Chapter Summaries

After more than two and a half months of training, Chen Yi strengthened his stats, Chuka continued to grow, and Fire Dragon refined Outrage into a sustained Dragon-shaped Robe. When Wang Zhanbo contacted him, the Game World warned Chen Yi not to destroy World #2123 or commit large-scale slaughter, leaving him to watch Wang Zhanbo’s efforts.

• Chen Yi’s Spirit Strength and Mana increased as he consumed Spirit Crystals, while he prepared to enter his dreams and remove mental impurities.
• Chen Yi compared his growth with Chuka’s rapid development and anticipated the Talent he could gain from the strongest fruit on the Ashen Tree.
• Fire Dragon improved Outrage into a stable Dragon-shaped Robe that lasted longer, consumed less Battle Qi, and enhanced his attacks.
• Chen Yi received only 9 million Copper Coins from the Pokemon Shop settlement as Nurse Joy planned a new event.
• Wang Zhanbo sent Chen Yi a private message, and the Game World warned Chen Yi not to destroy World #2123 or carry out large-scale slaughter, so Chen Yi decided to see what Wang Zhanbo could accomplish.

Chen Yi cultivated his Emotion Worms into different emotion-based insects and prepared them for the next stage of Gu raising. That night, he entered a bizarre dream where his other self fought monsters, and he left after discussing Heart Fire’s stalled evolution.

• Chen Yi used Yao Yingqian’s powder and emotions taken from Chuka to evolve twelve Emotion Worms into different venomous insects, including two intended to become Sloth Worms.
• Chen Yi recalled that the final survivor of a Gu-insect battle could become a Gu King, and hoped his special incense would let it gain two abilities.
• Chen Yi entered a strange dream where his other self argued with a foreman and fought a giant rooster before ravens formed from impurities attacked.
• Chen Yi stopped the ravens and asked his other self about Heart Fire’s evolution, learning that it had lost its inspiration because the opponents no longer seemed strong enough.
• As Chen Yi left the dream, his other self asked for a new name, and Chen Yi departed without answering.

Chen Yi refined the Flame Domain so its brief spatial barrier could interrupt Time Stop, then tested it in an arena match against I Have Wine You Have None. He defeated the Time-type swordsman and left the story with his counterattack against Time-type and Space System enemies underway.

• Chen Yi modified the Flame Domain to briefly obstruct Time Stop and used Fire Escape to escape its reach.
• Chen Yi faced I Have Wine You Have None, whose opening Time Stop failed to catch him.
• I Have Wine You Have None used Sword Qi Silk Threads and repeated Time Stops, but Chen Yi's Scorching Swords forced him back.
• Chen Yi sent Fire Dragon in with Quick Attack, and Fire Dragon crushed I Have Wine You Have None's heart.
• Chen Yi won his 143rd arena match with no losses and reached rank 4161.

Chen Yi fought El Aguirre, a Mechanical faction combatant, in the Land of Extreme Cold, using fire attacks and his pets to counter her spatial tricks and artillery. El Aguirre escaped the fog by teleporting outside it and continued hunting for Chen Yi.

• Chen Yi recognized the metal structure inside El Aguirre and rejected her invitation to get a drink.
• El Aguirre opened her arms into laser cannons and used spatial passages to evade Chen Yi’s Blazing Swords while firing lasers and tracking projectiles.
• El Aguirre deployed a turret as Chen Yi sent Fire Dragon and Chuka to find an opening while he drew her fire.
• Chen Yi used Flame · Flash to blind El Aguirre’s signal receivers, then filled the battlefield with fog using explosive swords.
• El Aguirre’s computer could not detect Chen Yi through the fire-energy interference, so she fired at simulated locations and teleported outside the fog.

Chen Yi defeated El Aguirre and continued winning against Tech Side opponents, then used God's Cry's divination to send Fire Dragon and Chuka to a novice town. They returned with a Blue Quality passive skill suited to Fire Dragon, while Chen Yi identified stamina recovery as the remaining gap in its abilities.

• Chen Yi used Chuka to break El Aguirre's Small World, then Fire Dragon and Flame · Explosive Sword defeated her, raising his Arena rank to 3724.
• Chen Yi won his next match against Asha Kuznetsova and continued through a string of Tech Side opponents, reaching rank 3511 without meeting a Time-type Talent user.
• Chen Yi tossed God's Cry's flaming turtle shell and received the prompt, "Dragon. Novice Town."
• The Goddess of Luck decided to hide in a Tech Side world while disguised as a God of Wealth.
• Fire Dragon and Chuka returned from a novice town with a Blue Quality Strength - Blood Bath Passive Skill Book, and Chen Yi judged that Fire Dragon still needed stamina recovery.

Chen Yi rose to rank 497 in Tier 4 Arena matching by defeating time- and space-type opponents, drawing the attention of the Dynasty Guild. Dynasty debated whether to make peace or eliminate him, but the chapter ended with news that Chen Yi had returned to the Real World.

• Chen Yi adapted to fighting time- and space-type opponents and climbed to rank 497 in Tier 4 matching.
• Zhang Wu convened Dynasty’s leaders, and Zhang Bihuáng recommended making peace with Chen Yi, whom he viewed as a protagonist-like figure.
• Zhang Bihuáng revealed that Chen Yi had rejected Dynasty’s peace offer, delivered through Qian Duoduo for 1.45 million Copper Coins.
• Zhang Wu silenced the angry members and warned that Dynasty’s remaining forces might not be able to withstand Chen Yi.
• An elder criticized Zhang Bihuáng for proposing peace, but Zhang Bihuáng stayed composed.
• A messenger told Zhang Wu that Chen Yi had returned to the Real World, and Chen Yi headed toward Wang Zhanbo’s home.

Chen Yi returned to the real world to protect Wang Zhanbo’s parents and warned them that Wang Zhanbo’s actions would soon make the world a battlefield. After driving off the police with a display of fire, he urged the couple to move to Main City.

• Chen Yi returned to the real world and learned from Ma Fei that three major guilds and twenty-five smaller guilds divided its territory.
• Chen Yi used Mental Power to push aside police cars blocking his route, then warned the officers to take their families and run because the area would soon become a battlefield.
• Chen Yi arrived at Wang Zhanbo’s parents’ villa, where Wang Jiawang and Ning Zhijuan recognized him and learned that he had come to protect them.
• When police surrounded the villa, Chen Yi engulfed the area in flames, destroyed their cars without injuring them, and forced them to leave.
• Chen Yi told Wang Jiawang and Ning Zhijuan to enter Main City, explaining that Wang Zhanbo’s actions threatened the income of certain people.

Chen Yi refused the Real World's attempt to keep him out of the conflict and began protecting Wang Zhanbo's relatives. As the Guild Alliance prepared a nuclear strike against his location in Dynasty's territory, Zhang Wu received the request.

• Wang Jiawang and Ning Zhijuan accepted that Wang Zhanbo had made his own choices, and Chen Yi said that later generations would judge his actions.
• A man representing the Real World tried to persuade and threaten Chen Yi into staying out of the matter, but Chen Yi destroyed the phone and opened Heart Fire Space.
• Chen Yi told Wang Jiawang to gather everyone in the villa, then used three flame swords to form a protective Magic Array around it.
• The Guild Alliance decided to act against Chen Yi, while its members warned that he had displayed power comparable to Tier 5.
• Zhang Wu learned that the Guild Alliance wanted to launch a nuclear missile in Dynasty's territory, and a window appeared before he could respond.

Chen Yi defended himself against escalating attacks in the Real World, including a nuclear bomb, and advanced toward the gate without killing indiscriminately. He waited outside the gate after sending a Fire Clone to warn Wang Zhanbo, then noticed his Mana had fallen by more than half.

• Chen Yi destroyed incoming missiles and warned the Crooked Mouth Dragon King Guild members’ relatives to take shelter in Heart Fire Space.
• Chen Yi pierced a nuclear bomb’s warhead before it could detonate, and the bomb crashed into the ground as a dud.
• Chen Yi advanced slowly, using his strength to deter attackers while limiting his interference so Wang Zhanbo could retain his providence.
• Chen Yi brushed off poison, gunfire, spells, lasers, and other attacks as he continued toward the gate.
• Chen Yi sent a Fire Clone through the gate to pass a message to Wang Zhanbo, then sat outside to read and wait.
• Chen Yi noticed that more than half of his Mana had suddenly vanished, but calmly continued reading.

Crooked Mouth Dragon King and Dynasty began their guild war, with Dynasty initially holding a massive numerical advantage. Wang Zhanbo and Ma Fei’s undead turned the tide, but Dynasty’s captain tried to keep the barrier intact with Legendary consumables as the battle continued.

• Before the war, Ailan prepared Crooked Mouth Dragon King’s supplies while Wang Zhanbo struggled to join his fellow guild members.
• Dynasty entered the battlefield with 7,968 players against Crooked Mouth Dragon King’s 271, after using Experience Capsules to raise thousands of players to Tier 3.
• Wang Zhanbo controlled the Bronze Swordsman Statue and cut through Dynasty’s ranks, while Ma Fei summoned skeletons and an army of undead through an underworld gate.
• Crooked Mouth Dragon King’s undead numbers shifted the advantage, and Zhang Yihong ordered Dynasty’s tanks to protect the barrier while its Barrier Masters repaired it.
• Zhang Yihong recognized that his Tier 3 players could not stop the Bronze Statue in close combat, then brought out several one-use Legendary consumables.

Ailan summoned Chen Yi through an alchemical doll, and he helped Wang Zhanbo’s guild defeat Dynasty by destroying the giant summoned for the sacrifice. After the victory, Wang Zhanbo mourned his fallen guildmates while Chen Yi dealt with a sniper and returned home, resolved to grow stronger.

• Ailan used her Divine Invoker ability and Chen Yi’s contract to let him possess a fragile doll and attack the battlefield once.
• Wang Zhanbo and the Crooked Mouth Dragon King Guild cracked the barrier, but Zhang Yihong summoned a giant from the battlefield’s corpses.
• Chen Yi used Chibaku Tensei to pull the giant into the sky, creating a huge meteor that devastated the battlefield and brought the Dynasty players into a second round.
• Wang Zhanbo emerged victorious with only 52 of his guild’s 271 players remaining, and Chen Yi listened as he questioned the meaning of the battle.
• A sniper targeted Wang Zhanbo, so Chen Yi unleashed a massive pillar of flame that erased the sniper and much of the city.
• Wang Zhanbo buried his fallen guildmates’ clothes, while Chen Yi returned to Twilight Main City, freed the people in Heart Fire Space, and went home to Fire Dragon and Chuka.

Chen Yi bought World Source from the Crooked Mouth Dragon King trio and developed Sealing Intent, choosing to strengthen its sealing ability. After preparing supplies for the next game, he used a scale to select Dynasty as his target in the Community of Destiny.

• Chen Yi spent 8 million Copper Coins to buy 0.016 units of World Source from the Crooked Mouth Dragon King trio, bringing his total to 0.026 units.
• Chen Yi raised Sealing Intent from LV10 to LV20 and chose the Suppression path, which increased sealing ability by 5%.
• Chen Yi raised Sealing Intent to LV30, chose Suppression again, and increased its effects on Sealing Jutsu by 44%.
• Chen Yi spent 392,000 Copper Coins on supplies, including M.4 Compound and Keke Reagent, from Yilin at the Treasure-Dropping Merchant Association.
• Chen Yi took out a scale and selected Dynasty as his target in the Community of Destiny.

Chen Yi captured Packaging Box, learned he had joined Dynasty the day before, and destroyed the Shared Destiny equipment linked to Dynasty. He entered the Hokage World to investigate a new anomaly and went to the Land of Rice, where Sasuke Uchiha continued training under Orochimaru.

• Chen Yi bound Packaging Box with the Chains of Heaven and questioned him about his name and when he had joined Dynasty.
• Packaging Box gave Chen Yi the Legendary Wish of the Morning Star, and Chen Yi destroyed the Shared Destiny scale with Silver Flame.
• Chen Yi accepted a mission to find and eliminate an anomaly in the Hokage World and summoned Chuka and Fire Dragon.
• Chen Yi sent Chuka ahead and rode with Fire Dragon toward the Land of Rice to meet Orochimaru.
• Sasuke Uchiha defeated an experimental subject and demanded stronger training so he could kill the man he was pursuing.
• Orochimaru, whose soul had been repaired in a cloned body, encouraged Sasuke Uchiha to show his potential.

Chen Yi returned to the Ninja World and offered Orochimaru the blood of a Dragonman leader in exchange for recent intelligence and a method to cultivate Sage Mode. Orochimaru agreed and revealed major developments, including Danzō becoming the Fifth Hokage.

• Chen Yi met Orochimaru, Sasuke Uchiha, and Kabuto in Orochimaru's territory.
• Chen Yi offered Orochimaru Dragonman leader's blood and requested intelligence about the Ninja World and a Sage Mode cultivation method.
• Sasuke Uchiha drew his blade when Orochimaru looked at Fire Dragon, then allowed the negotiations to continue.
• Orochimaru agreed to the trade and described the new daimyo secretly recruiting Ninja, the Dawn Organization capturing Tailed Beasts, and a Game World religion growing in Sand Village.
• Orochimaru told Chen Yi that Hiruzen Sarutobi had died in Year 60 of Konoha and Danzō had become the Fifth Hokage.

Chen Yi reviewed the Ninja World's intelligence, traded with Orochimaru for the Sage Mode cultivation method, and left with Fire Dragon. He began targeting the Land of Fire's nobles, killing one and taking the wealth hidden in his estate.

• Chen Yi learned that Orochimaru had investigated Danzō and confirmed that he had not been replaced, though his sudden change remained unexplained.
• Fire Dragon tried to reconnect with Sasuke Uchiha, who rejected friendship but softened toward Fire Dragon and said he had not seen Naruto since leaving Konoha Village.
• Chen Yi traded Dragon Man's Heart to Orochimaru for a scroll containing the method for cultivating Sage Mode, then left with Fire Dragon as Sasuke Uchiha vowed to train harder.
• Chen Yi and Fire Dragon flew south into the Land of Fire, where Chen Yi targeted a noble's estate and had Flame Sparrows burn the patrolling samurai.
• Chen Yi tortured the noble for information, killed him, and used flames to break into the secret chamber behind a bookshelf and take its gold, silver, and money.

Chen Yi gathered money and questioned a bounty-house manager for intelligence, deciding the anomaly was likely in Konoha despite Danzō’s conspicuous changes. In Konoha, Danzō’s reforms had made him popular, while Kakashi’s team saw him pass through the streets.

• Chen Yi received funding from seven more nobles and raised his total wealth to 270 million ryō.
• Chen Yi entered an underground bounty exchange, burned the bounty hunters who approached him, and ordered the manager to provide recent intelligence.
• Chen Yi reviewed reports about Danzō’s reforms and Konoha’s affairs, then suspected the anomaly was in Konoha and continued with his original plan.
• The Fifth Hokage expanded the Ninja Academy, shared Shimura clan techniques, increased mission rewards, and brought Tsunade back to Konoha.
• Kakashi Hatake, Naruto Uzumaki, Sai, and Sakura Haruno debated where to eat before seeing Danzō pass by, popular with Konoha’s residents.

Chen Yi hired Kakuzu at the bounty house and asked him to introduce him to the Dawn Organization. Kakuzu agreed to take him to meet its leader, and the group reached the Land of Rain, where Chen Yi sensed that the rain contained no Chakra.

• Chen Yi read a warrior’s account of surviving a Time Stop mage and considered how will might overcome time-based powers.
• Kakuzu arrived at the bounty house to accept Chen Yi’s job, but Fire Dragon blocked his way after Kakuzu took the money.
• Chen Yi cleared the forest of hidden Ninja with pillars of flame and told Kakuzu he wanted to join the Dawn Organization.
• Kakuzu agreed to take Chen Yi to meet the organization’s leader, leaving Chen Yi to prove whether he was worthy of joining.
• Chen Yi and Fire Dragon followed Kakuzu west for two days and entered the Land of Rain, where Chen Yi noticed that the rain had no Chakra.

Kakuzu brought Chen Yi to meet the Dawn Organization, but its members questioned his reason for joining and tried to stop him from leaving. Chen Yi summoned the Flame Demon and fought the organization and Jiraiya’s giant toads, leaving Gamabunta severely injured as the clash continued.

• Kakuzu brought Chen Yi to the Dawn Organization, where Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, Deidara, Sasori, and others gathered, but Pain was absent.
• Chen Yi greeted Itachi Uchiha, who denied knowing him, and Kakuzu asked why he wanted to join the Dawn Organization.
• When Chen Yi tried to leave, a member threw a kunai that a translucent barrier blocked, and Chen Yi summoned the 94-meter Flame Demon and declared he would stay.
• Deidara and other Dawn Organization members attacked the Flame Demon with clay bombs and Ninjutsu, but its blazing sword cut through their attacks and its flames extinguished Amaterasu.
• Jiraiya joined the battle with Gamabunta, Gamaken, and Gamahiro, while Fire Dragon fought Gamabunta and severely injured him.

Chen Yi fought the Dawn Organization’s ninjas while disguised inside the Flame Demon, overpowering their attacks and avoiding Itachi Uchiha’s Genjutsu. After Itachi sealed the Flame Demon with the Totsuka Blade, Chen Yi escaped and pretended to be exhausted, but an unknown figure appeared beside him and transported him away.

• Kakuzu and the Dawn Organization attacked the Flame Demon with elemental ninjutsu, but Chen Yi’s Flame Demon and Fire Dragon struck back and endured their attacks.
• Deidara detonated his clay dragon, flattening nearby buildings and killing several Dawn Organization members, while Jiraiya and the toads continued fighting.
• Itachi Uchiha’s Genjutsu failed against the Flame Demon, and his Susanoo was overpowered despite Kisame Hoshigaki and the others helping him attack.
• Jiraiya used Sage Mode and Toad Song to immobilize the Flame Demon, but the Fire Dragon interrupted his Great Ball Rasengan and sent him crashing to the ground.
• Itachi Uchiha sealed the Flame Demon with the Totsuka Blade, but Chen Yi used Flash to escape and acted as though he was exhausted.
• An unknown figure appeared beside Chen Yi and transported him away before Jiraiya or the other ninjas could stop them.

Obito Uchiha told Chen Yi that the Avenger had defeated him and taken control of the Dawn Organization, whose members had been replaced by lookalikes with nearly identical memories. After Obito led Chen Yi into his dimension, he trapped him there, believing Chen Yi was the Avenger.

• Chen Yi recognized Obito Uchiha as the likely Third Brave, and Obito introduced himself and offered to lead Chen to the true leader of Dawn.
• Obito explained that the Avenger had arrived in the Land of Rain six months earlier, defeated him and Pain, and taken over the Dawn Organization.
• Obito warned Chen that the current Itachi Uchiha, Kisame Hoshigaki, and other familiar Dawn members were not the original people, and told him to kill anyone he found similarly changed.
• Obito led Chen through his dimension to a remote place, where Chen and Fire Dragon fought off thorny vines.
• Obito used four clones to form a Four Violet Flames Formation around Chen, Fire Dragon, and himself, then declared that he was trapping the Avenger.
• Chen deduced that Obito had lured him into the dimension to reclaim Dawn, and challenged Obito’s assumption that he was the Avenger.