Chapter Summaries

Nan Feng fought off Archie and the Zhao family on the glacier, then overwhelmed Zhao Ge’s Meteor Fireball with the Fiend Blaze Flamethrower. The Zhao family realized Nan Feng had been hiding his strength as he insisted his devastating flame attack was only a normal attack.

• Nan Feng fired his Gatling at Archie and the Zhao family, forcing them to scatter while the bullets split the glacier’s ice.
• Zhao Gou confronted Nan Feng, and Zhao Ge attacked him with Demonic Skyfiend Blaze, making Nan Feng dodge the flames.
• Zhao Ge summoned a Meteor Fireball, but Nan Feng swallowed it with a massive jet of pitch-black flame from the Fiend Blaze Flamethrower.
• Zhao Ge dropped his fan and admitted defeat, while Zhao Gou and his followers cowered before Nan Feng.
• Nan Feng repeatedly fired the flame jet to prove it was his normal attack, claiming his basic attack was a hundred times stronger than Zhao Ge’s ultimate move.

Nan Feng intimidated Zhao Ge and persuaded Archie to stop competing for first place in exchange for looting treasures. After Nan Feng’s attack split the ice, a huge threat began to emerge from beneath the fissure, and he fled while Archie urged the Zhao Family to follow.

• Nan Feng’s attack shattered Zhao Ge’s ultimate and left him laughing in shock, while Archie intervened and warned Nan Feng not to go too far.
• Nan Feng convinced Archie to hold back in the trial and offered him a snow lotus and permission to take valuable treasures.
• Archie agreed to secretly collect loot for himself instead of helping the Zhao Family compete for first place.
• The ice shook and a fissure widened beneath them, leading Archie to realize that Nan Feng’s attack had split the secret realm and might have released a giant beneath the ice.
• Nan Feng ran two kilometers away and shouted for Archie to flee, and Archie ordered the Zhao Family members to follow him.

Nan Feng encountered the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant emerging from a fissure in the third floor of the Ninefold Demon Tower, but his attack only helped it escape. He fled through the teleportation point as the tower’s guardians confirmed the young contestants had left the floor, then Old Bai noticed something alarming at the top of the tower.

• Nan Feng looted the third floor as cracks spread through the ice and the secret realm began to collapse.
• The Ancient Ice Crystal Giant climbed out of the fissure, and Nan Feng recognized the Seven-Color Sacred Stones in its eyes and the valuable gold in its teeth.
• Archie signaled that he had found the teleportation point, and Nan Feng inspected the giant and saw that its attributes had been reduced by 99.99%.
• Nan Feng fired an RPG at the giant, but the blast widened the fissure and helped it emerge further; its attack knocked Nan Feng onto the teleportation point, where he touched a star and escaped.
• At the King of Fighters Arena, Old Bai confirmed the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant had escaped but said everyone had left the third floor unharmed, then abruptly stared at the top of the Demon Tower.

Nan Feng was transported to the foggy ninth floor of the Ninefold Demon Tower, where he became lost and encountered Miles Solomon. He eventually reached Long Wudi by Tactical Headset, but remained trapped in the strange realm.

• Nan Feng arrived on the ninth floor of the Ninefold Demon Tower and struggled to recover from the teleportation.
• Nan Feng tried to navigate the dense gray fog, but discovered he was walking in circles and could not escape by flying.
• Nan Feng heard someone approach and prepared to fire his shotgun, then stopped when he realized the stranger was a Chosen One from A San Country.
• Nan Feng learned the stranger was Miles Solomon, who said he had seen Long Wudi the previous day.
• Nan Feng called Long Wudi over his Tactical Headset and finally reached him after running for half an hour.

Nan Feng joined Long Wudi and the other Dragon Country Chosen Ones, who had been trapped for seven months in the Ninefold Demon Tower’s Gray Sky Prison. After their attempts to find an exit failed, Nan Feng sensed Xiao Nan coming to rescue him, and her voice rang out across the prison.

• Nan Feng met Long Wudi at the camp and learned that seven months had passed inside the Gray Sky Prison while only seven days passed outside.
• Long Wudi told Nan Feng that the group had tried many ways to escape, but the Gray Mist and resetting ground thwarted them.
• Nan Feng explained what he knew about the Ninefold Demon Tower and guessed that its teleportation point might be in the sky.
• Nan Feng and Long Wudi repeatedly flew upward and used Long Wudi’s punches to clear the Gray Mist, but they found no teleportation point.
• After seven days of searching, Nan Feng sensed Xiao Nan approaching and called for her to rescue him.
• Xiao Nan’s voice rang out from every direction, asking why Nan Feng had come to the Gray Sky Prison.

Xiao Nan freed Nan Feng and the other Chosen Ones from the Gray Sky Prison by shaking them out of the Ninefold Demon Tower’s lost top floors. After the group escaped, Nan Feng learned Xiao Nan could send him to the tower’s other floors, letting him return to his unfinished trial match.

• Xiao Nan explained that the Gray Sky Prison had trapped even level 45 powerhouses, but the incomplete tower had lost much of its power.
• Xiao Nan shook the tower’s top two floors until Nan Feng and the other Chosen Ones fell out of the Gray Sky Prison.
• The Dragon City group celebrated their escape after more than seven months, and Flying Eagle explained that Miles Solomon had learned the phrase “I’m shabi” from him.
• Long Wudi thanked Nan Feng and Xiao Nan before returning to Dragon City with the others.
• Nan Feng called Xiao Nan his little sister, then asked if she could send him to the other floors of the Ninefold Demon Tower.
• Xiao Nan said she could sense the other half of the tower, and Nan Feng decided to continue his trial match.

Xiao Nan rescued Nan Feng from the Gray Sky Prison and helped him teleport back to the third floor of the Ninefold Demon Tower. There, they found the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant amid the collapsing Extreme Ice Purgatory, and Nan Feng still planned to take its valuable eyeballs.

• Xiao Nan found Nan Feng trapped in the Gray Sky Prison, led him to the eighth floor, and teleported with him to the third floor.
• At the King of Fighters Arena, Old Bai struggled to suppress the shaking Ninefold Demon Tower and demanded that the assembled families help him.
• Bai Che entered the tower to injure the ferocious beast but was pulled out minutes later, frost-covered and missing his right arm.
• Nan Feng and Xiao Nan arrived in the shattered third-floor secret realm and spotted the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant.
• Xiao Nan said she had once wanted to gouge out the giant's eyeballs, and Nan Feng agreed that he wanted them too.

Nan Feng and Xiao Nan entered the secret realm and found the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant recovering inside the damaged Ninefold Demon Tower. They dug the Seven-Color Sacred Stone from its eye, but the giant broke free of Xiao Nan’s control and attacked them.

• Xiao Nan explained that the beings trapped in the Ninefold Demon Tower had survived by absorbing energy, and Nan Feng spotted the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant growing stronger.
• Nan Feng asked Xiao Nan to subdue the giant, and she used the talisman on her forehead to freeze it in place.
• Nan Feng and Xiao Nan pried the Seven-Color Sacred Stone from the giant’s left eye while it struggled against Xiao Nan’s control.
• The Ancient Ice Crystal Giant recognized Xiao Nan and mocked how weak she had become.
• The talisman slipped from the giant’s finger, and the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant swung its hand at Nan Feng and Xiao Nan, declaring that the weak should die.

Nan Feng and Xiao Nan escaped the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant and reached the fifth floor of the Ninefold Demon Tower, the Tri-Color Plains. After Xiao Nan spotted a Treasure Rat in the dangerous White Grassland, they hurried after it alongside other contestants.

• Xiao Nan used Solar True Fire to melt the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant's hand, then Nan Feng grabbed her and fled with her to the fifth floor.
• The Ancient Ice Crystal Giant repaired its hand, replaced its missing eye with a Seven-Color Sacred Stone, and hid among floating ice to recover.
• Nan Feng and Xiao Nan arrived in Azure Prairie, where Xiao Nan explained the three regions of the Tri-Color Plains and their dangers.
• Xiao Nan found healing wild grass, and Nan Feng began gathering it to sell.
• Xiao Nan spotted a Treasure Rat being pursued by other contestants in White Grassland, and Nan Feng rushed after it with her.

Contestants chased the Treasure Rat across the White Plains, where increasingly powerful gravity forced most of them to stop. As Tang Xiaobao and Archie continued farther than the others, the rival families argued over who would claim the rat until Lu Xiaobu announced that he would take it.

• Archie pursued the Treasure Rat and tried to strike it, but Tang Xiaobao stopped him, warning that the fragile rat would die if hit.
• Tang Xiaobao's followers raced ahead, while Archie and the Zhao Family contestants argued over their failure to find treasure.
• Yan Nujiao stopped from exhaustion, and Man Ning continued the chase as the Zhao Family group surged forward after hearing her insult them.
• The Treasure Rat ran deeper into the White Grassland, where gravity grew stronger and forced Tang Six, Tang Seven, Man Ning, and most contestants to stop.
• Archie and Tang Xiaobao continued onward as the Zhao and Tang families argued about who would capture the Treasure Rat.
• Lu Xiaobu called down from above and declared that the Treasure Rat would end up in his hands.

Nan Feng and Xiao Nan captured the Treasure Rat in the White Grassland and divided its trove of treasures. After leaving the grassland, Nan Feng believed he had secured first place in the trial and the chance to win his wager with Long Wudi.

• Nan Feng flew over the contestants while carrying Xiao Nan, and Zhao Gou and Man Ning watched him in surprise.
• Nan Feng dropped Xiao Nan onto the Treasure Rat, and she grabbed its tail while Nan Feng struggled against the grassland’s gravity.
• Archie attacked Nan Feng and demanded the Treasure Rat, but Nan Feng reeled Xiao Nan back up and flew away from the White Grassland with her.
• Xiao Nan shook treasures from the Treasure Rat’s mouth, and Nan Feng divided the pile while leaving the creature some of its savings.
• Nan Feng decided the treasures would secure first place in the trial, which could help Yan Nujiao become city lord and let him win his wager with Long Wudi.

After the Ninefold Demon Tower became calm, its leaders ended the trial early, and Nan Feng was pulled out with his first place secure. Xiao Nan stayed behind, returned a hoard of treasures to the Treasure Rat, and brought a whale egg to the Scorching Sea, where a giant whale revealed it was a gallstone.

• Old Bai realized the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant had only stopped shaking the tower because it had been injured, while he could not identify who had injured it.
• Tang Tian and the other family representatives agreed to end the trial early, and Old Bai began pulling the contestants out of the tower.
• Nan Feng gathered his treasures before Old Bai's magic pulled him out, while Xiao Nan stayed behind to take the eighth and ninth floors with her.
• Xiao Nan returned the heavenly treasures to the Treasure Rat, kept the Giant Whale Egg, and teleported to the Scorching Sea on the third floor.
• Xiao Nan threw the egg into the sea, and a giant whale surfaced and told her that the egg was a gallstone.

The contestants left the Ninefold Demon Tower, and Nan Feng’s treasures made Yan Nujiao the clear favorite to win the trial. Old Bai realized the Bai Family could not contain the tower’s beasts and decided to ask the Emperor for help; two days later, Di Yuan appeared in a farmhouse courtyard in the Imperial City.

• The contestants returned from the Ninefold Demon Tower, and Nan Feng added valuable treasures to Yan Nujiao’s haul, making her the likely winner of the trial.
• Tang Xiaobao remained confident that the Tang Family could win the final city-management trial, while Archie agreed to meet Nan Feng for drinks and Zhao Ge acted deranged when he saw Nan Feng.
• Old Bai sent Bai Pu to have the treasures appraised and ordered Bai Zao to tell the patriarch that he was activating the Sacred Ground.
• After considering the danger posed by the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant and the consequences of abandoning the tower, Old Bai decided to ask the Emperor to act.
• Two days later, Di Yuan sat with another young man in a farmhouse courtyard in the Imperial City of the Fallen Sun Empire.

Di Yuan and the Emperor discussed the Chosen Ones’ growing influence and the Emperor’s plans to deal with them. After Tian Yuan reported the Ninefold Demon Tower crisis and revealed that Nan Feng was in Flowing Cloud City under Tang Chengyun’s protection, the Emperor decided to go there and handle his enemies along the way.

• Di Yuan reminded the Emperor that he and his brother had obtained sixty-six Destined Divine Weapons, and the Emperor promised to remember their contribution and avenge Di Yuan’s injury by targeting the Tang Family.
• Di Yuan warned the Emperor that the Chosen Ones were rapidly expanding their economic influence through new clothing and food products.
• Tian Yuan arrived and told the Emperor that the Ninefold Demon Tower’s beasts were close to breaking free, then reported that Famous Hero was Nan Feng, a powerful Chosen One in Flowing Cloud City protected by Tang Chengyun.
• Tian Yuan also reported that Sikong Boxue was using the Emperor’s name to swindle people.
• The Emperor agreed to suppress the Ninefold Demon Tower and declared that he would deal with Tang Chengyun, Nan Feng, Sikong Boxue, and the others as well.

Two farmers witnessed tree demons near Black Crow City, while Oudepiao hauled bananas and Tang Chengyun headed toward Flowing Cloud City. In Bright Moon City, Yan Shuangying learned Yan Jiaojiao might become Flowing Cloud City’s next city lord and set out to see her, while Sikong Boxue prepared for the Imperial Sovereign’s arrival.

• Niu San and Old Yang saw three banana-tree demons rushing through the woods and decided to report them to Black Crow City.
• Oudepiao transported banana trees toward Linjiang City, and Tang Chengyun wondered why Xiao Nan had summoned him to Flowing Cloud City.
• Yan Shuangying learned Yan Jiaojiao led the trial’s points leaderboard and ordered a carriage to Flowing Cloud City after hearing about Lu Xiaobu and Nan Feng.
• Sikong Boxue used shifting visions to observe Nan Feng and Archie entering Yan Manor, then pictured himself as a noodle-shop cook and a beggar.
• After an ethereal voice announced the Imperial Sovereign was coming, Sikong Boxue told Dream God that luring him to Flowing Cloud City had been the plan.

Nan Feng grew suspicious that people in Flowing Cloud City were becoming unnaturally sleepy and suspected Sikong Boxue and a powerful ally were responsible. He left a drone watching the vegetable seller and asked Su Yihan to check the city-gate statue, ending with his suspicion focused on Soyana, the Dream God.

• Nan Feng brought Archie to Yan Manor for a free feast, then watched him return to the Zhao Family estate and worried the Zhao Family might become wary of him.
• Nan Feng flew his reconnaissance drone to watch the vegetable seller, but saw the old man sleeping normally and left the drone monitoring him.
• Nan Feng recalled that Yan Nujiao had taken first place in the relic treasure hunt and was one point ahead of Tang Xiaobao before the final city-management trial.
• Nan Feng realized he and several people in Yan Manor had become unusually sleepy, and suspected that something major was happening in Flowing Cloud City.
• Nan Feng suspected Sikong Boxue had help from an expert, possibly the Dream God Soyana, and asked Su Yihan to check whether the city-gate statue was still there.

Nan Feng left Flowing Cloud City to avoid the danger he suspected was brewing there. In the Sun Moon Mountains, he came across a hunter squad facing a level-forty Spotted Leopard as they tried to protect their injured companion, Little Liu.

• Nan Feng decided Flowing Cloud City was too dangerous and left to level up before the next trial.
• A Spotted Leopard attacked the hunter squad, biting Little Liu and badly wounding his thigh.
• The captain and the other hunters appeared to abandon Little Liu, but they had secretly stayed nearby to ambush the beast.
• The Spotted Leopard outmaneuvered the hunters, and the captain, Uncle Bai, Uncle Zhao, and Uncle Li regrouped with Little Liu to face it together.
• Nan Feng arrived and recognized that the Spotted Leopard had just broken through to level forty.

Nan Feng encountered a level 40 Spotted Leopard threatening a hunter squad and killed it with his firearms and close-combat skills. The four hunters survived, stunned by how powerful Nan Feng was despite his level 37 status.

• Nan Feng stepped in to help the hunter squad, but the captain and Uncle Zhao urged him to flee and seek reinforcements.
• Nan Feng shot the Spotted Leopard in the belly, then kicked it away when it lunged at him.
• Nan Feng chased the wounded leopard into the forest, dodged its ambush, and landed more attacks as it tried to escape.
• The Spotted Leopard charged the hunter squad and shattered the captain’s short blade, but Nan Feng drove it back with Mana Bullets.
• Nan Feng switched to a shotgun and killed the Spotted Leopard with repeated blasts, leaving the four hunters stunned.

Nan Feng went to Soul Severing Cliff after learning that a level 40 Spotted Leopard had been found nearby, hoping to hunt powerful beasts and upgrade his Destined Divine Weapon. He discovered a huge centipede nest beneath the cliff and suspected someone was raising the creatures there.

• Nan Feng refused the hunter team's offered spoils and asked where they had encountered the Spotted Leopard, then headed toward Soul Severing Cliff.
• Old Bai and the Flowing Cloud City Defense Force arrived, collected the hunter team's spoils as a rescue fee, and identified Nan Feng as Lu Xiaobu from the Yan Family.
• The City Defense Force captain returned to Flowing Cloud City and secretly told a hooded woman that he had found traces of Lu Xiaobu outside the city.
• Nan Feng used his Reconnaissance Drone to investigate Soul Severing Cliff and spotted a swarm of centipedes, including two above level 40.
• Nan Feng noticed slippery liquid coating the rocks that kept the centipedes from climbing out and suspected someone had deliberately raised them there.

Nan Feng discovered that the White Robe Man was breeding centipede worms beneath Soul Severing Cliff to raise a powerful pet. After the White Robe Man left, Nan Feng bombarded the worms all night and fulfilled his Destined Divine Weapon’s upgrade requirements.

• Nan Feng watched the White Robe Man feed dying beasts to the centipede worms, which fought among themselves for food.
• The White Robe Man left Soul Severing Cliff, and Nan Feng fled when he realized the man might have tracked him.
• That night, Nan Feng returned and sent his Reconnaissance Drone to attack a level 41 centipede worm, but the worms destroyed the drone with corrosive venom.
• Nan Feng retaliated with an RPG, firearms, explosives, and other weapons, attacking the centipede worms until morning.
• Nan Feng met the requirements to upgrade his Destined Divine Weapon and chose to upgrade it.