Arc 16Chapters 398–423
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Fate Throat sold the resources he had obtained from Ming An and his clansmen, then spent the proceeds fusing the Game Space Rule with his Fate Rules imprint to create and name the Special Life Soul Fate City. He arranged for Ming An’s group to complete an Earth optimization assessment with Ming Shu, but Ming Shu learned they planned to leave as soon as the test was over.
Qi Sheng reviewed the Player Faction’s regional development and planned to focus the next update on momentum, then received a report about the Earthshaking Coast. There, Ji Chen struggled to build a spatial formation so he could reach the Black Domain and search for Dragonkin, whom Guide confirmed was in the Monster World.
Ji Chen pursued spatial studies so he could reunite with Dragonkin, while leading his guild to capture the Earth Nest node and strengthen its members. After learning that Dragonkin’s people in Cinder Earth Canyon were under attack by the Devouring Race and suffering devastating losses, Ji Chen faced an urgent reason to reach them.
Ji Chen learned that Dragonkin’s Dragonwing Race faced near-certain defeat against the Devouring Race, and he sought a way to reach and save his old friend. A Lan arranged a Spatial Teleportation Array and gathered allied warbands, leaving Ji Chen ready to depart for the battlefield with their support.
The Dragonwing Race teetered on the brink of extinction as Dragonkin and the Great Dragon Lord fought the Devouring Race’s overwhelming assault. Ji Chen and the Player Legions arrived through a spatial rift, turned the battle around, and summoned colossal Battle Formation avatars to face the Devouring Race’s shadow-handed powerhouses.
Ji Chen reunited with Dragonkin and revealed that the Player Legion had come to rescue it, then showed the strength of their battle formations against the Devouring Dharma King. The players destroyed the enemy, and Ji Chen told Dragonkin that he and the Player Legion were the protagonists in this world.
After the battle, Dragonkin honored the fallen by rebuilding Dragon Court City’s wall with their remains, then reunited with Ji Chen, who revealed his twelve compatible rule-level powers and promised to help protect the Dragonwing Race. Ji Chen vanished after disclosing that the reunion had cost him his remaining lifespan under a Demon God contract, leaving Dragonkin alone while Ji Chen returned to Emperor Tomb Village.
Ji Chen prepared the Dragonwing Race for danger by buying protective supplies and studying urban defenses, while Bo Yan took shelter from a lightning disaster in an underground cavern and discovered an abandoned Teleportation Array leading to the Gold Rights Civilization. Bo Yan decided to risk activating it in hopes of finding a chance to strike it rich.
Bo Yan activated the abandoned Teleportation Array and arrived in Gold Power Space, where combat strength and cultivation were determined by wealth values and debt. After learning how the Gold Power Race manipulated the civilization’s competing factions, he was attacked by demonic cultivators and decided to test whether his Life Soul could overpower their rules.
Bo Yan exploited the Gold Power Rule’s inability to measure his infinite player value, harvesting the cultivators of Gold Power City until the Gold Power Race erased him and sealed its passages to Monster World. After Bo Yan posted his account on the Player Forum, A Lan recognized the rule’s potential for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce but decided to wait before confronting the Gold Power Race.
Fate Throat recognized the Player Forum as a way to build influence and posted a popular tutorial explaining how players could convert Mental Power into elemental energy. After readers questioned whether his techniques would work in real battles, he decided to demonstrate them in the Ancient God Arena.
Fate Throat bought Evolution Pills to strengthen himself, then stormed up the Ancient God Arena Ladder with twelve rapid victories and captivated the livestream audience. In his thirteenth match, Xinghuo Ye challenged his elemental mastery, and Fate Throat finally revealed that his real specialty was cheating as his life soul traits merged into a rule-level power.
Fate Throat defeated Xinghuo Ye to claim a record-breaking thirteenth victory, then won his fourteenth match against the melee fighter Nu Lu. He prepared to challenge for his fifteenth win, which would clear the Death Arena and advance him to the Glory Arena.
Fate Throat defeated Dread Thorn to win fifteen consecutive Death Arena matches, earning a place in the Glory Arena and discovering it stood atop a rule node. As he planned to grow strong enough to reach the node’s core, a Mechanical Legion arrived at Earth to retrieve the Source Core.
Core Brain recounted how it had transformed from Star Three into a militarized ruler and concluded that it had to absorb Source Core to complete its evolution. As Core Brain prepared to attack Earth, Star Network confronted it, and a silver-haired figure appeared in space with power beyond anything its forces could withstand.
Fate Throat devastated the Mechanical Legion, forcing Core Brain to surrender its legacy to Star Network and destroy itself. Star Network took control of the legion, and Fate Throat halted his attack when Star Network contacted him.
Qi Sheng launched the Pressure system and its training grounds, while the vanished invasion remained unexplained and the Eclipse Race announced that a returning branch had joined the Earth Alliance. Explorer entered the new trials hoping to disprove his reputation, but the assessment assigned him the Gate of Cowardice, leaving him humiliated before his livestream audience.
Explorer entered the Cowardice Gate, unlocked Cowardly Pressure at a steep compatibility discount, and used its concealment effects to clear 22 stages of the trial with an A rating and first place. Qi Sheng monitored the players' feedback and viewed the pressure system as a long-term path toward each player's unique rule-level power, complementing the Battle Formation System.
A Lan used the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s reputation to secure a preliminary trade deal with the Ascension Race, offering healing items, energy-restoration potions, and defensive equipment while refusing to sell military intelligence. As he prepared to arrange supplies, a special message asked him to investigate the other three branch lineages that fled the Homeworld and whether any had reached the Monster World.
A Lan learned the fates of the five Eclipse Race Branch Lineages and discovered that the surviving branch on Angry Eye Continent had been enslaved by the powerful Inscribed History Race. After arranging trade with the Ascension Race, he had Fate Throat build a long-distance Teleportation Array and set out to see his kin.
A Lan arrived in the Eclipse Race’s ruined independent space and learned that the Inscribed History Race had engineered its recurring disasters to turn the branch clanspeople’s struggle into recorded drama. After supplying food to survivors and reaching the High Wall, he saw the ongoing monster tide and considered exploiting the space’s recurring resources, but worried that doing so could expose and destroy the branch or Dream Island.
A Lan planned to turn the Inscribed History Race’s Civilization Spaces into dangerous, resource-rich instances for players and arranged a stable entrance through the Against the Tide Legion after Adventurer World rejected his teleportation array. He secured the Legion’s support, funded construction of a nested array, and announced unlimited high-price bounties that sparked a player gold rush.
Wulong's Rock Squad left Adventurer World for the Blood Color Heart in Civilization Space, where players overwhelmed the Demonfolk army. The Ironstone Race initially welcomed the newcomers as allies, but Stoneheart Battle General was nearly killed by a player, and the players continued slaughtering and looting without distinguishing friend from foe.
Civilization spaces became a wildly popular, rewarding battlefield where players farmed the Demonfolk Army until the Chronicle Keeper drove them out of Blood Color Heart. While tracing the spatial rift to punish the intruders, the Chronicle Keeper reached the Monster World’s Against the Tide 7th Battlefield, where a Soul Beast’s terrifying mental assault invaded its consciousness.
The Chronicle Keeper escaped a Soul Beast and chose to guard the Blood Color Heart space against parasites rather than risk provoking the Three Factions. Meanwhile, Qi Sheng assessed Civilization Space instances as a lucrative but temporary hunting ground for Players, while the Against the Tide Seven Battlefield offered better prospects for long-term development.