Chapter Summaries

Nan Feng’s Destined Divine Weapon reached A-rank, giving him a laser cannon and a Tactical Mech Suit as he set out to level up. Five days later, the Sovereign arrived at the Bai family to suppress the Ninefold Demon Tower, while Xiao Nan revealed she could enter and leave its eighth and ninth floors at will.

• Nan Feng’s Transcendent Armory upgraded to lower A-rank, replacing his Barrett with a High-Frequency Oscillation Laser Cannon and granting him a Tactical Mech Suit.
• Nan Feng discovered that the suit copied his gear’s attributes but did not make them stack, and that his Dragon Light Beam Cannon had become a weaker passive with no cooldown.
• At level 37, Nan Feng headed toward the Myriad Trees Forbidden Zone, intending to reach level 40.
• Five days later, the Sovereign arrived at the Bai family to suppress the violently shaking Ninefold Demon Tower, while Di Yuan and Tian Yuan departed for Flowing Cloud City.
• Xiao Nan revealed that she held the tower’s eighth and ninth floors and could enter and leave despite Old Bai’s control; she decided the Sovereign could handle suppressing the Ancient Ice Crystal Giant again.

After five days of leveling in the Myriad Trees Forbidden Zone, Nan Feng returned to Flowing Cloud City before the final Flowing Cloud Trials. At Yan Manor, he learned that an assassin had entered Yan Nujiao’s room while a shadow guard slept, and discovered that Yan Nujiao had been playing mahjong at the time with tiles that seemed connected to Sikong Boxue.

• Nan Feng reduced the Myriad Trees Forbidden Zone by ten percent, reached level 39, and returned to Flowing Cloud City before the final trial.
• Nan Feng learned from a demoted gate guard that an assassin had entered Yan Manor while the guard was asleep, then escaped after Yan Xiaoliu chased him out of the city.
• Nan Feng asked Yan Nujiao about the attempted abduction, and she said she had been at the Black Gold Casino playing mahjong with Man Ning that night.
• Yan Nujiao showed Nan Feng a mahjong tile carved with his name, which she had received as a casino souvenir.
• Nan Feng examined the tile’s densely carved circles, felt drowsy, and concluded that Sikong Boxue had invented the mahjong set.

Nan Feng told Long Wudi about the strange hypnosis and mahjong incidents in Flowing Cloud City, and they suspected that a powerful figure was helping Sikong Boxue. Nan Feng feared the Dream God Soyana might be behind it and wondered whether he had already fallen into one of her dreams.

• Nan Feng gave Yan Nujiao the suspicious mahjong tile and learned that a female thief had stolen her treasured sword.
• Nan Feng left to look for the sword, then contacted Long Wudi and discovered that he was already in Flowing Cloud City and had reached level 40.
• Nan Feng told Long Wudi about the incidents in Flowing Cloud City, and Long Wudi warned that Sikong Boxue might have help from someone capable of resurrecting the dead.
• Nan Feng suspected that Dream God Soyana might be behind Sikong Boxue and feared she could trap them in a dream.
• Nan Feng wondered whether he had entered Soyana's dream the moment he arrived in Flowing Cloud City.

Nan Feng realized Soyana was behind Sikong Boxue’s hypnosis scheme and warned Long Wudi, who proposed drawing Sikong out by offering him a sword. The chapter left them suspecting the sword resembled Yan Nujiao’s treasured weapon.

• Nan Feng questioned whether Long Wudi was real, then learned that Sikong Boxue’s hypnosis had caused his disorientation.
• Nan Feng concluded Soyana was behind Sikong Boxue and told Long Wudi about her and the threat to Flowing Cloud City.
• Long Wudi argued that Sikong Boxue could not hypnotize the whole city alone and proposed killing him before he could take control.
• Long Wudi offered Sikong Boxue a longsword through the Cross-World Chat Channel to lure him out.
• Nan Feng recognized that the longsword looked like Yan Nujiao’s treasured sword.

Long Wudi lured Sikong Boxue to Black Gold Casino, where Nan Feng prepared an ambush and discovered that the casino was Sikong Boxue’s base. As Li Miaomiao recognized Nan Feng despite his disguise, the confrontation was about to begin.

• Nan Feng and Long Wudi discussed Sikong Boxue and agreed to meet him at Black Gold Casino.
• Long Wudi and Nan Feng raced to the casino, where Nan Feng secretly planted eight grenades.
• Nan Feng copied the appearance of a gambling addict, knocked him unconscious, and disguised himself in the man’s clothes.
• Long Wudi met Li Manman and Li Miaomiao at a mahjong table while Sikong Boxue was still on his way.
• The casino’s gambling addicts briefly laughed under hypnosis, and Long Wudi deduced that Sikong Boxue controlled the casino.
• Li Miaomiao recognized Nan Feng and invited him to join the mahjong game.

Nan Feng and Long Wudi confronted Sikong Boxue at a casino, where Nan Feng lost more than a billion to Li Manman, Li Miaomiao, and Long Wudi during a rigged-looking mahjong session. Sikong Boxue revealed that he wanted to hypnotize Flowing Cloud City, and Nan Feng refused to trust him as the confrontation turned dangerous.

• Nan Feng joined Long Wudi, Li Manman, and Li Miaomiao at the mahjong table while they waited for Sikong Boxue.
• Li Manman said Sikong Boxue planned to take over Flowing Cloud City, and Nan Feng lost more than a billion across several rounds of mahjong.
• Sikong Boxue revealed himself through the casino’s gambling addicts and explained that he could no longer be revived if killed.
• Nan Feng admitted he wanted to kill Sikong Boxue because controlling Flowing Cloud City threatened the benefits he expected from Yan Nujiao becoming City Lord.
• Sikong Boxue argued that his plan would take five to ten years, but Nan Feng said he did not trust him.
• A gambling addict approached Nan Feng and pointed out that Nan Feng had let his guard down.

Nan Feng and Long Wudi fought Sikong Boxue’s hypnotized level 40 experts at the Black Gold Casino, and Nan Feng blew up the casino to eliminate the weaker gamblers. After Yan Xiaoliu subdued the experts, Zhao Yang remained hypnotized and attacked Nan Feng with Zhao Jiu’s sword.

• A level 40 expert ambushed Nan Feng, but Nan Feng dodged the punch and shot him with a shotgun, noticing that the man briefly regained clarity when injured.
• Three more level 40 experts joined the fight, and Nan Feng used his laser cannon to injure them as they attacked him.
• Nan Feng detonated the grenades hidden throughout the casino, killing the weaker gambling addicts and nearly destroying the Black Gold Casino.
• Li Manman and Li Miaomiao fled, and Long Wudi followed them while Nan Feng continued fighting the four experts and was struck several times.
• Yan Xiaoliu arrived and subdued the four experts, then Zhao Jiu caught Zhao Yang after Yan Xiaoliu tossed him over.
• Zhao Yang ignored Zhao Jiu’s questions, took Zhao Jiu’s sword, and charged at Nan Feng again.

Long Wudi became trapped in a deadly dream created by the Dream God Soyana and fought her for control, escaping only after the dream shattered. He realized his dream injuries had carried over into reality and suspected the woman was Soyana.

• Long Wudi followed the twins through dark alleys, but they vanished as the surroundings transformed into scenes from Blue Star.
• A cargo truck struck Long Wudi in the dream, and the female doctor who revealed herself as the Dream God tried to kill him.
• Long Wudi rejected the Dream God's claim that she ruled the dream, dragged the sun toward her, and shattered the dream with a punch through the solar system.
• The Dream God said that breaking into Long Wudi's backpack had consumed too much of her strength, and Long Wudi discovered that Yan Manor's longsword was missing.
• Long Wudi awoke in the alley with the twins gone and severe pain in his body, then suspected the Dream God was Soyana.

Nan Feng left the ruined Black Gold Casino after the great families took away their hypnotized members, then pursued Long Wudi and ran into Sikong Boxue. Sikong Boxue failed to hypnotize Nan Feng, who realized the Lucky Amulet had protected him and charged after him.

• Yan Xiaoliu and the other experts subdued Zhao Yang, Sun Sheng, and two more hypnotized fighters, while Nan Feng insisted he had only won money at the casino.
• Zhao Jiu, Yan Xiaoliu, and Ning Wuya discovered that servants in their families had been growing sleepy and suspected someone was targeting the great families.
• The great families took the hypnotized members away to investigate, leaving Nan Feng without an answer about who owed him his billion in winnings.
• Nan Feng chased after Long Wudi, but Sikong Boxue appeared in a dark alley and tried to hypnotize him with a spinning pocket watch.
• Nan Feng tripped before looking directly at the watch, then fired his laser cannon with his eyes closed and wounded Sikong Boxue.
• Sikong Boxue amplified the pocket watch's ticking, but Nan Feng's eardrums ruptured and he became deaf, allowing him to resist the hypnosis and pursue Sikong Boxue.

Nan Feng and Long Wudi escaped their fights with Sikong Boxue and Soyana, then returned to Yan Manor to recover and plan their next moves. Long Wudi vowed to kill Soyana when they met again, while Nan Feng looked ahead to Yan Nujiao winning the city lord’s position.

• Nan Feng fired wildly at Sikong Boxue, who escaped after apparently being hit, and Nan Feng fled when the City Defense Force approached.
• Nan Feng mistook the injured Long Wudi for an impostor until Long Wudi verified his identity through the Genesis System.
• Long Wudi told Nan Feng he had fought Soyana to a draw, and Nan Feng admitted he had encountered Sikong Boxue.
• Deputy General Ye Ming decided not to pursue the fighters and planned to sell the ruined slum land to a merchant named Sikong.
• At Yan Manor, Long Wudi said Soyana had targeted his sword and vowed to kill her next time they met; he and Nan Feng began meditating rather than sleeping.
• Nan Feng reasoned that Sikong Boxue’s citywide hypnosis plan had been delayed and imagined using Yan Nujiao’s future support to strengthen South City.

Nan Feng and the others arrived at the City Lord’s Mansion for the final city management trial, expecting a challenge involving the abandoned slums. Sun Qi instead announced that the contestants would conduct live streaming sales to revive Flowing Cloud City’s economy, leaving Nan Feng shocked by the familiar concept.

• Nan Feng checked on Long Wudi, then surprised Man Ning when she learned he had reached level 39 and Duan Kun had reached level 40.
• Yan Xiaoqi told Nan Feng and Yan Nujiao that the trial might concern the abandoned slums and said he had gathered construction workers to help Yan Nujiao win.
• Sun Qi explained that Flowing Cloud City’s economy had declined and announced live streaming sales as the final trial’s challenge.
• Nan Feng was startled by the live streaming sales challenge and wondered whether Sun Qi had also come from Blue Star.

City Lord Sun Qi introduced live-streaming sales as the trial for Yan Xiaoqi and Tang Tian, explaining how the mirror system and sales rules worked. After the contestants set off to choose goods, Nan Feng rejected flatbreads as too common and called for every banana in Black Crow City to be brought over.

• Sun Qi demonstrated the mother and child Live Streaming Mirrors, which let viewers watch a stream through portable mirrors.
• Sun Qi explained that Yan Xiaoqi and Tang Tian would sell goods to Flowing Cloud City residents until noon the next day, and the contestant with the most money would win.
• City Defense Force soldiers gave each team one hundred thousand copper coins and warned that market-price violations and family-backed sales would lead to disqualification.
• Yan Xiaoqi proposed selling flatbreads, but Man Ning said the Tang Family had already reached the shop.
• Nan Feng said flatbreads were too common and messaged the Handsome Men Group to bring every banana in Black Crow City to him.

Tang Xiaobao’s live sales of Gray Wolf Flatbread earned a large profit, but he faced dwindling stock as Yan Nujiao prepared to sell bananas brought to Flowing Cloud City by Nan Feng and the South City Chosen Ones. Nan Feng began Yan Nujiao’s livestream pitch by offering bananas for 98 copper coins each.

• Tang Xiaobao learned that his flatbread sales had earned 120,679 copper coins in net profit, while Gray Wolf Flatbread’s stock was nearly gone.
• Nan Feng led a caravan of 500 carts into Flowing Cloud City, carrying bananas brought by teleportation from outside the city.
• At Yan Manor, Huang Yuanming said the bananas cost 60 copper coins each and usually sold for 498, prompting a City Defense Force member to question the price.
• The City Defense Force member tasted a banana and found it delicious and refreshing, then Nan Feng used Yan Nujiao’s Mother Mirror to advertise them for 98 copper coins each.

In Flowing Cloud City, Yan Nujiao hosted a livestream selling Might Herb, while Huang Yuanming and others gauged the crowd’s expectations and Nan Feng staged a series of price cuts. Yan Nujiao ended by announcing a price of 998 copper coins per stalk and urging viewers to place orders.

• Crowds gathered around Child Mirrors to watch Yan Nujiao introduce Might Herb as a strength-increasing herb from Mama Haha Gorge.
• Huang Yuanming messaged the Handsome Men Group that viewers expected to pay several thousand copper coins per stalk, and Su Ziran told Nan Feng to set the price at 998.
• Nan Feng presented a sign marked 9,998 copper coins, then lowered his asking price first to 7,000 and then to 5,998 after Yan Nujiao pressed him.
• Yan Nujiao rejected Nan Feng’s final offer, crossed out the first 9 on the sign, and announced Might Herb for 998 copper coins per stalk.

Nan Feng and Yan Nujiao sold Might Herbs to Flowing Cloud City's residents through a livestream, while Tian Yuan and Di Yuan approached the city and planned to use captured Chosen Ones to lure Nan Feng out. Tian Yuan intended to exploit Nan Feng's concern for his companions, and Di Yuan agreed to the plan.

• Yan Nujiao promoted Might Herbs as Nan Feng and Xiao Luo announced dwindling stock, prompting residents across Flowing Cloud City to place orders.
• Nan Feng coordinated the sales and supply of Might Herbs and other goods with the Chosen Ones in the Handsome Men Group.
• Yan Nujiao continued selling through the night, leaving Nan Feng convinced that their trial was secure.
• Tian Yuan and Di Yuan discussed how to deal with Nan Feng as their carriage neared Flowing Cloud City.
• Tian Yuan proposed capturing several Chosen Ones to force Nan Feng to leave the city, and Di Yuan agreed.

Tang Xiaobao accepted his loss to Yan Nujiao and learned that Tang Chengyun would soon arrive in Flowing Cloud City. Meanwhile, Nan Feng and the South City brothers celebrated, and Zhao Jiu had Archie knocked unconscious and ordered him sent out of the city in a sack.

• Tang Xiaobao acknowledged that Yan Nujiao's livestream sales skills had outmatched him and ordered Greater Might Herb for the Tang Family servants.
• Tang Tian told Tang Xiaobao to prepare to welcome Tang Chengyun, then suggested he might pursue a marriage alliance with Yan Nujiao's family.
• Nan Feng hosted a meal for the South City brothers, while Xiao Luo left to hunt and Long Wudi joined Huang Yuanming's conversation.
• Zhao Jiu asked Archie about his relationship with Lu Xiaobu, then had a servant strike Archie unconscious.
• Zhao Jiu ordered two servants to put Archie in a sack and send him out of the city.

Nan Feng received a letter from Di Yuan, who threatened to bury a captured companion unless Nan Feng met him in a forest outside Flowing Cloud City. Nan Feng discovered the captive was Archie, not Xiao Luo, and was relieved that the threat had not targeted someone close to him.

• Yan Nujiao returned from the City Lord's Mansion and said the City Lord was still checking her team's ledgers.
• A guard delivered a letter addressed to Lu Xiaobu, and Nan Feng read Di Yuan's invitation to meet in the forest south of the city.
• Di Yuan threatened to bury a captured companion before dawn, so Nan Feng warned the Handsome Men Group and told South City's Chosen Ones to return or be counted.
• Xiao Luo replied that he was safe and hunting outside the city, while Nan Feng searched for another missing companion.
• Archie reported that two Zhao family men had knocked him out and hung him from a tree in the forest, then confirmed they were Tian Yuan and Di Yuan.
• Nan Feng realized Archie was Di Yuan's captive and relaxed, deciding the threat was not aimed at someone close to him.

Nan Feng and Long Wudi set out to rescue Archie and confront Tian Yuan and Di Yuan. On the way, Geji—apparently hypnotized by Sikong Boxue—attacked Nan Feng and died, leaving him puzzled by how weak she was and whether she had come intending to die.

• Archie begged the Cross-World Chat Channel for help as Tian Yuan and Di Yuan prepared to kill him.
• Nan Feng told Long Wudi what had happened, and the two agreed to head south to fight Tian Yuan and Di Yuan and avenge Nan Feng’s fallen comrades.
• Nan Feng and Long Wudi passed a tall, modern-looking tower under construction in the slums before continuing toward the south gate.
• Long Wudi sensed that a Geji was looking for Nan Feng, then hurried ahead to wait for him at the city gate.
• Geji approached Nan Feng with a blank expression and attacked him with a sword, but Nan Feng shot her three times and killed her.
• Nan Feng absorbed Geji’s energy and reached level 39 at 99%, then wondered why she had seemed close to death and whether she had come to die.

Sikong Boxue followed Soyana’s instructions and sent Geji to help Nan Feng gain experience, while Nan Feng and Long Wudi went to rescue Archie and confront Tian Yuan and Di Yuan. Archie lured Di Yuan out of his carriage, leaving Nan Feng’s ambush shot aimed squarely at him.

• Soyana told Sikong Boxue that Nan Feng had gone to face Tian Yuan and Di Yuan, and instructed him to send Geji to help Nan Feng while keeping Long Wudi away.
• Sikong Boxue ordered Li Miaomiao to tell Long Wudi about the plan and heard from Li Manman that the Dream Tower would be finished before noon the next day.
• Nan Feng killed Geji, met Long Wudi, and contacted Archie for his location outside Flowing Cloud City.
• Archie tricked Di Yuan into emerging from his carriage by claiming Nan Feng had a message for him.
• Nan Feng fired a pale-blue shot that struck Di Yuan between the brows.

Long Wudi confronted Tian Yuan while Nan Feng used his laser cannon to attack Di Yuan and free Archie. Nan Feng began wearing Di Yuan down, but Di Yuan revealed that Nan Feng had been breathing in his colorless, odorless poison.

• Tian Yuan trapped Long Wudi in a chessboard formation and attacked him with a mountain of black mist.
• Nan Feng fired at Tian Yuan, but his shots could not penetrate Tian Yuan’s defensive seal, so Long Wudi took over the fight.
• Nan Feng cut Archie down from the tree, allowing Archie to escape with a Teleportation Array and warn Nan Feng that Di Yuan was approaching.
• Di Yuan confronted Nan Feng and attacked him with poisonous gas while Nan Feng dodged with his Grappling Hook and landed repeated laser-cannon shots.
• Di Yuan told Nan Feng that he had been breathing in his colorless, odorless poison the whole time.