Chapter Summaries

Qi Sheng reviewed three newly contained Life Souls and their uses, while Jiang Zhou began combining fishing with delivery work in the Azure Star Sea. After catching a Redglow Fish and enjoying a Spirit Food meal, Jiang Zhou followed a snagged line underwater and discovered a hidden resource space concealing a domain node.

• Qi Sheng reviewed the oath space, chaos, and Plague Poem Life Souls, including their traits, drawbacks, and possible builds.
• Jiang Zhou accepted a Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce delivery to Frosthold Fortress while fishing across the Azure Star Sea.
• Jiang Zhou caught and prepared a Redglow Fish with Flame Pepper Paste, gaining Body Tempering experience as he ate.
• Jiang Zhou hooked something he could not pull free, stopped his Vehicle, and followed the line underwater.
• Jiang Zhou discovered that his hook had entered an Energy Supply Space created by the extinct Abyss Crystal Race, which concealed a domain node.

Jiang Zhou discovered that a Hunting Level 179 guardian protected the Semi-Independent Space and learned that players could claim its Quantification Rule only by defeating it or breaking the barrier. After studying Doll No. 2’s attack patterns, Ding Xiao led the Stargazer Guild in a coordinated assault that lasted longer than any previous attempt but ended in defeat; he then sought elite reinforcements for another challenge.

• Jiang Zhou learned that the Semi-Independent Space’s guardian was too powerful for him, struggled to cut his fishing line free, and received a reward of 1,000 Sacrificial Power for discovering the Domain Node region.
• Supergod Chicklet explained on the forum that players needed to break the Semi-Independent Space’s barrier to expose the node, since no current group could defeat the guardian, Doll No. 2.
• Ding Xiao studied recordings of failed attempts, identified patterns in Doll No. 2’s attacks, and planned a challenge using a 512-member Stargazer Guild force.
• Ding Xiao led the Stargazer Guild into the Semi-Independent Space, where his tactical commands helped the group coordinate attacks and evade Doll No. 2’s lethal threads.
• After the Stargazer Guild’s assault and final Battle Formation failed, Ding Xiao reviewed the battle and asked Woshnidie to gather eighty elite players for another attempt.

Ding Xiao led the Stargazer Guild and eighty elite allies through repeated failed attempts to defeat Doll No. 2, until Tourist No. 1 showed him how to use Oath Space and Flowing Shadow Clone to survive its full-screen bombardment. After they defeated the doll and claimed the Spatial Node, a forum post revealed that it had been a housekeeping robot named Xiao Ci, guarding the home of a girl who never returned from the Abyss Crystal Race’s final battle.

• Ding Xiao reflected on his history as a commander and prepared a new strategy against Doll No. 2 with help from the Veteran Corps and Divine Hall Guild players.
• Ding Xiao tried using pets as sacrifices, but the warband was wiped out by Doll No. 2’s full-screen beam bombardment.
• Tourist No. 1 advised Ding Xiao to use Flowing Shadow Clone and Oath Space to protect the warband from the bombardment.
• Ding Xiao’s warband repeatedly evaded the beams, returned to the battlefield, and destroyed Doll No. 2 before entering its chamber and claiming the Spatial Node.
• A forum post by Most Beautiful Food explained that Doll No. 2, originally Xiao Ci, had guarded the node for its owner after the Abyss Crystal Race fell.

Qi Sheng developed the newly contained quantification rule while a rising Dark Tide anomaly threatened Earth. At an Arctic monitoring station, Yu Chuan survived a Dark Tide creature’s attack when Monster World forcibly converted his body, and he discovered that his Gang Qi could repel the darkness.

• Qi Sheng contained the quantification rule and planned to use it to display monsters’ health and mana for players.
• Eclipse City’s Security Center detected a rapidly intensifying Arctic rift and notified its Administrator.
• Yu Chuan completed his monitoring patrol, logged into Monster World, and fought with a party in the Phantom Spirit Wasteland.
• A Dark Tide engulfed the Arctic station, disabled its systems, and began dissolving Yu Chuan’s body as he tried to transmit a warning.
• Monster World activated Yu Chuan’s Player Body conversion, spending his Sacrificial Power to restore his body and manifest his Gang Qi.
• Yu Chuan’s Gang Qi forced the Dark Tide mist to recoil, and his Analysis identified the threat as the Dark Tide.

Qi Sheng temporarily converted Yu Chuan into a player body, allowing him to fight the Dark Tide Blood Slave and the ensuing horde of Evil Spirits at the Arctic monitoring station. Yu Chuan collapsed after exhausting himself, but Eclipse Race warships arrived, destroyed the invading Dark Tide, and lifted him aboard for treatment.

• Qi Sheng observed the Dark Tide incursion on Earth and temporarily fed part of Yu Chuan’s player power back into his real body.
• Yu Chuan identified and killed a Dark Tide Blood Slave, then fought the growing horde of Evil Spirits while the station’s database and emergency transmission systems remained inaccessible.
• Yu Chuan’s Gang Qi ran low as he battled the seemingly endless Evil Spirits; he leveled up during the fight but eventually exhausted his strength and collapsed.
• Three Eclipse Race warships arrived, bombarded the Dark Tide forces, and destroyed all the power that had descended on Earth.
• The warships scanned the battlefield and began restoring the damaged environment, while one lifted the gravely wounded Yu Chuan aboard.

Yu Chuan learned from Star Network that Monster World was real and that its player powers could affect reality, while the Earth Alliance was being prepared to resist the Dark Tide. After returning to the restored Arctic station, he decided to spend his and his family’s savings on sacrificial power.

• Star Network treated Yu Chuan on the moon and showed him footage proving that his battle against the Dark Tide Evil Spirits had really happened.
• Star Network explained that Monster World was a real world, player bodies and powers were real, and the Higher-Dimensional God had given players a chance to fight the Dark Tide.
• Star Network revealed that the Eclipse Race had concealed the truth, used players to stop the Spirit Breath Race’s invasion, and needed Yu Chuan to keep the secret.
• Star Network privately recalled that it had cut off the Arctic station’s communications and expected Yu Chuan to die, but his player power feedback had led it to save him instead.
• Yu Chuan returned to the restored Arctic station, called his father, and said he wanted to spend all their savings on sacrificial power.

Yu Chuan arrived in the Senluo Forest Realm Region with almost no Sacrificial Power and was rejected by guilds because his level was too low. He joined Pig Teammate’s squad after learning they had discovered a way to capture Soul Beasts and sell them to Control-type players, leaving him eager to pursue the opportunity.

• Yu Chuan found himself stranded with no Sacrificial Power after graduating from A Le's Training Camp, sold supplies to afford travel, and reached the Senluo Forest Realm Region.
• Yu Chuan researched the region’s guilds and contacted several recruiters, but they rejected him because his level was below their requirements.
• Yu Chuan found Pig Teammate’s recruitment notice for low-strength A Le Academy graduates and joined the nineteen-person squad after hearing about its profit-making opportunity.
• Pig Teammate explained that the squad planned to enter a Soul Return Race breeding base and capture Soul Beast seeds, which could evolve into powerful pets for Control-type players.
• Yu Chuan recognized the value of Soul Beasts and agreed that the squad had found a lucrative source of future income.

Yu Chuan joined Pig Teammate’s veteran team to steal Soul Beast seeds from a nest guarded by Soul Slaves, and after dying on his first attempt, he returned with a Hoverboard and helped the team secure and sell a seed to Lingering Melody. As Yu Chuan settled in with his new companions and earned over 100,000 Sacrificial Power, the team received a purchase request from the famous player Little Mage, leaving them facing a difficult decision.

• Pig Teammate explained the Soul Beast Nest’s traps and the team’s plan, and Yu Chuan agreed to enter while the others covered him.
• Yu Chuan was overwhelmed by Soul Slaves on his first raid and died, then used the captain’s Sacrificial Power to buy a basic Hoverboard and return.
• Yu Chuan stole a Soul Beast seed with a Windwalk Pill, escaped the nest, and passed it to his teammates, who defeated the pursuing Soul Slaves.
• Pig Teammate sold the seed to Lingering Melody for 220,000 Sacrificial Power, and Yu Chuan repaid the captain’s earlier loan before deciding to stay with the team for a while.
• Over the next three days, Yu Chuan helped steal more seeds and earned over 100,000 Sacrificial Power, until Little Mage contacted Pig Teammate to buy some, making the team hesitate.

Yu Chuan’s squad sold Little Mage a Soul Beast seed for eight hundred thousand sacrificial power, and Little Mage used it to create a mining creature that could withstand spatial radiation. After the experiment succeeded, he considered feeding it his Doomsday Giant Beast and asked Guide for help.

• Little Mage offered Yu Chuan’s squad eight hundred thousand sacrificial power for a Soul Beast seed, and the squad secretly agreed to sell it.
• Little Mage paid the full amount and collected the seed through a spatial rift, surprising the squad with his reliability and growing spatial abilities.
• Little Mage reflected on becoming the Spirit Breath Race’s king and explained his plan to develop the race and improve mining at the Startrace Valley deposit.
• Little Mage hatched the Soul Beast and made it devour a Glow Spider and a Biological Mining Machine, giving it the spider’s resistance to spatial radiation and mining abilities.
• Little Mage tested the transformed Soul Beast in the Startrace Valley mine and confirmed that it could withstand the radiation.
• Little Mage considered having the Soul Beast devour his Doomsday Giant Beast, then asked Guide for help.

Little Mage sold Spirit Breath Race resources to raise sacrificial power, then fused the Soul Beast, the Doomsday Giant Beast’s devouring quasi-rule, and March of the Dead into a new special life soul. He named it Myriad Forms, and an all-channel announcement prompted players to curse him as a traitor.

• Little Mage used March of the Dead as a framework for combining the Soul Beast’s soul-shaping rule with the Doomsday Giant Beast’s devouring quasi-rule, reducing the creation cost to 5.29 million sacrificial power.
• Little Mage sold spirit plants, spirit ore, and crafted goods from Spirit Breath City’s warehouses to gather enough sacrificial power.
• Little Mage linked with the Doomsday Giant Beast and controlled it to break open its chest, allowing the Soul Beast to devour it.
• Guide reshaped the Soul Beast and devouring quasi-rule with March of the Dead, creating a new special life soul that could change forms and summon as a beast.
• Little Mage socketed the life soul, tested its four forms, and named it Myriad Forms.
• An all-channel announcement celebrated Little Mage’s creation, and players across the Forum and chat channels cursed him as a traitor.

The Mingwu Race invaded the Ascension Sea, forcing the Ascension Race and Shuyan to prepare for war as Qi Sheng watched their opening clashes and assessed their military systems. As the wider conflict drew players seeking battlefield loot, Qi Sheng turned to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, where Di Nian Bully faced another assault and lamented his endless, unrewarding fight against the players.

• The Mingwu Race launched its invasion, and the Ascension Race and Shuyan prepared their armies to defend their territories.
• Shuyan summoned a sacred legion from Demon Slaying to counter the Mingwu Race, while the Ascension Race raised its Spirit Root Divine Pillar.
• The Mingwu Race used formations and shared energy to overwhelm the Ascension Race and pressure Shuyan, and Qi Sheng judged that the Ascension Race faced defeat while Shuyan might adapt or flee.
• Players flocked to the war to scavenge loot, with Assassin Build players using Oath Space to capture weakened combatants.
• Qi Sheng watched three United Warbands attack the Evil Eye High Tower, where Di Nian Bully and Evil Eye deployed the Demon Seed Legion to inflict sustained pain on players.
• Di Nian Bully grew frustrated that, despite his increasing strength, he was still fighting the same players and gaining no sense of accomplishment.

Qi Sheng surveyed the players’ major regions, comparing the chaotic A Le Training Camp with more organized battlefields and evaluating the Lord of Bliss’s resilient resource network. He concluded that players in the Senluo Forest Realm were not yet strong enough to join its coming struggle for regional supremacy, and planned to investigate the Against the Tide Legion after refining the Player Faction.

• Qi Sheng observed the disorderly A Le Training Camp, where constant player turnover and painful build experiments prevented coordinated warbands from forming.
• Qi Sheng assessed how reflection advertisements and the Lord of Bliss’s three stable resource channels supported the Elysium Tribe’s growth and let it withdraw quickly from danger.
• Qi Sheng surveyed Adventurer World, where instance-focused players and guilds such as Stargazer, Blood Butcher, and Guild Name Taken had developed into a major force.
• Qi Sheng examined the Land of Chasing the Sun, where the Mechanical Legion and Virtual Runes Legion fought over resource nodes and their war threatened to engulf players.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the Senluo Forest Realm, where players struggled against stronger forces, Yu Chuan’s squad profited from a Soul Beast sales channel, and the Against the Tide Legion remained under investigation.

The Eclipse Race unveiled the Future Game Pod and NT-7 nutrient fluid, technologies designed to keep players healthy and online in Monster World for longer. As the Star Network planned a citywide nutrient-fluid supply system and considered how to extend players’ lives, it received a proposal titled Real-World Marketplace.

• Afei presented the Future Game Pod’s personalized health systems and the NT-7 nutrient fluid at the Eclipse Technology Frontiers launch.
• Afei announced that the first Game Pods would launch that night, with discounts and priority for purchases made using Sacrificial Power, prompting players to complain about lacking Monster World access.
• The Star Network assessed the launch as a way to stabilize players’ real-world health and support the Higher-Dimensional God’s War Game.
• The Star Network outlined plans for an automated citywide nutrient-fluid network and considered mechanical ascension and extending the current generation’s lives.
• The Star Network received a detailed proposal titled Real-World Marketplace.

Qi Sheng launched the Evolution Shop, a real-world marketplace where players could spend Sacrificial Power on spiritual goods that also strengthened their in-game bodies. The shop’s opening ignited excitement and regret across Earth as players anticipated a new era of evolution and rising Sacrificial Power prices.

• Qi Sheng chose the Eclipse Race’s real-world marketplace to address players’ health and lifespan limits while ensuring real-world enhancements also benefited their player bodies.
• Star Network reviewed the marketplace plan and manifested a Sacrificial Altar at Eclipse City’s transport center to receive purchased goods.
• Star Network explained the altar’s purpose to Shuang Ye and the other Eclipse Race Administrators, who agreed to cooperate with the Higher-Dimensional God’s arrangements.
• The Evolution Shop appeared on Monster World’s Official Website and listed Lifespan-Extending Pills, Star Marrow Spirit Liquid, Thunder-Tempered Bone, and Purification Green Lotus for auction.
• Players and Earth’s residents reacted to the shop’s launch, with access-seekers demanding entry and players who had recently spent or sold their Sacrificial Power regretting their decisions.

The Earth Alliance raced to bid on the Eclipse Race’s Evolution Shop products, while governments debated their value and the Human Federation approved a purchase for research. After the auction ended, Qi Sheng saw the shop as a way to give players real-world enhancements while regulating sacrificial power.

• Lu Mingyuan convened the Human Federation’s supreme council, and the members voted to divert sacrificial power toward bidding on Evolution Shop products for research.
• People across the Earth Alliance saw hope in the Lifespan-Extending Pill, Star Marrow Spirit Liquid, Thunder-Tempered Bone, and Purification Green Lotus, while leaders reassessed the Eclipse Race’s strength.
• Players and governments scrambled to buy sacrificial power as bids rose sharply, with the Human Federation’s guilds and the Eclipse Race’s Collect Sacrificial Power among the major bidders.
• The auction ended after a frantic final surge, and the winning goods materialized at Eclipse City’s Transportation Center.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the auction and concluded that the Real-World Shop could enhance players, return item benefits to their game bodies, and serve as a flexible channel for collecting sacrificial power.

Cheng Shan spent more than three months gathering rare ingredients and finally created the server’s first Gourmet Grade Spirit Food Meal, the Heavenlight Feast. After selling it for a huge sum, he saw its success inspire a wave of players to try the Spirit Chef profession.

• Cheng Shan fished at Firefly Lake while reflecting on wealthy players’ immense Sacrificial Power reserves and his long search for ingredients for the Heavenlight Feast.
• Cheng Shan caught and prepared ordinary Spirit Fish for sale, then used advice from Chef and a Fishing Enthusiast Player to devise better bait and catch the rare Moonshadow Silverscale.
• Cheng Shan returned to Emperor Tomb Village and spent four hours preparing the Heavenlight Feast from thirty-nine ingredients, earning a server-first reward and a Gourmet Grade-89 meal.
• Cheng Shan listed the Heavenlight Feast on the Trading House rather than eating it himself, and it sold for 350,000 Sacrificial Power.
• The feast’s sale prompted many players to switch to Spirit Chef, though Cheng Shan expected only those who endured the work and failures to remain in the profession.

Divine King's 210,000-player United Warband fought Di Nian Evil Spirit and his forces in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range while both sides traded attacks and taunts. The Evil Moon shifted to a waxing crescent, granting a third-stage enhancement, and Di Nian Evil Spirit prepared to unleash his strengthened power on the players.

• Divine King led eighteen guilds against Di Nian Evil Spirit, hoping to defeat him and take control of Evil Eye.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit deployed his Dark Tide troops, including Pain Tide forces that inflicted mental torment, while the players used Indomitable Life Souls to resist.
• The players and Di Nian Evil Spirit traded taunts as the fierce battle continued, with Divine King's reinforcements sustaining the warband.
• Evil Eye sensed the Evil Moon beginning to change phase, and both Di Nian Evil Spirit and the players watched anxiously for the result.
• The Evil Moon settled on waxing crescent, triggering a third-stage regional enhancement, and Di Nian Evil Spirit laughed before threatening the players with true pain.

Di Nian Evil Spirit used the Waxing Crescent’s stronger Dark Tide to expand west, where he encountered the Bei Yuan Tribe and its Civilization Warriors. With Evil Eye’s analysis, he countered their divided battlefields and overwhelmed them, leaving the alliance impressed by his ability to multitask.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit celebrated the Waxing Crescent and, supported by Blood Vein, Gui Ya, Iron Spine, and Rotting Heart, sent the Dark Tide west to consume the land and a descended race’s city-state.
• Evil Eye alerted Di Nian Evil Spirit to a Stele Forest, where a Bei Yuan Tribe Record Keeper awakened Civilization Warriors from tombstones to defend against the Dark Tide.
• Qi Sheng used Analysis to identify the Bei Yuan Tribe, explain how its Civilization Warriors embodied extinct civilizations, and observe the clash between them and the Dark Tide.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit let the Civilization Warriors divide the battlefield into separate civilization spaces, then used Evil Eye to analyze each legion and generate targeted Evil Ticket troops that defeated them.
• As the stars in the Record Keeper’s Rule Lantern went out, Di Nian Evil Spirit’s allies praised his tactics, and Evil Eye joked that he could improve multitasking by insulting two hundred thousand people at once.

Di Nian Evil Spirit’s Dark Tide destroyed the Record Keeper’s civilization army and defeated the Bei Yuan Tribe’s ultimate fusion, but a Temple Guardian arrived and forced Di Nian Evil Spirit back to the High Tower. When Evil Eye sacrificed itself to save Di Nian Evil Spirit, he took its gift of Divine Eye power and launched a furious counterattack against the guardian.

• The Record Keeper recalled the evil spirits from the divided battlefield, but Demon Seed and the five ultimate emotions overwhelmed the Civilization Warriors.
• The Record Keeper merged his remaining forces with Ten Thousand Burials Return to One, but Demon Seed shattered the civilization giant from within, and the Dark Tide consumed it.
• The Record Keeper fled, but Evil Moon trapped him and the Dark Tide swallowed him; afterward, a Temple Guardian arrived and crushed the Dark Tide before pursuing Di Nian Evil Spirit to the High Tower.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit and the Four Great Bullies fought the Temple Guardian, but their defenses faltered, and Evil Eye calculated that their chance of victory was only 0.00012%.
• Evil Eye activated the desperate situation protocol, sacrificed itself, and transferred a wisp of Divine Eye power to Di Nian Evil Spirit.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit transformed and attacked the Temple Guardian with overwhelming force, using the predictive paths Evil Eye had left behind to drive the guardian onto the defensive.

Di Nian Evil Spirit pushed Divine Eye Power beyond his limits to avenge Evil Eye, but the temple guardian unleashed the spirits of sacrificed civilizations and left him unable to fight. As the Civilization Legion closed in and the four bullies struggled to protect him, players and the Insect Race Army arrived in force to defend the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit wounded the temple guardian with his blood blade, but the guardian branded him with a Destruction Mark and released the civilizations bound inside the bone lantern.
• Evil Eye's hidden release nodes drained the remaining Divine Eye Power from Di Nian Evil Spirit, but he collapsed as the Civilization Legion advanced and the four bullies tried to hold it back.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit gave up hope of surviving, while the dying temple guardian believed the Civilization Legion had secured victory.
• Millions of players answered Divine King's call and charged the Civilization Legion to protect Di Nian Bully and the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range.
• The Zerg Master Brain sensed Di Nian Evil Spirit's weakening and led a vast Insect Race Army from the Phantom Marsh toward the battle.