Recaps

Li Zheng landed in a jungle on the Pale Continent and discovered that the battlefield was overrun by Evil Gu Worms, which used corpses to make combat puppets. As he hunted through the valley and learned of the Against the Tide Warriors who had died there, he found the worms’ Bloodstone Furnace and learned that they were trying to evolve their entire race into powerful flesh-bodied lifeforms.

• Li Zheng landed in the jungle, confirmed it was not a Dark Tide Node, and killed an Iron Spine Beast controlled by Evil Gu Worms.
• Li Zheng explored the ancient battlefield, and Guide explained that the worms used dead bodies as material to build and pilot stitched creatures.
• Li Zheng discovered the Against the Tide Warriors’ battle monuments and paid his respects before fighting off three stitched creatures.
• Li Zheng learned that the Against the Tide 3293rd Legion had nearly annihilated the 7th Sub-Warband while seizing the Cixin rule, then noticed the stitched creatures growing more organized and powerful.
• Li Zheng found a Bloodstone Furnace that was converting flesh into new bodies, and Guide explained that the Evil Gu Insect Race intended to use it to evolve from parasites into independent, powerful lifeforms.

Li Zheng was captured by the Evil Gu Insect Race and used as the template for its attempt to create a perfect life-form. The race sacrificed itself in the Bloodstone Furnace to forge a single new self, which emerged as Evil Gu and set its sights on the Monster World's summit.

• Li Zheng fought off a growing horde of Stitched Abominations until one poisoned him and the creatures captured him.
• Li Zheng awoke restrained in a sea of blood, where Guide explained that the Evil Gu Insect Race wanted to study his limitless pure body.
• The Evil Gu Insect Race poured billions of its members into the Bloodstone Furnace as nourishment for its final experiment.
• The emerging being absorbed the race's memories, tracing its rise from lowly insects in a Minor World to its arrival in the Monster World.
• The furnace and the race's Origin Land ascended into the bloodstone rule as the new being became Evil Gu, declared, "I am eternity," and said it was hungry.

After Eternity was born from the Evil Gu Insect Race’s sacrifice, it devoured the surrounding land and treated Li Zheng as its own kind, later rescuing him from a powerful monster. Eternity then began spreading Bloodstones that secretly bound other races into its Myriad Things Crucible plan, while Qi Sheng considered whether to recruit it as a player.

• A forum post explained how the Evil Gu Insect Race used Li Zheng’s player body as a model to forge Eternity from the Bloodstone Rule, the race’s flesh, and its fused consciousnesses.
• Eternity devoured the surrounding life and energy, then gave Li Zheng a Life Essence crystal because it regarded him as its own kind.
• Li Zheng continued hunting during the trial as Eternity watched, and Eternity rescued him when a level 135 Prison Beast nearly killed him.
• Eternity spread Bloodstones and the Flesh Furnace Cauldron method among other races, secretly binding their descendants and other creatures into a network meant to fuel its future breakthroughs.
• Qi Sheng and Guide praised the Evil Gu Insect Race’s long-term plan, and Qi Sheng considered recruiting Eternity as a player but waited to judge its actions in Monster World.

Qi Sheng added the Duel Arena to give player groups a controlled way to settle disputes, then prepared a new recruitment round that would bring the player count to fifty-eight million. As qualifications approached, the Fate Race performed an elaborate sacrifice to Emperor Zhao, hoping to receive qualifications, while Qi Sheng silently accepted their offerings without promising a response.

• Qi Sheng learned that players had contained the Dread and Strong Fortune Life Souls, then decided to create an Arena Space where Guilds and Warbands could settle disputes through wagered matches.
• Qi Sheng released the Duel Arena update, and players widely welcomed the feature while discussing matches and a possible Guild Championship.
• Qi Sheng planned to distribute fifty million new Player Qualifications and open three starting locations, including regions in the Pale Continent and Earthshaking Continent.
• Netizens from across Earth reacted with surprise and resentment when the Fate Race joined the competition for Player Qualifications soon after arriving in the Earth Alliance.
• Fate Throat led more than thirty thousand Fate Race members in a Destiny Sacrifice, offering precious treasures to Emperor Zhao in hopes of gaining qualifications.
• Qi Sheng received the energy from the Fate Race's offerings through the Sacrificial Power system but gave no response, while Fate Throat told the members to prepare for the qualification distribution.

Fate Throat and the Fate Race anxiously awaited the qualification drawing, and thirty-two of them won access to Monster World. After choosing a combat-focused Life Soul and descending into Sand-Shattering Halberd, Fate Throat discovered that his Fate Rules-derived imprint had entered the game with him, then joined the rush to hunt and compete in the Newbie Level-Rush event.

• The qualification page announced fifty million places, and Fate Throat led thirty thousand Fate Race members in applying when the drawing opened.
• Fate Throat learned that thirty-two members of his race had obtained qualifications, then entered Monster World as a player.
• Fate Throat chose the Eagle-Headed Demon as his initial Life Soul, registered as Throat of Defiance, and selected Sand-Shattering Halberd as his descent location.
• A crowding notice and the Newbie Level-Rush leaderboard event sent Fate Throat and other players out of the starting area and into the Gobi.
• Fate Throat found his sealed Fate Rules-derived imprint in his inventory and realized that winning first place could provide enough Sacrificial Power to unseal it.
• Fate Throat declined another player's invitation to team up and followed the crowd into the landscape to hunt.

Fate Throat rapidly leveled by slaughtering monsters with baleful wind, planned to establish Fate Gambling City as a Dream Island entertainment district, and gained a new lightning-based Life Soul. Three days later, an Equivalent Gamble Merchant recognized him in a sandstorm and reacted with surprise at his presence.

• Fate Throat massacred groups of Sand Eroders and Rock-Armored Earth Dragons, selling their materials and climbing to first place on the Newbie Level Leaderboard.
• Fate Throat devised a plan to attach Fate Gambling City to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce on Dream Island, using its protection and trade traffic to attract customers.
• Players on the forum discussed Fate Throat’s extraordinary leveling speed after a video showed him hunting monsters with baleful wind.
• Fate Throat opened a third Star Meridian Slot and socketed Thundering Lightning, then combined its effects with his baleful wind to create powerful wind-and-thunder attacks.
• Three days later, level 43 Fate Throat met an Equivalent Gamble Merchant in a sandstorm, and the merchant abruptly stopped speaking after seeing him.

Fate Throat convinced Ming Shu that he had transcended his former life form and urged him to follow his destiny record to find the same path. Ming Shu studied the record and teleported in search of the Minor World, but arrived above Trade City after getting the coordinates wrong.

• Fate Throat proved his identity to Ming Shu with his Dragon Sparrow totem and destiny record, then revealed his body had become an immaculate vessel for three balanced powers of rules.
• Fate Throat took Ming Shu’s gathered resources and urged him to follow his destiny trajectory to discover a path beyond the constraints of life.
• After Fate Throat departed, Ming Shu examined his destiny record and learned that Fate Throat’s transformation followed a journey to a Minor World after a contest caused Backlash from the Fate Rules.
• Ming Shu decided to seek the Minor World, formed a teleportation array, and leaped into the rift despite fearing that Fate Throat might have sacrificed his followers.
• Ming Shu arrived above Trade City and realized he had misread the void coordinates and reached the wrong Minor World.

Fate Throat embraced the freedom to risk death as a player, equipped himself in Di Family Village, and set out to explore Earthshaking Coast before discovering that Fate City had been damaged and its people had disappeared. Meanwhile, Ming Shu descended on Earth to build a blood-refining array, prompting the Fate Race to rush in and beat him before he could endanger their chance to become players.

• Fate Throat destroyed a horde of Sand Lions by detonating his thunder baleful energy, then respawned at the Sand-Shattering Halberd spatial node.
• Fate Throat equipped himself with a Hoverboard, a training technique, and a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, sold resources for over a million sacrificial power, and traveled to Earthshaking Coast.
• Fate Throat logged out and discovered that most of his clanspeople had vanished from Fate City, its barrier had been broken, and buildings had been damaged.
• Ming Shu arrived on Earth, judged it a barren minor world, and set up a Blood Sacrifice Heaven array in the Mariana Trench to harvest blood energy.
• Administrator No. 11 identified Ming Shu's energy as matching the Fate Race and sought help, while Fate Race members saw the array and feared it would ruin their player qualification.
• Mingyun and thirty thousand Fate Race members reached Ming Shu before he could activate the array and beat him, leaving him convinced the Dragon Sparrow Lineage had lured him into a trap.

After Ming Shu nearly refined Earth, Fate Throat and the Dragon Sparrow Lineage showed it the Monster World Official Website, revealing the players’ power and Ming Shu’s chance to become one. Fate Throat gave Ming Shu a year to clean up the oceans and nurture Earth’s spiritual energy, while Ming Shu hoped to earn the right to apply for player qualification.

• Fate Throat learned that Ming Shu had tried to refine Earth because it had run out of resources and believed the teleportation coordinates were wrong.
• Mingyun showed Ming Shu the Monster World Official Website, where it learned about player bodies, revivals, rule powers, and the Player Faction’s rapid growth.
• Ming Shu realized that becoming a player offered a path beyond its race’s limits and feared the consequences of nearly activating the Refinement Array on Earth.
• Ming Shu apologized to Fate Throat, who consulted the Star Network and learned that the Eclipse Race would not pursue the matter further.
• Fate Throat ordered Ming Shu to clean up pollution in the world’s oceans and build a Spirit-Nurturing Grand Array within a year, but warned that Ming Shu could not apply for player qualification without Earth Alliance citizenship.
• Ming Shu flew out to begin its task, while Fate Throat returned to the Game Pod to resume earning Evolution Points and Sacrificial Power.

Qi Sheng introduced a bidding-auction mode to the Trading House to limit price-gouging, while Wei Shan prepared to leave A Le Training Camp and pursue his dream of pioneering a Summoner Style. The chapter ended with Wei Shan charging into battle for his final fight at the camp before setting out toward a new world.

• Ming Shu purified the Pacific Ocean and began the wider environmental restoration demanded by the Fate Master of Dragon Sparrow, while Qi Sheng watched and then turned to the Player Forum.
• Qi Sheng added a twenty-four-hour bidding-auction option to the Trading House, and players debated the update after it was announced that evening.
• Wei Shan, known as Invincible Summoner, prepared to graduate from A Le Training Camp after spending six months exploiting its dismantling system to stockpile resources.
• Wei Shan planned to obtain a Dream Demon Life Soul and build a horror attraction in the Virtual Runes Legion's Minor World to earn fright points for the Dread Life Soul.
• Unable to reach the Minor World without spatial transport, Wei Shan planned to hire the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to build a Spatial Teleportation Array.
• After the battlefield advertisement ended, Wei Shan joined the charge against the Elysium Army for his final fight at A Le Training Camp and looked forward to pursuing the Summoner Style.

Wei Shan prepared a fear-harvesting operation by rebuilding his life souls, purchasing materials for a teleportation array, and studying how to tailor horror to a world's culture. After consulting Tourist No. 1 and Guide, he traveled to Falling Star World and began exploring it.

• Wei Shan replaced his life souls with dread, dream demon, light shield, and qi eater, then reallocated his attributes toward mental power.
• Wei Shan bought the spatial materials and paid the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to build a miniature teleportation array, while weighing sustainable ways to harvest shock points in a Minor World.
• Tourist No. 1 advised Wei Shan to base his horror scenarios on the Minor World's own customs and beliefs, and Wei Shan asked Guide for information about the Virtual Runes Legion's world.
• The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce completed the array, and Wei Shan traveled to the Colorful Mist Coast to activate it.
• Wei Shan arrived high above Falling Star World, formed a Hoverboard, and set out to explore the world and uncover its map.

Wei Shan arrived in ruined New Cassini and used terrifying illusions and force to seize control of the city’s gangs and resources. After killing the Gear Gang’s leader, he renamed the city the City of Terror and demanded that the remaining leaders obey him.

• Wei Shan chose New Cassini as his first test target and found its residents living amid gang rule and the ruins left by the End Dharma Race’s invasion.
• As eight gang leaders argued over the eastern district’s water purification station, Wei Shan subjected them to an illusion of the city’s destruction and returned them to their negotiation table in terror.
• Wei Shan took the water purification station for himself and crushed the Gear Gang’s leader when he attacked.
• Wei Shan claimed New Cassini’s power stations, food bases, and weapon modification projects, then ordered the seven remaining gang leaders to obey him.
• Wei Shan declared that the city would be renamed the City of Terror and asked the gang leaders who was in favor and who was against.

Wei Shan established the Nightmare Trial Grounds in New Cassini and used food and water rewards to draw residents into its challenges, steadily increasing his Shock Point returns. As the operation expanded, he recognized that repeated nightmares lost effectiveness and began planning to involve fellow players and test an agent-based model in another city.

• Wei Shan replaced the clock tower with the Nightmare Trial Grounds and had the gangs announce challenges that rewarded residents with food and clean water.
• An emaciated old man completed a tier-one challenge and returned with rewards, convincing some onlookers that the supplies were real.
• Wei Shan organized repairs to the city's water station, livestock farm, and farmland while residents gradually grew more willing to enter the trials.
• The number of participants surged, the second water pipeline began operating, and Wei Shan's daily returns exceeded 1,500 points of Sacrificial Power.
• Wei Shan realized repeated horror scenes produced fewer Shock Points and considered recruiting fellow players to develop new scenarios and share the work.
• Wei Shan planned to build more Nightmare Entrances and test an agent-based operation in another city with a functioning civil order.

After restoring order in New Cassini, Wei Shan traveled to Neon Harbor to find an agent and discovered that the intact city was sinking into nihilistic indulgence. He activated the Nightmare System for Lex, who prepared to test its horror scenarios on three young customers.

• Wei Shan completed the restoration of New Cassini, reorganized its gangs, and left for Neon Harbor to begin testing agent mode.
• Guide explained that Neon Harbor's residents indulged in thrills because the invasion had destroyed their confidence in the future, despite the city's material security.
• Lex, whose virtual experience venue was failing, activated the Nightmare System after its mysterious prompt appeared on his disconnected console.
• Lex explored the system's horror scenarios and shop, then advertised a new immersive experience to attract customers.
• Three young people entered Lex's venue, and he launched the Silent Deadland scenario for them.

Lex built the Nightmare Experience Hall into a popular attraction by introducing competitive rankings, then exchanged Shock Points for a Body Tempering Pill that transformed his physical abilities. As the crowds kept growing, he began creating a custom horror scenario called Memory Maze.

• Lex collected Shock Points from three frightened visitors and created the Brave Hero Rankings to draw challengers into competing for Courage Value.
• Lex replaced the venue’s sign with Nightmare Experience Hall, and new customers soon spread its reputation across Neon Harbor through forum posts, rankings, and highlight clips.
• As crowds filled the hall, Lex expanded the experience space, hired temporary workers, and paid overdue bills and rent with his earnings.
• Lex exchanged 50,000 Shock Points for a Body Tempering Pill, received a tiny fragment, and gained strength, stamina, sharper senses, and a healthier appearance after consuming it.
• Lex began designing new horror scenes himself, using the Purple Mist to generate his ideas, and ended the evening looking at his custom Memory Maze scene.

Wei Shan inspected New Cassini’s rebuilding, punished the Eight Great Gangs for withholding supplies, and recruited players to expand his Shock Point business in the Falling Star World. His recruitment post sparked discussion about alternative Shock Point methods and the future of Pet Builds, ending with a player proposing the overlooked Divine Artifact Clan as a new source of pets.

• Wei Shan compared Neon Harbor’s agent model with New Cassini’s survival-driven model and returned to New Cassini to oversee its repairs and resource shortages.
• Wei Shan supplied purification items, adapted energy crystals into usable modules, and bought replacement parts to restore New Cassini’s damaged facilities.
• After learning that the Iron Hand Gang had withheld supplies and beaten a resident, Wei Shan crushed a mining machine with psychokinesis to intimidate the Eight Great Gangs into obeying his rules.
• Wei Shan posted on the Player Forum to recruit players for a Summoner Mutual Aid Group, reporting that his two Falling Star World cities were already producing substantial Shock Points.
• Players discussed unconventional ways to generate Shock Points, and Wei Shan decided to recruit capable players while reflecting on the strange suggestions they offered.
• Pet Build players debated how to find stronger pets as Book-Speech Warriors and Soul Beasts became less useful or harder to obtain, until one player suggested the Divine Artifact Clan.

Pet-build players devised a plan to capture a Divine Artifact Clan member by using Di Nian Bully's Pain Tide to give Yang Xiu a convincing aura of despair. At Artifact Valley, Youying approached Yang Xiu and offered to save him, and Yang Xiu accepted its help while secretly signaling his companions that the trap was ready.

• Pet-build players pooled funds to build a teleportation array and planned to lure a Divine Artifact Clan member by giving Yang Xiu a Pain Brand from Di Nian Bully's troops.
• Yang Xiu joined God's Left Leg and the United Warband in battle, where the Wailing Daughters' despair inflicted a Pain Brand on him.
• Yang Xiu traveled through the teleportation array with other pet-build players and waited outside Artifact Valley, acting as a broken and desperate wanderer.
• Youying approached Yang Xiu, healed his hands, and promised to help him escape his suffering.
• Yang Xiu agreed to go with Youying, then told his companions in the Party Voice Channel that the target had taken the bait.

Yang Xiu lured Youying into an ambush at the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, where the players defeated it and added it to Yang Xiu’s pets. After the capture, Qi Sheng decided to open a taxed pet market in the Trading House, turning player-to-player pet sales into a new source of revenue.

• Yang Xiu pretended to despair over his lost Moonshadow Race kin, persuading Youying to accompany him to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range in search of survivors.
• Yang Xiu led Youying through a spatial rift to a teleportation point where players had prepared an ambush and stabilized the surrounding space.
• Yang Xiu revealed the trap, and the players used taunts, chains, barriers, and coordinated attacks to overwhelm Youying until it entered a near-death state.
• Yang Xiu applied a control mark and obtained Divine Artifact · Youying as his ninth pet, while players planned to repeat the capture method and build a mutual-aid network.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the capture and decided to add a pet market to the Trading House, where players could trade pets through pet spaces and pay a five-percent tax.

Qi Sheng reviewed the expanding Pet Build community and its new trading systems before turning to Fate Throat’s plan to establish a Fate Gambling City on Dream Island. Fate Throat arrived to negotiate with A Lan and unexpectedly reunited with Ye Ming, who recognized the Fate Master from a pivotal gamble in the past.

• Pet Build players expanded their group hunts, while a Research Enthusiast created the Myriad Spirits Contract to catalog pets and organize captures.
• Qi Sheng launched a pet market restricted to players with Control Life Soul, making pet trading easier and boosting newcomers’ hunting and sacrificial power production.
• Fate Throat secured startup funds and began negotiating with A Lan to establish a Fate Gambling City on Dream Island.
• Ye Ming asked A Lan for discounted resources to support the Mingwu Race’s war, but A Lan refused and argued that both sides benefited from their trade partnership.
• Fate Throat arrived during the negotiations, identified himself to Ye Ming, and reminded him of their past Equivalent Gamble, prompting Ye Ming to recognize and respectfully greet him.

Ye Ming left as Fate Throat and A Lan discussed plans for establishing Fate Gambling City on Dream Island. A Lan proposed building its audience through entertainment and player-supported services, and Fate Throat agreed to pursue a partnership with the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.

• Ye Ming respectfully departed after Fate Throat arrived to speak with A Lan.
• Fate Throat proposed establishing Fate Gambling City on Dream Island and using the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce's customer traffic to develop it.
• A Lan warned that players could visit but must not gamble, and suggested creating player jobs and services that would benefit the city without taking players' wealth.
• A Lan shared a plan to attract visitors with performances, free food and drinks, explanations, and prize draws before gradually introducing gambling.
• A Lan advised Fate Throat not to use luck-related Life Souls to alter gambling odds during the city's early growth, and Fate Throat accepted his advice.
• A Lan and Fate Throat shook hands and agreed to a successful partnership.

A Lan launched the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s player support plan, while Fate Throat studied how to develop Fate Gambling City and discovered that the Youlü Council’s Game Space rule could solve his gambling limitations. He began planning to seize that rule.

• A Lan posted a support plan offering funding and technical assistance to player projects that advanced the Player Faction, drawing widespread praise and applications.
• Fate Throat revised Fate Gambling City’s development plan and realized his quasi-rule imprint could not generate rule-derived energy from high-stakes wagers involving powerful rule tools.
• Fate Throat considered strengthening his imprint by fusing it with another rule, but could not find a suitable solution in the Library or Player Forum.
• Fate Throat found an old forum post describing the Youlü Council’s Game Space rule, which generated energy through games and debt collection.
• Fate Throat decided the Game Space rule could complement his Fate Quasi-Rule and began planning to take it from the Youlü Council.

Fate Throat gathered sacrificial power and intelligence on the Youlü Council before infiltrating its game space as a captured creature. Using Guide’s analysis, he exposed the Council member You'ai’s cheating repeatedly and began claiming rewards, leaving You'ai stunned by his opponent’s confidence.

• Fate Throat threatened to cut off his clansmen’s internet unless they sent him sacrificial power, then asked Guide for updated information about the Youlü Council.
• Fate Throat learned that the Youlü Council’s game space was vulnerable and devised a plan to enter it as a captured creature.
• Fate Throat built a spatial teleportation array, disguised his aura as that of the Nether River Race, and entered the Youlü Council’s game space.
• Fate Throat faced You'ai in a series of games and correctly exposed his hidden rule traps, winning rewards each time.
• Fate Throat dropped his disguise, challenged You'ai to continue the game, and showed no fear of him.

Fate Throat dominated You'ai in a series of games, then deliberately let You'ai win enough rounds to claim victory and receive a Tribal Brand. You'ai suspected a trap and canceled the slaughter operation, while Fate Throat returned to the Colorful Mist Coast space and began planning a longer campaign against the Youlü Council.

• You'ai introduced a simulated war game, and Fate Throat used Brain Overclocking and Eagle-Headed Demon to read his cards and outmaneuver him before deliberately surrendering the round.
• Fate Throat threw the next four rounds as well, giving You'ai five wins and the match victory; You'ai killed him and formed a Tribal Brand.
• You'ai grew suspicious that Fate Throat had used the match to lure the Youlü Council into a trap, so he canceled the slaughter plan and had the Tribal Brand dismantled.
• Fate Throat reappeared at the Resurrection Teleport Point, learned from Guide that no Youlü Council members had followed him, and devised an attrition campaign using rotating Life Soul forms.
• Fate Throat ordered his tribesmen to gather in the Colorful Mist Coast space and threatened to cut off internet access for a week if they failed to arrive within two hours.

Fate Throat used disguised Fate Race players to lure Youlü Council slaughter squads into dangerous regions, then sent a spatial summons that brought elite Fate Race warriors to conquer the Game Space. After the warriors seized its rule, Fate Throat appeared and confronted Ming An over keeping it.

• Fate Throat sent 32 clanspeople into the Game Space to feign difficult wins and natural losses, causing Youlü Council members to disappear after being redirected by Tribal Brands.
• You Xuan investigated the missing squads, fled from the Lord of Bliss's projection, and was captured by the Champion Fighter at the Ancient God Arena.
• The Youlü Council detected the Fate Race players, strengthened its checks, and repeatedly closed the Game Space, but Fate Throat switched to Life Soul disguises and later sent a spatial signal to summon reinforcements.
• Thirty-nine Fate Race elites answered the summons, overwhelmed the Youlü Council, killed its leader, and seized the Game Space rule.
• Fate Throat appeared after the battle and challenged Ming An for holding the rule cube, leaving Ming An's triumph abruptly uncertain.

Fate Throat reunited with Ming An and the Fate Apostles, revealed that he had transcended his predetermined destiny by rebuilding his life around multiple compatible rules, and inspired Ming An to seek the same path. He then turned to the gathered clansmen for help funding his plans, asking about the resources they had saved.

• Ming An handed Fate Throat the game space rule, and Fate Throat explained that settling his clansmen in a Minor World had led him beyond fate’s predetermined course.
• Fate Throat demonstrated that he could transform into several different life forms, then let Ming An sense the five rule-level powers coexisting within his body.
• Ming An realized Fate Throat had become a rule-compatible entity and grew eager to follow his path.
• Fate Throat’s clansmen watched his revelation through a private livestream, celebrating his achievement and anticipating their own player qualifications.
• Fate Throat considered the costs of his plans and asked the thirty-nine clansmen whether they had saved up resources, admitting that he was strapped for resources.