Recaps

Xiao Hao strengthened his Guardians and Coral Shell Room while enduring the Deep-Sea Ghost’s attacks, then trapped and killed it with a carefully timed counterattack. He claimed the Ghost Scythe Ring as the closed beta ended and learned that multiple survival games existed, with terror set to enter the real world.

• Xiao Hao bonded with Shadow Seahorse Eggs, defeated nearby monsters, and claimed the Peacock Mantis Shrimp as his first Battle General.
• Xiao Hao gathered Soul-Replenishing Grass, restored his stamina, and escaped the Deep-Sea Ghost by returning to the Coral Shell Room.
• Xiao Hao used cards and Guardian attacks to withstand the Ghost’s assaults, while bluffing and baiting it into wasting its strength against the room.
• Xiao Hao hunted monster swarms, upgraded his Guardians, and let the Ghost batter the Coral Shell Room until its counterattack was ready.
• Xiao Hao used a Slowdown Card, Maintenance Card, and Darkness Domains to help the Coral Shell Room survive the Ghost’s waves of Primordial Snailfish.
• Xiao Hao fed the Ghost drugged beer and fought it through the night, then used Shield and Payback Cards against its ultimate attack.
• Xiao Hao silenced the wounded Ghost and sent the Peacock Mantis Shrimp after it, then killed it with the Curse-Kill Card as it tried to flee.
• Xiao Hao received 6,000 Spirit Pearls and the Ghost Scythe Ring, then learned that the closed beta was ending and that several survival games existed.

Xiao Hao concealed his strength while mutated creatures ravaged Blue Dragon City, then repeatedly intervened to protect its people and soldiers without joining the Dragon Transformation Pool. He ended the stretch confronting Qiu Chengnan, the ghost responsible for the communications base station attacks.

• Xiao Hao returned to work after the survival game, where a mutant cockroach appeared and retreated from him before police arrived to kill it.
• Wang Hegang questioned Xiao Hao about the cockroach and suspected he was a player, but Xiao Hao avoided revealing anything and declined the Dragon Transformation Pool’s offer.
• After Director Liu fired him, Xiao Hao encountered Qiu Yanan and her Ghost Shadows, then escaped them and Qing Feng’s suspicions without exposing his identity.
• At a class reunion, Xiao Hao recognized Jin Chuanfu’s plan to recruit players through classmates and resolved to deal with the Jin family when the time was right.
• The evolution wave unleashed monsters across Blue Dragon City, and Xiao Hao’s Ghost Scythe Ring frightened the Flower Eagle before his Shadow Seahorses killed it.
• Xiao Hao refused to join the Dragon Transformation Pool but reassured the public that the Dragon Kingdom trusted its players, then secretly saved Lin Nanyao and her family from monsters.
• Xiao Hao rescued a wounded soldier and used his Darkness Domain to wipe out the insect horde, including its queen, before leaving the grieving troops to mourn their dead.
• At the police command center, Xiao Hao learned that an intelligent ghost had killed the station repair crews and recognized Qiu Chengnan among the dead players’ files.
• Xiao Hao confronted Qiu Chengnan at the communications base station, escaped his monsters’ attacks, and forced him to reveal his hiding place before refusing to let him go.