Chapter Summaries

Qi Sheng awarded the winners of the Armed Vehicles Innovation Contest, while players continued designing vehicles beyond the contest. After Hei Ying revealed the Colorful Mist Coast to the arena’s Hunters, players eagerly welcomed an aircraft sent to capture fighters; the newly captured players arrived at the Death Arena excited to please the Ancient Gods.

• The Armed Vehicles Innovation Contest ended with Draw Sword, Slay Love’s flying sword in first place, I Walk with the Wind’s monowheel motorcycle in second, and Game Modifier’s powered shoes in third, and Qi Sheng distributed the prizes.
• Players developed multiplayer vehicles such as the Soaring Dragon Truck and steel truck, which exceeded the contest’s cost limit.
• Hei Ying told the Ancient God Servant that the Colorful Mist Coast was home to a race with unusual abilities, and the Servant promised to pass the information to the Hunters.
• Players gathered eagerly at the Colorful Mist Coast, and an arena Hunter captured twelve players who met the novice-fighter requirements.
• The captured players livestreamed their journey to the Death Arena, where the Ancient God Servant was surprised by their enthusiasm and told the Hunter to pay special attention to their race.

Qi Sheng watched the players fight in the Ancient God Arena and saw their success earn them more chances to compete. Meanwhile, Di Nian Evil Spirit sought Evil Eye’s advice on stopping the players from weakening the Dark Tide, but learned that more resources were beyond Evil Eye’s authority.

• Qi Sheng learned that the arena’s rules prevented players of the same race from being matched against each other, and watched the second-round players compete for sacrificial power.
• Two players won their second matches and advanced, but both lost their third matches against stronger alien warriors.
• The Ancient God Servants approved more arena visits for the Player Race after the players’ enthusiastic performances.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit told Evil Eye that the players were steadily weakening the Dark Tide and demanded additional resource support.
• Evil Eye explained that the higher-ups had already granted Marshal Level resources and considered increasing future support, but he could not divert resources himself.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit revealed that surviving the Abyss Trial had earned him special attention, and Evil Eye pledged to stay by his side and assist him.

Kuang Sha announced that the Snow Valley recruits would graduate and travel together to phase two, then led them to receive the Against the Tide God's blessing. As Li Zheng's War God Seal formed, Qi Sheng learned from Guide that the blessing came from Hun Zhan's powerful Power of War rule, leaving the seal moments from completion.

• Kuang Sha praised the Hardcore Grinders Group's performance, promised additional training camp slots for their Player Race, and announced the recruits would leave for phase two in two days.
• Ghost Eye proposed that the Snow Valley recruits cooperate on the month-long journey, and Li Zheng agreed; the Hardcore Grinders Group then noticed Ghost Eye's quality-285 Shadow Zircon Moon necklace and learned it was a Four-Eyed Race clan treasure.
• Kuang Sha brought the recruits to a headless statue and explained that the Against the Tide God's blessing would grant them rule brands.
• The statue's crimson light struck Li Zheng, and Qi Sheng suppressed the Purification System so the rule runes could form inside him.
• Guide identified the Against the Tide God as Hun Zhan and explained that his Power of War strengthened warriors through participation in war, while duplicating a rule brand would cost over a hundred million Sacrificial Power.
• Li Zheng's crimson runes neared completion and began condensing into a War God Seal.

Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group received the Primary War God Seal, a Rule Life Soul that grew through war, then used Guide’s fortune-reading to win crystals from Ghost Eye’s Spirit Fortune Game. After two days of rest, the trainees left Snow Valley Training Camp and began their journey to phase two.

• The trainees received the Against the Tide God's blessing and gained the Primary War God Seal, which absorbed Power of War and tempered their bodies without occupying a Star Meridian slot.
• Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group joined Ghost Eye’s Spirit Fortune Game, and Guide revealed the hidden fortunes so they could win crystals before Li Zheng ended the game.
• The group returned half their winnings to Ghost Eye, then divided the remaining crystals, worth over thirty thousand Sacrificial Power.
• Kuang Sha gave the trainees packs containing supplies and three Phantom Annihilation bombs each, then delivered a farewell before they departed Snow Valley Training Camp.
• The trainees followed the snowy mountain path toward phase two, joking with one another as the camp and Kuang Sha faded from view behind them.

The Snow Valley Training Camp trainees crossed the White Plains, where Soul Beasts attacked and killed several trainees. Li Zheng and the Hardcore Grinders Group stayed behind to cover the others’ escape, and Ghost Eye swore to avenge them after Li Zheng died from poison.

• Ghost Eye led the trainees through the snowy mountains and warned them that the White Plains held dangerous Soul Beasts created by the Soul Return Race.
• After entering the White Plains, the group killed a giant worm, then later encountered eight Soul Beasts, including ones that had taken the forms and abilities of dead trainees.
• A Soul Beast devoured a Four-Eyed Race freshman, and Li Zheng ordered Ghost Eye and the other trainees to retreat while the Hardcore Grinders Group held off the Soul Beasts.
• Family-Sharing Godfather, Murderous Intent Awakened, and the other players died covering the retreat; Li Zheng and Eat Dirt continued fighting, and Li Zheng killed the Soul Beast that had taken the freshman’s form.
• Eat Dirt died protecting Li Zheng, and Ghost Eye rescued the poisoned Li Zheng after the other Soul Beasts overwhelmed him.
• Li Zheng died in Ghost Eye’s arms, and Ghost Eye vowed to return after training and avenge him and the others.

The Hardcore Grinders Group returned to Di Family Village, upgraded their vehicles and Star Meridian builds, and began preparing to resume their hidden training-camp mission. Li Zheng joined Divine King’s campaign at Tianlan Pool, while Qi Sheng analyzed the Soul Return Race and chose to spread the node’s spiritual energy through Emperor Tomb Village if the players captured it.

• The Hardcore Grinders Group returned to Di Family Village, crafted matching black-and-red armed outfits, and Li Zheng replaced his Black-Armored Snake Life Soul with Gang Qi before testing his new build.
• The group asked Guide whether they could resume their hidden mission, then decided to watch for Elder You and planned to explain their resurrection as a Player Race ability.
• Li Zheng chose to join Woshnidie’s joint operation at the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range, where Divine King organized players for an assault on Tianlan Pool.
• Qi Sheng reviewed the Soul Return Race’s soul-beast abilities and concluded that players were largely immune to its threat, though it could become a disaster for other factions.
• Qi Sheng inspected Tianlan Pool and chose to let its spiritual energy spread throughout Emperor Tomb Village if the players captured the domain node.

The Player Legion fought the Dark Tide at the Tianlan Pool domain node while Qi Sheng monitored battles across several regions. As the Evil Moon shifted unexpectedly to Crescent Moon instead of Full Moon, Qi Sheng prepared to close the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to players, while Di Nian’s hopes of a powerful Dark Tide surge collapsed.

• Divine King commanded the Player Legion against increasingly powerful Dark Tide forces, but the Di Nian Evil Spirit countered their tactics and made victory at the Tianlan Pool domain node unlikely.
• Qi Sheng observed the Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players fighting underwater at the Undersea Crystal Palace and received word that the Evil Moon was changing.
• Guide predicted the moon phase would likely become Crescent Moon, while the Di Nian Evil Spirit confidently predicted Full Moon and explained how he read the Evil Moon’s fluctuations to Evil Eye.
• Qi Sheng decided to stop opening the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range to players after the moon phase stabilized and to redirect their development toward the Colorful Mist Coast.
• The Evil Moon settled on Crescent Moon, stunning Qi Sheng, Guide, Evil Eye, and the Di Nian Evil Spirit, who angrily rejected Evil Eye’s advice to calm down.

The Crescent Moon scenario returned to the Di Family Mountains, and Qi Sheng recruited 3,000 newcomers to take advantage of its lower difficulty. Wonder Butterfly returned and began tormenting new players, prompting veterans to organize a hunt; the chapter ended with them chasing it through the sky.

• The Crescent Moon scenario replaced the Blood Ghouls with cursed soldiers, lowered the energy concentration, and prompted Qi Sheng to issue 3,000 new player qualifications.
• New players entered the Di Family Mountains, where many struggled with cursed soldiers while veterans argued with them or offered help.
• Wonder Butterfly emerged from hiding and repeatedly attacked the newcomer Poetry and Distant Places, whose forum post revealed that the monster was hunting vulnerable players and rapidly gaining levels.
• Guide explained that Wonder Butterfly used an innate species talent to identify players with weak personalities, while veterans gathered to capture it for its Wind Control life soul.
• When Wonder Butterfly attacked another newcomer in the Ancient Battlefield, veteran players rushed to the location and pursued it into the sky as it tried to escape.

Qi Sheng discovered that Wonder Butterfly carried a dormant eighth-generation Space Leap trait and decided to let it grow before capturing it. Meanwhile, Lu Xing followed an ancient mural’s route into the Elysium Palace, where Qi Sheng learned that its five pleasure-filled realms trapped beings and harvested their elysium power.

• Qi Sheng used Guide to analyze Wonder Butterfly, discovered its dormant Space Leap trait alongside Wind Control, and ordered Guide to track it while he waited for it to mature.
• After players failed to catch Wonder Butterfly, Lu Xing explored ruins in the Water-Realm Forest and deciphered murals about tribespeople who entered the forest and fell into madness.
• Lu Xing followed the High Priest’s route to a hidden spatial node, entered the Elysium Palace, and found a realm that overwhelmed its visitors with their desires.
• Qi Sheng inspected the palace’s Gates of Evil Desire, Greed, Power, Gluttony, and Sloth, and learned that the Elysium Tribe used the realms to harvest elysium power while driving their captives toward death.
• Qi Sheng returned his consciousness to Lu Xing, who was becoming dazed amid the seductive figures as his livestream audience surged.

Lu Xing entered the Greed Gate and was overwhelmed by an illusion of his dream life as an adventurer, but the purification system erased the experience before he could become trapped. After he fled Elysium Hall, players discussed his livestream and organized slaughter squads to hunt the corrupted creatures inside for rewards.

• Lu Xing recovered from the Elysium Power’s illusion at the Gate of Evil Desire and entered the Greed Gate after the Guide Avatar challenged his courage.
• Inside the Greed Gate, Lu Xing imagined settling among villagers, sharing travel stories, and joining an adventuring party, until the purification system shattered the fantasy and erased his memories of it.
• The Guide Avatar showed Lu Xing livestream footage of his vacant expressions, and embarrassed by the players’ mockery, he fled Elysium Hall through the Spatial Spirit Runes.
• Players discussed Lu Xing’s livestream, and Great Strength Works Wonders proposed killing the helpless, corrupted creatures in Elysium Hall for sacrificial power and evolution points.
• Players formed slaughter squads and traveled to the Colorful Mist Coast to find Elysium Palace, intending to hunt the creatures inside.

Players flocked to Elysium Hall and exploited its powerless, corrupted inhabitants for evolution points and sacrificial power, while Qi Sheng profited from their attacks. In the palace, Elysium noticed a branch scene’s power output dropping and sent Xie Yu to investigate, fearing the powerful forces of Monster World might have found him.

• Players followed Lu Xing’s mapped route to Elysium Hall, entered its node space, and purified themselves of the Jile Rule’s influence.
• The players attacked the helpless beings trapped in Elysium illusions, earning evolution points and sacrificial power as Qi Sheng watched his earnings rise.
• Players discovered that bloodburn dealt direct vitality damage, allowing them to hurt high-level targets whose defenses ordinary attacks could not pierce.
• Players advanced through Elysium Hall’s layers, and their attacks generated over four million sacrificial power for Qi Sheng in one hour.
• Elysium noticed a sharp drop in Elysium power production at the third branch scene on the Pale Continent and ordered Xie Yu to investigate.
• Elysium recalled the Cataclysm War and decided he would flee if Xie Yu returned with evidence that powerful outsiders had discovered his palace.

Qi Sheng watched players invade the Elysium Hall while Xie Yu tried and failed to interrogate one of them. After Xie Yu reported the Player Race to the Lord of Bliss, the Lord dismissed the invasion as no threat and chose not to investigate further.

• Qi Sheng discovered that the Elysium Main Hall was a hidden refuge with a teleportation altar, while players looted its scenes and earned sacrificial power.
• Xie Yu arrived at the Gate of Power and killed the players there, then moved through the scenes and slaughtered more invaders.
• Xie Yu captured a player who insisted on killing fallen ones before answering questions; after the player tricked him into helping secure another kill, Xie Yu snapped his neck, and the player vanished as black smoke.
• Xie Yu reported that the Player Race resisted Elysium power, feared neither pain nor death, and disappeared after dying.
• The Lord of Bliss concluded that the players were a weak faction and ordered the Elysium Tribe to leave the incident alone.

Players repeatedly raided Elysium Hall for Sacrificial Power, while a newly contained Bloodthirst Life Soul inspired powerful healing builds. After the Lord of Bliss closed the passage they were using, the players lost access to the profitable instance but learned that other routes to Elysium Hall might still exist.

• Players returning toward Elysium Hall contained the Bloodthirst Primordial, and Gargoyle Style players developed a popular blood demon build around its Life Soul.
• Led by Divine King, the players entered Elysium Hall again and efficiently hunted Fallen Ones for Sacrificial Power.
• The Lord of Bliss learned that players were repeatedly attacking his Pale Continent nodes and considered how intelligence affected the design of powerful legions.
• The Lord of Bliss closed the spatial passage the players had been using, and arriving players found the entrance to Elysium Hall gone.
• Players lamented the closure on the Forum, then learned that other spatial passages to Elysium Hall might still exist; Explorer was praised for bringing opportunities to the player camp.

Qi Sheng read Nightfall Is Coming’s poll about which Monster World faction players would choose, then reflected on the looming struggle for supremacy as the Player Legion grew. At the Crystal Hall, Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players defeated Bei Ya, contained the Domain Node, and earned the Gathering domain blessing.

• Nightfall Is Coming posted a poll comparing eight faction identities, and players voted the Elysium Tribe first and the Heavenly Fire Clan last.
• Qi Sheng discussed the future of Monster World with Guide 1 and vowed that the Player Legion would claim a place at its summit.
• Gillfish Race and Abyssal Fish Race players fought through the Crystal Hall’s guards, then encountered the level-52 primordial monster Bei Ya.
• The two races used a Parasitic Tactic with Bloodthirst Life Souls to suppress Bei Ya’s healing and defeat it, earning a new participant-number record for containing a primordial monster.
• The surviving players entered the Crystal Hall, touched its node crystal, and contained the Domain Node, expanding Emperor Tomb Village and the Colorful Mist Coast.
• The Player Legion received the Gathering domain rule blessing, and players celebrated the newly available Bei Ya Life Soul.

Qi Sheng integrated the Gathering rule into the Rule God Pillar, considered expanding the Player Legion, and planned to capture five Domain Nodes at the Colorful Mist Coast. Meanwhile, Human Federation leaders investigated Darklands Cracked Version and ended the chapter questioning whether it was a different game from the official version.

• Players discovered that the Rule God Pillar granted the Gathering bonus to popular Life Souls, debated its effects, and shared Control Life Soul builds on the Forum.
• Qi Sheng dismissed players’ requests to remove respawn costs, then planned to target five Colorful Mist Coast Domain Nodes and expand the Player Legion to one hundred thousand.
• Federation Chief Bai Chen heard city administrators report unexplained virtual transactions and evidence that Darklands Cracked Version had spread throughout the Human Federation.
• Ironwall City's Administrator Xiao suggested the Star Network might have rebelled and sought to make Darklands currency the world's only legal currency, and Bai Chen led a vote rejecting the Eclipse Race's exchange request.
• A Sky Dome Technology R&D Center representative reported that cracked-version players described a different game experience from official-version players and asked whether the two versions were entirely different games.

Bai Chen ordered an investigation into whether official Darklands and Darklands Cracked Version were different games, while Yu Yun found the badly injured ascender Tian Bing washed ashore. Tian Bing had escaped a supposed Immortal Realm that harvested ascenders, but Yu Yun could not damage his body.

• Bai Chen found no known players with access to both versions of Darklands and ordered the attendees to compare player experiences and buy Cracked Version currency as a precaution.
• Qi Sheng observed a new Evil Spirit tower forming in the Evil Moon Domain, and Guide judged that nearby powers could contain the threat.
• Yu Yun followed a falling fireball to sea and used his Silvertail Fish to drag an unconscious humanoid ashore.
• Tian Bing ascended from Zenith World, discovered that the upper realm used cultivators as hosts for parasite-like monsters, and learned that ascension was a harvest.
• Tian Bing used a Disintegration Method to destroy the monster inside him, escaped his vessel, and flew away before collapsing into the sea.
• Yu Yun identified the stranger as Tian Bing, whose Hunting Level remained 75, but his battle axe could not pierce Tian Bing's defenses.

Qi Sheng uncovered the Ascension Race’s parasitic cultivation system and connected it to Tian Bing’s escape, while Yu Yun successfully controlled and healed Tian Bing, then fled with him toward the Ancient God Race’s territory. When the Ascension Race caught up near the Death Arena, the Ancient God Race attacked, and Yu Yun began livestreaming the battle to other players.

• Qi Sheng and Guide traced Tian Bing’s lingering rule energy to an island in the Thousand Armies Sea Region and discovered the Ascension Race’s spirit-root system, captive host worlds, and elite offspring farms.
• Yu Yun used his Control life soul to mark the gravely wounded Tian Bing, sacrificed his buddies and life-soul resources, and spent borrowed sacrificial power on healing potions until Tian Bing recovered enough to awaken.
• Guide warned Yu Yun that Tian Bing could not enter Di Family Village and that the Ascension Race’s residual energy marks might draw pursuers, so Yu Yun took Tian Bing toward the Ancient God Race’s territory.
• Yu Yun and Tian Bing traveled through the Evil Moon Domain, where Tian Bing killed powerful creatures and helped Yu Yun recover some of his investment before they reached the Ghost Shadow Sea Region.
• The Ascension Race warriors caught up near the Death Arena, and an enormous energy arm rose from the island and struck them, drawing Yu Yun and Tian Bing into the shock wave.
• Yu Yun livestreamed the battle as players gathered to watch and cheered for the Ancient God Race.

Tian Beng drove the Ascension Race from the Ghost Shadow Sea Region, while Yu Yun’s captured level-75 pet sparked debate among players about the Control Life Soul and pet features. Qi Sheng then asked Nine Yin to help develop a Pet System that would purify freely captured creatures, leaving Guide and Nine Yin disputing the required cost.

• Yu Yun’s livestream showed Tian Beng shattering the Ascension Race’s elemental attacks and battling their twelve warriors with his physical strength.
• The Ascension Race escaped after their divine pillar failed to stop Tian Beng, and an Ancient God warned him not to pursue them into their territory.
• Players discussed Yu Yun’s level-75 pet Tian Bing, reconsidered the Control Life Soul’s potential, and debated the future of melee builds.
• Qi Sheng reviewed player feedback and devised a Pet System with both freely captured, non-growing pets and template-based pets that could grow.
• Qi Sheng met Nine Yin in Emperor Tomb Village and asked her to purify outside creatures entering the system; Nine Yin estimated her work would cost 550,000 Sacrificial Power, while Guide corrected her estimate to 560,000.

Naixiu Evil Spirit arrived at the Colorful Mist Coast to build a Dark Tide, but players immediately attacked his Evil Eye High Tower and overwhelmed his forces. As Naixiu sought help from other nodes, Di Nian Evil Spirit refused to send resources and dodged the request by claiming he was fighting the Insect Tide.

• Naixiu Evil Spirit emerged from a spatial portal at the Evil Moon High Tower, learned the Monster World’s scale from the Purple-Skinned Evil Eye, and began generating Doomsday-type troops.
• Players swarmed into the Evil Moon Domain, fought through marine Evil Abominations, and advanced toward the tower with coordinated teams and improvised builds.
• Naixiu Evil Spirit changed to elite troops on the Purple-Skinned Evil Eye’s advice, but the players continued pushing forward and forced him to request support from other nodes.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit considered sending a third of his resources to help Naixiu, then had Evil Eye report that the Emperor Tomb Mountain Range was under attack by the Insect Tide.
• Di Nian Evil Spirit rejected Naixiu’s request for guidance and ordered Evil Eye to tell him to seek help elsewhere.

The Player Legion defeated Naixiu and destroyed the Evil Eye High Tower in the Azure Star Sea, winning the Dark Tide Purification Campaign and claiming three Domain Nodes. After celebrating and spending their rewards, Divine King led the Major Guilds toward another node, only to find that Di Nian Evil Spirit had grown stronger again.

• Naixiu used energy from three nodes to strengthen his troops, but the players kept returning to battle, and Di Nian Evil Spirit agreed to support him while secretly diverting much of the Azure Star Sea node’s energy to his own High Tower.
• Yu Yun returned with Tian Bing and helped the players stop Naixiu from reaching the High Tower; the players teleported and killed Naixiu’s purple-skinned Evil Eye, then Naixiu self-destructed after three more hours of fighting.
• The players destroyed the Evil Eye High Tower, captured Black Dragon Pass, Tianpen Island, and Coral Islet, and ended the Evil Moon’s hold over the island; Qi Sheng received 74.63 million Sacrificial Power from the campaign.
• After the players returned to Di Family Village and improved their gear, Divine King organized the Major Guilds to attack the Star Abode node before Di Nian Evil Spirit could grow stronger.
• The joint warband found Di Nian Evil Spirit’s Dark Tide fielding many new and stronger troop types, while Di Nian realized the Player Race had returned and feared another resource shortage.