Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan awakened in the body of a badly injured Warrior player after his first dungeon, where his teammates had found his treasure chest empty. A reward-selection screen appeared before him, offering up to three items, and he discovered that its options included increasingly rare equipment and a Rare-tier Blade of the Wolf Fiend.

• A Gunner and Mage defeated a Lv2 giant wolf, leaving their Warrior teammate unconscious and gravely wounded.
• The Gunner and Mage opened their chests, receiving ordinary loot and a Fine Tier ruby ring, respectively.
• The Gunner opened the injured Warrior’s chest and found it empty, then he and the Mage left the dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan regained consciousness and realized he had transmigrated into the Warrior’s body after the player’s first dungeon run.
• Wang Zhifan inspected a screen asking him to choose up to three dungeon rewards, including a Rare-tier Blade of the Wolf Fiend.

Wang Zhifan selected dungeon rewards before returning to his room, where his body had been restored and he inspected his player status. He equipped the Wolfhide Armor and resolved to seek a class change when he had the opportunity.

• Wang Zhifan chose the rare Blade of the Wolf Fiend, fine Wolfhide Armor, and a Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll as his dungeon rewards.
• Wang Zhifan transferred his rewards and damaged short blade into personal storage, then used the return function to leave the dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan found his body restored in his room, though his clothes remained tattered and bloodless.
• Wang Zhifan inspected his player panel and recalled that the original owner had bought a Blademaster class card because it was affordable.
• Wang Zhifan stored his damaged cloth armor and equipped the Wolfhide Armor, which fit him but felt too warm for the season.

Wang Zhifan inspected his dungeon rewards, upgraded his blade skill, and received a recruitment call about fighting Ash Domain monsters. He was left considering an offer to join a Xia Kingdom special operations team.

• Wang Zhifan examined the rare Blade of the Wolf Fiend and stored it in his personal space.
• Wang Zhifan used a Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll, raising Basic Blade Art from Lv1 to Lv3.
• Wang Zhifan practiced with his new blade and realized how dramatically his handling had improved.
• Brother Qiang called Wang Zhifan and asked whether he had completed his first dungeon.
• Brother Qiang explained that the Xia Kingdom authorities were recruiting players for a team to clear low-level Ash Domain monsters, offering high pay and possible fine-grade equipment.

After declining Brother Qiang’s invitation to fight Ash Domain monsters, Wang Zhifan discovered he was nearly broke and resolved to find a way to support himself. When his job applications brought no replies, he chose to enter another dungeon to seek a reward.

• Wang Zhifan refused Brother Qiang’s invitation to fight Ash Domain monsters, and Brother Qiang tried to sell him a fine-grade broadsword for eighty thousand kingdom credits.
• Wang Zhifan checked his bank accounts and found only a little over one thousand credits, then learned from the original owner’s memories that his parents had been killed by Ash Domain monsters.
• Wang Zhifan accepted the original owner’s desire for revenge but decided he needed to become stronger before confronting the monsters.
• Wang Zhifan ordered cheap fast food and wrote a resume, but after receiving no responses to dozens of applications, he decided to try earning money through a dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan prepared himself, activated the dungeon, and vanished from his rented room.

Wang Zhifan entered a forest instance with a gunslinger girl and a hooded lv3 player, who claimed leadership and planned how they would kill a nearby fierce tiger. The group prepared to hunt the tiger, though Wang Zhifan remained wary of the middle-aged man’s attitude.

• Wang Zhifan, the gunslinger girl, and the hooded middle-aged man appeared in a mountain forest and received the objective to kill a nearby lv3 fierce tiger.
• The hooded man urged the girl to keep her voice down, then proposed leading the instance as its most experienced player.
• Wang Zhifan learned that the hooded man was lv3 and on his seventh instance, while the girl was a lv1 gunslinger with twelve bullets and a lv1 Shooting skill.
• The hooded man ordered the girl to hide in the bushes, Wang Zhifan to guard nearby and draw the tiger’s attention, and himself to lure and strike the tiger.

Wang Zhifan and the gunner girl hid in the forest as a tiger approached, but her shots failed to hurt it and it charged at her. Wang Zhifan rushed from behind a tree to attack the tiger, which dodged and swung a paw at him.

• Wang Zhifan distrusted the middle-aged man’s plan and hid in a thicket near the girl instead of waiting as bait.
• Wang Zhifan told the girl to shoot the approaching tiger in the head and promised to help kill it.
• The tiger raced into view while chasing a nimble black shadow, and the girl fired her pistol but missed every shot.
• The tiger charged the girl as she tried to reload, and she froze, dropping bullets from her hand.
• Wang Zhifan rushed from behind a tree with a long weapon, but the tiger dodged sideways and swung its paw at his head.

Wang Zhifan wounded the tiger and called on his teammates to join the fight, then watched as they finished it. After the instance cleared, the three players received treasure chests, and Wang Zhifan quietly examined his reward selection.

• Wang Zhifan severed one of the tiger’s paws, then dodged its furious pounce behind a tree.
• Wang Zhifan shouted at the hooded middle-aged man to attack, and the man shot the tiger in the eye with a hand crossbow.
• The middle-aged man urged the female gunner to reload and fire while Wang Zhifan stayed out of melee range.
• The middle-aged man and the female gunner killed the tiger, and each of the three players received a treasure chest.
• The middle-aged man stored his chest and vanished, while the female gunner opened hers and Wang Zhifan concealed his inspection of the reward selection screen.

Wang Zhifan examined the dungeon rewards and weighed the Fine Tier items against his needs before deciding to take the Rare Tier Tiger Soul True Rune. The chapter ended with him still considering which other rewards to choose.

• Wang Zhifan skipped the Common Tier rewards and decided he would take the sole Rare Tier reward.
• He considered firearms, ammunition, armor, tiger medicines, and a Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll, noting that his Blade Technique was already Lv3 and had only a 10% chance to reach Lv4.
• Wang Zhifan examined the Tiger Head Ring and Tiger Tail Bracelet but judged their effects limited.
• He read that the Tiger Soul True Rune would raise all his attributes by 5 and grant an activatable Tiger Fiend ability that dealt soul damage.

Wang Zhifan returned from the dungeon with a Rare Tier Tiger Soul True Rune, a Fine Tier Tiger Blood Potion, and Fine Tier pistol bullets. After leaving the bullets for possible sale or future use, he applied the rune and drank the potion to permanently boost his attributes.

• Wang Zhifan chose his dungeon rewards while pretending to pray for luck, then stored the chest and left the dungeon.
• The middle-aged Assassin watched Wang Zhifan disappear and decided it was wise not to provoke him before leaving the dungeon himself.
• Wang Zhifan opened the chest in his rented room and found the Tiger Soul True Rune, Tiger Blood Potion, and pistol bullets he had selected.
• Wang Zhifan pressed the Tiger Soul True Rune to his arm, transforming it into a tiger-head tattoo that strengthened him.
• Wang Zhifan drank the Tiger Blood Potion and opened his player attribute panel after its burning sensation faded.

After boosting his attributes, Wang Zhifan spent time adjusting to his stronger body and sought a way to earn money by selling player goods. He arrived at Player Mall, where a receptionist explained which grades of items the store would buy.

• Wang Zhifan checked his attributes and found that the Tiger Soul True Rune and Tiger Blood Potion had greatly increased his stats.
• Wang Zhifan left his apartment to get used to his enhanced physique, then noticed that his increased appetite would strain his limited finances.
• Wang Zhifan ate at a restaurant and traveled to Tianhua Pedestrian Street to find a player shop other than Brother Qiang's.
• Wang Zhifan entered Player Mall and asked whether it bought items used by players.
• The receptionist explained that Player Mall generally avoided buying most Common-grade goods, accepted a wider selection of Fine-grade goods, and bought all Rare-grade items.

Wang Zhifan brought a box of Level 2 ammunition to the Player Mall to sell and saw the store’s rare equipment, including a Rare Tier submachine gun. A wealthy young man’s party bought the gun and left, while Wang Zhifan was about to discuss his own transaction.

• Wang Zhifan recognized that player ammunition was valuable because real-world bullets could not be brought into dungeons, and he selected a box of bullets as his reward.
• A saleswoman led Wang Zhifan to the Player Mall’s upper exhibition hall, where genuine player equipment was on display.
• An attendant told a customer that the mall had once sold an Excellent Tier weapon for one billion national currency.
• A wealthy young man arrived with six armed bodyguards, who pushed the other customers aside and demanded the hall be cleared.
• The young man ordered A Wei to buy the Rare Tier submachine gun, and A Wei paid for it and stored it in his inventory.

Wang Zhifan sold unwanted equipment for extra money and considered how to accelerate his growth by clearing more dungeons. On his bus ride home, he discovered it had entered an Ash Domain, where the other passengers were frozen in place.

• Wang Zhifan negotiated with a Player Mall buyer and sold most of his Fine Tier bullets and two defective Ordinary Tier items for extra cash.
• Wang Zhifan left Tianhua Street and rode a bus home while thinking about entering more dungeons to grow stronger.
• Wang Zhifan noticed the bus and the streets outside had fallen silent and become hazy.
• Wang Zhifan saw that all the other passengers were motionless with their eyes closed, then equipped his saber and armor.
• Wang Zhifan recognized that the bus had entered an Ash Domain and recalled that its monsters could cause the domain to expand into a permanent Forbidden Domain.

Wang Zhifan and a Spirit Mage player found themselves trapped on a bus in the Ash Domain, surrounded by hordes of monsters. They chose to defend the bus and hold out for rescue as the creatures began breaking in.

• Wang Zhifan stopped the bus and prepared to open the door, but a short-haired girl warned him that danger might be waiting outside and urged him to wait for rescue.
• Wang Zhifan and the girl revealed their classes as Blademaster and Spirit Mage when footsteps sounded around the bus.
• Wang Zhifan and the girl saw more than a hundred monsters charging across a muddy wasteland, with a giant creature following behind them.
• Wang Zhifan agreed to defend the bus with the girl, whose Long-Haired Female Ghost summon killed the first monster to climb through a broken window.
• As monsters smashed through windows around the bus, Wang Zhifan took the front and told the girl to use her summon to hold them off.

Wang Zhifan and the short-haired girl fought off the Ash Domain monsters inside the bus and decided to join forces against their towering leader. As the leader thrust its arm through a window toward the girl, Wang Zhifan struck at it with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.

• The short-haired girl controlled her Long-Haired Female Ghost to draw monsters away while Wang Zhifan cut down those that reached him.
• Wang Zhifan noticed the towering monster watching them through a window and urged the girl to lure it away.
• The short-haired girl proposed clearing out the ordinary monsters before joining forces to kill the leader for possible rewards, and Wang Zhifan agreed.
• The towering monster thrust its long arm through the window toward the short-haired girl, and Wang Zhifan leapt in and slashed at it.

Wang Zhifan and the short-haired girl cleared the monsters inside the bus while her Long-Haired Female Ghost kept the giant monster outside occupied. As Wang Zhifan prepared to join the fight, a sniper shot struck the giant, and the girl suspected other players had arrived to seize its ownerless reward.

• Wang Zhifan broke the giant monster's claw and joined the short-haired girl's Long-Haired Female Ghost in fighting the monsters around the bus.
• Wang Zhifan slaughtered the remaining monsters inside the bus while the Long-Haired Female Ghost battled the giant outside.
• Wang Zhifan killed the last monster in the bus and saw that the Long-Haired Female Ghost could not seriously injure the giant.
• The short-haired girl asked Wang Zhifan to help fight the giant, and he agreed to go outside.
• A sniper shot wounded the giant, so Wang Zhifan stopped and searched for the shooter.
• The short-haired girl told Wang Zhifan that the attackers were likely players seeking the monster's ownerless reward.

Wang Zhifan and the short-haired girl hid aboard the bus while an armed player killed the huge Ash Domain monster, then the Special Administration Bureau arrived and rescued them. They were taken out of the Ash Domain to report what happened, while the gunman left puzzled about receiving no rewards.

• Wang Zhifan advised the short-haired girl to wait for the monster to die and use her summon to take its rewards, while they stayed hidden and assessed the gunman outside.
• The gunman fired Spirit Bullets that pierced the monster and badly injured the girl's Long-Haired Female Ghost, forcing both players to hide.
• The gunman killed the huge monster and left as the Special Administration Bureau arrived, surrounded the scene, and evacuated the trapped civilians.
• Officials found Wang Zhifan and the short-haired girl, took them from the bus, and drove them out of the Ash Domain with investigator He Qianqian.
• Wang Zhifan and the girl recounted their experience to He Qianqian, while the tall, thin man with glasses wondered why killing the monster had earned him no rewards.

After reporting the Ash Domain incident, Wang Zhifan returned to his apartment and chose two rewards from a panel that had appeared in reality. He received the Rare Tier Chapter of Gloom and a Fine Tier Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll.

• Wang Zhifan and Chu Wei gave their reports at Dongjiang Second Bureau, where He Qianqian showed special interest in recruiting Chu Wei, a Spirit Mage.
• Wang Zhifan left the bureau before Chu Wei and complained that Blademasters received less attention than ranged classes.
• Wang Zhifan returned to his apartment with forty-five thousand survival funds from selling equipment and considered the reward panel he had ignored on the bus.
• Wang Zhifan selected Chapter of Gloom and a Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll from the panel.
• The Chapter of Gloom appeared with effects that made non-boss evil creatures regard Wang Zhifan as one of their kind and increased his damage to nearby enemies by 7%.

Wang Zhifan examined his new Rare Tier pendant, failed to upgrade Basic Blade Art, and reviewed his progress as he neared his first level-up. He accepted an interview invitation from Celestial Hegemony Game Company, then began browsing the Player Forum for news about players and the Ash Domain.

• Wang Zhifan inspected the Chapter of Gloom pendant and decided to wear it beneath his clothes for its damage bonus.
• Wang Zhifan used a Fine Tier Warrior Skill Upgrade Scroll, but Basic Blade Art Lv3 failed to upgrade.
• Wang Zhifan checked his personal panel and noted that he was close to reaching Lv2, though he knew little about the Blademaster class’s level-up benefits.
• Wang Zhifan received an interview invitation from Celestial Hegemony Game Company, decided to attend, and confirmed by email.
• Wang Zhifan opened the Player Forum and read posts about player recruitment, dungeon deaths, Ash Domain incidents, and other player-related news.

Wang Zhifan entered a dungeon to kill a nearby Lv3 wild boar and found himself paired with two unusual teammates. As the Gunslinger argued with him over strategy, the trembling chubby youth fled, leaving the group in chaos before the fight began.

• Wang Zhifan browsed the Player Forum, spent a quiet day, and entered a dungeon the following morning.
• Wang Zhifan arrived on a grassland where the objective was to kill a nearby Lv3 wild boar.
• Wang Zhifan saw that one teammate was a trembling, unarmed chubby youth and the other was a trench-coated Lv2 Gunslinger.
• The Gunslinger demanded that Wang Zhifan and the youth draw the boar's attention so he could attack, and Wang Zhifan objected to his rude attitude.
• The chubby youth screamed that he did not want to die and ran away from the wild boar and his teammates.

Wang Zhifan watched the tusked boar kill the fleeing teammate, then severed the gunner’s hand when he threatened him. As the boar charged again, Wang Zhifan dodged it and took the handgun, using the screaming gunner as cover while he prepared for its next attack.

• The tusked boar charged after the short, fat kid who had fled, and killed him with a single impact.
• The boar turned toward Wang Zhifan and the young man in the trench coat, who shouted at Wang Zhifan to fight it.
• Wang Zhifan moved closer to the gunner instead of confronting the boar, and the gunner raised his handgun to threaten him.
• Wang Zhifan slashed off the gunner’s right hand as the boar reached them.
• Wang Zhifan dodged the boar’s charge, picked up the handgun still attached to the severed hand, and stood behind the screaming gunner as the boar charged again.