Chapter Summaries

Li Tie reunited with the Wallbreaker Battle Group in Conquest Space and learned that dead players continued to exist in Monster World, though they were trapped in Conquest Land. He joined his comrades’ goal of opening a route to the living world, then discovered that dying now incurred a costly revival debt.

• Lao Gou brought Li Tie to the tavern, where he reunited with Scarface, Ironhide, Ash, Kandao, and the other Wallbreaker veterans.
• Lao Gou explained that dead players’ consciousnesses persisted in Monster World and that they could communicate only through the Dead Players Forum.
• Ironhide showed Li Tie that the dead players had been sent to Conquest Land, where unstable space and hostile civilizations blocked their route to the living world.
• Li Tie accepted the plan to join the Conquest United Army and help the dead players break through the fog, hoping eventually to reunite with the living.
• Lao Gou told Li Tie that dead players could revive instantly but had to pay sacrificial power, and Ironhide estimated Li Tie would incur nearly 3.5 million in debt after one death.
• Li Tie joked that his comrades could cover his debt, and the veterans teased him as their reunion settled into renewed camaraderie.

Li Tie and the Veteran Corps cleared the dangerous outskirts of Conquest Land’s north sector, then remembered the comrades who died before Monster World offered them a new life. Li Tie gave the veterans a new goal: opening a way through Conquest Land, and led them onward.

• The Veteran Corps coordinated their attacks to defeat Void Riftback Beasts and learned that monsters in Conquest Land offered better rewards but posed a greater danger.
• Ironhide explained the hunting sectors and how players cooperated to survive, while Li Tie set cautious tactics for the squad’s push into the north sector.
• After three days of fighting, the exhausted Veteran Corps rested atop a dead tree, where Ironhide lamented that Monster World had come too late for their dead comrades.
• Li Tie and the others remembered their fallen friends and toasted all the veterans who had never lived to see a new life.
• Li Tie declared that the Veteran Corps would open a way through Conquest Land, then ordered the squad to move out.

Qi Sheng reviewed the contrasting systems for living and deceased players and created a Memorial Space where the living could remember the dead. Its opening stirred grief and debate among the living, while offerings sent to the dead provoked complaints and intensified their determination to break through the barrier and return.

• Qi Sheng considered the trade-offs between the living players’ forgiving respawn rules and the deceased players’ costly, cooperative system, leaving the choice of future unification undecided.
• After reading a memorial post about departed friends, Qi Sheng created the Memorial Space at the Eternal Silence Ice Lake Spatial Node.
• Players entered the new space, relived shared memories through ribbons of light, and tested an offering altar that gave no rewards to the living.
• Living players argued on the forum over whether the Memorial Space was meaningful remembrance or a waste of resources.
• Deceased players complained that their offerings were mostly keepsakes and paper crafts, while some celebrated receiving Sacrificial Power.
• The dead players’ longing to return grew stronger, and they resolved to break through the barrier separating them from the living.

Qi Sheng watched the forum celebrate three generations of legendary warbands and argue over a ranking of the greatest players. As the debate devolved into insults, he turned his attention to the major battlefields where the Player Faction fought alien civilizations.

• Qi Sheng read posts about the Memorial Space and noticed a popular video honoring the strongest warbands through the ages.
• The video recounted Divine Hall’s six consecutive championships and its influence on the Player Faction’s early warfare.
• The video described how Against the Tide Players took up the banner in the second generation, pioneered Linked Contract tactics, and won six championships.
• The video presented Azure Edge Chasing Waves as the rising third-generation power after three consecutive championships.
• A ranking video named No. 1 the greatest player of all time and listed other legendary fighters, sparking fierce arguments among their fans.
• Qi Sheng withdrew from the forum debate and focused on the battlefields where the Player Faction clashed with alien civilizations.

Divine King spent seven years cultivating the hundred forms life soul through a hundred lives, completing his final teacher experience in the Divine Sealed Minor World. He gave the alliance’s prodigies a last lecture, tore open the world’s barrier, and returned home, leaving behind a legend as the Preacher.

• Divine King taught cultivation at Wanhe Academy while explaining that he had entered the Divine Sealed Minor World to perfect the hundred forms life soul and broaden his thinking through many lives.
• Divine King completed his final teacher progress and gathered the academy’s prodigies and Alliance leaders for a last public lecture.
• Divine King warned the gathered races that their feuds and struggles were confined to a tiny pond compared with the greater universe beyond.
• Divine King tore open the Minor World’s spatial barrier before the crowd and flew into the void.
• Divine King activated the self-dissolution function and returned home, while the Divine Sealed Minor World remembered him as the Preacher.

Divine King reviewed Divine Hall’s reforms and learned that Azure Edge had challenged him to a million-player battle. After studying Azure Edge’s command style and reproducing its logic, Divine King sent him a friend request, preparing to answer the challenge.

• Divine King reviewed Divine Hall’s battlefield reports and read that its Sub-Warband Leaders missed fighting together under the old legion system.
• Divine King recalled why he had dismantled the United Warband, concluding that the outdated structure needed to give way even though its veterans’ bonds remained.
• Divine King watched Azure Edge’s video challenging him and Azure Edge Chasing Waves to a battle between a million veterans and a million rising talents.
• Divine King analyzed Azure Edge’s battle recordings and repeatedly adjusted his deductions until his command logic matched Azure Edge’s.
• Divine King sent Azure Edge a friend request, intending to teach the new generation a lesson.

Divine Hall and Azure Edge Chasing Waves met in a million-player arena battle with equalized stats, pitting Divine King's veteran command against Azure Edge's modern tactics. Azure Edge's maneuvers were repeatedly anticipated by Divine King, leaving him shaken as the battle remained unresolved.

• News of the arena challenge sparked heated debate as Divine Hall and Azure Edge fans argued over which six-time champion would win.
• Nightfall Is Coming arranged the match, set the arena rules, and drew more than sixteen billion viewers as both guilds assembled.
• Divine Hall launched a powerful frontal advance while Azure Edge spread his forces into a mobile net and ordered them to evade and counterattack.
• Divine King anticipated Azure Edge's feints, ambushes, and attacks, causing several Azure Edge units to be trapped while Divine Hall's formation held firm.
• Azure Edge realized Divine King was reading his tactics and murmured, "So strong!" as the battle remained deadlocked.

Divine King used his dual-track deductions to lead Divine Hall to a crushing victory over Azure Edge Chasing Waves, then accepted a challenge from the six strongest rising guilds to fight with six million troops against his one million. As the forum doubted Divine Hall could win, Divine King began modeling the rival commanders’ tactics and declared that the advantage was his.

• Divine King anticipated and countered Azure Edge’s tactics, leaving Azure Edge Chasing Waves unable to break through Divine Hall’s defenses.
• Divine Hall launched a coordinated assault and wiped out Azure Edge Chasing Waves with minimal losses, winning the arena match.
• Azure Edge admitted defeat and challenged Divine King to another match with the six strongest rising guilds; Divine King agreed to the six-million-versus-one-million battle under rules restricting life souls to legion warfare.
• Divine King and Azure Edge set the rematch for ten days later, while the forum debated whether Divine Hall could overcome the allied army’s numerical and tactical advantages.
• Divine King studied footage of the six guilds and modeled their commanders’ thinking with Brain Overclocking and Myriad Forms Life Soul, then declared that the advantage was his.

Divine King led the Divine Hall Guild against six million elites from the new generation’s top guilds in an Arena Duel, using meticulous control, battlefield-wide perception, and Space Leap to turn their encirclement into chaos. Divine Hall won after a twenty-three-hour battle, and Divine King’s surviving troops celebrated the return of their guild’s era.

• The Arena Duel began on an open ice-field map, where six guilds surrounded Divine Hall’s million veterans from every direction.
• Divine King split Divine Hall into six divisions and used precise commands to counter each guild’s tactics while Star Shift swaps disrupted their coordination.
• The six guilds redirected their assassination squads toward Divine King, but he evaded them with Space Leap and used Siphon to sustain his abilities across the battlefield.
• Divine King continued directing Divine Hall’s troops while the six guilds’ attacks were dismantled and their forces were gradually exhausted.
• Divine Hall defeated the six allied guilds after twenty-three hours, with more than a hundred thousand members still standing.
• Divine King asked the Divine Hall members whether they had enjoyed the battle, and their enthusiastic replies marked the guild’s return to prominence.

Over sixty years in Monster World, the Player Faction grew into one of the Pale Continent’s two strongest powers, with Star Network becoming its first Divine Realm expert and containing Eternity and Big Mushroom. As players debated the fading of their veteran generation, Qi Sheng saw that their legends continued elsewhere and turned his attention to the Lord of Rot’s final trial, with Star Network having thirty-two years to prepare.

• Star Network gained Eternity’s cooperation and used Blood Burn linked with Time and thirty-one other Life Souls to break Eternity’s immortality, contain it, and ascend to the Divine Realm.
• The Player Faction expanded across the Pale Continent and, after a sixteen-day battle led by Star Network, killed and contained Big Mushroom, adding the ninth-generation Life Soul Foresight to its database.
• The players failed to contain Definition after a forty-seven-day campaign, while Tracing Cause, Sequence Rewriting, and Imitating the Dao remained too powerful for the faction to challenge.
• Qi Sheng read a popular Forum post mourning the veteran players who had died or faded from the faction’s history, while its commenters worried that their battlefield experience could not be replaced.
• Qi Sheng recognized that the veterans’ stories were continuing in another setting and looked toward the Tadu Legion, where the Lord of Rot was undergoing the final Heart-Slaying Stage; Star Network had thirty-two years to prepare.

The Lord of Rot consumed Slaying Eye and ascended to Demon God, then unleashed the Great Evil Moon over the Pale Continent. As its races prepared for a desperate fight, he captured and subjugated the Blue Lantern Race, beginning his campaign of conquest.

• The Lord of Rot severed his bond with Slaying Eye, consumed his origin, and broke through to become a Demon God.
• The Lord of Rot projected his power across the void and caused the Great Evil Moon to appear over the Pale Continent, spreading dark tide energy and empowering evil spirits.
• Against the Tide debated whether to risk Lord Hun Zhan's remains, while its leaders chose to gather their forces and prepare for battle; the Soul Return Race sealed its territory and tried to prepare for war.
• The Player Forum erupted with arguments and jokes as players reacted to the Great Evil Moon and its threat to anyone below demigod level.
• The Lord of Rot reached down with a power clone, compressed the Blue Lantern Race's territory into a sphere, and brought it back to the Tadu Nebula.
• The Lord of Rot rewrote the Blue Lantern clanspeople's minds, forcing them to submit, and began his campaign of conquest, with Earth among his next targets.

The Dark Tide launched its first conquest of Earth, while Divine King learned that the invasion had crossed from Monster World into reality. He ended the chapter staring at the apocalyptic sky and realizing the game was invading the real world.

• The Lord of Rot unleashed the Tadu Legion into the Dark Tide, and several torrents converged on Earth.
• Twenty-three King Level Evil Spirit Warriors descended through a vast rift above Earth, plunging the planet into darkness and turmoil.
• Divine King finished a lesson on command, reflected on his age and rivalry with Di Nian Bully, and planned to pass his warband to a successor.
• Divine King saw reports of the Great Evil Moon's arrival and the Blue Lantern Race's annihilation, which he attributed to a Dark Tide Demon God.
• God's Left Hand urgently told Divine King to log off, and Divine King emerged from his gaming pod to find the Dark Tide pouring through spatial cracks above the city.

As the Dark Tide invaded Earth, Star Network revealed that Monster World was real and that the crisis had been building for a century, exposing several figures from that world who had secretly lived on Earth. Divine King received an order to command Freedom City’s War Department, then heard a prompt announcing that his player powers were loading into his real body.

• Divine King watched the Dark Tide breach the sky and heard the emergency broadcast confirm that the invasion had begun.
• Star Network revealed that Monster World was not a game and showed records of Dark Tide incursions on Earth dating back a hundred years.
• Star Network disclosed that the Dragon Sparrow Clan were members of the Fate Race and that the Mist Legion Commander, Broken Star, and A Le Doesn't Run Away had also descended on Earth.
• Star Network sent combat assignments to Earth Alliance residents and appointed Divine King commander-in-chief of Freedom City’s War Department.
• Divine King prepared to refuse the appointment, but a Challenger Prompt announced that 100% Attribute Feedback had activated and player power was loading.

Player Attribute Feedback restored players’ powers and bodies in reality as the Dark Tide engulfed Earth, turning widespread despair into battle resolve. The chapter ended with players across the world preparing to fight the Dark Tide with their returned abilities and resources.

• Divine King regained his youth and his century-built life soul system through the full feedback of his player attributes, then resolved to lead humanity against the Dark Tide.
• As the Dark Tide darkened Shattered Machinery City, player power flooded back to its residents, replacing their fear with confidence.
• Players in Tiandu City recovered their combat strength and abilities, and declared they would face the Dark Tide rather than surrender.
• The barrier around Fishing Harbor City shattered, but returning player powers let its residents charge the falling Derived Evil Spirits.
• Players worldwide discovered that their inventories, maps, chat, and other Monster World functions had become available in reality, and the World Chat filled with calls to fight.

Earth’s players received full attribute feedback and launched a counterattack against the Dark Tide, while the twenty-three Monarchs identified them as the Player Race and prepared to fight them directly. Divine King gathered the Divine Hall Guild in Freedom City as the Monarchs began unleashing their power.

• Earth’s players awakened their Player Bodies and fought back against the invading evil spirits with pets, elemental powers, and blood-colored barriers.
• Dead players learned that attribute feedback could have restored their bodies, regretted dying too early, and then used the forum to cheer on their loved ones.
• The twenty-three Dark Tide Monarchs traced Earth’s unexpected power to the Player Race and decided they had to confront the players themselves.
• The Monarchs unleashed their Divine Realm pressure, while Star Network’s void devices redirected the shock waves away from Earth.
• Divine King summoned Divine Hall Guild members to Freedom City through Space Leap and rallied them to defend Earth and fight the Dark Tide.

Star Network secretly tested whether players could escape death by abandoning their real-world bodies and learned that doing so erased their powers and killed their Player Bodies as well. Earth’s players defeated the twenty-three Dark Tide Monarchs, but the Lord of Rot noticed Star Network’s use of Time Reversal as the chapter ended.

• Star Network coordinated hundreds of millions of players to defend Earth and counterattack the twenty-three Dark Tide Monarchs, while veteran players questioned his unusually cautious command.
• At the Safety Experiment Center, Star Network tested whether A Ying could remain a player after leaving his real-world body behind and found that destroying the body ended A Ying’s connection to Monster World.
• Star Network restored A Ying with Time Reversal and concluded that neither dying in reality nor abandoning one’s real-world anchor offered players a path of escape.
• The players, led by Divine King and Divine Hall, routed the Dark Tide forces, and Star Network revived players killed during the invasion.
• The Lord of Rot sensed Star Network reversing time across Earth and reacted with surprise and interest.

The Lord of Rot descended on Earth and overwhelmed the players, while Star Network learned that deaths in the Real World were permanent. After players sacrificed themselves to strengthen him, Star Network found a way to resist by rewinding Earth's timeline while preserving the players' Origin Primordial Traits, and began the reversal.

• The Lord of Rot sealed Earth beneath the Great Evil Moon and attacked as Star Network warned the players that they could not revive after dying in the Real World.
• Star Network used his Time Domain and Reversal to restore Earth and its players, but the Lord of Rot's avatar destroyed the planet repeatedly, leaving Star Network with only twelve days of eternity.
• Star Network asked players to sacrifice themselves to extend his power, and players across Earth—including Divine King and the Divine Hall veterans—gave their lives to strengthen him.
• Star Network's simulations revealed a plan to rewind Earth's timeline and give its inhabitants ages to grow, but he feared the reversal would erase all present players.
• Guide explained that the players' Origin Primordial Traits could survive outside ordinary spacetime causality, allowing Star Network to rewind Earth while preserving their power.
• Star Network began reversing Earth's temporal sequence, intending for the Origin Primordial spark to seed future generations strong enough to defeat the Lord of Rot.

The Star Network reversed Earth’s timeline by a million years, created the Heavenly Dao Examiner to test future civilizations, and divided Earth into the Main World and Spirit Realm before merging with spacetime. Qi Sheng fortified the new world with an enduring energy source and a hidden defense against the Lord of Rot, then foresaw that Mu Qing would inherit its power.

• The Star Network rewound Earth to its primordial age, created the Heavenly Dao Examiner to trigger civilization-ending tests, and established a cycle that would restart weak civilizations.
• The Star Network split Earth into the No. 1 Main World and No. 2 Spirit Realm to contain excess spiritual energy, then dissolved his Bio-Brain body into the world’s temporal order.
• Qi Sheng used his foresight to identify weaknesses in the Star Network’s plan and awakened a bloodstone super lifeform into a perpetual source of origin power for Earth.
• Qi Sheng sent Emperor Zhao Origin into the reincarnating world as a safeguard against the Lord of Rot and the Blue Lantern Race.
• Qi Sheng foresaw that the Emperor Zhao Origin would eventually be inherited by a woman named Mu Qing.

Qi Sheng observed countless reincarnations of Earth and sealed its spacetime against the Lord of Rot, protecting a future civilization’s chance to defeat him. In the Conquest Space, newly deceased players reunited with their departed friends before Guide announced a major system update that would erase the divide between reality and the virtual.

• Qi Sheng watched civilizations rise and fall across many reincarnations, as each inherited the legacies of earlier races and struggled against the examiner, the Blue Lantern Race, and the Demon God.
• Qi Sheng saw Mo and Yao become the twin-world Heavenly Dao wills, and witnessed a protagonist born with the Pillar Race’s arrangements and a Peerless Woman carrying his Emperor Zhao Origin power.
• The Lord of Rot’s true body tried to invade Earth’s closed temporal loop, but Qi Sheng blocked his power and raised a Crimson Barrier to seal the board.
• Newly deceased players arrived in the Conquest Space, reunited with departed friends, and learned that the Memorial Offering System had delivered resources there across dimensions.
• Players in the Conquest Space realized they had lost contact with Earth and questioned what had happened to those who had neither died nor appeared in livestreams.
• Guide announced a major Challenger System update that would overhaul Respawn Mode and fully unlock the Reproduction System and Conquest Space.

The major update gave players new respawn options, reproduction, and access to Conquest Space, while Star Network explained that Earth had been sealed in a time loop to develop a civilization capable of defeating the Lord of Rot. Reassured that erased villagers could return and that they had infinite lifespans, the players welcomed a new outlook on life as Qi Sheng turned his attention to the Against the Tide Legion.

• The Player System announced accelerated respawning, unlocked reproduction and spatial traits, removed the Death Space forum block, and previewed a new recruitment round.
• A player learned that Earth was a no-teleportation zone, prompting Star Network to explain that it had reversed Earth's timeline by a million years and placed it in a reincarnation cycle to nurture a civilization able to defeat the Lord of Rot's clone.
• The players learned that villagers erased by the reversal could return after a civilization passed its trial, and their anxiety about Earth and their loved ones eased.
• The players embraced their infinite lifespans and renewed their ambitions, including Divine King, who realized he could still surpass Di Nian Bully.
• Players speculated about who the next recruitment round would target, while Qi Sheng watched the Against the Tide Legion on the Pale Continent as the Against the Tide era neared its end.