Chapter Summaries

Yang Shan fought off thousands of Dou Wang players while posing as Cheng E, but Bai Xiaosheng trapped him in the Five Elements Trapping Dragon Formation for a coordinated attack. Protector Wu rescued him, and Yang Shan rejected Xiao Aotian and Ye Suifeng’s attempt to provoke him into a fair duel.

• Yang Shan killed over a hundred Dou Wang players with repeated Overload Burst attacks while evading their counterattacks.
• Xiao Aotian and Ye Suifeng revealed that they had hired Bai Xiaosheng’s Tracing Pavilion to help secure Cheng E’s kill.
• Bai Xiaosheng’s players trapped Yang Shan in the Five Elements Trapping Dragon Formation as the gathered Dou Wangs prepared a coordinated volley.
• A black chain shattered the formation, and Protector Wu appeared to neutralize the players’ attacks and protect Yang Shan.
• Xiao Aotian and Ye Suifeng challenged Cheng E to a duel, but Yang Shan dismissed their appeal to Wu De and defended Soul Hall’s ruthless methods.

Yang Shan and Protector Wu drove the Five Directions Alliance players from six resource points and gathered a million Soul Points, then met with Yun Shan to demand payment for their help. While inspecting Yun Shan’s Storage Ring, Yang Shan found an Inheritance Jade Slip and offered it to Su Yitang for two million.

• Xiao Aotian and the other players fled Resting Grass Forest after Yang Shan and Protector Wu overwhelmed the defenders.
• Yang Shan spared the fleeing players, collected two hundred thousand Soul Points, and withdrew with Protector Wu as Misty Cloud Sect forces arrived.
• Jin Shankao and Tang Baizhan argued over control of the resource sites while the Five Directions Alliance’s forces struggled to find anyone to fight.
• Yang Shan captured six large-scale resource points over three days, gained a million Soul Points, and stopped when players began fleeing as soon as he arrived.
• Yang Shan met Yun Shan in the Misty Cloud Sect’s Back Mountain Forbidden Ground and demanded compensation for the resource points he had taken.
• Yang Shan inspected Yun Shan’s Storage Ring, found an Inheritance Jade Slip, and offered to sell it to Su Yitang, who tried to pay with her body.

Yang Shan secured Su Yitang’s purchase of a rare clone Dou Skill and obtained its Inheritance Jade Slip from Yun Shan while advancing his plans with Protector Wu. As the Five Directions Alliance debated how to counter the Misty Cloud Sect’s two Dou Zongs, a flamboyant newcomer burst in and vowed to stop Yun Shan.

• Yang Shan teased Su Yitang about her promise to repay him with her body, then sold her the Golden Mystic Rank Advanced Dou Skill Twin Winds - Spirit Body for one million.
• Su Yitang rebuffed a young man who asked her to play the zither, resolved to repay Yang Shan’s favor, and planned to seek the Sky Luan clan.
• Yang Shan chose Twin Winds - Spirit Body as compensation from Yun Shan, then pressed him for additional goods before accepting the Inheritance Jade Slip.
• Yang Shan left Protector Wu to carry out their plan, while Wu celebrated their alliance and anticipated rising in power.
• Yun Yun urged the Five Directions Alliance to take the initiative against the Misty Cloud Sect, but Jia Xingtian argued they should make peace with Yun Shan.
• A crimson-cloaked figure kicked open the meeting room doors and declared that he would stop Yun Shan.

Yang Shan joined Yun Yun's meeting and offered to help her reclaim the Misty Cloud Sect while investigating Mister E. After staying beside the exhausted Yun Yun so she could sleep, he received a global announcement that he had won her heart.

• Yang Shan arrived at the meeting, greeted the leaders, and sat beside Yun Yun to declare his support for her.
• Yang Shan reassured Jia Xingtian that his ambitions lay in the Central Plains, then Yun Yun explained the Misty Cloud Sect's losses and threat from Mister E and Yun Shan.
• Yang Shan sent Nalan Yanran away and took Yun Yun to her bedroom, where he persuaded her to rest while he kept watch.
• Yun Yun reflected on her feelings for Yang Shan, turned toward him, and told him not to open his eyes before kissing him.
• A global announcement declared that Yang Shan had won Yun Yun's heart and awarded him Good Fortune +20.

Yang Shan staged a dramatic attack on Cheng E at Qingyan Post with Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng, aiming to make the Misty Cloud Sect believe Cheng E had been gravely wounded and taken away. After returning to Gama Holy City, Yang Shan went to his courtyard, where Ya Fei was waiting.

• Players on the forum argued over Yang Shan’s Favorability with Yun Yun and Nalan Yanran, and Wang Tianhao was muted after cursing him.
• Yang Shan asked Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng to perform a convincing fight with him at Qingyan Post, a resource point controlled by the Five Directions Alliance.
• Yang Shan slaughtered more than two thousand Players before Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng joined the staged battle and filled the sky with dou qi effects.
• Yang Shan and his companions planned a story in which Protector Wu arrived during their attack and took the barely surviving Cheng E back to the Soul Hall.
• Yang Shan returned to Gama Holy City without visiting Yun Yun and found Ya Fei trimming flowers in his courtyard.

Ya Fei’s Favorability rose after Yang Shan spent a day with her, and she prepared a gift for Yun Yun while positioning herself as a source of peace for him. Meanwhile, Yang Shan’s allies planned their attack on the Misty Cloud Sect, with Yao Ye and Yao Yue set to recruit Players for the operation.

• Yang Shan spent a day with Ya Fei, whose Favorability reached 76 as she fell asleep holding his hand.
• Ya Fei took the Mittel Family’s Zijing Soft Armor and told Hai Bodong she intended to give it to Yun Yun, her future good sister.
• Ya Fei visited Yun Yun and presented the armor as a gift to protect her before the coming battle.
• Yang Shan received a message that Yun Yun’s Favorability had increased, surprising him and prompting Xiao Aotian and Ye Suifeng to complain about their own Favorability scores.
• Yang Shan and his allies discussed the factions’ motives for attacking the Misty Cloud Sect and agreed that Yao Ye and Yao Yue would secretly issue quests to Players.

Yao Ye and Yao Yue led the royal family’s Players into an alliance with the Mittel Family, the Nalan Family, and Yun Yun’s New Misty Cloud Sect to retake the Misty Cloud Sect. Their forces stormed Yunlan Mountain, where Yun Yun confronted Yun Shan and learned he had planned to use her as a pawn in a political marriage.

• Jia Xingtian ordered Yao Ye to feign an alliance with Yun Leng and promised her a title, while Yao Ye resented his plan to give the throne to Yao Kai.
• Yao Ye and Yao Yue rallied their trusted Players, and the Mittel and Nalan families prepared their forces for the campaign.
• Yang Shan upgraded the Blood Roar Blade, then joined Yun Yun as she led the allied forces toward the Misty Cloud Sect.
• The four allied forces gathered and led a hundred thousand Players up Yunlan Mountain, with Yao Ye and Nalan Jie commanding the central army.
• Yun Shan confronted Yang Shan and Yun Yun, rejected their demand to surrender, and blamed Yun Yun for ruining his ambitions.
• Yun Yun drew her sword after Yun Shan revealed that he had intended to use her in a political marriage to Yang Shan.

Yang Shan and his allies fought Yun Shan while Hai Bodong and Little Dolphin’s quarrel revealed her feelings for him. Gu He attacked Yang Shan over Yun Yun, but Yun Yun rejected Gu He’s claims and defended the man she loved, leaving Gu He furious and demanding a one-on-one fight.

• Yun Yun attacked Yun Shan, but Yang Shan let her face her former master herself while Xiao Aotian and Ye Suifeng joined the battle.
• Little Dolphin gave Hai Bodong a Three Yang Rebirth Pill, then rushed to protect him; Hai Bodong saved her from a Misty Cloud Sect elder before she insisted she could handle herself.
• Hai Bodong shielded Xiao Aotian from Yun Shan’s attack, while Yang Shan rescued Yun Yun and carried her out of danger.
• Gu He ambushed Yang Shan, and Yun Yun blocked the flames before urging Gu He to surrender and explaining that she had never returned his feelings.
• Gu He accused Yang Shan of being a womanizer, but Yun Yun defended Yang Shan and said she did not care whether she was his wife or concubine.
• Gu He challenged Yang Shan to fight him one-on-one instead of hiding behind Yun Yun.

Yang Shan defeated Gu He without killing him, then joined the alliance’s fight against Yun Shan at Misty Cloud Mountain. Yun Shan activated the Cloud and Mist Sun Covering Formation, but Jin Shankao and the Hero King Manor Players betrayed the formation’s defenders and began breaking it apart.

• Gu He challenged Yang Shan to win Yun Yun, but Yang Shan’s Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls overwhelmed him and Yang Shan left Yun Yun to decide his fate.
• Yun Yun told Gu He their friendship was over and returned to find Yang Shan and the alliance steadily wearing down Yun Shan.
• Yun Yun shattered much of Yun Shan’s Protective Gang Qi with Wind Extreme - Meteor Kill, but Yun Shan activated the Cloud and Mist Sun Covering Formation and attacked her.
• Yang Shan rescued Yun Yun as Yun Shan tried to strike her, then pointed out that the formation was already being broken.
• Jin Shankao and forty Hero King Manor Players turned on the Misty Cloud Sect experts maintaining the formation, causing its energy to dissipate and Yun Shan to suffer backlash.

Yang Shan and the Players defeated Yun Shan and seized control of the Yunlan Sect, while Yun Yun mourned her former master and prepared to lead the sect. Yang Shan then discovered the Secret Treasure Vault was still full and gave Yun Yun privacy to cry.

• Yang Shan, Xiao Aotian, Hai Bodong, and Ye Suifeng overwhelmed Yun Shan, while Yun Yun asked that his life be spared and the Players turned their attention to Yun Leng and the other elders.
• Nalan Yanran persuaded Yunlan Sect members to surrender, and Jin Shankao organized the Players to punish Yun Leng while they captured the remaining elders.
• Yun Shan admitted his failures to Yun Yun, then died as the Players received a global announcement that the Jia Ma Empire had completed the Empire Upheaval storyline first.
• Yun Yun ordered the former upper ranks stripped of their positions and planned to reward the new faction, while Yang Shan accompanied her to the Secret Treasure Vault.
• Yang Shan confirmed Protector Wu had left after collecting souls, found the vault still full of treasures, and melted its crystals so Yun Yun could cry unseen.

After Version 2.0 ended, Xiao Yan rewarded Tian Yao Company’s staff and revealed his plan to pressure the company into launching the Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya's Friendship System on the National Server. The system was announced for twenty-one foreign servers but not China’s, and Xiao Yan expected the resulting backlash to make the authorities reconsider.

• The Empire Upheaval storyline ended, with the Poison Sect stabilizing its position and counterattacking the Ten Thousand Scorpion Gate in the Chuyun Empire.
• Xiao Yan handed out bonus bank cards to the R&D staff, who complained that President Ma had halted the Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya's Friendship System.
• Xiao Yan told the staff that foreign servers would break through resistance to the system and said the National Server would implement it in a later version.
• Tian Yao Company announced the system for twenty-one countries’ servers but excluded the National Server, sparking protests and ridicule across the international forum.
• Xiao Yan ordered his operations staff to promote claims that Chinese players were applying to transfer their data abroad, then received word that relevant departments had contacted President Ma Ru Long.

With National Server players outpacing other servers, Xiao Yan persuaded Ma Ru Long to expand Version 2.1 rather than restrict player growth, and the company launched the new expansion. Its trailer revealed that the Black-Corner Region’s upheaval would involve Yang Shan and Xiao Aotian, while Han Feng captured Yao Lao, leaving Yang Shan to realize players would need to rescue him.

• Xiao Yan convinced Ma Ru Long to approve more content for Version 2.1, using the Black-Corner Region’s dangerous conflicts and a powerful beast tide to keep top players challenged without reducing rewards.
• Xiao Yan hosted the Version 2.1 launch event, where Medusa Queen ordered Yue Mei to invite Blade Sovereign and Hua She'er to contact Xiao Aotian.
• Yang Shan watched the trailer with Su Yitang and Bai Su'an, noticing that the expansion’s opening differed from what he remembered from his previous life.
• The trailer showed Black-Corner Region faction leaders gathering over a resource map before Han Feng attacked Yao Lao’s Soul Body and set it ablaze.
• Yang Shan told Su Yitang that players would likely have to rescue Yao Lao from Han Feng in the new version.

Yang Shan reviewed how his actions had changed Version 2.1 and planned to exploit the Black-Corner Region’s upheaval. After arriving there, he reunited with Bloodshed Hall’s leaders and prepared to recruit players and strengthen the faction for the conflicts ahead.

• Yang Shan concluded that his early pills and intervention in major faction conflicts had accelerated player growth and changed the planned version storyline.
• Yang Shan studied the Version 2.1 changes, identified Black Moon Ridge as an urgent priority, and planned to use player activity to strengthen Black-Corner Region factions.
• Yang Shan entered the Black-Corner Region with Chao Bafang and Zhu Tianpeng, then split from them to head for Black Seal City while they traveled to Black City.
• Yang Shan reunited with Luo Xie and Su Mei in Black Seal City, teased them about their relationship, and saw that Luo Xie had reached Dou Zong and Su Mei Seven Star Dou Huang.
• Hun Dan challenged Yang Shan to fight, but Yang Shan brushed him off and then scolded him for promising Yin Gu Lao pills without permission.
• Yang Shan ordered Bloodshed Hall to recruit talent and prepare for turmoil in the Black-Corner Region, including the possibility of killing the two Seventh-Order Thousand Beast Kings in Black Moon Ridge.

Yang Shan organized the Bloodshed Alliance to recruit newcomers with generous mission rewards, then led an attack on the Blood Sect to seize Dusk City and recruit Fan Lao. With Hun Dan placing a soul mark on Fan Lao, Yang Shan ended the first day of the new version with a stronger alliance and a head start over other Players.

• Yang Shan persuaded Hun Dan, Luo Xie, and Su Mei to form the Bloodshed Alliance and use high rewards and a newcomer Dou Skill mission to recruit Players.
• Yang Shan promised Yin Gu Lao a Break Sect Pill for his loyalty and announced that the alliance would recruit Dou Wangs and Dou Lings alike.
• Yang Shan, Su Mei, and Yin Gu Lao confronted Fan Lao at the Blood Sect headquarters, and Yang Shan attacked after Fan Lao dismissed his guards.
• Fan Lao fled Dusk City using Blood Escape, but Yang Shan pursued him with Hun Dan and demanded that he submit to a soul mark.
• Fan Lao surrendered to Hun Dan, who marked his soul and took control of him, while Su Mei and Yin Gu Lao secured the Blood Sect.

Yang Shan returned to Jia Nan Academy and reunited with Zi Yan, who was hurt and angry that he had stayed away. He reassured her that he had trained so he could take her with him, gave her seventh-tier magical beast Heart Blood Meat, and raised her favorability.

• Yang Shan left Black Seal City and flew to Jia Nan Academy, where he went to find Zi Yan.
• Zi Yan woke from her sleep, scolded Yang Shan for not returning, and accidentally broke seven of his ribs with a punch.
• Yang Shan pretended his absence had been necessary training so he could become strong enough to take Zi Yan away.
• Zi Yan tearfully reminded Yang Shan that he had promised to take her with him after she reached Dou Huang.
• Yang Shan gave Zi Yan Heart Blood Meat from a seventh-tier King of Beasts, and her favorability toward him increased by two.

Yang Shan took Zi Yan out of Jia Nan Academy’s Inner Courtyard and headed with her to Black Moon Ridge to recover the Extreme Lightning Mystic Classic. They reached the ridge undetected, where Zi Yan used her spatial abilities to steal Clear Spring Fruits from beneath a sleeping Blood Rampage Ghost Tiger.

• Zi Yan ate Heart Blood Meat while Yang Shan inspected her powerful status panel, and Su Qian urged Yang Shan to take her away from the Inner Courtyard.
• Su Qian said goodbye to Zi Yan, and she flew out with Yang Shan, eager to explore beyond the academy.
• Yang Shan told Zi Yan they were going to Black Moon Ridge to retrieve the Extreme Lightning Mystic Classic and decided he would work independently rather than join a faction.
• Yang Shan and Zi Yan entered Black Moon Ridge under concealed auras and avoided alerting the local wolf and tiger clans.
• Zi Yan used Void Control to steal the Clear Spring Fruits from a tree guarded by a sleeping Blood Rampage Ghost Tiger, then escaped with Yang Shan.
• Yang Shan praised Zi Yan as a born thief, and she chose the title Thief Emperor before leading him toward more treasures.

Yang Shan and Zi Yan failed to open the inheritance of Mystic Wrath Thunder Lord because Zi Yan could not break its Space Lock, so they raided spirit plants guarded by magical beasts in Black Moon Ridge instead. After discovering the Golden Striped Tigress Jin Hua guarding a Demon Blood Fruit, Yang Shan devised a plan involving an illusion of Fang Yan and approached her, but she noticed him and he rushed toward the fruit.

• Zi Yan and Yang Shan collected high-grade spirit plants in Black Moon Ridge before approaching Snow Moon Valley to seek the "Extreme Lightning Mystic Classic" inheritance.
• Zi Yan could not break the inheritance site's powerful Space Lock, so Yang Shan decided to leave and pursue another plan later.
• Yang Shan and Zi Yan secretly stole spirit plants from magical beasts in the depths, then sensed a Seventh-Order King of Beasts guarding something Zi Yan wanted.
• Yang Shan identified the guardian as Jin Hua, the Thousand Flame Ghost Tiger King's beloved concubine, and created an illusion of Fang Yan as part of a new plan.
• The Golden Striped Tigress noticed Yang Shan approaching; he rushed toward the Demon Blood Fruit, and she accused him of trying to steal it.

Yang Shan and Zi Yan stole the Golden Striped Tigress’s Demon Blood Fruit Trees and lured her toward Demon Flame City by planting a false scent trail. After Yang Shan framed Fang Bian for the theft, the enraged tigress attacked the city and confronted Fang Yan.

• Yang Shan disguised himself as Fang Yan and baited the Golden Striped Tigress into chasing him while Zi Yan uprooted the three Demon Blood Fruit Trees.
• Zi Yan and Yang Shan reunited, identified the Demon Blood Fruits, and left leaves behind to guide the tigress toward Demon Flame City.
• Yang Shan sneaked into Fang Bian’s bedroom, used Sea Heart Flame to deepen his sleep, and fed him powder made from the tree leaves to frame him.
• The Golden Striped Tigress arrived at Demon Flame City with her forces and destroyed its gates after Fang Bian failed to respond in time.
• Fang Yan stepped forward to negotiate with the Golden Striped Tigress, who accused him of stealing her Demon Blood Fruits and leaped at him.

Fang Yan and Demon Flame Valley’s elders clashed with Golden Flower Consort after she accused them of stealing the Demon Blood Fruit, but the confrontation revealed that Fang Bian may have eaten some of it. Golden Flower Consort accepted Fang Yan’s Earth Core Marrow Liquid and gave him ten days to explain, while Yang Shan and Zi Yan prepared to pursue their own business.

• Fang Yan, Jia Yu, and Shi Ying combined their Transformation Flames to fend off Golden Flower Consort and her tiger clan.
• Golden Flower Consort accused Fang Yan of stealing the Demon Blood Fruit and threatened to find the culprit in Demon Flame City.
• Fang Bian arrived and offered to lead Golden Flower Consort to the person she sought, but she recognized him as Fang Yan’s son and attacked him.
• Fang Yan spotted Demon Blood Fruit powder on Fang Bian’s mouth, while Golden Flower Consort accused him of uprooting all three fruit trees.
• Golden Flower Consort fought Fang Yan and the two elders, then accepted Earth Core Marrow Liquid and gave Fang Yan ten days to provide an explanation.
• Yang Shan told Zi Yan it was time to handle their real business.

Yang Shan and Zi Yan ambushed Golden Flower Consort’s forces in Black Moon Ridge, using the disguised Thunder Ghoul Wolf to lure out and defeat a Blood Rampage Ghost Tiger. They killed Golden Flower Consort and most of her army, then cleaned up the battlefield and left with the surviving tiger as a witness.

• Fang Yan struck Fang Bian and demanded the truth, while Golden Flower Consort decided to restore her fur and seek the Thousand Flame Ghost Tiger King’s help after returning to Black Moon Ridge.
• Golden Flower Consort sent a Blood Rampage Ghost Tiger to drive off a suspected Ghoul Wolf spy, and Zi Yan, disguised by the Sea Heart Flame, battered the tiger while Yang Shan attacked from behind.
• Golden Flower Consort arrived with her army and ordered her forces to seize Zi Yan, but Yang Shan used Lingering Spirit Hundred Howls to disable the charging Ghost Tigers as Zi Yan fought Golden Flower Consort.
• Yang Shan, Zi Yan, and the Ink Iron Marshal overwhelmed Golden Flower Consort, and Yang Shan killed her with Three Thousand Thunder Movement and Tyrant Blade—Seven Kills.
• Yang Shan and Zi Yan collected the battlefield drops, burned the area clean, and carried away the wounded Blood Rampage Ghost Tiger.