Chapter Summaries

Luo Jun battled the colossal steel creation formed from Chu Yunwei’s soul and Zhuge Lang’s body, then broke into its interior to find and defeat its controller. He followed a powerful armored decoy deep inside, only to discover he had been lured into a sealed metal sphere.

• Luo Jun realized that Zhuge Lang had likely sacrificed himself to empower the summoned Chu Yunwei, creating a steel giant beyond the limits of a Peak Level practitioner.
• The giant fired a barrage of Shielding Alloy spears, but Luo Jun endured them, used them to propel himself forward, and reached its shoulder.
• Luo Jun used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets and his Gathering Origin Drill to bore through the giant’s eyehole before it sealed.
• Inside the giant, Luo Jun fought through armored knights and pursued a larger warrior that seemed to be the main body.
• The warrior led Luo Jun into a smooth, empty metal chamber, then revealed itself as an empty shell as the entrance sealed and trapped him inside a sphere.

Luo Jun escaped Chu Yunwei’s Shielding Alloy sphere after draining his Vital Energy, while Luo Jun’s projection killed Chu Yunwei. With more than three minutes left in the round, Luo Jun ordered his projection to attack again, and it killed two Polluters at their supposedly safe station.

• Luo Jun drilled into the sphere’s wall as Chu Yunwei continually repaired it, exhausting both of their Vital Energy reserves.
• The sphere and golem dissipated, and Luo Jun fell alongside Li Xiuzhen, his projection, and Chu Yunwei.
• Luo Jun’s projection confirmed it had killed Chu Yunwei, who then transformed into Zhuge Lang and crumbled to dust.
• With over three minutes remaining, Luo Jun ordered his projection to make another move.
• The projection emerged through a Space Gate in the Second Stone Bridge Town station and killed the one-eyed woman and the goggled young man.

Luo Jun waited at the enemy base, hoping to eliminate any opponents who revived, but the mission ended before he could do so. His team learned they had won, and Luo Jun received an excellent rating and four rewards.

• Luo Jun waited at the enemy station as the countdown ended, but he was sent back to his own team’s station.
• Zhu Xixi and Ma Lei reported that their team had defeated the attackers and gathered Side Mission rewards.
• Li Xiuzhen and Xu Li told Luo Jun that there might not be another round, and the mission completion announcement appeared.
• Luo Jun’s settlement listed the Main Quest and four Hidden Missions as completed, with an excellent rating.
• Luo Jun checked the rewards stored in his Hundred Treasure Box: a Projection Ring, Protection, an Assassin’s Cloak, and a Legendary Combination Module.

Luo Jun tested the Treasure Tools he had won and fused two Epic pairs of shorts into the Legendary item Limit, whose power briefly increased his strength beyond its usual limits. Meanwhile, Li Xiuzhen returned home and told Sun Xiaowei that Night had been her teammate, leaving Sun Xiaowei eager to promote him on the forums.

• Luo Jun revealed that he had personally traveled to Utopia and defeated the opposing team, astonishing the defenders before he returned to his dormitory.
• Luo Jun tested the Projection Ring, Protection briefs, and Assassin's Cloak, then used the Legendary Combination Module to fuse the briefs into Limit.
• Luo Jun activated Limit's Tighten Core effect and felt his strength and Protective Qi Strength increase around onefold, nearly losing control of his Gang Qi.
• Luo Jun heard someone approach his locked dormitory, waited until the footsteps faded, and began cultivating while he waited for Ailongtan.
• Li Xiuzhen returned from her mission and told Sun Xiaowei that Night had been her teammate and that his abilities were more formidable than she had expected.
• Sun Xiaowei decided to work harder so she could stand beside Night and asked Li Xiuzhen for details to use in a forum post promoting him.

Zhuge Lang returned from a confrontation mission badly aged and warned his group about a powerful opponent wearing a Half-Face Mask. Meanwhile, Luo Jun learned that Ailongtan had been kidnapped by Westerners and suspected they belonged to the Hell Creek Family, so he set out to investigate.

• Zhuge Lang returned to his villa, consumed several ghosts to restore some of his youth, and told his followers that a formidable opponent had nearly killed him in a confrontation mission.
• Zhuge Lang ordered his group to investigate whether a new expert wearing a Half-Face Mask had appeared, and Xiao Yu sent them to capture someone from Puhua Temple.
• Ailongtan told Luo Jun that Westerners had kidnapped him after he left a concert to use the restroom.
• Luo Jun suspected the kidnappers were Federation members of the Hell Creek Family searching for the Eternal Star, and he told Ailongtan not to alert them.
• Luo Jun secretly left his dormitory to go after Ailongtan.

Ailongtan, disguised as Luo Jun, was interrogated by Federation agents seeking information about Gong Shiyue and Eternal Star. When their leader used Memory Reading, he encountered unexpected resistance and realized something was wrong.

• A Federation agent identified Ailongtan as Luo Jun and questioned him about Gong Shiyue.
• Ailongtan pretended to resist Mental Shock and claimed Gong Shiyue had taken him hostage but left him nothing.
• The agent suggested Gong Shiyue might have mentioned a location, and Ailongtan pretended he vaguely remembered one.
• The agent used Memory Reading on Ailongtan, but found his mind unusually resilient.
• The agent connected his own soul to the technique, and soon sensed that something was wrong.

Luo Jun trapped Anderson in a battle of souls, then killed the Hell Creek Family members who had kidnapped him and cleaned up the warehouse. After learning Charles was at the New Lake Hotel, Luo Jun drove there with Ailongtan to kill him as well.

• Anderson entered Luo Jun's mind to use Memory Reading, but Ailongtan's vast reserves of Vital Energy let Luo Jun overpower and trap him.
• Luo Jun appeared inside the warehouse and killed the Federation members, including Linda, Esli, and the still-convulsing Anderson.
• Luo Jun removed his Assassin's Cloak and freed Ailongtan, then collected the Treasure Tools and had summoned creatures consume the bodies before Ailongtan burned away the remaining traces.
• Luo Jun disguised his Longitudinal and Horizontal Sports Car as a battered van and told Ailongtan he would not let the Hell Creek Family keep targeting him.
• Ailongtan recalled that Charles was at the New Lake Hotel with two other Hell Creek Family members, and Luo Jun drove there.

Luo Jun and Michelle ambushed Charles and Richard in their hotel suite, killing Richard and capturing Charles. The Ancient Guardian disposed of their bodies as Luo Jun remained alert for further threats.

• Michelle delivered a message from Elder Stake and asked Richard to establish a high-level Soundproof Barrier.
• After Richard completed the barrier, Luo Jun appeared behind the group and used a Treasure Tool to trap Charles and Richard.
• Luo Jun beheaded both men, but Richard transformed into water before Michelle burned him out of hiding.
• Luo Jun kicked Richard through his Gang Qi and split him in two, then the Ancient Guardian swallowed his remains.
• Charles reappeared and fired at the Earth Construct, but Luo Jun seized him, snapped his neck, removed his Treasure Tools, and fed his corpse to the Ancient Guardian.

Luo Jun killed Michelle, Charles, and Richard at New Lake Hotel, containing the battle and covering their tracks before leaving with Ailongtan. As Charles’s death alerted the Hell Creek Family, they headed toward the concert venue to meet Zhao Jian and the others.

• Luo Jun killed Michelle in his hotel room and had Ailongtan take his appearance to approach Charles and Richard.
• Luo Jun trapped Charles and Richard inside an Earth Barrier, killed them despite their escape items, and ensured the room showed no signs of a struggle.
• Luo Jun and Ailongtan left the hotel while disguising their movements on surveillance, then drove away before the Hell Creek Family could investigate.
• Ailongtan received Zhao Jian’s call and told him they would meet at Gate Two of the concert venue.
• Luo Jun put away the car and carried Ailongtan through the air toward the venue at great speed.

After learning that his brother Charles had been killed in Ningdong, Nikolai was sent there undercover to investigate the death and pursue clues about the Eternal Star. Elder Leisade revealed that he was using Nikolai’s anger to provoke the people of Zhendan, while his own health was failing.

• A guide warned tourists away from the Hell Creek Family’s territory, and Nikolai transformed from a dinosaur into a man after the group left.
• A woman told Nikolai that Charles’s life signal had disappeared twice and that Charles and the other Hell Creek clansmen in Ningdong were likely dead.
• Elder Leisade and the Eyeglasses Woman concluded that a powerful opponent had killed Charles and gave Nikolai information about possible suspects and Charles’s investigation into the Eternal Star.
• Elder Leisade authorized Nikolai to go to Ningdong undercover, where he would deny any ties to the Hell Creek Family if discovered.
• After Nikolai departed, Elder Leisade told the Eyeglasses Woman that he intended to use his anger to shock the people of Zhendan, then coughed blood and feared he was running out of time.

Luo Jun examined the Treasure Tools he had looted from the Hell Creek Family and found that a forum post had revealed details of his recent Chaos Mission. The chapter ended as he noticed news of a suspected attack by foreign Cultivators in Ningdong.

• Luo Jun reviewed the Epic-level Energy-Saving Bracelet, Duelist's Glory revolver, and Kai Ren Qi short sword he had taken from Hell Creek members.
• Luo Jun discovered that Charles's shotgun, Violence, was a Legendary-grade Treasure Tool with powerful attack abilities and a Master Recognition requirement.
• Luo Jun stored the damaged glasses and other useful Treasure Tools in his Hundred Treasure Box.
• Luo Jun read Wei Zhentian's detailed forum post about Night's appearance in the Chaos Mission and suspected that Xu Li or Grandma Li had supplied the information.
• Luo Jun noticed that Night had an organized fan group and then saw a post reporting a suspected foreign Cultivator attack in Ningdong.

Luo Jun linked the foreign attacker who injured Xing Yang to the Hell Creek Family and went to New Lake Hotel, hoping to draw the attacker out. Meanwhile, the Ningdong Branch investigated the attack, and Captain Cheng asked Xing Yang about his history with the Hell Creek Family.

• Luo Jun read that a powerful foreign Cultivator had attacked Xing Yang at New Lake Hotel and injured a Yuan Cultivation Society member.
• Luo Jun traced a supersonic flight from Montaigne State to Ningdong and suspected the attacker had come from the Hell Creek Family to investigate Charles's death.
• Luo Jun decided to find the attacker and headed to New Lake Hotel.
• Xing Yang told Xing Yue that the attacker might be a hidden Peak, possibly the mysterious Night, and admitted he could not understand the attacker's motive.
• Captain Cheng brought Xing Yang a healing pill and photographs of possible suspects, but Xing Yang failed to identify the attacker.
• Captain Cheng asked Xing Yang whether he had any history with the Hell Creek Family.

Captain Cheng told Xing Yang that the Hell Creek Family delegation had disappeared and that the blond attacker might be connected to them. As the investigation stalled, Michelle arrived at the door seeking to see Xing Yang.

• Captain Cheng explained that most of the Hell Creek Family delegation had vanished after Michelle visited Charles and Richard's room, and that the blond attacker might be involved.
• Xing Yang denied knowing a reason the attacker would target her, declined to move to the branch office, and said a friend would arrive to help protect them.
• Xing Yang suggested using Dust of Replication to investigate the missing delegation, but Captain Cheng said Room 2408 had been heavily interfered with and Room 2212 had already been read once.
• Captain Cheng and Xing Yang concluded that the attacker had likely investigated Michelle and the Hell Creek Family's movements.
• A Security Team member told Captain Cheng that Michelle had come to see Xing Yang.

Michelle returned to the hotel and helped Captain Cheng investigate the attacker who had assaulted Xing Yang. Her account linked the attacker to the Hell Creek Family and the Federation, while Captain Cheng ordered a search of flights from Montaigne State to Shunnan Airport.

• Michelle returned to the hotel and told Captain Cheng she had been away during the attack.
• Captain Cheng questioned Michelle about a blonde, blue-eyed attacker, and she offered to help investigate.
• Michelle said the attacker might be a powerful Federation Rogue Cultivator who bore a grudge against the Hell Creek Family.
• Captain Cheng revealed that the attacker had entered Michelle's room before assaulting Xing Yang, and Michelle questioned whether the suspected expert could have reached Ningdong so quickly.
• Captain Cheng ordered Xiao Zhang to investigate overnight supersonic flights from Montaigne State to Shunnan Airport, while Michelle smiled almost imperceptibly.

Luo Jun, disguised as Michelle, used a public bounty notice to lure the Hell Creek Family’s assassin Nikolai into a trap. Nikolai escaped the ambush and transformed into a giant dinosaur, leaving Luo Jun to face him amid chaos outside New Lake Hotel.

• Xing Yang identified the attacker as Verosi Rebote from a flight photo, and Captain Cheng sent the clue to the Yuan Cultivation Society.
• Luo Jun, disguised as Michelle, asked Captain Cheng to credit her publicly for the clue and returned to room 2212.
• Luo Jun learned the attacker was likely a Peak Expert and arranged to use himself as bait, with Ailongtan waiting in the room.
• Nikolai appeared and attacked Ailongtan, demanding to know where his companion was and whether he had killed Charles.
• Luo Jun struck Nikolai with Kai Ren Qi, inflicting bleeding and poison, but Nikolai transformed into a pterosaur and then a giant dinosaur before escaping into the hotel grounds.
• Luo Jun kicked the dinosaur’s head and sent it crashing across the lawn, but sensed Nikolai was preparing to transform into an even stronger form.

Luo Jun fought Nikolai, a Peak Shapeshifting Faction cultivator, as Nikolai transformed into a gigantic monster in the city. Duelist's Glory shielded bystanders from their fight, and the chapter ended with Nikolai unleashing his strongest breath attack as Luo Jun charged into it.

• Luo Jun interrupted Nikolai's attempt to transform by blasting apart his forming Original Avatar, then overpowered him in close combat.
• Nikolai used a medical-kit Treasure Tool to heal while completing his transformation into a hundred-meter-tall monster by Ningdong New Lake.
• Nikolai charged toward Luo Jun and the overpass, but a Red Hair Woman used Duelist's Glory to force the battle into a one-on-one fight that could not harm bystanders.
• Luo Jun released and compressed his Gang Qi, startling Nikolai with its strength.
• Nikolai fired his strongest breath attack, and Luo Jun leaped straight into it.

Luo Jun fought the giant monster Nikolai had become, while Captain Cheng watched Michelle’s apparent strength with growing suspicion. Luo Jun killed the beast, found Nikolai before the duel’s countdown expired, and unleashed his protective Qi to kill him.

• Michelle struck the giant monster so hard that it flew into the lake, where its broken jaw and crashing waves proved it was real.
• Luo Jun hurled an axe upward to accelerate his fall, broke through the monster’s belly, and tore through its internal organs.
• Captain Cheng questioned whether the fighter was really Michelle as the monster thrashed and fired harmless phantom-like rays.
• With the monster dying and Nikolai’s location unknown, Luo Jun used Dice of Heavenly Secrets to locate the attacker and grabbed the blond-haired Nikolai.
• Luo Jun successfully corrected the odds of killing Nikolai within ten seconds and unleashed Gathering Origin Protective Qi around them both.

After killing Nikolai, Luo Jun escaped from New Lake while Yuan Cultivation Society investigators recovered the body and examined the scene. Branch President Xu Pingfei concluded that Nikolai was likely a Hell Creek Family member sent to investigate the mysterious expert impersonating Michelle, raising concerns about the expert’s connection to the family.

• Luo Jun killed Nikolai, took his valuable items and Treasure Tools, then hid beneath the lake in aquatic grass.
• Yuan Cultivation Society staff cleared and sealed New Lake as Captain Cheng reported the battle and showed its footage to Branch President Xu Pingfei.
• Xu Pingfei worried that the powerful expert who had impersonated Michelle was unknown to the Society and might be connected to the disappearance of the Hell Creek Family.
• A salvage team recovered Nikolai’s body, and Captain Cheng confirmed that he was the attacker who had harmed Xing Yang.
• Xu Pingfei reasoned that Nikolai was likely a Hell Creek Family member sent to investigate the expert, and wondered what relationship they had.

After killing Nikolai, Luo Jun returned to his residence and examined the experience, equipment, and Legendary spear he had gained. He considered trading away surplus Treasure Tools and realized Tie Jingang might connect him to a black market.

• Luo Jun reached level forty-eight after gaining experience from his battle with Nikolai and reviewed his updated attributes and skills.
• Luo Jun examined Nikolai's Golden Silk Vest, Myriad Languages Earphones, Instant Step Boots, and Legendary spear, Sharpness, and tested the spear's effects against his Azure Dragon Crescent Moon.
• Luo Jun decided Sharpness suited his strength and combat style, then stored it with his other Treasure Tools.
• Luo Jun considered selling or bartering away redundant Treasure Tools through a black market but had no contact to approach.
• Tie Jingang called Luo Jun, and Luo Jun recognized him as a possible connection to the black market.

Luo Jun learned that the Five Schools Tournament had been moved up and that he could compete for a place using Treasure Tools exchanged with his merit points. As he found an epic weapon component on the Exchange Platform, Nikolai returned from the blood pool at the Hell Creek Family headquarters and went to report to the elders.

• Tie Jingang told Luo Jun that the Five Schools Tournament would take place before the New Year and encouraged him to compete for a representative spot.
• Tie Jingang explained that contestants could bring three verified Treasure Tools into the martial arts competition and told Luo Jun that his merit account was ready to use.
• At the Hell Creek Family headquarters, Elder Caroline watched Nikolai reform from a blood pool and summoned him to report to the council of elders.
• Luo Jun linked his account and found that he had three Tier A Merit Points, along with two Tier B and seven Tier C Merit Points.
• Luo Jun browsed the Exchange Platform and found Hainlein's Left Arm, an epic Treasure Tool with a shield and energy cannon.