Chapter Summaries

Yang Xiu led the Life Soul Squad through a lethal Glacier Battlefield war, adapting their troop tactics to survive and finish fourteenth. After A Le summoned him to a purple realm, the Lord of Bliss recognized that Yang Xiu had a secret, putting his squad and subspace at risk.

• Yang Xiu and the Life Soul Squad arrived at the Glacier Battlefield, where the rules threatened erasure for every squad ranked 61st or lower and required them to fight the Copper-Digging Tribe for points.
• Yang Xiu ordered the Life Soul Squad to deploy troops, then adapted their unit mix and tactics as the battle progressed from the glacier into the Copper-Digging Tribe's city.
• A sniper attack gravely wounded Black Snake, Windbreaker, and Strength Savage, but Yang Xiu saved them with potions and shifted the squad to safer tactics.
• The Life Soul Squad finished fourteenth, while squads below the cutoff were erased; after the battlefield ended, Yang Xiu was transported to a purple realm instead of Death Space.
• The Lord of Bliss appeared as a thought projection, immobilized Yang Xiu, and told him that he had a secret.

The Lord of Bliss tortured Yang Xiu to learn where he had obtained the potions, then killed several of Yang Xiu’s teammates when he refused to answer. After Tourist No. 1 urged him to threaten A Le, Yang Xiu demanded that the dead be revived and warned that he would relentlessly sabotage the Lord of Bliss; his threat left A Le afraid.

• The Lord of Bliss questioned Yang Xiu about the foreign potions and searched his records, but Yang Xiu claimed he had found them in Monster World ruins.
• The Lord of Bliss forcibly searched Yang Xiu’s memories, encountered a mysterious gray mist around key memories, and withdrew before risking further contact.
• The Lord of Bliss resumed torturing Yang Xiu and brought in the Life Soul Squad to pressure him into revealing the potions’ source.
• When Yang Xiu remained silent, the Lord of Bliss killed Gang Qi, Stone Statue, and Eagle Head, leaving Yang Xiu devastated and enraged.
• Tourist No. 1 sent Yang Xiu advice to threaten A Le, and Yang Xiu demanded his teammates’ revival while threatening to haunt and undermine the Lord of Bliss.
• The Lord of Bliss realized Yang Xiu knew his true name and the hidden Elysium Legion, and became afraid of him.

Yang Xiu followed Tourist No. 1’s advice to persuade the Lord of Bliss to revive his teammates and expel the squad from Death Space. Although Yang Xiu promised to leave the Elysium system for good, the Lord of Bliss secretly planned to destroy and rebuild its entire system.

• The Lord of Bliss grew suspicious that Yang Xiu’s infiltration was connected to unexplained resource losses in Death Space and questioned who he was.
• Following Tourist No. 1’s guidance, Yang Xiu claimed he was an Experiencer seeking firsthand knowledge of the Elysium system and threatened lasting enmity if his teammates were not revived.
• The Lord of Bliss agreed to revive Gang Qi, Stone Statue, and Eagle Head on the condition that Yang Xiu and his anchors leave Death Space permanently.
• Yang Xiu accepted the terms, and the Lord of Bliss restored the three teammates before sending the Life Soul Squad back to Monster World.
• After returning, Yang Xiu thanked Tourist No. 1 while the squad stared at him in disbelief.
• The Lord of Bliss dismissed Yang Xiu’s promise as untrustworthy and began planning to reclaim and rebuild the Elysium Players, Death Space, the Elysium Legion, and its halls.

The Lord of Bliss reclaimed Death Space, the Phantom Spirit Wasteland A Le Training Camp, the Elysium Branch Halls, and the Main Hall, gathering the Elysium Tribe’s resources for a Great Purification. It chose to ascend to godhood by forging a new divine body around the Jile Rule and completed the transformation.

• The Lord of Bliss erased the Elysium Players and dismantled Death Space, reclaiming them as Elysium energy.
• The Lord of Bliss erased the battlefield and creatures in the Phantom Spirit Wasteland A Le Training Camp, leaving the players bewildered.
• The Lord of Bliss dismantled the Elysium Branch Halls and their inhabitants, then reclaimed the Main Hall while Xie Yu and the Twelve-Route Main Gods gathered beneath the altar.
• The Lord of Bliss shielded the Elysium clanspeople and decided that ascending to godhood was necessary to build a rule linkage system.
• The Lord of Bliss burned away its demigod body, fused the Jile Rule into a new rule skeleton, and ignited divine fire to form a divine body.
• The Lord of Bliss completed its ascension to godhood and opened its eyes, declaring, “Not difficult!”

After A Le abruptly shut down his training camp and Death Space, displaced players sought new ways to progress, while a five-hundred-person team cleared an instance against the odds. In the Barren Hills, Yang Xiu revealed his true circumstances to the Life Soul Squad, and they chose to stay with him despite the dangers ahead.

• A Le's demolition of his systems left players without their training camp, forced Death Space returns, and disrupted guild recruitment and planned growth paths.
• Unemployed players flocked to fishing, courier work, mining, and other pursuits, while progression teams began challenging instances above their level.
• A five-hundred-person team repeatedly wiped in Death Reincarnation but eventually defeated its final boss, inspiring more players to form progression teams.
• After hearing Yang Xiu's account, the Life Soul Squad realized he had entered Death Space voluntarily and had negotiated with the Evil God to free them.
• Yang Xiu explained that he came from a power in Monster World, affirmed his bonds with the squad, and asked whether they would continue with him.
• Black Snake pledged to follow Yang Xiu, and he confirmed that they were free before noting that the dangers ahead could surpass Death Space.

Yang Xiu searched for a safe place for the Life Soul Squad and found Little Mage’s plan to build an Independent Space as a more reliable path to survival. He decided to seek an alliance with Little Mage and sent him a friend request.

• Yang Xiu rejected returning the Life Soul Squad to their home Minor Worlds because A Le had brought those worlds under his control.
• Guide told Yang Xiu that nowhere in Monster World was absolutely safe and refused to explain how to build a Teleportation Array.
• Yang Xiu searched the Forum and found Little Mage’s post arguing that a civilization could improve its odds of survival by building an Independent Space and managing its risks.
• Yang Xiu realized that Little Mage’s ongoing project for the Spirit Breath Race could offer the Life Soul Squad a safe place to settle.
• Yang Xiu decided to join forces with Little Mage and sent him a friend request.

Yang Xiu contacted Little Mage and arranged for the Life Soul Squad to leave the Barren Hills for safety. After arriving in Spirit Breath City, the squad found a new home, while Yang Xiu prepared to return to the village and access his long-sealed Main Account.

• After Little Mage blocked his friend request, Yang Xiu asked Wu Xing to contact him through the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce.
• Little Mage accepted Yang Xiu's request, agreed to cooperate on building an Independent Space, and arranged a temporary Teleportation Array for the Life Soul Squad.
• Yang Xiu and his teammates waited a day and a half in a sheltered hollow before Little Mage opened a spatial fissure and escorted them to Spirit Breath City.
• Little Mage showed Yang Xiu and the squad the city's classrooms, breeding farms, and production facilities, and welcomed them to settle there.
• After seeing his teammates safe in Spirit Breath City, Yang Xiu decided to return to the village, collect his rewards, and log into his Main Account Sealed for Years.

Yang Xiu dissolved his Death Space character, returned to his main in Emperor Tomb Village, and bought supplies and materials for Little Mage and the Spirit Breath Race. After exchanging scrolls and resources with Little Mage, he left the village and teleported back to Spirit Breath City, choosing its future over his old life with the Divine Hall Guild.

• Yang Xiu used Self-Dissolution, earning 13,283,252 points of Sacrificial Power and entering a one-hour respawn cooldown.
• Yang Xiu respawned in Emperor Tomb Village, rediscovered the power and freedom of his main character, and saw how much the village had grown.
• Yang Xiu bought 100 Location Teleport Scrolls, healing items, and Elemental Seeds for the Spirit Breath Race, then spent two days scanning Library materials for Little Mage and the Life Soul Squad.
• Little Mage traded Yang Xiu ten Location Teleport Scrolls and 15 million points of Sacrificial Power for the 100 scrolls Yang Xiu had purchased.
• Yang Xiu returned to the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, watched the Divine Hall Guild fighting evil spirits, and activated a Location Teleport Scroll to reach Spirit Breath City.

Qi Sheng assessed A Le’s rise to godhood and the evolving projects of the Elysium Legion, while Di Nian Evil Spirit forced an alliance member to take his place in the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range so he could escape the fighting. The chapter left Di Nian enjoying a peaceful new post on the Heavenly Billows Plain as Xie Hui faced the approaching players and Insect Race.

• Qi Sheng watched A Le ascend to godhood and judged that the investment would help him advance the Rule Linkage System.
• Qi Sheng assessed A Le’s plans for the Elysium Legion, including its War Command Library, player training, and ways to fund its growing costs.
• Qi Sheng recorded Spirit Breath City’s development and recognized Little Mage’s trade as a major source of value and tax revenue.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit designated the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range a live-combat training zone and ordered alliance newcomers to fight the players and Insect Race there.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit selected Xie Hui to take his place at the Di Family Mountains node, while the other alliance members urged Xie Hui to obey.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit transferred to Xie Hui’s peaceful node on the Heavenly Billows Plain, leaving Xie Hui to face the approaching Player Legion and Insect Race.

Di Nian Evil Spirit redirected the campaign against the Crystalbone Clan and personally fought its awakened Crystal Lord, defeating it before ordering the Dark Tide to crush the remaining defenders. After Evil Eye detected possible Rule fluctuations hidden deep in the clan’s territory, Di Nian prepared to investigate the concealed, potentially trapped location.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit learned that Crystalbone warriors yielded exceptionally high dark tide energy and redirected 72% of the available energy toward the northwestern front.
• Di Nian deployed evil-energy insects and black crystals to disrupt the Crystalbone Clan’s energy and communications, turning the battle in the Evil Spirits’ favor.
• The Crystalbone Clan awakened its armored Crystal Lord and the Arbitrator legion, whose charge broke through the Evil Spirits and reversed the battle.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit fought the Crystal Lord in a brutal duel, studied its combat style, and destroyed its chest core and head with a targeted strike.
• Di Nian returned to commander mode and sent Wan Ji and Demon Seed into battle, allowing the Dark Tide to overwhelm the Arbitrators and Crystalbone warriors.
• Evil Eye detected possible Rule fluctuations beneath the devastated clan territory and warned Di Nian that a concealed barrier might hide a trap or locked structure.

Di Nian Evil Spirit cracked the ward protecting a Crystal Bone Race vault and discovered a rule-incubation facility guarded by 1.29 million Guardian Warriors whose power grew through lossless transfer. Unable to defeat them safely, he devised a plan to recruit the Beast Players as a counter and claim the Rule through their plunder.

• Evil Eye analyzed the vault's ward, and Di Nian Evil Spirit cracked it by simulating its runes and forming a key that opened the spatial tunnel.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit discovered cultivation pods where beings were attempting to transform into rule-derived life, with most of them failing to survive the process.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit sent the Dark Tide toward the pods, awakening 1,293,829 Guardian Warriors empowered by rule particles from the beings inside.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit realized the Guardian Warriors transferred defeated allies' power without loss, making continued attacks strengthen the survivors and risk a disastrous counterattack.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit decided to build a Spatial Teleportation Array from the Di Family Mountains and offer quests so the Beast Players could kill Guardian Warriors and bring back Rule Particles.

Di Nian Evil Spirit devised a way to use tiered rewards and mystery boxes to persuade players to surrender the rule particles guarded in an Independent Space. After returning to the battlefield and resuming command, he faced a newly activated hidden mission that stunned the players.

• Evil Eye suggested that players valued resources more than rules, so Di Nian Evil Spirit planned tiered rewards and mystery boxes to buy rule particles cheaply.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit withdrew his forces from the Independent Space and returned to the Di Family Mountains, where he found Xie Hui overwhelmed by the war.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit relieved Xie Hui, told it about the rule and his plan to exploit the players, and took command again.
• The players enjoyed farming while Di Nian Evil Spirit was away, but his natural disaster troops formed a wall that stopped their advance when he returned.
• A black screen announced a hidden mission in the Independent Space War, leaving the players astonished that their villainous enemy had given them a mission.

Di Nian Bully opened a quest system and portal so players could hunt the Sky Crystal God Race’s guardians and submit Returning Flow rule particles for mystery boxes. A Lan withdrew the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce from the competition, leaving Bully as the only buyer as he multiplied his quest-giving clones across the region.

• The players entered the Independent Space after Data Spider explained that Bully needed their help to overcome Returning Flow’s power-sharing system.
• Players tested Bully’s reward against Brother Emperor Zhao’s sacrifice offer and found that Bully’s mystery box was worth twice as much.
• A Lan concluded that the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce could not compete without risking its reputation, and he announced that it would stop buying the rule particles.
• With the Chamber of Commerce out, players flocked to submit their particles to Bully in exchange for mystery boxes.
• Bully created tens of thousands of clones across the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, each using a quest tray to accept rule particles and dispense rewards.

Di Nian Evil Spirit watched players defeat the Sky Crystal God Race and used Blind Box rewards, insults, and lucky-prize broadcasts to recover rule particles. After choosing not to betray the players by seizing the battlefield’s spoils, he conceived a realm-spanning quest system that could send players to fight for the Evil Spirit Alliance.

• Players coordinated their attacks to kill Guardian Warriors, whose power and consciousness were plundered instead of returning to their kin.
• Di Nian Bully insulted players who complained about disappointing Blind Box rewards, while players who attacked him were sent back to the village.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit broadcast lucky players’ valuable prizes, raising the quest submission rate to 89.3% while keeping a guaranteed minimum reward of one Dark Tide Crystal.
• Five days later, players shattered the Guardian Warriors’ defenses and destroyed the Cultivation Pod area, leaving the Sky Crystal God Race’s defeat inevitable.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit chose to let the players keep the battlefield’s spoils rather than betray their cooperation, while Evil Eye reported that 73.8% of the rule particles had been recovered.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit imagined a realm-spanning quest system that would let Evil Spirits hire players to handle their conflicts and other difficult work.

Di Nian Evil Spirit persuaded the Evil Spirit Alliance to use quests to direct players toward the alliance’s problems and reduce pressure on the Di Family Mountains. The alliance approved a six-color quest system and began testing it, leaving the players stunned by a field of Evil Spirit quest-givers.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit convened the alliance and proposed using the Player Race as paid tools to tackle difficult targets and divert players from the Di Family Mountains.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit established rules requiring full payment for completed quests and warning members not to offer resource-gathering quests that players could exploit.
• The alliance approved five quest tiers marked by white, green, blue, purple, and gold exclamation marks, then added Gui Ya’s red mark for invitations to unrestricted Interdimensional Wars.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit launched the first round of quest testing, and alliance members volunteered troublesome tasks for players.
• The United Warband arrived at the Di Family Mountains and found Evil Spirit projections bearing colorful quest markers, prompting Divine King to ask whether Bully had opened an Evil Spirit theme park.

Players debated the Evil Spirit Alliance’s new quest system, then gathered in the Di Family Mountains to bargain over quest rewards and risks. Their negotiations gave Di Nian’s Evil Eye data for developing a standardized system.

• A Forum poster argued that Di Nian Bully and the Evil Spirit Alliance had become a high-difficulty NPC faction offering quests to powerful players.
• Players discussed the quest system’s steep requirements, uncertain rewards, and the potential for smaller elite warbands to operate in quest areas.
• Several days later, Evil Spirit projections and player teams gathered at the northwest quest area to negotiate quest terms.
• An axe-wielding player bargained an Evil Spirit’s reward up to 1,300 dark tide crystals, while other players challenged vague quest descriptions and demanded risk premiums.
• Players and Evil Spirits traded threats and counteroffers as they negotiated quest rewards, information, and completion terms.
• The Evil Eye recorded the players’ quest preferences, completion efficiency, and bargaining behavior to help Di Nian develop a standardized quest system.

Gangban and the Steel Warband accepted Gui Ya’s low-paying quest to explore Soul Valley, then followed his projection into the dangerous depths. After fighting monsters and discovering a rare ore vein, the players began mining it for themselves, and Gui Ya demanded a share.

• Gangban bargained with Gui Ya over the quest reward until Evil Eye unexpectedly called Gangban “Dad,” after which Gangban accepted the two thousand Dark Tide Crystals.
• Evil Eye teleported Gangban and the Steel Warband to the Land of Embers, where they pursued Gui Ya’s projection to Soul Valley and followed it into the abyss.
• Gangban and his team quickly defeated a swarm of Soul Shadows, then fought off stronger Derived Evil Spirits as Gui Ya explained the valley’s unusual energy and possible danger.
• Gangban discovered a recovering vein of tier-five spirit ore, and the Steel Warband began mining it despite Gui Ya’s objections.
• Gui Ya argued that the ore belonged to him as the quest issuer, but Gangban insisted that the players owned what they found and told Gui Ya to call him Daddy for a share.

Gangban and Gui Ya uncovered the cause of Soul Valley’s endless war and learned how the Soul Shadows countered the Dark Tide. At the battlefield’s center, Gangban discovered a Story rule node, leaving the Steel Warband poised to claim its unique rewards.

• The Steel Warband mined the spirit ore and followed Gui Ya deeper into Soul Valley, where stronger monsters and unstable spatial fissures appeared.
• Huohua spotted Soul Shadows and derived evil spirits fighting, and Gui Ya and Gangban realized the creatures were carrying on an ancient war driven by opposing lingering wills.
• Gangban explained that dying Soul Shadows banished nearby derived evil spirits through spatial ripples, preventing their energy from returning to the Dark Tide, and Gui Ya recognized the Players could counter them.
• The Steel Warband fought through the two armies and reached a vast underground battlefield, where a Soul Shadow source and a Dark Tide Core stood beside a bottomless pit.
• Gangban used Analysis on the Dark Tide Core and discovered a Story rule node that awarded unique Narrative Fragments for first-time achievements, prompting an all-channel discovery notification and excitement among the team.

Gangban and Gui Ya discovered a Dark Tide Core containing the Banishment rule in Soul Valley, prompting the Evil Spirit Alliance and players to prepare a cooperative interdimensional war. As Di Nian opened a passage to the battlefield, the Insect Race arrived, and the players and bugs charged through while Di Nian planned to support them from a distance.

• Gangban and Gui Ya agreed to seek the Dark Tide Core and Banishment rule in Soul Valley, though Gangban admitted he wanted both for himself.
• After Gui Ya reported the discovery, Di Nian Evil Spirit arranged for the players to fight the Lord of Soul Shadows while the Evil Spirit Alliance absorbed the Dark Tide Core and pursued the rule.
• The Evil Spirit Alliance diverted energy to Gui Ya's node and entered combat readiness as a huge crowd of players gathered near Emperor Tomb Village.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit opened a spatial passage to Soul Valley, and Divine King led the player army toward it.
• The Insect Race Army arrived from Phantom Marsh and joined the charge through the passage.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit decided to support the players and Insect Race with specialized troops, then transferred his projected body to Gui Ya's High Tower.

The players, Insect Race, and Dark Tide joined forces to destroy the Soul Shadow Lord, while Di Nian Evil Spirit used the battle to absorb the Dark Tide Core and demonstrate his support tactics. Divine King’s team contained the Story Rule Node, and the former allies ended their cooperation with a mocking exchange before parting as rivals again.

• Players, the Insect Race, and the Dark Tide entered Soul Valley and attacked the soul shadows, while Di Nian Evil Spirit’s Dark Tide absorbed the Dark Tide Core and its memories revealed the origins of the Soulbinding Clan’s war.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye coordinated Dark Tide support that strengthened the allied armies and helped them destroy the Soul Shadow Lord.
• Four demigod evil spirits blocked players from claiming the banishment rule, diverting the Insect Race while Divine King led the United Warband to contain the Story Rule Node.
• The system announced that Divine King’s team had contained the node and unlocked a new faction trait and the Glory Annals.
• Divine King and Di Nian Evil Spirit exchanged matching thumbs-up gestures, then turned them into thumbs-down gestures as their cooperation ended.