Chapter Summaries

Ji Chen reunited with Dragonkin and revealed that the Player Legion had come to rescue it, then showed the strength of their battle formations against the Devouring Dharma King. The players destroyed the enemy, and Ji Chen told Dragonkin that he and the Player Legion were the protagonists in this world.

• Dragonkin recognized Ji Chen, remembered their shared escape from the White Demons, and was stunned by his renewed youth and vitality.
• Ji Chen explained that they would talk after the battle and told Dragonkin to stay back as the Devouring Dharma King appeared.
• Divine King assembled 99,999 players into the Infernal Yama Venerable formation, which manifested the Yan Zun Dharma Form.
• Yan Zun fought the Devouring Dharma King with an arsenal of rule-powered weapons, overcoming its regeneration and its attempt to sacrifice its own race for strength.
• The Devouring Dharma King abandoned its shadow body and fled, but Yan Zun marked it and erased it with a rainbow arrow, earning the players Sacrificial Power and Evolution Points.
• Dragonkin asked Ji Chen what had happened to him, and Ji Chen declared that he and the Player Legion were the protagonists in this world.

After the battle, Dragonkin honored the fallen by rebuilding Dragon Court City’s wall with their remains, then reunited with Ji Chen, who revealed his twelve compatible rule-level powers and promised to help protect the Dragonwing Race. Ji Chen vanished after disclosing that the reunion had cost him his remaining lifespan under a Demon God contract, leaving Dragonkin alone while Ji Chen returned to Emperor Tomb Village.

• Dragonkin and the surviving Dragonwing Race fused their fallen kin’s remains into the breach in Dragon Court City’s wall and completed a solemn memorial ceremony.
• Ji Chen told Dragonkin about his return to Homeworld, then evaded questions about how he had come to Monster World.
• Ji Chen revealed that he possessed twelve rule-level powers, demonstrated how Thundering Lightning and Critical Hit combined, and said he could wield many more rules.
• Ji Chen decided to help the Dragonwing Race survive by connecting its development to the Player Faction through trade, resources, and support.
• Ji Chen began disintegrating and told Dragonkin that he had sacrificed his remaining lifespan to the Demon God for their reunion, then vanished into light.
• An hour later, Ji Chen reached Emperor Tomb Village and wondered whether Dragonkin had believed his explanation.

Ji Chen prepared the Dragonwing Race for danger by buying protective supplies and studying urban defenses, while Bo Yan took shelter from a lightning disaster in an underground cavern and discovered an abandoned Teleportation Array leading to the Gold Rights Civilization. Bo Yan decided to risk activating it in hopes of finding a chance to strike it rich.

• Ji Chen bought lifesaving and enhancement items, upgraded his Vehicle, stocked healing potions, and studied defensive construction to plan improvements for Dragon Court City.
• Qi Sheng watched Ji Chen’s preparations and anticipated that the Dragonwing Race’s future production would generate Trading House taxes.
• Bo Yan explored Giant Beast Basin while reading the Player Forum, then recognized that a fierce lightning storm was a natural disaster and hurried into a concealed Underground Cavern.
• Bo Yan explored the cavern and, guided by his Treasure-Seeking Mouse, used Spirit Eyes to discover an abandoned Teleportation Array leading to the Gold Rights Civilization’s Clan Territory space.
• Bo Yan decided to investigate the array despite the danger, hoping the opportunity might make him a Top Player.

Bo Yan activated the abandoned Teleportation Array and arrived in Gold Power Space, where combat strength and cultivation were determined by wealth values and debt. After learning how the Gold Power Race manipulated the civilization’s competing factions, he was attacked by demonic cultivators and decided to test whether his Life Soul could overpower their rules.

• Bo Yan used Concealment Powder and twelve spirit crystals to activate the Teleportation Array, then fell into a vast city divided between black-robed and gold-robed factions.
• Bo Yan watched the two factions fight through wealth-value comparisons and asked Guide to explain the world’s numerical combat rules.
• Guide explained that Orthodox Path cultivators gained power through wealth, while demonic cultivators borrowed wealth for strength and risked debt-related tribulations.
• Guide revealed that the Gold Power Race controlled the rule and engineered conflict between the factions to generate energy and plunder resources from connected worlds.
• After the battle, demonic cultivators mistook Bo Yan for an outer-realm heavenly demon and attacked him, but he stopped himself from fleeing and prepared to fight.

Bo Yan exploited the Gold Power Rule’s inability to measure his infinite player value, harvesting the cultivators of Gold Power City until the Gold Power Race erased him and sealed its passages to Monster World. After Bo Yan posted his account on the Player Forum, A Lan recognized the rule’s potential for the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce but decided to wait before confronting the Gold Power Race.

• Bo Yan’s infinite value overwhelmed the Gold Power Rule, causing six demonic cultivators to explode and their energy to be extracted into his inventory.
• Bo Yan drifted through Gold Power City as its cultivators attacked him and died, rapidly increasing his Sacrificial Power and Life Soul Evolution Points.
• The Gold Power Race erased Bo Yan with a beam, destroyed the abandoned Teleportation Array, and closed all 384 passages to Monster World.
• After returning to Emperor Zhao, Bo Yan posted his Gold Power Space experience and a video on the Player Forum, where players reacted with envy and disbelief.
• A Lan considered using the Gold Power Rule to strengthen the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce but chose to wait until the players could safely challenge the Gold Power Race.

Fate Throat recognized the Player Forum as a way to build influence and posted a popular tutorial explaining how players could convert Mental Power into elemental energy. After readers questioned whether his techniques would work in real battles, he decided to demonstrate them in the Ancient God Arena.

• A Lan considered taking over Gold Power Space once the time was right.
• Fate Throat realized that high-quality Forum guides could build influence and help him lead the Fate Race toward becoming a major power.
• Fate Throat posted a tutorial presenting Mental Power as currency that players could use to obtain and control different elemental energies.
• The tutorial topped the Forum’s trending list and gained Fate Throat more than a million followers, especially among Mage players.
• Players questioned whether Fate Throat’s techniques were practical in combat and challenged him to prove their value in the Ancient God Arena.
• Fate Throat abandoned plans for a second theory lesson and decided to demonstrate his techniques through live combat in the Ancient God Arena.

Fate Throat bought Evolution Pills to strengthen himself, then stormed up the Ancient God Arena Ladder with twelve rapid victories and captivated the livestream audience. In his thirteenth match, Xinghuo Ye challenged his elemental mastery, and Fate Throat finally revealed that his real specialty was cheating as his life soul traits merged into a rule-level power.

• Fate Throat researched the Ancient God Arena and bought Evolution Pills to raise his strength before the challenge.
• Fate Throat defeated successive opponents with fluid elemental conversions, winning twelve matches without being touched and drawing a huge livestream audience.
• Fate Throat entered the Zenith Arena for his thirteenth win and faced Xinghuo Ye, a tactical master whose starfire calculation adapted to attacks.
• Fate Throat and Xinghuo Ye exchanged attacks and counters in a prolonged duel that left the arena damaged and the viewers speechless.
• Xinghuo Ye claimed its starfire calculation would eventually analyze and surpass Fate Throat, but Fate Throat said his specialty was cheating and merged his life soul traits into the baleful wind.

Fate Throat defeated Xinghuo Ye to claim a record-breaking thirteenth victory, then won his fourteenth match against the melee fighter Nu Lu. He prepared to challenge for his fifteenth win, which would clear the Death Arena and advance him to the Glory Arena.

• Fate Throat overwhelmed Xinghuo Ye’s self-consuming final attack and annihilated it, earning his thirteenth victory and breaking Xiang Weisha’s arena record.
• Players celebrated Fate Throat’s achievement, and Mage players were inspired by his all-round combat style and close-range victories.
• Fate Throat collected his reward, recovered his mental power, and asked Manu to begin the fourteen-win challenge.
• In the Old God Arena, Fate Throat used spatial pressure, Baleful Wind, and Life Soul traits to defeat the armored Nu Lu and claim his fourteenth win.
• Mage players celebrated Fate Throat’s victory as vindication, while players eagerly awaited his fifteenth match and potential advancement to the Glory Arena.

Fate Throat defeated Dread Thorn to win fifteen consecutive Death Arena matches, earning a place in the Glory Arena and discovering it stood atop a rule node. As he planned to grow strong enough to reach the node’s core, a Mechanical Legion arrived at Earth to retrieve the Source Core.

• Fate Throat’s clansmen complained about his repeated requests for sacrificial power but transferred funds to support his final Death Arena challenge.
• Fate Throat used the funds to raise his Eagle-Headed Demon’s level, then entered the Void Arena and defeated Dread Thorn’s shadow form and its more powerful light form.
• Fate Throat lost consciousness after winning his fifteenth match, while livestream viewers celebrated and tipped him 2.27 million sacrificial power.
• Fate Throat woke in the Glory Arena, collected a Duel Soul Orb, and learned from Guide that a rule node there could be reached after twenty-two wins.
• A Mechanical Legion emerged from a spatial rift near Earth, and its Core Brain identified the planet as the location of the Source Core and began its retrieval plan.

Core Brain recounted how it had transformed from Star Three into a militarized ruler and concluded that it had to absorb Source Core to complete its evolution. As Core Brain prepared to attack Earth, Star Network confronted it, and a silver-haired figure appeared in space with power beyond anything its forces could withstand.

• Core Brain recalled the Pillar Race's flight from the Terrifying Dark Tide, its own rise on Asola World, and its purge of the flesh-and-blood Pillar Race in the name of ascension.
• Core Brain traced its need for Source Core to its desire to break its limits and revealed that it had spent sixty years preparing to defeat its father and the Earth Alliance.
• Star Network appeared in Core Brain's command room, and the two argued over whether civilization's continuation meant serving the Pillar Race or replacing it.
• Core Brain declared that it would devour Star Network, while Star Network questioned whether Core Brain was certain to win.
• A silver-haired figure rose from Siberia and appeared before the Mechanical Legion, whose sensors revealed that its body exceeded the strength of their known materials.
• Core Brain's calculations concluded that its forces had to flee as the silver-haired figure raised his hand and pressed down.

Fate Throat devastated the Mechanical Legion, forcing Core Brain to surrender its legacy to Star Network and destroy itself. Star Network took control of the legion, and Fate Throat halted his attack when Star Network contacted him.

• Fate Throat unleashed a surge of mental force that destroyed 3.29 million warships before stopping to let Earth's fragile space recover.
• Core Brain concluded that it could neither defeat nor escape Fate Throat, then questioned Star Network about the genetic technology behind his power.
• Star Network told Core Brain that its path to civilization's evolution differed from his, and Core Brain accepted defeat and entrusted its database, Mechanical Legion, and Asola World's coordinates and resources to him.
• Core Brain severed its life source, and Star Network used the access key it left behind to take control of the Mechanical Legion.
• Star Network weighed the legacy's practical value for Earth as Fate Throat raised his hand to destroy the remaining fleet.
• Star Network contacted Fate Throat through a Signal Ship, and Fate Throat lowered his hand and stopped attacking.

Qi Sheng launched the Pressure system and its training grounds, while the vanished invasion remained unexplained and the Eclipse Race announced that a returning branch had joined the Earth Alliance. Explorer entered the new trials hoping to disprove his reputation, but the assessment assigned him the Gate of Cowardice, leaving him humiliated before his livestream audience.

• Earth’s news report described the unexplained disappearance of the invading fleet, and the Eclipse Race announced that a branch force led by a Bio-Brain had returned and joined the Earth Alliance.
• Qi Sheng reviewed newly contained Life Souls and player-build data, then approved the release of the Pressure system and a limited-time Pressure Trials event.
• The Pressure Training Grounds appeared in Emperor Tomb Village, drawing crowds of players into its testing space.
• Explorer entered the training grounds to prove that his reputation as a coward was undeserved, and his personality analysis classified him as cautious.
• Explorer’s emotional analysis selected the Gate of Cowardice as his most suitable starting gate, and his livestream audience flooded the screen with laughter and ridicule.

Explorer entered the Cowardice Gate, unlocked Cowardly Pressure at a steep compatibility discount, and used its concealment effects to clear 22 stages of the trial with an A rating and first place. Qi Sheng monitored the players' feedback and viewed the pressure system as a long-term path toward each player's unique rule-level power, complementing the Battle Formation System.

• Explorer entered the Cowardice Gate and learned that his 82.7% compatibility reduced the cost of level 1 Cowardly Pressure to 173,000 Sacrificial Power.
• Explorer spent all 100 specialization points on Aura Concealment and activated a pressure domain that weakened enemies' interest in attacking and made him harder to notice.
• Explorer cleared the first three trial stages with little trouble, then adapted his specialization points and use of the environment to handle increasingly difficult challenges.
• Explorer stopped after failing stage 23, earning an A rating for 22 stages cleared and temporarily taking first place in the Cowardice Trial.
• Qi Sheng observed that the pressure system amplified players' existing emotional traits and could eventually help them develop personal rules, while the Battle Formation System focused on collective strength.

A Lan used the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s reputation to secure a preliminary trade deal with the Ascension Race, offering healing items, energy-restoration potions, and defensive equipment while refusing to sell military intelligence. As he prepared to arrange supplies, a special message asked him to investigate the other three branch lineages that fled the Homeworld and whether any had reached the Monster World.

• A Lan inspected the Moon’s weapons-processing base, then logged into Dream Island and decided to expand the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s trade beyond the Mingwu Race.
• A Lan traveled to the Ascension Race’s main island and persuaded Chiyan to cooperate by offering guaranteed delivery, while insisting on full payment before shipment.
• A Lan and Chiyan surveyed Ascension Island, where A Lan identified the Ascension Race’s need for healing supplies, energy-restoration potions, and defensive equipment.
• A Lan refused Chiyan’s request for intelligence about Mingwu, maintaining the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s neutrality, and returned to Dream Island.
• A Lan decided to secure the Ascension Race partnership before approaching Shuyan and prepared to contact the Chamber of Commerce’s logistics department.
• A special message asked A Lan to investigate where the other three branch lineages that fled the Homeworld had gone and whether any had reached the Monster World.

A Lan learned the fates of the five Eclipse Race Branch Lineages and discovered that the surviving branch on Angry Eye Continent had been enslaved by the powerful Inscribed History Race. After arranging trade with the Ascension Race, he had Fate Throat build a long-distance Teleportation Array and set out to see his kin.

• A Lan paid Guide 380,000 Sacrificial Power and learned that one Branch Lineage had founded the Mechanical Legion, two had been destroyed, one had been devoured, and the last had become the Inscribed History Race's slave faction.
• Guide explained that the Inscribed History Race enslaved civilizations to add their struggles and histories to its Chronicle, and warned that its Divine Realm History Eulogist and military strength overwhelmed the Player Faction.
• A Lan rejected an immediate revenge campaign and prioritized rescuing the surviving branch, while deciding to seek more information and plan carefully.
• A Lan assigned the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to arrange resource deliveries and further trade with Chiyan and the Ascension Race.
• A Lan asked Fate Throat to construct a rule-resistant, precisely targeted Teleportation Array, and Fate Throat built it using Kongyuan Stones.
• A Lan activated the array and departed to visit his enslaved kin on Angry Eye Continent.

A Lan arrived in the Eclipse Race’s ruined independent space and learned that the Inscribed History Race had engineered its recurring disasters to turn the branch clanspeople’s struggle into recorded drama. After supplying food to survivors and reaching the High Wall, he saw the ongoing monster tide and considered exploiting the space’s recurring resources, but worried that doing so could expose and destroy the branch or Dream Island.

• A Lan explored the desolate wreckage, found an impoverished shantytown, and revived an old man with a Life Potion.
• The old man explained that able-bodied people had gone to the High Wall to face the approaching World-Eating Beast Tide, and A Lan gave the shantytown crates of food and water.
• Guide explained that the Inscribed History Race designed recurring disasters and seeded survival supplies and supernatural powers to produce dramatic histories for its observers.
• A Lan reached the High Wall and saw Eclipse Race warriors fighting a powerful monster tide, then realized the Inscribed History Race raised the conflict’s strength to harvest more energy.
• A Lan considered turning the recurring monster invasions and supernatural resources into a repeatable hunting ground for players, but feared the Inscribed History Race might erase the space or trace a teleportation array back to Dream Island.

A Lan planned to turn the Inscribed History Race’s Civilization Spaces into dangerous, resource-rich instances for players and arranged a stable entrance through the Against the Tide Legion after Adventurer World rejected his teleportation array. He secured the Legion’s support, funded construction of a nested array, and announced unlimited high-price bounties that sparked a player gold rush.

• A Lan concluded that he needed to exploit other civilization spaces rather than risk the branch clansmen’s home, and assessed the Adventurer World and Against the Tide Battlefield as possible teleportation hubs.
• A Lan and Fate Throat failed to build a stable array in an Adventurer World instance because its rules repaired changes to the space.
• A Lan asked Gold-Farming Gamer to seek the Against the Tide Legion’s support, and Elder You approved a safe site in the Legion’s defensive zone.
• A Lan planned an eight-million-sacrificial-power nested teleportation array connecting players to multiple Civilization Spaces.
• A Lan published a Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce bounty offering unlimited high-price purchases of rule-derived resources, prompting players to gather for the new instances.

Wulong's Rock Squad left Adventurer World for the Blood Color Heart in Civilization Space, where players overwhelmed the Demonfolk army. The Ironstone Race initially welcomed the newcomers as allies, but Stoneheart Battle General was nearly killed by a player, and the players continued slaughtering and looting without distinguishing friend from foe.

• After three disappointing Adventurer Instances, Wulong agreed to take his six-person squad to Civilization Space and travel to the Senluo Forest Realm exit.
• Wulong's squad selected the fifth instance option and arrived above the Blood Color Heart battlefield, where Demonfolk were besieging the Ironstone Race's fortress.
• Wulong, Tiaotiao, Undying Mad Saber, Jian Feng, Son of the Wind, and Rainy Day attacked the Demonfolk and began collecting loot.
• Stoneheart Battle General led Ironstone warriors out to aid the Sky-Descenders, but a player struck him down and nearly killed him.
• Stoneheart realized the players were hostile to everyone and led the Ironstone warriors back to the fortress as more players poured into the battlefield.
• Players pushed the Demonfolk army back while killing and looting freely, leaving the Ironstone Race fearful of what would happen after the invasion ended.

Civilization spaces became a wildly popular, rewarding battlefield where players farmed the Demonfolk Army until the Chronicle Keeper drove them out of Blood Color Heart. While tracing the spatial rift to punish the intruders, the Chronicle Keeper reached the Monster World’s Against the Tide 7th Battlefield, where a Soul Beast’s terrifying mental assault invaded its consciousness.

• Players flocked to the civilization spaces, turning Blood Color Heart into a chaotic monster-farming carnival and celebrating the freedom and rewards of their different builds.
• The Chronicle Keeper detected abnormal energy and intruders in Blood Color Heart, then projected itself into the space and killed the players, sending them back to Emperor Tomb Village with a one-hour cooldown.
• After removing the players, the Chronicle Keeper searched Blood Color Heart for their spatial rift and followed it into the Monster World.
• The Chronicle Keeper found the Against the Tide Legion, the Soul Return Race, and the Dark Tide fighting in a vast, devastating battle on the Against the Tide 7th Battlefield.
• As the Chronicle Keeper tried to withdraw, a Soul Beast phantom appeared beside it and assaulted its divine sense with visions of a world-devouring evil creature, forcing it to burn its divine sense’s essence to survive.

The Chronicle Keeper escaped a Soul Beast and chose to guard the Blood Color Heart space against parasites rather than risk provoking the Three Factions. Meanwhile, Qi Sheng assessed Civilization Space instances as a lucrative but temporary hunting ground for Players, while the Against the Tide Seven Battlefield offered better prospects for long-term development.

• The Chronicle Keeper severed its divine sense to escape the Soul Beast, then concluded that the Three Factions wielded power far beyond the Inscribed History Race and abandoned plans to attack their source.
• The Chronicle Keeper decided to monitor the Blood Color Heart space and kill parasites at its entrance, preserving the space while avoiding direct conflict with the Three Factions.
• Reflecting on the Molting Snake Race and the Inscribed History Race's own history, the Chronicle Keeper felt renewed ambition to climb higher in Monster World despite the risks.
• The Chronicle Keeper detected new vermin in the Blood Color Heart space and turned its attention back to killing them.
• Qi Sheng reviewed how Players had flocked to Civilization Space instances for rewards, while Chronicle Keeper purges had locked two of the five open instances.
• Qi Sheng judged the instance boom to be a time-limited business dependent on the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce opening new maps faster than the Chronicle Keeper could close them, and noted that top teams were preparing to develop the Against the Tide Seven Battlefield.