Chapter Summaries

The launch of Story Illustration sent players rushing to claim faction-wide first achievements, while Qi Sheng reflected on Di Nian Evil Spirit’s influence on the players’ growth. A travel squad reached Great Sorrow Snow Mountain to witness the Ice-Crystal Cloud-Sea Sunrise, then discovered a Ninth-Generation Primordial and other Primordials beneath the clouds.

• Players across Di Family Village found the new Story Illustration building and hurried to earn first achievements, while spectators without Player Qualification lamented missing out.
• Qi Sheng considered how Di Nian Evil Spirit had trained the players through their conflicts and was now trying to channel their power through a quest system.
• Feihong, Lingdang, Dunshan's Might, Xiaoxiao, and Doudou climbed Great Sorrow Snow Mountain to see the Ice-Crystal Cloud-Sea Sunrise and took a group photo at the summit.
• As the sunrise faded and the clouds parted, the squad spotted a colossal flying whale carrying a city and identified it as the Ninth-Generation Primordial Definition.
• Dunshan found Word Spirit, a Fourth-Generation Primordial on Definition’s back, and then noticed many more moving figures there, suggesting a cluster of Primordials.

The Song of the Wanderers discovered a Primordial cluster on Definition’s back and decided to try containing its weaker Primordials before sharing the news. Afei’s team contained Word Spirit, his birthdate Primordial, but retreated from the far stronger Edict and planned to call for help.

• The five explorers debated whether to announce their discovery or test themselves, then chose to approach the fourth-generation Word Spirit, which matched Afei’s birthdate Primordial number.
• Afei piloted the team’s Sky Airship through the violent currents around Definition, and the group landed on its back and fought through several waves of Law Beasts in the ruins of Back Ridge City.
• Afei led the team in attacking Word Spirit, and Xiaoxiao’s Inkflame Fireball helped them contain it as Primordial No. 312; Afei earned the first-Primordial achievement and 100 Narrative Fragments.
• The team decided to continue exploring, but Lingdang detected Edict, a fifth-generation Primordial with hunting level 139.
• Afei, Dunshan, and Lingdang judged Edict far beyond their strength and decided to return to the village to summon help.

Players discussed the newly discovered True Word Origin Primordial cluster and analyzed how Word Spirit could boost attacks through shouted skill names and conviction. The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce announced a free teleportation network to Definition, clearing the way for players to explore the roaming cluster.

• Players learned that the True Word Cluster had appeared beneath the Cloudsea on Definition and debated the potential of Word Spirit, Edict, and Definition.
• Nightfall Is Coming posted a review explaining that Word Spirit strengthened skills when players shouted their names with conviction, and recommended pairing it with Battle Intent.
• Players recognized that Definition's movement made reaching the True Word Cluster difficult and costly.
• A Lan's Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce announced plans to build a free teleportation array to Definition within an estimated 10–15 days.
• Players welcomed the plan and turned their attention to assembling teams and preparing containment strategies.

Millions of players entered the Ridge of Definition, where they rapidly contained True Word Primordials and discovered a dormant altar built by the Phantom Sound Clan. The chapter ended with the Research Enthusiasts identifying the clan’s connection to Definition and preparing to seek its hidden treasures by their own methods.

• The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce opened a teleportation passage to the Ridge of Definition, and players flooded onto Definition’s Spine Continent to explore and hunt Primordials.
• A squad led by Unorthodox Swordplay contained the sixth-generation Primordial True Name, whose trait let players enhance abilities by giving them fitting names.
• Warbands and squads announced the containment of the first-generation Primordial Chanting and the fourth-generation Primordial Inversion, spurring players to search the region more aggressively.
• The Dust of History squad reached an ancient sacrificial altar, where Broad Knowledge used Analysis to learn that the Phantom Sound Clan built it to communicate with Definition and exchange offerings for hidden treasures.
• Time Traveler and the squad identified the Phantom Sound Clan as the civilization from the Phantom Sound Ruins, and the players decided to pursue the sealed resources inside Definition’s mouth rather than rely on the altar’s random exchange.

Players uncovered the Phantom Sound Clan’s history: a civilization devoted to music that traveled to Monster World seeking Definition’s ultimate melody, only to be ignored and destroyed by the Ice Prisoner Race. The discovery revealed a powerful sonic momentum sealed in Definition’s treasury, and players began racing to find it.

• Research enthusiasts combined Guide’s answers, ancient inscriptions, and library records to reconstruct the Phantom Sound Clan’s past.
• Erudite posted that the Phantom Sound Clan mastered musical resonance, left its world to explore the void, and settled on the Pale Continent after hearing Definition’s melodies.
• The Phantom Sound Clan built altars and founded the True Words Sect to communicate with Definition, but Definition never responded.
• The Ice Prisoner Race invaded and destroyed the True Words Sect, forcing the surviving Phantom Sound Clan to make a final plea on Definition’s back before perishing.
• Players debated the clan’s devotion, learned that its ruins preserved echoes of its civilization, and discovered that its last Grand Musician had sealed a sonic momentum in a treasury inside Definition’s mouth.
• Major Guilds and player teams began searching for the coordinates of the three treasuries to claim the momentum of sound.

The players tried to reach Definition’s Subspace treasury by using the Phantom Sound Clan’s Prayer Platforms, but their lottery draws mostly yielded worthless prizes. As the crowds dispersed, researcher Canxi discovered that transforming into an Origin Primordial form might let players reproduce the rhythms needed to open the altars’ passage.

• The players learned that only the Phantom Sound Clan’s Prayer Platforms could open a passage into Definition’s Subspace, and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce said ordinary teleportation technology could not penetrate Definition’s shell.
• Research enthusiasts reactivated the three Prayer Platforms, and players crowded around them to sacrifice crystals for random treasures in hopes of drawing the Momentum of Sound.
• A Lan warned on the Forum that the lottery had an 82.832% chance of losing money and no guaranteed rewards, prompting most players to stop drawing and return to hunting Origin Primordials.
• Canxi studied old Phantom Sound Clan records and found that the clan had used the rhythms of Law Beasts and Word Spirit Origin Primordials to calibrate the altars.
• Canxi realized that players might use the Monster Form Path to take on Origin Primordial forms and reproduce the rhythms needed to open the altar’s teleportation gate.

Canjuan deciphered the Phantom Sound Poem needed to unlock the Sacrificial Altar but realized its performance required immense resources and a uniquely qualified player. The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce agreed to fully sponsor the project in exchange for refunding players’ Blind Box losses and finding a suitable recipient for Momentum of Sound.

• Canjuan explained that eighteen tones from True Word System primordials and Law Beasts formed the key to opening Definition’s treasury, and that one player would need to perform them with precisely controlled intensity.
• Canjuan and the Guild concluded that the performer would need seventeen Star Meridian Slots, musical skill, and help controlling three Law Beasts, putting the project beyond their means.
• Old Paper Pile proposed applying to the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s creative project support program, and Canjuan prepared and submitted a detailed proposal.
• Yuezhou questioned Canjuan about the project’s feasibility and costs, then said he would ask the Chamber of Commerce president to approve the unusually large investment.
• A Lan, the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce president, approved full sponsorship on the condition that the Guild refund verified Blind Box losses and find a suitable player for Momentum of Sound.
• Canjuan announced the sponsorship to the Guild, and its members erupted in celebration.

Fengyu, a Spiritlight player who left combat-focused grinding to explore Monster World through sound and music, received an invitation from the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce to help decipher an ancient Phantom Sound Clan altar. He accepted and set off for Dream Island to join the project team.

• Fengyu recorded the natural sounds of the Gemstone Grassland while guiding seven Firmament Rays through the sky.
• During a call, Fengyu's father reminisced about the Spiritlight Race's difficult past and how the Eclipse Race's support had improved life on Earth.
• Fengyu reflected on leaving his magic build and the Stars Guild to become an exploration-focused player and core member of the Poem of Scenery Team.
• The Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce invited Fengyu to help reproduce musical codes and decipher the Phantom Sound Clan's Prayer Platform altar and sealed treasury.
• Fengyu accepted Yuezhou's invitation, joined the project chat, and headed toward the Teleportation Array to travel to Dream Island.

Fengyu joined the Phantom Sound Poem project on Dream Island and trained to reproduce its eighteen syllables, which could unlock a sealed Phantom Sound Race Treasury at Definition's Spine. After mastering fifteen Origin Primordial forms and preparing three Law Beasts for accompaniment, Fengyu declared himself ready for the final rehearsal.

• Yuezhou welcomed Fengyu to the project compound, where Canjuan explained that the Phantom Sound Clan's musical scores mapped Mental Energy and rule frequencies.
• Fengyu suspected the Phantom Sound Clan's civilization was based on the Spiritlight Race, and Yuezhou and Canjuan acknowledged the similarities.
• Yuezhou transferred Fengyu 65,000,000 points of Sacrificial Power to fund the project's first phase, and Fengyu began studying the Phantom Sound musical system with Canjuan's team.
• Fengyu rapidly learned to reproduce the music and used the funding to unlock Star Meridian Slots ten through seventeen and equip fifteen True Word System Life Souls.
• Yuezhou provided three weakened Law Beasts, and Fengyu controlled, stored, and purified them for the poem's remaining syllables.
• Fengyu said he was ready to rehearse the complete eighteen-syllable performance before the team attempted to open the treasury at Definition's Spine.

Fengyu used the Spiritlight Race’s musical talent and the team’s support to unlock the Prayer Platform and open the Phantom Sound Race Sealed Treasury. Inside, Yuezhou claimed the Momentum of Sound, a quasi-rule inscription carrying the final legacy of the Phantom Sound Clan.

• Fengyu performed the eighteen-note sequence with help from his three Law Beasts, opening the spatial passage to the Phantom Sound Race Sealed Treasury.
• Players celebrated Fengyu’s success, and Spiritlight Race players took pride in their musical talent as they formed a guard around the Prayer Platform.
• Yuezhou helped Fengyu recover, and the team entered the treasury, where they found a vast realm of musical-note crystals and resource-filled bubbles.
• The team located the Momentum of Sound, an intact quasi-rule inscription created by the Phantom Sound Clan’s last Great Musician, Listener of Heaven.
• Yuezhou grasped the inscription after the team read its analysis, taking hold of the treasury’s most precious treasure.

Yuezhou and the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce gave Fengyu the Phantom Sound Clan’s momentum of sound inscription, and Fengyu refined it into a Musical Life Soul before unlocking the pressure system. He tested his new Musical Programming Domain in the Testing Tower, where he used musical commands to defeat a battlefield full of metal puppets and demonic birds.

• Yuezhou and the team gave Fengyu the Golden-Red Inscription because his musical talent made him its best bearer, and Fengyu vowed to repay the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce’s kindness.
• Fengyu and the others stripped the Phantom Sound Clan’s treasury of its treasures and manuscripts before returning to Dream Island.
• Fengyu spent 3.94 million Sacrificial Power to refine the inscription into a Musical Life Soul in his sixth Star Meridian Slot, then unlocked the Blue Grief Gate and gained the momentum of sound.
• Fengyu reconfigured his Star Meridian Slots and tested the Musical Programming Domain in the Testing Tower, using sound commands to erode armor, imprison attacks, disrupt enemies, and suppress elemental abilities.
• Fengyu destroyed the simulated battlefield’s metal puppets and demonic birds with his musical techniques, then ended the test with a satisfied bow.

Qi Sheng reflected on how the pressure system could help players develop unique powers, while Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye devised ways to profit from players’ resource demands. Di Nian Evil Spirit planned to sell primordial monsters to players, but began searching for a sales method that could withstand their cooperation to suppress prices.

• Qi Sheng watched players take interest in the pressure system after Tu Hu and Fengyu demonstrated its potential, and hoped it would help the Player Faction develop distinctive powers alongside the star meridian system.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye discussed using player profiles and breakthrough periods to adjust quest rewards and reduce resource payouts.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit proposed finding a way to collect resources from players, and Evil Eye identified primordial monsters as something players greatly desired.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit planned to display primordial monsters captured by the alliance and sell them through player bidding to learn their value.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit worried players would coordinate to suppress auction prices and began considering another way to make them pay more.

Di Nian Evil Spirit and Evil Eye devised a hidden-quest system that would use Primordial Monsters as rewards and measure their value by the quests players completed to obtain them. After the Evil Spirit Alliance agreed to supply test samples, dozens of Primordial Monsters appeared in the Quest Market, leaving nearby players bewildered.

• Di Nian Evil Spirit rejected a bidding model for Primordial Monsters and worked with Evil Eye to design quest chains that would draw resources and effort from players.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit told the Evil Spirit Alliance that Banishment had failed against players who could instantly return to their original positions, then presented the hidden-quest plan.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit proposed that alliance members supply their first Origin Primordial as a test sample, with quest proceeds and costs distributed according to the existing reward standards.
• The Evil Spirits approved the plan, and members across hundreds of nodes began searching for Primordial Monsters to send to the Di Family Mountains.
• More than fifty Primordial Monsters arrived at the Heavenly Abyss Node, and Di Nian Evil Spirit had Evil Eye send them as projections to the Quest Market with black exclamation marks.
• Players saw the Primordial Monsters displayed as hidden quests and were stunned that the Evil Spirits had become quest-giving NPCs.

Players celebrated the new hidden quests that offered Primordial Monsters, while Xiaobai Shu Shushu argued that Di Nian Bully was using coveted rewards to recruit players into the Evil Spirit Alliance’s work. Di Nian Bully monitored player choices to dynamically adjust quest difficulty and gather data for pricing Primordial Monsters, leaving it poised to turn player demand into resources.

• Players discussed Di Nian Bully’s new Primordial Monster quest rewards, and Xiaobai Shu Shushu analyzed how the quests could serve both players and the Evil Spirit Alliance.
• Players flocked to quests offering Shadow Summoning, a powerful Life Soul that could anchor a Summoner Style build.
• Di Nian Bully used the Dynamic Value Analysis System to track quest selections and adjust each Primordial Monster’s value weighting and hidden quest chain.
• Players’ strong interest in Origin Primordial No. 29 caused its chain to grow from eight blue missions to ten, including a purple-tier assassination mission.
• Di Nian Bully watched the demand data accumulate and prepared to use it to price Origin Primordials and convert player desire into resources.

Qi Sheng assessed how the Di Nian Evil Spirit’s mission system helped players recover Origin Primordials while Earth’s spiritual energy revival and multiracial integration advanced. He then detected the Arctic rift widening and concluded that the Dark Tide Legion’s next invasion was imminent.

• Qi Sheng recognized that the Di Nian Evil Spirit’s primordial mission chain benefited him, the alliance, and players by making Origin Primordial recovery more efficient.
• Ming Shu’s changes had restored Earth’s environment and begun releasing spiritual energy, prompting the descended races to revive sealed technologies and prepare for new opportunities.
• The Earth Alliance’s joint cities and Star Network had fostered integration among humans and descended races, while leaders discussed contributing their legacies to the alliance.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the Dark Tide Legion’s escalating invasion stages and noted that Earth’s defeat of the Blood Slaves had advanced the invasion to its next stage.
• Qi Sheng sensed malicious activity within the expanding Arctic rift and concluded that a new invasion wave was coming.

E Shang endured the Branding Hall’s ascension ritual and remembered the brutal slaughter through which it had survived the young spirit abyss. After becoming a Dark Tide Pawn, it gathered an army and prepared to invade the Minor World that had devoured Vanguard Blood Slave Legion No. 282372361.

• E Shang endured the curse marks of the ascension ritual as memories brought it back to its birth and survival in the young spirit abyss.
• E Shang recalled how it had used concealment, traps, and ruthless tactics to devour rivals, grow stronger, and survive among billions of young spirits.
• E Shang completed its advancement, became a Dark Tide Pawn, and erased the numbered mark identifying its progenitor.
• E Shang summoned lesser evil spirits and the Ghost Shadow Legions of the Blood Slave Legion around itself in the Branding Hall.
• E Shang entered the Spatial Passage toward the Minor World and ordered its forces to kill.

E Shang chose the Abyssal Trial path and led the Dark Tide forces to Earth, where he discovered that Yu Chuan was the world’s unexpected defender. Yu Chuan fought E Shang on the Arctic ice until he was near death, but a silver-haired newcomer stopped E Shang’s killing blow and revealed overwhelming power.

• E Shang chose to pursue military merits and admission to the Abyssal Trial, then emerged from the Spatial Passage above Earth's Arctic with his Evil Spirits and Blood Slave Warriors.
• E Shang found Earth’s energy too scarce to explain how it had defeated the previous vanguard, but a crimson attack from Yu Chuan interrupted his planned invasion.
• Yu Chuan scanned E Shang, recognized the danger of facing a Hunting Level 52 Evil Spirit Warrior with his weakened human-body attributes, and prepared to fight despite being three days from retirement.
• E Shang overwhelmed Yu Chuan in a prolonged battle, while Yu Chuan used improvised moves and trash talk to resist; E Shang also discovered that it could not devour Yu Chuan’s power.
• As E Shang raised its blade over the badly wounded Yu Chuan, an unseen force stopped the weapon, and a silver-haired figure appeared with an aura E Shang recognized as that of a Demigod.

Fate Throat defeated the Dark Tide forces at the Arctic station, saved Yu Chuan, and learned how Yu Chuan gained Player attribute feedback in reality. With the Spatial Rift still expanding and the next invasion expected to be stronger, Fate Throat left to build his strength.

• Fate Throat restrained E Shang, erased the Dark Tide forces above the Arctic, and annihilated E Shang.
• Fate Throat healed Yu Chuan, who revealed that 4.7% of his Player attributes had fed back into his real body after a near-death encounter.
• Fate Throat told Yu Chuan that he was a member of the Fate Race and had become a Player after crossing from Monster World to Earth.
• Fate Throat concluded that Yu Chuan's feedback was likely a blessing from the Higher-Dimensional God and could not be replicated.
• Fate Throat and Yu Chuan recognized that the expanding Spatial Rift could bring a stronger Dark Tide invasion, and Fate Throat chose not to investigate it.
• Fate Throat left Yu Chuan and said he would open Gambling City to earn Sacrificial Power.

Qi Sheng watched Earth’s gradual preparation for the Dark Tide while Xiang Weisha fought his way to 22 victories in the Ancient God Arena. After defeating Ying Wusha, Xiang Weisha received an invitation to train under a Champion Fighter and realized he might be able to reach the rule node Defying Fate Mage God had mentioned.

• Qi Sheng decided not to enable attribute feedback yet, believing players needed more trials before they became true warriors, and he continued monitoring the Lord of Rot’s possible rise to the Demon God realm.
• Xiang Weisha faced Ying Wusha, a level 189 assassin from the Shadow-Scale Race, in the Glory Arena’s 22-win combat platform.
• Ying Wusha used illusions and repeated assassination attacks, but Xiang Weisha held his ground and countered with overwhelming strength.
• Xiang Weisha used Blood Soul Lure to seize Ying Wusha’s opening, then battered him to death with a close-range combination.
• Xiang Weisha gained levels in his life souls and received an offer of three months of special training under a Champion Fighter.
• Xiang Weisha recalled the hidden rule node at the 22-win training milestone and considered that he might be able to contain it.

Xiang Weisha began Carver’s training in forging momentum, awakening a fiery pressure field as he learned to turn emotion into power. In the Momentum Space, he spotted the Lush Shade Rule Node, whose faction-wide healing effect sparked excitement and controversy among livestream viewers over whether he should contain it.

• Xiang Weisha arrived at Carver’s Full-Peak Training Ground with other fighters and heard that their first lesson would teach them to forge momentum from emotion.
• Under Carver’s crushing pressure, Xiang Weisha awakened his Red Rage Pressure and projected a fury field that briefly stirred rage in nearby fighters.
• Xiang Weisha collapsed from exhaustion and later woke in the Momentum Space, where Carver instructed him to fight the Momentum Pillars with emotion rather than physical attacks.
• Xiang Weisha’s rule-based power accidentally destroyed the training phantoms, so Carver bound him and told him to put away his fists.
• Xiang Weisha analyzed the Lush Shade Rule Node and learned it could share residual healing with all Players whenever anyone in the faction received healing.
• Livestream viewers argued over Lush Shade’s powerful faction-wide benefit and whether Xiang Weisha’s containment would deprive future fighters of access to the Momentum Space.