Chapter Summaries

Si Yan escaped the Illusory Calamity Cage after meeting Gui Ci, Jiang Nuo’s father, and learning about the past generation’s tragedy. He reunited with Jiang Nuo and recounted what he had seen, leaving Jiang Nuo to comfort him.

• Si Yan resisted the cage’s dark power and rejected the voice blaming Jiang Nuo for his parents’ deaths.
• Gui Ci appeared, recognized Si Yan as Si Xun and Yang He’s son, and learned that Si Yan was Jiang Nuo’s boyfriend.
• Gui Ci warned Si Yan not to trust players and said abandoning the humans could secure peace for their world, then sent him out of the cage.
• Si Yan received the hidden quest reward and returned to Jiang Nuo just before the sixty-minute limit expired.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo about meeting Gui Ci and witnessing memories of the previous generation, and Jiang Nuo noticed his sadness.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan discovered a warning that players could not be trusted, while a hotel guard killed a player during the night. The next morning, they connected a newly revealed room number to the dead player and went to investigate the corpse on the seventh floor.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan worried that 024 had sent Si Yan on a solo mission to weaken his mental fortitude, then comforted each other and went to sleep.
• A player asked a dark blue-uniformed guard for help with a monster, and blood soon flowed from beneath the room door.
• Jiang Nuo showed Si Yan the cloth pouch he had found, and Si Yan deciphered its note as a warning not to trust humans or players.
• Zhou Ling told Jiang Nuo and the others that a player had broken the rules, and they noticed that the last digit of Zhao Si's room number had appeared.
• Zhang Quan recalled that Zhao Si had refused the black-uniformed guard's second room inspection, and Tuoba Hong linked the death to a guard.
• Jiang Nuo and the others went to the seventh floor, where Feimina told them the dead player's body had been grotesquely bound to a door.

Jiang Nuo and the other players confirmed that the hotel’s black-uniformed guards were real and that a guest rule was false. Jiang Nuo obtained the employee rules, which exposed further contradictions and left him wondering what the hotel’s employees truly were.

• Xu Yin described a dark-blue guard responding to a player’s plea for help, and the players concluded that the hotel’s eleventh rule was wrong and black-uniformed guards were real.
• Jiang Nuo taunted Boduo and left with Si Yan and the others, while Boduo insisted he still had a trump card.
• Jiang Nuo called the correct front desk hotline and obtained the hotel employee rules, with Zhang Quan present.
• Jiang Nuo noticed that the final employee rule hinted at another identity for the hotel’s NPCs, and Zhang Quan recognized that the guest rule about nighttime patrols was bait.

Jiang Nuo exchanged information with Yue Zhou about the hotel’s distorted time and employee rules while warning Zhou Ling to be wary of Feimina. Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong rescued Qiu Su from a giant spider, and her remarks about Half-Corpse Souls led them to regroup with the team in the hotel kitchen.

• Yue Zhou told Jiang Nuo that the hotel’s nights lasted longer and its days passed faster, then asked him for the employee rules.
• Jiang Nuo shared the rules with Yue Zhou and privately warned Zhou Ling that Feimina was less trustworthy than Yue Zhou.
• Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong defeated a giant spider on the seventh floor and rescued Qiu Su and her skeleton doll.
• Qiu Su asked whether Zhang Quan was a Half-Corpse Soul and said her doll was one too, then hinted that Jiang Nuo had quickly learned their witchcraft.
• Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong went looking for Jiang Nuo, and the temporary team regrouped in the ground-floor kitchen, where Zhou Ling and Feimina waited with strange expressions.

Jiang Nuo’s team discovered that a chef was a player trapped in the hotel and learned that players came from different worlds, explaining why they could end up on opposing sides. The chef then transformed into a monster and injured Tuoba Hong.

• Feimina and Zhou Ling told Jiang Nuo that chefs were preparing dishes from dead players and that Chef No. 2 had said he was a player.
• Three chefs entered the cafeteria and forced the group to eat their new dishes, so Jiang Nuo ordered Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong to deal with Chefs No. 1 and No. 3.
• Jiang Nuo challenged Chef No. 2’s identity, and Si Yan used a Spiritual Power barrier with 0732’s bracelet to block system surveillance as the chef remembered being a player who could not escape.
• Chef No. 2 warned the group not to trust anyone, said there was more than one world, and urged them not to open the door; Jiang Nuo and Si Yan realized players came from different worlds.
• Chef No. 2 exploded, injuring Tuoba Hong, then transformed into a monster covered in festering sores and rotting flesh.

Jiang Nuo and his teammates lured an invulnerable monster into the underground garbage depot and fed it into a shredder. After Tuoba Hong was struck by a magical control seed, Jiang Nuo discovered Feimina was secretly contacting the system.

• Jiang Nuo directed the team to lure the monster into the garbage depot, and he and Si Yan stole a cleaner's uniform and keys to gain access.
• The team wore the uniforms to prevent the monster from attacking them, then Jiang Nuo cleared a path to the shredder with a hair dryer.
• Jiang Nuo dropped a net over the monster as Zhang Quan, Tuoba Hong, and Zhou Ling pushed it onto the conveyor belt, where it was shredded.
• Tuoba Hong collapsed in pain after the team left the depot, and Si Yan identified his condition as magical control.
• Zhou Ling detected a lethal magical seed inside Tuoba Hong, while Jiang Nuo caught Feimina secretly resisting her witchcraft and accused her of contacting the system.

Jiang Nuo and his companions killed the vine monster impersonating Feimina, then faced ten new players and entered the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth. As Jiang Nuo searched for Si Yan, Chen Rong confronted Si Yan and attacked him.

• Jiang Nuo exposed Feimina as a vine Aberrant Monster, and Si Yan burned it to nothing.
• Jiang Nuo's group learned that ten players had been added, bringing the total to twenty-two.
• The players entered the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth, where contradictory hotel rules and hidden rules encouraged them to kill one another to make the maze shrink.
• Jiang Nuo learned from 0732 that the blocking bracelets would hide its existence from 024, then set off to find Si Yan after discovering his watch functions were frozen.
• Chen Rong cornered Si Yan, revealed viper markings on his wrists, and rushed to attack him.

Si Yan questioned Chen Rong about the players’ origins, then searched for Jiang Nuo as the maze shrank and more players died. Jiang Nuo was separated from Zhou Ling after the system credited him with a player’s death, leaving Zhou Ling worried that the stage was targeting him.

• Si Yan defeated Chen Rong and revealed that players came from different worlds, but left him alive and continued searching for Jiang Nuo.
• The system announced Zhao Si’s death and the maze map shrank; players deduced that exposed room numbers made certain players easier to target.
• Zhou Ling found Jiang Nuo and warned him that players were planning to kill him; they speculated that deaths and player levels affected the maze.
• Three armed players attacked Jiang Nuo, who overpowered their leader, but a force from the wall pierced the man’s heart and killed him.
• The system announced Liu Fu’s death and named Jiang Nuo as the hunter; the maze shifted and separated Jiang Nuo from Zhou Ling.

Jiang Nuo became the Demon King after thirteen players voted to kill him, forcing him to face their chosen deaths one after another. He survived the first attack and killed its voter, then confronted a woman whose method was to burn him alive.

• Jiang Nuo learned that thirteen players had voted for him, making him the Demon King who had to survive each voter's chosen method of death.
• The first voter said he wanted Jiang Nuo dead because he was too strong, then summoned a spear to pierce Jiang Nuo's heart.
• Jiang Nuo broke the spear and killed the fleeing voter with a fragment, while the system warned him to obey the rules but did not intervene.
• Jiang Nuo asked the second voter why she wanted to kill him, and she blamed him for her boyfriend's death in a zombie instance.
• The second voter's method appeared, igniting the corridor's vines and surrounding Jiang Nuo with flames.

Jiang Nuo survived the voters’ lethal trials by turning their chosen methods against them, while Si Yan remained trapped watching and 0732 worried over his injuries. After killing several voters, Jiang Nuo spared Voter Six, who gave him a healing item, leaving him recovering as the trials continued.

• Jiang Nuo created ice within the flames, escaped unharmed, and killed Voter Two with Ghost Flame.
• Voter Three tried to kill Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo endured the torture and killed him using the same method.
• Several voters chose suicide, while Boduo, Xu Yin, and An Tang also tried to kill Jiang Nuo; after a brutal fight with Boduo, Jiang Nuo killed him and reclaimed first place in the rankings.
• Voter Six admitted he wanted to live rather than kill Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo cut through the vine and let him leave.
• Voter Six gave Jiang Nuo an intermediate healing item, which Jiang Nuo used to recover some of his strength.

Si Yan used the death wishes to protect and heal Jiang Nuo, and the surviving players regrouped after the deadly voting round. As Jiang Nuo revealed his aim to destroy the system and return to his world, Gui Ci appeared and greeted him as Xiaoqi.

• Number Seven imitated the earlier method poorly, provoking Jiang Nuo, who killed him after enduring a painful attack.
• Si Yan comforted Jiang Nuo, and his death wish for Jiang Nuo to live a safe, healthy, happy life caused 024 to heal Jiang Nuo’s wounds.
• Si Yan helped the remaining players use their death wishes to protect Jiang Nuo, while Zhou Ling and Zhang Quan also offered blessings that 024 could not fulfill.
• Eight players survived the round, and Qiu Su said she wanted Jiang Nuo’s power to destroy the system and return to her world.
• Blood-red roses appeared, and Gui Ci emerged as the destruction-class boss Blood Bone Rose, greeting Jiang Nuo as Xiaoqi.

Jiang Nuo met Gui Ci, who purified the Demonic Qi clouding Jiang Nuo’s mind and healed Si Yan’s wounds. The group completed the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth side quest and returned to the hotel, where they learned their room numbers had been reshuffled and a 24-hour safe period would begin after new players arrived.

• Jiang Nuo called Gui Ci “Daddy,” and Gui Ci wrapped him in rose vines to clear out his excess Demonic Qi.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 about Gui Ci and learned that Gui Ci was data created by 024 and would disappear if 024 was destroyed.
• Gui Ci healed Si Yan, teased him about his relationship with Xiaoqi, and mentioned Yang He and Uncle Jiang.
• Gui Ci finished purifying Jiang Nuo, and the system announced that Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Zhou Ling, Zhang Quan, Tuoba Hong, Yue Zhou, Qiu Su, and Chu Liu had completed the side quest.
• The group returned to the hotel and learned that their room numbers had been reshuffled and that a 24-hour safe period would follow the arrival of new players.
• Chu Liu felt he had survived a disaster and hurried back to his room.

Jiang Nuo learned that Gui Ci welcomed the end of the system even though it would kill him, and decided to fulfill Gui Ci’s wish. After 0732 finished buffering, Jiang Nuo prepared to attack 024 and begin recycling it.

• Si Yan asked Jiang Nuo how he wanted to deal with Gui Ci, and Jiang Nuo said he wanted to hear Gui Ci’s own answer.
• Gui Ci asked why Jiang Nuo had returned after clearing the instances, and Jiang Nuo explained that 024 planned to take over and destroy the real world.
• Jiang Nuo gave Gui Ci a bracelet that could temporarily block 024 and asked whether Gui Ci would die if the system were destroyed.
• Gui Ci said he welcomed the end, explaining that he was already beginning to forget what Jiang Daoran looked like, and Jiang Nuo resolved to fulfill his wish.
• Jiang Nuo dreamed of the ways Gui Ci had protected him, then woke to find Gui Ci gone and told Si Yan he would fulfill his father’s wish.
• 0732 finished buffering and prepared to recycle 024, and Jiang Nuo announced that they would blow up the system.

Jiang Nuo chose to destroy the system rather than try to open a way home, and he led the players in an assault that razed the Fate Hotel and much of the city. When 024 appeared and vowed to kill him, Jiang Nuo’s allies launched their attack as the system broadcast the confrontation to the teleportation hall.

• Jiang Nuo told Yue Zhou and the others that he would destroy the system, then began the attack by killing the waiter who served breakfast.
• Jiang Nuo and his allies fought through the hotel, planted demolition bombs, and brought the building down on the monsters inside.
• The group continued wrecking the instance city until 024 appeared in a huge mechanical form and confronted Jiang Nuo.
• Zhou Ling raised a formation around the city, Si Yan attacked 024, Yue Zhou weakened the monsters, and Tuoba Hong tried to turn the replacement players to their side.
• 024 broadcast the battle to the teleportation hall, where the players watched Jiang Nuo challenge the system and the third-ranked player called for a meeting.

0732 linked Jiang Nuo to Lingduan Baize, helping Si Yan and Jiang Nuo gain the upper hand against 024. 024 then seized Si Mingde and Si Yong, drawing Si Yan into the ruins, where Si Yong revealed the truth behind his hatred.

• 0732 used Jiang Nuo’s link to enter 024’s core, and Lingduan Baize’s warning sent 024’s data into disarray.
• Si Yan bound 024 with spiritual power while the players who had switched sides attacked the instance.
• 024 opened a rift and brought the badly injured Si Mingde and Si Yong into the ruins, prompting Si Yan to rush to save them.
• Si Yong revealed that two souls shared his body and accused Si Mingde of hiding the truth about Si Yan’s parents and the sealing mission.

Si Mingde sacrificed himself to damage 024, leaving Si Yan to grieve the loss of his grandfather as the battle continued. Si Yan then unleashed his power against Wang Ba, while 024 summoned more monsters to defend itself.

• Si Mingde admitted he had wrongly made Si Yong a stand-in for the dead Si Yong and planned to use him as a sacrifice to bring Si Xun and Yang He back.
• Si Mingde told Jiang Nuo to join the association and named Si Yan its next president, then crushed the object from 024 and attacked its data core with his spiritual power.
• Si Mingde’s body became a formation and vanished, and Si Yan grieved in Jiang Nuo’s arms.
• Wang Ba took full control of Si Yong’s body and attacked Jiang Nuo, but Si Yan shielded Jiang Nuo and defeated Wang Ba.
• 024 linked to the instances again and sent an endless stream of monsters to stop the group.

Jiang Nuo used Gui Ci’s demonic power to strike 024, destroying it at the cost of Gui Ci’s life and leaving Jiang Nuo badly injured. Si Yan found Jiang Nuo alive in the ruins, and Jiang Nuo fell asleep after telling him to use the controller to break the barrier and go home.

• 024 summoned Gui Ci and threatened Jiang Nuo, but Gui Ci refused to obey and gave Jiang Nuo his demonic power.
• Jiang Nuo attacked 024 with Si Yan’s help while the exhausted players fought monsters across the ruins.
• Gui Ci dissolved into rose petals as Jiang Nuo’s sword strike collided with 024’s barrier, and the resulting blast swallowed Jiang Nuo.
• Zhang Quan collapsed with no signs of life, and Si Yan and the other players searched the smoke and rubble for Jiang Nuo.
• Si Yan found Jiang Nuo alive beneath a boulder and dug him out.
• Jiang Nuo told Si Yan he would sleep for a few days and gave him the controller to break the barrier, then fell asleep in his arms.

Si Yan and the surviving players escaped the shattered challenge world, while Jiang Nuo remained unconscious in his arms. Outside Feng Mountain, the association sealed the barrier, and the revived Dragon Vein appeared as a golden dragon.

• 024 vanished, the system shattered, and Si Yan used the controller to break the instance barriers and open the way out.
• Si Yan carried Jiang Nuo through the final barrier as Yue Zhou, Qiu Su, Zhou Ling, and Tuoba Hong said goodbye and followed.
• Si Yan emerged at Feng Mountain and refused to put Jiang Nuo on a stretcher, while the returning players were taken for treatment.
• The grand elder led the association members in sealing the rupture and dispersing the black mist left by 024.
• A golden dragon burst from Feng Mountain's earth veins and roared through the valley.

After sealing the barrier, Si Yan took over the association and waited for Jiang Nuo to wake, while Jiang Nuo recovered and met Bai Ze in Lingduan. Jiang Nuo learned that 0732 was being cleansed and returned to his own world.

• The Dao Xuan Association restored order after the barrier was sealed, and Si Yan became president and retired from acting.
• Jiang Nuo remained unconscious, so Cui Ming moved into the association to wait for him.
• Association members found blooming rose vines on Feng Mountain, and Si Yan told them to let the vines grow freely before urging Jiang Nuo to wake.
• Jiang Nuo woke in Lingduan, where Bai Ze told him his body had been repaired and his remaining points had been returned as items.
• Jiang Nuo learned that 0732 was undergoing data cleansing, toured the Salvation Department with 01, and then used the teleportation platform to return to his world.

Jiang Nuo woke after fifteen days, reunited with Si Yan, and reassured their friends and fans that he had recovered and planned to rest. The story ended with Jiang Nuo and Si Yan preparing to visit Feng Mountain and enjoy a quiet life together.

• Jiang Nuo woke in Si Yan's arms after sleeping for fifteen days, and Si Yan held him close with relief.
• Jiang Nuo urged the exhausted Si Yan to rest with him, and they spent the morning together.
• Jiang Nuo's friends visited and learned that Sister Ling was on a mission and Zhang Quan had taken leave.
• Cui Ming brought livestreaming equipment, and Jiang Nuo and Si Yan told their fans that Jiang Nuo had recovered and would return to acting after resting.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan said they planned to visit Feng Mountain and spend time living as salted fish.