Chapter Summaries

Di Nian Evil Spirit launched the Battle-Chip Bazaar, using player investments to fund the Bully legion’s conquests. After players began investing, he devised a system for them to submit and vote on battle plans while leaving final control with the participating Evil Spirits.

• Players found the Battle-Chip Bazaar listings and debated whether Di Nian Bully could be trusted with their resources.
• Supergod Little Chick argued that public battlefield observation and long-term incentives made the Bazaar worthwhile, and advised players to judge campaigns by their expected duration.
• Within a day, more than ten million players had invested, easing the Bully legion’s resource shortage and accelerating its expansion.
• Evil Eye suggested improving battlefield observation access, but Di Nian Evil Spirit proposed letting investors submit tactical plans and vote on screened options.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit set rules giving votes weight according to investment while preserving each participating Evil Spirit’s authority to reject plans and make final decisions.
• Evil Eye praised the arrangement and joked that Di Nian Evil Spirit’s hundred-plus years of tuition had paid off, prompting him to tell Evil Eye to be quiet.

Three months after the Battle-Chip Bazaar took off, players and Evil Spirits built a thriving war-funding market, and top players began guiding front-line campaigns through a mental-link Plugin. Divine King used his battlefield expertise to reverse a losing battle, leaving the Evil Spirit he advised astonished by his command of Dark Tide forces.

• Players turned the Battle-Chip Bazaar into a popular war-funding market, where they invested in Evil Spirit campaigns and followed battles through the Mental Network.
• The Forum established the War Fund Circle and named Iron Spine, Blood Vein, Gui Ya, and Rotting Heart its four most trusted fundraisers.
• Divine King subscribed to the Stock Market Plugin and bought the full funding allocation of a New Generation Evil Spirit’s campaign.
• After the Evil Spirit gave him control of its deployments, Divine King used an Array Talisman and battlefield data to issue detailed grid-based tactics.
• The Evil Spirit’s forces trapped the enemy in a valley and destroyed its main force, reversing the battle.
• The Evil Spirit asked Divine King whether he was the Evil Spirit or the player, and Divine King replied that he was simply excited to command Dark Tide Evil Spirits himself.

Divine King used a funded campaign to begin developing an Evil Spirit Warrior personality, while Di Nian established penalties for Evil Spirits who surrendered command to players. Di Nian then recalled Hei Hai from battle and gave him a red card for letting a player command the campaign while he charged into combat.

• Divine King commanded an Evil Spirits Legion to conquer Sandland and decided to use further campaigns to build an Evil Spirit personality that could predict Di Nian Bully.
• Three months later, Di Nian reviewed the War Funding Market and ordered rules requiring Evil Spirits to retain campaign command, with escalating black, white, and red card penalties.
• Evil Eye showed Di Nian a coastal battle where a player issued the legion's orders while Hei Hai charged enemies with his twin blades.
• Di Nian gave Hei Hai a red card and had him forcibly recalled to the throne hall for trials.
• Hei Hai protested that he had promised the player command of the campaign, and Di Nian scolded him for neglecting command to fight on the front lines.

Qi Sheng considered how the Quest Market and Battle-Chip Bazaar benefited players and the Di Nian Evil Spirit before watching the Lord of Rot absorb three ancient demon gods’ powers in Monster World. The Lord of Rot became far stronger but was told he was not qualified to challenge the unseen observer until he forged a destruction path of his own.

• Qi Sheng recognized that the Quest Market’s battle-chip investments and Five-Dimensional Assessment could help players grow while also benefiting the Di Nian Evil Spirit.
• The Lord of Rot entered Eroding Candle Heaven and absorbed the fallen demon god’s origin, then annihilated a civilization whose leader tried to investigate him.
• The Lord of Rot took in the purgatory demon god’s power while rejecting its belief that destruction led to rebirth.
• The Lord of Rot absorbed the annihilation demon’s origin and sealed the three ancient demons’ conflicting philosophies outside his Dao heart.
• The Lord of Rot challenged the unseen observer, who refused to fight and declared him unqualified until he developed a destruction path of his own.
• The Lord of Rot withdrew his step toward the observer and remained beneath the bone-strewn sky as the ancient wills continued to surge within him.

Little Mage reflected on his lonely duty to protect the Spirit Breath Race and planned to secure its future through partnerships with powerful player guilds. Before he could act, the Dark Tide shattered the defenses of Spirit Breath Space, bringing the crisis he feared.

• Qi Sheng watched the Lord of Rot grow stronger and considered him a future challenge, while remaining wary of the Lord of the Dark Tide.
• Little Mage received confirmation that the Bestiary Grounds were complete and reflected on the Spirit Breath Race's prosperity and his eternal responsibility to protect it.
• Little Mage resolved to secure the Spirit Breath Race's survival by supplying rare spirit materials to major warbands and guilds in exchange for their protection.
• A thunderous crack shook Spirit Breath Space as spatial fissures spread across the sky and darkness seeped through, revealing that the Dark Tide had breached its defenses.

Little Mage defended the Spirit Breath Race from the first wave of the Dark Tide, then charged into the rift and destroyed its frontline stronghold. He returned to the Spirit Breath Space as players arrived through Space Leap.

• Little Mage activated the city's Defense Barrier, sounded the war alarm, and ordered the Spirit Breath Race to prepare for the Dark Tide.
• Little Mage transformed into his Myriad Forms Super Beast Fusion Form and used the Sword of Destruction to erase the Evil Spirits pouring through the rift.
• Little Mage decided to attack the Dark Tide commanders, entered the rift, and found the Dark Tide Frontline Stronghold.
• A level 1018 Divine Realm Evil Spirit attacked Little Mage, who slew it and destroyed the stronghold with one strike.
• Little Mage returned to the Spirit Breath Space and saw players arriving through Space Leap.

Little Mage led the Spirit Breath Race away from their exposed homeland and endured months of migration beneath the expanding Great Evil Moon. When Dark Tide forces opened a rift before the refugees, he identified the Divine Realm Sai Shen and called the players for reinforcements as the confrontation began.

• Little Mage welcomed the players who arrived to help after he had already defeated the first Evil Spirits attack, then thanked them with a feast.
• Little Mage ordered the Spirit Breath Race to abandon Spirit Breath Main City and begin migrating to escape the Great Evil Moon’s radiation.
• Little Mage led the people through dangerous regions for six months, fighting off attackers and planning to reach a safe settlement beyond the radiation.
• The Great Evil Moon’s coverage expanded, so Little Mage shortened the refugees’ rests and hurried their march toward safety.
• A Dark Tide rift opened near the migrating Spirit Breath Race, and Little Mage raised their defenses before confronting it.
• Little Mage’s strike was blocked by Sai Shen, a Divine Realm commander of the Dark Tide Main Legion, so he sent a plea for player reinforcements.

Little Mage fought Sai Shen and five Divine Realm Evil Spirits alone as the Dark Tide overwhelmed the Spirit Breath Race’s defenses. Just as their barrier was about to break, fellow players arrived and held back the invasion, giving the Spirit Breath Race a chance to survive.

• Little Mage unleashed his strongest sword attack against Sai Shen, but the Monarch neutralized it and drove him onto the defensive.
• Sai Shen’s seal on the rift broke, releasing a vast Dark Tide army, while five Divine Realm Evil Spirits surrounded Little Mage.
• Little Mage fought the five enemies while the Dark Tide battered the Spirit Breath Race’s defensive barrier, leaving it close to collapse.
• Players arrived through Space Leap and attacked the Dark Tide, with Damage-Taking players anchoring the front line and Mage players striking from behind.
• The players stopped the Dark Tide’s advance, stabilized the Spirit Breath Race’s barrier, and forced the invaders back toward the rift.

Little Mage survived the assault of five Divine Realm evil spirits when the players rallied to heal and empower him, turning the fight in their favor. The Dark Tide then escalated the battle into a continent-wide war, and the First Monarch sent reinforcements to Sai Shen Monarch as the conflict intensified.

• Little Mage was nearly killed by five Divine Realm evil spirits, but players healed and buffed him, allowing him to counterattack alongside their curses.
• The Dark Tide Monarchs emerged from the spatial rift, doubled their forces, and began a full assault against the Player Legion and Spirit Breath Race.
• Players across the regions answered emergency calls and joined the battlefield, while top guild warbands arrived through Space Leap.
• Sai Shen Monarch recognized the mounting losses and asked the First Monarch to send the Dark Tide's main forces as reinforcements.
• The First Monarch ordered Dark Tide forces across the Pale Continent to join Sai Shen Monarch's battlefield as projection clones, further escalating the war.

The players initially gained the upper hand when Divine King organized their forces and outmaneuvered Sai Shen Monarch, but Sai Shen exploited the Spirit Breath Race’s vulnerability to turn the battle against them. As Little Mage watched the Spirit Breath people die despite his efforts to protect them, his protective conviction collapsed and a personal killing intent awakened within him.

• Divine King unified the players in a temporary warband and used his many thought personas to coordinate their attacks against Sai Shen Monarch’s Dark Tide forces.
• Sai Shen Monarch recognized that the players were protecting the Spirit Breath Race and sent Void Evil Spirits to strike the migrating group through spatial jumps.
• Divine King ordered the players to retreat and defend the Spirit Breath Race, but Sai Shen repeatedly alternated rear attacks with frontal assaults, forcing the players onto the defensive.
• Little Mage fought to stop the Void Evil Spirits, but he could not prevent the Spirit Breath people from being slaughtered, and his despair and fury overwhelmed him.
• Little Mage’s protective resolve broke, and the Sword of Destruction turned blood-red as a distinct slaughtering will began to awaken within him.

Sai Shen Monarch used Void Evil Spirits and mind-controlling Gu Spirits to exploit the players’ protection of the Spirit Breath Race, but the Spirit Breath people chose mass martyrdom to free Blood Emperor and the players from that restraint. Grief-stricken, Little Mage led the players into a full assault as reinforcements flooded the battlefield.

• Sai Shen Monarch sent Void Evil Spirits after the migrating Spirit Breath Race, while Little Mage tried to defend them and watched some clanspeople, including children, die.
• Sai Shen Monarch deployed Gu Spirits to control Spirit Breath people and turn them against the players, but support players used the Uplift Life Soul to break the mass mental attack.
• Sai Shen Monarch switched to controlling individual targets, overwhelming the players’ defenses as the Spirit Breath Race realized its survival was keeping Blood Emperor and the players constrained.
• The Spirit Breath people took their own lives, and a War Sacrificer told Little Mage, “We-refuse to be your cage.”
• Little Mage charged into the darkness, and hundreds of millions of players followed, unleashing their full strength and welcoming the Spirit Breath Race’s sacrifice with a furious counterattack.
• Players across the battlefield and beyond rapidly entered the fight, repeatedly resurrecting and returning to battle without regard for the cost.

After the Spirit Breath Race sacrificed themselves, Little Mage awakened the Sword of Destruction and repeatedly charged into the Dark Tide, dying and respawning as he fought. Divine King redirected his fury toward Sai Shen Monarch’s stronghold, where Little Mage began destroying the Corrosion Cores that powered it.

• Little Mage’s grief over the Spirit Breath Race’s deaths transformed his sword into the Sword of Destruction, and he fought through the Dark Tide with overwhelming power.
• Sai Shen Monarch sent thirteen Divine Realm Evil Spirits to surround Little Mage, who died, spent 100 million sacrificial power to respawn, and returned to battle.
• Little Mage repeatedly charged the enemy and eventually killed one of the thirteen Divine Realm Evil Spirits before dying again.
• Divine King sent Little Mage the coordinates of Sai Shen Monarch’s stronghold, and Little Mage left the battlefield to attack it.
• Little Mage arrived at the stronghold, destroyed its Corrosion Cores with a sword strike, and turned toward Sai Shen Monarch’s projection.

Little Mage repeatedly challenged Sai Shen Monarch, while Divine King coordinated a two-front assault and gathered intelligence to force Sai Shen into the main battlefield. The Players sacrificed their power to strengthen Little Mage, whose final sword strike swallowed Sai Shen Monarch in a sea of sword-energy stars.

• Little Mage returned after each defeat and continued tempering his destructive sword momentum against Sai Shen Monarch, escaping its sealing prison through self-dissolution and resurrection.
• Divine King ordered the Players to converge on Sai Shen Monarch’s forces while buying intelligence from Di Nian Bully to prepare the next stage of the plan.
• Sai Shen Monarch abandoned its rear resource point and descended onto the main battlefield in its true body as Divine King’s legions opened a path for Little Mage.
• The Players sacrificed their combat power to empower Little Mage, pushing him into the Divine Fire Realm.
• Little Mage unleashed a star-filled sword strike that engulfed Sai Shen Monarch.

After killing Sai Shen, Little Mage grieved the destruction of the Spirit Breath Race and learned Star Network could not reverse their deaths. The Lord of Bliss urged him to turn his regret into a goal of resurrecting them, and Little Mage’s Destruction Sword Dao developed a new Sword Momentum Seed as he set out with renewed purpose.

• Little Mage asked Star Network to use the Reversal Life Soul to restore the Spirit Breath Race, but Star Network replied that it had entered Earth's reincarnation cycle and could no longer be used.
• Little Mage visited the Lord of Bliss on Dream Island and asked how he had endured the Elysium Tribe’s destruction.
• The Lord of Bliss explained that players outlived ordinary civilizations and urged Little Mage to bear his grief rather than deny it, making that pain nourishment for his Destruction Sword Dao.
• The Lord of Bliss gave Little Mage a new goal: find a way to resurrect the Spirit Breath Race.
• Little Mage’s Destruction Sword Dao formed a new Sword Momentum Seed, and he flew away with renewed resolve.

Little Mage pursued ways to resurrect the Spirit Breath Race, studying lost civilizations’ rituals and forging a new Momentum Dao that joined destruction with renewal. After naming his new Might the Sword of Hope, he triggered a hidden mission whose first requirement offered a way to resurrect his people.

• Little Mage asked Guide about mass resurrection and learned that containing the immortal Unceasing would require immense power and a stronger terminating Rule Trait.
• Guide advised Little Mage to search the Library in Di Family Village for other resurrection methods, and Little Mage studied three soul-returning books and recorded 348 promising locations.
• Little Mage spent years exploring resurrection rites and lost ruins, and his empathy for civilizations’ regrets fueled the growth of his Momentum Dao.
• Little Mage forged the Life-and-Death Duality sword, demonstrating how its purple edge destroyed a ruined wilderness while its golden light restored it.
• Little Mage named his new Might the Sword of Hope, then received a hidden mission whose first requirement involved resurrecting deceased members of the Spirit Breath Race with Sacrificial Power.

Little Mage discovered a hidden mission that could resurrect the Spirit Breath Race and let its members settle in private spaces within the Player Faction. After comparing three promising spatial nodes, he calculated that reviving and housing the entire race would cost far more sacrificial power than he had, so he planned to begin with a smaller group and build up gradually.

• Little Mage examined the hidden mission, which allowed him to resurrect Spirit Breath Race members and purchase land in spatial nodes, while restricting the resurrected to support functions rather than combat-enhancement features.
• Little Mage researched the Player Faction's spatial nodes and identified Senluo Forest Realm, Canglan Tranquil Marsh, and Ancient Platform Secret Realm as suitable bases for alchemy, cultivation and breeding, and array research.
• Little Mage asked Guide whether he could buy land in all three nodes, and Guide confirmed that he could purchase as much as his sacrificial power allowed.
• Little Mage traveled to the Senluo Forest Realm spatial node and opened the land-purchase interface to calculate the cost of creating an Independent Space.
• Little Mage realized that resurrecting and housing all 23 million Spirit Breath Race members would cost over a trillion sacrificial power, exceeding his balance of 743.3 billion.
• Little Mage abandoned the plan to revive the whole race at once and decided to prioritize resurrecting a smaller group, buying limited land, and developing industries to generate future income.

Qi Sheng restored the Spirit Breath Race to repair the Player Faction’s supply network, while Xiang Weisha completed his twelfth Ascension Reincarnation and attained the Divine Realm. After the Divine General yielded the Arena to him, Xiang Weisha received a hidden mission that offered a way to recruit the Ancient God Race and the Man Tribe into the Player Faction.

• Qi Sheng reviewed the Sacrificial Power gained from resurrecting the Spirit Breath Race and explained why their return would restore the Player Faction’s industrial supply chain.
• Xiang Weisha spent five billion Sacrificial Power to unlock his twelfth reincarnation and lived an ordinary life as a Night Burial Man, gathering and burying the dead until his Dao heart became complete.
• Xiang Weisha returned to the Ascension to Godhood Stairway with his Might level above one thousand and his state of mind in the Divine Realm.
• Xiang Weisha met the Divine General in the Arena, where the Divine General knelt and yielded the Arena throne to him.
• Xiang Weisha received a hidden recruitment mission allowing him to spend Sacrificial Power to bring members of the Ancient God Race and the Man Tribe into the Player Faction as level 0 Players.

Shuyan witnessed the Ancient God Arena collapsing and concluded that the Azure Star Sea’s tangled trade alliances made conquest too costly. It searched for a new region to develop, moved its domain there, and began a war against a nearby civilization.

• Xiang Weisha asked Divine General to follow him to a more exciting battlefield, and Divine General agreed.
• Shuyan sensed the Ancient God Arena collapsing but could not see through the Spatial Barrier to learn what had happened.
• Shuyan decided to leave the Azure Star Sea’s trade network’s center and search elsewhere for lands it could conquer while retaining the Gold Coin Chamber of Commerce as a supply link.
• Shuyan sent a concealed consciousness clone across distant territories, investigated a region’s resources and military balance, and chose it as a place to develop.
• Shuyan transported its domain to the new lands, restored its civilizations, and targeted a civilization 139 kilometers to the north, beginning a war.

Shuyan fought the Sky Curtain Race, burned its essence in a last attempt to resist, and was defeated. As its life ended, an unknown power reversed time and restored it, then asked whether it wanted to live differently.

• Shuyan spent three years conquering civilizations in the Monster World, but its story-based forces were overwhelmed by the Sky Curtain Race’s Rule.
• Shuyan discarded its ruined stories and burned its essence to create a final battle, but Sky Curtain crushed its attack and destroyed its domain.
• Facing death, Shuyan remembered choosing growth and conquest over stability, and accepted that its path might end in regret.
• As Shuyan’s essence scattered, an immense power reversed time, restoring the battlefield, its body, and the Sky Curtain Race’s movements.
• An indifferent voice asked Shuyan, “Interested in living a different way?”

Guide offered Shuyan a chance to escape the limits of its origin by joining the supreme path, and Shuyan accepted after learning of the Players and Guide’s power. On Dream Island, Fate Throat received a mission to recruit Fate Race members still hiding on the Pale Continent and resolved to bring them home.

• Qi Sheng stopped time and Guide showed Shuyan its past, future, and the power of the Player system.
• Shuyan accepted the offer to enter the supreme path, and Guide deducted three million sacrificial power before time resumed and Shuyan vanished from the battlefield.
• Fate Throat and the Fate Race elders celebrated their security and prosperity on Dream Island while worrying about their clanspeople still hiding underground on the Pale Continent.
• Fate Throat received a hidden mission to recruit Fate Race members outside the Player Faction for 20,000 sacrificial power per person.
• Fate Throat drained his cup and announced that they would leave immediately to bring their clanspeople home.