Chapter Summaries

Demoness summoned the Demon Gate Airship to seize Wang Zhifan’s Pitch-Black Tower, but Wang Zhifan confronted the Demon Gate forces alone and slaughtered them with overwhelming strength. He ended the battle by unveiling a technique that blurred reality and illusion, which he named Dreamlike Reality.

• Demoness convinced the Demon Gate experts aboard the airship that the Pitch-Black Tower was an unrecorded ancient treasure worth taking to the Demon Lord.
• The Demon Gate Airship approached Tigerhead Town, and Wang Zhifan flew out to meet it, intent on using the fight to gain experience.
• Wang Zhifan killed Spear Ghost and two other Demon Gate fighters before destroying the airship’s flame shells with his saber.
• Wang Zhifan created more than a hundred clones, then appeared as numerous true bodies and killed the Demon Gate experts surrounding him.
• Wang Zhifan returned to one body as the airship tried to flee, named his reality-bending move Dreamlike Reality, and advanced the Great Dream Saber Scripture to Lv8.

Wang Zhifan comprehended a new Great Dream Saber Scripture technique, defeated the Demon Gate experts, and took control of their airship for Tigerhead Town. After returning to town and informing Old He, he resumed attending to the Black Towers as a marquis and his guards entered them.

• Wang Zhifan used his Dream Self clones to overwhelm and kill the Demon Gate experts, reaching Great Dream Saber Scripture Lv8 with a new ultimate technique.
• Wang Zhifan activated the Demon King's Battle Armor's Dark Domain aboard the airship, turning its servants into loyal puppets and killing the hidden experts who resisted.
• Wang Zhifan ordered the transformed servants to land the airship, prepare a simple exterior change, and clear the corpses before he searched the nearby forest for a missing survivor.
• Wang Zhifan returned to Tigerhead Town, where the townspeople celebrated his victory and praised Wind-Snow Tower.
• The marquis changed his mind about leaving town and entered the Black Towers, prompting A-Qiang and the other guards to follow.
• Wang Zhifan told Old He to treat the airship's transformed servants as allies and put the airship to work for Tigerhead Town's development.

Wang Zhifan ended the Holy Tower Ceremony after drawing crowds to the Black Towers, then skipped two worlds to cultivate at the Great Rift in the Purgatory World. Back on Earthstar, he learned that Chen Ming and Chen Can wanted his help raiding an Ash Domain, but he decided to ask them about it after his next dungeon.

• Wang Zhifan adjusted the Black Towers' trials and rewards, then closed entry early as crowds gathered outside and people shared stories about their gains.
• A young master in splendid robes survived a difficult fight against a vampire viscount, received a Healing Potion and a wall-passing skill ring, and resolved to support the Heavenly Venerable Church so he could hear about the next ceremony.
• Wang Zhifan emerged from the tower, showed Wu Xun, Yang Qingqing, and Old He the Demon Gate Airship and its subdued crew, and oversaw the incineration of the Demon Gate experts' corpses.
• Wang Zhifan skipped the Demon Hunter World and the Quantum Dream Domain to cultivate at the Great Rift in the Purgatory World, then returned to Earthstar after his dungeon entry permission refreshed.
• Succubus maids Yilin and Yali told Wang Zhifan that Chen Ming and Chen Can had visited to invite him to help raid an Ash Domain, and he chose to ask them about it after his next dungeon.

Wang Zhifan chose the Spirit Medium identity in Dead Soul Land, then entered a forest to rescue a boy calling for help. The boy led him toward Little Grain Village and explained how ghosts could turn nightmares into reality.

• Wang Zhifan reviewed the available identities and chose Spirit Medium, despite learning that its divination ritual required a shamanic dance and incense.
• Wang Zhifan avoided taking incense from graves occupied by dormant evil presences and headed toward the dark mountains instead.
• Wang Zhifan heard a boy calling for help in the forest and cut the branches trapping him with saber energy.
• The boy escaped the forest with Wang Zhifan and revealed that an evil ghost had attacked him in a dream, breaking his protective jade talisman.
• The boy led Wang Zhifan toward Little Grain Village, the nearby settlement where people lived and bought items to fight ghosts and monsters.

Wang Zhifan reached Little Grain Village with Xiao Qiang and learned the location of Dead Soul Land and a clue to its safe places. He refused to join a group of Xia Kingdom players and set off alone, while the other groups began considering him a potential tool to probe the instance.

• Wang Zhifan brought Xiao Qiang home, where the boy reunited with his grandmother, and noticed players climbing up the cliff nearby.
• Wang Zhifan asked Xiao Qiang's grandmother about Dead Soul Land, but she warned him of its dangers before Xiao Qiang revealed it lay beyond the only mountain pass in the distant range.
• Xiao Qiang's grandmother told Wang Zhifan that ruined temples with broken Buddha statues were safe places at night, while lit or intact temples could be dangerous.
• A sunny young player invited Wang Zhifan to join his three-person Xia Kingdom team, but Wang Zhifan declined and chose to leave alone.
• The other player groups agreed to act cautiously at first, and the Xia Kingdom players privately discussed treating Wang Zhifan as a likely target to use for scouting.

Wang Zhifan bought supernatural supplies from the village peddler before entering Dead Soul Land, where he drove off the first ghosts with a strike from his saber. As night approached, he headed deeper into the land to find the broken temple Xiao Qiang's grandmother had described as safe.

• Wang Zhifan found the old peddler at the village entrance and bought incense, candles, and a Bloodwood Sword with two silver ingots.
• The other players gathered to buy ghost-fighting supplies while Wang Zhifan rode toward the mountain pass and sent the restless Crimson Deer Horse back to its secret realm.
• Wang Zhifan entered Dead Soul Land and saw ghosts and monsters gathering around him.
• Wang Zhifan struck with the Azure Emperor Saber, destroying the female ghost and breaking the coffin while the other creatures fled.
• As night fell, Wang Zhifan began searching for the broken temple, which Xiao Qiang's grandmother had said was safe.

Wang Zhifan used the Spirit-Shaman Dance to locate two powerful ghosts in Dead Soul Land, then headed north while collecting rewards from lesser ghosts along the way. He discovered an underground palace where a group of professional grave robbers were already operating, and decided to follow them in concealment.

• Wang Zhifan performed the advanced Spirit-Shaman Dance and divined the locations of a fierce ghost to the north and a female ghost to the east-southeast.
• Little Red recorded Wang Zhifan's dance, but he ordered her to erase the data and keep any future performances secret.
• Wang Zhifan killed several ghosts on his way north, unlocked progress toward the Matchbreaker title, and obtained a Red Coffin, Embroidered Shoes, and Longevity Lock.
• Wang Zhifan reached the northern site and sensed a vast underground palace containing the fierce ghost, along with a group of professional grave robbers.
• Wang Zhifan concealed himself and followed the grave robbers into the underground palace to observe their progress.

Wang Zhifan followed a tomb-raiding party through an underground palace, eyeing their powerful equipment and planning to let them fight the sleeping Zombie King before taking the spoils. The group reached the sealed main burial chamber and prepared to break in, while Wang Zhifan remained hidden nearby.

• Uncle Qiu broke through a stone slab after Old Zhang identified it as a tomb barrier, and the group entered a hall filled with ancient stone soldiers and chariots.
• The young man in the Western suit used his treasure map to locate the route to the main burial chamber, while Master Zhao urged the group to keep moving through Dead Soul Land.
• Wang Zhifan secretly followed the group, inspected their Excellent Tier sword, pistol, and spirit jar, and decided to use the party and the Zombie King to obtain their equipment and claim the kill.
• The group followed the map, cleared several mechanisms, and reached the sealed main burial chamber.
• Master Zhao positioned her Bald Zombie at the front as the others prepared for battle, while the young man stayed at the back before they broke down the door.

Master Zhao attempted to subdue the thousand-year-old zombie in the green jade coffin, but it awakened and overwhelmed her ghostly puppets. Wang Zhifan secretly slowed it long enough for her to escape, and the group resumed their attack as the zombie began to burn with golden flames.

• Master Zhao and the others broke open the burial chamber door and found the thousand-year-old zombie lying motionless in its coffin.
• After agreeing to give the zombie to Master Zhao and keep the Tiger Tally, the group let her approach the coffin with her three ghostly puppets.
• Master Zhao tried to capture the zombie with her black jar, but it burst from the coffin and shattered the bald zombie's arm while resisting the ghosts.
• Wang Zhifan used Ice Source Power to slow the zombie, giving Master Zhao time to retreat, then withdrew his power to prevent it from being subdued.
• Master Zhao abandoned her capture attempt and called for the others to attack; the military-uniformed man shot the zombie with silver bullets, and the Zhongshan-suited man struck it with his golden Eight-Faced Han Sword.
• Golden flames spread across the zombie and toward the three ghostly puppets, so Master Zhao recalled them.

The group defeated the Millennium Zombie, but Wang Zhifan saw a tiny Metal Cube emerge from its corpse and take over the young man in the Western-style suit. He confronted the possessed man in the underground passage, recognized the zombie’s escape scheme, and prepared to break through by force.

• The Millennium Zombie succumbed to the Golden Flame and Silver Light, and Master Zhao confirmed that it was dead.
• Master Zhao’s Bald Zombie inspected the Celadon Coffin and revealed that it was empty, disappointing the young man in the Western-style suit.
• Wang Zhifan watched a Metal Cube enter the young man’s heart and take control of his body while the others focused on the coffin.
• The possessed young man led the group back through the underground palace with the Celadon Coffin, while Wang Zhifan followed in concealment.
• Wang Zhifan blocked the group in a passage and accused the young man of being a thousand-year-old monster in a stolen body.
• Wang Zhifan concluded that the Millennium Zombie had staged its defeat to escape and decided to confront it by force.

Wang Zhifan exposed and defeated the thousand-year-old zombie possessing the young man in Western clothes, claimed the Longevity Talisman and the group’s treasures, and left the underground palace with three captured fighters. The survivors mistook him for a Hermit, granting him a title that helped him blend into crowds.

• Wang Zhifan drew his saber and pursued the young man in Western clothes, using his powers to evade the group and freeze its human members.
• Wang Zhifan seized the young man, exposed the wound in his chest, and showed the others that a zombie had replaced their companion.
• Wang Zhifan removed the Longevity Talisman, erased the soul inside it, and left the young man’s body dead.
• Wang Zhifan took the NPCs’ weapons and jar, then captured the two ghosts and the bald zombie before leaving the underground palace.
• The four survivors guessed that Wang Zhifan was a Hermit, and their belief granted him the Hermit title.

Wang Zhifan traveled to a haunted residence and clashed with two groups of players who wanted to claim it. After killing two Korean players and taking their puppet, he continued toward the residence to face its ghosts.

• Wang Zhifan received the Hermit title and persuaded Little Red to enter autonomous learning mode after it mistook supernatural events for corrupted data.
• Wang Zhifan reached a brightly lit residence and found Xia Kingdom and Korean players arguing over who had discovered it first.
• Wang Zhifan ignored both groups and walked toward the residence, causing players from each side to attack him; his defenses made their bullets miss.
• A Korean player bound Wang Zhifan with Deadly Puppet No. 6 while another stabbed him, but Wang Zhifan evaded the attack and killed the puppet's user.
• Wang Zhifan used Deadly Puppet No. 6 to crush the invisible Korean Assassin, then picked up the remaining equipment and headed for the residence.

Wang Zhifan challenged the fierce female ghost inside the haunted residence and broke through her Mirror Space and illusion-based attacks. As he entered the house to confront her true body, she revealed a gigantic form beneath the residence and lifted it into the air with him trapped inside.

• Wang Zhifan entered the haunted residence after the other players left to chase the Koreans, and summoned three ghosts to test the enemy.
• The female ghost returned the Bald Zombie under her control, while Wang Zhifan's Dream Self clone was dragged into Mirror Space and attacked by her gaze.
• Wang Zhifan used the Azure Emperor Saber to slash through Mirror Space, then fought the female ghost's illusions and clones with an army of Dream Self clones.
• Wang Zhifan entered the weakened residence and found the female ghost at a dressing table with a shattered mirror, but she evaded his attack and lifted the house.
• Wang Zhifan sensed a mountain-sized female ghost emerging from underground and holding the residence aloft with him trapped inside.

Wang Zhifan battled the giant female ghost through the night, repeatedly destroying her only for mysterious underground energy to restore her. At daybreak, he used the Azure Emperor Saber to sever her connection to Dead Soul Land, leaving her without the power sustaining her as she disintegrated under his attacks.

• Wang Zhifan broke free from the ghost’s grasp and struck her with Life Is a Dream, but underground evil energy restored her nearly vanished body.
• The giant female ghost unleashed a vast crimson gaze that killed several players, while an Assassin killed her wounded Xia Kingdom teammate and looted his stored items.
• Wang Zhifan endured the ghost’s attacks and fought her through the night, using his techniques and clones to probe the source of her repeated recovery.
• Wang Zhifan used Dreamlike Reality to overwhelm the ghost with the combined force of his clones, but the underground power continued to sustain her.
• Wang Zhifan deepened his synchronization with the Azure Emperor Saber and severed the ghost’s connection to Dead Soul Land.
• Wang Zhifan attacked the now-isolated ghost until she disintegrated without recovering.

After killing a guardian of Dead Soul Land, Wang Zhifan gained the Underworld Envoy identity and learned that the Netherworld forbade him from killing the remaining guardians. He decided to recruit players and powerful NPCs to fight them instead, then discovered he could revive the corpse of a young man accompanying a group of survivors.

• Wang Zhifan gained the Underworld Envoy identity, reached Lv23, and learned the identity could summon ghosts, communicate with the dead, and revive the deceased.
• He summoned a red-clad Ghost King, who revealed that three guardians remained and warned that killing guardians would bring Netherworld punishment and strip away his identity.
• Wang Zhifan weighed defying the Netherworld against obeying its restrictions, then planned to have players and NPCs eliminate the guardians while he avoided punishment and claimed the rewards.
• After reviewing his status panel, Wang Zhifan traveled through Dead Soul Land and found that its ghosts kept their distance from him.
• He spotted the surviving NPC group carrying a young man's corpse in a green jade coffin and discovered that he could revive the dead man by paying two hundred years of lifespan.

Wang Zhifan resurrected the young man in Western clothes in exchange for organizing an attack on Dead Soul Land’s guardian, while he recruited support and farmed elite ghosts. After reaching the instance’s experience cap at Lv26, he stopped farming and waited to see whether the NPCs and surviving players could defeat the guardian.

• Wang Zhifan restored the young man in Western clothes to life after securing his promise to organize people to destroy the vicious ghosts in Dead Soul Land.
• Wang Zhifan left a Dream Self clone to monitor the resurrected young man and began searching for other players to recruit against the guardian.
• Wang Zhifan discovered that the guardian’s red light had killed several players from afar, summoned four of their souls, and decided not to resurrect them because they were too weak for his plan.
• Wang Zhifan spent more than half a month killing elite ghosts, raising his level from Lv23 to Lv26 and collecting numerous ghost-related items.
• Wang Zhifan stopped farming after reaching the instance experience cap, focused on cultivation, and pinned his hopes on the NPC team and surviving players defeating the guardian.

With two days left in Dead Soul Land, Wang Zhifan’s plan to lure players and hired experts into fighting a guardian ghost began, but the guardian confronted him instead. It delivered a warning from the Netherworld Will about Wang Zhifan’s Underworld Envoy status, leaving him pondering Supernatural Game’s purpose.

• Wang Zhifan drew hired experts and the remaining players to the guardian’s temple, hoping they would defeat the ghost while he watched.
• The experts and several players entered the temple and began fighting the guardian’s underling ghosts, while the Xia Kingdom Assassin stayed outside in hiding.
• The guardian vanished from the temple and appeared before Wang Zhifan, accusing him of plotting to have others attack the ghosts.
• Wang Zhifan denied involvement, and the guardian said the Netherworld Will had invested in his highest-level Underworld Envoy status and warned him not to oppose the Netherworld when the time came.
• The guardian explained that it was trapped in Dead Soul Land by rules imposed from beyond, prompting Wang Zhifan to reflect on the Netherworld’s relationship with Supernatural Game and its purpose.

After returning from Dead Soul Land, Wang Zhifan reviewed his gains and agreed to help the Chen brothers investigate and clear valuable foreign Ash Domains when they had locations and a plan ready. He then went to Purgatory World to continue cultivating Space Law, focusing on the canyon where it was weaker.

• Wang Zhifan returned to Earthstar after Dead Soul Land, noted that he had reached level 26 and gained the Underworld Envoy identity, and saw Yilin and Yali tending the villa garden.
• Wang Zhifan received a 1,500,000 Xia Kingdom Currency reward from the Administration and called Chen Can to ask why the Chen brothers had sought him out.
• Chen Can explained that the brothers wanted Wang Zhifan to help clear unattended Ash Domains abroad to obtain equipment for themselves and their guild, while also gaining combat practice.
• Wang Zhifan agreed to help with batches of foreign Ash Domains once the Chen brothers found promising locations, saying he could use a special item to travel and support them as needed.
• Wang Zhifan went to Purgatory World to continue cultivating Space Law in the great canyon.

Wang Zhifan completed a breakthrough in controlling the Space Law in the Great Rift, then agreed to help a young local follow a crystal ball toward a treasure in Purgatory. The crystal ball led them to a strange patch of bushes, where a tree suddenly grew and opened a hole in its trunk.

• Wang Zhifan used a miniature spatial vortex to carve a spiral-shaped pit in a rock, confirming he could exert preliminary control over the Space Law.
• After seeing an adventurer group abandon a young swordsman, Wang Zhifan considered searching Purgatory for perfect-grade equipment.
• The youth asked Wang Zhifan to help him explore Purgatory and offered half the treasure located by his grandfather's guiding crystal ball.
• Wang Zhifan carried the youth through the air as they followed the crystal ball's growing glow to a desolate wasteland.
• When the crystal ball seemed to lead nowhere, Wang Zhifan noticed a point of light forming beside it and followed its guidance with the youth.
• The point of light merged with a patch of bushes, making one tree grow ten times larger and opening a circular hole in its trunk.

Wang Zhifan and Hank entered a treasure maze through a portal and fought their way through its abandoned halls. They found a golden crown guarded by a ghostly lake monster, which Wang Zhifan destroyed with one saber strike.

• Hank placed the crystal ball in the tree hollow, opening a portal that Wang Zhifan and he entered.
• Wang Zhifan opened a sealed stone door, froze the attacking ghouls, and found that the nearby cave had already been looted.
• Hank explained that the crystal balls were one-use keys to a dangerous maze filled with treasure and monsters.
• Wang Zhifan led Hank past a trapped passage to an underground lake and used an icy hand to retrieve a golden crown.
• A giant ghostly face attacked the icy hand, and Wang Zhifan drew his saber and destroyed it with a single slash.