Recaps

The Hardcore Grinders Group returned to Di Family Village, upgraded their vehicles and Star Meridian builds, and began preparing to resume their hidden training-camp mission. Li Zheng joined Divine King’s campaign at Tianlan Pool, while Qi Sheng analyzed the Soul Return Race and chose to spread the node’s spiritual energy through Emperor Tomb Village if the players captured it.

• The Hardcore Grinders Group returned to Di Family Village, crafted matching black-and-red armed outfits, and Li Zheng replaced his Black-Armored Snake Life Soul with Gang Qi before testing his new build.
• The group asked Guide whether they could resume their hidden mission, then decided to watch for Elder You and planned to explain their resurrection as a Player Race ability.
• Li Zheng chose to join Woshnidie’s joint operation at the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, where Divine King organized players for an assault on Tianlan Pool.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the Soul Return Race’s soul-beast abilities and concluded that players were largely immune to its threat, though it could become a disaster for other factions.
• Qi Sheng inspected Tianlan Pool and chose to let its spiritual energy spread throughout Emperor Tomb Village if the players captured the domain node.

The Player Legion fought the Dark Tide at the Tianlan Pool domain node while Qi Sheng monitored battles across several regions. As the Evil Moon shifted unexpectedly to Crescent Moon instead of Full Moon, Qi Sheng prepared to close the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to players, while Di Nian’s hopes of a powerful Dark Tide surge collapsed.

• Divine King commanded the Player Legion against increasingly powerful Dark Tide forces, but the Di Nian Evil Spirit countered their tactics and made victory at the Tianlan Pool domain node unlikely.
• Qi Sheng observed the Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players fighting underwater at the Undersea Crystal Palace and received word that the Evil Moon was changing.
• Guide predicted the moon phase would likely become Crescent Moon, while the Di Nian Evil Spirit confidently predicted Full Moon and explained how he read the Evil Moon’s fluctuations to Evil Eye.
• Qi Sheng decided to stop opening the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to players after the moon phase stabilized and to redirect their development toward the Colorful Mist Coast.
• The Evil Moon settled on Crescent Moon, stunning Qi Sheng, Guide, Evil Eye, and the Di Nian Evil Spirit, who angrily rejected Evil Eye’s advice to calm down.

The Crescent Moon scenario returned to the Di Family Mountains, and Qi Sheng recruited 3,000 newcomers to take advantage of its lower difficulty. Wonder Butterfly returned and began tormenting new players, prompting veterans to organize a hunt; the chapter ended with them chasing it through the sky.

• The Crescent Moon scenario replaced the Blood Ghouls with cursed soldiers, lowered the energy concentration, and prompted Qi Sheng to issue 3,000 new player qualifications.
• New players entered the Di Family Mountains, where many struggled with cursed soldiers while veterans argued with them or offered help.
• Wonder Butterfly emerged from hiding and repeatedly attacked the newcomer Poetry and Distant Places, whose forum post revealed that the monster was hunting vulnerable players and rapidly gaining levels.
• Guide explained that Wonder Butterfly used an innate species talent to identify players with weak personalities, while veterans gathered to capture it for its Wind Control life soul.
• When Wonder Butterfly attacked another newcomer in the Ancient Battlefield, veteran players rushed to the location and pursued it into the sky as it tried to escape.

Qi Sheng discovered that Wonder Butterfly carried a dormant eighth-generation Space Leap trait and decided to let it grow before capturing it. Meanwhile, Lu Xing followed an ancient mural’s route into the Elysium Palace, where Qi Sheng learned that its five pleasure-filled realms trapped beings and harvested their elysium power.

• Qi Sheng used Guide to analyze Wonder Butterfly, discovered its dormant Space Leap trait alongside Wind Control, and ordered Guide to track it while he waited for it to mature.
• After players failed to catch Wonder Butterfly, Lu Xing explored ruins in the Water-Realm Forest and deciphered murals about tribespeople who entered the forest and fell into madness.
• Lu Xing followed the High Priest’s route to a hidden spatial node, entered the Elysium Palace, and found a realm that overwhelmed its visitors with their desires.
• Qi Sheng inspected the palace’s Gates of Evil Desire, Greed, Power, Gluttony, and Sloth, and learned that the Elysium Tribe used the realms to harvest elysium power while driving their captives toward death.
• Qi Sheng returned his consciousness to Lu Xing, who was becoming dazed amid the seductive figures as his livestream audience surged.

Lu Xing entered the Greed Gate and was overwhelmed by an illusion of his dream life as an adventurer, but the purification system erased the experience before he could become trapped. After he fled Elysium Hall, players discussed his livestream and organized slaughter squads to hunt the corrupted creatures inside for rewards.

• Lu Xing recovered from the Elysium Power’s illusion at the Gate of Evil Desire and entered the Greed Gate after the Guide Avatar challenged his courage.
• Inside the Greed Gate, Lu Xing imagined settling among villagers, sharing travel stories, and joining an adventuring party, until the purification system shattered the fantasy and erased his memories of it.
• The Guide Avatar showed Lu Xing livestream footage of his vacant expressions, and embarrassed by the players’ mockery, he fled Elysium Hall through the Spatial Spirit Runes.
• Players discussed Lu Xing’s livestream, and Great Strength Works Wonders proposed killing the helpless, corrupted creatures in Elysium Hall for sacrificial power and evolution points.
• Players formed slaughter squads and traveled to the Colorful Mist Coast to find Elysium Palace, intending to hunt the creatures inside.

Players flocked to Elysium Hall and exploited its powerless, corrupted inhabitants for evolution points and sacrificial power, while Qi Sheng profited from their attacks. In the palace, Elysium noticed a branch scene’s power output dropping and sent Xie Yu to investigate, fearing the powerful forces of Monster World might have found him.

• Players followed Lu Xing’s mapped route to Elysium Hall, entered its node space, and purified themselves of the Jile Rule’s influence.
• The players attacked the helpless beings trapped in Elysium illusions, earning evolution points and sacrificial power as Qi Sheng watched his earnings rise.
• Players discovered that bloodburn dealt direct vitality damage, allowing them to hurt high-level targets whose defenses ordinary attacks could not pierce.
• Players advanced through Elysium Hall’s layers, and their attacks generated over four million sacrificial power for Qi Sheng in one hour.
• Elysium noticed a sharp drop in Elysium power production at the third branch scene on the Pale Continent and ordered Xie Yu to investigate.
• Elysium recalled the Cataclysm War and decided he would flee if Xie Yu returned with evidence that powerful outsiders had discovered his palace.

Qi Sheng watched players invade the Elysium Hall while Xie Yu tried and failed to interrogate one of them. After Xie Yu reported the Player Race to the Lord of Bliss, the Lord dismissed the invasion as no threat and chose not to investigate further.

• Qi Sheng discovered that the Elysium Main Hall was a hidden refuge with a teleportation altar, while players looted its scenes and earned sacrificial power.
• Xie Yu arrived at the Gate of Power and killed the players there, then moved through the scenes and slaughtered more invaders.
• Xie Yu captured a player who insisted on killing fallen ones before answering questions; after the player tricked him into helping secure another kill, Xie Yu snapped his neck, and the player vanished as black smoke.
• Xie Yu reported that the Player Race resisted Elysium power, feared neither pain nor death, and disappeared after dying.
• The Lord of Bliss concluded that the players were a weak faction and ordered the Elysium Tribe to leave the incident alone.

Players repeatedly raided Elysium Hall for Sacrificial Power, while a newly contained Bloodthirst Life Soul inspired powerful healing builds. After the Lord of Bliss closed the passage they were using, the players lost access to the profitable instance but learned that other routes to Elysium Hall might still exist.

• Players returning toward Elysium Hall contained the Bloodthirst Primordial, and Gargoyle Style players developed a popular blood demon build around its Life Soul.
• Led by Divine King, the players entered Elysium Hall again and efficiently hunted Fallen Ones for Sacrificial Power.
• The Lord of Bliss learned that players were repeatedly attacking his Pale Continent nodes and considered how intelligence affected the design of powerful legions.
• The Lord of Bliss closed the spatial passage the players had been using, and arriving players found the entrance to Elysium Hall gone.
• Players lamented the closure on the Forum, then learned that other spatial passages to Elysium Hall might still exist; Explorer was praised for bringing opportunities to the player camp.

Qi Sheng read Nightfall Is Coming’s poll about which Monster World faction players would choose, then reflected on the looming struggle for supremacy as the Player Legion grew. At the Crystal Hall, Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players defeated Bei Ya, contained the Domain Node, and earned the Gathering domain blessing.

• Nightfall Is Coming posted a poll comparing eight faction identities, and players voted the Elysium Tribe first and the Heavenly Fire Clan last.
• Qi Sheng discussed the future of Monster World with Guide 1 and vowed that the Player Legion would claim a place at its summit.
• Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players fought through the Crystal Hall’s guards, then encountered the level-52 primordial monster Bei Ya.
• The two races used a Parasitic Tactic with Bloodthirst Life Souls to suppress Bei Ya’s healing and defeat it, earning a new participant-number record for containing a primordial monster.
• The surviving players entered the Crystal Hall, touched its node crystal, and contained the Domain Node, expanding Emperor Tomb Village and the Colorful Mist Coast.
• The Player Legion received the Gathering domain rule blessing, and players celebrated the newly available Bei Ya Life Soul.

Qi Sheng integrated the Gathering rule into the Rule God Pillar, considered expanding the Player Legion, and planned to capture five Domain Nodes at the Colorful Mist Coast. Meanwhile, Human Federation leaders investigated Darklands Cracked Version and ended the chapter questioning whether it was a different game from the official version.

• Players discovered that the Rule God Pillar granted the Gathering bonus to popular Life Souls, debated its effects, and shared Control Life Soul builds on the Forum.
• Qi Sheng dismissed players’ requests to remove respawn costs, then planned to target five Colorful Mist Coast Domain Nodes and expand the Player Legion to one hundred thousand.
• Federation Chief Bai Chen heard city administrators report unexplained virtual transactions and evidence that Darklands Cracked Version had spread throughout the Human Federation.
• Ironwall City's Administrator Xiao suggested the Star Network might have rebelled and sought to make Darklands currency the world's only legal currency, and Bai Chen led a vote rejecting the Eclipse Race's exchange request.
• A Sky Dome Technology R&D Center representative reported that cracked-version players described a different game experience from official-version players and asked whether the two versions were entirely different games.

Bai Chen ordered an investigation into whether official Darklands and Darklands Cracked Version were different games, while Yu Yun found the badly injured ascender Tian Bing washed ashore. Tian Bing had escaped a supposed Immortal Realm that harvested ascenders, but Yu Yun could not damage his body.

• Bai Chen found no known players with access to both versions of Darklands and ordered the attendees to compare player experiences and buy Cracked Version currency as a precaution.
• Qi Sheng observed a new Evil Spirit tower forming in the Evil Moon Domain, and Guide judged that nearby powers could contain the threat.
• Yu Yun followed a falling fireball to sea and used his Silvertail Fish to drag an unconscious humanoid ashore.
• Tian Bing ascended from Zenith World, discovered that the upper realm used cultivators as hosts for parasite-like monsters, and learned that ascension was a harvest.
• Tian Bing used a Disintegration Method to destroy the monster inside him, escaped his vessel, and flew away before collapsing into the sea.
• Yu Yun identified the stranger as Tian Bing, whose Hunting Level remained 75, but his battle axe could not pierce Tian Bing's defenses.

Qi Sheng uncovered the Ascension Race’s parasitic cultivation system and connected it to Tian Bing’s escape, while Yu Yun successfully controlled and healed Tian Bing, then fled with him toward the Ancient God Race’s territory. When the Ascension Race caught up near the Death Arena, the Ancient God Race attacked, and Yu Yun began livestreaming the battle to other players.

• Qi Sheng and Guide traced Tian Bing’s lingering rule energy to an island in the Thousand Armies Sea Region and discovered the Ascension Race’s spirit-root system, captive host worlds, and elite offspring farms.
• Yu Yun used his Control life soul to mark the gravely wounded Tian Bing, sacrificed his buddies and life-soul resources, and spent borrowed sacrificial power on healing potions until Tian Bing recovered enough to awaken.
• Guide warned Yu Yun that Tian Bing could not enter Di Family Village and that the Ascension Race’s residual energy marks might draw pursuers, so Yu Yun took Tian Bing toward the Ancient God Race’s territory.
• Yu Yun and Tian Bing traveled through the Evil Moon Domain, where Tian Bing killed powerful creatures and helped Yu Yun recover some of his investment before they reached the Ghost Shadow Sea Region.
• The Ascension Race warriors caught up near the Death Arena, and an enormous energy arm rose from the island and struck them, drawing Yu Yun and Tian Bing into the shock wave.
• Yu Yun livestreamed the battle as players gathered to watch and cheered for the Ancient God Race.

Tian Beng drove the Ascension Race from the Ghost Shadow Sea Region, while Yu Yun’s captured level-75 pet sparked debate among players about the Control Life Soul and pet features. Qi Sheng then asked Nine Yin to help develop a Pet System that would purify freely captured creatures, leaving Guide and Nine Yin disputing the required cost.

• Yu Yun’s livestream showed Tian Beng shattering the Ascension Race’s elemental attacks and battling their twelve warriors with his physical strength.
• The Ascension Race escaped after their divine pillar failed to stop Tian Beng, and an Ancient God warned him not to pursue them into their territory.
• Players discussed Yu Yun’s level-75 pet Tian Bing, reconsidered the Control Life Soul’s potential, and debated the future of melee builds.
• Qi Sheng reviewed player feedback and devised a Pet System with both freely captured, non-growing pets and template-based pets that could grow.
• Qi Sheng met Nine Yin in Emperor Tomb Village and asked her to purify outside creatures entering the system; Nine Yin estimated her work would cost 550,000 Sacrificial Power, while Guide corrected her estimate to 560,000.

Naixiu Evil Spirit arrived at the Colorful Mist Coast to build a Dark Tide, but players immediately attacked his Evil Eye High Tower and overwhelmed his forces. As Naixiu sought help from other nodes, Di Nian Evil Spirit refused to send resources and dodged the request by claiming he was fighting the Insect Tide.

• Naixiu Evil Spirit emerged from a spatial portal at the Evil Moon High Tower, learned the Monster World’s scale from the Purple-Skinned Evil Eye, and began generating Doomsday-type troops.
• Players swarmed into the Evil Moon Domain, fought through marine Evil Abominations, and advanced toward the tower with coordinated teams and improvised builds.
• Naixiu Evil Spirit changed to elite troops on the Purple-Skinned Evil Eye’s advice, but the players continued pushing forward and forced him to request support from other nodes.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit considered sending a third of his resources to help Naixiu, then had Evil Eye report that the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range was under attack by the Insect Tide.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit rejected Naixiu’s request for guidance and ordered Evil Eye to tell him to seek help elsewhere.

The Player Legion defeated Naixiu and destroyed the Evil Eye High Tower in the Azure Star Sea, winning the Dark Tide Purification Campaign and claiming three Domain Nodes. After celebrating and spending their rewards, Divine King led the Major Guilds toward another node, only to find that Di Nian Evil Spirit had grown stronger again.

• Naixiu used energy from three nodes to strengthen his troops, but the players kept returning to battle, and Di Nian Evil Spirit agreed to support him while secretly diverting much of the Azure Star Sea node’s energy to his own High Tower.
• Yu Yun returned with Tian Bing and helped the players stop Naixiu from reaching the High Tower; the players teleported and killed Naixiu’s purple-skinned Evil Eye, then Naixiu self-destructed after three more hours of fighting.
• The players destroyed the Evil Eye High Tower, captured Black Dragon Pass, Tianpen Island, and Coral Islet, and ended the Evil Moon’s hold over the island; Qi Sheng received 74.63 million Sacrificial Power from the campaign.
• After the players returned to Di Family Village and improved their gear, Divine King organized the Major Guilds to attack the Star Abode node before Di Nian Evil Spirit could grow stronger.
• The joint warband found Di Nian Evil Spirit’s Dark Tide fielding many new and stronger troop types, while Di Nian realized the Player Race had returned and feared another resource shortage.

Qi Sheng investigated the Dark Tide and Insect Tide’s synchronized growth, upgraded the player shop, built a Main City, and searched the Pale Continent for another beginner route. He discovered the Elysium Tribe had built a clumsy imitation of the Dark Tide’s legion system and found what appeared to be an Elysium Master Brain.

• Guide told Qi Sheng that the Insect Tide near the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range received spatial energy infusions, and Qi Sheng and Guide suspected the Supreme Master Brain was growing it to counter Di Nian Evil Spirit.
• Qi Sheng created twenty-eight shop products, including Energy Paste and Repair Stones, then transformed Emperor Tomb Village into a Main City with districts and functional buildings.
• Qi Sheng reviewed players’ suggestions on the Forum and set out with Guide to find another Spatial Node on the Pale Continent.
• Qi Sheng and Guide discovered an Elysium High Tower whose Bliss Warriors controlled incomplete creature replicas in a chaotic battle, revealing the Lord of Bliss’s flawed attempt to imitate the Dark Tide.
• Guide showed Qi Sheng a huge purple creature, and Qi Sheng recognized it as an Elysium Master Brain rather than an Insect Tide Master Brain.

Qi Sheng examined the Lord of Bliss’s failed imitations of powerful legions, opened the Rimewinter Snowfield, and recruited seventy thousand new players. As the newcomers battled the Purple Tide, the Lord of Bliss learned that the Player Race had appeared in the snowfield.

• Qi Sheng discovered that the Elysium Master Brain produced unstable creatures and that the Elysium Divine Lamp was a weak imitation of the Blue Lantern Race’s rule-altering power.
• Qi Sheng had Yan Ming build a bare-bones Rimewinter Snowfield space, then opened it and recruited forty thousand Human Race players, twenty thousand Skyfeather Race players, and ten thousand Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players.
• Yuling failed to secure Darklands access through the official Skyfeather Race distribution, but downloaded a cracked version and entered the game.
• The newcomers explored the snowfield, where Skyfeather Race players struggled with their Life Soul abilities and the army encountered the clumsy Elysium Evil Spirits.
• The Purple Tide defeated the disorganized newcomers until the Elysium Evil Spirits crossed beyond the High Tower’s control range and collapsed, prompting players to discuss the Lord of Bliss’s imitation of the Dark Tide.
• The Bliss Warriors reported the Player Race’s arrival in the Rimewinter Snowfield to the Lord of Bliss, who was hiding in an Independent Space.

Qi Sheng considered incorporating defeated factions’ world rules into the Challenger System as players explored the Rimewinter Snowfields and discovered a resource-rich domain guarded by powerful monsters. Meanwhile, the Lord of Bliss accepted the new players as training opponents and resolved to keep expanding his experiments as he pursued a path to the world’s pinnacle.

• Qi Sheng learned that the Challenger System could absorb outside world rules by spending Sacrificial Power, and he decided that defeated factions’ cheats could strengthen the Player Legion.
• Yuling led a Skyfeather Race party through the Rimewinter Snowfields, where they discovered Snow Giant Ridge and killed groups of Snow Velvet Balls to gain levels and materials.
• The Skyfeather players found the Kongyuan Peak domain node, but a level-92 Snow Ridge Great Desolation killed them before they could approach it.
• Qi Sheng found 387 Snow Ridge Great Desolations guarding the node and shifted his attention to the players’ battle against the Elysium Evil Spirits.
• The Lord of Bliss told Xie Yu that the new players were suitable opponents for the Testing Ground and explained that he was studying three powerful races to develop his own path.
• The Lord of Bliss recalled his ambition to rise beyond his former world and ordered Xie Yu to increase investment in the Testing Ground so they could learn about and eventually defeat their rivals.

Qi Sheng discovered that Kuxing had killed an Evil Spirit Warrior at a Dark Tide domain and issued a mission to capture the rule domain. Meanwhile, Meng Yuan used Darklands’ Library to complete a Spirit Plant assignment, unknowingly submitting game knowledge that earned him an S rating and a job offer; the chapter left him facing a visit from a professor eager to inspect the nonexistent Earthspring Star.

• Qi Sheng observed the player wars, learned that Kuxing had killed the Evil Spirit Warrior at the Ten Thousand Forests domain, and issued a Purification Mission to seize it.
• Meng Yuan, worried that his neglected Earthspring Flower would ruin his exam, found detailed growth records in the Emperor Tomb Village Library and memorized them.
• Meng Yuan submitted the records to the Spirit Plant Cultivation Center, where Tian Bei simulated them and confirmed they could produce the previously unknown Earthspring Star.
• Tian Bei contacted Meng Yuan, awarded his submission an S rating, and offered him a position at the Spirit Plant Cultivation Center without an exam.
• Tian Bei asked to see Meng Yuan’s Earthspring Star in person, while Meng Yuan realized he had submitted knowledge from the game despite having only a withered flower.

Meng Yuan’s false Earthspring Star submission revealed that Darklands’ cracked version contained undisclosed Spirit Plant technology, prompting both human and Eclipse Race leaders to reconsider the game’s significance. Meanwhile, players struggled against powerful Dark Tide Evil Spirits, and Li Zheng’s group rushed to meet the returning Broken Star, who had brought his Aircraft along.

• Tian Bei discovered that Meng Yuan’s Earthspring Star was a withered flower, but learned Meng Yuan had copied viable cultivation information from the cracked game’s library and gave him another chance.
• Bai Chen told Human Federation leaders that the cracked version was more complete than the official game and urged them to prepare resources and currency for future developments.
• The Star Network advised Eclipse Race leaders that ordinary players, fun, and stability could support the higher-dimensional being’s plans, and warned them to ignore its in-game decisions if it gained access.
• Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group fought level-46 Dark Tide Evil Spirits in the Evil Moon Domain, using coordinated attacks to defeat curse-type units before retreating to recover.
• When the Guide Avatar said Broken Star had returned to recruit players but was far away, Li Zheng’s group deliberately died and hurried back from the Respawn Point.
• Broken Star carried his Aircraft toward the World Barrier, and Li Zheng’s group arrived to find him surrounded by players and holding it overhead.

Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group returned from the dead and won permission to rejoin the Against the Tide Training Camp, then crossed dangerous terrain to reach Wildwind Fortress. There, they reunited with the cadets who had mourned them, leaving Ghost Eye and the others stunned by their sudden appearance.

• Broken Star learned that Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group had revived, then Elder You approved their return to training and ordered them to repeat the journey to Phase Two.
• Li Zheng and his group returned to Snow Valley Training Camp, met Kuang Sha, and set out again after a meal and an overnight stay.
• The group fought Soul Beasts in the White Plains and endured dangerous wildlife in the mountains before reaching Wildwind Fortress.
• Yan Sha registered the group at Wildwind Fortress and warned them that they would have to make up their missed training.
• Ghost Eye and the Snow Valley cadets visited the cemetery to mourn the Player Race trainees, then turned in shock when Li Zheng and his group appeared alive behind them.

Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group reunited with the Snow Valley trainees, joined Phase Two Training Camp, and began provoking Huan Ya and the other trainees with hunger-based tactics. Meanwhile, Di Nian Evil Spirit took control of a Dark Tide node, tested psychological taunts against players, and began secretly siphoning its resources while planning an infiltration tactic.

• Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group reunited with Ghost Eye and the Snow Valley trainees, who welcomed them back with a rough brawl before celebrating their return.
• Ghost Eye explained that Huan Ya and the Dragon Valley trainees had been dominating Phase Two Training Camp, and Li Zheng promised to restore Snow Valley’s dignity.
• Yan Sha introduced the returning players, and they challenged Huan Ya before Sha Xin passed Yan Sha’s energy-ball exercise with help from his teammates.
• Li Zheng started a dining hall brawl by declaring lunch canceled, launching the Player Race’s hunger-endurance tactic against Huan Ya and the other trainees.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit took remote control of a Dark Tide node, tested taunts that provoked players into fighting, then used battles as cover to siphon resources.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit changed the Dark Tide’s unit composition to make it easier for players to kill and began planning a tactic he called Infiltration Tactics.

Qi Sheng chose Fat Peach as the first pet template while Di Nian Evil Spirit created a Player Template to infiltrate the players and learn their secrets. After repeated failures, Evil Eye found a way to imitate the player-only mark, and Di Nian’s latest infiltration attempt went unnoticed.

• Qi Sheng and Guide analyzed Fat Peach, a resource-producing monster raised by the Red Lotus Race, and recorded its life structure as a pet template.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit used Dark Tide energy and Evil Eye’s data to create a human Player Template with simulated abilities and lifelike expressions.
• Di Nian entered a player camp to gather information but was identified through the analysis ability and killed by the players.
• Di Nian’s infiltration plan spread across the Player Forum, and he made repeated attempts with altered Player Templates, each of which the players exposed and killed.
• Evil Eye traced the players’ discovery to a mark visible only to them and devised a way to simulate it using recorded pupil movements and player data.
• After a day of testing, Di Nian displayed a burning Crimson Flame mark above and to the right of his head, and players at the camp ignored him.

Di Nian Evil Spirit infiltrated player squads to gather intelligence, but players recognized him and used his free combat support while feeding him contradictory fabricated backgrounds. After he abandoned the plan, Qi Sheng reviewed new Primordial life souls and regional developments, then ordered Guide to recruit 100,000 players, prioritizing humans, the Giant Python Race, and the Night Demon Race.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit joined a player squad disguised as a mage, and Fateful Encounter identified him as a Dark Tide unit, but the squad kept him around for free damage and protection.
• The players gave Di Nian Evil Spirit incompatible stories about the Player Race, prompting him and Evil Eye to conclude that the squad had deceived him and exploited his combat power.
• Qi Sheng noted that the players’ shared communication system and Guide’s surveillance had doomed the infiltration, then reviewed the newly contained Insight and blood reversal life souls.
• Qi Sheng surveyed the Rimewinter Snowfield’s resource domains and decided to recruit 100,000 players, allocating 60,000 slots to humans and 40,000 to the Giant Python Race and Night Demon Race to strengthen melee builds.
• Qi Sheng told Guide to begin handing out access.

The Giant Python Race and Night Demon Race obtained access to Darklands through a cracked-version link, and their chiefs reported the incident to the Eclipse Race while allowing players to keep using it. Qi Sheng investigated a frozen Shuyan Race scenario and discovered it was a Book World driven by Ink Power and shaped by an unseen author, leaving him wondering whether its creator had gone on hiatus.

• The Giant Python Race and Night Demon Race downloaded the cracked version of Darklands, and their chiefs fought before agreeing to report the link to the Eclipse Race.
• The Night Demon chief told Eclipse Administrator No. 3 about the link, and the administrator said the distributed access would not be revoked while asking about a currency exchange.
• Qi Sheng observed the two races' players charging into battles in Darklands, where many died quickly because they ignored the game's settings and enemies' strength.
• Qi Sheng investigated a frozen domain near the Ascension Race Territory and replayed the Shuyan Race's battle against the Ascension Race, finding that Shuyan warriors had received rule-altering assistance.
• Qi Sheng and Guide traced the domain's origin to a Book, Pen, and Wield, learning that the scene ran on Ink Power and could be rewritten by an unseen author.
• Qi Sheng suggested that the author had stopped updating, leaving the Shuyan scene frozen, and wondered whether starting a new book would create a new scene.