Recaps

Star Network expanded his Freedom Particles, harvested monster life data, and used the swarm to seize first place in the Newbie Level-Up Event. He then asked Guide whether he could dismantle his player body and exist as a Runes Weapon, and Guide recognized that he wanted to build a body from Freedom Particles.

• Star Network increased his Freedom Particles to 1,233 and began collecting detailed Life Structure samples from monsters in the Wild Sand Ancient Road.
• Star Network dissected a prison worm and replicated its regeneration abilities, then captured and cataloged an Eagle-Headed Demon's life data.
• Star Network used his particles to hunt continuously, and ID 11111 overtook the leaderboard while players and the Fate Race struggled to explain his rise.
• Star Network optimized his particle attacks through real-time scanning and kill feedback as he widened his lead with five days remaining in the event.
• Star Network asked Guide whether he could exist as a Runes Weapon while retaining his star meridian functions, and Guide identified his plan to build a body from freedom particles.

Star Network consulted Guide about transforming the Freedom Legion into a collective consciousness, then won the Newbie Level-Up Event and became the focus of Forum speculation and admiration. He ended the chapter by asking A Lan to buy a Rule Framework and transfer 2.1 billion Sacrificial Power, but A Lan refused.

• Star Network asked Guide how to make every Freedom Particle an independent Player Body, and Guide explained that rebuilding the Star Meridian would let his origin consciousness transfer between surviving particles at a steep cost.
• Star Network hunted monsters across an oasis while envisioning a legion of countless particles, then secured first place in the Newbie Level-Up Event ahead of Don't Touch My Wangxian.
• White Streak in the Waves posted about meeting 11111, and Divine King argued that 11111 was the legendary No. 1, turning Forum accusations of cheating into widespread admiration.
• Star Network collected his ten million Sacrificial Power reward and messaged A Lan to buy the Rule Framework from Throat of Defying Fate and transfer him 2.1 billion Sacrificial Power.
• A Lan replied to Star Network's request with: "No way!"

A Lan decided whether to support Star Network, then gave him the 2.1 billion Sacrificial Power and Deathly Silence Rule Framework needed to reforge his Star Meridians. Star Network gained a million Freedom Particles, named his new combat form Little Black Mode, and set out to confront the Mechanical Overlord.

• A Lan refused Star Network’s request for 2.1 billion Sacrificial Power because he feared Star Network’s growing freedom could threaten the Eclipse Race.
• After receiving an important notification from reality, A Lan met Star Network, returned to the Game Pod, and sent him 2.1 billion Sacrificial Power.
• A Lan obtained the Deathly Silence Rule Framework from Fate Throat and sent it to Star Network.
• Guide used Emperor Zhao’s power and the Rule Framework to forge Star Network’s Cluster Star Meridian from 1,233 reforged Freedom Particles and one million more particles.
• Star Network tested his ability to disperse and reshape the Freedom Particles, then created monster forms and named his Freedom Legion mode Little Black Mode.
• Star Network departed across the sky to face the Mechanical Overlord and his Mechanical Legion.

The Star Network used his million Freedom Particles to destroy a Mechanical Legion stronghold, adapt its wreckage into new troops, and collect materials and data. After a video of his victory made him a sensation on the Forum, he began attacking another stronghold while considering how to make his particles grow by devouring resources.

• The Star Network attacked a mechanical city in the Land of Chasing the Sun, using his Freedom Particles to evade attacks, assume biological and mechanical troop forms, and defeat the Mechanical Legion.
• The Star Network collected the city's wreckage and data, bought the Qi Eater and Siphon Life Souls, and sent valuable materials to A Lan before departing for another stronghold.
• A five-person Player Squad recorded the battle, and the video identifying the Star Network as No. 1 spread across the Forum.
• Forum players debated the Freedom Particles, while a Research Enthusiast warned that their fine control was too difficult for others to imitate.
• The Star Network reached the Iron Skeleton Grounds and began another attack as lost particles revived and returned in batches; he considered giving them a devouring-based growth trait.

After the Iron Skeleton Grounds battle, Star Network researched ways to create a devouring rule and chose to build one himself rather than wait for a suitable existing rule. He traveled to Wavebreaker Island to study the Bori Tribe’s rule-making equipment, but the ruins were protected by a spatial seal, so he planned to seek help from the Evil Porcelain Alliance.

• Star Network salvaged the Iron Skeleton Grounds and added thirteen mechanical unit templates to his database, then asked Guide how to give freedom particles a devouring growth trait.
• Guide explained that the Dark Tide’s corrosive devouring could not be replicated with Star Network’s current resources, but an inferior devouring rule could help sustain him during prolonged battles.
• Star Network used freedom particles to research devouring rules in the Library while his main body continued attacking mechanical strongholds, then identified two possible ways to gain a devouring ability.
• Star Network chose to create a custom rule and traveled to Wavebreaker Island to examine the Bori Tribe’s rule-making equipment in its underground refuge.
• Star Network analyzed the spatial seal protecting the ruins, decided that breaking it directly risked destroying the equipment, and considered hiring the Evil Porcelain Alliance through the Quest Market.

Star Network proposed a two-way quest market so players could hire the Bully Alliance, then created the Quest Anchoring Plugin to standardize quest prices. He visited the Quest Market to meet Bully, where Evil Spirit Warriors recognized him as the Mysterious Commander.

• Star Network posted that players should be able to commission Evil Spirit Warriors to break seals, teleport, and handle other problems in exchange for suitable resources.
• After Forum players raised concerns about fair payment, Star Network used Game Workshop and 39.48 million records to create and test the Quest Anchoring Plugin, then released it for free.
• Star Network gathered his 18,233 freedom particles into a player body and went to the Quest Market in Di Family Village to seek Bully.
• Two Evil Spirit Warriors mocked Star Network’s small model until he demonstrated his freedom particles and asked them to tell Bully that an old friend was visiting.
• The Evil Spirit Warriors analyzed Star Network through their Auxiliary Eyes and recognized him as the Mysterious Commander from the Gigantification Domain Battle.

Di Nian Evil Spirit received a visit from Star Network, the Mysterious Commander, who asked for help opening a ruin and access to the Dark Tide’s Unit Library. Di Nian refused to reveal the Unit Library but cracked the ruin’s spatial seal for payment, leaving Star Network to enter and search for knowledge.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit destroyed a civilization stronghold in the Slaughter Crossing Vortex and received a report showing Star Network at the Quest Market.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit recognized Star Network as the Mysterious Commander and met with him at the Quest Market.
• Star Network asked Di Nian Evil Spirit to help open a ruin and let him examine the Dark Tide’s Unit Library; Di Nian refused the latter but agreed to help with the ruin.
• Star Network gave Di Nian Evil Spirit the coordinates for Wavebreaker Island, where they met at the underground ruin’s sealed entrance.
• Evil Eye analyzed and dismantled the spatial seal, and Star Network paid Di Nian Evil Spirit 2.55 million sacrificial power in pure crystals.
• After Di Nian Evil Spirit departed, Star Network transformed into freedom particles and entered the ruins.

Star Network explored the Duirizu ruins beneath Wavebreaker Island, uncovering how the civilization had risen, become trapped by a curse, and gone extinct. Using their records and technology, he devised a particle-based devouring structure and named the project the Devouring Insect.

• Star Network mapped the sealed ruins and reconstructed the Duirizu's history, including their failed Kindling Plan and extinction under the curse.
• Star Network identified the Rule Furnace, Framework Sacrificial Altar, and Guidance Channel, then sent freedom particles to study the facilities and technical records.
• Star Network analyzed the Duirizu's digestion-based devouring rule and considered how to adapt it for his own forces.
• Star Network designed a small insect-shaped structure in which each freedom particle could devour and digest matter upon contact.
• Star Network chose the Devouring Insect as the name for his future project.

Star Network launched a ten-front assault on the Mechanical Legion while upgrading the Quest Anchoring plugin to support shared teleportation flights. As the battles continued, Night Patrol LJ contacted him with information about the Tenth-Generation Primordial and proposed joining forces to defeat it.

• Star Network divided his ten million freedom particles into ten legions and sent them to attack Mechanical Legion strongholds across the Earthshaking Continent.
• A player proposed pooling passengers to split the cost of evil-spirit teleportation, and Star Network updated the Quest Anchoring plugin with flight booking and search features.
• Players began filling the plugin's listings with shared flights, making evil-spirit teleportation affordable for everyday travel.
• Star Network commanded simultaneous battles across ten fronts, using his Freedom Particles to dismantle and devour the Mechanical Legion's defenses and war machines.
• Night Patrol LJ messaged Star Network with intel on the Tenth-Generation Primordial and asked whether he wanted to team up to take it down.

The Star Network met Lin Ji after he offered information about Time, a tenth-generation primordial whose reversal ability had thwarted Lin Ji’s attempts to defeat it. After traveling to the ruins in Whistling Swamp and hearing Lin Ji’s account of their history, the Star Network abruptly asked whether Lin Ji had been reborn.

• The Star Network added Mental Shockwave to the Freedom Particles’ life souls and accepted Night Patrol LJ’s offer to discuss a tenth-generation primordial.
• Lin Ji explained that he had failed to defeat Time because it sensed emotional fluctuations and reversed events, then arranged to meet the Star Network.
• The Star Network met Lin Ji at Di Family Village, confirmed the Sealed Hourglass was genuine, and learned about Time and the ruin in Whistling Swamp.
• The Star Network and Lin Ji traveled to the swamp, reached the ruins above its poisonous mist, and Lin Ji described how Time had trapped the Deadly Poison Civilization’s treasury in a Semi-Independent Space.
• At the ladder leading deeper into the ruins, the Star Network asked Lin Ji whether he had been reborn.

Star Network deduced that Lin Ji had been reborn and learned how his future self had contained Time. Star Network and Lin Ji then entered the ruins, shattered Time's Reversal Domain, and contained the Tenth-Generation Primordial, earning a shared reward.

• Star Network confronted Lin Ji with evidence of his impossible growth, his knowledge of the ruins, and his familiarity with Star Network, leading Lin Ji to admit he was reborn.
• Lin Ji explained how his future memories described Star Network locating and attacking the weak point in Time's domain, and Star Network equipped Void Grip to repeat the attack.
• Lin Ji placed the Sealed Hourglass in the altar, opened the portal into the Semi-Independent Space, and invited Star Network to join his party.
• Star Network used Void Grip to shatter Time's Reversal Domain, then struck and destroyed Time's vortex form before Crimson Power compressed it into a Life Soul orb.
• The Containment Wall sealed Time in cell 487, and an all-channel notification awarded Player 11111 and Player Night Patrol LJ two incomplete Reversal Life Souls and 100 million Sacrificial Power.

Players erupted after No. 1 and Night Patrol LJ contained the Tenth-Generation Primordial Reversal, whose time domain could restore people and things to an earlier state. Lin Ji and Star Network socketed the Life Soul, and Star Network discovered that it could make Freedom Particles repeatedly revive before asking Guide about the missing time-rule trait.

• Players and Real World media reacted to the announcement that No. 1 and Night Patrol LJ had contained the Tenth-Generation Primordial Reversal, while forum users debated its strength and possible uses.
• Players learned that Reversal was unavailable for purchase, and top guilds offered Lin Ji large sums for his Life Soul.
• Lin Ji refused to sell Reversal and socketed it, instinctively forming a ten-meter temporal domain.
• Star Network socketed Reversal and tested the forum's proposed infinite potion and spending exploits, finding that they did not work.
• Star Network tested Reversal on Freedom Particles and found that he could give them multiple revivals, potentially creating an enduring army as his strength and recovery improved.
• Star Network asked Guide about the missing time-rule trait, and Guide said it could borrow the power of the future to face the present.

Star Network learned how Pass Through the Future could amplify his present strength and considered how it might combine with Reversal and Eternity in future rule-level wars. He then recruited 203 top guilds to support a coordinated campaign on the Earthshaking Continent, leaving the war scheduled to begin in three days.

• Guide explained that Pass Through the Future used Star Network’s current potential to borrow power from an extrapolated future, and that the ability consumed mental power or blood energy at a high rate.
• Star Network realized that using borrowed future power could create a positive feedback loop, while Eternity could potentially remove the endurance limit; he imagined future wars fought through collisions between supreme rules.
• Star Network contacted 203 top guilds and proposed joining forces to defeat the Mechanical Legion and Runes Legion on the Earthshaking Continent.
• The guild leaders and commanders joined a temporary command center, where Star Network outlined how his Freedom Particle Legion could provide shielding, healing, perception, weakness analysis, mental attacks, emergency Reversal, and assault support.
• Star Network ordered the guilds to provide member information and prepare for three days before launching an all-out clearing operation on the Earthshaking Continent.

The Star Network sent 208 top guilds to fight the Mechanical Legion and Virtual Runes Legion on the Earthshaking Continent, where the invading forces suffered heavy losses despite the Star Network’s support. At the Primordial Sacrificial Altar, Qi Sheng prepared an Ascension to Godhood System to help players grow into Divine Realm fighters.

• The 208 guild warbands began fighting across the Earthshaking Continent, and Sui Kong created a Plugin to track their earnings and war contributions.
• The Mechanical Overlord and Illusion detected the player invasion and launched counterattacks that eliminated five guilds within three hours.
• The Mechanical Overlord and Illusion targeted suspected commanders, while the Star Network protected warband leaders with Freedom Particles, shields, and Reversal.
• The Star Network used a Spirit-Gathering Grand Array to sustain its forces and planned to draw more players into a prolonged war.
• Qi Sheng decided to introduce the Ascension to Godhood System, which would let qualified players reincarnate repeatedly, combine their accumulated powers, and reach Divine Realm combat strength.

Qi Sheng captured Ascension to Godhood and launched a new system offering trials, reincarnation illusions, and star ring upgrades. Players reacted to the costly feature and began sharing build advice, while the Ascension to Godhood Stairway awaited its first challenger.

• Qi Sheng used the Primordial Sacrificial Altar to find and capture Ascension to Godhood, intending to use its life soul as the foundation for a new system.
• Qi Sheng created the Ascension to Godhood Stairway and related functional buildings in Emperor Tomb Village.
• Guide announced that the Ascension to godhood system was live, with paid trials, reincarnation illusions, and star ring upgrades.
• Players discussed the costs and requirements, while Nightfall Is Coming posted recommendations for choosing primary life souls.
• The Ascension to Godhood Stairway remained unused as players continued sharing guides and planning their builds.

After losing an Arena match because he rushed his attacks, Xiang Weisha entered the Apotheosis Trial to address his impatience. He defeated a monstrous black pig through patience and clever use of the surroundings, gained mental-state improvements, and ended the chapter debating whether to pay for Ascension Reincarnation.

• Xiang Weisha reflected on his loss to a defensive Warrior and entered the Ascension to Godhood Stairway to temper his impatience.
• Xiang Weisha paid to begin the first Apotheosis Trial stage, where he became an ordinary village butcher tasked with slaughtering a mutated black pig.
• Xiang Weisha repeatedly failed against the black pig before recognizing its difficulty stopping and turning during a charge.
• Xiang Weisha lured the black pig into a loose fence, wounded it with the butcher's knife, and killed it after using its momentum against it.
• Xiang Weisha completed the trial with an Excellent rating and received improvements to his combat focus, pacing control, and emotional stability.
• Xiang Weisha considered beginning Ascension Reincarnation but hesitated over its ten million Sacrificial Power cost.

Xiang Weisha spent ten million sacrificial power on reincarnation and began a new life in an age of declining Dharma, where he grew up learning ancient Jiaodi from his grandfather. After defending the family wrestling hall from a demolition crew, he remained there to train, knowing Scar would likely return for revenge.

• Xiang Weisha’s livestream fans crowdfunded his reincarnation, allowing him to pay ten million sacrificial power and enter the illusion.
• Xiang Weisha was born in a world where immortal cultivation had faded and technology had flourished, then lost his father and mother while still a young child.
• Xiang Weisha’s grandfather took him to Jiaodi Hall in Lime Alley, taught him wrestling, and made him promise to preserve the art before he died.
• Xiang Weisha trained for years, defeated challengers, and kept Jiaodi Hall running alone while working at a construction site.
• Scar arrived with an excavator and four thugs to force Xiang Weisha to sign away Jiaodi Hall, but Xiang Weisha threw all four men and defeated Scar.
• Scar withdrew with his men after threatening to return, and Xiang Weisha continued training at the hall.

Xiang Weisha defeated a veteran fighter in Lime Alley but was killed by the Black-Robed Man, whose bullet turned back and struck him. After his first Reincarnation life ended, he returned to the trial space with new combat skills and resolve, determined to face the gunman again.

• Xiang Weisha fought the stocky stranger with Jiaodi techniques and defeated him with the Backward-Leaning Explosive Throw.
• The stranger warned Xiang Weisha that stronger opponents were coming, then left his gun behind before departing.
• The Black-Robed Man challenged Xiang Weisha to see whether he or the gun was faster, and Xiang Weisha lunged as the man fired.
• The bullet grazed Xiang Weisha, then circled back and pierced the back of his skull, killing him before he could seize the gunman's wrist.
• Xiang Weisha received Reincarnation rewards, including Primordial Juedi's basic techniques, and awakened in the trial space with renewed resolve to try again.

After restarting the reincarnation illusion with his memories reset, Xiang Weisha defeated the black-robed man and learned from Zhao Hu that the Profound Yin Sect had destroyed the Jiaodi hall. He spent more than half a year training and hunting the sect’s forces, and the chapter ended as he faced an inner disciple and dozens of followers in the rain.

• Xiang Weisha used Jiaodi to kill the black-robed man, though he collapsed from his wounds afterward.
• Zhao Hu treated Xiang Weisha and revealed that he had studied under Xiang Weisha’s grandfather and that the Profound Yin Sect controlled Shandu.
• Xiang Weisha returned to Lime Alley, found the Old Wrestling Hall reduced to ruins, and refused Zhao Hu’s offer to help him seek revenge.
• Xiang Weisha trained in an abandoned warehouse, hunted Shandu’s enforcers and the Profound Yin Sect’s peripheral disciples, and used spirit stones to temper his body.
• The Profound Yin Sect sent an inner disciple and dozens of peripheral disciples to encircle Xiang Weisha, who faced them alone among the ruins of Lime Alley.

Xiang Weisha completed his first lifetime in the Ascension Reincarnation, rising from a mortal avenger to the leader of Dragon's Roar and restoring Jiaodi Hall before dying in old age. He awakened in the Reincarnation challenge with his mastery of Jiaodi, changed mental state, and close-quarters instincts synchronizing with his original body.

• Xiang Weisha defeated the Profound Yin Sect's inner disciple and spent years fighting the sect, drawing the attention of Old Qin and the State Special Affairs Bureau.
• Xiang Weisha joined Old Qin to establish Dragon's Roar, learned systematic cultivation, and trained its members in Jiaodi and methods to resist supernatural cultivators.
• After Old Qin died, Xiang Weisha led Dragon's Roar against oppressive immortal sects, eventually destroying the Profound Yin Sect and helping bring peace to the land.
• Fifty years later, Xiang Weisha rebuilt Jiaodi Hall and died peacefully as his disciples and granddisciples practiced around him.
• Xiang Weisha completed the first lifetime of Ascension Reincarnation, and the Challenger Prompt began synchronizing his gains with his original body.

After mastering the Jiaodi Technique in the reincarnation illusion, Xiang Weisha returned to the Ancient God Arena and defeated Iron Wall to claim 28 wins. He immediately challenged for 29 wins and chose his former idol, Tian Beng, as his opponent.

• Xiang Weisha traveled to the Ancient God Arena and cleared the Death Arena and Glory Arena, reaching the Champion Arena with 27 wins.
• Xiang Weisha rejected the usual growth period for 28-win fighters and chose Iron Wall as his challenge opponent.
• Xiang Weisha used Jiaodi grappling, locks, and throws to overpower Iron Wall and kill him, earning 28 wins.
• Xiang Weisha immediately began the 29-win challenge and selected Tian Beng's statue as his opponent.

Xiang Weisha challenged the 29-win Champion Fighter Tian Beng and fought him for three hours, pushing his Battle Intent to its limits before dying in their final clash. The Ancient God revealed that Xiang Weisha would return because his path was rooted in repeated deaths.

• Xiang Weisha chose Tian Beng as his opponent, and Tian Beng appeared on the 29-win platform.
• Xiang Weisha used the Jiaodi Technique and Giant Python Slaughter Burst Technique against Tian Beng, while Battle Intent steadily increased his strength.
• After three hours of fighting, both Xiang Weisha and Tian Beng were badly wounded, but Tian Beng unleashed his full power and defeated Xiang Weisha in their final punch exchange.
• Tian Beng asked the Ancient God to preserve Xiang Weisha, but the Ancient God refused, and Xiang Weisha's body dissolved into crimson mist.
• The Ancient God told Tian Beng that Xiang Weisha would return, explaining that each death would deepen the roots of his path.

The Lord of Bliss launched a plan to harvest Elysium power by projecting inner demons into 238 supernatural minor worlds, using cultivators’ breakthroughs as recurring trials. He also reopened the Elysium Legion Test Field in the Huanman Wastes, where upgraded forces awaited the Player Race.

• The Lord of Bliss explained to Xie Yu how the Elysium Tribe’s earlier harvesting systems worked and introduced the inner demon system as a third approach.
• The Lord of Bliss outlined a tiered plan to target beings beginning at the Golden Core realm, allowing survivors to advance before facing stronger inner demon trials at later breakthroughs.
• The Lord of Bliss gave Xie Yu an origin-derived reflection inscription and assigned him and Evil Wind to conduct the minor-world tests and report their results.
• Xie Yu connected the reflection rule to himself and departed to begin the projection tests.
• The Lord of Bliss rebuilt the Elysium High Towers in the Huanman Wastes and released upgraded Elysium Frost Wraiths and Elysium Tribe warriors for the Legion Test Field.
• An all-channel prompt announced that the Elysium Training Camp had reopened.

A Le Training Camp reopened with an Absolute Tier entry requirement, upgraded Elysium Legion tactics, and a new Warband Honor Points feature intended to gather large-scale combat data. After four hours of fighting, the old Gatekeeper began Reflection ad time, and players discovered that temporary warbands could compete for a share of the ad revenue prize pool.

• Players across the Chat Channel-world celebrated A Le Training Camp’s reopening, and Guilds sent recruiters to scout promising newcomers.
• The Lord of Bliss raised the Training Camp’s entry threshold to Absolute Tier and activated the Elysium Legion’s automated combat formations.
• Players poured into the Phantom Spirit Wilderness and fought the Elysium Legion for four hours as the battlefield generated tactical data.
• The old Gatekeeper halted the fighting for Reflection ad time, and players enforced the stop rule by sending anyone who kept attacking to the Little Black Room.
• Iron Hammer I Don't Want Such a Long Name saw the Warband Honor Points System appear, showing that temporary warbands would share rewards based on their kill points and ranking.

A Le distributed Reflection Origin Crystals through a new Warband Points system that rewarded players for cooperation, prompting them to coordinate more closely in battle. Qi Sheng recognized that A Le’s training model was developing the Player Faction’s ability to fight as a unified force, and then turned his attention to the Against the Tide Training Camp.

• A Le awarded players Reflection Origin Crystals according to their warband performance, and a forum post explained the points, ad-revenue shares, and cooperation rules.
• After the ads ended, players charged the Elysium Legion and recruited teammates into larger warbands to earn more rewards.
• Players increasingly supported nearby strangers by healing, controlling enemies, rescuing allies, and coordinating their roles.
• A Le’s system gathered data for the Elysium Legion while training players to cooperate across warbands and guilds.
• Qi Sheng saw that A Le’s model advanced his vision for a coordinated Player Faction and decided the later Legion feature might be unnecessary.
• Qi Sheng observed the reopened A Le Training Camp and shifted his attention to the Against the Tide Training Camp.