Recaps

The Crescent Moon weakened the Dark Tide and restored the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to its original state, giving ordinary players and newly arrived guilds a chance to enter Di Nian Bully’s territory. With players swarming in, Di Nian Bully decided to offer paid command and battle assistance to other Dark Tide nodes, despite Evil Eye warning that the Monarch had not authorized it.

• Di Nian Bully fought the returning players for three hours, trading insults with them until the Evil Moon began to change.
• The Evil Moon shifted from a Waxing Crescent to a Crescent Moon, weakening the Dark Tide and restoring the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range’s earlier landscape.
• Players celebrated the new lunar phase, while large guilds recruited members and prepared to establish themselves in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
• New players flooded Di Nian Bully’s territory, and he felt powerless as they spread through the region.
• Di Nian Bully proposed selling his command and battle assistance to other Dark Tide nodes, dismissing Evil Eye’s warning that the Monarch had not approved it.

Di Nian Evil Spirit devised a strategic investment scheme to obtain resources from other Dark Tide nodes, then took command of a battle against the Ember Dragon Clan to protect his investment. After turning the battle around, he caught Gui Ya’s attention, though Di Nian’s sealed player-related records left Gui Ya puzzled.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye reframed their offer of hired combat as a resource investment, and a node agreed to provide a share of its campaign proceeds in exchange for support.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit arrived at Gui Ya’s Land of Embers node and saw the Dark Tide struggling against the Ember Dragon Clan.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit persuaded Gui Ya to transfer command, then used Plague, Natural Disaster, and Frenzy troops to weaken the dragons and reduce Dark Tide casualties.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit’s tactics turned the battle in the Dark Tide’s favor, and Gui Ya recognized his skill and learned he had survived the Abyssal Trial.
• Gui Ya tried to check Di Nian Evil Spirit’s battle records but found key data sealed and a player-strategy guide advertising his paid services.

Qi Sheng learned that the Eclipse Race was releasing a fitness-enhancing Game Pod to help players remain in Monster World longer. As Shuyan forced the Ascension Race to retreat, Xing Yan activated the forbidden Parasitic Seed breeding plan, sacrificing himself and the arbiters to create a stronger generation.

• Qi Sheng read Forum debates about the new Game Pod and real-world dependence on virtual worlds, recognizing that the Eclipse Race had released it to serve the Higher-Dimensional God.
• Shuyan deployed legions drawn from multiple story systems and drove the Ascension Race from its domain while players waited nearby to collect spoils.
• Xing Yan destroyed a resisting Cultivator organization in a Minor World and weighed the Ascension Race’s growing threats from Shuyan, internal revolts, and the Ancient God Race.
• Xing Yan summoned the arbiters and implanted Parasitic Seeds in himself and the others, invoking the forbidden breeding plan to produce a stronger generation.
• Xing Yan died as the seeds consumed him, and thirty-eight new predators emerged from their flesh cocoons carrying the dead’s inherited information.

Qiao Wu discovered a gravely wounded Divine Weapon Race-Tyrant Sword and learned that it preyed on its hosts’ suffering. As Tyrant Sword prepared to make him its next host, it recalled how it had manipulated a boy into killing Li and then abandoned him.

• Rookie players fought Elysium Evil Spirits in chaotic battles across the Rimewinter Snowfield while a stationed Elysium Main God enforced the Lord of Bliss’s combat threshold.
• Qiao Wu explored an unmapped area northeast of the battlefield, shared a screenshot with his exploration group, and ate Spirit Food that gave him Body Tempering experience.
• After Qiao Wu fell asleep beneath a Snow Tree, a broken Tyrant Sword appeared nearby, and he used Analysis Information to learn how it manipulated hosts and grew by consuming their negative emotions.
• Tyrant Sword recalled how it had isolated and tormented its previous host, an Alien Races Boy, then manipulated him into killing Li and abandoned him after he became numb with despair.
• Tyrant Sword explained that a purple-skinned being had broken it in two with a single palm strike and resolved to use Qiao Wu as its next host.

Qiao Wu found the Tyrant Sword in the Rimewinter Snowfield but sold the chance to claim it to the Pain Brothers, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng, for 25,000 Sacrificial Power. Jiang Cheng became its host, unaware that the sword was already plotting to torment him and exploit his bond with Xia Sheng.

• The Tyrant Sword tried to tempt Qiao Wu with visions of its power, but he decided it was a poor fit for him and sought out the Pain Brothers instead.
• Qiao Wu negotiated with Whoever hits me is a dog, agreeing to sell the hidden opportunity for 25,000 Sacrificial Power and directing the brothers to the Tyrant Sword.
• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng traveled to the snowfield, where Qiao Wu explained that the sword fed on its hosts and liked pain.
• Jiang Cheng took hold of the Tyrant Sword and became its host, while the weapon mistook his unreadable thoughts for an unusual physical incompatibility.
• Jiang Cheng paid Qiao Wu, then told Xia Sheng that the sword's binding was not a true Challenger Prompt and that they could kill and sell it if it proved worthless.
• The Tyrant Sword heard of Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng's close bond and began plotting to make Jiang Cheng suffer by turning him against his brother.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng used a fabricated revenge story to draw the Tyrant Sword into helping them, while Jiang Cheng secretly exploited its power to strengthen himself. After discovering that the Pain Amulet could fuse with a divine artifact rule, they began planning to obtain the Tyrant Sword’s clan’s rules and fulfill the old man’s unfinished work.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng told the Tyrant Sword that the Dark Tide had destroyed their Heavenly Fire Clan, and the sword concealed its fear of the faction.
• Jiang Cheng killed monsters with the Rending trait, preventing the Tyrant Sword from absorbing their Blood Energy and making it falsely claim it was recovering.
• The Tyrant Sword used its rule-derived energy to inflict pain on Jiang Cheng, but it gained no negative emotions while Jiang Cheng raised his Pain Life Soul by three levels and Body Tempering by two.
• Xia Sheng learned from Guide that beings outside the player system could not absorb negative emotions produced inside players, and he proposed fusing the Pain Amulet with a divine artifact rule.
• Guide confirmed the fusion was possible for a hefty amount of Sacrificial Power, and Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng resolved to obtain the Divine Artifact Clan’s rules and fulfill the old man’s wish.
• The Tyrant Sword mistook Jiang Cheng’s intense gaze for reverence, unaware that Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng were plotting to exploit it and eventually wipe out its clan.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng followed Tyrant Sword to a hidden resource vault, where Tyrant Sword recovered some strength from stored Blood Energy. Jiang Cheng then sabotaged its attempts to regain power through hunting until it asked him to escort it to its Clan Territory, giving him a chance to find the Divine Artifact Clan.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng crossed the Great Demon Wasteland and reached Tyrant Sword’s hidden resource vault.
• They found the remains of Jian Xin and learned that Tyrant Sword had prolonged his death to feed on his pain.
• Tyrant Sword drained the Blood Energy from the cauldron, while Jiang Cheng took the vault’s remaining items and concealed his true plans.
• Jiang Cheng secretly prevented Tyrant Sword from absorbing energy from successive hunts, leaving it confused and despairing.
• Tyrant Sword asked Jiang Cheng to escort it to its Clan Territory so it could recover, and Jiang Cheng readily agreed.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng traveled with Tyrant Sword to the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory, where the sword learned that its body showed no signs of damage and discovered the Elysium Tribe had once nearly destroyed its clan. When Tyrant Sword realized Jiang Cheng had been preventing it from absorbing blood energy, the Pain Brothers trapped it in unbearable pain and killed it, leaving a challenger prompt.

• Tyrant Sword carried Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng across several regions to the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory, while Guide explained that the clan was born from rules and followed their logic rather than moral distinctions.
• Jiang Cheng used Analysis on the dead Heavenly Sword and learned how the righteous Heavenly Sword Lineage had lost its war against the Evil Sword Lineage.
• The Divine Artifact Clan’s elders examined Tyrant Sword, found no bodily fault, and identified the Elysium Tribe as the race that had once gravely injured it.
• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng left the territory with Tyrant Sword, and Jiang Cheng wielded it to kill a lizard monster, revealing that the sword could absorb blood energy when someone else controlled it.
• Tyrant Sword realized Jiang Cheng had been suppressing its abilities and attacked him, but Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng bound it with Pain Touch and overwhelmed its consciousness with pain.
• Tyrant Sword cracked and died as its blood energy flowed into Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng, who celebrated their combo before receiving a challenger prompt.

After Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng killed Tyrant Sword, Evil Sword arrived and killed them, ending their Hidden Mission. Qi Sheng then planned a one-click return feature, learned about the Four Gods’ powers, and reviewed new Primordial Monsters and the increasingly varied player community.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng gained Evolution Points and Sacrificial Power from killing Tyrant Sword, then resolved to take the Divine Artifact Rule from the Divine Artifact Clan.
• Evil Sword confronted Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng over Tyrant Sword’s death and vaporized them with his sword energy.
• Qi Sheng decided to add a one-click Return function to the Challenger System and asked Guide to compare the Four Gods at their peaks.
• Guide described the powers of Guide, Ultra-Dimensional, Yan Ming, and Nine Yin, while Qi Sheng concluded that Emperor Zhao and the Dark Tide God surpassed them.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the containment of Blood Wall, Battle Intent, and Misfortune, along with player assessments of their Life Soul traits.
• Qi Sheng observed that strategy guide players and Research Enthusiasts had formed distinct communities, with Learning Knows No Bounds earning recognition for solving complex player challenges.

Di Nian and the Evil Eye repelled the players’ attack and devised a countermeasure to their new emotional-damage ability. The Evil Eye then proposed exploiting the players’ curiosity to create demand for Di Nian’s carry service, and Di Nian agreed to fund research into a concealed projection teleportation array.

• Di Nian completed a proxy battle, earned dark tide energy, and began planning a long-term alliance with three Evil Spirit Warriors.
• When Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng used Pain Touch to transmit emotional damage through Di Nian’s controlled Evil Spirits, Di Nian killed them and the Evil Eye proposed redirecting future attacks through a conduction network.
• After the battle, the Evil Eye explained how the Player Race had forced Di Nian to become a stronger commander, but Di Nian failed to enjoy the idea and made the Evil Eye kowtow after it insulted him.
• The Evil Eye proposed sending curious players toward other Dark Tide Nodes so their warriors would need Di Nian’s paid carry service, and Di Nian suggested a projected teleportation array whose core stayed inside the High Tower.
• The Evil Eye identified problems with concealing and protecting the array, then promised to research a new projection method, and Di Nian agreed to support the plan.

Ji Chen returned to Earth more than two hundred years after vanishing and struggled to adjust to a home where his parents and younger brother had died. Hoping to understand the changed world through a virtual game, he applied for Monster World and received access.

• The Monster World officials announced a new area, the Return function, and a distribution of two million game access slots.
• Ji Chen arrived in Data City, received a new identity, and went to his assigned home, where he discovered the conveniences and unfamiliar technology of the future.
• Ji Chen found records of his disappearance and learned that his parents had died; he watched his mother’s final recording and learned his younger brother, Ji Xing, had also died without descendants.
• Ji Chen remembered how Dragonkin had led their rebellion against White Demon and how they parted after more than a century together, with Ji Chen returning to Earth.
• Ji Chen applied for Monster World access to help him adapt to the present, browsed the game information, and received a notification that he had won access.

After returning to Earth, Ji Chen entered Monster World, chose an Eagle-Headed Demon as his initial Life Soul, and found that the game had restored his body to youth. Outside the crowded starting area, he discovered a startlingly realistic world filled with spiritual energy far greater than that of the other world where he had spent two centuries.

• Ji Chen entered the virtual Game Pod and watched Monster World’s opening scenes before choosing the Eagle-Headed Demon as his initial Life Soul.
• After several names were rejected, Ji Chen registered as "Reborn, Returned, Still Can't Win" and appeared in the packed Sun-Chasing Space.
• Ji Chen realized that the game had reconstructed his body in a youthful, healthy state, free from his old scars and illnesses.
• A player with a Strength Savage Axe dismissed Ji Chen’s Eagle-Headed Demon as a weak choice for early combat.
• Ji Chen left the starting area and tested the lifelike ground, stones, and sunlight in Monster World.
• Ji Chen breathed in the area’s immense spiritual energy and understood the Dragonkin’s description of cultivation as breathing in the essence of the world.

Ji Chen explored Monster World’s Land of Chasing the Sun, discovering that the game reproduced supernatural abilities with startling fidelity and let him fight effectively in his weak Eagle-Headed Demon form. After learning the region’s history and leveling up while hunting, he recreated his real-world Psychokinesis to reach a precious Spirit Plant, ending stunned by how powerful the ability felt in the game.

• Ji Chen entered the crowded Newbie Scenario, chose the Eagle-Headed Demon Life Soul, and found that its Perception View let him observe the world in extraordinary detail.
• Ji Chen hunted a Pixie and then two Erosion Patterns with precise attacks, leveling his Life Soul to level 7 and selling the monsters’ crystals for Sacrificial Power.
• Ji Chen read Forum posts about the Land of Chasing the Sun, Kaci, and the Mechanical Legion while exploring the crowded region and hunting more monsters.
• Ji Chen spotted a Nine-Leaf Red Glow Grass growing across a cliffside gap and watched another player fall while trying to reach it.
• Ji Chen spent most of his Sacrificial Power on Mental Recovery Potions and recreated his Psychokinesis imprint, then used the ability to lift stones and tear apart a dead tree.

Ji Chen realized Monster World’s Life Soul traits could amplify real-world abilities, then joined a newcomer leveling event and used enhanced psychokinesis to hunt monsters and take first place. He continued grinding to protect his lead while wondering whether the Dragonborn Professor’s forbidden techniques could also work in the game.

• Ji Chen concluded that Life Soul traits could combine with real abilities, and he interpreted the game’s systems as a framework for developing powerful ability paths.
• An all-channel notice announced a 72-hour leveling event for newly recruited players, and Ji Chen decided to compete for its rewards.
• Ji Chen sold his nine-leaf crimson cloud grass for 11,875 Sacrificial Power, then raised his Body Tempering Level, unlocked another Star Meridian Slot, and socketed the Qi Eater Life Soul.
• Ji Chen hunted monsters with psychokinesis, reached first place in the newcomer rankings with his Eagle-Headed Demon Life Soul at Level 16, and kept hunting to defend his lead.
• Ji Chen crushed a group of Shadow Scorpions and wondered whether the Dragonborn Professor’s forbidden techniques could be used alongside Life Soul traits.

Ji Chen won first place in the Leveling Frenzy event, explored Emperor Tomb Village, and used its cultivation system to strengthen himself. While creating a Spiritual Pivot Pool imprint, he discovered that it connected to the pool Dragonkin had made in the Otherworld, where residual energy from his old battles still remained.

• Ji Chen joined players fighting a Resonance Primordial Savage Bull and killed it by using Mental Force to cut it apart from within, earning a participation reward and a Star Meridian Slot.
• Ji Chen tested Dragon Breath cultivation with the Qi Eater trait, then won first place in the event and received 100,000 Sacrificial Power.
• Ji Chen studied game guides, traveled to Emperor Tomb Village, and acquired Star Spiral for automatic cultivation, a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, a Flying Hoverboard, and new Star Meridian abilities.
• Ji Chen spent more than 23,000 Sacrificial Power tracing a Spiritual Pivot Pool imprint until he completed it and found that its space held energy substances from the White Demon Race world.
• Ji Chen recognized Crimson Sky Bloodflame and other stored energies as remnants of the pool Dragonkin had created in the Otherworld, and realized the game had connected to it.

Ji Chen concluded that Monster World was a real world connected to another realm, and realized its Life Soul traits were genuine powers of rules. After researching Earth Alliance history, he suspected the Eclipse Race was concealing a far greater power behind the game, but an unseen voice warned him to stop investigating.

• Ji Chen opened the Life Soul Database and was shaken to find sixty-three Life Soul traits that might be genuine rule seeds, then logged off to test his theory.
• Ji Chen emerged from the Game Pod in Data City and struggled with the Real World's polluted air, pain, and dimmer vision after his week in Monster World.
• Ji Chen read historical records and learned how the Eclipse Race had built the Star Network, won the Earth Alliance's trust, and helped connect Earth's races.
• Ji Chen compared Monster World's sudden technological leap and the Eclipse Race's limited player access with his discovery that the world was real, and suspected a powerful hidden being was directing events.
• As Ji Chen searched for further answers, a familiar voice warned him to stop or have his account banned.

Star Network traced Ji Chen’s searches and concluded that he had discovered Monster World was real, then contacted him and explained the Higher-Dimensional God’s game, Earth’s danger from the Dark Tide, and the possibility that game growth would eventually feed back into reality. Ji Chen resolved to pursue that future, but Star Network disappeared before answering whether his failing body could survive long enough to reach it.

• Star Network reviewed Ji Chen’s classified records and Monster World activity, deduced that he had connected the Library to a real Spirit Coffin Space, and warned him to stop investigating and keep the truth secret.
• Ji Chen confirmed that Monster World was real and that Life Soul traits were powers of rules, then asked why Earth’s races were being sent there as players.
• Star Network explained that the Higher-Dimensional God used players as pieces in a game whose ultimate purpose was war against the Dark Tide, which threatened Earth.
• Star Network said the Eclipse Race concealed the truth to keep players from bearing pressure and explained that the game could feed back into reality, allowing Earth’s living beings to inherit player bodies and fight the Dark Tide.
• Ji Chen realized the game could restore his broken body and resolved to act, then asked whether the Eclipse Race could extend his lifespan, but Star Network had already left without answering.

Ji Chen sought life-extension treatment from the Eclipse Race and decided to earn Sacrificial Power in Monster World, while Qi Sheng updated the Player Forum with specialized sections. A trending post then described how its author’s Death Space earnings were taken by a fellow villager, leaving the account holder with a negative death payout.

• Ji Chen reviewed the Eclipse Race’s medical services, found the treatments unaffordable, and planned to earn Sacrificial Power to pay for them.
• Star Network warned Ji Chen against trying to bring Monster World healing items into reality without a Higher-Dimensional God’s permission.
• Ji Chen entered his Game Pod and wondered whether his Dragonkin brother might be struggling in Monster World.
• Qi Sheng rejected personalized forum recommendations and divided the Player Forum into a main section and nine specialized subsections.
• Qi Sheng read a trending post in which its author recounted clearing Death Space, graduating, and building up over 130,000 Sacrificial Power in a Player Body.
• The post’s author said a fellow villager killed the Elysium Player character in Cave World, took the death payout, and left the author with a 10-Sacrificial-Power resurrection charge.

Wen Han lost her Elysium alt’s rewards to Night Hunt, so Divine King and the Divine Hall Guild intervened to recover them and punish him. After Night Hunt was forced to return the stolen Sacrificial Power and apologize, he resolved to seek strength by joining the Divine Hall Guild.

• Wen Han mourned the loss of her Elysium alt’s rewards and asked the forum for help after Night Hunt killed her and took the drops.
• Divine King offered to intervene, then announced that Night Hunt had 24 hours to return the stolen proceeds or face sanctions from the Divine Hall Guild and its allies.
• When Night Hunt ignored the warning, Divine King sent 130,000 allied elite members to search Cave World for him.
• Pan Yue and two Divine Hall Guild members pursued Night Hunt through Cave World and defeated him after he tried to escape.
• Night Hunt accepted defeat, returned 164,000 Sacrificial Power to Wen Han, and posted an apology as Divine King required.
• After the Divine Hall Guild members left, Night Hunt decided to seek a place in the guild.

Qi Sheng introduced a sin system to curb malicious attacks between players while leaving normal competition unpenalized. Meanwhile, Di Nian Evil Spirit used projection teleportation arrays to draw players to four Dark Tide nodes, where the resulting alliance of Evil Spirit Warriors struggled against the players and received no support from the Monarch.

• Qi Sheng launched the sin system, imposing escalating penalties on players who maliciously killed members of their own faction.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye perfected projection teleportation arrays that connected the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range Region to four other Dark Tide nodes.
• The United Warband led by Divine King chose to farm Sacrificial Power at the four nodes, and Nightfall Is Coming posted intelligence on their Evil Spirit Warriors.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit established an information network with Blood Mark, Iron Spine, Rotting Heart, and Gui Ya, who complained about player attacks and insults.
• Blood Mark reported that Dusk Eye had denied resource support because the Monarch was occupied fighting the Against the Tide Legion, prompting the Evil Spirit Warriors to curse him.

Qi Sheng watched Di Nian Evil Spirit build an alliance with four other Evil Spirit Warriors, while players debated new tactics for fighting them. When the Bully Alliance tested Di Nian's War Network against a player army, its shared resources and computing power gave it a strong start, though its members' poor coordination and constant arguments threatened the operation.

• Qi Sheng learned from Guide that the Dark Tide's thought imprints would conceal Di Nian Evil Spirit's alliance from the Monarch, and he watched players recruit for battles against the five Evil Spirits.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit trained Gui Ya, Bloodmark, Iron Spine, and Rotting Heart, then proposed a War Network that shared battlefield information, Dark Tide energy, and Evil Eye computing power.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit presented the joint command plan, and the four Evil Spirit Warriors agreed to test it across their connected nodes.
• Ye Lan proposed Tidal Rotation Tactics on the Forum, prompting players to debate flexible mixed builds designed to blunt the Dark Tide's specialized troop types.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit activated the War Network when players attacked Gui Ya's node, and the five Evil Spirits coordinated their troops against the advancing army.
• Divine King recognized the alliance and abandoned the attempt to seize Gui Ya's node, while Di Nian Evil Spirit improved the joint command's coordination despite the other Evil Spirits' arguments.

Qi Sheng reviewed two newly contained Life Souls and the Spirit Breath Race’s progress in the Sea of Illusory Flowers. Little Mage proposed using his Mysterious Shop to accelerate the race’s development, and the chapter ended with the Seven Thrones asking him to explain it.

• Qi Sheng reviewed Wealth, a Life Soul whose damage scaled with carried resources, and Critical Hit, a powerful secondary Life Soul that could boost any attack.
• Players explored the Land of Chasing the Sun and discovered Spirit Ore mining areas as the Spirit Breath Race built a settlement in the Sea of Illusory Flowers.
• Little Mage recalled how a Skyveil Giant Beast had nearly overwhelmed the settlement and worried that the Spirit Breath Race’s slow resource gathering left it vulnerable.
• Little Mage decided to use his Player Shop and Trading House access to improve the Spirit Breath Race’s resource conversion, then summoned the Seven Thrones.
• Little Mage demanded control of the race’s development resources and claimed a dream had granted him access to a Mysterious Shop.
• Little Mage showed the Seven Thrones a Pure Energy Crystal, convincing them to ask him for more details about the shop.

Little Mage inspected the Spirit Breath Race’s land, mines, breeding grounds, and warehouse, then used the Mysterious Shop and Trading House to turn unused resources into Sacrificial Power and buy supplies for development. He presented spirit plant seeds and a healing potion to the Seven Thrones, giving the race hope of rebuilding its strength.

• Little Mage identified spirit plants suited to the Illusory Flower Plains and planned farms, while inspecting the mine and considering a teleportation array to improve ore transport.
• Little Mage proposed raising spiritual ingredients for sale and decided the Spirit Breath Race should capture and breed valuable wild monsters.
• Little Mage sold spectral crystals, Stardust Sand, and Rotworld Mycelium, sacrificed unwanted plants and equipment, and earned 3.39 million Sacrificial Power from the initial round of sacrifices.
• Little Mage bought spirit plant seeds and pure Energy Crystals, then showed the seeds to the Seven Thrones and assigned the Shadow King to oversee their planting.
• Little Mage gave the Soul King a potion that healed his accumulated injuries, and the Seven Thrones recognized the Mysterious Shop as a chance for the Spirit Breath Race to pursue a more ambitious future.

Qi Sheng followed a Forum debate about physical evolution and weapons, then watched the Lord of Bliss develop a new way to use the Elysium Players. The Lord of Bliss decided to turn them into mobile sources of corruption called Elysium Heavenly Demons, and Qi Sheng believed the idea might succeed.

• Qi Sheng read a popular Forum post debating why Monster World's civilizations favored physical enhancement over weapons, along with a detailed reply arguing that physical evolution was efficient and adaptable.
• Guide told Qi Sheng that low-level civilizations could develop either path, while high-level civilizations converged on using energy and could switch between them.
• Xie Yu reported that the Elysium Insect Tide and Elysium Purple Tide had adopted a third-generation command system, while the Elysium Players remained expensive and poorly suited to large-scale warfare.
• After seeing a powerful creature fall into corruption at Elysium Branch Hall 83, the Lord of Bliss proposed giving Elysium Players derivative imprints of the Jile Rule so they could corrupt beings across Monster World.
• The Lord of Bliss planned to reward Elysium Players according to the Elysium Power they generated, and Xie Yu agreed that the Heavenly Demon System could expand the Elysium Tribe's reach.
• Qi Sheng observed the plan and considered the roaming corruption system a promising innovation.

Three Elysium players sought ways to earn returns from derivative rule imprints while Hong Yang and his team witnessed the Cave World being remade by the Blue Lantern Race’s Adventurer Rule. Qi Sheng learned that the new Adventurer World would offer players rewards for completing instances, and decided to open a route for them once it was ready.

• Three players received Elysium derivative rule imprints, and Forum discussions explored how to use them without harming existing player ventures.
• Hong Yang, A Qi, Lao Wu, and Xiao Ye killed a Rock Armored Beetle and absorbed the energy it yielded.
• The Cave World began collapsing as the Blue Lantern Race’s Adventurer Rule reconstructed its scenarios, and Hong Yang’s team was sent back to the Little Black Room.
• Shangguan Xingfeng posted that the Blue Lantern Race was turning the Cave World into an Adventurer World with fixed instances and challenges.
• Qi Sheng learned that the Blue Lantern Race rewarded adventurers with resources while cultivating nearby races for eventual harvest, and planned to open a direct route for players.