Recaps

Xin Jiu survived Anubis by using a clown doll, returned to the group, and killed Li Tao after Chen Rui and the others asked her to spare him. She left her former companions behind and continued chasing Niuniu to raise her agility, insisting she would stop when it reached fifty.

• Xin Jiu dodged Anubis's attack with a clown doll, survived the ten-minute time limit, and rode a sika deer back to the group.
• Xin Jiu knocked Li Tao down with her slingshot and prepared to kill him, but Chen Rui, Doudou, and Jiamin blocked her path and asked her to spare him.
• Xin Jiu killed Li Tao despite their pleas, warned the others not to follow her, and left them behind.
• Xin Jiu took Niuniu's horn from her backpack and waited for him to catch up, then chased him for two days and gained five agility points.
• Niuniu finally spoke and demanded that Xin Jiu stop chasing him, but she said she would let him go once her agility reached fifty.

Xin Jiu left the little maze and searched for the Tibetan fox, meeting frightened mushroom folk and then a group of players fighting a flood dragon. After a player drew the creature’s attention to her, Xin Jiu prepared to use her Beast Claw Light Boots to jump onto its head.

• Niuniu refused to lead Xin Jiu to the Tibetan fox, so it gave her an A-rank Niuniu Berserk skill card in exchange; Xin Jiu repaired its horn and learned that the fox was south of the maze.
• Xin Jiu spent two days crossing the maze, killing hostile beasts and raising her points to 8,000 before leaving and saying goodbye to the Cyprus morpho butterflies.
• Xin Jiu found mushroom folk singing and spinning, deflected their spore attack, and let one go after asking about the Tibetan fox.
• Xin Jiu spotted players fighting a flood dragon by a lake, but one player pointed her out and urged the creature to eat her.
• As the flood dragon charged, Xin Jiu called up Li Tao’s Beast Claw Light Boots and prepared to jump onto its head.

Xin Jiu drove the flood dragon back into the lake and learned that her inspector badge frightened it. Later, she traded roast wild boar meat to NPC animals for skill cards, but they fled when she asked about the Tibetan fox.

• Xin Jiu stabbed the flood dragon with her upgraded bayonet until it retreated to the lake, where it asked why its wounds would not heal.
• Xin Jiu showed the flood dragon her inspector badge, and it chased the players who had asked it to kill her.
• Xin Jiu continued searching for the Tibetan fox, killed a wild boar, and cooked its meat over a fire.
• Xin Jiu traded pieces of roast meat to leopards, lion cubs, and wolves in exchange for skill cards, including a permanent B-rank Speed Skill and an A-rank Teleportation Card.
• Xin Jiu asked the animals where to find the Tibetan fox, and they all ran away in fear.

Xin Jiu discovered a Purple Lightning Dragon egg during a kappa ritual and earned a hidden-achievement reward for finding it. Following the egg’s directions, she reached a grotto where a saber-toothed tiger-like NPC guarded the Dragon Fodder Grass needed to heal the hatchling.

• Xin Jiu found kappa performing a ritual around a purple egg, then fought them after they charged her while their priest fled with it.
• Xin Jiu defeated the kappa and their priest, examined the cracked egg, and triggered a hidden achievement worth 50,000 points when she touched it.
• The system identified the egg as an injured Purple Lightning Dragon hatchling and told Xin Jiu to find Dragon Fodder Grass to heal it.
• A purple arrow appeared to guide Xin Jiu through the forest, and the egg grew hot as she neared the grass.
• Xin Jiu reached a grotto marked by torn player clothing and human blood, where a saber-toothed tiger-like animal lay beside a silvery-white plant that appeared to be Dragon Fodder Grass.

Xin Jiu stole Dragon Fodder Grass from a saber-toothed tiger and helped a Purple Lightning Dragon hatch. The dragon revealed that tower administrators could change the floors, and Xin Jiu set off again after healing her wounds.

• Xin Jiu distracted the saber-toothed tiger, grabbed the Dragon Fodder Grass, wounded it with her bayonet, and escaped with the egg using Teleportation Cards.
• The Dragon Fodder Grass vanished when it touched the egg, and a small purple dragon hatched.
• The dragon mistook Xin Jiu for an inspector and promised to carry her through the tower, but its attempt to breathe fire produced only black smoke.
• The dragon said someone on the twenty-eighth floor had knocked it down to the second floor and that the tower administrators had replaced Lilliput's inhabitants with goblins.
• The dragon explained that three masked administrators each controlled ten floors, and Xin Jiu realized she needed to grow stronger before continuing.

Xin Jiu and Bubu found Qingming, a fox spirit who could use an absorption skill Xin Jiu wanted to learn. Qingming offered to teach her and help Bubu take human form if she retrieved his stolen fan from Yin Lingzi, and Xin Jiu asked to test his skill before agreeing.

• Bubu led Xin Jiu through the tower toward Qingming, and Xin Jiu named the little dragon Bubu.
• Xin Jiu and Bubu reached a flower-filled valley, where they found Qingming in a stream taking human form.
• Qingming thanked Xin Jiu for looking after Bubu and learned that she wanted an absorption skill.
• Qingming said he would teach Xin Jiu and help Bubu take human form if she retrieved his fan from Yin Lingzi.
• Xin Jiu asked to test Qingming's skill before deciding whether to accept the risk.

Xin Jiu received a temporary skill from Qingming and set out with Bubu, but an encounter with Chen Rui's group led Doudou to blame her for Jiamin's death. Xin Jiu cut free from the group's restraint and challenged Doudou to face his own guilt.

• Qingming gave Xin Jiu the temporary S-rank skill Fox Dream Flowing Fireflies and told her where to find Yin Lingzi, while Bubu chose to go with her.
• Bubu sensed the aura of ancient ruins, and Xin Jiu found a rune-covered stone formation before Chen Rui's group arrived.
• Doudou spotted Bubu, and Chen Rui's group restrained Xin Jiu with a vine skill as they focused on the dragon.
• Doudou accused Xin Jiu of causing Jiamin's death after she left their group, but Xin Jiu said she had no obligation to protect them.
• Xin Jiu rebuked Doudou for needing Jiamin to protect him, then cut through the vine with her military bayonet.

Xin Jiu fought off the players who tried to kill her for her skill cards and Bubu, then forced Doudou to hand over his Navigation Card. She and Bubu took the attackers’ items and continued with a route toward the Forest Labyrinth’s exit.

• Doudou urged the players to kill Xin Jiu for her cards and Bubu, and one attacker charged at her.
• Bubu struck the attacker with a bolt of purple lightning, killing him and frightening the others.
• Xin Jiu invited the players to attack together, then severed the wrist tendons of those who rushed her.
• Xin Jiu agreed to spare Doudou, but threatened him until Chen Rui persuaded him to surrender his Navigation Card.
• Xin Jiu saw the card showed they were on the correct route to the exit, while Bubu collected the remaining players’ cards and items.

Xin Jiu reached Yin Lingzi’s grotto after accepting a hidden quest that required her to provoke him for a skill that could copy another player’s ability. She told him she had come for Qingming’s fan, and Yin Lingzi mocked Qingming for sending her to die.

• Chen Rui realized Xin Jiu’s poisoned blade had infected the players she wounded, while Bubu asked why she had not killed them.
• Xin Jiu examined the skill cards Bubu had stolen and found abilities that could slow enemies or turn weaker-perception enemies into slaves.
• Xin Jiu accepted the hidden quest to raise Yin Lingzi’s anger to 100% and earn the Copy skill.
• Hash Brown Heavy Dependence shared coordinates for speed boots with Xin Jiu and Heartless Dao Dabao.
• Xin Jiu and Bubu entered Yin Lingzi’s grotto and found him beneath a ginkgo tree, where he asked what they were doing there.
• Xin Jiu said she had come to get Qingming’s fan, and Yin Lingzi scoffed that Qingming had sent an ant to die.

Xin Jiu challenged Yin Lingzi to retrieve Qingming’s fan, but he made her play a question game first. After she used her answers and insults to provoke him, Yin Lingzi summoned a giant spider to attack her.

• Bubu warned Yin Lingzi that tower laws would stop him from attacking, while Xin Jiu realized high-level NPCs were restricted by rules.
• Yin Lingzi demanded three answers before accepting Xin Jiu’s challenge, and she proposed that they take turns asking questions and answer only “Of course.”
• Xin Jiu angered Yin Lingzi by asking whether he had deserted the ancient battlefield and whether his true firefly form was ugly and had a glowing butt.
• Yin Lingzi asked whether Xin Jiu had come only for the fan and whether she could leave alive, while Xin Jiu insulted him instead of answering the last question.
• Yin Lingzi summoned an enormous red-eyed spider to rip out Xin Jiu’s tongue, and Xin Jiu dodged its charge and prepared to tackle it.

Xin Jiu defeated Yin Lingzi’s summoned monsters and completed a hidden quest, earning the SS-rank Copy skill. Yin Lingzi vanished without giving her Qingming’s fan, but challenged her to meet him on the twenty-fifth floor.

• Xin Jiu killed Yin Lingzi’s red-eyed spider with her bayonet and earned 3,000 points.
• Xin Jiu enslaved the queen bee with Let's Blow a Kiss and ordered the swarm to attack Yin Lingzi, whose body proved to be an illusion.
• Xin Jiu filled Yin Lingzi’s rage meter and completed the hidden quest, earning the SS-rank Copy skill.
• Xin Jiu deduced Yin Lingzi’s true body was elsewhere and questioned whether it was hiding at the top of the tower.
• Yin Lingzi claimed Qingming had stolen his treasure, then vanished without returning the fan and told Xin Jiu to meet him on the twenty-fifth floor.

Xin Jiu and Bubu failed to find Qingming's fan, so they recruited a Mushroom Person to transform into a convincing fake. They returned to Qingming with the fan, hoping to get his skill, and left the ruse about to be tested.

• Xin Jiu and Bubu left Yin Lingzi's grotto without Qingming's fan, but Xin Jiu earned an SS-rank skill and 50,000 points for seeing through Yin Lingzi's illusions.
• Bubu suggested using a hallucinogenic Mushroom Person transformed into a fake fan to trick Qingming into giving Xin Jiu his skill.
• Xin Jiu and Bubu found the Mushroom People, who feared Qingming because they were fly agarics and foxes ate them.
• After tasting Xin Jiu's Bear Honey, the Mushroom People agreed to help, and one transformed into a fan matching Bubu's description.
• Xin Jiu and Bubu returned to Qingming's pavilion and handed him the fake fan.

Xin Jiu received Qingming’s S-rank skill and stayed in his valley while he helped Bubu take human form. After Bubu chose to leave with her, Qingming pointed her toward a way to recover her greatsword, and Xin Jiu questioned him about the game’s NPCs and its descent into reality.

• Qingming revealed the Mushroom Person disguised as a fan, gave it a fruit, and told Xin Jiu he would grant her the skill after she survived Yin Lingzi.
• Xin Jiu obtained the S-rank skill Fox Dream Flowing Fireflies and stayed in Qingming’s valley while he helped Bubu take human form.
• Xin Jiu explored the valley, left the herb garden untouched, grilled fish, and slept as curious animals discussed her inspector status.
• Qingming emerged with Bubu transformed into a young boy, and Bubu chose to leave with Xin Jiu despite Qingming’s warning about the tower’s coming chaos.
• Qingming told Xin Jiu that defeating the Human-Faced Tree could earn her a black fruit to forge a greatsword, then warned that NPCs might recognize her if she recovered it.
• Xin Jiu asked Qingming why the game had descended into reality, why he had come to the second floor, and why the NPCs had minds of their own.

Xin Jiu and Bubu encountered the Human-Faced Tree, which forced forest animals to study and challenged Xin Jiu to answer questions for its fruit. Xin Jiu answered the first question about nautiluses correctly, and the tree began to falter as it prepared the next question.

• Qingming sent Xin Jiu and Bubu back into the forest, where Bubu gathered the herbs they had left behind.
• Xin Jiu and Bubu found the Human-Faced Tree forcing trapped animals to study and learned that it had caught them with vines.
• Xin Jiu confronted the Human-Faced Tree and challenged it, but it required her to answer three questions to earn its fruit.
• The Human-Faced Tree recognized Yin Lingzi as its master after Xin Jiu asked about him.
• Xin Jiu correctly answered that nautiluses had existed on Earth for five hundred million years, and she urged the tree to ask its next question.

Xin Jiu answered the Human-Faced Tree’s questions, then defeated it to rescue the captive animals and take its black fruit. Meanwhile, Ao Lin accidentally revealed his face during a livestream, exposing that he had entered the game.

• Xin Jiu correctly answered the Human-Faced Tree’s questions and received six Magic Element Fruits, giving Bubu the lightning fruit.
• Xin Jiu demanded a black fruit, but the Human-Faced Tree refused, so she attacked it.
• Bubu struck the Human-Faced Tree with lightning, allowing Xin Jiu to kill it and take the black fruit.
• The Human-Faced Tree’s death freed the little animals, and Xin Jiu received points, a hidden achievement, and the Branch and Vine Entanglement skill.
• Ao Lin defeated another Human-Faced Tree, removed his mask, and revealed his identity to the livestream viewers.
• Ao Lin’s management company faced a flood of calls and questions after viewers recognized him.

Xin Jiu and Bubu reached the maze’s final day, where they found players trapped around an altar and Xin Jiu attacked the winged gray wolf guarding it. The wolf proved stronger and faster than she expected, and it struck her hard enough to make her spit blood.

• Xin Jiu and Bubu collected points and skill cards while wandering the maze, and Bubu gained the ability to grow to three stories tall.
• Bubu’s human and dragon forms became popular in the Nine Provinces, where plush toys modeled after him sold out within seconds.
• On the maze’s final day, Xin Jiu used a Navigation Card and rode Bubu toward the exit, but spotted an altar surrounded by trapped players.
• Xin Jiu decided to fight the winged gray wolf on the altar for points, despite Bubu reminding her that the exit was nearby.
• Xin Jiu restrained the wolf with skills and attacked with her bayonet, but it dodged her strikes and eventually hit her in the back, making her spit blood.

Xin Jiu killed the Bloodthirsty Wolf King after the female players helped her, then learned that male players had chosen people to be sacrificed to the wolf. The female players exposed the men’s actions, leaving Xin Jiu to face the truth as the dungeon’s remaining time ran out.

• Xin Jiu fought the Bloodthirsty Wolf King while Tangtang and the other women joined the battle, and Tangtang healed Xin Jiu.
• Xin Jiu used Bubu’s wind and the Niuniu Berserk Card to stab the wolf’s heart and kill it, earning 80,000 points and synthesizing an intermediate core.
• The players thanked Xin Jiu, and Tangtang explained that the wolf had demanded ten sacrifices each day during their four-day captivity.
• Xin Jiu asked who had chosen the sacrifices, but male players denied that anyone had been handed over.
• A short-haired girl said the men had chosen her brother, and other women accused them of targeting girls and threatening anyone who resisted.

Xin Jiu escaped the instance with Bubu and the players he carried, while leaving Doudou behind after learning he had betrayed Chen Rui. The national rankings placed Nine Provinces first again, and the system began announcing the top ten individual players.

• Doudou urged the players to kill Xin Jiu and take Bubu, but Bubu killed several attackers with purple lightning, and their skills went to Xin Jiu.
• Xin Jiu trapped Doudou and the remaining attackers, then had Bubu carry about a hundred players to the exit while she left Doudou behind.
• Livestream viewers discovered that Chen Rui had died looking for medicinal herbs for Doudou, who had taken the herbs and run away.
• Xin Jiu and the survivors crossed the wall of light, where the system reported 347 survivors out of 3,000 and announced Nine Provinces ranked first nationally.
• The system began announcing the top ten players in individual points.

After ranking first, Xin Jiu reported abnormal NPC activity and worried that the resulting purge might erase Qingming. Uneasy about the delayed service area, she spent her points on upgrades and gave Tangtang Doesn't Eat Candy enough to buy an item, while a male player mocked her generosity.

• Xin Jiu placed first with 246,800 points, while Ao Lin fell to twelfth and Sang Yi missed the top five by 7,000 points.
• Xin Jiu reported abnormal NPC activity, prompting the system to notify an administrator and announce a purge of the Forest Labyrinth instance.
• When Bubu warned her to spend her points before the service area opened, Xin Jiu bought an Attribute Refresh Ticket, permanent A-tier battle armor, and strength points.
• Xin Jiu urged the other girls to spend their points, and Tangtang Doesn't Eat Candy said she was 800 points short of a B-tier item.
• Xin Jiu befriended Tangtang and gave her 1,000 points, prompting a male player to sneer at her generosity.

Xin Jiu and the other players entered the Snake God Mountain Service Area, where She Liu revealed that everyone’s points had been reset to one thousand. After players blamed Xin Jiu for spending her points beforehand, She Liu killed a man who attacked it and warned the crowd to stay quiet.

• Xin Jiu scared off a male player who mocked her for giving points to others, claiming she had put a Tracking skill on him.
• Xin Jiu, Bubu, and the other players entered the Snake God Mountain Service Area and met She Liu, a snake-headed employee who noticed something unusual about Bubu.
• She Liu explained that the service area reset every player’s points to one thousand, prompting the crowd to protest and accuse Xin Jiu of keeping the rule secret.
• Tangtang Doesn't Eat Candy and the other girls defended Xin Jiu, while Bubu condemned the players blaming her for their own choices.
• A burly player grabbed She Liu and demanded his points back, so She Liu bit through his neck and killed him.
• She Liu savored the man’s blood and warned the frightened players that it might eat someone else if they made more noise.

Xin Jiu and the other players reached the Snake God Mountain Service Area and learned they had to survive three nights at the dangerous Yellow Springs Inn. After Xin Jiu booked a room, manager She Ling recognized her as the previous round’s top-ranked player.

• She Liu led the players through the town and warned them that natives would eat anyone without an inn waist token.
• At the Yellow Springs Inn, She Ling told the players they had to stay three days and pay 800 points per night, so they would need to earn more points.
• She Ling killed a player who accused her of trying to drain their points, and She Liu dragged his body outside to be eaten.
• Xin Jiu stepped forward and booked a room, giving She Ling her name.
• She Ling recognized Xin Jiu as the previous round’s top-ranked player, leaving the other players who had mocked her regretting it.

Xin Jiu secured a free room for Bubu by invoking Nine Provinces regulations, then settled into Snake God Mountain's cramped inn. In the chat, she saw Xin Yue begging for points in her name as players mocked him, and received a friend request from Heartless Dao Dabao.

• Xin Jiu invoked Nine Provinces regulations, and heavenly punishment forced She Ling to let Bubu stay without booking a room.
• She Liu led Xin Jiu and Bubu to a tiny room, where Xin Jiu noted the short checkout timer and gave Bubu Bear Honey and mineral water.
• Xin Jiu read the chat and found Xin Yue asking players to send him points by claiming she would repay them.
• Players mocked Xin Yue and flooded the channel with fake Xin Jiu siblings asking for points.
• Xin Jiu noticed a friend request from Heartless Dao Dabao.

Xin Jiu and the other top players recognized that the Snake God Mountain Service Area was dangerous, and Xin Jiu took Bubu out to earn points while keeping his identity hidden. She passed a crowd of hungry snake-headed NPCs and encountered a suspicious gambling shop, leaving its purpose unexplored.

• Xin Jiu accepted Heartless Dao Dabao's friend request, and they agreed to share any clues about the dangerous service area.
• Hash Brown Heavy Dependence told Xin Jiu he had spent most of his points on a lucky shop item and complained that there was no bathroom in his room.
• Bubu warned Xin Jiu not to reveal that she was an inspector, and she decided they needed to go out and earn points for their three-day stay.
• Xin Jiu concealed Bubu as a little dragon in her pocket and left the inn after She Ling warned her that the locals might eat people.
• Xin Jiu passed a crowd of snake-headed NPCs who withdrew when they saw her waist token, then walked by a meat stall, a tavern, and a gambling shop where the cheapest chip cost a hundred points.

Xin Jiu searched for a way to earn points at Snake God Mountain and learned that officials were targeting investigators and inspectors. At the arcade, she paid to draw a game and faced three choices with substantial completion rewards.

• Xin Jiu entered a teahouse, overheard NPCs discussing an administrator sent to the Forest Labyrinth and orders to kill investigators and inspectors, then asked how to earn points.
• The server directed Xin Jiu to an arcade, where she left her overpriced tea untouched and headed out.
• Xin Jiu found the modern arcade and paid one hundred points to draw a game, then messaged Heartless Dao Dabao and Hash Brown Heavy Dependence to join her.
• Xin Jiu pressed the machine's red button and received three game options: Red light, green light, Claw machine, and Rubber band jumping, each with a different completion reward.

Xin Jiu entered a deadly race where only thirty of fifty players could survive, and the Snake Woman began hunting them through a game of One, Two, Three, Freeze. Xin Jiu dodged falling obstacles and raced for a speed boost, but another player took it first.

• Xin Jiu and Bubu were transported to a 25-kilometer track, where the rules required players to finish within half an hour and limited survival to the first thirty.
• The Snake Woman appeared, threatened to eat the players, and began the game with a shrill song.
• Xin Jiu activated her Speed Skill and ran among the leaders as other players used their own abilities.
• Wooden posts fell onto the track, striking players, while a one-kilometer speed boost appeared ahead.
• Xin Jiu raced toward the boost, but an older woman reached it first and vanished in white light.