Chapter Summaries

Mu You repeatedly rewound his death until he realized Z Worldwalker could stop time, while Vivian revealed she could move during the frozen world. Z Worldwalker saved Red Sleeve and crippled Lin Xue, then sent Red Sleeve toward Skeleton Mountain to seek the God of Death Inheritance as he stayed behind to face Mu You.

• Mu You and Lin Xue repeatedly killed Red Sleeve until she dropped Eternal Night City: Map Fragment Five, then she resurrected and fled on a Flying Broomstick.
• Mu You trapped Red Sleeve with the Floating Machine Gun and Binding Spell, but Z Worldwalker appeared without warning, redirected Mu You's Charged Cannon into him, and rescued Red Sleeve while badly injuring Lin Xue.
• Vivian rewound time as Mu You relived the fatal moment 180 times, and he deduced that Z Worldwalker's ability let him move through a time-stopped world.
• Vivian explained that she could move during Z Worldwalker's time stop and had watched him prepare his attacks for three minutes and twenty seconds.
• Red Sleeve told Brother Nan that Mu You's group had taken the map fragment, and he sent her toward Skeleton Mountain to obtain the God of Death Inheritance while he stayed to face the others.

Mu You and Lin Xue confronted Z Worldwalker, whose time-stopping ability let him prepare devastating attacks inside the Stillness Realm. After Vivian explained the ability’s limits, Mu You survived two barrages, counterattacked, and discovered that Z Worldwalker’s time stop had a cooldown.

• Z Worldwalker revealed that he had won over a thousand battles and claimed his ability was invincible, while Mu You deduced that time stop could not directly harm its frozen targets.
• Mu You used the Mana Wyrm to create an ice enclosure protecting Lin Xue and told her to recover for the fight at Skeleton Mountain.
• Vivian explained the Stillness Realm’s rules during a five-second loop and guided Mu You as he learned to dodge Z Worldwalker’s prepared attacks.
• Z Worldwalker’s first barrage badly wounded Mu You, but Mu You survived through practiced evasion and rapid healing while protecting his heart.
• Z Worldwalker prepared nearly a hundred attacks, but Mu You survived again and teleported in to slash Z Worldwalker’s ear before he escaped by stopping time.
• Mu You concluded that Z Worldwalker’s time stop had a cooldown because he had waited several seconds before using it again.

Mu You trapped Z Worldwalker and freed Lin Xue to pursue the God of Death Inheritance, then fought Z Worldwalker by countering his time stop with prepared defenses and decoys. The chapter ended with Z Worldwalker realizing he could not overcome Mu You’s counters.

• Mu You trapped Z Worldwalker in a Water Prison Spell and ice walls, then freed Lin Xue to head toward Skeleton Mountain and obtain the God of Death Inheritance.
• Mu You told Z Worldwalker that time stop could be countered once its limits were understood, then waited while he replenished his stamina and Lin Xue traveled farther away.
• Z Worldwalker’s carefully arranged killing formation nearly overwhelmed Mu You, but Mu You recovered with a flash of light and survived.
• Mu You used Strong Wind Gust to repel Z Worldwalker’s attacks during time stop, frustrating him with a counter he could activate at the right moment.
• Mu You switched to the Phantom Thief Skin and created eleven identical figures, leaving Z Worldwalker unable to identify or attack the real one during time stop.
• Z Worldwalker stood dazed until time resumed, while Mu You’s doubles taunted him that his ability was mainly useful for running away.

Mu You and Shadow Wolf outmaneuvered Z Worldwalker’s Time Stop, severed his right arm, and prevented him from escaping or killing himself. Z Worldwalker fled toward Skeleton Mountain, hoping Red Sleeve would obtain the God of Death Inheritance.

• Z Worldwalker chased Shadow Wolf through her decoys, but she ambushed him with an arrow that left an unhealable wound and used Wind spells to counter his Time Stop.
• Shadow Wolf exploited Z Worldwalker’s tells and repulsion spells to damage him until Mu You arrived, then Mu You asked her to shoot his right shoulder with the special arrow.
• Mu You cast Blizzard to conceal Shadow Wolf’s arrow and used Position Swap to make it sever Z Worldwalker’s right arm; Mu You recovered the arm and burned it, leaving behind the Hand of Angus armband.
• Z Worldwalker tried to stab himself so he could revive with his arm restored, but Shadow Wolf disarmed him and Mu You healed and shielded him to keep him alive.
• Z Worldwalker fled toward Skeleton Mountain while Mu You and Shadow Wolf followed, restricting him with ordinary arrows and keeping his health replenished.

Lin Xue and Red Sleeve entered the God of Death’s burial chamber, where the Watcher demanded that each sacrifice what she cherished most to claim the inheritance. As Red Sleeve attacked Lin Xue, Lin Xue’s grandmother’s remnant soul awakened to protect her, leaving Lin Xue to run for the throne while Red Sleeve fought to break free.

• Red Sleeve and Lin Xue opened the cave entrance with their blood and weapons, then entered the burial chamber together.
• The Watcher revealed that a successor had to sacrifice what she cherished most, and Red Sleeve realized that meant her unborn child while Lin Xue panicked and searched for an exit.
• Red Sleeve attacked Lin Xue, but Lin Xue’s grandmother’s corpse emerged from her bundle and took the Chain Sword’s thrust for her.
• Lin Xue’s grandmother pinned Red Sleeve in place, and Lin Xue retrieved her scythe and ran toward the bone throne.
• Red Sleeve stabbed Lin Xue’s grandmother repeatedly as Lin Xue crossed the burial chamber toward the inheritance.

Red Sleeve and Lin Xue raced to claim the God of Death's inheritance, but Lin Xue's devotion to her grandmother let her accept the inheritance while Red Sleeve recoiled at its cost. Lin Xue reunited with her grandmother in a vision, then awoke transformed and attacked Red Sleeve as the cavern shook.

• Red Sleeve used repeated Apparitions and Chain to catch Lin Xue, but Lin Xue severed part of her own soul to escape the soul-hook and continued toward the energy sphere.
• Red Sleeve reached the sphere first, but hesitated when the God of Death demanded her appearance as the price for its power; Lin Xue plunged into the sphere and displaced her.
• Lin Xue relived a childhood conversation with Grandma, remembered her promise to search for things beyond explanation, and accepted her grandmother's farewell.
• Lin Xue awoke in the cemetery surrounded by a towering skeletal form, while Red Sleeve gained a giant arm and a horribly scarred face.
• Overcome by brutality, Lin Xue swung her scythe at Red Sleeve, who raised her transformed arm to block as the impact shook the cavern.

Lin Xue wielded the God of Death’s power to devour Z Worldwalker’s soul, but a sudden time stop allowed Red Sleeve and a mysterious baby to escape with his remains. Mu You learned the stop was caused by the baby, obtained a damaged Time Sensor containing a fragment of the Heart of Time, and upgraded his Pocket Watch before Vivian warned that the fragment’s thief would be hunted by the Time Guardians.

• Red Sleeve emerged from the mist pursued by the God of Death phantom, and Z Worldwalker urged her to kill him so he could regain his time-stop ability.
• The God of Death phantom used the Evil-Subduing Death Knell to immobilize Z Worldwalker, then reaped and swallowed his soul, spitting out a cracked Time Sensor containing a crystal fragment.
• Red Sleeve protected Z Worldwalker’s corpse as the God of Death phantom approached, but time stopped and a baby with an elderly face emerged from her abdomen, animated her body, and carried her and the corpse through a portal.
• Two Time Guardians pursued Red Sleeve and the baby through the portal, and time resumed after they vanished; Lin Xue then collapsed from exhaustion.
• Vivian identified Mu You’s Time Sensor as a damaged device that granted nearby time-stop immunity and revealed its fragment was part of the Heart of Time.
• Mu You merged the fragment into his Pocket Watch, doubling its rewind from five seconds to ten, and Vivian explained that the baby had stolen the fragment and was being hunted by the Time Guardians.

Mu You recovered useful loot from Z Worldwalker’s death while Red Sleeve and the old man regrouped in the Star Spirit World. On Earth, Lin Xue woke with blurred vision, learned she could see through a summoned Warhawk, and explained her God of Death Inheritance as Mu You began considering how others might obtain Divine Power and God Skins.

• Mu You collected Z Worldwalker’s scattered loot, finding a Resurrection Cross, a Mana Recovery Finger Ring, and Scorpio’s Secret Art Crystal among the items.
• Red Sleeve returned to the City Lord’s Castle with Z Worldwalker’s corpse, where the old man blamed her for the loss and ordered her to dig toward the Dungeon while hidden in the Stillness Realm.
• Lin Xue woke at her family’s manor and found that she could see only blurry shapes and numbers, including good and evil values.
• Mu You gave Lin Xue a Summon Warhawk card, allowing her to share the hawk’s clear vision while her own eyesight remained impaired.
• Lin Xue described how her God of Death Inheritance granted immense power at the cost of temporarily burning her attributes, and revealed that it had awarded her Divine Power and a Doppelganger Card.
• Mu You learned that the God of Death could grant one point of Divine Power each week in exchange for at least a thousand years of lifespan, and connected the winged giants to the possibility of obtaining God Skins.

Mu You learned that Clockwork City had vanished from its former location, then returned to Dawn City and opened its new Dungeon. He announced a citywide push to explore it, but the first teams quickly discovered that the Dungeon was far more dangerous than expected.

• Mu You admitted to Nine Nether and other faction leaders that he had helped kill Z Worldwalker, but he could not explain why Dawnlight City remained occupied.
• Mu You logged into the game and found Clockwork City gone, then returned to Dawn City and gave Eugene the items needed to build the Ancient Energy Conversion Furnace.
• Mu You upgraded Dawn City's City Lord's Castle to level three and unlocked the Dungeon, Blacksmith's Shop, and Apothecary.
• Mu You announced the Dungeon's opening and recruited exploration teams, offering citywide recognition to the ten teams that made the most progress each day.
• Dawn City's first teams entered the Dungeon, where poison gas quickly expelled players below level ten and powerful monsters killed many of those who remained.

After players shared their first Dungeon experiences, Mu You assembled a team with Lin Hai and Summer Insects Speak of Ice to explore the first floor and find the exit. Their run began smoothly but cost them Red Sickle Girl, and Mu You later chose to leave a Spore Fungus nest intact for its poison glands.

• Blue-Eyes White Dragon posted a preliminary guide describing the first floor’s poisonous monsters, their weaknesses, and the need for a balanced team with healing.
• Lin Hai declined the many team invitations he received because the City Lord had invited him, and Mu You recruited him and Summer Insects Speak of Ice for the expedition.
• Mu You’s team entered the Dungeon, learned that spatial magic was unavailable, mined two green magic crystals, and followed Summer Insects Speak of Ice’s directions through the maze.
• The team encountered a Spore Fungus nest, and Red Sickle Girl was caught in the poison blast and returned to the surface; she told Mu You to continue without her.
• Mu You’s team found Fungus Vents and he declined to destroy them, deciding instead that their poison glands were valuable and considering a place in the Dungeon for the Ant Queen Egg.

Mu You led a summoned army through the first floor of the Dungeon and found the Flame Lord, whose strength scaled with the number of nearby enemies. He returned alone to defeat it, opened the second-floor entrance, and obtained an Evolution Gem that could upgrade Epic equipment to legendary quality.

• Mu You recruited Flowers in the Mist and led the party along Summer Insects Speak of Ice's route until they reached the Flame Temple.
• The Flame Lord's Flame Mark amplified its attacks against the party's many summons, nearly wiping them out and forcing Mu You to retreat when the Dungeon timer expired.
• Mu You led the group back to the temple, then entered alone because fewer nearby enemies weakened the Flame Lord.
• Mu You defeated the Flame Lord, and Dawn City's players received notice that the entrance to the Dungeon's second floor had opened.
• Mu You collected an Evolution Gems-Flame, Sky Gloves, experience, and permanent Fire resistance, discovering that the gem could upgrade Epic equipment to legendary quality.

Mu You cleared the Dungeon’s first floor, shared a guide that helped players reach the second floor, and watched as Sunset City and Twilight City were activated on the same day. In K City, Kusanagi Tetsuya investigated several disappearances and suspected they might be connected.

• Mu You learned that evolution gems were scarce, led his party to the second floor, and found its route blocked by a crystal deposit before their Dungeon attempts ran out.
• Mu You gave Blue-Eyes White Dragon details about the first-floor clear and boss rewards, and Blue-Eyes White Dragon published a guide that helped players reach and explore the second floor.
• Sunset City was activated with Bluebeard as its first City Lord, followed hours later by Twilight City with Nine Nether as its first City Lord, sparking fierce arguments over the Celestial Empire’s share of the Sky Cities.
• Kusanagi Tetsuya arrived in K City and questioned his subordinates about the disappearance of Gao Ziming, Number 14, and others connected to them.
• Kusanagi Tetsuya ordered the records reviewed personally and vowed to find whoever had orchestrated the disappearances if they were not a coincidence.

Mu You brewed a Mute Potion to help Mermaid recover her voice and watched a Chimera hatchling emerge and bond with him after eating the Dragon-Taming Stone. In K City, a young man from the Wind and Thunder Sect investigating Number 14 noticed Mu You’s pet shop and decided to visit it himself.

• Mu You gave Mermaid a Mute Potion and told her to return weekly for a course of treatment to strengthen her vocal cords.
• Mu You accepted the Dark Elves’ quest to find materials for repairing their temple after his other available elf quests were postponed or remained out of reach.
• One of Mu You’s Chimera eggs hatched under Xiao Ya’s care, and the newly born Two-Headed Dragon fought Little Spider before Mu You tamed it with the Dragon-Taming Stone.
• Two days later, a young man from the Wind and Thunder Sect questioned his associate about Number 14 while reviewing surveillance footage in K City.
• The young man noticed that people he was tracking had entered Mu You’s pet shop and decided to visit the shop in person.

The Pet Shop held its first Chocobo race, which ended with an amateur spectator beating the professionals after their magic-filled final sprint descended into chaos. Afterwards, Mu You uncovered a suspicious probe by two visitors connected to Jin Yuan and Yu Yi Nian, and both he and the bespectacled young man arranged to investigate the other.

• The Merchant Alliance organized an invitational Chocobo race, and Trench Coat Guy took an early lead in the obstacle race with an acceleration spell.
• On the final lap, two racers coordinated to slow Trench Coat Guy, while the contestants' control spells tangled the leading pack in a magical mire.
• The lucky spectator won by using three Dispels to clear the control spells and cross the finish line first.
• Two visitors asked Mu You to invest in the shop and claimed Jin Yuan and Yu Yi Nian had recommended them, prompting Mu You to suspect they were probing his connection to the pair.
• Mu You checked the visitors with the Omniscient Crystal, concealed his recognition of the names, and asked Lu Yao to investigate them.
• After leaving, the bespectacled young man told the middle-aged man to investigate Mu You, saying his overly correct responses had seemed suspicious.

Mu You explored the Cook Islands to find the Undead Society and learned how locals preyed on outsiders by implanting gu insects and charging for their removal. After enduring and rewinding through several traps, he found a beggar whose information menu revealed that nobody in the village had a shadow.

• Mu You reached level 17 after clearing the Dungeon's second-floor boss, then traveled to the Cook Islands to investigate the Undead Society and search for answers about Ye Rumeng's sister and the Shadow Fiend.
• Mu You was implanted with a Heart-Devouring Gu, learned that the gu remover charged five years of lifespan, and paid to have the insect removed after asking about the Undead Society.
• Mu You encountered several local scams, including traps involving a treasure chest, a pastry, a robbery, and a dry well, and used his Pocket Watch to rewind while gathering information for other players.
• Mu You found a beggar who offered information at a steep lifespan cost and learned that the village's residents had no shadows.

Mu You learned that Granny Tang had ties to the Undead Society and controlled a deadly shadow fiend, then accepted a quest from an old woman seeking news of her missing granddaughter, Louise. After obtaining the Society’s hidden entrance in Grayrock Village, he watched the papermaking workshop and spotted robot wrecks that might offer a way inside.

• Mu You learned from a beggar that the islanders’ shadows had been taken, children were being collected by Granny Tang, and Golden Silkworms could consume gu worms.
• Mu You visited Granny Tang in Zhenyu Village, discovered her mismatched shadow concealed a shadow fiend, and retreated after the fiend killed him in a reversed attempt.
• An old woman offered to reveal the Undead Society’s location if Mu You investigated her missing granddaughter, Louise, and Mu You accepted the hidden quest.
• The old woman gave Mu You the Society’s entrance location beneath paper cabinets in Old Man Luke’s papermaking workshop in Grayrock Village.
• Mu You watched Luke’s guarded property and noticed piles of Worker Robot and Cleaning Robot wrecks outside its gate, suggesting robots worked inside.

Mu You infiltrated an underground complex disguised as a cleaning robot and found a fragment of Louise’s diary describing a planned uprising at the hospital. Elsewhere, a young man used Louise’s shadow to resurrect a man as a giant Shadow Fiend, while Mu You followed the pleas of his own Shadow Fiend toward an unknown destination.

• Mu You disguised himself as a cleaning robot during a delivery to Luke’s paper mill and was taken into the underground complex, where a beanpole man warned the robots to stay out of the western zone.
• Mu You explored the abandoned northern zone and found a diary fragment hidden inside a rag doll, describing Louise and other children planning to resist their treatment with help from Mianmian, who refused to join them.
• Mu You looked for Ye Rumeng to ask about Mianmian but found her missing, then discovered that his Shadow Fiend was pleading and directing him somewhere.
• On a rooftop, a bespectacled young man ordered his middle-aged associate to find Number Fourteen and kicked a bound man off the building as part of a plan to summon it.
• Louise’s shadow possessed the fallen man and transformed into a towering Shadow Fiend, while Mu You set out to follow the directions of his own Shadow Fiend.

Mu You rescued Ye Rumeng from a rampaging Shadow Fiend and fled the city with two different pursuers on his heels. After unleashing the Shadow Fiend from his box to fight the giant creature, he and Lin Xue cornered the muscular pursuer, whose shadowless corpse suggested he had escaped.

• A young man controlled the giant Shadow Fiend long enough to order his companion to capture Ye Rumeng, but Mu You pulled her into the darkness and escaped with her.
• The young man transformed into a muscular Shadow Fiend host and attacked Mu You, who used the Pocket Watch to evade him while leading both pursuers out of the city.
• Mu You released the Shadow Fiend from his box, and it knocked down the muscular man before the giant Shadow Fiend arrived and fought it.
• Lin Xue joined Mu You and trapped the muscular man between them, but the Reaper's Scythe failed to hook out his soul before he died.
• Mu You used a Light Illumination Spell and found that the muscular man's corpse cast no shadow, leading him to conclude that the man had escaped.

Mu You helped stop a Shadow Fiend attack, suspected its mastermind was a being from the Star Spirit World, and learned the culprit was tied to Japan’s Wind and Thunder Sect. He agreed to join an official delegation traveling to Japan, where he could investigate the incident and Little Girl’s background.

• Mu You watched the box’s Shadow Fiend defeat its opponent, then saw it return to the box when Ye Rumeng cried out; Ye Rumeng wondered whether her sister was still alive.
• Lin Xue failed to find the fleeing mastermind, while Mu You stayed behind and told Zhang Yang that the Ghost Ship Captain and Red Sickle Girl had handled the Shadow Fiend.
• Mu You told Nine Nether that the mastermind might be a being from the Star Spirit World disguised as a human, then learned from Lu Yao that the glasses-wearing man belonged to Japan’s Wind and Thunder Sect and had abruptly changed five years earlier.
• Zhang Yang identified the two dead men as Japanese and said Kusanagi Tetsuya, the Wind and Thunder Sect’s leader, had likely fled K City; he also reported five deaths and more than two hundred injuries.
• Zhang Yang asked Mu You to represent K City on a delegation investigating the incident in Japan, and Mu You agreed.

Mu You joined a Celestial Empire delegation traveling to Japan to investigate the Wind and Thunder Sect and shared clues that could expose shadow people. After the Wind and Thunder Sect’s base was found empty, the Blood Emperor and the Dragon Group director pressured Japan’s Defense Society to cooperate in tracking them down.

• Mu You boarded a plane with twenty-one elite combatants and reviewed intelligence identifying Kusanagi Tetsuya as a likely Otherworld creature in disguise.
• Mu You found two more pages from Louise’s diary, which described a suspicious shadow and a monster beast, and inferred that shadow people might be distinguished by the direction of their shadows.
• Mu You sent his shadow theory to Nine Nether, who relayed it to the delegation; the Dragon Group director quietly checked the travelers’ shadows and warned them to stay alert.
• The delegation landed in Tokyo, where Makiyama Hayata welcomed them and admitted that the Wind and Thunder Sect’s base had been empty when Japan searched it.
• The Blood Emperor and the director challenged Makiyama Hayata over the failed search and demanded that Japan investigate the Wind and Thunder Sect’s connections, threatening to pursue them without cooperation.