Chapter Summaries

A Lan studied ways to seal Spatial Rifts and chose endpoint sealing as Earth’s best defense, while the Star Network built a multilayer barrier around the Rift. After A Lan announced a new test Instance to draw players into the invading force’s Minor World, the players rushed to join the fight.

• A Lan learned about destroying a Rift’s energy source, disrupting it with energy nails, and sealing its endpoint, and judged sealing best suited to protect Earth.
• The Star Network deployed and tested multiple layers of energy defenses around the Spatial Rift, including self-repairing and dynamically adjusting networks.
• The Star Network told A Lan to activate the Teleportation Array and try to destroy its source in the Minor World; A Lan reduced the teleportation mortality rate by 0.74%.
• A Lan posted a forum notice introducing the unfinished Instance as a test against the invading force and gave players the coordinates of the temporary Teleportation Array.
• Players spread the post, flocked to the Array, and prepared to enter the Minor World as the online assault began.

Players from the five Spatial Nodes invaded Spirit Breath World and overwhelmed Life Breath City, then spread their destruction across the region. The chapter ended as an elemental player attacked Langxi City, shattered its defenses, and formed a huge Inkflame fireball above it.

• The Life Breath City Lord rallied his Spirit-Breath Warriors for conquest, but players descended from the sky and began attacking the city.
• Monster Beast Style, melee, assassin, archer, and mage players slaughtered the Spirit-Breath Warriors and destroyed Life Breath City while competing over resources.
• After Life Breath City fell, players spread out to seek other cities, and Damage-Soaking Style players struggled to find teams.
• The lord of Langxi City learned through the Lingxi Network that several cities had been invaded, so he activated the city defenses and contacted the Super Beast Legion.
• A player surrounded by Inkflame, Thundering Lightning, Dissolve, and Ice Mist Breath shattered Langxi City's energy shield and devastated the city.
• The elemental player rose above Langxi City on a Multicolored Hoverboard and formed an enormous Inkflame fireball while the Spirit-Breath Warriors watched in despair.

Administrator No. 1 decided to have Number 16 search for and destroy the spatial source point linking the Spirit Breath World to Earth. Meanwhile, the Blood King was transplanted into a young captive’s body, awakened, and led the Super Beast Legion against the invaders.

• Administrator No. 1 assessed the players’ strength and worried they might break the seal over the Spatial Passage, so he ordered Number 16 to seek out and destroy the spatial source point.
• In the Blood Slave Dungeon, Blood Worm selected an amnesiac young captive as a replacement body for the dying Blood King.
• Xue Tu transplanted the Blood King’s Memory Pouch into the captive, restoring the Blood King’s memories and identity.
• The Blood King learned that the invading forces threatened his world and ordered the Super Beast Legion to assemble.
• The Blood King entered the Doomsday Giant Beast and led the Legion toward the invaders, crushing chained Spirit-Breath Warriors who had abandoned their cities.

Administrator No. 1 decided to have Number 16 search for and destroy the spatial origin connecting the Spirit Breath World to Earth. In the Spirit Breath World, the Blood King returned in a young captive’s body, armed himself with the Doomsday Giant Beast, and led the Super Beast Legion against the invaders.

• Administrator No. 1 assessed the danger of the players reaching the Spatial Passage and decided to ask Number 16 to find and destroy the spatial origin.
• A memoryless young captive was held in the Blood Slave Dungeon, where Blood Worm selected him as a replacement body for the dying Blood King.
• War Sacrificer Xue Tu transplanted the Blood King’s Memory Pouch into the boy, restoring the Blood King’s identity and memories.
• The Blood King learned that the invaders threatened his world and ordered the Super Beast Legion to assemble.
• The Blood King entered the Doomsday Giant Beast and led a million super beasts toward the invading forces.
• The Doomsday Giant Beast crushed chained Spirit-Breath Warriors, and the Blood King received a challenger prompt for killing one.

Players discussed Little Mage’s attacks on fellow players while Blood King led the Blood Pool Legion toward a new battle in Spirit Breath World. Divine King’s forces trapped and nearly killed Blood King’s Doomsday Giant Beast, but the War Sacrificers sacrificed themselves to save him, leaving his survival uncertain.

• She Sounds Childish posted that Little Mage had killed her friends and family group with the Doomsday Giant Beast, and forum users called for a bounty and revenge.
• Blood King led the Blood Pool Legion through ruined cities toward Death Breath City, where Divine King had gathered a player army to meet them.
• Divine King coordinated the players’ defenses, and the Damage-Soaking Groups held the Super Beast Legion’s advance while other players attacked.
• The players trapped the Doomsday Giant Beast with layered restraints and damage effects, preventing Blood King from controlling it or escaping.
• As Blood King neared death, five War Sacrificers arrived and gave their lives to repair his body and open a path through the players’ encirclement.
• The final War Sacrificer gave Blood King their heart and hurled him toward the Blood Pool Legion before shielding him from the players’ bombardment.

The Spirit Breath Race debated how to respond to the invasion and chose to keep the Spatial Passage open while launching defenses against the players. At the Blood Pool base, the Blood King recovered after being given a player potion, and Little Mage realized he had unknowingly spent his time controlling the Blood King slaughtering players.

• The battle ended with the Spirit Breath Race suffering heavy losses, while the Blood King remained near death from the curse linked to the Doomsday Giant Beast.
• The seven surviving throne holders debated whether to close the Spatial Passage to Earth and voted to keep it open as a possible escape route.
• The throne holders dispatched the Bone King and Fungus King toward the players' arrival point and organized city defenses and Hunting Squads to pursue scattered players.
• The players continued attempting to enter the Spirit Breath World, while A Lan struggled to fund the Spatial Passage and the Divine King was sent back to Emperor Jia Village by spatial reverse flow.
• The Soul King gave a seized red potion to the Blood King's War Sacrificer, and the potion healed the Blood King and began reversing the curse.
• The Blood King awakened as Little Mage, discovered that his AFK actions had earned him 120,000 sacrificial power while he slaughtered players, and panicked at the angry messages awaiting him.

Little Mage tried to repair his reputation by promising players the Blood Pool Legion’s stolen resources, but his overloaded Spatial Teleportation Array catastrophically exploded as he arrived. The blast killed the players gathered to collect the giveaway, leaving Little Mage and the damaged Doomsday Giant Beast amid the wreckage.

• Qi Sheng decided not to alter the Blood King's memories, trusting the Purification System to strip away their emotions and treating their contents as hidden-story information.
• Little Mage apologized on the Forum for killing players while under proxy control, offered compensation, and agreed to share intelligence and resources with his fellow players.
• Little Mage looted some valuables for himself, then arranged a Spatial Teleportation Array to bring the Blood Pool Legion’s remaining resources and the Doomsday Giant Beast to players waiting at a remote destination.
• Guide warned Little Mage that returning with the Doomsday Giant Beast was dangerous, but said it could become a Special Life Soul for 970,000 Sacrificial Power; Little Mage chose to teleport without paying.
• The incompatible resources destabilized the Spatial Passage and exploded as Little Mage arrived, killing the gathered players and badly damaging the Doomsday Giant Beast.
• A wounded player accused Little Mage before dying, and Little Mage realized the blast had ruined his attempt to redeem himself.

Little Mage regretted accidentally killing the players he had meant to help, then turned the Doomsday Giant Beast and the Blood King's memory sac into a special Life Soul named Source of Sin. Two days later, he watched the Spirit Breath Race's Thrones discover how vast and incomprehensible the invading world's structure was, and joined their display of terror.

• Little Mage read the players' accusations and learned that his failed giveaway had killed players who had fought their way to him, while Sea Wave removed him from the Loves Surfing by the Sea Guild.
• Little Mage returned to the Blood Pool Legion and asked Guide to turn the Doomsday Giant Beast and the memory sac into a special Life Soul, spending an extra thirty thousand Sacrificial Power.
• Little Mage named the resulting Life Soul Source of Sin, socketed it into a Star Meridian Slot, and recovered the Blood King's memories.
• Two days later, Little Mage joined the seven other Thrones in watching a Floating Giant Beast's reconnaissance of the damaged Spatial Passage and the Colorful Mist Coast.
• The Spirit Breath Race's Thrones saw that the invading world's elemental energy and fundamental structure exceeded their understanding, and Guide explained their shock as a worldview being overturned.
• Little Mage saw the Thrones' terror and imitated their reaction so he would not stand out as the Blood King.

After learning how vast and dangerous Monster World was, the Spirit Breath Race’s Eight Kings abandoned their counterinvasion and chose to flee there rather than settle in Blue World. Little Mage supported their gamble, helped redirect their arrival, and joined the evacuation as they destroyed Spirit Breath World to carry its World Origin into the unknown.

• The seven throne holders debated whether to flee to Blue World or risk settling in Monster World, and voted to stake the Spirit Breath Race’s future on Monster World.
• Little Mage chose the Doomsday Giant Beast’s gradual growth route, planned to build a faction with the Spirit Breath Race, and asked Guide whether he could develop outside the player faction’s usual path.
• The throne holders shut down the passage to Blue World, began preparing a new teleportation array, and decided to spend their resources attempting to extract Spirit Breath World’s Origin.
• Twenty-two days later, 8.43 million selected citizens gathered in Apocalypse City as Little Mage supplied coordinates for a relatively safe arrival region in Monster World.
• The Spirit Breath Race began extracting the World Origin, causing cities and landscapes across their homeland to collapse while the citizens and resources assembled in Apocalypse City.
• The Eight Kings and the surviving civilization entered the spatial passage aboard the World Seed, leaving Spirit Breath World to collapse behind them.

Qi Sheng ended the Spirit Breath invasion crisis and launched a game update introducing growth-type pets and an Alchemy Room. Nightfall Is Coming tested the new medicines and posted a guide as spirit plant prices surged, while Qi Sheng began planning a battle formation update and another recruitment round.

• Qi Sheng watched Little Mage and the Spirit Breath Race settle in a new region of Monster World, then turned his attention to the Eclipse Race after Spirit Breath World's collapse ended the invasion crisis.
• Qi Sheng launched an update adding Lingyun and Crystal Core as growth-type pets and opening the Alchemy Room in Di Family Village.
• Nightfall Is Coming tested the Alchemy Room and found that Evolution Pills traded Sacrificial Power for Life Soul experience, while other pills offered powerful temporary effects with side effects.
• Nightfall Is Coming published a detailed guide explaining the medicines, and players bought up spirit plants, driving their prices sharply higher.
• Qi Sheng began researching a Battle Formation System for players and planned to release two million new player slots in the next recruitment round.

The Crescent Moon weakened the Dark Tide and restored the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to its original state, giving ordinary players and newly arrived guilds a chance to enter Di Nian Bully’s territory. With players swarming in, Di Nian Bully decided to offer paid command and battle assistance to other Dark Tide nodes, despite Evil Eye warning that the Monarch had not authorized it.

• Di Nian Bully fought the returning players for three hours, trading insults with them until the Evil Moon began to change.
• The Evil Moon shifted from a Waxing Crescent to a Crescent Moon, weakening the Dark Tide and restoring the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range’s earlier landscape.
• Players celebrated the new lunar phase, while large guilds recruited members and prepared to establish themselves in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
• New players flooded Di Nian Bully’s territory, and he felt powerless as they spread through the region.
• Di Nian Bully proposed selling his command and battle assistance to other Dark Tide nodes, dismissing Evil Eye’s warning that the Monarch had not approved it.

Di Nian Evil Spirit devised a strategic investment scheme to obtain resources from other Dark Tide nodes, then took command of a battle against the Ember Dragon Clan to protect his investment. After turning the battle around, he caught Gui Ya’s attention, though Di Nian’s sealed player-related records left Gui Ya puzzled.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye reframed their offer of hired combat as a resource investment, and a node agreed to provide a share of its campaign proceeds in exchange for support.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit arrived at Gui Ya’s Land of Embers node and saw the Dark Tide struggling against the Ember Dragon Clan.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit persuaded Gui Ya to transfer command, then used Plague, Natural Disaster, and Frenzy troops to weaken the dragons and reduce Dark Tide casualties.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit’s tactics turned the battle in the Dark Tide’s favor, and Gui Ya recognized his skill and learned he had survived the Abyssal Trial.
• Gui Ya tried to check Di Nian Evil Spirit’s battle records but found key data sealed and a player-strategy guide advertising his paid services.

Qi Sheng learned that the Eclipse Race was releasing a fitness-enhancing Game Pod to help players remain in Monster World longer. As Shuyan forced the Ascension Race to retreat, Xing Yan activated the forbidden Parasitic Seed breeding plan, sacrificing himself and the arbiters to create a stronger generation.

• Qi Sheng read Forum debates about the new Game Pod and real-world dependence on virtual worlds, recognizing that the Eclipse Race had released it to serve the Higher-Dimensional God.
• Shuyan deployed legions drawn from multiple story systems and drove the Ascension Race from its domain while players waited nearby to collect spoils.
• Xing Yan destroyed a resisting Cultivator organization in a Minor World and weighed the Ascension Race’s growing threats from Shuyan, internal revolts, and the Ancient God Race.
• Xing Yan summoned the arbiters and implanted Parasitic Seeds in himself and the others, invoking the forbidden breeding plan to produce a stronger generation.
• Xing Yan died as the seeds consumed him, and thirty-eight new predators emerged from their flesh cocoons carrying the dead’s inherited information.

Qiao Wu discovered a gravely wounded Divine Weapon Race-Tyrant Sword and learned that it preyed on its hosts’ suffering. As Tyrant Sword prepared to make him its next host, it recalled how it had manipulated a boy into killing Li and then abandoned him.

• Rookie players fought Elysium Evil Spirits in chaotic battles across the Rimewinter Snowfield while a stationed Elysium Main God enforced the Lord of Bliss’s combat threshold.
• Qiao Wu explored an unmapped area northeast of the battlefield, shared a screenshot with his exploration group, and ate Spirit Food that gave him Body Tempering experience.
• After Qiao Wu fell asleep beneath a Snow Tree, a broken Tyrant Sword appeared nearby, and he used Analysis Information to learn how it manipulated hosts and grew by consuming their negative emotions.
• Tyrant Sword recalled how it had isolated and tormented its previous host, an Alien Races Boy, then manipulated him into killing Li and abandoned him after he became numb with despair.
• Tyrant Sword explained that a purple-skinned being had broken it in two with a single palm strike and resolved to use Qiao Wu as its next host.

Qiao Wu found the Tyrant Sword in the Rimewinter Snowfield but sold the chance to claim it to the Pain Brothers, Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng, for 25,000 Sacrificial Power. Jiang Cheng became its host, unaware that the sword was already plotting to torment him and exploit his bond with Xia Sheng.

• The Tyrant Sword tried to tempt Qiao Wu with visions of its power, but he decided it was a poor fit for him and sought out the Pain Brothers instead.
• Qiao Wu negotiated with Whoever hits me is a dog, agreeing to sell the hidden opportunity for 25,000 Sacrificial Power and directing the brothers to the Tyrant Sword.
• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng traveled to the snowfield, where Qiao Wu explained that the sword fed on its hosts and liked pain.
• Jiang Cheng took hold of the Tyrant Sword and became its host, while the weapon mistook his unreadable thoughts for an unusual physical incompatibility.
• Jiang Cheng paid Qiao Wu, then told Xia Sheng that the sword's binding was not a true Challenger Prompt and that they could kill and sell it if it proved worthless.
• The Tyrant Sword heard of Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng's close bond and began plotting to make Jiang Cheng suffer by turning him against his brother.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng used a fabricated revenge story to draw the Tyrant Sword into helping them, while Jiang Cheng secretly exploited its power to strengthen himself. After discovering that the Pain Amulet could fuse with a divine artifact rule, they began planning to obtain the Tyrant Sword’s clan’s rules and fulfill the old man’s unfinished work.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng told the Tyrant Sword that the Dark Tide had destroyed their Heavenly Fire Clan, and the sword concealed its fear of the faction.
• Jiang Cheng killed monsters with the Rending trait, preventing the Tyrant Sword from absorbing their Blood Energy and making it falsely claim it was recovering.
• The Tyrant Sword used its rule-derived energy to inflict pain on Jiang Cheng, but it gained no negative emotions while Jiang Cheng raised his Pain Life Soul by three levels and Body Tempering by two.
• Xia Sheng learned from Guide that beings outside the player system could not absorb negative emotions produced inside players, and he proposed fusing the Pain Amulet with a divine artifact rule.
• Guide confirmed the fusion was possible for a hefty amount of Sacrificial Power, and Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng resolved to obtain the Divine Artifact Clan’s rules and fulfill the old man’s wish.
• The Tyrant Sword mistook Jiang Cheng’s intense gaze for reverence, unaware that Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng were plotting to exploit it and eventually wipe out its clan.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng followed Tyrant Sword to a hidden resource vault, where Tyrant Sword recovered some strength from stored Blood Energy. Jiang Cheng then sabotaged its attempts to regain power through hunting until it asked him to escort it to its Clan Territory, giving him a chance to find the Divine Artifact Clan.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng crossed the Great Demon Wasteland and reached Tyrant Sword’s hidden resource vault.
• They found the remains of Jian Xin and learned that Tyrant Sword had prolonged his death to feed on his pain.
• Tyrant Sword drained the Blood Energy from the cauldron, while Jiang Cheng took the vault’s remaining items and concealed his true plans.
• Jiang Cheng secretly prevented Tyrant Sword from absorbing energy from successive hunts, leaving it confused and despairing.
• Tyrant Sword asked Jiang Cheng to escort it to its Clan Territory so it could recover, and Jiang Cheng readily agreed.

Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng traveled with Tyrant Sword to the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory, where the sword learned that its body showed no signs of damage and discovered the Elysium Tribe had once nearly destroyed its clan. When Tyrant Sword realized Jiang Cheng had been preventing it from absorbing blood energy, the Pain Brothers trapped it in unbearable pain and killed it, leaving a challenger prompt.

• Tyrant Sword carried Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng across several regions to the Divine Artifact Clan’s territory, while Guide explained that the clan was born from rules and followed their logic rather than moral distinctions.
• Jiang Cheng used Analysis on the dead Heavenly Sword and learned how the righteous Heavenly Sword Lineage had lost its war against the Evil Sword Lineage.
• The Divine Artifact Clan’s elders examined Tyrant Sword, found no bodily fault, and identified the Elysium Tribe as the race that had once gravely injured it.
• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng left the territory with Tyrant Sword, and Jiang Cheng wielded it to kill a lizard monster, revealing that the sword could absorb blood energy when someone else controlled it.
• Tyrant Sword realized Jiang Cheng had been suppressing its abilities and attacked him, but Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng bound it with Pain Touch and overwhelmed its consciousness with pain.
• Tyrant Sword cracked and died as its blood energy flowed into Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng, who celebrated their combo before receiving a challenger prompt.

After Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng killed Tyrant Sword, Evil Sword arrived and killed them, ending their Hidden Mission. Qi Sheng then planned a one-click return feature, learned about the Four Gods’ powers, and reviewed new Primordial Monsters and the increasingly varied player community.

• Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng gained Evolution Points and Sacrificial Power from killing Tyrant Sword, then resolved to take the Divine Artifact Rule from the Divine Artifact Clan.
• Evil Sword confronted Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng over Tyrant Sword’s death and vaporized them with his sword energy.
• Qi Sheng decided to add a one-click Return function to the Challenger System and asked Guide to compare the Four Gods at their peaks.
• Guide described the powers of Guide, Ultra-Dimensional, Yan Ming, and Nine Yin, while Qi Sheng concluded that Emperor Zhao and the Dark Tide God surpassed them.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the containment of Blood Wall, Battle Intent, and Misfortune, along with player assessments of their Life Soul traits.
• Qi Sheng observed that strategy guide players and Research Enthusiasts had formed distinct communities, with Learning Knows No Bounds earning recognition for solving complex player challenges.

Di Nian and the Evil Eye repelled the players’ attack and devised a countermeasure to their new emotional-damage ability. The Evil Eye then proposed exploiting the players’ curiosity to create demand for Di Nian’s carry service, and Di Nian agreed to fund research into a concealed projection teleportation array.

• Di Nian completed a proxy battle, earned dark tide energy, and began planning a long-term alliance with three Evil Spirit Warriors.
• When Jiang Cheng and Xia Sheng used Pain Touch to transmit emotional damage through Di Nian’s controlled Evil Spirits, Di Nian killed them and the Evil Eye proposed redirecting future attacks through a conduction network.
• After the battle, the Evil Eye explained how the Player Race had forced Di Nian to become a stronger commander, but Di Nian failed to enjoy the idea and made the Evil Eye kowtow after it insulted him.
• The Evil Eye proposed sending curious players toward other Dark Tide Nodes so their warriors would need Di Nian’s paid carry service, and Di Nian suggested a projected teleportation array whose core stayed inside the High Tower.
• The Evil Eye identified problems with concealing and protecting the array, then promised to research a new projection method, and Di Nian agreed to support the plan.