Ch. 360Near-death hallucinations, a haunting that would not end

After Divine King rallied players to stop the Bei Yuan Tribe from killing Di Nian Bully, the Player Legion and Insect Race joined forces to overwhelm the Civilization Legion and protect the dying spirit. Di Nian Evil Spirit saw his sworn enemies defending him and wondered whether it was a near-death hallucination.

  • Divine King posted a call to arms, urging players to defend Di Nian Bully and defeat it themselves rather than let the Bei Yuan Tribe kill it.
  • Players across Monster World abandoned their activities and converged on the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, while guild leaders including Ye Xiao, Lao Mo, Pirate King, and Bent-Hook Old Man rallied their forces.
  • The Player Legion and Insect Race attacked the Civilization Legion from opposite sides, then coordinated their assault to break through its defenses.
  • Support players maintained golden shields around the High Tower as their allies fought to keep Di Nian Evil Spirit alive.
  • The temple guard could no longer control the Civilization Legion and was swallowed by the attacking forces, while Di Nian Evil Spirit watched in confusion as players and insects protected him.

Ch. 361Covenant of Exceeding Authority, Come Back to Me

After surviving the Civilization Legion’s attack, Di Nian Evil Spirit refused to accept a replacement for Evil Eye and challenged the Dark Tide hierarchy to resurrect his fallen companion. He invoked Exceeding Authority, and the request to resurrect Evil Eye was granted.

  • The dark tide core consumed the High Tower and the players’ Recovery Potions to repair Di Nian Evil Spirit, who awoke sixteen hours later.
  • Di Nian Evil Spirit rejected Blood Vein’s suggestion to request a new Auxiliary Eye and contacted Dusk Eye to ask whether Evil Eye could be resurrected.
  • Dusk Eye rebuked Di Nian Evil Spirit and crushed his attempt to demand Evil Eye’s resurrection, but Di Nian Evil Spirit learned from Evil Eye’s records about Exceeding Authority.
  • Di Nian Evil Spirit invoked Exceeding Authority and requested Evil Eye’s resurrection as a designated support resource.
  • Dusk Eye confirmed that the 13th Divine Eye had granted Di Nian Evil Spirit’s request, prompting the Four Great Bullies to celebrate.

Ch. 362The Value of Existence, Evil Eye's Return

Qi Sheng analyzed why the Star Network had intervened to save Di Nian Evil Spirit, whose unusual growth could become useful against the Dark Tide System. As Di Nian Evil Spirit struggled to repair the High Tower without Evil Eye, Evil Eye returned through Exceeding Authority and immediately resumed its work.

  • Qi Sheng concluded that the Dark Tide System forced Evil Spirit Warriors to risk unknown dangers through devouring wars, while the Star Network judged Di Nian Evil Spirit valuable to the players and rallied them to defend it.
  • Qi Sheng decided to preserve Di Nian Evil Spirit because its independence from the Dark Tide System might help him oppose that system.
  • Di Nian Evil Spirit worried about Evil Eye's return and began repairing the damaged High Tower while the players remained absent from the Di Family Mountains.
  • Di Nian Evil Spirit struggled with the tower's complex repairs, especially the conversion node linking it to the Destruction Shrine.
  • Evil Eye returned through Evil Moon's relay, greeted Di Nian Evil Spirit, and began repairing the High Tower as Di Nian Evil Spirit recognized its familiar personality.

Ch. 363A Visitor to Reality, an Investigation into Fate

Fate Throat arrived in Trade City to investigate the source of fate’s Backlash and spent several days studying what it believed was a weak, illusion-obsessed world. After being captured and returned home as an orange cat, it recognized the Monster World on its owner’s screen and realized the world it had come to investigate might be connected to the virtual world.

  • Fate Throat entered Trade City through a Spatial Rift and possessed an orange cat instead of the player inside a Game Pod.
  • Fate Throat surveyed the city and judged its technology, frail inhabitants, and reliance on virtual worlds while investigating the Fate Gamble’s Backlash.
  • Fate Throat reconsidered the people’s peaceful lives but remained convinced that Monster World’s struggle for strength offered a greater future.
  • A drone identified the orange cat as a missing pet and returned Fate Throat to its apartment, where a White-Haired Girl scolded it and locked it in a cage.
  • Fate Throat watched the White-Haired Girl browse a page showing the Dark Tide and then open a livestream of the Against the Tide Training Camp.
  • Fate Throat recognized Monster World on the screen and reacted with alarm.

Ch. 364What Would Happen If I Exploited a Bug?

Fate Throat discovered that the players were real beings empowered by a higher-dimensional force, and concluded that Emperor Zhao stood behind their system. It abandoned its plan to negotiate and decided to seek player status by joining Earth’s alliance as a descended faction.

  • Fate Throat failed to gamble for all the world's secrets, but after three losses it gained comprehension of the world's languages and writing.
  • Fate Throat secretly browsed the Monster World website and player forum, learning that players treated the real Monster World as a game and that their deaths were temporary.
  • Fate Throat concluded that Emperor Zhao and other supreme gods powered the player system, while Qi Sheng prepared to erase Fate Throat but stayed his hand.
  • Fate Throat abandoned its plan to negotiate with the higher-dimensional god and prepared to leave, then reconsidered after deciding that becoming a player could grant it immortality and access to powerful rules.
  • Fate Throat learned that it needed an identity to compete for a player slot and decided to seek Earth Alliance residency by arriving as a descended faction.

Ch. 365A Gambit with the Future at Stake

Fate Throat devised a plan to bring the Fate Race to Earth and turn them into players, then persuaded the Great Fate Lord to let the Dragon Sparrow Lineage migrate with them. They arrived above Trade City with thirty thousand followers and asked the Earth Alliance to lower its weapons as they sought refuge.

  • Fate Throat planned to claim Earth Alliance identities for the Fate Race while hiding Earth's secrets behind a supposed fate revelation.
  • At the Heavenly Mandate Council, the other Fate Lords rejected the proposed migration, but the Great Fate Lord let Fate Throat take willing followers and revealed that the previous Fate Revelation had also been a lie meant to save the race.
  • Thirty thousand members of the Dragon Sparrow Lineage left the clan territory with Fate Throat, who accepted the Great Fate Lord's jade and led them through a spatial tunnel.
  • The Earth Alliance detected the expanding spatial rift above Trade City and mobilized its defenses and weapons against the unknown descent faction.
  • Fate Throat and the thirty thousand followers emerged above Trade City, let the Earth Alliance's weapons target them, and asked the people of Earth to stand down because they were refugees, not conquerors.

Ch. 366Fast-tracking approval, severing the past

The Fate Race cooperated with the Earth Alliance and built a city in ten minutes while Fate Throat sought rapid approval to gain player qualification. Star Network exposed the Fate Race’s true identity and motives, then welcomed them into the Alliance on the condition that they abandon their connection to Monster World and keep its secrets.

  • The Earth Alliance settled Fate Throat and thirty thousand Fate Race members in the Siberian Wasteland, where they cleansed the land and built Destiny City in ten minutes.
  • Fate Throat chose to accelerate integration by sharing resources and technology, and an Eclipse Race envoy delivered a background questionnaire and Star Network equipment.
  • Star Network confronted Fate Throat about the Fate Race’s unusual cooperation and deduced that they wanted player qualification after discovering their identity as a faction from Monster World.
  • Star Network revealed that it had traced Fate Throat’s earlier visit through a surveillance anomaly and Monster World website access, then welcomed the Fate Race into the Earth Alliance.
  • Star Network warned that the Fate Race could not return to Monster World in their original bodies or disclose its secrets, and Fate Throat agreed to sever their past and seek qualification through the usual lottery.

Ch. 367A Mire World? No, a Road to the Heavens

Fate Throat’s people discovered that Earth’s seemingly primitive civilization was connected to the Player Race and realized he had brought them there to seek Game Access. After explaining that only a hundred Game Pods were available, Fate Throat announced a drawing for the remaining ninety-nine.

  • The Fate Race registered as Earth Alliance residents, while many members questioned Fate Throat’s restrictions and his interest in Earth.
  • Fate Throat told Mingyun that they were not prisoners but gamblers staking their future, and urged him to wait for the payoff.
  • An Eclipse Race engineering team delivered a hundred Game Pods and installed the Signal Tower, computers, and network equipment in Fate City.
  • The Fate Race members explored the Monster World website and player forums, learning that Earth’s players could revive after death and that Fate Throat wanted them to become players.
  • The Fate Race members understood why Fate Throat had brought them to Earth, and he summoned them to explain that only Game Pod owners could win Game Access.
  • Fate Throat kept one Game Pod for himself and announced that the other ninety-nine would be assigned through an internal drawing.

Ch. 368Official arrival, graduation at hand

Fate Throat secured an order for 30,000 customized Game Pods, while the Fate Race discovered that the Misfortune and Gold Coin Life Souls could greatly aid their gambles. As the Fate Race settled into watching players, Qi Sheng turned his attention to the Hardcore Grinders Group’s final trial before graduation.

  • Fate Throat exchanged the Fate Race’s spiritual resources for a promise that the Star Network would deliver 30,000 customized Game Pods in twenty days.
  • The Fate Race explored player streams and database information, identifying Misfortune and Gold Coin as especially valuable Life Souls for improving their equivalent gambles.
  • Fate Throat praised streamer So Poor I Eat Dirt with repeated comments, and Eat Dirt banned his guest account for thirty days.
  • Qi Sheng left the Fate Race’s development to Guide’s monitoring and focused on the Hardcore Grinders Group as they began their final pre-graduation trial.

Ch. 370Ultimate Trial, Blind Leap Challenge

As the Hardcore Grinders Group prepared to graduate, players and trainees reflected on the group’s two years in the Training Camp and the bonds forged with Ghost Eye and the others. After sharing supplies and taking a final group photo, the trainees heard Instructor Demon Shield’s farewell and launched into the unknown for the Blind Jump Trial.

  • Players filled the Forum with farewells as the Hardcore Grinders Group’s impending graduation became its top topic, and the group looked back on how they had grown from novice players into close comrades with Ghost Eye and the other trainees.
  • Li Zheng gave Ghost Eye and the others Special-Effect Recovery Potions, and the brothers teased one another before Family-Sharing Godfather gathered them for a group photo.
  • At the farewell ceremony in Throat-Rending Valley, Instructor Demon Shield urged the trainees to face the unknown with courage and explained the three kinds of landing zones they might encounter in the Blind Jump Trial.
  • Assistant Instructor Ao played the Blind Jump Ballad and recited a warrior’s chant as the trainees answered with roars and readied themselves to depart.
  • Hundreds of thousands of Shuttle Pods launched from the Training Camp, carrying the new warriors into the unknown.

Ch. 371Blind-box region, insects becoming dragons

Li Zheng landed in a jungle on the Pale Continent and discovered that the battlefield was overrun by Evil Gu Worms, which used corpses to make combat puppets. As he hunted through the valley and learned of the Against the Tide Warriors who had died there, he found the worms’ Bloodstone Furnace and learned that they were trying to evolve their entire race into powerful flesh-bodied lifeforms.

  • Li Zheng landed in the jungle, confirmed it was not a Dark Tide Node, and killed an Iron Spine Beast controlled by Evil Gu Worms.
  • Li Zheng explored the ancient battlefield, and Guide explained that the worms used dead bodies as material to build and pilot stitched creatures.
  • Li Zheng discovered the Against the Tide Warriors’ battle monuments and paid his respects before fighting off three stitched creatures.
  • Li Zheng learned that the Against the Tide 3293rd Legion had nearly annihilated the 7th Sub-Warband while seizing the Cixin rule, then noticed the stitched creatures growing more organized and powerful.
  • Li Zheng found a Bloodstone Furnace that was converting flesh into new bodies, and Guide explained that the Evil Gu Insect Race intended to use it to evolve from parasites into independent, powerful lifeforms.

Ch. 372The path out of the cocoon, the road to ascension

Li Zheng was captured by the Evil Gu Insect Race and used as the template for its attempt to create a perfect life-form. The race sacrificed itself in the Bloodstone Furnace to forge a single new self, which emerged as Evil Gu and set its sights on the Monster World's summit.

  • Li Zheng fought off a growing horde of Stitched Abominations until one poisoned him and the creatures captured him.
  • Li Zheng awoke restrained in a sea of blood, where Guide explained that the Evil Gu Insect Race wanted to study his limitless pure body.
  • The Evil Gu Insect Race poured billions of its members into the Bloodstone Furnace as nourishment for its final experiment.
  • The emerging being absorbed the race's memories, tracing its rise from lowly insects in a Minor World to its arrival in the Monster World.
  • The furnace and the race's Origin Land ascended into the bloodstone rule as the new being became Evil Gu, declared, "I am eternity," and said it was hungry.

Ch. 373Myriad Things Crucible, Blood Sacrifice for One Alone

After Eternity was born from the Evil Gu Insect Race’s sacrifice, it devoured the surrounding land and treated Li Zheng as its own kind, later rescuing him from a powerful monster. Eternity then began spreading Bloodstones that secretly bound other races into its Myriad Things Crucible plan, while Qi Sheng considered whether to recruit it as a player.

  • A forum post explained how the Evil Gu Insect Race used Li Zheng’s player body as a model to forge Eternity from the Bloodstone Rule, the race’s flesh, and its fused consciousnesses.
  • Eternity devoured the surrounding life and energy, then gave Li Zheng a Life Essence crystal because it regarded him as its own kind.
  • Li Zheng continued hunting during the trial as Eternity watched, and Eternity rescued him when a level 135 Prison Beast nearly killed him.
  • Eternity spread Bloodstones and the Flesh Furnace Cauldron method among other races, secretly binding their descendants and other creatures into a network meant to fuel its future breakthroughs.
  • Qi Sheng and Guide praised the Evil Gu Insect Race’s long-term plan, and Qi Sheng considered recruiting Eternity as a player but waited to judge its actions in Monster World.

Ch. 374Others came for refuge, but you came to play games?

Qi Sheng added the Duel Arena to give player groups a controlled way to settle disputes, then prepared a new recruitment round that would bring the player count to fifty-eight million. As qualifications approached, the Fate Race performed an elaborate sacrifice to Emperor Zhao, hoping to receive qualifications, while Qi Sheng silently accepted their offerings without promising a response.

  • Qi Sheng learned that players had contained the Dread and Strong Fortune Life Souls, then decided to create an Arena Space where Guilds and Warbands could settle disputes through wagered matches.
  • Qi Sheng released the Duel Arena update, and players widely welcomed the feature while discussing matches and a possible Guild Championship.
  • Qi Sheng planned to distribute fifty million new Player Qualifications and open three starting locations, including regions in the Pale Continent and Earthshaking Continent.
  • Netizens from across Earth reacted with surprise and resentment when the Fate Race joined the competition for Player Qualifications soon after arriving in the Earth Alliance.
  • Fate Throat led more than thirty thousand Fate Race members in a Destiny Sacrifice, offering precious treasures to Emperor Zhao in hopes of gaining qualifications.
  • Qi Sheng received the energy from the Fate Race's offerings through the Sacrificial Power system but gave no response, while Fate Throat told the members to prepare for the qualification distribution.

Ch. 375Two new lands, the throat that defied fate

Fate Throat and the Fate Race anxiously awaited the qualification drawing, and thirty-two of them won access to Monster World. After choosing a combat-focused Life Soul and descending into Sand-Shattering Halberd, Fate Throat discovered that his Fate Rules-derived imprint had entered the game with him, then joined the rush to hunt and compete in the Newbie Level-Rush event.

  • The qualification page announced fifty million places, and Fate Throat led thirty thousand Fate Race members in applying when the drawing opened.
  • Fate Throat learned that thirty-two members of his race had obtained qualifications, then entered Monster World as a player.
  • Fate Throat chose the Eagle-Headed Demon as his initial Life Soul, registered as Throat of Defiance, and selected Sand-Shattering Halberd as his descent location.
  • A crowding notice and the Newbie Level-Rush leaderboard event sent Fate Throat and other players out of the starting area and into the Gobi.
  • Fate Throat found his sealed Fate Rules-derived imprint in his inventory and realized that winning first place could provide enough Sacrificial Power to unseal it.
  • Fate Throat declined another player's invitation to team up and followed the crowd into the landscape to hunt.

Ch. 376A player with cheats, Fate Gambling City

Fate Throat rapidly leveled by slaughtering monsters with baleful wind, planned to establish Fate Gambling City as a Dream Island entertainment district, and gained a new lightning-based Life Soul. Three days later, an Equivalent Gamble Merchant recognized him in a sandstorm and reacted with surprise at his presence.

  • Fate Throat massacred groups of Sand Eroders and Rock-Armored Earth Dragons, selling their materials and climbing to first place on the Newbie Level Leaderboard.
  • Fate Throat devised a plan to attach Fate Gambling City to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce on Dream Island, using its protection and trade traffic to attract customers.
  • Players on the forum discussed Fate Throat’s extraordinary leveling speed after a video showed him hunting monsters with baleful wind.
  • Fate Throat opened a third Star Meridian Slot and socketed Thundering Lightning, then combined its effects with his baleful wind to create powerful wind-and-thunder attacks.
  • Three days later, level 43 Fate Throat met an Equivalent Gamble Merchant in a sandstorm, and the merchant abruptly stopped speaking after seeing him.

Ch. 377Oh no, the coordinates were wrong.

Fate Throat convinced Ming Shu that he had transcended his former life form and urged him to follow his destiny record to find the same path. Ming Shu studied the record and teleported in search of the Minor World, but arrived above Trade City after getting the coordinates wrong.

  • Fate Throat proved his identity to Ming Shu with his Dragon Sparrow totem and destiny record, then revealed his body had become an immaculate vessel for three balanced powers of rules.
  • Fate Throat took Ming Shu’s gathered resources and urged him to follow his destiny trajectory to discover a path beyond the constraints of life.
  • After Fate Throat departed, Ming Shu examined his destiny record and learned that Fate Throat’s transformation followed a journey to a Minor World after a contest caused Backlash from the Fate Rules.
  • Ming Shu decided to seek the Minor World, formed a teleportation array, and leaped into the rift despite fearing that Fate Throat might have sacrificed his followers.
  • Ming Shu arrived above Trade City and realized he had misread the void coordinates and reached the wrong Minor World.

Ch. 378Wretch, stop! A shattered mindset

Fate Throat embraced the freedom to risk death as a player, equipped himself in Di Family Village, and set out to explore Earthshaking Coast before discovering that Fate City had been damaged and its people had disappeared. Meanwhile, Ming Shu descended on Earth to build a blood-refining array, prompting the Fate Race to rush in and beat him before he could endanger their chance to become players.

  • Fate Throat destroyed a horde of Sand Lions by detonating his thunder baleful energy, then respawned at the Sand-Shattering Halberd spatial node.
  • Fate Throat equipped himself with a Hoverboard, a training technique, and a Treasure-Seeking Mouse, sold resources for over a million sacrificial power, and traveled to Earthshaking Coast.
  • Fate Throat logged out and discovered that most of his clanspeople had vanished from Fate City, its barrier had been broken, and buildings had been damaged.
  • Ming Shu arrived on Earth, judged it a barren minor world, and set up a Blood Sacrifice Heaven array in the Mariana Trench to harvest blood energy.
  • Administrator No. 11 identified Ming Shu's energy as matching the Fate Race and sought help, while Fate Race members saw the array and feared it would ruin their player qualification.
  • Mingyun and thirty thousand Fate Race members reached Ming Shu before he could activate the array and beat him, leaving him convinced the Dragon Sparrow Lineage had lured him into a trap.

Ch. 379I Came to Earth to Clean Up the Trash

After Ming Shu nearly refined Earth, Fate Throat and the Dragon Sparrow Lineage showed it the Monster World Official Website, revealing the players’ power and Ming Shu’s chance to become one. Fate Throat gave Ming Shu a year to clean up the oceans and nurture Earth’s spiritual energy, while Ming Shu hoped to earn the right to apply for player qualification.

  • Fate Throat learned that Ming Shu had tried to refine Earth because it had run out of resources and believed the teleportation coordinates were wrong.
  • Mingyun showed Ming Shu the Monster World Official Website, where it learned about player bodies, revivals, rule powers, and the Player Faction’s rapid growth.
  • Ming Shu realized that becoming a player offered a path beyond its race’s limits and feared the consequences of nearly activating the Refinement Array on Earth.
  • Ming Shu apologized to Fate Throat, who consulted the Star Network and learned that the Eclipse Race would not pursue the matter further.
  • Fate Throat ordered Ming Shu to clean up pollution in the world’s oceans and build a Spirit-Nurturing Grand Array within a year, but warned that Ming Shu could not apply for player qualification without Earth Alliance citizenship.
  • Ming Shu flew out to begin its task, while Fate Throat returned to the Game Pod to resume earning Evolution Points and Sacrificial Power.

Ch. 380Trading reform, the ultimate holdout

Qi Sheng introduced a bidding-auction mode to the Trading House to limit price-gouging, while Wei Shan prepared to leave A Le Training Camp and pursue his dream of pioneering a Summoner Style. The chapter ended with Wei Shan charging into battle for his final fight at the camp before setting out toward a new world.

  • Ming Shu purified the Pacific Ocean and began the wider environmental restoration demanded by the Fate Master of Dragon Sparrow, while Qi Sheng watched and then turned to the Player Forum.
  • Qi Sheng added a twenty-four-hour bidding-auction option to the Trading House, and players debated the update after it was announced that evening.
  • Wei Shan, known as Invincible Summoner, prepared to graduate from A Le Training Camp after spending six months exploiting its dismantling system to stockpile resources.
  • Wei Shan planned to obtain a Dream Demon Life Soul and build a horror attraction in the Virtual Runes Legion's Minor World to earn fright points for the Dread Life Soul.
  • Unable to reach the Minor World without spatial transport, Wei Shan planned to hire the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to build a Spatial Teleportation Array.
  • After the battlefield advertisement ended, Wei Shan joined the charge against the Elysium Army for his final fight at A Le Training Camp and looked forward to pursuing the Summoner Style.
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