Recaps

The Star Network met the Lord of Bliss on Dream Island, where the Elysium Tribe was establishing a home, and helped him understand how his persistence had changed his fate. After Heaven and Earth Roaming grew stronger, the Lord of Bliss agreed to take the Star Network to the remote Origin Primordial of Passing Through the Future.

• The Di Nian Evil Spirit used a special quest to recruit players to harass Po Hun’s High Tower, hoping to force Po Hun to withdraw from the Rift Valley battlefield.
• The Lord of Bliss watched the Elysium Tribe’s hall rise on Dream Island and welcomed the Star Network, who explained that the Higher-Dimensional God—not the Star Network—had granted him a new life and player status.
• The Lord of Bliss explained his ambition to keep climbing and his new understanding of freedom, while the Star Network argued that his persistence had helped create the opportunity to change his fate.
• The Lord of Bliss gained a deeper understanding of fate, and Heaven and Earth Roaming rose three pressure levels.
• The Star Network asked the Lord of Bliss to use Heaven and Earth Roaming to reach the Origin Primordial of Passing Through the Future, and the Lord of Bliss agreed.

Star Network and the Lord of Bliss crossed the Temporal Flower Sea by repeatedly adjusting their route and using Time Reversal to undo mistakes. They reached the colossal temporal flower where Pass Through the Future was hidden, and an illusory figure emerged from it.

• Star Network sensed the temporal flowers and guided the Lord of Bliss through their shifting positions while hiding among black particles on his body.
• When the Lord of Bliss touched a flower, Star Network reversed time and returned them to their starting point, then recalculated a safer route.
• As the flowers grew denser, Star Network used his freedom particles to adjust the Lord of Bliss’s posture and help him pass through the narrow gaps.
• Star Network and the Lord of Bliss cleared the Temporal Flower Sea and reached an empty realm centered on a colossal temporal flower.
• Star Network said Pass Through the Future was inside the flower, which bloomed and revealed an illusory figure.

Star Network battled Pass Through the Future, whose power shared the origin of his Reversal ability, and learned that the primordial’s immense power left it lonely and directionless. After Star Network taunted it into killing him, he revived and returned, offering Pass Through the Future another chance to devour him.

• Pass Through the Future emerged from the flower of time, and Star Network challenged it to determine which of them would lead their shared origin.
• Star Network and Pass Through the Future fought across the void, using Reversal and future power to counter each other’s attacks.
• Star Network saw Pass Through the Future’s past and recognized its loneliness, then told it how the Eclipse Race had become his family and given his life meaning.
• Pass Through the Future tried to view Star Network’s future but found it obscured, and feared that the being who created it had returned.
• Star Network pretended to surrender, and Pass Through the Future struck him with the Temporal Sequence Sword, seemingly killing him.
• The Lord of Bliss told Pass Through the Future that Star Network would return, and an hour later Star Network revived, teleported back, and challenged it to devour him again.

Star Network repeatedly challenged Pass Through the Future, proving that it could not devour his reversal origin and breaking down its belief that it had to dominate their unification. Pass Through the Future accepted their merger, and Star Network became the first Player in the Player Faction to wield a complete Tenth-Generation Primordial.

• Star Network returned to the Time Domain and let Pass Through the Future attack him, but its Time Blade still could not reach his reversal origin.
• Pass Through the Future questioned whether its goal of unification had any meaning if a greater power had returned, while the Lord of Bliss watched and waited for containment rewards.
• Star Network returned repeatedly, wearing down Pass Through the Future’s resolve, then offered to carry its future and share their power.
• Star Network explained that unification was not about dominance, but about their shared origin becoming whole, and Pass Through the Future chose to yield its power.
• Star Network merged with Pass Through the Future, creating a new Time Domain and earning a Challenger Prompt announcing his containment of a Tenth-Generation Primordial.

Star Network tested his upgraded time abilities, discovered their immense power and severe mental-energy cost, and abandoned the idea of hunting Eternity for now. Meanwhile, the Lord of Bliss planned a standardized food business for Dream Island before Explorer invited him to hunt Wonder Butterfly.

• Star Network tested Time-Slicing Slash and a temporal blade, finding that they could inflict devastating damage, including a potential kill against a Demigod Realm expert.
• Star Network borrowed power from projected future timelines through pass through the future, but exhausted his mental power within minutes.
• Star Network asked the Guide Water Orb for Eternity’s coordinates, learned Eternity was a Divine Fire Realm foe who was undying and conventionally uncontainable, and gave up on hunting him for now.
• After two days of testing, Star Network organized Time Reversal’s uses into damage, support, and enhancement, then prepared to resume hunting and growth.
• The Lord of Bliss devised a star-rating system, themed food zones, and a rent-and-sales model for Dream Island’s food district.
• Explorer sent the Lord of Bliss a friend request and invited him to hunt Wonder Butterfly, asking about his unrestricted teleportation ability.

The Lord of Bliss joined Explorer’s gathering of top Players to hear a plan for containing Wonder Butterfly, the elusive Origin Primordial that had evaded Players for years. Explorer organized a 364-person relay pursuit to exhaust its energy, and the assembled Players prepared to begin the hunt.

• The Lord of Bliss doubted he could catch Wonder Butterfly because its Space Leap far exceeded the range of his own teleportation, but he agreed to meet Explorer in Emperor Tomb Village.
• The Lord of Bliss traveled to the agreed channel and found more than a hundred renowned Players gathered, including Throat of Defying Fate, the Mist Legion Commander, Xiang Weisha, Pioneer, and Bricklayer.
• Emperor asked the Lord of Bliss how he located Origin Primordials and Rule Nodes, and he attributed his searches to an innate sensing trait before accepting her friend request.
• Explorer arrived and explained that he would lure Wonder Butterfly, mark it, and share its coordinates while 364 Players pursued it in solo relays, using Self-Dissolution to return to town after each escape.
• The Players approved Explorer’s rotation plan and teased him about his decade-long grudge against Wonder Butterfly as they prepared for the hunt.

Explorer returned to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to lure Wonder Butterfly into a coordinated hunt, but his old trauma left him frozen until Wonder Butterfly attacked and he marked it. The rotating pursuit drove the butterfly across the region, and the Lord of Bliss caught up and struck it with a powerful punch.

• More than 300 top players left for Bully Airport to prepare a continuous pursuit, while Explorer flew alone to the place where Wonder Butterfly had tormented him ten years earlier.
• Explorer lured Wonder Butterfly out, froze when it appeared, and was beaten until he regained his senses and placed a mark on it.
• Brother Rebirth and then Xue Kuanglan each intercepted Wonder Butterfly, but it escaped both attacks and fled as players continued the pursuit in rotation.
• The rotating hunters chased Wonder Butterfly from the mountains to the coastline, repeatedly forcing it to flee through new Spatial Rifts.
• At rotation number 23, the Lord of Bliss used teleportation to overtake Wonder Butterfly and punch it in the cheek, sending it flying.

The players’ rotating pursuit exhausted Wonder Butterfly after three hours of forcing it to use Space Leap. Xiang Weisha then trapped and killed it, leaving the faction ready to gain its Wind Control and Space Leap traits.

• The Lord of Bliss used teleportation to strike Wonder Butterfly, but it escaped across regions with Space Leap.
• I Have a Little Wooden Sword and other top players joined the relay pursuit, forcing Wonder Butterfly to keep fleeing and draining its energy.
• Throat of Defying Fate tore open spatial rifts to pursue Wonder Butterfly, but could not catch up with its zero-delay Space Leap.
• After three hours of relentless pursuit, Wonder Butterfly’s origin energy ran out and it could no longer escape.
• Xiang Weisha trapped Wonder Butterfly in Oath Space and killed it with a sequence of close-combat attacks.
• Players celebrated Wonder Butterfly’s death as its Wind Control and Space Leap traits became available for containment.

Qi Sheng contained Wonder Butterfly and created the Wind Control and Space Leap life souls, while players discussed how to use them and their potential. He recognized that Space Leap would transform exploration and warfare, then turned his attention to Little Mage in the Illusory Flower Plains.

• Qi Sheng contained Wonder Butterfly and formed the fourth-generation Wind Control and eighth-generation Space Leap life souls from it.
• Nightfall Is Coming posted a detailed analysis describing Wind Control's broad uses and Space Leap's enormous potential, high energy cost, and need for careful practice.
• Players debated the new life souls on the forum, including how Wind Control could pair with Qi Eater and how Space Leap could change travel and combat.
• Qi Sheng concluded that players could overcome Space Leap's current limitations through study, practice, or Yan Ming's Blessing.
• Qi Sheng considered how Space Leap would improve exploration, battlefield reinforcements, and military tactics across the Player Faction.
• Qi Sheng looked through spatial barriers toward Little Mage in the Illusory Flower Plains.

Little Mage ruled the Spirit Breath city-state and planned to bind his people more closely to the Player Faction by earning the Players’ trust. He resolved to develop original ways to support Players, but still needed to discover what they valued most.

• Qi Sheng surveyed the Spirit Breath city-state, where Spirit Breath clanspeople produced food, tools, and military supplies for Players.
• Little Mage received reports on the city-state’s progress and learned that its Independent Space project needed more Kongyuan Stones and other spatial materials.
• Little Mage reflected on the Lord of Bliss’s long-term leadership and concluded that the Spirit Breath Race needed the Player Faction’s protection to overcome its limitations.
• Little Mage recognized that Players benefited from Spirit Breath supplies but did not consider the Spirit Breath Race one of their own.
• Little Mage decided to follow the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s example by giving back to Players and gradually improving his people’s reputation.
• Little Mage rejected directly handing out money or copying the Chamber’s programs and turned to the Forum to learn what Players cared about.

Little Mage designed a lavish Space Leap Competition to improve players’ skills and rebuild goodwill between the Player Faction and the Spirit Breath Race. As preparations began, he reaffirmed that the Spirit Breath Race and the responsibility he bore for it were real to him, regardless of whether the world was virtual.

• Little Mage found inspiration in the Player Faction’s popular Hiking Competitions and devised a Space Leap race from Glazed Lake Shore to Broken Cloud Ancient Pass, with one hundred checkpoints and livestreaming rules.
• Little Mage planned a three-hundred-million-Sacrificial-Power prize pool and rewards for every player who completed the race.
• Little Mage summoned the Spirit Breath Race’s leaders and ordered them to organize the competition and build two thousand supply points along the route.
• Little Mage instructed the leaders to provide free food, drinks, and basic supplies, rejecting concerns that the projected cost exceeded two billion Blood Crystals.
• Little Mage envisioned the competition becoming an annual tradition that would gradually restore the Spirit Breath Race’s reputation and strengthen its ties with players.
• Little Mage recalled telling Yang Xiu that the reality of a world mattered less than the experiences and responsibilities a person embraced.

Little Mage created the Spirit Breath Gala plugin to register competitors and enforce the rules of the first all-player Space Leap Competition, then opened the race at Glazed Glass Lake. The competition began in chaos, though some players improved quickly, especially those whose Yan Ming's Blessing had sharpened their spatial perception.

• Little Mage built and tested the Spirit Breath Gala plugin, which recorded registrations, checkpoint progress, livestreams, life soul use, and energy consumption.
• Little Mage announced the competition and its three-hundred-million-sacrificial-power prize pool; more than eight million players registered within a day.
• Players gathered at Glazed Glass Lake, where Little Mage appeared as a Flowing Shadow Clone and announced the ten-minute countdown.
• Little Mage declared the competition open, and players immediately overshot checkpoints, plunged into the lake, collided, fell from cliffs, and got distracted by monsters or supply stations.
• Players who had chosen Yan Ming's Blessing improved their Space Leap precision faster because the blessing had strengthened their spatial perception.

The Space Leap Competition crowned Loved Spatial Spells Since Childhood, whose years of study had prepared him to master the course, while Little Mage used the event to apologize for past tragedies and compensate the victims. As players’ hostility toward Little Mage eased, Qi Sheng watched a new invasion event begin at the Dark Tide Rift above Earth’s Arctic.

• Loved Spatial Spells Since Childhood won the Space Leap Competition after years of studying spatial theory and mastering Yan Ming’s blessing.
• Little Mage paid the champion’s prize and published an apology explaining how amnesia and a failed compensation effort had led to past tragedies, then promised 100,000 Sacrificial Power to each of 9,238 victims.
• Players responded with a mix of forgiveness, acceptance, jokes, and lingering resentment, while Little Mage felt his reputation beginning to recover.
• Qi Sheng concluded that Little Mage’s competition and compensation were helping clear the way for his eventual return to the Player Faction.
• Qi Sheng saw the Dark Tide Rift above Earth’s Arctic fluctuate violently as a new invasion event approached.

Qi Sheng observed the Dark Tide preparing to invade Earth while its forces reinforced the fallen Purple Ember Continent. As the battle in Rift Valley neared its end, Broken Star received a warning that the invasion was imminent, left the battlefield, and went out into the Arctic snow to face the growing Rift.

• Qi Sheng saw a joint Dark Tide legion depart for Monster World and learned that the Tadu Legion planned to invade the Pale Continent from the Purple Ember Continent.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit explained how he had used player quests to force twelve rebellious Apostles to withdraw from Rift Valley and surrender part of their war resources.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye discussed manipulating the battle and planned to let players capture a resource node so the Dark Tide could withdraw from Rift Valley.
• Broken Star led the Damage-Soaking Group in the closing battle until a challenger prompt warned that the Dark Tide was about to invade reality, prompting him to log off.
• At the Arctic Monitoring Station, Broken Star saw that the Rift above the Arctic was close to becoming a stable passage, then stepped into the blizzard to confront the approaching threat.

Broken Star fought the Dark Tide at the Arctic rift, pushed through its army, and challenged the Apostle Level evil spirit Gui Yan. After Gui Yan recognized him as a Heavenly Mandate, Broken Star’s perfected rule power and taunt trait let him disrupt Gui Yan and land a series of heavy blows, leaving the battle ongoing.

• Broken Star strengthened himself with Crimson Gang Qi and held back the Dark Tide’s lesser evil spirits with relentless punches.
• As the tide grew stronger, Broken Star charged toward the rift, killed the larger evil spirits in his path, and blocked the breach’s exit.
• Broken Star used blood soul lure to gather high-ranking evil spirits, endured their attacks in petrified form, and released the accumulated force to clear the black fog.
• Gui Yan appeared at the rift, recognized Broken Star as a Heavenly Mandate, and prepared to devour his world power.
• Broken Star clashed with Gui Yan, whose black fog failed to devour his perfected rule power; Broken Star then used taunt to disrupt Gui Yan and struck it with repeated punches.

Broken Star defeated Gui Yan after activating Evil Beast Form, but a Monarch killed him as he approached the rift's exit. Time then rewound the battlefield, restoring Broken Star and destroying the Qiongmo Monarch with Time Runes.

• Gui Yan summoned Kui Eye to shield it from Broken Star's emotional interference and analyze his fighting rhythm.
• Broken Star pierced Gui Yan with an accumulated punch, then activated Evil Beast Form and overwhelmed it in close combat.
• Broken Star used his remaining vitality to unleash a final blow that destroyed Gui Yan, and Universal Extraction prevented its revival while the Glutton trait restored his vitality.
• As Broken Star left the passage, a Monarch appeared and killed him with a single attack; Analysis identified it as Dark Tide Yan, while it was called the Qiongmo Monarch later.
• Time reversed the battlefield, restoring Broken Star, and a vast net of Time Runes disintegrated the Qiongmo Monarch.

The Star Network confirmed that Players could not respawn if they died in the real world, then planned projects to strengthen Earth against the Dark Tide. Broken Star returned to the Monster World after the Arctic Monitoring Station was rebuilt, where a puzzling exchange with the Star Network left him wondering why it had messaged him during the battle.

• The Star Network revived Broken Star after the Qiong Demon Monarch killed him, erased the Monarch, and confirmed that Players had no real-world respawn.
• The Star Network planned a global spiritual-energy network and pollution-removal formation, assigning the Fate Race to carry out the project.
• The Star Network sent Engineering Warships to repair the Arctic icefield and rebuild the monitoring station, restoring Broken Star's Game Pod.
• Broken Star teased Xiao A, entered the Game Pod, and respawned at Di Family Village in the Monster World.
• Broken Star replied to the Star Network's earlier messages, and the Star Network said it no longer needed anything.

Fengyue Buque Zhenbian Ren reminisced about his long friendship with Five Minutes, only to learn that the tragic story he had imagined about his boss’s departure from Darklands was simply a tale of grinding fatigue. Their lakeside fishing then yielded a rare passive Origin Primordial, but a huge lake monster swallowed it and snapped their line, sending both men into a furious underwater pursuit.

• Fengyue Buque Zhenbian Ren recalled how Five Minutes had recruited him in Darklands, awarded him prized equipment, and disappeared after their intensive instance runs.
• Fengyue asked whether Five Minutes had faced a sixty percent chance of surviving surgery, and Five Minutes clarified that he had meant their chance of clearing an instance before quitting because he was tired of grinding.
• Five Minutes hooked a strange creature while fishing, and Fengyue identified it as Lightning Lure, a powerful passive Origin Primordial trait.
• A huge lake monster swallowed Lightning Lure and snapped the fishing line before Five Minutes could claim it.
• Fengyue and Five Minutes plunged into the lake, determined to hunt down the monster and reclaim the Origin Primordial.

Feng Yue and Five Minutes killed the Lightning Lure after it swallowed the Origin Primordial they had hooked, earning a containment achievement. While leaving Heavenwave Lake, they discovered an ancient underwater city containing a rare Rule Node called Linked Contract, and prepared to explore it.

• Feng Yue and Five Minutes pursued the giant lake beast, using their coordinated attacks to wound it until the Challenger Prompt confirmed they had contained Lightning Lure inside its stomach.
• The two continued chasing the battered beast into the lake’s dark depths, where Feng Yue’s marked arrows and Five Minutes’s spear finally killed it and secured the hunt rewards.
• As they rose toward the surface, Feng Yue spotted a faint glow beneath a fault and used Spirit Eyes to reveal an ancient city filled with warrior statues.
• Feng Yue and Five Minutes headed toward the city’s south gate, planning to search the ruins for treasure.
• A Challenger Prompt revealed the rare Rule Node Linked Contract, leaving Feng Yue and Five Minutes excited to claim a historic achievement.

Feng Yue and Five Minutes explored an underwater ancient city, found its Linked Contract Rule Node, and accidentally awakened a citywide battle formation that killed them. After reviving, they searched the Library and Forum for a way to break the formation, discovering the city and the Darkspawn Legion were tied to the Darkspawn Race.

• Feng Yue and Five Minutes scavenged the city's outer ruins, finding valuable Moon Marrow Spirit Crystals and a spiritual weapon in an abandoned forge.
• The pair reached the central Sacrificial Altar and identified it as the vessel for the Linked Contract Rule Node.
• Five Minutes stepped forward and awakened the city's battle puppets, which linked their power through a Unity formation and overwhelmed the pair.
• Feng Yue and Five Minutes died in the formation's attack, revived at Emperor Tomb Village, and decided to research how to dismantle it.
• At the Library and on the Forum, Feng Yue found that the ancient city's civilization and the Darkspawn Legion in Principal's hands were branches of the Darkspawn Race.

Feng Yue sought help on the Forum to break the Darkborn War Puppets’ formation, but a research enthusiast traced the puppets to the Dark Helmet Lineage and exposed the Bonding Rule Node’s location. Feng Yue and Five Minutes discovered the post after other players had begun mobilizing toward Heavenwave Lake.

• Feng Yue asked Forum users for advice on breaking the linked war puppet formation guarding the territory node.
• Du Shu Po Wan Juan identified Feng Yue from his post and traced the puppets’ history to An Kui’s Dark Helmet Lineage, explaining how the clan built its puppet system to imitate the node’s rule fluctuations.
• Du Shu Po Wan Juan revealed that the node was the Bonding Rule Node in Heavenwave Lake and shared its coordinates, prompting players to organize a rush to claim it.
• Feng Yue and Five Minutes read the practical formation-breaking advice on their help post and prepared to return to Heavenwave Lake.
• Feng Yue followed a comment’s link to Du Shu Po Wan Juan’s post, saw that it had exposed their discovery, and angrily called the researcher a beast.

Players rapidly contained the Linked Contract Rule Node at Heavenwave Lake, and a detailed forum review revealed how the new system could transform legion warfare. At Colorful Mist Coast, Principal considered a campaign to collect Reincarnation Fragments, just as the player holding one sent him a friend request.

• Players descended on Heavenwave Lake, stripped An Kui's underwater city of its resources, and contained the Linked Contract Rule Node within an hour.
• A golden-hand Functional Building appeared near Di Family Village, and Nightfall Is Coming explained Linked Contract's intimacy-based bonuses, shared damage, and resonant attacks.
• A hundred-warrior squad's combat video demonstrated how Linked Contract could amplify ordinary attacks into devastating legion strikes, drawing major guilds into intimacy grinding.
• At Colorful Mist Coast, Principal admitted he still wanted the Reincarnation Fragment and began planning campaigns to seize fragments held by the Darkspawn Race.
• Principal received a friend request from First-Class Backing-Out Performer, the player he believed held the Reincarnation Fragment.

Principal negotiated the purchase of an incomplete reincarnation rules fragment for fifteen million sacrificial power and fused it into the Darkspawn Legion, strengthening its rules and raising his life soul to level 513. With an expedition planned, he asked the Kindergarten Squad to fund intelligence gathering on other Darkborn remnants.

• Principal offered Retired Drum Player fifteen million sacrificial power for the reincarnation fragment, and Retired Drum Player accepted after failing to find another interested buyer.
• Principal and the Kindergarten Squad planned to search for more reincarnation fragments and reorganized their combat roles around supporting the Darkspawn Legion.
• Principal traded fifteen million sacrificial power to Retired Drum Player for the incomplete reincarnation rules fragment at the Colorful Mist Coast.
• Guide fused the fragment into Principal's Darkspawn Legion life soul, expanding the reincarnation shop, adding 6.95 million Darkborn seeds, and raising Principal's life soul to level 513.
• Principal asked the Kindergarten Squad to lend him sacrificial power to buy intelligence on Darkborn remnants, and they answered with teasing banter.

The Kindergarten Squad and their Darkspawn Legion conquered the Spirit-Fusion Clan’s city and obtained the Reincarnation Rules Fragment. After Lingtong fell defending his people, Principal declared the fourth expedition stop complete and prepared the group to move on.

• Principal led the Kindergarten Squad to the Spirit-Fusion Clan’s city and summoned tens of millions of Darkspawn Warriors to attack it.
• Iron Hammer broke through the city barrier while the brothers’ buffs, curses, and battlefield tactics overwhelmed the defenders and Fierce Beasts.
• The squad rolled for stat multipliers, and Black Ball won a 278-fold boost before using Plague Poem to devastate the city’s defenders.
• Lingtong accepted the clan’s defeat, gathered the city’s remaining energy, and charged into Black Ball’s black fog, where he died.
• The Darkspawn Legion finished conquering the city, and the squad found the underground treasury and took the Reincarnation Rules Fragment.
• Principal announced that the fourth stop was complete and told the brothers to tally the spoils before heading to the next stop.

Over three years, the Kindergarten Squad collected Reincarnation Fragments, strengthened their fighting force, and endured both victories and difficult battles across Monster World. After celebrating Drunken Milk and Vertical Split’s wedding, Principal and the brothers set off for the third Spirit Breath Competition as their expedition continued.

• The Kindergarten Squad encountered Shen'ai, a supreme expert from the accelerated minor world, and Iron Hammer shattered his defenses with one punch before the group left him alive.
• The squad fought the Rock God Race for several days, retreating under pressure before temporary enhancement potions helped them escape, and also overwhelmed weaker civilizations during their campaign.
• Principal and Guide fused dozens of Reincarnation Rule Fragments into the Darkspawn Legion Life Soul, while Principal’s composite life soul rose from level 513 to 602.
• The Kindergarten Squad held a wedding for Drunken Milk and Vertical Split, and Principal approved their marriage after jokingly asking whom they would prioritize in battle.
• Principal gave the newlyweds ten days off for a honeymoon, then asked the remaining brothers when they planned to marry, prompting more teasing and banter.
• The brothers chose to attend Little Mage’s third Spirit Breath Competition and used Self-Dissolution to return to the Village.