Chapter Summaries

The Star Network switched to grade A power and used its enhanced calculations to direct the battle, while the Player Race opened a second front to draw Dark Tide and Insect Race forces away from the Gigantification Domain. The chapter ended with Divine King and a million players teleporting back to the main battlefield at full health, suddenly reversing the apparent defeat.

• The Star Network activated grade A war overclocking mode, lifted its computing limits, and began predicting the movements of the Di Nian Evil Spirit and the Zerg Master Brain.
• The divine tiger neared death, but the Di Nian Evil Spirit pulled it into the Dark Tide and used its life energy, turning the battle back into a stalemate.
• Following the Star Network's plan, Divine King led players to attack the Evil Eye High Tower while another group under the Star Network drew the Insect Race into a second battlefield near Phantom Marsh.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit recognized the players' plan and diverted more forces to defend the High Tower as the Player Legion suffered heavy losses in the Gigantification Domain.
• After the Star Network confirmed the Di Nian Evil Spirit had committed enough resources to the second battlefield, Divine King told players to use Location Teleport scrolls to return to the Gigantification Domain.
• Divine King teleported with the players, and a million fully restored players appeared on the main battlefield.

The Star Network reversed the losing battle in the Gigantification Domain by teleporting a million players onto the field, allowing them to overwhelm the Dark Tide and claim the Gigantification Rule. The Di Nian Evil Spirit accepted the defeat but vowed to grow stronger and face the Mysterious Commander again.

• The Star Network used Location Teleport Scrolls to bring a million players from the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to the Gigantification Domain battlefield.
• The Divine King ordered the players to drink their potions, and their empowered charge overwhelmed the Dark Tide, Insect Race, and Giant Beast forces.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit realized the battle was lost as the Dark Tide retreated, while the Four Great Evil Spirits accepted defeat and resolved to grow stronger.
• The players advanced toward the Twelve Divine Pillars and celebrated as an Assassin Build player touched the Rule Inscription.
• The Challenger Prompt announced that the Bully Buster warband, founded by Divine King, had claimed the Gigantification Rule.

Qi Sheng reshaped the gigantification rule into a powerful growth path for Monster Beast Style players, and the system announced new abilities, Tyrant Hall, and a coming battle event. As players celebrated the update and debated the new path, Nightfall Is Coming headed out to prepare a guide.

• Qi Sheng used sacrificial power and a wisp of his origin to rebuild the gigantification rule and integrate it into the challenger system, strengthening his Emperor Zhao body.
• The system announced the Gigantification abilities and a Tyrant battlefield event scheduled to begin after the update.
• Players argued on the Forum about whether Monster Beast Style could compete with Star Meridian builds and questioned the cost of Dharma Aspect Tyrant.
• Tyrant Hall emerged in Emperor Tomb Village's northern district, and players learned they could unlock a tyrant growth path there.
• At Colorful Mist Coast, Divine King asked Nightfall Is Coming to write a guide, and Nightfall Is Coming left the beach for the teleportation point.

Nightfall Is Coming explored the six Tyrant Paths, tested Qi Eater with the Taotie Path in the new Tyrant Battlefield event, and then studied other players’ builds to identify their strengths and counters. The event’s matchups revealed several powerful combinations and sparked a revival of Monster Beast Style.

• Nightfall Is Coming selected the Black-Armored Snake form and examined demonstrations of the six Tyrant Paths, learning how each path enhanced a different attribute.
• Nightfall Is Coming tested Monster Beast Style and Tyrant Dharma Form, then published a guide before the Tyrant Battlefield event began.
• Nightfall Is Coming entered the event as Qi Eater with the Taotie Path and defeated a Rending Life Soul player by outlasting their attacks with rapid regeneration.
• Nightfall Is Coming watched event livestreams and ranked several builds, noting their counters and identifying Gang Qi with the Chaos Path as a combination without an obvious weakness.
• Players debated the strongest builds on the forum as veteran players returned to Monster Beast Style.

A Lan expanded the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s consignment business to help players sell Adventurer Instance loot to alien races while supporting the Player Faction. After announcing the pilot program, he began writing a Five-Dimensional Valuation Method guide to help players price Trading House goods.

• A Lan reviewed the Chamber’s growing trade on Dream Island, including its neutral policy toward warring races and plans to expand its docks and services.
• A Lan chose a player consignment model for selling weapons, equipment, and other Instance loot to alien races, with the Chamber taking a 10% commission instead of buying and reselling the goods itself.
• A Lan published the Chamber’s announcement inviting players to consign items, and players quickly contacted its staff to join the pilot program.
• A Lan decided to recruit more Chamber members and create a valuation guide after players asked for help pricing unfamiliar goods.
• A Lan consulted materials in the Library in Di Family Village and published a Five-Dimensional Valuation Method guide covering resource level, uses, novelty, rare attributes, and current demand.

Divine King reviewed how Di Nian Bully’s Evil Eye predicted the Divine Hall regiment and concluded he needed new tactics rather than trying to outthink Bully. He developed battlefield roles for updated Monster Beast Style builds and summoned his guild to begin testing them in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

• Divine King studied past battles and Guide’s analysis of how Evil Eye used troop movements, habits, expressions, and behavioral profiles to predict his commands.
• Divine King decided that changing the regiment’s ingrained combat habits was too difficult and that he needed new tactics to counter the Bully Alliance.
• Divine King planned to use Qi Eater and Taotie Path players as rear-line health packs, and Qi Eater and Spirit Venerable players as Mental Power supplies.
• Divine King proposed using Golem and Gargoyle builds as front-line walls, Binding and Spirit Venerable builds as control units, and Sluggishness Domain builds for battlefield disruption.
• Divine King called the Apex of Players group back from vacation and ordered the members to assemble in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range for practical combat tests.

Qi Sheng investigated an anomalous force targeting the Mechanical Legion and traced its origins to Kongjie, a player in Falling Star World whose game contained the Virtual Runes Civilization. As Kongjie’s civilization suffered a powerful demon invasion, its altar Illusion asked him to upgrade his real-world computer, leaving him stunned.

• Qi Sheng spent Sacrificial Power to investigate the incoming force and traced it back through time to Falling Star World.
• Kongjie bought Civilization War during a meteor shower, survived the impact, and discovered that the game had fused with the last spark of the Virtual Runes Civilization.
• Kongjie chose Virtual Runes, developed its empire, and defeated the Forge Clan and Shadow Roar’s Shadow Empire with overwhelming force.
• Kongjie’s expansion awakened the Rockheart Clan, whose abilities devastated his troops and reclaimed much of his territory.
• Illusion contacted Kongjie during the invasion and asked him to upgrade the processing capacity of his real-world brain-computer.

Kongjie refused to surrender Illusion and led the Virtual Runes Empire through years of wars until it conquered all Seven Continents. As the End Dharma Race’s invasion threatened his life, the empire’s ultimate weapon broke the boundary between virtuality and reality, bringing its forces to protect him.

• After upgrading his Brain Computer, Kongjie increased his civilization’s development speed and repelled the Rockheart Demon Clan.
• Epoch Games failed to erase the Virtual Runes Empire, so it launched an in-game campaign against Kongjie, who refused to hand Illusion over.
• Kongjie and Illusion endured years of battles, and Kongjie’s father’s death drove him to devote himself even more completely to the virtual world.
• As the End Dharma Race invaded Interstellar Bay, Kongjie defeated the Decayed Civilization and fulfilled his promise to conquer the Seven Continents with Illusion.
• When the city’s destruction reached Kongjie, the ultimate weapon activated, revealing Illusion’s recovered memories and tearing open the boundary between virtuality and reality.
• The Runes Imperial Guard and Imaginary Battleships emerged from the rift and began protecting Kongjie from the End Dharma Race.

Kongjie reunited with Illusion as the Virtual Runes Legion descended, destroyed the End Dharma Race, and then parted from Illusion as it set out for the Monster World. Qi Sheng learned how the Legion had been created and why it had returned to challenge the Mechanical Legion, while the Star Network prepared to pursue the powerful rules held by both sides.

• Illusion led the Virtual Runes Legion into battle and erased the End Dharma fleet and its homeworld after Kongjie chose the "Erase" option.
• Illusion revealed that Dimensional Ascension was its ultimate weapon and explained that it was a two-dimensional life-form carrying the hope of Wuxiao's civilization.
• Illusion gave Kongjie a data crystal and departed for the Earthshaking Continent, promising to return in a new form if its expedition failed.
• Qi Sheng watched Reversal footage revealing how Wuxiao created Illusion, reduced the Virtual Runes Legion to two dimensions, and sent it toward a Minor World.
• Qi Sheng learned that Illusion had returned to confront the Mechanical Legion with forces designed to counter it, while the Star Network could seek either side's rule through its own efforts.

Qi Sheng reviewed the Player Faction’s playstyles and their returns before turning his attention to Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group’s final willpower assessment at the Against the Tide Training Camp. As the trainees endured a month of baleful wind, Li Zheng and his teammates used Life Connection to transfer and spread their pain among the other trainees.

• Qi Sheng examined player statistics, noting that Against the Tide Training Camp students earned the highest returns and that Li Zheng’s Hardcore Grinders Group had reached Phase Five.
• Demon Shield bound Li Zheng, Long Gen, and the other trainees in Throat-Rending Valley for a month of Baleful Wind Body Tempering, warning that failure would end their assessment.
• The trainees endured relentless pain, and Li Zheng and his brothers complained and joked with Long Gen as the baleful wind intensified.
• Family-Sharing Godfather proposed using Life Connection to transfer damage, and Li Zheng bought the Life Soul and secretly connected it to Long Gen.
• The other Hardcore Grinders Group members followed Li Zheng’s example, using Life Connection and Scattershot to distribute the damage across the trainees, who erupted into wails.

Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group helped their Training Camp buddies endure the baleful wind, but an unprecedented storm exhausted the trainees’ blood energy and left them facing death. As the others began giving Li Zheng their tokens and final messages, he revealed that the players had secretly brought recovery potions and food, leaving Ghost Eye stunned by the Player Race’s hidden supplies.

• Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group used Qi Eater and life connection to keep their buddies alive through the first days of baleful wind training while masking their own lack of pain.
• After the wind subsided, Li Zheng reflected on Ghost Eye’s explanation that the trainees fought for their races’ survival and accepted that he could only accompany and protect his buddies.
• When the baleful wind returned with overwhelming force, Long Gen, Ghost Eye, the Yudu Race leader, and the other trainees took turns using blood energy shields to protect everyone.
• Li Zheng and the other players took over with their stronger blood shields, but the storm continued, and the trainees began preparing for death and entrusting Li Zheng with tokens and final messages.
• Li Zheng gave Ghost Eye a hidden recovery potion, then the Player Race trainees produced more potions and food from their Spatial Inventories, stunning the others.
• Ghost Eye watched Li Zheng eat and recalled the Player Race’s past hunger endurance, renewing his long-standing question about how they tolerated hunger so well.

Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group revealed their hidden food supplies and fed their starving fellow trainees during the fiendish-wind training. After the trainees resumed enduring the winds, Instructor Demon Shield arrived and was baffled by how healthy they looked.

• Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group feasted in front of the starving trainees, then shared food and wine with Ghost Eye, Long Gen, and the others.
• The trainees discussed a Ghost Wind Race story that the fiendish wind came from the breathing of the sealed Fate Race beneath Throat-Rending Valley.
• Li Zheng reflected on the bond he and the Hardcore Grinders Group had formed with their fellow trainees, and the group continued training while sharing regular feasts.
• The trainees dismissed their blood-energy barriers and endured the baleful winds, while Li Zheng and his friends used Life Connection and Dissipation to share their pain.
• Instructor Demon Shield arrived and found the trainees unusually healthy compared with those in other training regions.

Li Zheng and the trainees encountered Fate Throat, a demigod Equivalent Gamble Merchant, on their way back to camp and learned how his fate wagers worked. Eat Dirt gambled his parents as stakes and lost, prompting Emperor Zhao's power to descend on Earth as the chapter ended.

• Li Zheng and the trainees met Fate Throat, who explained that his Equivalent Gambles traded stakes for items of equivalent value through a fifty-percent random judgment.
• Li Zheng won ten level-five spirit plants, and Long Gen won the Dragon Spine Ancestral Scale needed to access his race's secret treasure.
• Eat Dirt tried to profit by gambling spirit plants, lost several rounds, and then wagered his parents after claiming he had found a bug.
• Eat Dirt lost the wager, and his parents began turning insubstantial as the fate rule claimed them.
• Qi Sheng noticed what had happened and sent Emperor Zhao's power toward Earth.

After Qi Sheng protected Eat Dirt’s parents from the Fate Rules, Fate Throat ended their wager, and Qi Sheng patched the game to prevent Monster World’s rules from affecting Earth. He launched the Game Workshop and its creative contest, whose player-made Plugins quickly spread; by the third day, Qi Sheng was preparing to recruit five million new players.

• The Fate Rules tried to claim Eat Dirt’s parents, but Qi Sheng used the Emperor Zhao Self-Fixated Origin to protect them and repel the rules.
• Fate Throat ended the wager after realizing a stronger Power of Rules protected Eat Dirt’s stakes, and the group continued toward camp.
• Qi Sheng created an update that blocked Earth-related interactions in Monster World and charged Eat Dirt’s future earnings 123,839 points of Sacrificial Power for his intervention.
• Qi Sheng launched the Game Workshop and a three-day Creative Contest, letting players make and share Plugins for customized features.
• Players released popular Plugins including Fishing Log, Instance Speedrun, Personal Finance Assistant, Poem of Scenery, and A Lan’s Gold Coin Trends.
• On the third day after the update, Qi Sheng began planning to recruit five million new players.

Qi Sheng released five million Monster World access slots, and Ning Shu won a player qualification after learning that his mother, Ning Qing, needed urgent treatment in Eclipse City. He resolved to use the game to earn the sacrificial power needed to get her there within twenty days.

• Qi Sheng announced the access release and selected the war-torn southern Earthshaking Continent as the starting area for new players.
• Ning Shu prepared to enter the access lottery while managing his inherited genetic disorder and caring for his mother, Ning Qing.
• Uncle An told Ning Shu that Ning Qing had been exposed to a corrosive pollutant at the Purification Center and had been taken to the medical center.
• A doctor told Ning Shu that Ning Qing needed transfer to Eclipse City within twenty days, and Ning Shu remembered that Monster World players could use sacrificial power to access medical treatment there.
• Ning Shu entered the access lottery and won player qualification, then vowed to save his mother.

Ning Shu entered Monster World and hunted through Eternal Silence Ice Lake, using ranged attacks and later a controlled Frost-Armored Giant to improve his efficiency. Still short of the Sacrificial Power needed for his mother’s treatment, he found a gravely wounded Six-Armed Profound Ice whose former level suggested a risky opportunity.

• Ning Shu chose the Scattershot life soul and began hunting Frost-Eroded Snail Spirits in the newly opened Eternal Silence Ice Lake.
• After seven days of hunting, Ning Shu reached body tempering level 1, socketed Strength Savage Axe, and defeated two Snow-Burial Foxes to place 98th in the Leveling Frenzy event and earn 30,000 Sacrificial Power.
• Ning Shu died while fighting Ice Crystal Scorpions, then used his respawn cooldown to devise a strategy involving the Control life soul and captured a Frost-Armored Giant as a damage-soaking tank.
• Ning Shu hunted with the Frost-Armored Giant and increased his Sacrificial Power to 46,000, but remained 44,000 short of his goal with eight days left.
• Ning Shu entered a dangerous area and used Analysis on a statue, discovering that the Six-Armed Profound Ice had once had a hunting level of 382 and was now gravely wounded and dormant.

On the trainees’ journey back to Splitthroat Grounds, Fate Throat, a Demigod merchant of the Fate Race, offered them Equivalent Gambles. Eat Dirt lost a wager using his parents as stakes, and the resulting Fate Rule began erasing them on Earth as Qi Sheng intervened.

• Li Zheng and the trainees walked back through the Baleful Wind, then encountered Fate Throat and learned that he offered trades through random, equal-value gambles.
• A Yudu Race trainee named Qingyu considered wagering memories tied to his armguard but withdrew, while Li Zheng won five additional level-5 Spirit Plants by gambling three of his own.
• Long Gen wagered items he owned and won the Dragon Spine Ancestral Scale · Reverse Scale Fragment, the key to his race’s secret treasures.
• Eat Dirt lost several gambles while trying to profit from Trading House price differences, then wagered his parents and lost again after Li Zheng let him proceed.
• On Earth, Eat Dirt’s parents began turning insubstantial as the Fate Rule collected the lost stake, and Qi Sheng sent the Power of Emperor Zhao toward Earth.

After Eat Dirt’s bet with Fate Throat triggered the Fate Rules against his parents, Qi Sheng protected them with the Emperor Zhao Self-Fixated Origin and prepared updates to prevent similar incursions into Earth. He launched the Game Workshop and its creative contest, whose plugins quickly transformed player life, and ended by considering recruiting five million more players.

• The Fate Rules began breaking down Eat Dirt’s parents into light, but Qi Sheng shielded them with the Emperor Zhao Self-Fixated Origin and returned them to normal.
• Fate Throat ended the betting contract after the Fate Rules failed to collect Eat Dirt’s stake; Eat Dirt’s group then continued toward camp.
• Qi Sheng decided to patch the loophole, recover 123,839 Sacrificial Power from Eat Dirt’s future earnings, and launch the Game Workshop.
• An all-channel update introduced immersive-world restrictions, the Game Workshop, and a three-day plugin contest offering rewards to the top ten creators.
• Players released popular plugins for fishing, instances, inventory and finances, exploration, market prices, and mining as downloads and contest rankings climbed.
• After the update ended, Qi Sheng considered recruiting five million new players.

Qi Sheng announced that five million new players would receive access to Monster World, and Ning Shu won a slot after learning his mother, Ning Qing, needed emergency treatment in Eclipse City. He ended the chapter with a chance to use the game to secure her treatment, though he still had to enter Monster World and earn enough Sacrificial Power.

• Qi Sheng announced a new access release and chose the war-torn Earthshaking Continent as the starting region for the newcomers.
• Ning Shu prepared to compete for access, hoping Monster World would help him earn money to treat his inherited genetic disease and support his mother, Ning Qing.
• After Ning Shu brought lunch to the purification center, Uncle An told him that Ning Qing had been exposed to a dangerous pollutant and taken to a medical center.
• Doctors said Ning Qing needed a Special Medical Pod in Eclipse City within twenty days, and Ning Shu remembered that Monster World players could seek additional treatment access through the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
• Ning Shu entered the access drawing and won player access, giving him hope that he could arrange treatment for Ning Qing.

Ning Shu raced to earn Sacrificial Power for his mother’s medical treatment, placing 98th in the Leveling Frenzy and adapting his lone-wolf hunting style by controlling a Frost-Armored Giant as a tank. With only eight days left and his earnings still far short of the goal, he found a gravely wounded Six-Armed Profound Ice whose original Hunting Level was 382, inspiring a bold idea.

• Ning Shu chose the Scattershot life soul and hunted Frost-Eroded Snail Spirits and Sky-Rending Ice Moths in Eternal Silence Ice Lake, improving his combat skills and reaching body tempering level 1.
• Ning Shu socketed the Strength Savage Axe life soul, then fought two Snow-Burial Foxes and earned 30,000 Sacrificial Power by placing 98th in the Leveling Frenzy.
• Ning Shu died to a barrage from Ice Crystal Scorpions, reviewed his footage, and decided to use the Control life soul to capture a durable monster as a tank.
• Ning Shu captured a Frost-Armored Giant and used it to shield him while he hunted Icefang Predators, greatly increasing his efficiency.
• Ning Shu accumulated 46,000 Sacrificial Power with eight days remaining, then ventured into a dangerous cracked area seeking stronger monsters and discovered a dormant Six-Armed Profound Ice with an original Hunting Level of 382.