Recaps

Little Mage defended the Spirit Breath Race from the first wave of the Dark Tide, then charged into the rift and destroyed its frontline stronghold. He returned to the Spirit Breath Space as players arrived through Space Leap.

• Little Mage activated the city's Defense Barrier, sounded the war alarm, and ordered the Spirit Breath Race to prepare for the Dark Tide.
• Little Mage transformed into his Myriad Forms Super Beast Fusion Form and used the Sword of Destruction to erase the Evil Spirits pouring through the rift.
• Little Mage decided to attack the Dark Tide commanders, entered the rift, and found the Dark Tide Frontline Stronghold.
• A level 1018 Divine Realm Evil Spirit attacked Little Mage, who slew it and destroyed the stronghold with one strike.
• Little Mage returned to the Spirit Breath Space and saw players arriving through Space Leap.

Little Mage led the Spirit Breath Race away from their exposed homeland and endured months of migration beneath the expanding Great Evil Moon. When Dark Tide forces opened a rift before the refugees, he identified the Divine Realm Sai Shen and called the players for reinforcements as the confrontation began.

• Little Mage welcomed the players who arrived to help after he had already defeated the first Evil Spirits attack, then thanked them with a feast.
• Little Mage ordered the Spirit Breath Race to abandon Spirit Breath Main City and begin migrating to escape the Great Evil Moon’s radiation.
• Little Mage led the people through dangerous regions for six months, fighting off attackers and planning to reach a safe settlement beyond the radiation.
• The Great Evil Moon’s coverage expanded, so Little Mage shortened the refugees’ rests and hurried their march toward safety.
• A Dark Tide rift opened near the migrating Spirit Breath Race, and Little Mage raised their defenses before confronting it.
• Little Mage’s strike was blocked by Sai Shen, a Divine Realm commander of the Dark Tide Main Legion, so he sent a plea for player reinforcements.

Little Mage fought Sai Shen and five Divine Realm Evil Spirits alone as the Dark Tide overwhelmed the Spirit Breath Race’s defenses. Just as their barrier was about to break, fellow players arrived and held back the invasion, giving the Spirit Breath Race a chance to survive.

• Little Mage unleashed his strongest sword attack against Sai Shen, but the Monarch neutralized it and drove him onto the defensive.
• Sai Shen’s seal on the rift broke, releasing a vast Dark Tide army, while five Divine Realm Evil Spirits surrounded Little Mage.
• Little Mage fought the five enemies while the Dark Tide battered the Spirit Breath Race’s defensive barrier, leaving it close to collapse.
• Players arrived through Space Leap and attacked the Dark Tide, with Damage-Taking players anchoring the front line and Mage players striking from behind.
• The players stopped the Dark Tide’s advance, stabilized the Spirit Breath Race’s barrier, and forced the invaders back toward the rift.

Little Mage survived the assault of five Divine Realm evil spirits when the players rallied to heal and empower him, turning the fight in their favor. The Dark Tide then escalated the battle into a continent-wide war, and the First Monarch sent reinforcements to Sai Shen Monarch as the conflict intensified.

• Little Mage was nearly killed by five Divine Realm evil spirits, but players healed and buffed him, allowing him to counterattack alongside their curses.
• The Dark Tide Monarchs emerged from the spatial rift, doubled their forces, and began a full assault against the Player Legion and Spirit Breath Race.
• Players across the regions answered emergency calls and joined the battlefield, while top guild warbands arrived through Space Leap.
• Sai Shen Monarch recognized the mounting losses and asked the First Monarch to send the Dark Tide's main forces as reinforcements.
• The First Monarch ordered Dark Tide forces across the Pale Continent to join Sai Shen Monarch's battlefield as projection clones, further escalating the war.

The players initially gained the upper hand when Divine King organized their forces and outmaneuvered Sai Shen Monarch, but Sai Shen exploited the Spirit Breath Race’s vulnerability to turn the battle against them. As Little Mage watched the Spirit Breath people die despite his efforts to protect them, his protective conviction collapsed and a personal killing intent awakened within him.

• Divine King unified the players in a temporary warband and used his many thought personas to coordinate their attacks against Sai Shen Monarch’s Dark Tide forces.
• Sai Shen Monarch recognized that the players were protecting the Spirit Breath Race and sent Void Evil Spirits to strike the migrating group through spatial jumps.
• Divine King ordered the players to retreat and defend the Spirit Breath Race, but Sai Shen repeatedly alternated rear attacks with frontal assaults, forcing the players onto the defensive.
• Little Mage fought to stop the Void Evil Spirits, but he could not prevent the Spirit Breath people from being slaughtered, and his despair and fury overwhelmed him.
• Little Mage’s protective resolve broke, and the Sword of Destruction turned blood-red as a distinct slaughtering will began to awaken within him.

Sai Shen Monarch used Void Evil Spirits and mind-controlling Gu Spirits to exploit the players’ protection of the Spirit Breath Race, but the Spirit Breath people chose mass martyrdom to free Blood Emperor and the players from that restraint. Grief-stricken, Little Mage led the players into a full assault as reinforcements flooded the battlefield.

• Sai Shen Monarch sent Void Evil Spirits after the migrating Spirit Breath Race, while Little Mage tried to defend them and watched some clanspeople, including children, die.
• Sai Shen Monarch deployed Gu Spirits to control Spirit Breath people and turn them against the players, but support players used the Uplift Life Soul to break the mass mental attack.
• Sai Shen Monarch switched to controlling individual targets, overwhelming the players’ defenses as the Spirit Breath Race realized its survival was keeping Blood Emperor and the players constrained.
• The Spirit Breath people took their own lives, and a War Sacrificer told Little Mage, “We-refuse to be your cage.”
• Little Mage charged into the darkness, and hundreds of millions of players followed, unleashing their full strength and welcoming the Spirit Breath Race’s sacrifice with a furious counterattack.
• Players across the battlefield and beyond rapidly entered the fight, repeatedly resurrecting and returning to battle without regard for the cost.

After the Spirit Breath Race sacrificed themselves, Little Mage awakened the Sword of Destruction and repeatedly charged into the Dark Tide, dying and respawning as he fought. Divine King redirected his fury toward Sai Shen Monarch’s stronghold, where Little Mage began destroying the Corrosion Cores that powered it.

• Little Mage’s grief over the Spirit Breath Race’s deaths transformed his sword into the Sword of Destruction, and he fought through the Dark Tide with overwhelming power.
• Sai Shen Monarch sent thirteen Divine Realm Evil Spirits to surround Little Mage, who died, spent 100 million sacrificial power to respawn, and returned to battle.
• Little Mage repeatedly charged the enemy and eventually killed one of the thirteen Divine Realm Evil Spirits before dying again.
• Divine King sent Little Mage the coordinates of Sai Shen Monarch’s stronghold, and Little Mage left the battlefield to attack it.
• Little Mage arrived at the stronghold, destroyed its Corrosion Cores with a sword strike, and turned toward Sai Shen Monarch’s projection.

Little Mage repeatedly challenged Sai Shen Monarch, while Divine King coordinated a two-front assault and gathered intelligence to force Sai Shen into the main battlefield. The Players sacrificed their power to strengthen Little Mage, whose final sword strike swallowed Sai Shen Monarch in a sea of sword-energy stars.

• Little Mage returned after each defeat and continued tempering his destructive sword momentum against Sai Shen Monarch, escaping its sealing prison through self-dissolution and resurrection.
• Divine King ordered the Players to converge on Sai Shen Monarch’s forces while buying intelligence from Di Nian Bully to prepare the next stage of the plan.
• Sai Shen Monarch abandoned its rear resource point and descended onto the main battlefield in its true body as Divine King’s legions opened a path for Little Mage.
• The Players sacrificed their combat power to empower Little Mage, pushing him into the Divine Fire Realm.
• Little Mage unleashed a star-filled sword strike that engulfed Sai Shen Monarch.

After killing Sai Shen, Little Mage grieved the destruction of the Spirit Breath Race and learned Star Network could not reverse their deaths. The Lord of Bliss urged him to turn his regret into a goal of resurrecting them, and Little Mage’s Destruction Sword Dao developed a new Sword Momentum Seed as he set out with renewed purpose.

• Little Mage asked Star Network to use the Reversal Life Soul to restore the Spirit Breath Race, but Star Network replied that it had entered Earth's reincarnation cycle and could no longer be used.
• Little Mage visited the Lord of Bliss on Dream Island and asked how he had endured the Elysium Tribe’s destruction.
• The Lord of Bliss explained that players outlived ordinary civilizations and urged Little Mage to bear his grief rather than deny it, making that pain nourishment for his Destruction Sword Dao.
• The Lord of Bliss gave Little Mage a new goal: find a way to resurrect the Spirit Breath Race.
• Little Mage’s Destruction Sword Dao formed a new Sword Momentum Seed, and he flew away with renewed resolve.

Little Mage pursued ways to resurrect the Spirit Breath Race, studying lost civilizations’ rituals and forging a new Momentum Dao that joined destruction with renewal. After naming his new Might the Sword of Hope, he triggered a hidden mission whose first requirement offered a way to resurrect his people.

• Little Mage asked Guide about mass resurrection and learned that containing the immortal Unceasing would require immense power and a stronger terminating Rule Trait.
• Guide advised Little Mage to search the Library in Di Family Village for other resurrection methods, and Little Mage studied three soul-returning books and recorded 348 promising locations.
• Little Mage spent years exploring resurrection rites and lost ruins, and his empathy for civilizations’ regrets fueled the growth of his Momentum Dao.
• Little Mage forged the Life-and-Death Duality sword, demonstrating how its purple edge destroyed a ruined wilderness while its golden light restored it.
• Little Mage named his new Might the Sword of Hope, then received a hidden mission whose first requirement involved resurrecting deceased members of the Spirit Breath Race with Sacrificial Power.

Little Mage discovered a hidden mission that could resurrect the Spirit Breath Race and let its members settle in private spaces within the Player Faction. After comparing three promising spatial nodes, he calculated that reviving and housing the entire race would cost far more sacrificial power than he had, so he planned to begin with a smaller group and build up gradually.

• Little Mage examined the hidden mission, which allowed him to resurrect Spirit Breath Race members and purchase land in spatial nodes, while restricting the resurrected to support functions rather than combat-enhancement features.
• Little Mage researched the Player Faction's spatial nodes and identified Senluo Forest Realm, Canglan Tranquil Marsh, and Ancient Platform Secret Realm as suitable bases for alchemy, cultivation and breeding, and array research.
• Little Mage asked Guide whether he could buy land in all three nodes, and Guide confirmed that he could purchase as much as his sacrificial power allowed.
• Little Mage traveled to the Senluo Forest Realm spatial node and opened the land-purchase interface to calculate the cost of creating an Independent Space.
• Little Mage realized that resurrecting and housing all 23 million Spirit Breath Race members would cost over a trillion sacrificial power, exceeding his balance of 743.3 billion.
• Little Mage abandoned the plan to revive the whole race at once and decided to prioritize resurrecting a smaller group, buying limited land, and developing industries to generate future income.

Qi Sheng restored the Spirit Breath Race to repair the Player Faction’s supply network, while Xiang Weisha completed his twelfth Ascension Reincarnation and attained the Divine Realm. After the Divine General yielded the Arena to him, Xiang Weisha received a hidden mission that offered a way to recruit the Ancient God Race and the Man Tribe into the Player Faction.

• Qi Sheng reviewed the Sacrificial Power gained from resurrecting the Spirit Breath Race and explained why their return would restore the Player Faction’s industrial supply chain.
• Xiang Weisha spent five billion Sacrificial Power to unlock his twelfth reincarnation and lived an ordinary life as a Night Burial Man, gathering and burying the dead until his Dao heart became complete.
• Xiang Weisha returned to the Ascension to Godhood Stairway with his Might level above one thousand and his state of mind in the Divine Realm.
• Xiang Weisha met the Divine General in the Arena, where the Divine General knelt and yielded the Arena throne to him.
• Xiang Weisha received a hidden recruitment mission allowing him to spend Sacrificial Power to bring members of the Ancient God Race and the Man Tribe into the Player Faction as level 0 Players.

Shuyan witnessed the Ancient God Arena collapsing and concluded that the Azure Star Sea’s tangled trade alliances made conquest too costly. It searched for a new region to develop, moved its domain there, and began a war against a nearby civilization.

• Xiang Weisha asked Divine General to follow him to a more exciting battlefield, and Divine General agreed.
• Shuyan sensed the Ancient God Arena collapsing but could not see through the Spatial Barrier to learn what had happened.
• Shuyan decided to leave the Azure Star Sea’s trade network’s center and search elsewhere for lands it could conquer while retaining the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce as a supply link.
• Shuyan sent a concealed consciousness clone across distant territories, investigated a region’s resources and military balance, and chose it as a place to develop.
• Shuyan transported its domain to the new lands, restored its civilizations, and targeted a civilization 139 kilometers to the north, beginning a war.

Shuyan fought the Sky Curtain Race, burned its essence in a last attempt to resist, and was defeated. As its life ended, an unknown power reversed time and restored it, then asked whether it wanted to live differently.

• Shuyan spent three years conquering civilizations in the Monster World, but its story-based forces were overwhelmed by the Sky Curtain Race’s Rule.
• Shuyan discarded its ruined stories and burned its essence to create a final battle, but Sky Curtain crushed its attack and destroyed its domain.
• Facing death, Shuyan remembered choosing growth and conquest over stability, and accepted that its path might end in regret.
• As Shuyan’s essence scattered, an immense power reversed time, restoring the battlefield, its body, and the Sky Curtain Race’s movements.
• An indifferent voice asked Shuyan, “Interested in living a different way?”

Guide offered Shuyan a chance to escape the limits of its origin by joining the supreme path, and Shuyan accepted after learning of the Players and Guide’s power. On Dream Island, Fate Throat received a mission to recruit Fate Race members still hiding on the Pale Continent and resolved to bring them home.

• Qi Sheng stopped time and Guide showed Shuyan its past, future, and the power of the Player system.
• Shuyan accepted the offer to enter the supreme path, and Guide deducted three million sacrificial power before time resumed and Shuyan vanished from the battlefield.
• Fate Throat and the Fate Race elders celebrated their security and prosperity on Dream Island while worrying about their clanspeople still hiding underground on the Pale Continent.
• Fate Throat received a hidden mission to recruit Fate Race members outside the Player Faction for 20,000 sacrificial power per person.
• Fate Throat drained his cup and announced that they would leave immediately to bring their clanspeople home.

Fate Throat returned to the Fate Race with the power to recruit its members as Players, offering them freedom from the Equivalent Gamble and a new home on Dream Island. The Great Fate Lord stepped down, and Fate Throat was unanimously elected to lead the race into its new future.

• Fate Throat told the Fate Race leaders that he could recruit willing members as Players without requiring them to pay a price, and the Great Fate Lord examined him and confirmed his transformed body and fused rules.
• Fate Throat named Dream Island as the Fate Race's new home and set the first recruitment allocation at ten million slots, with the lineages to determine how they were distributed.
• The Great Fate Lord privately asked Fate Throat to succeed him, and Fate Throat accepted responsibility for leading the Fate Race.
• The Fate Race's lineages unanimously approved Fate Throat as the next Great Fate Lord, and the old Great Fate Lord transferred the equivalent exchange rule origin to him.

Tu Hu defeated the Soulcleaving Tribe’s Divine Realm guardian after a battle lasting more than thirty days, then worried that the Velvet Spirit Tribe remained vulnerable to stronger enemies. A hidden mission appeared, allowing him to recruit Velvet Spirit Tribe members into the Player Faction, and he celebrated the chance to strengthen his people.

• Xingtong told Tu Hu that the Velvet Spirit Tribe had found a valuable Spirit Ore deposit but that an unknown underground Civilization had wiped out their Robot scouts.
• Tu Hu descended into the mines, identified the underground Civilization as the Soulcleaving Tribe, and fought through its troops with the Sword of Civilization.
• The Soulcleaving Tribe’s Divine Realm guardian confronted Tu Hu, who relied on defense and outlasted its Soul Power over more than thirty days before killing it.
• Tu Hu reflected that his victory depended on his opponent being unable to break through his defense and feared the Velvet Spirit Tribe might face an enemy he could not defeat.
• A hidden Recruitment mission prompted Tu Hu to spend Sacrificial Power to bring Velvet Spirit Tribe members into the Player Faction, and he thanked Sacrifice Emperor Zhao in delight.

After Dragonkin survived the Dragonwing Race’s first breakthrough to the Demigod Realm, Ji Chen tested the gulf between their powers and reassured him that they were brothers despite their growing disparity. As Ji Chen worried about the Dragonwing Race’s vulnerable future, a hidden recruitment quest appeared.

• After a battle, Dragonkin dismissed Ji Chen’s concerns about his injuries and celebrated the Dragonwing Race’s victory and spoils.
• Dragonkin entered a furnace to undergo the Molten Body Ascension, endured the painful transformation, and emerged as a demigod.
• Ji Chen healed Dragonkin and explained that the breakthrough method had been an uncertain gamble based on his research.
• Dragonkin challenged Ji Chen, but Ji Chen used his Binding trait to demonstrate how completely rule authority overwhelmed Dragonkin’s new power.
• Ji Chen told Dragonkin that they were brothers and promised to protect him and the Dragonwing Race; Dragonkin left to celebrate.
• Ji Chen reflected on the Dragonwing Race’s weakness in Monster World, then received a prompt announcing the hidden quest Recruitment.

After devouring Si Xie and claiming a twelfth supreme origin, the Lord of Rot rallied the Dark Tide Demon Gods to renew the Cataclysm War in ten thousand years while seeking greater strength in the Monster World. Qi Sheng then reviewed the recruitment drive and prepared a new tournament featuring a craftsmanship ranking.

• The Lord of Rot overcame Si Xie's resistance, absorbed the Black City's origin of completion, and gained his twelfth supreme origin.
• The Lord of Rot summoned the Dark Tide Demon Gods through the Great Evil Moon and asked them to return to the Monster World for a renewed Cataclysm War in ten thousand years.
• The Lord of Rot returned to the Monster World to search for the origins of fallen Demon Gods and grow strong enough to face the mysterious observer.
• Qi Sheng reviewed Guide's recruitment list, which included six core targets and 219 selected civilizations granted recruitment permissions.
• Qi Sheng decided to hold a new Recruitment Tournament with a Craftsmanship Points Ranking for logistics civilizations.

The new ranking event triggered a recruitment rush, and rookie support player Xiao Fu sold a level 3 redfire maple before meeting a quiet player who planned to make rafts. Xiao Fu offered to team up and buy him a hoverboard, but the boy revealed a sacrificial power balance of -2,983,459, leaving Xiao Fu stunned.

• A new recruitment and ranking event barred newly recruited players from outside support, prompting the Against the Tide Legion and other factions to recruit more support personnel.
• Xiao Fu found a level 3 redfire maple at Saihong Ridge and sold it for 5,124 points of sacrificial power.
• Xiao Fu met Minor World Heavenly Dao Who Loves Writing Stories making a raft, helped him finish it, and shared food and advice about earning sacrificial power.
• Xiao Fu invited the boy to team up and offered to buy him a hoverboard, but the boy showed him his player panel and revealed a balance of -2,983,459 sacrificial power.

Shuyan and Xiao Fu spent five years working and traveling together while saving sacrificial power to clear Shuyan’s debt. On their fifth anniversary, Xiao Fu transferred the full three million, freeing Shuyan and leaving him overwhelmed by his friend’s generosity.

• Shuyan told Xiao Fu that his initial life souls had been deducted to offset his debt, leaving him without a foundation for combat growth.
• Xiao Fu proposed that they make and sell handicrafts together, and Shuyan agreed to let Xiao Fu hold their earnings so they could save toward the debt.
• Over the next two years, Shuyan and Xiao Fu made rafts and explored other support trades, then began mining while gradually strengthening their bodies through hard labor.
• During three more years of travel and work, Shuyan grew accustomed to Xiao Fu as a friend and shared memories across many spatial nodes.
• On the fifth anniversary of their meeting, Xiao Fu gave Shuyan a battle axe and transferred him three million sacrificial power, clearing his debt.
• Shuyan froze as Xiao Fu congratulated him on being free, overwhelmed by the sacrifice Xiao Fu had made.

After ten years of traveling together, Shuyan and Xiao Fu explored the Outer Sea Ancient Ruins and agreed to pursue combat and logistics growth side by side. Three years later, Shuyan regained his Heavenly Dao rules, created a living story, and comprehended the top-tier might rule Unnamed, leaving Xiao Fu rushing over to demand an explanation.

• Shuyan reassured Xiao Fu that he was not a burden and chose to explore the ancient ruins with him instead of racing alone for the rankings.
• Shuyan and Xiao Fu worked together to clear the Outer Sea Ancient Ruins and found a treasury full of high-tier spirit crystals.
• They agreed to invest part of their fortune in Xiao Fu's logistics research while Shuyan pursued combat advancement, and they planned to climb the rankings together.
• Three years later, Shuyan used one billion sacrificial power to regain the rules Wield, Pen, and Book, then wrote a story whose characters developed their own wills and continued the plot without him.
• Shuyan comprehended the top-tier might rule Unnamed, prompting an all-channel notification and Xiao Fu to hurry over and ask what had happened.

After naming his new Might heart-origin world evolution, Shuyan developed a plan to let his story worlds evolve freely and send their civilizations into the Monster World, where they could grow and provide resources. He and Xiao Fu discussed the risks, safeguards, and sacrificial returns of the system, leaving Xiao Fu trying to retract his criticism after Shuyan threatened to cancel his promised story civilization.

• Shuyan named his new Might heart-origin world evolution, while players on the Forum speculated about the announcement and his identity.
• Three days later, Shuyan explained to Xiao Fu that his story world’s growth had stalled because it had run out of ink power.
• Shuyan proposed sending story civilizations into the Monster World to explore and wage war, creating a self-sustaining source of ink power and resources.
• Shuyan said he could erase civilizations that went out of control and use the player resurrection system to keep their stories and core characters from ending permanently.
• Shuyan described building a faith system and processing sacrifices through the Trading House, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, and offerings to Emperor Zhao God.
• When Xiao Fu called him a ruthless middleman, Shuyan threatened to cancel the story civilization he had planned for Xiao Fu, prompting Xiao Fu to apologize.

After thirty years together on Saihong Ridge, Xiao Fu urged Shuyan to pursue the rankings, and Shuyan left to lead civilizations he had created through a long campaign. Two hundred and seventy years later, Shuyan returned as the top-ranked Player and reunited with Xiao Fu, who had climbed to 12,472th on the Artistry Rankings.

• Shuyan watched the Logistics Spring Clan celebrate its first great harvest and shared its anniversary feast with Xiao Fu.
• Xiao Fu encouraged Shuyan to leave Saihong Ridge and pursue the summit, and Shuyan agreed before departing at dawn.
• Shuyan rose through the rankings using a command build, leading dozens of civilizations he had created and treating their members as fellow travelers.
• Shuyan and Xiao Fu kept in touch through video calls as Xiao Fu shared news from Saihong Ridge and urged him to come home.
• After 270 years, Shuyan returned as the top-ranked Player, and he and Xiao Fu proudly shared their rankings before slapping palms across the fields.

Qi Sheng uncovered the truth behind the Dark Tide and began restoring Emperor Zhao’s power as the Lord of Rot summoned the Demon Gods to Monster World. The major factions gathered for the Endgame War, which began as the Four Gods, Hun Zhan, and the Players moved to the battlefield.

• Qi Sheng learned that Transcendence was Di Nian Bully, who had reincarnated to escape the Dark Tide System, while the Supreme Master Brain of the Insect Race had inherited his discarded remains and misunderstood his intentions.
• Qi Sheng called back the Emperor Zhao origins scattered across Monster World and began reforging Emperor Zhao’s divine body as the Four Gods and Hun Zhan watched.
• The Lord of Rot raised the Great Evil Moon and summoned the Demon Gods to Monster World.
• The Supreme Master Brain of the Insect Race and Monster World’s other powerful factions appeared, forming a standoff as the Endgame War approached.
• Qi Sheng sent the Four Gods and Hun Zhan to fight and told the Players to support them, while Guide received supreme command of the Player Faction.