Chapter Summaries

Qin Chuan warned his guild members that gods viewed mortals as prey and told them to stay with Tiga Lingyu while keeping Apocalypse’s secrets. After hearing that a gas explosion had struck Rakshasa Hall’s offline gaming base, he arranged for the Lin Family and Crimson Feather’s people to control the response, then vanished to deal with Rakshasa One-Slash.

• Season Star explained that she and other guild members earned money by helping other guilds clear dungeons, and Qin Chuan approved.
• Qin Chuan compared mortals to ants in the eyes of gods, but Dawn and Sword Master in the Snow pledged to follow him.
• Qin Chuan told the group to remain with Tiga Lingyu and avoid revealing information that Apocalypse had forbidden them to share.
• Tiga Lingyu reported a gas explosion at Rakshasa Hall’s offline gaming base, and Qin Chuan called it an expected supernatural phenomenon.
• Qin Chuan told Tiga Lingyu to send him the location, withdraw her people, involve the Lin Family, and contact Crimson Feather.
• Qin Chuan vanished to log off and deal with Rakshasa One-Slash.

Qin Chuan returned to Rakshasa Hall’s ruined esports base, where Ancient God Flesh Tentacles had emerged and Rakshasa One-Slash had become a mutated monster. He killed the monster with a spatial slash and realized the corruption was creating a potential landing point for the Ancient Gods.

• The explosion at Rakshasa Hall’s esports base unleashed Flesh Tentacles that crushed several guild members, and Rakshasa Madblood fled before returning to glimpse Qin Chuan fighting them.
• Qin Chuan explained that he had come to deal with Rakshasa One-Slash after deciding to remove him despite the risk of Ancient God corruption manifesting.
• Qin Chuan noticed that the tentacles’ blood corroded the ruins and that abnormal signals were reaching toward the Corrupted Void.
• A mutated Faceless One-like monster rose from the ruins, and Qin Chuan recognized it as Rakshasa One-Slash transformed by the backlash of losing his title or by the Flesh Tentacles.
• Qin Chuan used Moment of Utmost Darkness to cut a spatial absence through the monster, preventing it from rejoining its body and killing it.

After leaving the remains of the Mutated Monster for the military, Qin Chuan dealt with rumors blaming him for Rakshasa Hall’s explosion and arranged for Tiga Lingyu to watch Rakshasa Madblood. He discussed Dragon Soaring World’s extraction prize before a server-wide announcement opened the Sky Trial Secret Realm.

• Qin Chuan teleported away from the Mutated Monster’s remains as military forces arrived to investigate the ruins and recover data from Rakshasa Hall’s Esports Base.
• Rumors blamed Night Roaming God for Rakshasa Hall’s explosion after Rakshasa One-Slash’s character disappeared, but Qin Chuan insisted the killing had been a preemptive measure against Ancient God Corruption.
• Tiga Lingyu told Qin Chuan that the authorities planned to promote Apocalypse and that the military was buying Gaming Pods and Gaming Helmets in bulk.
• Qin Chuan asked Tiga Lingyu to arrange dungeon help for the National Team and secretly assign people to watch Rakshasa Madblood and a list of other players.
• Qin Chuan told Dragon Soaring World that his extraction prize had sent him to Blue Star, and warned him that prizewinners would soon become widespread.
• A server-wide announcement declared that the Sky Trial Secret Realm had opened and offered the Sky Legacy to those who passed its trials.

Qin Chuan and the Apex Guild prepared to enter the Sky Secret Realm, which appeared in the sky ahead of its opening. Qin Chuan planned to go in himself, while Season Star supplied helicopters to help guild members reach the entrance.

• Qin Chuan suspected the God of Light had arranged the Sky Secret Realm, but decided it was worth exploring and told the Apex Guild members they could choose whether to enter.
• Season Star and other guild members offered to help, but Qin Chuan said he would enter alone; Dawn, Oblivion, and Sword Master in the Snow joked about calling him their godfather.
• A global announcement began a five-minute countdown, and Dawn spotted the Sky Secret Realm entrance forming high above the players.
• Qin Chuan realized players would need to fly to the entrance, prompting guild members to offer flying mounts and ask about borrowing Tiga Lingyu's carpet.
• Season Star placed more than a dozen Gnome Helicopters in the Guild Warehouse, and Qin Chuan praised her and suggested improving their speed and carrying capacity.

As the Sky Secret Realm opened, Qin Chuan led Apex Guild to the entrance and had Season Star and Night Cherry Tangle keep Foreign Server Players out while allowing other Yan Country players to enter. Inside, the group found five Golden Gates standing around a vast clearing.

• Qin Chuan gathered Apex Guild in Beli City and led them toward the Sky Secret Realm entrance as elite players from across the twelve main cities flew in.
• Qin Chuan told Season Star and Night Cherry Tangle to guard the entrance against Foreign Server Players, but refused to block other guilds from entering.
• Season Star attacked approaching Foreign Server Players and sent them to the Respawn Point, sparking protests on the Yan Country forums.
• When the entrance opened, Qin Chuan led Apex Guild inside, followed by the elite Yan Country players waiting nearby.
• Qin Chuan's group entered a vast clearing with five Golden Gates around it.

Qin Chuan and the other players gathered before five Golden Gates in the Sky Secret Realm, each offering a different inheritance challenge. Qin Chuan chose the Light Gate, and the players split among the gates before entering their challenges.

• Golden runes explained that each gate held a different inheritance power, players had one attempt, and the realm would stay open for 36 hours.
• Qin Chuan identified the five powers as Extreme Speed, Flight, Light, Space, and Wind, then chose the middle Light Gate because its power made him wary.
• The other players spread out among the remaining gates, while members of Apex Guild picked challenges suited to their classes and goals.
• Qin Chuan stepped through the Light Gate, and the other players followed into their chosen gates.

Qin Chuan faced a powerful Light Creature inside the Light Secret Realm while players outside struggled to pass the trial. The chapter left the inheritance challenge ongoing, with thousands of Yan Country players failing and Foreign Server Players demanding access.

• Qin Chuan found that communication features were disabled inside the Light Gate and deduced that players faced individual trials.
• A Light Creature attacked Qin Chuan with rapid, shifting strikes, while his own skills passed through it without effect.
• Players who entered the Sky Secret Realm were quickly ejected, and some began charging to transport challengers to the entrance.
• Night Cherry Tangle persuaded Season Star to accept a share of the transport fees, explaining that the guild was only tasked with stopping Foreign Server Players.
• Rainforest Love and Double Seventh were eliminated, and more than two thousand challengers failed the trial.
• Foreign Server Players grew envious of Yan Country players entering the secret realm and demanded fair competition.

Qin Chuan cleared the Light Ray Inheritance by absorbing its light into Shadow Domain and gained a new Shadow Power ability. He was then sent to face Nadellio’s corrupted shell, as the God of Light prepared another challenge.

• Players outside the trials learned the requirements for the Speed, Flight, Space, and Wind Inheritances, while the Light Ray Inheritance remained unknown.
• Qin Chuan realized that the Light Creature relied on light and used Shadow Domain to absorb its power source.
• Shadow Power swallowed the light and the Light Creature, granting Qin Chuan the unique passive Darkness That Swallows Light.
• Qin Chuan expanded Shadow Domain to fill the trial space and was teleported to a new area.
• The God of Light taunted Qin Chuan, then Nadellio’s corrupted shell turned toward him and attacked with a punch.

Qin Chuan fought the God of the Sky's Remnant Corpse while the God of Light declared that Apocalypse's hunt would doom their world. When Dawn emerged from a Golden Gate, Qin Chuan realized they had to survive the attacks until players obtained all five power inheritances.

• Qin Chuan dodged the God of the Sky's attacks and absorbed its wind blades into his Shadow Domain while the God of Light dismissed his chances of stopping the apocalypse.
• The God of Light revealed that he had noticed Qin Chuan's Arrow God power and insisted that faith and light would endure, then fell silent.
• Qin Chuan severed the Sky God's Remnant Corpse's arm with a Void Slash, but the corpse regenerated and continued attacking.
• Qin Chuan suspected the corpse could only be defeated after all five power inheritances were obtained, but he could only wait because he had already passed the Light Ray Inheritance.
• Dawn emerged from a Golden Gate, ran into an invisible wall while dodging the corpse, and learned from Qin Chuan that they had to evade its attacks until the other inheritances were claimed.
• Dawn attacked the corpse, but its severed arms quickly regenerated, leaving him to accept that they had to wait.

Dawn and Mirror passed their Inheritance Trials, gaining new powers while Qin Chuan continued to battle the Sky God's Remnant Corpse. The group waited for two more teammates to arrive before they could begin the fight in earnest.

• Dawn obtained the Rapid Inheritance, and Qin Chuan comprehended the spatial skill Void Slash, which severed the Sky God's Remnant Corpse's arms and slowed their regeneration.
• Qin Chuan urged Dawn to explore his Inheritance Power, and Dawn learned Divine Steps, allowing him to move at great speed through any terrain.
• The Sky God's Remnant Corpse chased Dawn until Mirror arrived after passing her trial and trapped its arms with Lost Mirrors.
• Dawn told Mirror that two more teammates had to arrive before they could activate the boss, and Mirror failed to teleport the group and the boss away.
• Qin Chuan said they would wait to see who passed the remaining trials, hoping the inheritance would go to trustworthy people.

After Sword Master in the Snow and Senior Brother En-En emerged from their trials, Qin Chuan realized the group could finally attack the Sky God's Remnant Corpse. The boss's Health Bar appeared, but it emptied in an instant before anyone could act.

• Dawn, Mirror, and Qin Chuan played cards while they waited for the remaining trials to end.
• Sword Master in the Snow emerged from the wind trial, and Mirror concluded that Oblivion had been eliminated.
• Sword Master in the Snow and Dawn compared their wind-based Inheritance Powers and jokingly declared each other rivals.
• Senior Brother En-En emerged late because he had spent time figuring out how to ride his Flying Sword out of the trial.
• Qin Chuan noticed the Sky God's Remnant Corpse had gained a Health Bar, but it emptied before the group could choose their attacks.

Qin Chuan completed the first three levels of the Ladder to Godhood and unlocked a fourth level requiring the Global Co-op Quest to reach 100%. After the Inheritance Secret Realm ended, its progress surged to 41.3%, and Qin Chuan prepared to tell Crimson Feather and Tiga Lingyu something.

• Qin Chuan killed the Sky God's Remnant Corpse and unlocked the third and fourth levels of the Ladder to Godhood, learning that the fourth required the Global Co-op Quest to reach 100%.
• Qin Chuan realized the Co-op Battle Quest could soon trigger Apocalypse's descent, then watched the Sky God's Remnant Corpse crumble and return with Dawn and the others to Beli City.
• The Inheritance Secret Realm ended, while disappointed players protested outside and Foreign Server Players continued fighting Night Cherry Tangle and Season Star.
• Qin Chuan saw the Co-op Battle Quest progress jump to 41.3% and judged that Apocalypse could descend in less than a week or ten days.
• Dawn showed Oblivion his Rapid Inheritance, Senior Brother En-En and Sword Master in the Snow drew attention from the guild, and Qin Chuan invited Crimson Feather and Tiga Lingyu into a party to tell them something.

After Apex Guild claimed all five inheritances, Qin Chuan warned Tiga Lingyu, Crimson Feather, and government officials that Apocalypse would soon become reality and urged them to prepare. The chapter ended with an official asking whether Respawn Points would still exist after the worlds merged.

• Dawn and the others tested their new Inheritance Power, while Night Cherry Tangle and Season Star left the vanished secret realm after killing Foreign Server Players at its entrance.
• Dragon Soaring World congratulated Apex Guild, then left to argue with Foreign Server Players on the forums about the blockade.
• Qin Chuan took Tiga Lingyu and Crimson Feather's contact information and called them after they logged off.
• Qin Chuan told Tiga Lingyu, Crimson Feather, and a senior official that Apocalypse Descent would merge Blue Star with the Apocalypse Continent and make the game's monsters, NPCs, and rules real.
• Qin Chuan urged the officials to get more people into the game and assigned Lin Yu to coordinate Apex Guild's leveling groups.
• The senior official asked Qin Chuan whether Respawn Points would still exist after Apocalypse Descent.

Qin Chuan questioned Bone Hand about the God of the Sky and learned that the five inherited powers might have been only parts of a greater Sky Law. He suspected the God of the Sky was still alive, leaving the truth unresolved.

• Qin Chuan ended a phone call, discarded his phone, and logged into Apocalypse World.
• Qin Chuan recalled the God of Light's suspicious absence and wondered about the connection between the Gods and Apocalypse.
• Qin Chuan summoned Bone Hand from the Moment of Utmost Darkness and learned that a space-time restriction had kept him silent.
• Bone Hand explained that the God of the Sky had controlled five powers beneath the higher Sky Law, which was his Origin Essence.
• Qin Chuan considered that he had destroyed only a clone or lesser-law form of the God of the Sky, and noted that the Sky Secret Realm had announced inherited powers without confirming the god's death.

Qin Chuan sought a way to hasten Alesha’s return before the coming upheaval threatened the Night Watchers. He traveled through time using relics from Night Lady’s era and returned with lost arts, including Dark Night Praise, that could help Alesha find the Eternal Night Continent.

• Qin Chuan questioned Bone Hand, then went to Night Watcher Headquarters to ask Lola about collecting relics from Night Lady’s era.
• Lola reported that the Night Watchers were expanding with help from players and that she and the others could sense Night Lady’s presence more clearly.
• Qin Chuan examined the gathered relics until the Moment of Utmost Darkness opened a passage through time.
• Qin Chuan entered the passage and returned with secret texts, including Dark Night Praise and instructions for training Night Walkers.
• Qin Chuan wrote down the recovered arts, and Lola realized Dark Night Praise could strengthen the aura of night and help Night Lady locate the continent.

Lola began the Dark Night Praise, establishing black light pillars across the Eternal Night while Qin Chuan arranged the Night Walker inheritance trial. Oblivion and one Night Watcher succeeded, and Oblivion emerged with greatly increased combat strength.

• Lola began the Dark Night Praise, and the Night Watchers established about fifty black light pillars despite attacks from Aberrant Beasts and the Church.
• Qin Chuan asked Lola to begin the Night Walker inheritance trial and told Apex members they could choose whether to pursue it.
• Oblivion chose to become a Night Walker, while several other guild members declined because of their own classes and pursuits.
• Lola conducted the trial for eight candidates, and Oblivion and one Night Watcher absorbed the Night Energy successfully.
• Oblivion gained Night Walker abilities and the tier-three Dark Night Blessing, roughly doubling his combat strength.

Qin Chuan advised Tiga Lingyu on preparations for Apocalypse Descent and gathered a party to obtain her a class inheritance. He led the group through Mirror’s Teleportation Gate to Frostbound Fortress, where undead charged them.

• Oblivion went to challenge Dawn, while Apex members discussed their progress with inheritances and skills.
• Tiga Lingyu told Qin Chuan that the National Team was promoting Apocalypse through cash rewards and a Pinduoduo-style Cut-a-Slice feature.
• Qin Chuan advised Tiga Lingyu to build walls, prepare evacuations, and organize high-level players to defend against the coming monsters.
• Qin Chuan invited Tiga Lingyu and Song Ling to join a raid for a class inheritance, and Tiga Lingyu arrived with Evergreen, Dragon Soaring World, and other trusted players.
• Mirror opened a Teleportation Gate to the boundary between the Far North Icefield and Ice Hell, where Qin Chuan identified the raid as Frostbound Fortress.
• Countless undead rushed toward Qin Chuan’s party as they arrived.

Qin Chuan led the team through the Undead outside the Far North Icefield fortress and effortlessly defeated its bosses and monster waves. After the team waited for the next phase, the fortress's voice announced it would get serious, leaving Qin Chuan unsure whether the raid was following its intended sequence.

• Qin Chuan explained that the Undead were Devils corrupted after death, then used Poison Blood Plague to wipe out waves of them and level up the team.
• The team fought through at least twenty thousand Undead and reached the fortress, where Evergreen used Holy Light Orb to heal them against the cold.
• Qin Chuan killed the two level-eighty Dark Gold-rank bosses guarding the instance entrance with a Shadow Flying Dagger, and the team entered the fortress.
• Three level-eighty Epic-grade bosses advanced on the team, but Qin Chuan killed them instantly with a dagger.
• Qin Chuan used Shadow Domain to eliminate the monsters that swarmed the hall, then waited three minutes for the fortress voice to announce it would get serious.
• Tiga Lingyu suggested that Qin Chuan had cleared the monsters too quickly for the normal sequence, but Qin Chuan thought something did not sound right.

Qin Chuan led the team through the fortress raid, using his overwhelming strength and Shadow Domain to bypass its trials. After explaining how Tiga Lingyu could earn a Frost Guardian inheritance, he left her eager to obtain its defensive power for the dangers ahead.

• Qin Chuan killed the Lich and cleared the ranged monsters above the elevator before the team followed him upward.
• Evergreen boosted the team's resistance to status effects, letting them withstand the Mutagenic Toxin and cold damage.
• A frost dragon and its armored rider fell to their deaths as soon as they appeared, and the team gained levels from the encounter.
• Qin Chuan used Shadow Domain to destroy the Ghost Ship's spawned monsters and absorb the cannon fire from two other ships.
• Qin Chuan told Tiga Lingyu that a Frost Guardian could earn a defensive inheritance by completing a quest after defeating the raid's final boss, and Tiga Lingyu decided it would help her survive future battles.

Qin Chuan and his team cleared Frost Fortress, defeating the Level 100 Legendary Extreme-Ice Demon General and claiming the first-clear rewards. After distributing the loot, Qin Chuan took an interest in a teleportation rune that led to Ice Hell.

• Dragon Soaring World and the team fought through successive areas and climbed the icy steps while defeating waves of Ice Devils and Frost Giants.
• The team entered the platform, where an animated suit of armor attacked with ice powers until its cutscene ended and its Health Bar appeared.
• Qin Chuan’s Forced Lock-On cut the Extreme-Ice Demon General’s Health Bar in half and triggered its transformation, after which he killed it instantly.
• Night Roaming God’s team received the Frost Fortress first-clear announcement and its rewards, including 100 Free Attributes, 10 Skill Points, and 100 Fame Points.
• Qin Chuan gave Tiga Lingyu the inheritance quest scroll, distributed the other loot, and became interested in using the teleportation rune to visit Ice Hell.