Chapter Summaries

The Di Nian Evil Spirit opened a passage into the Bei Yuan Tribe’s Burial Fire Ground, bringing the Evil Spirits Legion, Insect Race, and player army into a three-sided invasion. The Great Stele Priest tried to rally the power of the civilization tombstones, but Di Nian Bully coordinated the attackers to sabotage its formation, and the priest finally unleashed its demigod power directly.

• The Di Nian Evil Spirit expanded the Phantom Marsh Teleportation Array into a passage, and the three invading forces rushed through it into the Burial Fire Ground.
• The Insect Race broke through the Civilization Guardian Canopy, allowing the evil spirits and players to invade while the Bei Yuan Tribe deployed its civilization warriors.
• Ye Ming, Ye Xie, and the revived Mingwu Elders’ Council joined the players, while Divine King’s United Warband led a coordinated assault on the Bei Yuan Tribe’s defenses.
• The Dark Tide, players, and insects fought through the Burial Fire Ground, using distinct tactics as Di Nian Evil Spirit analyzed the battlefield and directed its forces.
• Xuan Li, the Great Stele Priest, activated Stele Resonance to gather power from the tombstones, but Di Nian Evil Spirit marked its energy nodes for the players and insects to destroy.
• The Great Stele Priest severed its links to the tombstones, released an energy storm across the battlefield, and struck toward the Dark Tide with its demigod-level power.

The Great Stele Priest’s attacks first devastated the Three Disasters, but Di Nian Evil Spirit analyzed and dismantled its suppression domain, then coordinated the players and Insect Race to isolate and destroy the Bei Yuan Tribe’s linked civilization shadows. As the Great Stele Priest realized attrition would cost it the Burial Fire Ground, it surged toward the spatial passage to attack the enemy command hub.

• The Great Stele Priest wiped out large numbers of Evil Spirits, Insect Race units, and players with a Civilization Rules palm strike, then trapped the battlefield in Ten Thousand Steles Suppressing the Prison.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit used Evil Eye’s analysis and battlefield markers to guide the players and Insect Race in breaking the domain’s civilization nodes and devouring the fragments.
• The Great Stele Priest summoned more than a hundred powerful civilization shadows and linked their abilities, turning the Bei Yuan Tribe’s retreat into a counteroffensive.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit coordinated the players and Insect Race to separate the civilization shadows into Independent Spaces, then killed the isolated star archmage with a Sun-Eroding Spear.
• The Great Stele Priest concluded that the Three Disasters would win a war of attrition and flew toward the spatial passage to destroy their command hub.

The Great Stele Priest charged into the Spatial Passage to destroy the Di Nian Evil Spirit’s command hub, while the Evil Spirit trapped it in an intricate maze and repeatedly sacrificed players and Insect Race troops to buy time. The Priest deciphered the maze’s pattern but fell for a false route, and its own devastating attack struck it from behind, leaving it wounded and afraid.

• The Great Stele Priest entered the Spatial Passage and annihilated the players and Insect Race Warriors in its way as it raced toward the Di Nian Evil Spirit.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit and its twenty-eight Auxiliary Eyes reshaped the passage into a Spatial Maze, while the Priest smashed through its barriers and prisms.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit repeatedly airdropped players and Insect Race troops into the maze, using their brief distraction to help maintain it.
• The Great Stele Priest used the Lantern and its computational method to analyze the maze, identify its true route, and plan a decisive strike.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit revealed that it had deceived the Priest, causing the Priest’s attack to rebound through a spatial rift and smash into its back.
• The Great Stele Priest spat golden blood, its fire of civilization dimmed, and fear rose within it.

The Di Nian Evil Spirit trapped the wounded Great Stele Priest in a regenerating spatial labyrinth while the Players, Insect Race, and Dark Tide overwhelmed the Bei Yuan Tribe and ransacked Burial Fire City. The Bei Yuan Tribe’s civilization was erased, the victory entered the Glory Annals, and the three factions departed after their feast.

• The Great Stele Priest realized the Di Nian Evil Spirit had deceived it into a self-inflicted wound, then exhausted itself attacking the labyrinth as the Di Nian Evil Spirit imprisoned it.
• The Di Nian Evil Spirit returned its attention to the battlefield, where the Players, Insect Race, and Dark Tide broke their alliance and competed while destroying the Bei Yuan Tribe’s defenses.
• Players, Insect Race Warriors, and Evil Spirits overwhelmed Burial Fire City, looted its buildings and materials, and crushed the Bei Yuan Tribe’s remaining resistance.
• The Three Factions destroyed the Bei Yuan Tribe’s records and Memory Divine Pillars, extinguishing its last resistance and erasing its civilization’s final light.
• The Glory Annals recorded the victory, Players celebrated with commemorative photos, and the Three Factions eventually left the devastated Civilization Graveyard.

Qi Sheng reviewed the Player Faction’s post-campaign earnings, new Life Souls, and planned system updates, then considered a future way to fund the Four Gods by letting players exchange sacrifices for their blessings. He postponed the idea until players had grown stronger and turned his attention to Elysium Hall after receiving feedback from Guide.

• Qi Sheng reviewed the 48.348 billion in total Player Faction earnings from the Burial Fire Campaign and noted that he would collect a 30% tax as players converted their resources.
• Qi Sheng examined the Reflection Life Soul, whose ability to project a commander’s intent directly into allies’ minds could greatly improve large-scale command, and the Diffusion Life Soul, which spread effects across an area.
• Qi Sheng considered updates to million-strong battle formations and the pressure system, which he believed could eventually help players develop rule-like powers of their own.
• Qi Sheng considered letting players offer sacrifices to the Four Gods in exchange for blessings, potentially including a card draw for powerful effects or a brief Ultra-Dimensional projection.
• Qi Sheng decided not to introduce the proposed system yet because he was short on resources and players were not strong enough to support the Four Gods’ needs.
• After receiving feedback from Guide, Qi Sheng shifted his gaze to Elysium Hall.

The Lord of Bliss reviewed the Elysium War Legion’s evolution, the Elysium Players System, and the rising costs of both projects before expanding the war’s reflection broadcasts. It then focused on linking its Jile Rule and Reflection Rule, unaware that a Higher-Dimensional Will was watching the Elysium Tribe and had turned its attention to the Death Spatial Scenario.

• The Lord of Bliss observed the Purple Tide and Insect Tide fight the player army, unified their actions with a command, and reviewed the legion’s development through its fifth generation and planned sixth-generation hive network.
• After learning that rising player participation had sharply increased war expenditure, the Lord of Bliss ordered reflection time extended by 30% and one additional advertisement every Elysium Hour.
• The Lord of Bliss inspected Death Space and the Elysium Players Teams, whose successes generated energy by beguiling living beings while their deaths supplied data for future system improvements.
• The Lord of Bliss defended Death Space’s harsh selection and the teams’ internal competition as ways to select capable players, recover resources, and expose weaknesses.
• The Lord of Bliss considered linking the Jile Rule with the Reflection Rule to project illusions across space and transform the Elysium Tribe’s resource production.
• A Higher-Dimensional Will observed the Lord of Bliss and the Elysium Tribe, then shifted its attention to the Death Spatial Scenario.

Yang Xiu struggled with the burden of leading the Life Soul Squad and the threat of Zhong Yue’s Mountain-Crushing Team. Remembering that he was a genuine player, he decided to seek Divine King’s help.

• Yang Xiu reflected on how his teammates had become brothers to him and how Taunt had died protecting him, deepening his sense of responsibility for the squad.
• Black Snake tried to comfort Yang Xiu, while he kept his feelings for her at a distance because he believed he would eventually return to the Real World.
• Zhong Yue confronted Yang Xiu in the bar, threatened the Life Soul Squad’s third-place ranking, and displayed a Team Tracking Token to signal an impending hunt in Monster World.
• After returning to his room, Yang Xiu realized he had been thinking like an Elysium Player instead of a genuine player and contacted Divine King for help.
• Divine King replied that he did not recognize Yang Xiu and suggested they delete each other.

Yang Xiu led the Life Soul Squad into a staged retreat, drawing Zhong Yue and the Mountain-Crushing Team through repeated spatial jumps to the Rimewinter Snowfield, where Divine King’s Player Race forces were waiting in ambush. Zhong Yue’s pursuit ended in disaster, and Yang Xiu revealed that he had been working with the Players all along and would survive.

• Yang Xiu led the Life Soul Squad from Death City to Crimson Tears and ordered them to prepare defenses while secretly arranging for the Player Race to help him.
• Zhong Yue gathered nearly a thousand Mountain-Crushing Team members and attacked the Life Soul Squad, but Yang Xiu escaped with his squad using Sky-Piercing Talismans as Zhong Yue pursued with tracking talismans.
• Yang Xiu used a preset spatial coordinate to lead both squads to the Rimewinter Snowfield, where Divine King’s Player Race forces surrounded the Mountain-Crushing Team.
• The Player Race attacked and overwhelmed Zhong Yue’s squad, while Zhong Yue used Elysium Burning Runes to seize Yang Xiu and drag him toward him.
• Yang Xiu survived Zhong Yue’s attack and spoke casually with a Player Race member, revealing that the Players had come to ambush the Mountain-Crushing Team and that he would not die.

Yang Xiu’s allies from the Divine Hall Sub-Warband wiped out the Mountain-Crushing Team while pretending to fight the Life Soul Squad, then withdrew with Yang Xiu. The Life Soul Squad mistook his disappearance for his death and collapsed in despair as the players carried him deeper into Snow Valley.

• The Life Soul Squad charged the Player Race to save Yang Xiu, while the players pretended to hold them back without seriously hurting them.
• The Divine Hall Sub-Warband slaughtered the Mountain-Crushing Team, and Yang Xiu’s old friend killed the gravely wounded Zhong Yue.
• Yang Xiu decided to withdraw with the players and return to the Life Soul Squad later so he could conceal what had happened.
• The players sped away with Yang Xiu, leaving the Life Soul Squad believing he was lost to them.
• Black Snake pursued the retreating players until exhaustion overcame her, and the Life Soul Squad collapsed unconscious in the snow.

Yang Xiu shared a meal with Wu Xing in Snow Valley and explained why he chose to stay with his Life Soul Squad rather than return to the Divine Hall Guild. Three days later, the squad mourned him in Death City until Yang Xiu appeared alive at Elysium Indulgence.

• Wu Xing cooked Two Principles Soup and shared Sea Spirit Brew with Yang Xiu while urging him to return to the Divine Hall Guild.
• Yang Xiu told Wu Xing that the bonds and experiences he shared with his Life Soul Squad mattered more to him than profit or strength.
• Light Shield rallied the grieving Life Soul Squad, and the members vowed to keep the team going and grow strong enough to bring Yang Xiu back.
• The Life Soul Squad went to Elysium Indulgence to hold a temporary farewell ceremony for Yang Xiu and found a black-cloaked figure in his usual seat.
• The figure revealed himself as Yang Xiu, leaving the squad stunned as he greeted them.

Qi Sheng compared how the Elysium Tribe, Eclipse Race, and Spirit Breath Race had adapted their systems of leadership to survive and develop in Monster World. After Guide reminded him that the Origin Primordial Will was the constant behind civilization’s changes, Qi Sheng turned his attention to a new mode being refined at the Colorful Mist Coast.

• Qi Sheng assessed A Le as a calculating but creative wise ruler whose leadership gave the Elysium Tribe resilience and the potential to surpass its limits.
• Qi Sheng compared parliamentary rule with wise-ruler systems, concluding that decisive leadership better suited Monster World’s brutal conditions.
• Qi Sheng considered how the Star Network served as the Eclipse Race’s enduring ruler, while A Le’s creativity let the Elysium Tribe explore unknown paths.
• Qi Sheng reflected on how Soul King’s departure with the seven kings freed the Spirit Breath Race from internal power struggles and enabled Little Mage to lead without constraints.
• Guide told Qi Sheng that the Origin Primordial Will was the constant behind civilizations’ changing forms, and Qi Sheng joked that Guide was flattering him.
• Qi Sheng turned his attention to the Colorful Mist Coast, where a mode long anticipated by players on the Forum was being refined.

Explorer developed Poem of Scenery to share Monster World's history through immersive text, scenery, and music, but struggled to find players willing to compose music for the vast project. With help from A Lan and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce, he recruited talented singers from several Alien Races and arrived on Dream Island to begin recording their sounds.

• Explorer refined Poem of Scenery's location-based descriptions and explained how it would connect scenery with historical stories and player legends.
• Explorer decided that music was essential to the plugin and realized he could use the voices and natural sounds of Monster World's Alien Races instead of relying on player musicians.
• A Lan supported Explorer's plan, and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce arranged introductions with singers from several races.
• Explorer traveled to Dream Island, where Sacrificial Power Snatcher introduced him to Xige, Yong, Elder Stonehammer, and Qing Xiu.
• After meeting the prospective collaborators, Explorer lost his remaining doubts about the project, while livestream viewers celebrated Poem of Scenery's next stage.

Explorer discovered that the Pressure System could share the emotions in his memories with other races, allowing them to create music for the Poem of Scenery through shared feeling rather than verbal direction. After recording several new pieces, he considered expanding his pressure beyond cowardice, but livestream viewers questioned whether his idea would help him survive.

• Explorer guided musicians of several races in composing music about a tree city, but found that words alone could not convey the emotions behind his memories.
• Explorer realized he could use the Pressure System to transmit remembered emotions, and Guide explained that it could evoke feelings without creating tangible force.
• Explorer shared his awe at seeing a Cloud Dragon; Xige, Yong, Elder Stonehammer, and the other musicians felt the emotion and turned it into music.
• Explorer shared memories of a starry snowfield, an ancient crater lake, and a cavern of Energy Crystals, and the musicians created three distinct passages for the Poem of Scenery.
• After the musicians left, Explorer decided to build a personal pressure system using emotions from his journeys, while livestream viewers joked that it might not help him against monsters.

Qi Sheng observed the Explorer’s Poem of Scenery plugin and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s efforts to build a player foothold in the Land of Chasing the Sun. When Shi Zhan and other scouts destroyed Mechanical Legion collectors, the Legion launched a sweeping assault that began the first large-scale battle between the factions.

• Qi Sheng recognized that the Explorer’s emotional approach to the Poem of Scenery could lead players toward developing their own rules.
• A Lan used the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s resources to grow the United Warband and pursue the Mechanical Legion’s and Virtual Runes Legion’s rules.
• Shi Zhan discovered and destroyed a Wolf-Class Collector, sold its energy crystal, and sacrificed the remaining wreckage for resources.
• The Mechanical Legion retaliated by sending Spatial Beacon Spears and waves of combat units against Shi Zhan and the other scouts, killing the scattered advance party.
• The Mechanical Legion activated a broader cleansing protocol, raining beacon spears across the Land of Chasing the Sun and killing players throughout the region.

The Mechanical Legion invaded the Land of Chasing the Sun, and Yue Ying led the Gold Coin United Warband in a coordinated counterattack that met increasingly fierce resistance. As the battle intensified, players on the Forum organized a mass rally to join the fight.

• The Mechanical Legion swept through the Land of Chasing the Sun, killing players and members of the Gold Coin Warband as Spatial Beacon Spears opened portals for its forces.
• Yue Ying ordered surviving Gold Coin members to regroup, prepare enhancements, and launch a counterattack with coordinated waves of troops.
• The warband used Blood Burn, mage bombardments, and the Field-Anchor Statue tactic to slow and destroy Mechanical Legion units, including Iron Soul combat units.
• The Mechanical Legion adapted, sent reinforcements, and began targeting the warband's rear lines and slowing-domain players, pushing the battle toward a disadvantage for the Gold Coin United Warband.
• Players on the Forum reacted angrily to the invasion and rallied others to fight the Mechanical Legion, forming a mass force headed toward the Land of Chasing the Sun.

Players from across the maps migrated to the Land of Chasing the Sun and overwhelmed the Mechanical Legion with their chaotic counterattack. The Legion unleashed a much larger force that crushed the players’ advance, leaving them to keep fighting for sacrificial power as top guilds began regrouping.

• Players across multiple maps answered calls to join the battle, and their arrival reversed the Mechanical Legion’s advance.
• Players with varied builds attacked the Mechanical Legion, while a showboating Summoner Style player was killed by Iron Soul units.
• The Mechanical Legion struggled to predict the players’ reckless, tireless behavior and was pushed back toward the Wailing Stone Forest.
• The Legion opened enormous spatial rifts and sent Stomper units, Predator aircraft, a Support Hive, and a Silent Lord into the battle.
• The new mechanical forces drove the battle into survival mode, and top guilds began reorganizing into United Warbands.

After the players defeated the Mechanical Legion, Xie Yu investigated a strange Information Stone and learned how reconnaissance robot 734 had helped A Tu create a Martial Arts civilization before carrying its history into space. The chapter ended with Xie Yu discovering that the Mechanical Legion had later destroyed that world, leaving him holding the last record of its people.

• The Mechanical Legion escalated its battlefield forces until the players suffered a total rout, and Xie Yu received an unusual Information Stone from Battlefield Scavenger.
• Xie Yu paid Guide to decipher the stone and learned that 734 had crash-landed on the Earthshaking Continent 212 years earlier and met a boy named A Tu.
• 734 tutored A Tu, helped him develop Energy Guidance Techniques, and guided him as he founded Martial Arts and became known as the Martial Ancestor.
• After A Tu died, 734 created the Information Stone to preserve their story and the Martial Arts civilization, then departed to seek its origins.
• The Mechanical Legion eventually recovered 734 and the Information Stone, destroyed the Martial Arts world with Mechanical God Descent, and left Xie Yu grieving over the record.

After discovering the history of 734 and A Tu in the Information Stone, Xie Yu reflected on how players and the Mechanical Legion erased civilizations without understanding their pasts. He decided to build a Civilization Museum to preserve their stories and leave the next generation an ark of memory.

• Xie Yu kept the Information Stone after the Battlefield Scavenger watched its recording and gave it to him for free.
• Xie Yu told the Battlefield Scavenger that the reconstructed 734 was only a weapon, while the stone preserved its soul and history.
• Xie Yu reconsidered A Le's withdrawal from war, seeing it as wisdom gained from understanding how conflicts entangled civilizations in cycles of vengeance.
• Xie Yu uploaded the Information Stone's story to the Forum in the name of the Research Enthusiasts.
• Xie Yu resolved to build a Civilization Museum where players could learn about civilizations that had existed and understand the weight of their histories.

While researching the Martial Minor World, Xie Yu attended his grandmother’s funeral and discovered that ordinary food and life in reality had become difficult for his weakened body. He tested the world’s basic Physical Tempering Method on himself and found that it produced measurable effects, leaving him stunned that the game’s cultivation technique worked in reality.

• Xie Yu submitted a summary of the DAAAV-734 civilization to the Poem of Scenery database and continued organizing its history for the forum.
• Xie Yu learned that his grandmother had died, attended her funeral, and planted a Memory Seed with his relatives before joining them for a family meal.
• After eating braised pork, Xie Yu became violently ill, and a medical scan attributed his digestive problems to prolonged reliance on Game Pod nutrient solution.
• Xie Yu decided to test the Martial Minor World’s Physical Tempering Method, using a physiotherapy device to help synchronize his muscles with the technique’s recorded frequency.
• Xie Yu established the required muscle tremors and felt his qi and blood surge as his body absorbed energy from food, while the device recorded matching activity.

Xie Yu tested the Body Tempering Method from the Monster World and found that it rapidly improved his real-world body. Convinced that the method revealed deeper mysteries about the Monster World and the Star Network, he decided to report his findings to the Human Federation Supreme Intelligence Department.

• Xie Yu ate five high-protein meals after cultivation, then tested his strength, stamina, jumping ability, and balance and found marked improvements.
• Xie Yu trained over several days, gradually extending the muscle tremors to more of his body and learning to produce them with his mind; scans showed rising muscle density and falling body fat.
• Xie Yu achieved a brief whole-body resonance, and his physique changed visibly, developing defined muscles and six-pack abs.
• Xie Yu wondered whether the Monster World was more than a virtual game and considered why the Star Network had kept reality-altering technologies out of the Real World.
• Xie Yu decided to compile his cultivation records, physical data, and findings about the Martial Minor World into a report for the Human Federation Supreme Intelligence Department.