Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan looted and killed the players frozen under his control, discovering their leader's Excellent-grade gear and a talisman that let him command the Ancestor Pottery. After destroying the group and disposing of their remains, he concluded that his strength had far surpassed Lv30.

• Wang Zhifan inspected the players' leader, took his Excellent-grade Radiant Redemption and Rare equipment, then killed him and selected a Grimoire, a Black-and-White Notebook, and a Three-Stage Strength Pill from his personal space.
• Wang Zhifan found the Pottery Kingdom Ancestral Talisman on the leader's body and used it to control the Ancestor Pottery, discovering that explosives were hidden inside them.
• Wang Zhifan sent the Ancestor Pottery to rest in a distant uninhabited area and decided to kill the remaining players so they could not expose how he obtained their leader's loot.
• Wang Zhifan beheaded the remaining players and took their equipment, including their Rare-grade items, then used ice and Saber Intent to destroy their corpses.
• Wang Zhifan reflected that the players had been powerful for their level, but his Ice Source Power had overwhelmed them and his strength had surpassed Lv30.

Wang Zhifan exploited the Pottery Kingdom’s leadership crisis to conquer it, then used the Biological Modification Pod to save the dying General Liu. He left the pod guarded as he turned to governing his expanded territory, while General Liu’s recovery began a legacy of renowned generals.

• Wang Zhifan discovered that the Pottery Kingdom’s king and ministers had died, leaving its factions fighting for control, and he inspected the kingdom’s other cities before returning to the Abundance Kingdom.
• Wang Zhifan organized the Abundance Kingdom’s forces with help from the old prime minister and led an invasion of the Pottery Kingdom.
• The Pottery Kingdom’s factions united against the invaders, but Wang Zhifan assassinated their generals and used the Ancestor Terracotta Army, Ice Source Power, and Storm Power to help defeat them and annex their kingdom.
• Wang Zhifan learned that General Liu had awakened from a coma but was dying from poison, so he visited him in the Yin Kingdom military camp.
• Wang Zhifan used the Biological Modification Pod to treat and strengthen General Liu, then left a Dream Self clone and guards to protect the device while he returned to his duties.

Wang Zhifan recruited new talent and approved General Liu’s plan to campaign against the Kui Kingdom, while preparing for the southern powers to respond to Abundance’s expansion. The chapter ended with reports that Huan and Lü forces had gathered at the southern border, including cavalry mounted on Triangular Raptors.

• Wang Zhifan’s public recruitment drive attracted candidates across Abundance, and Feng Xian distinguished himself in the royal hall’s military assessments.
• General Liu recommended conquering the iron-rich Kui Kingdom to secure resources and give Abundance’s army more battle experience.
• Wang Zhifan approved the campaign but ordered General Liu and the newly recruited generals to lead it without his personal intervention.
• Abundance gathered troops and supplies for the Kui campaign while Wang Zhifan guarded the southern region against the powerful Huan and Lü Kingdoms.
• Messenger hawks reported Huan’s Divine-Pattern Soldiers and Lü’s Dragon-Rushing Cavalry gathering in the southern desert, and Wang Zhifan wondered whether their Triangular Raptors were dinosaurs.

Wang Zhifan defended Southern Desert Military Town from the Huan-Lü Allied Army, turning back its Dragon-Rushing Cavalry with powerful wind attacks. He captured an invisible gunner player who had tried to assassinate him and offered him a chance to join his side, which the gunner accepted.

• A Lü Kingdom player blasted open Southern Desert Military Town's gate with a rocket, and the allied cavalry charged inside.
• Wang Zhifan appeared at the gate and swept the advancing forces back with tornadoes created by his cleaver.
• The invisible gunner player fired a sniper round and then a Psionic Bomb at Wang Zhifan, but neither attack stopped him.
• Wang Zhifan appeared behind the gunner, immobilized him, and took his sniper rifle.
• Wang Zhifan offered the captured gunner a chance to live by joining his side, and the gunner agreed.

Wang Zhifan forced a gunslinger player to help defeat the attackers at the military town, then recruited him to gather other players and unite their strength to clear the instance. The gunslinger left to seek them, while Wang Zhifan remained in control of the battlefield.

• Wang Zhifan freed the gunslinger player and made him shoot his former allies, while the gunslinger considered escaping.
• Huan Kingdom's Divine-Pattern Soldiers surrounded the city gate, but Wang Zhifan's power stopped them from entering, so the gunslinger reluctantly attacked them.
• Wang Zhifan used Ice Source Power to kill the Dragon-Rushing Cavalry and Divine-Pattern Soldiers in large numbers, prompting the Abundance Kingdom defenders to charge out of the town.
• Wang Zhifan told the gunslinger that he was the king of Abundance Kingdom and invited him to join his forces and bring other players to him.
• The gunslinger promised to find other players, then escaped Wang Zhifan's immediate sight by entering stealth as he crossed the battlefield.

Wu Bin reunited with fellow players and told them about Wang Zhifan, prompting them to consider joining Abundance Kingdom instead of Radiance Kingdom. Meanwhile, Wang Zhifan approved Feng Xian’s promotion as Abundance Kingdom advanced against Kui Kingdom, while Radiance Kingdom expanded through overwhelming artillery and insect forces.

• Wu Bin received a player message and met Old Zhu and the others at an inn in Huan Kingdom.
• Wu Bin told the players that Abundance Kingdom’s king was a player he had fought and warned them that Wang Zhifan was far stronger than their group.
• Old Zhu and the others decided to travel north and assess whether to join Wang Zhifan, while Wu Bin chose to wait and see.
• Wang Zhifan approved General Liu’s request to promote Feng Xian after the army captured two cities of Kui Kingdom.
• Radiance Kingdom attacked a city with superior cannon carts and swarms of poisonous insects commanded by its player king.

Wang Zhifan prepared the Abundance Kingdom to wage war against Huan and Lü, then set out with his armies while using Dream Self clones to guard key locations. A surprise Huan-Lü attack struck his capital, but Wang Zhifan arrived in time to freeze the invading force, leaving its leaders alive for questioning.

• Wang Zhifan ordered his generals to prepare for a campaign to make Huan and Lü acknowledge him as Overlord, and he recruited his allied players to support the war.
• Wang Zhifan sent more than one hundred thousand soldiers toward Huan and Lü, assigning players to protect his generals and using Dream Self clones to watch key locations.
• A force of about three thousand Huan and Lü soldiers secretly attacked New Capital, smashed through its gate, and began killing residents and burning the city.
• Wang Zhifan learned of the attack through a clone stationed in the capital and immediately teleported there.
• Wang Zhifan used Ice Source Power to extinguish the fires and freeze the invading soldiers, sparing their leaders for interrogation.

Wang Zhifan stopped a surprise attack inside Abundance Kingdom, then began supporting his armies as the war against Huan Kingdom and Lü Kingdom erupted. He broke open a Huan Kingdom stronghold for General Feng’s troops and moved on to reinforce other battlefields, leaving Feng Xian to lead the fight inside the town.

• Wang Zhifan captured an enemy general after freezing thousands of attackers, ordered the defenders to interrogate him, and warned the old prime minister to strengthen patrols against infiltrators.
• General Feng led thirty thousand Abundance Kingdom troops toward a Huan Kingdom stronghold, where the defenders prepared artillery and player attacks after learning Wang Zhifan was absent.
• Wang Zhifan arrived, froze the enemy cannons, broke through the town wall, and killed nearby enemies and players, allowing Abundance Kingdom troops to charge inside.
• Wang Zhifan left to reinforce other armies while Feng Xian directed the clearing of the stronghold and Abundance Kingdom players used spells and gunfire to defeat the Divine-Pattern Soldiers.
• Huan Kingdom defenders began fleeing, and Feng Xian ordered his troops to seal both city gates.

Wang Zhifan used Ice Source Power and White Entanglement to break Lü Kingdom’s cavalry assault, helping Abundance Kingdom capture another stronghold and drive Huan and Lü Kingdoms to seek peace. Rejecting their offers, he demanded their surrender and set out to seize the Pattern-Soldier Tome and the Rushing Dragon Secret Realm.

• Wang Zhifan froze Lü Kingdom’s Dragon-Rushing Cavalry, used White Entanglement to control some of them, and sent them to attack their own allies and breach the city gate.
• Wang Zhifan cleared the remaining cavalry while General Liu led Abundance Kingdom’s army into the city and defeated the Huan Kingdom defenders.
• Over the following weeks, Wang Zhifan helped Abundance Kingdom capture Huan Kingdom’s strongholds, and Huan and Lü Kingdoms sent peace offers.
• Wang Zhifan rejected the offers and demanded that Huan and Lü Kingdoms become vassal states and support his hegemony.
• General Liu advised Wang Zhifan to seize Huan Kingdom’s Pattern-Soldier Tome and Lü Kingdom’s Rushing Dragon Secret Realm.
• Wang Zhifan left camp for the capitals of Huan and Lü Kingdoms, intending to use White Entanglement on their leaders to obtain information.

After Abundance Kingdom’s victories over Huan Kingdom and Lü Kingdom drew players and talent to its growing power, Wang Zhifan met Shenfengzi, a mysterious diviner who knew the players were outsiders. Shenfengzi offered to persuade other nations to submit, but warned that Wang Zhifan must eventually end the wars and leave the Turmoil Region; Wang Zhifan then returned to managing Abundance Kingdom while worrying about its future without him.

• Players and talented people flocked to Abundance Kingdom after Huan Kingdom and Lü Kingdom submitted and surrendered their military resources.
• Shenfengzi approached Wang Zhifan on a busy street, revealed his identity as Feng Xian’s hermit master, and asked to speak privately.
• Shenfengzi identified Wang Zhifan and other players as outsiders and urged them to leave the Turmoil Region to spare its people further suffering.
• Wang Zhifan asked Shenfengzi to help persuade other nations to submit, and Shenfengzi agreed except for Radiance Kingdom, whose ruler he said was destined to lose to Wang Zhifan.
• Shenfengzi vanished after promising to seek peaceful submissions and asking Wang Zhifan to end the wars and leave once his task was done.
• Wang Zhifan worried that Abundance Kingdom might fall apart after his departure, then returned to the royal palace to manage and sustain it.

As the Abundance Kingdom grew stronger and prepared for an inevitable conflict with the Radiance Kingdom, Wang Zhifan received a marriage-alliance offer from the distant Gentle Kingdom. Its princess challenged him, lost, and stayed at his court, leaving Wang Zhifan to suspect Shenfengzi had arranged the meeting for a larger purpose.

• Small nations offered gifts and pledged allegiance to Wang Zhifan, strengthening the Abundance Kingdom as the Radiance Kingdom unified its own territory.
• Wang Zhifan agreed to meet the Gentle Kingdom princess after his prime minister explained that her kingdom could help surround the Radiance Kingdom.
• The Gentle Kingdom princess arrived with female guards, questioned Wang Zhifan's strength, and challenged him to fight.
• Wang Zhifan shattered the princess's Eight Desolations Coiling Dragon Fist with his Bioforce Field, and she conceded after one exchange.
• Wang Zhifan suspected Shenfengzi had orchestrated the meeting, then invited the princess to remain at his court.

Wang Zhifan married Rou Che, made her queen, and left her in charge of internal affairs after she and several attendants became pregnant. As the Abundance Kingdom’s war with the Radiance Kingdom neared its decisive phase, Wang Zhifan led a massive army to the front and entrusted its tactics to General Liu.

• Wang Zhifan married Princess Rou Che in a three-day royal wedding and made her queen.
• Wang Zhifan took a powerful pill before the wedding night, and Rou Che and several of her attendants later became pregnant.
• General Liu defeated the Talisman Kingdom’s forces, while Feng Xian captured several Radiance Kingdom-aligned nations and stabilized the battle line.
• Wang Zhifan assigned Rou Che responsibility for internal affairs, left two Dream Self clones to guard the palace, and rode to gather fresh troops.
• Wang Zhifan led 300,000 troops toward the front lines, joined General Liu after a half-month march, and gave him authority to direct the army.

Feng Xian’s army defeated Radiance Kingdom’s insect and artillery forces but suffered heavy casualties, and Wang Zhifan arrived with a plan to end the war by beheading the enemy king. After infiltrating the Radiance Kingdom in disguise, Wang Zhifan learned that its officials did not know where their king was hiding and began gathering other identifying details.

• Feng Xian led his troops against a large insect army, but Radiance Kingdom artillery struck the battlefield and an enemy player tried to assassinate him.
• Feng Xian’s forces destroyed the insect and artillery units after suffering more than thirty percent casualties, leaving him worried that the war was turning against them.
• Wang Zhifan arrived, comforted Feng Xian, and said he would defeat Radiance Kingdom by beheading its king.
• Wang Zhifan rode alone into enemy territory disguised with the Mad Treant Mask and questioned a Radiance Kingdom minister.
• The minister revealed that no one knew the king’s whereabouts, so Wang Zhifan asked for the king’s name, appearance, and age.

Wang Zhifan used the Grimy Holy Grail to locate a Radiance Kingdom player hiding aboard a submarine and killed him after accidentally causing severe decompression injuries. He looted the player’s equipment, including several Summoner items and the Little Whale vessel.

• Wang Zhifan learned the Radiance King’s location from Radiance Kingdom officials and used the Grimy Holy Grail to find a player hiding in a whale-shaped submarine.
• Wang Zhifan used the Sea God's Eye to command the surrounding ocean and lift the submarine and its occupant rapidly to the surface.
• Wang Zhifan found the player unconscious from decompression injuries, then killed him with Ice Source Power and Saber Intent.
• Wang Zhifan used the Victor's Ring to loot the player’s inventory and equipment, including the Exceptional Tier Commander's Heart and several Ape King series rings.
• Wang Zhifan tested Commander's Heart on a Dream Self clone and found it did not strengthen the clone, then claimed the Rare Tier Little Whale vessel.

Wang Zhifan discovered that the dead player's underwater passage was only a supply store, while the player’s summoned insect army vanished across the battlefields and enabled the Abundance Kingdom to conquer the Radiance Kingdom. After becoming the Turmoil Region’s Overlord, Wang Zhifan received his dungeon rewards and considered leaving the Dragon Qi Cauldron in his realm.

• Wang Zhifan searched the underwater passage and found provisions and a freshwater spring, but no equipment.
• The insect armies vanished from battlefields across the region, leaving Abundance Kingdom forces free to defeat the Radiance Kingdom.
• Wang Zhifan’s forces captured the Radiance Kingdom’s capital and compelled its leaders and neighboring nations to submit to the Abundance Kingdom.
• Wang Zhifan reached level 13 and gained the Overlord title, which granted immunity to negative statuses and permanent Constitution and Strength increases.
• Wang Zhifan reviewed his dungeon rewards and considered choosing the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book, Record of Fierce Generals, Command Tally, and possibly the Dragon Qi Cauldron.

Wang Zhifan chose the Dragon Qi Cauldron as the final treasure to secure the Abundance Kingdom’s future, then prepared to leave the dungeon by entrusting Rou Che and his ministers with the kingdom. Divinations revealed that attempts to eliminate future traitors could destabilize the realm, so Wang Zhifan departed after deciding to leave events largely unchanged.

• Wang Zhifan selected the Dragon Qi Cauldron and returned to the Abundance Kingdom’s capital to see Rou Che.
• Wang Zhifan told Rou Che that he had to leave and entrusted her with the Dragon Qi Cauldron and responsibility for the kingdom’s foundations.
• Wang Zhifan used the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book to identify future rebellions and learned that Feng Xian would eventually rebel.
• Wang Zhifan’s calculations showed that killing Feng Xian or Shenfengzi could make the Abundance Kingdom less stable, and repeated divinations exhausted him.
• Wang Zhifan returned to Rou Che, gave her final instructions, and vanished when the dungeon expelled him.

After returning from a dungeon, Wang Zhifan checked his improved stats and realized that using the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book had left him with a hidden fatigue. He gave the Grimoire to Yilin and Yali to study, then chose to cultivate the Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art and planned to practice invisibly after his first flight nearly exposed him.

• Wang Zhifan reviewed his player panel and noted his level, attributes, saber technique, and equipment gains from the dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan rested for two hours and concluded that the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book had taken a greater toll than he had expected.
• Wang Zhifan gave the Grimoire to Yali and Yilin after they explained which spells their innate succubus powers might let them learn.
• Wang Zhifan chose the Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art over his other techniques and began cultivating it in the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode.
• Wang Zhifan flew hundreds of meters into the air during practice, returned to his villa to avoid being seen, and decided to train while wearing the Wind-Hiding Hat.

Wang Zhifan advanced his Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art before remembering his promise to help the Limitless Sect fight the Demon Gate. He joined Sect Master Xiong and the Qin Leader of the Broken Qin Sect on their journey to meet three other sects, and divined that the mission held both danger and opportunity.

• Wang Zhifan practiced the Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art in Dongjiang City and advanced it to Lv1, then sensed the Limitless Sect's Guest Elder Token and remembered his promise.
• Wang Zhifan traveled to the Limitless Sect, where Xiong Tianli introduced him to the Qin Leader of the Broken Qin Sect and prepared to depart for the demon-slaying mission.
• Xiong Tianli left his disciples Xun'er and Qing'er to guard the sect, then rode out with Wang Zhifan and the Qin Leader toward the Demon Gate's stronghold.
• Wang Zhifan learned that Dharma Zen Temple, the Righteous Assembly Gate, and the Quicksand Sword Sect would join the attack, while Xiong Tianli and the Qin Leader debated the other sects' strength.
• Wang Zhifan used the Heaven's Mandate Divination Book to calculate the mission's dangers and opportunities, then put it away.

Wang Zhifan and five sect leaders agreed to attack Wind-Snow Tower after uncovering its ties to the Demon Gate and its suspected Blood Demon Art. They launched their assault, and Wang Zhifan killed a fleeing Wind-Snow Tower member with a single slash.

• Wang Zhifan and his companions reached Tigerhead Town and met the leaders of the Broken Qin Sect, Righteous Assembly Gate, Quicksand Sword Sect, and Dharma Zen Temple at the Martial Dragon Inn.
• The sect leaders discussed evidence that Wind-Snow Tower had colluded with the Demon Gate and used missing children to cultivate the Blood Demon Art.
• The leaders argued over who would take control of Wind-Snow Tower's territory, while Chief Qin offered to manage it if necessary.
• The group agreed to attack Wind-Snow Tower, with Chief Qin using her String-Breaking Qin Melody to knock out most of its servants and spare them from indiscriminate slaughter.
• Sect Master Lu attacked Hu Changkong as Wang Zhifan blocked a suspected Demon Gate member's escape and killed him with one slash.

Wang Zhifan methodically cleared out Wind-Snow Tower while Sect Master Lu fought its master and the other sect leaders uncovered a blood pool beneath the rear mountain. The hidden Blood Demon evaded their coordinated attack and revealed himself to the three intruders.

• Wang Zhifan killed three attackers on the fifth floor with ease and continued clearing Wind-Snow Tower.
• Sect Master Lu of the Quicksand Sword Sect trapped the master of Wind-Snow Tower in a relentless sword assault on the eighth floor.
• Qin Master Jiang, the abbot of Dharma Zen Temple, and Sect Master Xiong of the Limitless Sect broke into a concealed passage and discovered a blood pool with someone sleeping inside.
• The three leaders entered the underground cavern, where Sect Master Xiong attacked the sleeper, Qin Master Jiang shattered the blood pool with a sound wave, and the abbot prepared a Buddhist technique.
• The figure evaded Sect Master Xiong by exploding into blood droplets, then re-formed ten meters away and faced the intruders.