four vehicle modules. He upgraded Thunder Surge, began a vehicle upgrade, and entered an instance while A Da guarded the vehicle.

• Su Ye learned that his City Lord status had earned him a 50% seven-day blessing, then sold the Vulcan Gatling to Mo Yu for five thousand Survival Coins.
• Su Ye met Qi Ting and four other Great Xia Soldiers, told them about his blessing, and asked them to bring him more Instance Crystals.
• Su Ye killed the five soldiers and collected the Thunder Surge skill book and four useful vehicle modules.
• Su Ye learned Thunder Surge and used nine Skill Stones to raise it to level ten.
• After collecting four Instance Crystals and one Secret Realm Crystal from two more groups of soldiers, Su Ye started upgrading his vehicle and entered an instance.

Players and the Fivefold Race leaders assessed their event-instance rewards and realized how far Su Ye’s strength surpassed theirs. At dawn, Su Ye returned from clearing three instances and regretted how slowly he had progressed and how poor the rewards had become.

• Players celebrated their event-instance gains in Regional Chat, while speculating about how many points Su Ye had earned.
• Ling Yue learned that 321 Feather Tribe members had awakened talents, but none approached Su Ye’s strength because talent power depended on base stats.
• Ling Yue and the other Fivefold Race leaders recognized that Su Ye’s stats and vehicle made him too dangerous to provoke.
• After the night passed, Su Ye emerged from an instance portal and complained that clearing three instances alone had taken too long and yielded increasingly worthless rewards.