Recaps

Yu Chuan learned from Star Network that Monster World was real and that its player powers could affect reality, while the Earth Alliance was being prepared to resist the Dark Tide. After returning to the restored Arctic station, he decided to spend his and his family’s savings on sacrificial power.

• Star Network treated Yu Chuan on the moon and showed him footage proving that his battle against the Dark Tide Evil Spirits had really happened.
• Star Network explained that Monster World was a real world, player bodies and powers were real, and the Higher-Dimensional God had given players a chance to fight the Dark Tide.
• Star Network revealed that the Eclipse Race had concealed the truth, used players to stop the Spirit Breath Race’s invasion, and needed Yu Chuan to keep the secret.
• Star Network privately recalled that it had cut off the Arctic station’s communications and expected Yu Chuan to die, but his player power feedback had led it to save him instead.
• Yu Chuan returned to the restored Arctic station, called his father, and said he wanted to spend all their savings on sacrificial power.

Yu Chuan arrived in the Senluo Forest Realm Region with almost no Sacrificial Power and was rejected by guilds because his level was too low. He joined Pig Teammate’s squad after learning they had discovered a way to capture Soul Beasts and sell them to Control-type players, leaving him eager to pursue the opportunity.

• Yu Chuan found himself stranded with no Sacrificial Power after graduating from A Le's Training Camp, sold supplies to afford travel, and reached the Senluo Forest Realm Region.
• Yu Chuan researched the region’s guilds and contacted several recruiters, but they rejected him because his level was below their requirements.
• Yu Chuan found Pig Teammate’s recruitment notice for low-strength A Le Academy graduates and joined the nineteen-person squad after hearing about its profit-making opportunity.
• Pig Teammate explained that the squad planned to enter a Soul Return Race breeding base and capture Soul Beast seeds, which could evolve into powerful pets for Control-type players.
• Yu Chuan recognized the value of Soul Beasts and agreed that the squad had found a lucrative source of future income.

Yu Chuan joined Pig Teammate’s veteran team to steal Soul Beast seeds from a nest guarded by Soul Slaves, and after dying on his first attempt, he returned with a Hoverboard and helped the team secure and sell a seed to Lingering Melody. As Yu Chuan settled in with his new companions and earned over 100,000 Sacrificial Power, the team received a purchase request from the famous player Little Mage, leaving them facing a difficult decision.

• Pig Teammate explained the Soul Beast Nest’s traps and the team’s plan, and Yu Chuan agreed to enter while the others covered him.
• Yu Chuan was overwhelmed by Soul Slaves on his first raid and died, then used the captain’s Sacrificial Power to buy a basic Hoverboard and return.
• Yu Chuan stole a Soul Beast seed with a Windwalk Pill, escaped the nest, and passed it to his teammates, who defeated the pursuing Soul Slaves.
• Pig Teammate sold the seed to Lingering Melody for 220,000 Sacrificial Power, and Yu Chuan repaid the captain’s earlier loan before deciding to stay with the team for a while.
• Over the next three days, Yu Chuan helped steal more seeds and earned over 100,000 Sacrificial Power, until Little Mage contacted Pig Teammate to buy some, making the team hesitate.

Yu Chuan’s squad sold Little Mage a Soul Beast seed for eight hundred thousand sacrificial power, and Little Mage used it to create a mining creature that could withstand spatial radiation. After the experiment succeeded, he considered feeding it his Doomsday Giant Beast and asked Guide for help.

• Little Mage offered Yu Chuan’s squad eight hundred thousand sacrificial power for a Soul Beast seed, and the squad secretly agreed to sell it.
• Little Mage paid the full amount and collected the seed through a spatial rift, surprising the squad with his reliability and growing spatial abilities.
• Little Mage reflected on becoming the Spirit Breath Race’s king and explained his plan to develop the race and improve mining at the Startrace Valley deposit.
• Little Mage hatched the Soul Beast and made it devour a Glow Spider and a Biological Mining Machine, giving it the spider’s resistance to spatial radiation and mining abilities.
• Little Mage tested the transformed Soul Beast in the Startrace Valley mine and confirmed that it could withstand the radiation.
• Little Mage considered having the Soul Beast devour his Doomsday Giant Beast, then asked Guide for help.

Little Mage sold Spirit Breath Race resources to raise sacrificial power, then fused the Soul Beast, the Doomsday Giant Beast’s devouring quasi-rule, and March of the Dead into a new special life soul. He named it Myriad Forms, and an all-channel announcement prompted players to curse him as a traitor.

• Little Mage used March of the Dead as a framework for combining the Soul Beast’s soul-shaping rule with the Doomsday Giant Beast’s devouring quasi-rule, reducing the creation cost to 5.29 million sacrificial power.
• Little Mage sold spirit plants, spirit ore, and crafted goods from Spirit Breath City’s warehouses to gather enough sacrificial power.
• Little Mage linked with the Doomsday Giant Beast and controlled it to break open its chest, allowing the Soul Beast to devour it.
• Guide reshaped the Soul Beast and devouring quasi-rule with March of the Dead, creating a new special life soul that could change forms and summon as a beast.
• Little Mage socketed the life soul, tested its four forms, and named it Myriad Forms.
• An all-channel announcement celebrated Little Mage’s creation, and players across the Forum and chat channels cursed him as a traitor.

The Mingwu Race invaded the Ascension Sea, forcing the Ascension Race and Shuyan to prepare for war as Qi Sheng watched their opening clashes and assessed their military systems. As the wider conflict drew players seeking battlefield loot, Qi Sheng turned to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, where Di Nian Bully faced another assault and lamented his endless, unrewarding fight against the players.

• The Mingwu Race launched its invasion, and the Ascension Race and Shuyan prepared their armies to defend their territories.
• Shuyan summoned a sacred legion from Demon Slaying to counter the Mingwu Race, while the Ascension Race raised its Spirit Root Divine Pillar.
• The Mingwu Race used formations and shared energy to overwhelm the Ascension Race and pressure Shuyan, and Qi Sheng judged that the Ascension Race faced defeat while Shuyan might adapt or flee.
• Players flocked to the war to scavenge loot, with Assassin Build players using Oath Space to capture weakened combatants.
• Qi Sheng watched three United Warbands attack the Evil Eye High Tower, where Di Nian Bully and Evil Eye deployed the Demon Seed Legion to inflict sustained pain on players.
• Di Nian Bully grew frustrated that, despite his increasing strength, he was still fighting the same players and gaining no sense of accomplishment.

Qi Sheng surveyed the players’ major regions, comparing the chaotic A Le Training Camp with more organized battlefields and evaluating the Lord of Bliss’s resilient resource network. He concluded that players in the Senluo Forest Realm were not yet strong enough to join its coming struggle for regional supremacy, and planned to investigate the Against the Tide Legion after refining the Player Faction.

• Qi Sheng observed the disorderly A Le Training Camp, where constant player turnover and painful build experiments prevented coordinated warbands from forming.
• Qi Sheng assessed how reflection advertisements and the Lord of Bliss’s three stable resource channels supported the Elysium Tribe’s growth and let it withdraw quickly from danger.
• Qi Sheng surveyed Adventurer World, where instance-focused players and guilds such as Stargazer, Blood Butcher, and Guild Name Taken had developed into a major force.
• Qi Sheng examined the Land of Chasing the Sun, where the Mechanical Legion and Virtual Runes Legion fought over resource nodes and their war threatened to engulf players.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the Senluo Forest Realm, where players struggled against stronger forces, Yu Chuan’s squad profited from a Soul Beast sales channel, and the Against the Tide Legion remained under investigation.

The Eclipse Race unveiled the Future Game Pod and NT-7 nutrient fluid, technologies designed to keep players healthy and online in Monster World for longer. As the Star Network planned a citywide nutrient-fluid supply system and considered how to extend players’ lives, it received a proposal titled Real-World Marketplace.

• Afei presented the Future Game Pod’s personalized health systems and the NT-7 nutrient fluid at the Eclipse Technology Frontiers launch.
• Afei announced that the first Game Pods would launch that night, with discounts and priority for purchases made using Sacrificial Power, prompting players to complain about lacking Monster World access.
• The Star Network assessed the launch as a way to stabilize players’ real-world health and support the Higher-Dimensional God’s War Game.
• The Star Network outlined plans for an automated citywide nutrient-fluid network and considered mechanical ascension and extending the current generation’s lives.
• The Star Network received a detailed proposal titled Real-World Marketplace.

Qi Sheng launched the Evolution Shop, a real-world marketplace where players could spend Sacrificial Power on spiritual goods that also strengthened their in-game bodies. The shop’s opening ignited excitement and regret across Earth as players anticipated a new era of evolution and rising Sacrificial Power prices.

• Qi Sheng chose the Eclipse Race’s real-world marketplace to address players’ health and lifespan limits while ensuring real-world enhancements also benefited their player bodies.
• Star Network reviewed the marketplace plan and manifested a Sacrificial Altar at Eclipse City’s transport center to receive purchased goods.
• Star Network explained the altar’s purpose to Shuang Ye and the other Eclipse Race Administrators, who agreed to cooperate with the Higher-Dimensional God’s arrangements.
• The Evolution Shop appeared on Monster World’s Official Website and listed Lifespan-Extending Pills, Star Marrow Spirit Liquid, Thunder-Tempered Bone, and Purification Green Lotus for auction.
• Players and Earth’s residents reacted to the shop’s launch, with access-seekers demanding entry and players who had recently spent or sold their Sacrificial Power regretting their decisions.

The Earth Alliance raced to bid on the Eclipse Race’s Evolution Shop products, while governments debated their value and the Human Federation approved a purchase for research. After the auction ended, Qi Sheng saw the shop as a way to give players real-world enhancements while regulating sacrificial power.

• Lu Mingyuan convened the Human Federation’s supreme council, and the members voted to divert sacrificial power toward bidding on Evolution Shop products for research.
• People across the Earth Alliance saw hope in the Lifespan-Extending Pill, Star Marrow Spirit Liquid, Thunder-Tempered Bone, and Purification Green Lotus, while leaders reassessed the Eclipse Race’s strength.
• Players and governments scrambled to buy sacrificial power as bids rose sharply, with the Human Federation’s guilds and the Eclipse Race’s Collect Sacrificial Power among the major bidders.
• The auction ended after a frantic final surge, and the winning goods materialized at Eclipse City’s Transportation Center.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the auction and concluded that the Real-World Shop could enhance players, return item benefits to their game bodies, and serve as a flexible channel for collecting sacrificial power.

Cheng Shan spent more than three months gathering rare ingredients and finally created the server’s first Gourmet Grade Spirit Food Meal, the Heavenlight Feast. After selling it for a huge sum, he saw its success inspire a wave of players to try the Spirit Chef profession.

• Cheng Shan fished at Firefly Lake while reflecting on wealthy players’ immense Sacrificial Power reserves and his long search for ingredients for the Heavenlight Feast.
• Cheng Shan caught and prepared ordinary Spirit Fish for sale, then used advice from Chef and a Fishing Enthusiast Player to devise better bait and catch the rare Moonshadow Silverscale.
• Cheng Shan returned to Emperor Tomb Village and spent four hours preparing the Heavenlight Feast from thirty-nine ingredients, earning a server-first reward and a Gourmet Grade-89 meal.
• Cheng Shan listed the Heavenlight Feast on the Trading House rather than eating it himself, and it sold for 350,000 Sacrificial Power.
• The feast’s sale prompted many players to switch to Spirit Chef, though Cheng Shan expected only those who endured the work and failures to remain in the profession.

Divine King's 210,000-player United Warband fought Di Nian Evil Spirit and his forces in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range while both sides traded attacks and taunts. The Evil Moon shifted to a waxing crescent, granting a third-stage enhancement, and Di Nian Evil Spirit prepared to unleash his strengthened power on the players.

• Divine King led eighteen guilds against Di Nian Evil Spirit, hoping to defeat him and take control of Evil Eye.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit deployed his Dark Tide troops, including Pain Tide forces that inflicted mental torment, while the players used Indomitable Life Souls to resist.
• The players and Di Nian Evil Spirit traded taunts as the fierce battle continued, with Divine King's reinforcements sustaining the warband.
• Evil Eye sensed the Evil Moon beginning to change phase, and both Di Nian Evil Spirit and the players watched anxiously for the result.
• The Evil Moon settled on waxing crescent, triggering a third-stage regional enhancement, and Di Nian Evil Spirit laughed before threatening the players with true pain.

Di Nian Evil Spirit used the Waxing Crescent’s stronger Dark Tide to expand west, where he encountered the Bei Yuan Tribe and its Civilization Warriors. With Evil Eye’s analysis, he countered their divided battlefields and overwhelmed them, leaving the alliance impressed by his ability to multitask.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit celebrated the Waxing Crescent and, supported by Blood Vein, Gui Ya, Iron Spine, and Rotting Heart, sent the Dark Tide west to consume the land and a descended race’s city-state.
• Evil Eye alerted Di Nian Evil Spirit to a Stele Forest, where a Bei Yuan Tribe Record Keeper awakened Civilization Warriors from tombstones to defend against the Dark Tide.
• Qi Sheng used Analysis to identify the Bei Yuan Tribe, explain how its Civilization Warriors embodied extinct civilizations, and observe the clash between them and the Dark Tide.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit let the Civilization Warriors divide the battlefield into separate civilization spaces, then used Evil Eye to analyze each legion and generate targeted Evil Ticket troops that defeated them.
• As the stars in the Record Keeper’s Rule Lantern went out, Di Nian Evil Spirit’s allies praised his tactics, and Evil Eye joked that he could improve multitasking by insulting two hundred thousand people at once.

Di Nian Evil Spirit’s Dark Tide destroyed the Record Keeper’s civilization army and defeated the Bei Yuan Tribe’s ultimate fusion, but a Temple Guardian arrived and forced Di Nian Evil Spirit back to the High Tower. When Evil Eye sacrificed itself to save Di Nian Evil Spirit, he took its gift of Divine Eye power and launched a furious counterattack against the guardian.

• The Record Keeper recalled the evil spirits from the divided battlefield, but Demon Seed and the five ultimate emotions overwhelmed the Civilization Warriors.
• The Record Keeper merged his remaining forces with Ten Thousand Burials Return to One, but Demon Seed shattered the civilization giant from within, and the Dark Tide consumed it.
• The Record Keeper fled, but Evil Moon trapped him and the Dark Tide swallowed him; afterward, a Temple Guardian arrived and crushed the Dark Tide before pursuing Di Nian Evil Spirit to the High Tower.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit and the Four Great Bullies fought the Temple Guardian, but their defenses faltered, and Evil Eye calculated that their chance of victory was only 0.00012%.
• Evil Eye activated the desperate situation protocol, sacrificed itself, and transferred a wisp of Divine Eye power to Di Nian Evil Spirit.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit transformed and attacked the Temple Guardian with overwhelming force, using the predictive paths Evil Eye had left behind to drive the guardian onto the defensive.

Di Nian Evil Spirit pushed Divine Eye Power beyond his limits to avenge Evil Eye, but the temple guardian unleashed the spirits of sacrificed civilizations and left him unable to fight. As the Civilization Legion closed in and the four bullies struggled to protect him, players and the Insect Race Army arrived in force to defend the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit wounded the temple guardian with his blood blade, but the guardian branded him with a Destruction Mark and released the civilizations bound inside the bone lantern.
• Evil Eye's hidden release nodes drained the remaining Divine Eye Power from Di Nian Evil Spirit, but he collapsed as the Civilization Legion advanced and the four bullies tried to hold it back.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit gave up hope of surviving, while the dying temple guardian believed the Civilization Legion had secured victory.
• Millions of players answered Divine King's call and charged the Civilization Legion to protect Di Nian Bully and the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
• The Zerg Master Brain sensed Di Nian Evil Spirit's weakening and led a vast Insect Race Army from the Phantom Marsh toward the battle.

After Divine King rallied players to stop the Bei Yuan Tribe from killing Di Nian Bully, the Player Legion and Insect Race joined forces to overwhelm the Civilization Legion and protect the dying spirit. Di Nian Evil Spirit saw his sworn enemies defending him and wondered whether it was a near-death hallucination.

• Divine King posted a call to arms, urging players to defend Di Nian Bully and defeat it themselves rather than let the Bei Yuan Tribe kill it.
• Players across Monster World abandoned their activities and converged on the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, while guild leaders including Ye Xiao, Lao Mo, Pirate King, and Bent-Hook Old Man rallied their forces.
• The Player Legion and Insect Race attacked the Civilization Legion from opposite sides, then coordinated their assault to break through its defenses.
• Support players maintained golden shields around the High Tower as their allies fought to keep Di Nian Evil Spirit alive.
• The temple guard could no longer control the Civilization Legion and was swallowed by the attacking forces, while Di Nian Evil Spirit watched in confusion as players and insects protected him.

After surviving the Civilization Legion’s attack, Di Nian Evil Spirit refused to accept a replacement for Evil Eye and challenged the Dark Tide hierarchy to resurrect his fallen companion. He invoked Exceeding Authority, and the request to resurrect Evil Eye was granted.

• The dark tide core consumed the High Tower and the players’ Recovery Potions to repair Di Nian Evil Spirit, who awoke sixteen hours later.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit rejected Blood Vein’s suggestion to request a new Auxiliary Eye and contacted Dusk Eye to ask whether Evil Eye could be resurrected.
• Dusk Eye rebuked Di Nian Evil Spirit and crushed his attempt to demand Evil Eye’s resurrection, but Di Nian Evil Spirit learned from Evil Eye’s records about Exceeding Authority.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit invoked Exceeding Authority and requested Evil Eye’s resurrection as a designated support resource.
• Dusk Eye confirmed that the 13th Divine Eye had granted Di Nian Evil Spirit’s request, prompting the Four Great Bullies to celebrate.

Qi Sheng analyzed why the Star Network had intervened to save Di Nian Evil Spirit, whose unusual growth could become useful against the Dark Tide System. As Di Nian Evil Spirit struggled to repair the High Tower without Evil Eye, Evil Eye returned through Exceeding Authority and immediately resumed its work.

• Qi Sheng concluded that the Dark Tide System forced Evil Spirit Warriors to risk unknown dangers through devouring wars, while the Star Network judged Di Nian Evil Spirit valuable to the players and rallied them to defend it.
• Qi Sheng decided to preserve Di Nian Evil Spirit because its independence from the Dark Tide System might help him oppose that system.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit worried about Evil Eye's return and began repairing the damaged High Tower while the players remained absent from the Di Family Mountains.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit struggled with the tower's complex repairs, especially the conversion node linking it to the Destruction Shrine.
• Evil Eye returned through Evil Moon's relay, greeted Di Nian Evil Spirit, and began repairing the High Tower as Di Nian Evil Spirit recognized its familiar personality.

Fate Throat arrived in Trade City to investigate the source of fate’s Backlash and spent several days studying what it believed was a weak, illusion-obsessed world. After being captured and returned home as an orange cat, it recognized the Monster World on its owner’s screen and realized the world it had come to investigate might be connected to the virtual world.

• Fate Throat entered Trade City through a Spatial Rift and possessed an orange cat instead of the player inside a Game Pod.
• Fate Throat surveyed the city and judged its technology, frail inhabitants, and reliance on virtual worlds while investigating the Fate Gamble’s Backlash.
• Fate Throat reconsidered the people’s peaceful lives but remained convinced that Monster World’s struggle for strength offered a greater future.
• A drone identified the orange cat as a missing pet and returned Fate Throat to its apartment, where a White-Haired Girl scolded it and locked it in a cage.
• Fate Throat watched the White-Haired Girl browse a page showing the Dark Tide and then open a livestream of the Against the Tide Training Camp.
• Fate Throat recognized Monster World on the screen and reacted with alarm.

Fate Throat discovered that the players were real beings empowered by a higher-dimensional force, and concluded that Emperor Zhao stood behind their system. It abandoned its plan to negotiate and decided to seek player status by joining Earth’s alliance as a descended faction.

• Fate Throat failed to gamble for all the world's secrets, but after three losses it gained comprehension of the world's languages and writing.
• Fate Throat secretly browsed the Monster World website and player forum, learning that players treated the real Monster World as a game and that their deaths were temporary.
• Fate Throat concluded that Emperor Zhao and other supreme gods powered the player system, while Qi Sheng prepared to erase Fate Throat but stayed his hand.
• Fate Throat abandoned its plan to negotiate with the higher-dimensional god and prepared to leave, then reconsidered after deciding that becoming a player could grant it immortality and access to powerful rules.
• Fate Throat learned that it needed an identity to compete for a player slot and decided to seek Earth Alliance residency by arriving as a descended faction.

Fate Throat devised a plan to bring the Fate Race to Earth and turn them into players, then persuaded the Great Fate Lord to let the Dragon Sparrow Lineage migrate with them. They arrived above Trade City with thirty thousand followers and asked the Earth Alliance to lower its weapons as they sought refuge.

• Fate Throat planned to claim Earth Alliance identities for the Fate Race while hiding Earth's secrets behind a supposed fate revelation.
• At the Heavenly Mandate Council, the other Fate Lords rejected the proposed migration, but the Great Fate Lord let Fate Throat take willing followers and revealed that the previous Fate Revelation had also been a lie meant to save the race.
• Thirty thousand members of the Dragon Sparrow Lineage left the clan territory with Fate Throat, who accepted the Great Fate Lord's jade and led them through a spatial tunnel.
• The Earth Alliance detected the expanding spatial rift above Trade City and mobilized its defenses and weapons against the unknown descent faction.
• Fate Throat and the thirty thousand followers emerged above Trade City, let the Earth Alliance's weapons target them, and asked the people of Earth to stand down because they were refugees, not conquerors.

The Fate Race cooperated with the Earth Alliance and built a city in ten minutes while Fate Throat sought rapid approval to gain player qualification. Star Network exposed the Fate Race’s true identity and motives, then welcomed them into the Alliance on the condition that they abandon their connection to Monster World and keep its secrets.

• The Earth Alliance settled Fate Throat and thirty thousand Fate Race members in the Siberian Wasteland, where they cleansed the land and built Destiny City in ten minutes.
• Fate Throat chose to accelerate integration by sharing resources and technology, and an Eclipse Race envoy delivered a background questionnaire and Star Network equipment.
• Star Network confronted Fate Throat about the Fate Race’s unusual cooperation and deduced that they wanted player qualification after discovering their identity as a faction from Monster World.
• Star Network revealed that it had traced Fate Throat’s earlier visit through a surveillance anomaly and Monster World website access, then welcomed the Fate Race into the Earth Alliance.
• Star Network warned that the Fate Race could not return to Monster World in their original bodies or disclose its secrets, and Fate Throat agreed to sever their past and seek qualification through the usual lottery.

Fate Throat’s people discovered that Earth’s seemingly primitive civilization was connected to the Player Race and realized he had brought them there to seek Game Access. After explaining that only a hundred Game Pods were available, Fate Throat announced a drawing for the remaining ninety-nine.

• The Fate Race registered as Earth Alliance residents, while many members questioned Fate Throat’s restrictions and his interest in Earth.
• Fate Throat told Mingyun that they were not prisoners but gamblers staking their future, and urged him to wait for the payoff.
• An Eclipse Race engineering team delivered a hundred Game Pods and installed the Signal Tower, computers, and network equipment in Fate City.
• The Fate Race members explored the Monster World website and player forums, learning that Earth’s players could revive after death and that Fate Throat wanted them to become players.
• The Fate Race members understood why Fate Throat had brought them to Earth, and he summoned them to explain that only Game Pod owners could win Game Access.
• Fate Throat kept one Game Pod for himself and announced that the other ninety-nine would be assigned through an internal drawing.

Fate Throat secured an order for 30,000 customized Game Pods, while the Fate Race discovered that the Misfortune and Gold Coin Life Souls could greatly aid their gambles. As the Fate Race settled into watching players, Qi Sheng turned his attention to the Hardcore Grinders Group’s final trial before graduation.

• Fate Throat exchanged the Fate Race’s spiritual resources for a promise that the Star Network would deliver 30,000 customized Game Pods in twenty days.
• The Fate Race explored player streams and database information, identifying Misfortune and Gold Coin as especially valuable Life Souls for improving their equivalent gambles.
• Fate Throat praised streamer So Poor I Eat Dirt with repeated comments, and Eat Dirt banned his guest account for thirty days.
• Qi Sheng left the Fate Race’s development to Guide’s monitoring and focused on the Hardcore Grinders Group as they began their final pre-graduation trial.

As the Hardcore Grinders Group prepared to graduate, players and trainees reflected on the group’s two years in the Training Camp and the bonds forged with Ghost Eye and the others. After sharing supplies and taking a final group photo, the trainees heard Instructor Demon Shield’s farewell and launched into the unknown for the Blind Jump Trial.

• Players filled the Forum with farewells as the Hardcore Grinders Group’s impending graduation became its top topic, and the group looked back on how they had grown from novice players into close comrades with Ghost Eye and the other trainees.
• Li Zheng gave Ghost Eye and the others Special-Effect Recovery Potions, and the brothers teased one another before Family-Sharing Godfather gathered them for a group photo.
• At the farewell ceremony in Throat-Rending Valley, Instructor Demon Shield urged the trainees to face the unknown with courage and explained the three kinds of landing zones they might encounter in the Blind Jump Trial.
• Assistant Instructor Ao played the Blind Jump Ballad and recited a warrior’s chant as the trainees answered with roars and readied themselves to depart.
• Hundreds of thousands of Shuttle Pods launched from the Training Camp, carrying the new warriors into the unknown.