Chapter Summaries

After clearing the Ash Domain cave, Wang Zhifan discovered that the Goddess of Fortune Statue had permanently raised all his attributes by eleven. He returned to Dongjiang City with Chu Wei and A Liao, then learned that the Administration was warning players about violent foreign player groups targeting people in multiple cities.

• Wang Zhifan, Chu Wei, and A Liao finished clearing the Ash Domain cave and returned to the small grove.
• Wang Zhifan checked his personal panel and saw that all his attributes had increased by eleven after touching the Goddess of Fortune Statue.
• Wang Zhifan waited with A Liao while Chu Wei filed the cleanup report, then the three went out to eat.
• Wang Zhifan returned to his rented room, relaxed, and read an Administration announcement warning players about violent criminal groups targeting people in cities including Dongjiang City.

Wang Zhifan entered a dungeon whose objective was to kill a Lv4 Venomfang Spider, alongside two female teammates. After one teammate fainted and the other revealed she was a newcomer, he fought the spider alone and defeated it.

• Wang Zhifan entered the dungeon with two female teammates and received the objective to kill a nearby Venomfang Spider.
• One teammate panicked at the sight of the spider and fainted, while the other admitted it was her first dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan told the newcomer to stay put and approached the spider, building up his buffs before shooting it.
• Wang Zhifan evaded the spider's attacks and repeatedly shot it as it pursued him.
• The heavily wounded Venomfang Spider died and dissipated into the air.

Wang Zhifan reached Lv3, chose new dungeon rewards, and tested his Sprint skill and boosted speed. After telling his surviving teammate to wake the unconscious woman and leave, he returned to the real world.

• Wang Zhifan chose Fang, Spider Cloth Shoes, and a box of pistol ammunition from the dungeon rewards.
• Wang Zhifan confirmed his level and equipment, then put on the Spider Cloth Shoes and tested Sprint.
• Wang Zhifan combined Sprint with his Berserk and Rage buffs and estimated that he could run one hundred meters in about three seconds.
• Wang Zhifan picked up his original shoes and told the grateful girl to wake the unconscious white-collar worker and leave.
• Wang Zhifan vanished from the dungeon world.

Wang Zhifan finished a routine day clearing Ash Domains with Chu Wei and A Liao, then encountered a wolf-headed monster attacking people on his way home. The intelligent monster identified him as a Xia Kingdom player and ambushed him, but Wang Zhifan dodged its attacks and prepared to fight.

• Wang Zhifan received Chu Wei's message about the Ash Domain cleanup and went to work with Chu Wei and A Liao.
• Wang Zhifan and his teammates cleared their assigned Ash Domains, earned their wages, and found no special rewards.
• Wang Zhifan saw a wolf-headed monster emerge from a manhole and attack a passerby, so he turned to flee.
• The monster ambushed Wang Zhifan and called him another Xia Kingdom player.
• Wang Zhifan drew the Blade of the Wolf Fiend and dodged the monster's rapid attacks as it threatened to kill him.

Wang Zhifan fought a regenerating wolf-like monster and used Tiger Fiend and Sprint to overwhelm it with speed and soul damage. The monster tried to flee, then counterattacked, and Wang Zhifan brought the Blade of the Wolf Fiend down on its forehead.

• Wang Zhifan dodged the monster's pounces and wounded it repeatedly with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend, but it ignored the injuries and regenerated.
• The monster taunted Wang Zhifan before its wounds healed, revealing its rapid regeneration and apparent resistance to the blade's wolf-type instant-kill effect.
• Wang Zhifan activated Tiger Fiend and Sprint, making himself faster and inflicting soul damage that the monster could not quickly recover from.
• The monster fled toward a sewer entrance, then twisted around to claw at Wang Zhifan's throat when he caught up.
• Wang Zhifan dodged the counterattack, rammed into the monster's chest, and struck its forehead with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.

Wang Zhifan killed a foreign werewolf player with a single powerful slash, and Captain Li’s team investigated the scene. After learning how dangerous his neighborhood had become, Wang Zhifan decided to look for a safer place to live after clearing a dungeon the next day.

• Wang Zhifan triggered the Ape King's Rage ring's double-damage effect and split the werewolf player in two with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.
• Captain Li examined the corpse and estimated that the killer was at least a Lv30 close-combat player.
• Captain Li's team found that the street's CCTV had been sabotaged and traced the werewolf's route to a sewer manhole.
• Captain Li ordered a search of the sewers and allowed only a preliminary check into the unknown player's identity, warning his team not to approach him directly.
• Wang Zhifan showered in his rented room and decided to seek a safer home near the Dongjiang Second Bureau after clearing the next day's dungeon.

Wang Zhifan entered a Level 3 dungeon with four teammates and learned that their mission was to eliminate the bandits attacking Peaceful Stockade. He introduced himself as a Level 3 Blademaster among much higher-level players, and the group began sizing each other up before setting out.

• Wang Zhifan entered the dungeon and saw four teammates in an ancient Xia Kingdom-style manor courtyard.
• The dungeon objective appeared: eliminate all bandits attacking Peaceful Stockade.
• Han Hao introduced himself as a Level 8 sniper, while a masked Level 7 assassin and Level 7 gunner Huang Yunqiang introduced themselves.
• Wang Zhifan revealed he was a Level 3 Blademaster, surprising Huang Yunqiang and drawing Han Hao's attention.
• A Level 9 Priest-type Physiognomancer introduced herself, and Han Hao guessed she belonged to the Administration; she confirmed it.

Wang Zhifan refused to act as the team’s front-line shield, arguing that the group could fight from range instead. Han Hao berated him and drew the others away to discuss the instance strategy, leaving Wang Zhifan isolated in the courtyard.

• Han Hao assessed the five players’ roles and asked the masked Assassin to scout the enemies later.
• Han Hao proposed that Wang Zhifan lead the attack and draw the bandits’ fire while the Priest healed him.
• Wang Zhifan said he would rather use his firearms from a safer position, and Huang Yunqiang criticized his refusal to charge.
• Wang Zhifan argued that the team could attack from range and rejected the idea that his Warrior role required him to risk his life as a shield.
• Han Hao accused Wang Zhifan of refusing responsibility, then led Huang Yunqiang and the masked Assassin away to plan without him.
• The Priest woman withdrew to another corner, leaving Wang Zhifan alone as the others discussed the plan and glanced his way.

Wang Zhifan and the other players prepared to defend Peaceful Stockade from the Blood Wolf Bandits. The fight began when mounted bandits revealed they could leap extraordinary distances, leaving Wang Zhifan alarmed by their martial arts.

• An elderly NPC asked Wang Zhifan and the other players to help Peaceful Stockade repel the Blood Wolf Bandits, and Wang Zhifan agreed to go to the stockade gate.
• Wang Zhifan took cover behind the palisade while the other players chose positions for sniper, rifle, pistol, or melee attacks.
• Nearly two hundred bandits charged up the road toward the stockade, led by five mounted men.
• The NPC ordered the archers to fire at the mounted bandits, but four of them leaped over twenty meters to evade the arrows and attack the hunters atop the gate.
• Wang Zhifan realized the bandits knew martial arts and reconsidered how easily the players could defeat them.

Wang Zhifan and the other defenders repelled the bandit experts who stormed the stronghold, but the bald, scar-faced bandit leader smashed through the main gate and led nearly two hundred bandits inside. As the defenders fought back, the suited young man drew the leader’s attention and a sniper prepared to strike him.

• A sniper killed one bandit expert on the main gate, and Wang Zhifan opened fire as the remaining three leaped into the villagers.
• The suited young man fired indiscriminately into the melee, wounding villagers and bandit experts, and Wang Zhifan used the chaos to kill two wounded bandits with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.
• The long-haired woman in black shot and killed the final bandit expert as he tried to break through the main gate.
• The bald, scar-faced bandit leader smashed through the gate, and nearly two hundred bandits charged into the stronghold.
• Wang Zhifan, the long-haired woman in black, and the suited young man fired on the incoming bandits, while the leader leaped toward the rooftop gunner.
• The suited young man weakened the leader with rifle fire and used Backstep Shot, then a man in a coat fired a sniper round at the leader as he paused in midair.

Wang Zhifan and his teammates fought the instance boss, whose powerful defenses and counterattacks overwhelmed several players despite the Priest and sniper briefly working together. As the wounded boss turned to face Wang Zhifan, Wang Zhifan launched a fully buffed strike with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.

• The bald, scar-faced instance boss deflected the sniper’s first shot with a roar and knocked the young Gunner in the suit off a roof.
• The Priest trapped the boss in an Eight Trigrams Cage, allowing the sniper in the coat to hit him twice and blast a large hole through his abdomen.
• The Assassin attacked the wounded boss from behind, but the boss hurled him away and then struck the sniper in the coat off a rooftop.
• Wang Zhifan reached the boss, activated Tiger Fiend and Sprint, and slashed at his neck with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.
• The boss turned and punched at Wang Zhifan’s incoming blade.

Wang Zhifan killed the nearly exhausted dungeon BOSS and turned to the remaining bandits, but his teammates confronted him over the death of Hao. He defended his tactics as the party’s cooperation broke down further.

• Wang Zhifan overwhelmed the wounded dungeon BOSS and decapitated him with a double-damage strike as he tried to flee.
• Wang Zhifan noted that roughly two hundred ordinary bandits remained and found the Assassin player gone.
• The Priest and the young man in a suit emerged, and Wang Zhifan told them the BOSS was dead and the bandits were still to be killed.
• Wang Zhifan asked the Priest to check the roof where the man in the coat had landed, and she sensed only a corpse there.
• The young man in the suit blamed Wang Zhifan for Hao’s death, and Wang Zhifan retorted that following the suit-wearing man’s strategy would have gotten him killed.

After Hao survived by triggering a feign-death skill, the team prepared to fight the remaining bandits attacking Peaceful Stockade. Wang Zhifan and his teammates charged into the horde, while Hao remained on the rooftop searching for his missing sniper rifle.

• Hao regained consciousness after the priest-type woman healed him and explained that his feign-death skill had made him appear dead.
• The young man in the suit told Hao that Wang Zhifan had killed the BOSS, and Wang Zhifan urged Hao to stay put while he recovered.
• Wang Zhifan asked about the missing smiling-mask assassin, but the others did not know where he was.
• Bandits attacked from the stockade's main gate, so the long-haired woman in black buffed the fighters and joined Wang Zhifan and the young man in the suit.
• The young man in the suit shot down the bandits at the front, then Wang Zhifan charged into the horde and slaughtered them with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.
• Hao stayed on the rooftop and shouted for someone to return his sniper rifle.

Wang Zhifan led a rapid slaughter of the bandits, while an invisible teammate coerced the injured coat-wearing man into giving up a Fine Tier ring in exchange for his sniper rifle. After the bandits were defeated, the team received their dungeon rewards, and Wang Zhifan saw a list of martial arts legacies to choose from.

• The invisible man demanded a valuable trade for the coat-wearing man's hidden sniper rifle, then took his Fine Tier ring and insisted it was not enough.
• Wang Zhifan, the suited rifle youth, and the long-haired black-clad woman killed nearly two hundred charging bandits and pursued the fleeing survivors.
• The suited youth shot the last fleeing bandit, causing treasure chests to appear for the team.
• Wang Zhifan received a reward list that included the Fine Tier legacies Mountain-Splitting Palm, Inner Fortification Art, and Water-Walking.

After completing the dungeon, Wang Zhifan chose three exceptional-grade cultivation art inheritances and fused them into his body as vast, accessible knowledge. He returned to his apartment with the three arts still at Lv0.

• Wang Zhifan chose the Great Dream Saber Scripture, Pure Yang True Art, and Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art from the reward list.
• He stored the treasure chest and returned from the dungeon to his rented apartment.
• Wang Zhifan opened the chest and fused the golden sphere into himself, receiving the Pure Yang True Art inheritance.
• He fused the other two spheres and received the Great Dream Saber Scripture and Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art inheritances.
• Wang Zhifan checked his personal panel and saw all three exceptional cultivation arts listed at Lv0.

Wang Zhifan began cultivating the Great Dream Saber Scripture and discovered that his Basic Blade Art skill made learning it much faster. After another day of clearing low-level Ash Domains, he looked for a safer apartment near the Dongjiang Second Bureau and continued cultivating, including in his dreams.

• Wang Zhifan planned to master the Great Dream Saber Scripture before cultivating the Pure Yang True Art and Wind-Thunder Heaven-Treading Art.
• Wang Zhifan practiced the Great Dream Saber Scripture’s basic saber forms and realized his Lv3 Basic Blade Art skill boosted his progress.
• Wang Zhifan joined Chu Wei and A Liao to clear low-level Ash Domains around Dongjiang City, earning money while practicing his new techniques.
• Wang Zhifan searched for a rental apartment near the Dongjiang Second Bureau after recalling the dangerous monster he had encountered on his way home.
• Wang Zhifan spent the evening cultivating and tried to practice the Great Dream Saber Scripture in his dreams.

Wang Zhifan entered a twelve-player Cataclysm Dungeon where players had to survive three days during a zombie apocalypse. As the group discussed the dangers and began forming teams, Wang Zhifan chose to keep his level and abilities secret and prepared to go alone, but a staff-wielding player approached him.

• Wang Zhifan woke after a promising night of dream training, then entered the day's dungeon and appeared in an underground parking garage with eleven other players.
• The players learned their objective was to survive three days in a zombie apocalypse and identified the dungeon as the dangerous Cataclysm Dungeon.
• Wang Zhifan falsely claimed to be Lv10 because he was actually Lv3 and wanted to avoid drawing attention.
• The bespectacled young man and the bearded middle-aged man explained that players should split into teams because Zombie Kings would hunt them on the final day.
• The players began forming teams, while Wang Zhifan decided to go alone, but a player holding a white staff approached him.

Wang Zhifan entered the Cataclysm Dungeon and began gathering information about its zombies while preparing to survive the three days. He realized the Chapter of Gloom pendant’s passive made ordinary evil creatures treat him as one of their own, leaving the reason he could safely pass among them clear.

• Wang Zhifan declined a Lv12 mage’s offer to team up and planned to find supplies and a safe hiding place.
• Wang Zhifan approached the surface exit and identified five ordinary zombies in the passage.
• Wang Zhifan used Strike with the Blade of the Wolf Fiend to decapitate two security zombies and confirmed that they died when their heads were cut off.
• Wang Zhifan approached the remaining three zombies, but they ignored him, and the little boy zombie walked past without attacking.
• Wang Zhifan realized the Chapter of Gloom’s United in Evil passive made non-boss evil creatures regard him as one of their own.

Wang Zhifan discovered that zombies ignored him and that he could store supplies from the supermarket in his personal space, so he began scavenging food, water, and bedding. While shopping, he sensed something large moving rapidly across the supermarket ceiling.

• Wang Zhifan reached the city streets and confirmed that ordinary zombies did not attack him.
• Wang Zhifan watched other players emerge from the parking garage, then entered a nearby supermarket to avoid them.
• Wang Zhifan discovered that he could put supermarket goods into his personal storage space and filled it with supplies.
• Wang Zhifan found a tall zombie behind a shelf, greeted it, and then sensed something large speeding across the ceiling.

Wang Zhifan hid in a supermarket after spotting an invisible Assassin player whose presence agitated the zombies. A horrifying ceiling-dwelling monster tracked the intruder and launched a sudden strike into the shelves, leaving the Assassin’s fate unclear.

• Wang Zhifan recognized that he had let his guard down and finished gathering supplies while carefully watching his surroundings.
• Wang Zhifan noticed zombies reacting near the entrance and concealed himself behind a pillar.
• Wang Zhifan saw a can of salted fish float away and realized an invisible Assassin player was taking supplies.
• Zombies gathered around the Assassin player’s location, apparently tracking the intruder by scent or sound.
• A long-limbed creature appeared on the ceiling and searched for the Assassin player with its dangling head.
• The creature stretched its neck and struck into a nearby aisle.