Chapter Summaries

Wang Zhifan rejected an Anomaly’s offer of the Heart of Anomalies in exchange for helping defeat Apartment 444. After the entity revealed that it had trapped him in its Anomalous Domain, Wang Zhifan attacked it and the other frozen Anomalies.

• The short middle-aged Anomaly offered Wang Zhifan the Heart of Anomalies if he helped defeat Apartment 444.
• Wang Zhifan refused the offer and demanded that the Anomaly remove the illusion and let him pass.
• The Anomaly revealed that Wang Zhifan was inside its Anomalous Domain and warned that it was immortal and unbeatable.
• Wang Zhifan challenged the Anomaly to prove its strength, then unleashed his powers and froze the surrounding area.
• Wang Zhifan split into four figures and attacked the frozen Anomalies, striking at the short middle-aged man with his Thunder Dragon Rageblade.

Wang Zhifan broke Deathwind Mountain’s ghost domain, discovered the mountain was the Anomaly’s true body, and froze it before it could devour his teammates. He recovered the Heart of Anomalies and urged the others to abandon the mission and escape.

• Wang Zhifan used George's Magical Stereo to boost his attributes and perceived the weak point in the ghost domain.
• Wang Zhifan struck the weak point with the Thunderfury Blade, shattering the ghost domain and realizing Deathwind Mountain was the Anomaly’s true body.
• Deathwind Mountain transformed its path into a giant mouth and tried to swallow everyone, but Wang Zhifan froze the mountain with Ice Source Power.
• Wang Zhifan sensed the Heart of Anomalies, retrieved it, and stored it in his personal inventory.
• Wang Zhifan reached the young man in the school uniform and the middle-aged gunman, warned them that the mountain was a ghost monster, and told them to evacuate and abandon the mission.

Wang Zhifan warned the others that Deathwind Mountain was a giant ghost, then chose to fight it instead of fleeing. He repeatedly defeated the immortal Anomaly and weakened it before vanishing, intent on handing it over to the existence it feared.

• Wang Zhifan warned the young man in the school uniform, the middle-aged gunman, and the apartment residents that the mountain was a giant ghost and urged them to escape.
• Wang Zhifan reached Deathwind Mountain’s summit and repeatedly slashed at its weak point while his Ice Source Power suppressed it.
• Deathwind Mountain broke free, transformed into a giant, and summoned ghosts, but Wang Zhifan severed its hand and suppressed the attackers.
• Deathwind Mountain restored itself and taunted Wang Zhifan, who revealed that he meant to weaken it for the existence it feared.
• Wang Zhifan used the Magical Sound System to defeat Deathwind Mountain twice more, weakening it each time, then disappeared after its third restoration.

Wang Zhifan returned to Apartment 444 after weakening Deathwind Mountain and negotiated with the apartment to obtain Blood-Word Missions. He left the apartment agreeing to help him, and Wang Zhifan asked it to issue five easy missions so he could complete them and depart.

• Wang Zhifan escaped Deathwind Mountain on the Heavenly Horse Red Deer and flew back to Apartment 444.
• He forced his way through the apartment's glass doors and returned to Room 405.
• Apartment 444 questioned Wang Zhifan through blood-red writing on his mirror, and he explained that he wanted to complete a few tasks before leaving.
• Wang Zhifan told Apartment 444 that he had weakened Deathwind Mountain, prompting the apartment to ask how it could help him leave sooner.
• Wang Zhifan asked Apartment 444 to issue five simple, quick Blood-Word Missions for him to complete with a team.

Wang Zhifan received several unusually easy Blood-Word Missions from Apartment 444 and recruited He Ping and Liu Fang to complete them. After finishing three missions in about half an hour, he appeared ready to leave the instance, while Liu Fang asked him to continue.

• The building manager delivered nearly ten special Blood-Word Missions to Wang Zhifan, who chose the first and asked for two teammates.
• Wang Zhifan asked the building manager to select teammates who would not interfere, then went downstairs to begin the missions.
• The building manager assigned He Ping and Liu Fang, two experienced residents with Ghost Artifacts, to accompany Wang Zhifan.
• Wang Zhifan, He Ping, and Liu Fang returned about half an hour later after completing three Blood-Word Missions.
• He Ping expressed disbelief at how easy the missions were, and Liu Fang urged Wang Zhifan to take them on more.
• Wang Zhifan shook his head and gazed at the empty air as Liu Fang made her request.

Wang Zhifan reviewed the dungeon reward list after reaching Lv7 and selected the highest-rarity items. He left the dungeon with the rewards stored in his personal storage.

• Wang Zhifan leveled up to Lv7, gained one constitution point, and increased his personal storage volume by one cubic meter.
• Wang Zhifan reviewed the rewards available from the dungeon settlement.
• Wang Zhifan chose the Undying Specter Ring, Anomalous Domain Gate, Formless Specter Garment, and Weird Shadow Shoes.
• Wang Zhifan confirmed the items had entered his personal storage and left the dungeon world.

After returning from the Anomaly dungeon, Wang Zhifan inspected his rewards at his villa and adjusted his equipment. He equipped the Undying Specter Ring and Formless Specter Garment, whose powerful defensive skill made him briefly translucent when activated.

• Wang Zhifan left Pingwu City and returned to his villa in Dongjiang City, where he checked that little real-world time had passed.
• Wang Zhifan replaced his Unyielding Ring with the Epic Tier Undying Specter Ring, keeping Ape King's Rage and Sea God's Meditation equipped.
• Wang Zhifan put on the Formless Specter Garment over his Jade Silkworm Silk Soft Armor and tested its outfit-changing ability.
• Wang Zhifan learned that the garment reduced damage, increased Spirit and energy recovery, and could grant immunity to all damage for up to one minute per day.
• Wang Zhifan tested the Formless Skill and saw that it made his body translucent, potentially alerting enemies.

Wang Zhifan tested the new abilities of his Exceptional Tier Ghost Shadow Shoes and used the Exceptional Tier Anomalous Domain Gate to turn East City Villa into a protected personal space. He confirmed his updated status and left the new equipment ready for future use.

• Wang Zhifan decided to conceal the obvious signs of Formlessness and considered combining it with the Wind-Hiding Hat's Invisibility ability.
• Wang Zhifan replaced his Fine Tier Spider Cloth Shoes with the Exceptional Tier Ghost Shadow Shoes and tested their Ghost and Shadow abilities inside his villa.
• Wang Zhifan bound the Exceptional Tier Anomalous Domain Gate and placed it at his estate's iron gate, making the villa grounds a semi-closed personal space accessible only with his permission.
• Wang Zhifan tested summoning the Anomalous Domain Gate from outside the villa and used it to return home in a manner resembling teleportation.
• Wang Zhifan checked his personal panel and confirmed his current level, attributes, skills, and equipment.

Wang Zhifan took a day to relax, drove around Dongjiang City, and invited Chen Ming and Chu Wei to lunch. After Chen Ming said he was partying in the capital, Wang Zhifan ate with Chu Wei and they remembered their deceased teammate A Liao.

• Wang Zhifan checked his attributes, then drove his new BMW around Dongjiang City to unwind.
• Wang Zhifan called Chen Ming to invite him to lunch, but Chen Ming said he was partying in the capital with friends.
• Wang Zhifan called Chu Wei, who agreed to meet him before her afternoon assignment.
• Wang Zhifan picked Chu Wei up and took her to a Western restaurant near the Dongjiang Second Bureau.
• Wang Zhifan and Chu Wei recalled eating with A Liao and lamented that the young teammate had died in an instance dungeon.

Wang Zhifan and Chu Wei chatted over dinner about players, public safety, and her work at the Second Administration. When Chu Wei guessed that Wang Zhifan was secretly from a wealthy family, he played along and invited her to visit his villa.

• Chu Wei agreed with Wang Zhifan that players could die unexpectedly in high-difficulty instances, and she said player-related crimes had increased nationwide.
• Chu Wei explained that new cleanup team members had arrived at the Second Administration, but she had returned to work after taking only half a day off.
• Wang Zhifan asked why Chu Wei had not reacted to his BMW, and she admitted she knew little about cars and cared more about houses.
• Chu Wei guessed that Wang Zhifan came from a wealthy family and was hiding his identity, and Wang Zhifan played along.
• Wang Zhifan told Chu Wei he had recently received a BMW from his family and owned a large villa, then invited her to visit.

After cultivating overnight in the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode, Wang Zhifan entered a seven-day instance where monsters could drop gear and players could fight without triggering Punishment Instances. He began hunting monsters in the wilderness and considered looking for NPCs who could sell or forge equipment.

• Wang Zhifan spent the day relaxing around Dongjiang City before returning to East City Villa and cultivating in the Mystic Chaos Secret Abode overnight.
• Wang Zhifan found that all his attributes had increased by two points and decided to run the day's instance without catching up on sleep.
• Wang Zhifan arrived alone in an overcast wilderness and learned that the instance required him to survive for seven days, with monster drops and unrestricted player combat.
• Wang Zhifan decided to seek NPC factions and equipment services, then used his Endless Sniper Rifle to kill a distant monster.
• Wang Zhifan inspected the monster's reward list and found only low-rate common and fine-grade drops that seemed mostly useless to him.

Wang Zhifan rode Red Deer through the wilderness, testing the instance’s equipment drops and deciding to focus on valuable monsters rather than clearing hordes of Rotten Corpses. He found a dilapidated wooden house with an evil presence inside, and the rewards for confronting it caught his interest.

• Wang Zhifan chose a Fine Tier shortsword and longbow, then discovered that monster drops appeared where the monsters died.
• Wang Zhifan summoned Red Deer and used his Ice Source Power to kill Rotten Corpses, selecting Fine Tier equipment and some monster materials from their reward lists.
• Wang Zhifan collected the drops with ice arms and decided to target high-value monsters to avoid being overwhelmed by reward selections.
• Wang Zhifan rode onward to search for NPCs and other players, wary of possible competition over monster drops.
• Wang Zhifan froze a Rotten Corpse outside a dilapidated wooden house and attacked the evil presence inside, whose reward list included Fine Tier Evil Spirit equipment.

Wang Zhifan collected equipment and coins while following a wilderness trail, then found a large settlement called Lion's Eye Camp. The chapter ended as a guard aimed a bow at him and demanded to know his purpose.

• Wang Zhifan gathered the evil spirit's Fine-grade equipment and rode away in search of more monsters and NPCs.
• Wang Zhifan found a wrecked merchant caravan, collected its coins, and took a map whose writing he could not read.
• Wang Zhifan followed the caravan's route through the wilderness and reached the riverside Lion's Eye Camp.
• A young guard rode up to Wang Zhifan, aimed his bow, and asked why he had come to the camp.

Wang Zhifan was denied entry to Lion's Eye Camp but secretly infiltrated it to explore the settlement and find an equipment merchant. He found a market and asked a merchant about melee weapons, leaving the chapter considering two items whose properties he could already inspect.

• Wang Zhifan spoke with a blond cavalryman at Lion's Eye Camp, who refused his bribe and directed him toward Rogue Town while warning him about a monster nest on the road.
• Wang Zhifan rode north as a diversion, then used the Ghost Shadow Shoes to pass beneath the camp walls and emerge inside Lion's Eye Camp.
• Wang Zhifan changed his clothes with the Formless Specter Garment and surveyed the camp's workers, market, and guarded stone residence.
• Wang Zhifan approached a merchant in the market and asked for a good melee weapon.
• The merchant presented a Fine Longsword that pierced physical defense and a Heavy Strike Mace that dealt extra damage to demon-type monsters.

Wang Zhifan explored the camp market, learned that high-grade weapons required rare materials, and discovered that the blacksmith could forge equipment beyond Rare grade. As Wang Zhifan prepared to leave, a masked man ordered a dagger from the blacksmith and vanished after paying a deposit.

• Wang Zhifan questioned a merchant and learned that better weapons could be obtained in Frost Harbor for hundreds of gold coins or a high-grade magic core.
• Wang Zhifan surveyed the camp vendors and decided their Fine-grade goods were not worth buying.
• Wang Zhifan showed the blacksmith his Blade of the Wolf Fiend and learned that forging a stronger weapon required materials such as Mithril, Dark Gold, Elemental Stones, or Demon Cores.
• A masked man ordered a fine dagger from the blacksmith for three hundred gold coins and paid one hundred coins as a deposit.
• The masked man said he would return in three days, then vanished into thin air.

Wang Zhifan watched a gunner player massacre guards at Lion's Eye Camp before an Assassin player attacked him. The two fought outside the camp, and the gunner shot the Assassin during a sudden ambush.

• Wang Zhifan identified the masked man who had appeared and vanished as an Assassin-class player, then left Lion's Eye Camp using the Weird Shadow Shoes.
• After hearing gunfire, Wang Zhifan put on the Wind-Hiding Hat and saw a trench-coated gunner player shoot down the camp's cavalry guards.
• The Assassin player attacked the gunner, who retreated while firing at the invisible figure, and Wang Zhifan watched from hiding.
• The gunner cursed the Assassin for interfering with his killing of NPCs and used two guns to keep him at a distance.
• The Assassin created four identical figures that charged the gunner, but the gunner shot them and rolled away from a dagger attack before firing back at the Assassin.

Wang Zhifan watched a Gunslinger player fight an Assassin player and then provoke the steel-armored knight and other defenders at Lion's Eye Camp. The Gunslinger escaped the camp’s pursuers on a summoned motorcycle while firing and taunting them.

• The Assassin player survived the Gunslinger’s counterattack, turned invisible, and retreated.
• A steel-armored knight charged out of Lion's Eye Camp, and the Gunslinger shot his warhorse in the eyes, forcing him to fight on foot.
• The Gunslinger used movement skills to evade the knight and attack his armor while taunting him.
• More defenders emerged from the camp, including an archer, and the Gunslinger began retreating.
• The Gunslinger summoned a motorcycle, sped across the wilderness, and fired at the pursuers while taunting them.

Wang Zhifan left Lion's Eye Camp and found a monster nest in a dark underground cave. He sent three Dream Selves to scout its depths, where a powerful evil presence struck them before they could identify the cave's BOSS.

• Wang Zhifan watched the motorcycle-riding gunman escape the camp pursuers, then decided Lion's Eye Camp was unlikely to have what he needed.
• Wang Zhifan rode north with Red Deer, killed ordinary monsters, and collected several pieces of Fine Tier equipment.
• Wang Zhifan found a cave entrance surrounded by thousands of monsters and dismissed Red Deer before entering invisibly.
• Wang Zhifan sent three Dream Selves through the tunnels to scout the cave and locate the source of its strongest evil aura.
• The three Dream Selves approached a vast underground chamber, where a powerful evil fluctuation grievously wounded them.

Wang Zhifan descended into the underground cavern and killed the enormous tumor-like BOSS with a sudden combination of ice, saber strikes, and lightning. The reward list offered nothing above Excellent Tier, leaving him doubtful that the monster had been a true threat.

• Wang Zhifan recalled his three injured Dream Selves and decided to attack the BOSS before the elite monsters.
• Wang Zhifan used the Wind-Hiding Hat and Weird Shadow Shoes to descend unseen into the cavern more than a thousand meters underground.
• Wang Zhifan sensed a massive tumor-like monster that shed flesh pellets, which transformed into other monsters.
• Wang Zhifan froze the BOSS with Ice Source Power and destroyed it with Dream Radiance Hundred Slashes and the Thunder Dragon Rageblade.
• Wang Zhifan checked the reward list and found that its highest-tier reward was only Excellent Tier.

Wang Zhifan chose rewards from the BOSS he had killed, then discovered that the aftershock of his attack had also generated many extra reward lists. He hunted the dungeon’s elite monsters and found Giant Strength Bracers, a Rare reward especially well suited to him.

• Wang Zhifan rejected most of the BOSS’s reward options and chose Monster Nest, Tuli Demon's Whip, and Hunger Belt.
• Wang Zhifan discovered reward lists for the newborn monsters his attack had killed and made more than ten additional selections.
• Wang Zhifan used his Ghost Shadow Shoes and shadow abilities to hunt the elite monsters, killing them with Ice Source Power or the Blade of the Wolf Fiend.
• Wang Zhifan found Giant Strength Bracers among the elite monsters’ rewards and recognized that their Strength bonus suited him better than his current bracers.