Recaps

After Di Nian Bully opened five spatial rifts and brought the Insect Race Army to aid the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, A Lan’s forces launched a counterattack against the five invading factions’ homelands. The chapter ended with A Lan watching the plunder and destruction, confident that the battle had established the chamber and Player Race as powers others would fear provoking.

• A Lan chose to seek Di Nian Bully’s help rather than accept defeat, and Di Nian Bully arrived with the Insect Race Army.
• The warband commanders ordered each force to attack through one of the five spatial rifts, and the players, Dark Tide, and Insect Race split into assaulting torrents.
• The Three Calamities at the Village Entrance invaded the Demonkin’s Molten Iron Island, Skyspine Featherfolk’s Cloud-Howling Sky Island, and Defiled Forest Witches’ Whispering Island Forest, plundering their territories as Ji Lie engaged three Featherfolk demigods.
• The forces stormed the Frostbane Clan’s Eternal Frost Hall and the Emberbone Tribe’s Burning Bone Island, while the Insect Race adapted to the heat and the Dark Tide deployed fire-resistant units.
• A Lan watched reports of the five invasions and concluded that the battle had made other powers wary of provoking the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.

The counteroffensive ended with the five sea-region factions badly weakened and the Player Faction enriched, while Qi Sheng judged the war a minor skirmish rather than a true crisis. After studying the Player Legion’s command inefficiencies, the Divine King resolved to step away from command and pursue a breakthrough in the Di Family Village Library.

• The counteroffensive ended after five days, forcing the Frostbane Clan to abandon its territory while the other factions retreated to recover and the Skyspine Featherfolk survived after killing Ji Lie.
• Players looted the five great sea regions, flooding the Trading House with unfamiliar goods and driving a surge of activity across the Player Faction.
• A Lan managed the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s postwar business as Qi Sheng reviewed the campaign’s data and concluded that the invasion had not threatened the Player Faction’s foundations.
• The Divine King studied Dimension War Theory and identified command unity as a weakness separating the Player Legion from the Insect Race and the Dark Tide.
• The Divine King decided to leave the United Warband’s command and immerse himself in the Di Family Village Library to improve his abilities as a commander.

Divine King read the history of the Undying Race, whose attempts to combine biological knowledge storage with a mechanical network ended in defeat, and learned how the Dreamweaver Civilization inherited and transformed their work. Inspired by the account, he considered combining his reflection rule with the pressure system to improve how he coordinated his Warband, and ended the chapter believing he had found a promising path.

• Divine King studied how Immortal King Kui developed dream-based simulations into biological bio-brain technology and how the Undying Race stored knowledge in source chains.
• The Undying Race’s source-chain knowledge became isolated across bloodlines, prompting the 32nd Generation Immortal King to pursue an Integration Plan involving interconnection, shared databases, and mechanical networks.
• A martial arts civilization defeated the Undying Race before its mechanical-biological fusion could be completed, and the last Immortal King entrusted its Fusion Crystal to the invaders’ leader.
• The martial arts civilization inherited dreamweaving technology, developed dream sharing, and became the Dreamweaver Civilization, which later entrusted its legacy to Tu Hu.
• Divine King connected the Undying Race’s attempt to integrate systems with his own problem and considered combining the reflection rule with the pressure system to coordinate his Warband.

Divine King realized he could combine the Pressure System with the Star Meridian System’s reflection rule to share tactical emotions and coordinate the Warband. After activating Quiet Bewilderment Pressure, he found its limited range made large-scale command prohibitively expensive, and his attempts to buy rule seeds ended in refusal.

• Divine King studied the Undying Race’s isolated knowledge system and Explorer’s use of Cowardly Pressure to share emotions, then conceived an emotional command method for the Warband.
• Guide confirmed that pressure could directly transmit emotions without players’ memories distorting them, and Divine King activated Quiet Bewilderment Pressure through the Quiet Bewilderment Gate.
• Divine King spent seven million Sacrificial Power expanding his pressure coverage, but its roughly one-kilometer range proved inadequate for large-scale battles, while further upgrades threatened to consume the Warband’s resources.
• Divine King asked Guide about combining pressure with the Eagle-Headed Demon’s perception and learned that pressure would weaken across greater ranges unless it advanced into a rule.
• Divine King sought the Sword of Slaughter and Sword of Destruction as potential rule seeds, but the Mist Legion Commander and Little Mage refused to sell theirs.

Divine King searched for an emotion-compatible rule seed that could elevate his pressure system and found the Divine Artifact Rule, but he worried that Evil Sword could escape if the United Warband attacked. After hours of searching for a way to defeat a fleeing demigod, he discovered a gold-quality blessing card whose Divine Thought Projection might be powerful enough to kill one.

• Divine King asked Guide whether Throat of Defying Fate's Death Countdown rule framework could serve as a seed, but Guide warned that its logic clashed with the pressure system and would offer poor returns.
• Guide revealed that the Divine Artifact Rule was compatible with emotion, and Divine King researched the Divine Artifact Clan's split between the Heavenly Sword Lineage and the Evil Sword Lineage.
• Divine King realized that the United Warband's positive and negative emotions could nourish the Divine Artifact Rule, making it a promising framework for his pressure system.
• Divine King considered attacking the Divine Artifact Clan but concluded that Evil Sword could escape with the rule; he also rejected involving Di Nian Bully because he might seize it for himself.
• Divine King searched the Forum for ways to kill a demigod and found I Want Opportunities' post about a gold-quality Ultra-Dimensional Blessing-Divine Descent card that summoned a powerful projection for one minute.

Divine King bought the Four Gods’ golden God Descension Card for 12.2 million Sacrificial Power and assembled the Divine Hall Guild to prepare for war against the Divine Artifact Clan. He led 10,334 elite players into Artifact Valley, where his new Reflection-and-pressure command system coordinated their first assault with startling precision.

• Divine King recognized that the God Descension Card could let the Four Gods instantly kill Evil Sword, negotiated with I Want Opportunities, and bought the card for 12.2 million Sacrificial Power.
• Divine King summoned the Divine Hall Guild and told its members to prepare for a campaign against the Divine Artifact Clan.
• God's Left Hand persuaded Divine King to test his new command system with an elite vanguard before committing the full guild, and they selected 10,334 players.
• Three days later, Divine King led the vanguard through a Spatial Passage to Artifact Valley and began advancing toward the Divine Artifact Clan’s Spatial Vortex.
• When hundreds of scarlet weapons erupted from the vortex, Divine King used Reflection and coercive pressure to coordinate the warband’s defenses and counterattacks, confirming that his new command system worked.

Divine King tested his reflection-and-pressure command system with a thirty-thousand-player warband and used it to drive the Divine Artifact Clan back. When Evil Sword returned to the battlefield with the Sword of Unity, Divine King activated a Blessing Card, summoning Ultra-Dimensional’s projection and overwhelming Evil Sword and his lineage with a crushing cognitive assault.

• Divine King coordinated the thirty-thousand-strong warband through Artifact Valley, using reflection and pressure to share battlefield awareness and synchronize their defenses and attacks.
• The warband advanced for three days as more Divine Artifact Clan members returned, and the United Warband’s other guilds joined the battle, forcing Divine King back to traditional command.
• Evil Sword escaped a spatial restriction in the Slumbering Abyss, reunited with Tao, and returned to Artifact Valley through a rift.
• Evil Sword gathered the remains of fallen clanspeople into the Sword of Unity and slashed it toward Divine King’s army.
• Divine King activated a Blessing Card, summoning Ultra-Dimensional’s projection, whose presence stalled the Sword of Unity and drove Evil Sword and the Evil Sword Lineage toward madness.

Ultra-Dimensional’s divine projection annihilated the Evil Sword Lineage and returned the Divine Artifact Rule to Divine King, while Qi Sheng noted the costly intervention and reduced the God Descension Card’s odds. The United Warband looted the clan’s Independent Space, where Divine King discovered a hidden teleportation array leading to the Divine Artifact Clan’s Homeworld and decided to investigate.

• Ultra-Dimensional’s Universal Extraction dismantled Evil Sword, his host Tao, and the entire Evil Sword Lineage, then gathered their essence and rule information.
• Divine King’s livestream viewers and the former demigods Fate Throat and Ye Ming witnessed the divine projection’s power and reacted with awe.
• The Divine Artifact Rule reformed and fell to Divine King, who caught it as the United Warband celebrated victory.
• Qi Sheng observed that the God Descension Card’s use had cost Ultra-Dimensional greatly, lowered its drop probability, and watched the United Warband enter Artifact Valley’s Spatial Vortex to plunder the clan’s territory.
• Divine King surveyed the Sword Burial Grand Formation as the players stripped the Independent Space of swords and valuables, then used Spirit Eyes to locate a concealed teleportation array.
• Divine King learned that the array connected to the Divine Artifact Clan’s Homeworld and decided to use it to investigate.

Divine King traveled to the Divine Artifact Clan's Homeworld, freed the Sheathkin from the mental shackles that bound them, and looted the supplies in the Buried Sword Abyss. He left the Sheathkin leader wondering what kind of world Divine King came from after telling him his strength would make him “a little girl” there.

• Divine King activated the Teleportation Array with the Divine Artifact Rule and traveled to the Ten-Thousand-Forged Spirit Realm.
• Divine King found a Sheathkin settlement and discovered that the Divine Artifact Clan had enslaved the Sheathkin and suppressed their intelligence.
• Divine King erased the rune binding the Sheathkin’s minds, freeing them from their soul shackles.
• The Sheathkin leader guided Divine King to the Buried Sword Abyss, where Divine King collected the clan’s reserve supplies.
• The Sheathkin leader asked how his strength compared to the world Divine King came from, and Divine King called him “a little girl” before departing.

Divine King finished looting the Divine Artifact Clan’s Homeworld, while players celebrated the haul and uncovered more hidden resources. Qi Sheng reviewed new Life Souls and projected possible futures, then used Emperor Zhao Origin to seize a reversing information stream tied to a Serpent of Time.

• Divine King emptied the final vault beneath the northern icebound rift, collected loot worth nearly 200 million Sacrificial Power, and returned through the Self-Dissolution Function.
• Players discussed Divine King’s victory and the Divine Artifact Clan’s records; Research Enthusiasts found three hidden Resource Points, which players looted after A Lan supplied free Teleportation Arrays.
• Qi Sheng added the new Deterioration and Fluctuation Barrier Life Souls to the database and decided to recruit one billion players.
• Qi Sheng asked Guide to project the future, then halted the costly process after seeing possible developments across the Player Faction’s regions.
• Qi Sheng used Emperor Zhao Origin and Sacrificial Power to grab a reversing information stream from the future, identifying it as a Serpent of Time.

After Monster World announced a massive new qualification draw, Lin Ji eagerly prepared with his parents and fellow cloud players. A falling platform nearly killed him, but he awoke in the hospital with memories of his future life as a Monster World player and learned the lottery would begin in seven hours and twenty-three minutes.

• The Monster World Official Website began a countdown to a new qualification distribution, prompting excitement across Earth.
• Lin Ji celebrated the announcement with his parents, Lin Guodong and Zhou Li, and discussed how they would support one another if they won access.
• Lin Ji met A-Ming, Lu Xiaoyu, and Tie Han at Player Park, where they analyzed beginner strategies and the expected rewards for the Newbie Ranking Event.
• A falling safety barrier struck Lin Ji on a skybridge, and he plunged into the Community Safety Net after suffering severe injuries.
• Lin Ji woke in the hospital and realized the memories flooding his mind belonged to his future self, who had won access, founded a Guild, and died in a factional confrontation.
• Lin Ji confirmed that he had returned before the qualification lottery, with seven hours and twenty-three minutes remaining, and vowed to avoid his past regrets.

After surviving an accident, Lin Ji returned home and anxiously awaited Monster World’s qualification draw, fearing that his time travel might alter the outcome. He secured a qualification, entered the game, and faced the choice of his starting Primordial Monster, where he began by questioning Guide Bro.

• Lin Ji reassured Lin Guodong and Zhou Li that his injuries were stable, then persuaded them to let him leave the hospital and return home.
• Lin Ji waited for the qualification draw, reminded his parents to apply, and worried that changes caused by his time travel might keep him from being selected.
• Lin Ji submitted his application and received a Monster World qualification, while his parents celebrated his success.
• Lin Ji told his parents he wanted to join the Newbie Rush Event, and Lin Guodong encouraged him to pursue his chance in the game.
• Lin Ji entered Monster World and surveyed the available First-Generation Primordials before asking Guide Bro whether it knew everything.

Lin Ji chose the Rager life soul and Crescent Moon Fishing Village as his starting build and map, then used his memories from a previous life to recover a valuable weapon from a shipwreck. After sacrificing it for 9,738 Sacrificial Power, he prepared to begin his accelerated rise.

• Lin Ji named himself Night Patrol LJ and chose the Rager as his initial life soul for its burst damage and survivability.
• Lin Ji selected Crescent Moon Fishing Village, a map he knew from his previous life, and arrived amid a crowd of new players.
• Lin Ji recalled that a broken weapon near the eastern reefs could be sacrificed for a large amount of Sacrificial Power and headed there without waiting for the tide.
• Lin Ji searched the cold water repeatedly until he found the wreck's keel and pulled the damaged sword free.
• Lin Ji sacrificed the sword, gained 9,738 Sacrificial Power, and sat on the reef ready to begin his plans.

Lin Ji fought through the Mist Swamp, claimed a Yin Water Spirit Pearl, and escaped a level 47 Swamp Lurker. While recovering, he recalled how Tourist No. 1 had once beaten Time by using its own memories to pass information across repeated reversals.

• Lin Ji killed six Mimic Water Lizards, checked the rankings, and collected materials before pressing deeper into the swamp.
• Lin Ji fought through stronger water lizards, found the Yin Water Spirit Pearl beside Rotfirefly Grass, and fled when a level 47 Swamp Lurker emerged.
• Lin Ji bought potions and rested, then remembered encountering the tenth-generation primordial Time in a past ruin expedition.
• Lin Ji recalled how players and guilds repeatedly failed to overcome Time’s reversal domain, which erased their attacks, memories, and records.
• Tourist No. 1 exploited Time’s responses to carry a clue between loops, identified the core node, and destroyed it with Void Grip.

With memories of his previous life guiding him, Lin Ji collected valuable early-game opportunities around Crescent Moon Fishing Village, then spent nearly all his Sacrificial Power upgrading his gear and combat build. He returned to the beginner map determined to reach first place within the four days remaining in the event.

• Lin Ji defeated Gear Monsters, Ghost-Faced Poison Bats, and Iron-Clawed Giant Lobsters to collect energy batteries, valuable metal, and Glow Sea-Soul Grass.
• Lin Ji stole a Wind-Raiding Thunder Roc Egg from its nest while the creature was away, then spent five days gathering more opportunities around Crescent Moon Fishing Village.
• Lin Ji went to Di Family Village, commissioned the Tyrant gauntlets and Prey hoverboard, and reshaped his Star Tendon build into a Frenzy Warrior setup.
• Lin Ji returned to Crescent Moon Fishing Village, saw that he had fallen to 23,482nd place, and flew toward a remembered monster-grinding area to pursue first place before the event ended.

Lin Ji slaughtered Rock-Capped Beasts in Soul Rift Valley and climbed from outside the top twenty thousand to second place in the Newbie Rush rankings. With the final eight hours approaching, Ming Shu unleashed his full power in the Storm Plains to defend first place, leaving the throne battle at its peak.

• Lin Ji fought through Soul Rift Valley, using his Tyrant build to destroy waves of Rock-Capped Beasts and gain experience.
• As Lin Ji's ranking surged from 23,482nd to 19th, forum players rediscovered him and began discussing his chances of taking first place.
• On the final day, Lin Ji reached second place behind Ming Shu, whose game ID was Dragon Sparrow, I'll Take the Seat Next Tournament.
• Ming Shu recalled his years of work for the Dragon Sparrow Fate Master and his preparation for the game, then resolved not to surrender first place to Night Watch.
• Ming Shu drank a Soul Torrent Potion and unleashed a huge Baleful Wind tornado to massacre monsters across the Storm Plains.
• Lin Ji and Ming Shu both pushed their hunting efficiency to its limit as the final ranking battle entered its decisive stage.

Lin Ji and Ming Shu risked everything in the final hours of the Newbie Rush, but Lin Ji overtook his rival and won first place. After the event, Ming Shu accepted his defeat while Lin Ji focused on pursuing the Hourglass of Time Sand, the key to the Tenth-Generation Primordial.

• Ming Shu swept the Storm Plains with an expanding Baleful Wind tornado while Lin Ji fought through Soul Rift Valley and attacked its powerful Magma Core Beasts to close the ranking gap.
• Lin Ji entered the Magma Core Cave, used three enhancement scrolls, and launched a final assault on the Magma Core Giant Beast as Ming Shu pushed toward the Thunderclap Mountain Range despite his potion backlash.
• Night Patrol LJ surged ahead in the final ten minutes, and the Newbie Rush ended with him at level 69.2 in first place and Dragon Sparrow, I'll Take the Seat Next Tournament at level 68.5 in second.
• Lin Ji celebrated winning the event after defeating the Magma Core Giant Beast, while Ming Shu accepted the loss and resolved to challenge him again in the future.
• Guilds sent recruitment offers to both players, but Ming Shu remained committed to Dragon Sparrow and Lin Ji declined to join a guild as he set his sights on finding the Hourglass of Time Sand.

Qi Sheng reviewed the latest recruitment wave, the player economy, and the evolving paths of player development, including the rise of plague curse builds and the Academy School’s progression through increasingly difficult battlefields. He then sensed that the Lord of Bliss was preparing a major update to legion mode.

• Qi Sheng reflected on the future memories he had given Lin Ji, who had taken first place on the Newbie Level-Rush leaderboard and was being prepared to contain the Tenth-Generation Primordial, Reversal.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the one billion new player qualifications, the growth of veteran-funded newcomers, the split between fund and striver factions, and the boom in Trading House transactions.
• New players experimented with Star Meridian combinations, while Deterioration and diffusion made plague curse builds a sought-after strategic specialty for guilds and warbands.
• Qi Sheng examined the Academy School’s stages, from A Le Training Camp through Adventurer World and Inscribed History Race Space to the punishing Di Family Mountains, where Di Nian Bully tested established warbands.
• Qi Sheng turned his attention to A Le Training Camp and learned through Guide’s monitoring that the Lord of Bliss was preparing a major version update for legion mode.

The Lord of Bliss sought a way to free the Elysium Legion from the limited range of its Beacon Towers and devised a seventh-generation network using branded Elysium Players as mobile relays. He decided to build the system around top-ranked Elysium Players Teams and test it in a more demanding battlefield.

• The Lord of Bliss reviewed the Elysium Legion’s coordinated fighting in the Phantom Spirit Wasteland while Xie Yu praised its performance.
• The Lord of Bliss recognized that the sixth-generation honeycomb network depended on Beacon Towers and could not maintain coordination beyond their signal range.
• He rejected giving every Elysium Legion unit an Elysium Brand because the cost would undermine the legion’s resource-recycling war model.
• The Lord of Bliss realized that branded Elysium Players could act as mobile Signal Towers, linking the Elysium Main Hall to nearby legion units across the battlefield.
• He designed a distributed combat system with the Elysium Main Hall as its core, elite Elysium Players as relays, and mass-produced Elysium Legion units as its execution force.
• The Lord of Bliss chose the top Elysium Players Teams on each Subspace Leaderboard for the system and resolved to test it in a higher-intensity war.

Yang Xiu and the Life Soul Squad tested the newly granted Legion Brand, summoning autonomous troops to complete a monster-hunting mission. After the test, they were ordered to teleport to the Glacier Warzone for a campaign against the Copper-Digging Tribe, leaving them with ten minutes before deployment.

• Yang Xiu and his squad received the Legion Brand, which let them spend Elysium Points to summon autonomous war units and triggered a mission to kill 1,000 monsters each within 72 hours.
• The squad summoned thousands of troops at Howling Valley, where the units coordinated their attacks and rapidly killed enough monsters to complete the mission.
• Yang Xiu ordered the troops reclaimed, recovering about sixty percent of their cost after the squad finished the test with points to spare.
• As Yang Xiu planned the squad’s next exploration, the Legion Brand announced their deployment to the Glacier Warzone to fight the Copper-Digging Tribe and began a ten-minute teleportation countdown.

Yang Xiu led the Life Soul Squad through a lethal Glacier Battlefield war, adapting their troop tactics to survive and finish fourteenth. After A Le summoned him to a purple realm, the Lord of Bliss recognized that Yang Xiu had a secret, putting his squad and subspace at risk.

• Yang Xiu and the Life Soul Squad arrived at the Glacier Battlefield, where the rules threatened erasure for every squad ranked 61st or lower and required them to fight the Copper-Digging Tribe for points.
• Yang Xiu ordered the Life Soul Squad to deploy troops, then adapted their unit mix and tactics as the battle progressed from the glacier into the Copper-Digging Tribe's city.
• A sniper attack gravely wounded Black Snake, Windbreaker, and Strength Savage, but Yang Xiu saved them with potions and shifted the squad to safer tactics.
• The Life Soul Squad finished fourteenth, while squads below the cutoff were erased; after the battlefield ended, Yang Xiu was transported to a purple realm instead of Death Space.
• The Lord of Bliss appeared as a thought projection, immobilized Yang Xiu, and told him that he had a secret.

The Lord of Bliss tortured Yang Xiu to learn where he had obtained the potions, then killed several of Yang Xiu’s teammates when he refused to answer. After Tourist No. 1 urged him to threaten A Le, Yang Xiu demanded that the dead be revived and warned that he would relentlessly sabotage the Lord of Bliss; his threat left A Le afraid.

• The Lord of Bliss questioned Yang Xiu about the foreign potions and searched his records, but Yang Xiu claimed he had found them in Monster World ruins.
• The Lord of Bliss forcibly searched Yang Xiu’s memories, encountered a mysterious gray mist around key memories, and withdrew before risking further contact.
• The Lord of Bliss resumed torturing Yang Xiu and brought in the Life Soul Squad to pressure him into revealing the potions’ source.
• When Yang Xiu remained silent, the Lord of Bliss killed Gang Qi, Stone Statue, and Eagle Head, leaving Yang Xiu devastated and enraged.
• Tourist No. 1 sent Yang Xiu advice to threaten A Le, and Yang Xiu demanded his teammates’ revival while threatening to haunt and undermine the Lord of Bliss.
• The Lord of Bliss realized Yang Xiu knew his true name and the hidden Elysium Legion, and became afraid of him.

Yang Xiu followed Tourist No. 1’s advice to persuade the Lord of Bliss to revive his teammates and expel the squad from Death Space. Although Yang Xiu promised to leave the Elysium system for good, the Lord of Bliss secretly planned to destroy and rebuild its entire system.

• The Lord of Bliss grew suspicious that Yang Xiu’s infiltration was connected to unexplained resource losses in Death Space and questioned who he was.
• Following Tourist No. 1’s guidance, Yang Xiu claimed he was an Experiencer seeking firsthand knowledge of the Elysium system and threatened lasting enmity if his teammates were not revived.
• The Lord of Bliss agreed to revive Gang Qi, Stone Statue, and Eagle Head on the condition that Yang Xiu and his anchors leave Death Space permanently.
• Yang Xiu accepted the terms, and the Lord of Bliss restored the three teammates before sending the Life Soul Squad back to Monster World.
• After returning, Yang Xiu thanked Tourist No. 1 while the squad stared at him in disbelief.
• The Lord of Bliss dismissed Yang Xiu’s promise as untrustworthy and began planning to reclaim and rebuild the Elysium Players, Death Space, the Elysium Legion, and its halls.

The Lord of Bliss reclaimed Death Space, the Phantom Spirit Wasteland A Le Training Camp, the Elysium Branch Halls, and the Main Hall, gathering the Elysium Tribe’s resources for a Great Purification. It chose to ascend to godhood by forging a new divine body around the Jile Rule and completed the transformation.

• The Lord of Bliss erased the Elysium Players and dismantled Death Space, reclaiming them as Elysium energy.
• The Lord of Bliss erased the battlefield and creatures in the Phantom Spirit Wasteland A Le Training Camp, leaving the players bewildered.
• The Lord of Bliss dismantled the Elysium Branch Halls and their inhabitants, then reclaimed the Main Hall while Xie Yu and the Twelve-Route Main Gods gathered beneath the altar.
• The Lord of Bliss shielded the Elysium clanspeople and decided that ascending to godhood was necessary to build a rule linkage system.
• The Lord of Bliss burned away its demigod body, fused the Jile Rule into a new rule skeleton, and ignited divine fire to form a divine body.
• The Lord of Bliss completed its ascension to godhood and opened its eyes, declaring, “Not difficult!”

After A Le abruptly shut down his training camp and Death Space, displaced players sought new ways to progress, while a five-hundred-person team cleared an instance against the odds. In the Barren Hills, Yang Xiu revealed his true circumstances to the Life Soul Squad, and they chose to stay with him despite the dangers ahead.

• A Le's demolition of his systems left players without their training camp, forced Death Space returns, and disrupted guild recruitment and planned growth paths.
• Unemployed players flocked to fishing, courier work, mining, and other pursuits, while progression teams began challenging instances above their level.
• A five-hundred-person team repeatedly wiped in Death Reincarnation but eventually defeated its final boss, inspiring more players to form progression teams.
• After hearing Yang Xiu's account, the Life Soul Squad realized he had entered Death Space voluntarily and had negotiated with the Evil God to free them.
• Yang Xiu explained that he came from a power in Monster World, affirmed his bonds with the squad, and asked whether they would continue with him.
• Black Snake pledged to follow Yang Xiu, and he confirmed that they were free before noting that the dangers ahead could surpass Death Space.