Chapter Summaries

Zhang Wu weighed Bian Wenbin’s findings that Game World support came with a deadly cost and decided against pursuing it for the Dynasty Guild. The next day, Chen Yi headed to Sweet Potato Street to sell his equipment and Skill Scrolls, where he encountered players competing to prove their intelligence through drinking.

• Bian Wenbin gave Zhang Wu experimental data showing that supported players faced harsh conditions and almost all died within a few rounds.
• Bian Wenbin urged Zhang Wu to abandon the plan, warning that the Dynasty Guild would risk losing its future successors; Zhang Wu considered the guild’s costs and made his decision.
• Chen Yi put on his mask and used a Teleportation Scroll to reach Sweet Potato Street, intending to sell his equipment and Skill Scrolls.
• Chen Yi found the street crowded with taverns and heard Zhuge Zhuge, Nangong Dushu, and other players challenge one another to prove their intelligence by drinking and recalling school knowledge.

Chen Yi put a Legendary Quality Shadow Seed up for barter at a roadside stall, attracting curious players and bids on his other goods. By nightfall, Tonight Eat What appeared with several Legendary Quality Talent Seeds, giving Chen Yi a chance to make a trade.

• Chen Yi had Fire Dragon set up a stall displaying premium equipment and the Legendary Quality Shadow Seed, which he would exchange only for a Talent Seed he needed.
• Players gathered around the stall, discussed the rarity and value of Legendary items, and bid on Chen Yi’s equipment, but nobody offered a suitable seed before nightfall.
• Tonight Eat What asked whether the Shadow Seed was still for sale and offered Chen Yi a Legendary Quality Giant Seed.
• Chen Yi rejected the Giant Seed as unsuitable, then watched Tonight produce two more Legendary Quality Talent Seeds and offer to trade two for one.
• Fire Dragon stepped in and quickly befriended Tonight as Chen Yi eagerly accepted the prospect of a deal.

Chen Yi traded with Tonight for the Ash Seed, a Legendary Talent Seed that could awaken a flame-type Talent, and planted it in the Heart Fire Space. The seed began growing into a Talent Tree as it absorbed the flames and destruction around it.

• Tonight asked Chen Yi about the Seed of Shadow for his Shadow Soul Cat, while Fire Dragon encouraged Tonight to practice becoming more confident.
• Chen Yi found that the Ash Seed suited both his needs and the Heart Fire Space, then traded Tonight for it.
• Chen Yi left Tonight and Fire Dragon to talk until it grew late, then took Fire Dragon home and gave her 55,000 Copper Coins from the day's sales.
• Chen Yi prepared the Heart Fire Space for the next battle and planted the Ash Seed among the corpses and silver Heart Fire.
• Chen Yi provided rain, simulated thunder, and firelight as the seed sprouted and grew into a small Talent Tree that began absorbing the concepts of flame and destruction.

Chen Yi tested Sealing Intent while making Enchantment Cards, then continued crafting cards from materials taken in battle. Fire Dragon spent the day helping Jinwan and Shadow Soul Cat practice socializing, and returned home to Chen Yi for dinner.

• Chen Yi found that Sealing Intent raised his Poison Barb card yield from 26 cards per 100 materials to 31, then spent fifteen days making cards and produced four Pale Gold Burning Charcoal cards among his gains.
• Chen Yi began crafting cards from troll hearts and other spoils, using soul fragments and Copper Coins as part of a method tailored to him.
• Fire Dragon delivered Chen Yi's cards to Nurse Joy, then met Jinwan and Shadow Soul Cat to help them practice talking to people in shops.
• Jinwan and Shadow Soul Cat failed to overcome their shyness, while Fire Dragon calmly entered a shop and came out with snacks.
• Fire Dragon returned home with food, told Chen Yi about the day's training, and accidentally disrupted his card imprinting before they sat down to eat with the Three Fools.

Chen Yi struggled to craft cards from troll hearts, then succeeded in making valuable cards from preserved dragon and shadow materials. He sold his remaining fourth-tier dragon materials for 970,000 Copper Coins after comparing offers from mages and alchemists.

• Chen Yi burned through 120,000 Copper Coins crafting troll-heart cards, realized the hearts had lost too much vitality, and failed to craft a card from the Troll King's heart.
• Chen Yi used a carefully preserved red dragon's heart to craft the gold-quality Blazing Red Dragon card, which he kept for Fire Dragon.
• Chen Yi crafted the gold-quality Shadow's Blessing card from the head of a shadow princess.
• Chen Yi visited the Eternal Magic Guild and alchemist shops to compare offers for his dragon materials.
• Chen Yi sold his dragon scales, Dragon Horns, and other materials for 970,000 Copper Coins, and learned alchemists would pay well for materials from a fifth-tier dragon.

Chen Yi sought level 40 equipment to strengthen himself before facing Dynasty’s Tier 4 players and found the Prohibition Ring at Qian Duoduo’s store. He equipped it, gaining the set’s health and mana boost, and decided to wait for his Divination to reveal where the final set piece could be found.

• Chen Yi reviewed his Copper Coins and considered equipment upgrades, noting that he could not yet afford to raise True Meaning of Fire.
• Chen Yi searched player stalls and equipment shops for level 40 Gold Quality gear that boosted Intelligence, then visited Qian Duoduo’s store.
• The store’s attendant showed Chen Yi the Hellfire Ring, but he rejected it because its effect reduced armor rather than Fire resistance.
• Chen Yi recognized the Prohibition Ring as the second piece of his set and bought it for 272,000 Copper Coins.
• Chen Yi replaced Lost Will with the Prohibition Ring, gained the set’s health and mana increase, and left to wait for Divination to become ready before seeking the final piece.

Chen Yi spent Copper Coins to strengthen Finale of Fire, then fed it the Night Sky Throne and watched it advance to Legendary Quality. The upgraded Magic Tool could now enhance his Fire spells, and it left him eager for more flames to devour.

• Chen Yi let Finale of Fire absorb 100,000 Copper Coins, raising its Fire damage bonus and strengthening its flame weapons.
• Finale of Fire craved the Night Sky Throne, so Chen Yi fed it the crown and supplied another 500,000 Copper Coins.
• After absorbing the crown and Copper Coins overnight, Finale of Fire emerged as a Legendary weapon at level 45.
• Chen Yi inspected its new Quenching and Nayan traits, which enhanced his Fire spells and increased flame temperature.

Chen Yi tested the power Finale of Fire had given him by defeating the Troll King in the Arena, then entered Tier 4 matchmaking to face the Demon Roslait Gomez on an erupting volcano. The countdown began as lava swept toward them, leaving their battle about to start.

• Chen Yi fought the Troll King in the Arena and used enhanced vision, Flame Swords, Flame Sparrows, and the Lock of the Heavens to defeat it.
• Chen Yi tested the Flame Seal Sword by piercing a small mountain and said he would wait for enough Soul Energy before changing Flame Demon Transformation and Flame Demon Armor.
• Chen Yi entered Tier 4 matchmaking, and the system placed him at rank ten million after removing his former Tier 3 ranking and Intelligence buff.
• Chen Yi met Roslait Gomez on a volcanic battlefield and spoke with him in Void Common Tongue.
• The volcano erupted as the countdown began, and Roslait Gomez declared that he would win.

Chen Yi fought Roslait Gomez, whose mastery of space let him evade attacks and strike from a separate space. Chen Yi planted a space-disrupting seal and triggered the volcano as Roslait Gomez wondered what he was planning.

• Roslait Gomez used spatial attacks to shatter Chen Yi's Flame Sword and force him to defend against hidden slashes.
• Chen Yi relied on Fire Dragon and the Flame Sparrows to evade attacks and probe Roslait Gomez's spatial defenses.
• Roslait Gomez transformed into a larger, more inhuman form and continued attacking through space without visible spatial fluctuations.
• Chen Yi planted a seal beneath Roslait Gomez's hidden space while Fire Dragon drew his attacks and endured his slashes.
• Chen Yi reached the volcano and used his mana to set off another eruption, drawing Roslait Gomez's attention.

Chen Yi used Heart Fire Space and a prepared Seal to break Roslait Gomez’s spatial defenses, then fought alongside the Fire Dragon and Flame Demon Phantom. After reattaching his severed arm, Chen Yi trapped Roslait Gomez in a chain and joined the assault, leaving the Demon badly wounded in a crater.

• Roslait Gomez used spatial cracks to tear off Chen Yi’s arm as their spaces shattered, while Chen Yi’s Heart Fire Space helped break Roslait Gomez’s defenses.
• Roslait Gomez charged the Fire Dragon, and Chen Yi activated a Seal that disrupted the surrounding space and let the Fire Dragon knock him down.
• Chen Yi retrieved his arm from the magma and reattached it with Reverse Fire as Roslait Gomez fought off the Fire Dragon and Flame Swords.
• Chen Yi sent Flame Sparrows from beneath the ground, and their explosions surrounded Roslait Gomez while an Iron Chain and the Fire Dragon and Flame Demon Phantom dragged him from space.
• Roslait Gomez severed his own arm with spatial cracks, but Chen Yi’s Flame Swords pierced him before the giant Flame Demon struck him into a crater and the Fire Dragon attacked his wounds.

Chen Yi defeated Roslait Gomez in the Arena, prompting Roslait to reconsider the Demon Race’s place in the void. Chen Yi then reviewed his fighting style and began refining his fire techniques to deal more effective damage against powerful opponents.

• Chen Yi used Fire Dragon, the Flame Demon, and spatial rifts to defeat Roslait Gomez and earn his first Arena victory.
• Roslait Gomez returned to the Demon Race’s territory, where an aged Demon questioned him about his loss and lectured him on the strength of the void’s major powers.
• Roslait Gomez revealed that he had reached rank 10.23 million, shocking the old Demon.
• Chen Yi reviewed how he used his fire techniques and concluded that he needed a more decisive finishing move against a single powerful enemy.
• Chen Yi considered separating burning, high heat, and explosions into specialized attacks so his techniques could inflict damage more effectively.

Chen Yi refined three flame techniques for different combat roles, then used Soul Energy to develop a new approach to disrupting space with sealed cards. He began crafting three spatial-disruption blades and sensed that success could open up a new field of possibilities.

• Chen Yi tested and completed Flame · Scorching Sword, a technique built for extreme single-target damage.
• Chen Yi developed Flame · Explosive Sword for area attacks and Flame · Flash to blind enemies, making all three techniques look identical.
• Chen Yi considered how to counter enemies with spatial abilities and used Soul Energy to find a way to combine Sealing Jutsu with card-based rules.
• Chen Yi spent Soul Energy developing a triangular array of spatial-disruption blades, then began printing and sealing three combat cards in his laboratory.
• Chen Yi continued trying to imitate the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Card's properties, convinced he was close to a breakthrough.

Chen Yi perfected the Flame Guard Sealing Sword and tested his revised techniques in Tier 4 Arena matches. After thirty-six consecutive victories, he reached Arena Rank 544,841 in Twilight Main City.

• Chen Yi printed three Flame Guard Sealing Sword cards, but failed to print Chibaku Tensei, and then practiced his revised techniques in the Simulated Battlefield.
• Chen Yi defeated Yurith Girardeau with Flame · Scorching Sword and realized the Demon he had faced earlier had probably also been climbing the ranks.
• Chen Yi defeated Black Scar Planck by combining Flame · Explosive Sword, Heart Fire, and Flame · Scorching Sword.
• Chen Yi won thirty-six matches in a row, reaching Tier 4 Arena Rank 544,841 before leaving the Arena at night.

Chen Yi defeated Fei Lan in the Arena, then used divination to locate the final piece of the Prohibition Set with Yao Yingqian. He arranged to meet Yao Yingqian and continued considering how to obtain a successor to the Emotion Worm without killing it.

• Chen Yi used the Fire Dragon and a series of flame attacks to overcome Fei Lan’s Tremor-Tremor Fruit defenses and win their Arena match, raising his rank to 9321.
• Chen Yi used God's Cry divination to discover that Yao Yingqian possessed the final piece of the Prohibition Set.
• Chen Yi contacted Yao Yingqian, who offered the equipment for free after Chen Yi asked whether a spirit-only worm could reproduce.
• Chen Yi invited Yao Yingqian to Sunset Street and reflected that breaking the contract between Rowen Yi and the Emotion Worm would kill the worm, so a successor might provide an alternative.

Chen Yi hired Yao Yingqian to cultivate the three Emotion Worms, and Yao Yingqian successfully transferred them into physical insect bodies. Chen Yi left with the Forbidden Boots after paying him in Copper Coins and Dragon meat.

• Yao Yingqian brought Chen Yi the Gold Forbidden Boots Chen Yi needed to complete his set and asked for information about the Emotion Worms.
• Chen Yi tested Yao Yingqian’s knowledge, then signed a contract requiring him to preserve the mother body and provide the strongest offspring.
• Yao Yingqian used three spiritless caterpillars and his blood to give the sealed Emotion Worms physical bodies.
• Chen Yi released the seals, and the Emotion Worms consumed Yao Yingqian’s blood before going limp.
• Chen Yi traded Yao Yingqian 250,000 Copper Coins and half a Dragon meat carcass for the boots, then left as Yao Yingqian asked for more meat.

Chen Yi received supplies and training information from the Pokémon World to help Fire Dragon improve its attributes and master Outrage. While Fire Dragon began training, Chen Yi discovered that the Prohibition Set made his Sealing Jutsu more resistant to disruption.

• Chen Yi opened Lance's package and told Fire Dragon they would focus on training instead of grinding points.
• Chen Yi took Fire Dragon to a gravity-training courtyard and activated a Magic Array set to fifty times normal gravity.
• Chen Yi gave Fire Dragon Gold Quality candies to boost its attributes and Lance's instructions for training Outrage.
• Chen Yi advised Fire Dragon to use Battle Qi to perform Outrage and began considering ways to increase its Battle Qi.
• Chen Yi tested the Prohibition Set and found that it increased the fault tolerance of Sealing Jutsu, keeping their effects intact despite partial damage.

Chen Yi returned to the Reinforcement Hall to strengthen Fire Dragon’s Golden Armor before entering a game where Dynasty’s Tier 4 players might hunt him. With God's Cry guiding him, he reinforced the armor to +13 without a single failure, leaving San Hua convinced his reinforcement mysticism surpassed hers.

• Chen Yi collected 5.53 million Copper Coins from the Pokemon Shop and decided he needed to enter a game to keep growing stronger.
• Chen Yi took Fire Dragon to the Reinforcement Hall to improve God's Cry and Fire Dragon’s Golden Armor.
• San Hua showed Chen Yi her +11 legendary Infinite Summoning Gauntlets after her next attempt to reinforce them failed.
• Chen Yi reinforced Golden Armor to +10 without failures, then moved to another machine and continued.
• Chen Yi successfully reinforced Golden Armor to +13, and San Hua wondered whether he had predicted every result.

Chen Yi enhanced Fire's Finale to +12, bought Self-Destruct-boosting potions and Intermediate Divine Power Crystals, then prepared the God of Flame's shell as a last-resort weapon. He left himself a plan to trigger a powerful explosion if he could not defeat his future opponents.

• Chen Yi enhanced Fire's Finale to +12 and stopped before risking the weapon at a lower success rate.
• San Hua watched Chen Yi's enhancement and took frantic notes, believing his method was a powerful form of mysticism.
• Chen Yi bought ten Fiery Stimulant Secret Medicines from Camel to increase Self-Destruct power.
• Chen Yi exchanged his Copper Coins for Intermediate Divine Power Crystals and bought two Tracking Scrolls from Qian Duoduo's shop.
• Chen Yi used a Fire Clone to make the God of Flame's shell absorb the potions and crystals, preparing it to Self-Destruct as a backup plan.

Chen Yi entered Runeterra and attacked the Dynasty Guild’s military camp at Old Gate. He used Chibaku Tensei against the assembled players, summoned Fire Dragon, and uncovered an assassin as the battle began.

• Chen Yi used a Tracking Scroll to enter Past Carries Cold Wind’s game in Runeterra.
• Dynasty gathered 1,430 players and sent them to Old Gate to hunt Chen Yi.
• Chen Yi arrived at the Dynasty camp and knocked a player flying, triggering an enemy alert.
• Chen Yi cast Chibaku Tensei, drawing the ground upward into a growing Earth Sphere despite Dynasty’s gunfire and missile attack.
• Chen Yi summoned Fire Dragon and formed Flame Demon Armor, then struck an assassin who had approached under concealment.
• Chen Yi sent Fire Dragon to tear through Dynasty’s back line.

Chen Yi battled Dynasty’s forces while Chibaku Tensei trapped their players in the sky and Heart Fire ravaged them. He brought down the resulting meteor on Dynasty’s backline, then the Fire Dragon charged in and began slaughtering the survivors.

• Chen Yi dodged Dynasty’s ranged attacks and Assassin ambushes, then cut down airborne players with blazing swords.
• Dynasty’s Assassins broke the Flame Demon Phantom and struck Chen Yi, but Flame Sparrows surrounded them and burned them with silver fire.
• Chen Yi’s Chibaku Tensei trapped Dynasty players inside an Earth Sphere that grew to a diameter of 1,200 meters as distant armies and guild players watched.
• Chen Yi strengthened his vitality and Heart Fire, then pulled the Earth Sphere down as a meteor onto Dynasty’s backline, shattering its barriers and damaging the players below.
• The Fire Dragon landed among the survivors and killed Dynasty’s healers and other players with claws, tail strikes, and explosions of flame.