Chapter Summaries

Ling Yao woke after his duel with Luo Jun and learned that he had withdrawn from the tournament, leaving Luo Jun champion amid public condemnation. As Luo Jun waited for the Kiss of the Life Goddess and prepared to return to Ningdong, he reached level 75 and drew a new skill.

• Ling Yao woke in the hotel after two days and learned from Ling Xin that the officials had withdrawn him from the tournament, making Luo Jun champion.
• Ling Xin said Luo Jun had visited Ling Yao and brought fruit, while public opinion blamed him for winning dishonorably.
• Luo Jun learned from Wan Guiyuan that the Kiss of the Life Goddess was with Zhao Gongming and could not be transferred until the agreed awards date.
• Luo Jun told Old Yuan that the prize would eventually heal his injuries, and Old Yuan asked him to help host entrance examinations in Ningdong.
• Luo Jun gained enough experience to reach level 75 and drew the skill Merge Similar Events.

Luo Jun tested his new Merge Similar Events skill, visited the Grocery Store, and returned to Ningdong Academy to collect a Universal Charger from Su Manchen. After receiving a Tier S Chaos Mission notification, he headed to the mission zone and decided to enter as Luo Jun rather than Night.

• Luo Jun tested Merge Similar Events and confirmed that its five related actions had to be completed within ten minutes, then gained forty attribute points from a lucky roll.
• Luo Jun visited the Grocery Store, left an epic item as a deposit for Universal Chargers, and learned that the couple he had met before were involved in a project connected to a door that was about to open.
• Luo Jun used his Teleportation Staff to return to Ningdong, where Su Manchen gave him a Universal Charger bought by his master.
• Su Manchen asked Luo Jun to help welcome the new students at the weekend entrance exam, and Luo Jun agreed before returning to his class and fielding his classmates' questions.
• Luo Jun received a Chaos Mission notification for his first Tier S Mission and decided to enter without the Night mask, then went to the academy's Chaos Mission Zone to prepare.

Luo Jun joined ten veteran Peak Experts in a Tier S cooperative survival mission called “Defeat Yourself,” where enemies would inherit the group’s abilities, Treasure Tools, and Vital Energy. The first round began in a desert, and the group realized the enemy’s lightning attack might be growing stronger as dark clouds gathered overhead.

• Luo Jun recognized several participants, including Bull Bill, Nikolai Hell Creek, Miyamoto Haru, Chen Chi Xiong, and Lei Huoshan, before the group introduced themselves.
• The mission rules revealed eleven rounds in which the participants had to defeat enemies carrying their drawn abilities, Treasure Tools, and a portion of their Vital Energy.
• The group discussed the escalating danger of later rounds, and Chen Chi Xiong disclosed that he had about eight thousand breaths of Vital Energy.
• Luo Jun drew his Epic Instant Step Boots, while the other participants displayed the abilities and Treasure Tools they had drawn.
• The participants were transported to a desert, where bolts of Lei Huoshan’s Light Thunder attacked them and Chen Chi Xiong blocked one with a molten glass whip.
• Dark clouds suddenly covered the desert sky as thunder gathered, leaving Chen Chi Xiong and the others alarmed.

Luo Jun and the other Peak Experts endured repeated barrages of Light Thunder from a composite monster whose enormous vital energy supply came from Luo Jun. After Miyamoto Haru’s shikigami located the monster, Luo Jun killed it with five simultaneous attacks from the Creation Chessboard, leaving the others stunned by the Treasure Tool’s power.

• The composite monster repeatedly bombarded the group with increasingly dense Light Thunders, while Luo Jun protected everyone with layers of shields from the Creation Chessboard.
• Luo Jun revealed that his vital energy capacity was greater than everyone else’s combined, explaining how the monster could sustain its attacks.
• Miyamoto Haru sent out shikigami to find the monster, and Bank cooled the scorched sand so they could search farther.
• Miyamoto Haru located the monster, and Peregrine Falcon charged toward it as the lightning barrage faltered.
• The monster fled from the fight, but Luo Jun struck it with five attacks from the Creation Chessboard and killed it instantly.
• The other contestants stared at Luo Jun and wondered whether the Creation Chessboard was more powerful than a Legendary Treasure Tool.

After the first-round boss died, the contestants recovered supplies and prepared for the next challenge while Luo Jun studied the Supreme Handbook’s middle part, which taught him to temporarily solidify Vital Energy for greater strength and defense. The second round began at Blizzard Mountain Villa, where Chen Chi Xiong attacked the villa with a massive fireball.

• The contestants returned to the hall, collected medicine and food, and Luo Jun shared snacks from Miss Betty's Picnic Box.
• Luo Jun photographed and read the Supreme Handbook’s middle part, learning a technique that temporarily solidified Vital Energy to boost strength and defense at the cost of mobility.
• The contestants discovered Luo Jun had received a BOSS Card for killing the first-round enemy, then drew improved cards; Luo Jun received the True Damage Spray.
• The group arrived at a snowy mountain location featuring Blizzard Mountain Villa, and Miyamoto Haru wondered if the challenge would be an Intellectual Battle.
• Chen Chi Xiong flew toward the villa and hurled a huge fireball at it, engulfing the building in flames.

Luo Jun used summoned soldiers and ghosts to find and kill the hidden boss in the manor, ending the round almost immediately. After cultivating during the rest period, he and the Peak Experts entered the next challenge, where the Assassin's Cloak boss appeared at sea and an abnormal current hinted at its location.

• Chen Chi Xiong attacked the manor, but its buildings remained unharmed, and Luo Jun opened the great door with a light kick.
• Luo Jun summoned five hundred soldiers and then a thousand ghosts to search the manor, and the ghosts discovered the hidden boss in Room 316.
• Luo Jun used his Instant Step Boots to reach the secret chamber and crushed the boss's head, ending the round.
• The group returned to the long-table hall, where Luo Jun cultivated until the next challenge began and drew the Assassin's Cloak ability.
• The Peak Experts were transported to the sea, where Father Andrew said he could detect concealed targets, and an abnormal fluctuation stirred the current beneath them.

The group searched for an invisible mission BOSS across the ocean and deduced it was hiding in the air. Luo Jun used a controlled sea beast to trace the enemy through a mental link, and the round ended after Peregrine Falcon claimed to have beheaded the falling foe.

• Bull Bill killed a giant sea beast, and Bank identified it as an ordinary animal controlled by the hidden enemy.
• Lei Huoshan shocked the water within five kilometers but sensed no BOSS, leading Luo Jun to conclude that the enemy was above them.
• Luo Jun asked Miyamoto Haru to raise a strong wind, which prompted the enemy to send a giant bird and another sea beast toward the group.
• Lei Huoshan realized the second sea beast had come from beyond his detection range, and the group moved toward its origin while Luo Jun connected to its mind and sent Black Fire along the link.
• Peregrine Falcon spotted a falling figure and claimed he had beheaded it as the group returned to the round-table hall; Luo Jun remained unsure whether his attack had killed the BOSS.

Luo Jun discovered that his human body was incompatible with the Heartless Tribe’s cultivation method, causing dangerous problems as he tried to solidify his Vital Energy, while the dice suppressed the worst of the backlash. In the mission, he accumulated three BOSS Cards, drew more Treasure Tools, and continued defeating increasingly powerful enemies as the other contestants weakened.

• Luo Jun repeatedly used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to survive the escalating backlash from cultivating the Supreme Handbook, then realized his human body could not safely solidify Vital Energy using the Heartless Tribe’s method.
• Lei Huoshan warned Luo Jun not to rush his cultivation, and the contestants received a rule allowing someone with three BOSS Cards to spend them on mission options while requiring an extra Ability Card each round.
• Luo Jun kept all three BOSS Cards, drew the Projection Ring and People-Trampling Boots, and joined the contestants in a tropical rainforest where Bank used animals to locate the enemy and Luo Jun killed it with the Myriad Jun Hammer.
• Luo Jun made no progress during another hour of cultivation, while later enemies grew stronger and the contestants’ abilities and energy weakened.
• The other contestants became unable to defeat the BOSSes on their own, while Luo Jun used his powerful Treasure Tools and energy reserves to keep killing them.

Luo Jun led the group through a brutal volcano challenge, then chose to keep pursuing his own cultivation path rather than cashing in his BOSS Cards for rewards. As the tenth round began, he prevented the Saint Essence from being drawn, but the three cards revealed were the Creation Chessboard, God's Handbook, and the Myriad Jun Hammer.

• A colossal monster unleashed a thousand lightning-powered Lava Monsters, and Luo Jun waited until his dice attempts refreshed while the others fought them off.
• Chen Chi Xiong and Lei Huoshan blocked the monster's Scorching Breath, allowing Luo Jun to strike its hidden main body with the Myriad Jun Hammer and end the challenge.
• Nine BOSS Cards and a new mission-ending reward option appeared, but Luo Jun ignored the chance to withdraw and used the dice to find a Vital Energy circulation method that could help solidify his Vital Energy.
• Luo Jun sensed he had found the entrance to a new cultivation path, but the next steps seemed agonizingly difficult before the rest period ended.
• Luo Jun used the dice to prevent the Saint Essence from being drawn, then revealed the Creation Chessboard, God's Handbook, and the Myriad Jun Hammer among the three Ability Cards.

Luo Jun and the remaining challengers entered a Space Station for the tenth round and discovered that the BOSS had gained powerful buffs and could use abilities beyond their expectations. When the BOSS struck Luo Jun with the Myriad Jun Hammer, it sent him through the station wall and into space.

• Luo Jun revealed that the Creation Chessboard and Myriad Jun Hammer had been drawn, then offered nine BOSS Cards to let challengers enter the Death Process.
• Bank, Father Andrew, Bull Bill, and Peregrine Falcon chose the Death Process, while Megan, Miyamoto Haru, Lei Huoshan, Chen Chi Xiong, Grandma Zoe, and Nikolai stayed with Luo Jun.
• The group awoke in Cryo Pods aboard a Space Station, and Megan hacked into its systems to map and monitor the station.
• Megan located the faceless BOSS in Sector B-53 and lured him toward a corridor fitted with a powerful laser sterilization system.
• The BOSS survived the lasers by transforming into a fire elemental, then attacked the Research Zone; Luo Jun realized the BOSS had used the Creation Chessboard to stack buffs.
• The BOSS swung the Myriad Jun Hammer at Luo Jun, smashing him through the Space Station's outer wall and into space.

Luo Jun and the Peaks were trapped by the enemy inside a rule-bound labyrinth after the BOSS transported them from space. They began the mission to reforge the Holy Sword and reached a General Store.

• Luo Jun realized the BOSS had used a duplicate to mislead their surveillance, then chased the real enemy through space and struck him with Black Fire.
• The enemy used the Creation Chessboard to transport Luo Jun and the nearby Peaks into a separate world, where Luo Jun explained they had to complete its mission to escape.
• The group learned they needed to reforge the Holy Sword by finding its three pieces in a monster-filled labyrinth, and Chen Chi Xiong discovered that breaking through the walls did not let them bypass its rules.
• The Peaks voted to open the north door, then voted to continue forward at a crossroads after Grandma Zoe was teleported back for trying to choose a path without voting.
• The group followed the route ahead and found a building labeled General Store.

Luo Jun accepted a bounty to retrieve the treasury key from the First Prince, defeated the statue, and recovered a Holy Sword hilt before returning to the shop. He found that Chen Chi Xiong and Nikolai had also completed their missions, while Lei Huoshan and Miyamoto Haru remained missing.

• Luo Jun drew the First Prince bounty card, and the shop owner explained that only Luo Jun could accept it because the card was bound to him.
• Chen Chi Xiong and Nikolai accepted separate missions, then Luo Jun teleported to the First Prince's plaza.
• Luo Jun shattered the First Prince's statue, collected the treasury key and Holy Sword hilt, and explored several paths before returning to the shop.
• Luo Jun learned that Chen Chi Xiong had defeated a Swamp Monster and Nikolai had slain a dragon, while Megan and Grandma Zoe had stayed behind.
• Luo Jun discovered that Lei Huoshan and Miyamoto Haru had not returned from their missions, and the shop owner warned that they might have died.

Luo Jun and his companions used the Pathfinding Rope to expose an Endless Corridor that rearranged itself into a loop, then fixed sections of the track to uncover a hidden exit. They left the corridor and reached another fork, where a flash of Thunder Light appeared down one passage.

• Luo Jun spent nearly all the group's gold on a large Pathfinding Rope, Blink Daggers, Troll Blood, and Brilliant Gemstones before they left the Grocery Store.
• After hours of running through a corridor with no forks, Luo Jun marked a circular hall and discovered that the changing track was sending them around in a loop.
• Luo Jun had Grandma Zoe, Nikolai, Megan, and Chen Chi Xiong hold separate positions to stabilize sections of the track while he searched for an exit.
• Luo Jun found a distortion in a wall near an upward staircase, broke through it, and discovered a Veil Curtain card that had concealed the passage.
• The group passed through the exit and reached a fork, where a flash of Thunder Light appeared at the end of one passage.

Luo Jun’s group joined Lei Huoshan to defeat a Water Elemental Giant and recover the second Holy Sword Fragment, then solved the reservoir chamber’s hidden mechanism and descended into a new corridor. The chapter ended as an armored warrior emerged from the darkness ahead.

• Luo Jun’s group followed the Thunder Light and helped Lei Huoshan defeat the Water Elemental Giant, allowing Lei Huoshan to retrieve the second Holy Sword Fragment.
• Luo Jun concluded that the reservoir chamber’s exit lay underwater, and Nikolai transformed into a fish to search the reservoir’s depths.
• Nikolai used echolocation to find and open a hidden drain, lowering the water enough for Chen Chi Xiong to pull open a Stone Door at the bottom.
• Luo Jun explained that water pressure had prevented the group from opening the door before the reservoir drained, and the group passed through into a lower corridor.
• Grandma Zoe sensed something approaching, and the group saw an ancient Yingzhou-style armored warrior emerge from the corridor.

Miyamoto Haru reunited with the team carrying the final Holy Sword fragment, and they used a hidden passage and Megan’s dagger to reach a furnace and reforge the sword. Just as the group wondered why the mission had not ended, a flesh-and-blood puppet disguised as Miyamoto Haru ambushed them, stole the Holy Sword, and vanished.

• Miyamoto Haru brought the third Holy Sword fragment, and the team learned they needed to reforge the pieces in a blacksmith’s furnace.
• Luo Jun used the passage-hiding card to make a sealed route passable, allowing the group to follow Miyamoto Haru to the furnace.
• Megan used a Blink Dagger to enter the energy-blocking cage and discovered that the furnace required about five hundred grams of Mithril to repair the Holy Sword.
• Megan melted the fragments and four Mithril daggers in the furnace, reforged the Holy Sword, and cut through the cage bars.
• The Miyamoto Haru holding the sword suddenly attacked the group; Luo Jun identified her as a puppet made from Miyamoto Haru’s corpse, and the puppet disappeared with the Holy Sword.

Luo Jun persuaded the other Cultivators to leave the Cave Heaven through the Death Process, then remained behind with Megan before she also departed. Alone, he resumed cultivating, fended off a summoned Ailongtan replica, and used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to draw the shelter chosen by the enemy when night fell.

• Luo Jun warned the group that the BOSS had the Holy Sword, powerful privileges, and summoned creatures, then offered everyone a chance to leave through the Death Process.
• Chen Chi Xiong, Lei Huoshan, Grandma Zoe, Nikolai, and Megan each chose to enter the Death Process, leaving Luo Jun alone in the maze.
• Luo Jun claimed he would destroy the Cave Heaven but instead sat down to study the Supreme Handbook while waiting for the enemy to act.
• A summoned Ailongtan replica attacked Luo Jun with a Blizzard and the Holy Sword, but Luo Jun beheaded it, causing the corpse and sword to vanish.
• When night descended and the Cave Heaven offered Luo Jun a random shelter card, he used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to draw the shelter chosen by the enemy.

Luo Jun overwhelmed the BOSS in its fortified church, then let it escape so it would be forced to grow stronger. After the BOSS returned in a monstrous form, their battle shattered the pocket realm, and Luo Jun studied its altered body before killing it.

• Luo Jun entered a Defense Level Three church, where Gargoyles and automatic defenses fought off the monsters outside.
• The faceless BOSS attacked Luo Jun with a Lightning Element Avatar and summoned copies of Gabriel, Lilith, Sima Cheng, and Miyamoto Haru, but Luo Jun defeated them and freed Miyamoto Haru from its control.
• Luo Jun destroyed the church with a punch, but the BOSS blocked the blow with the Myriad Jun Hammer and escaped using a Space Ability; Luo Jun deliberately allowed it to flee so it would train and return stronger.
• After days of peace in the maze, Luo Jun sensed the BOSS approaching in a three-meter, four-armed form, and they fought until the pocket realm collapsed into space.
• Luo Jun subdued the monster, examined its meridians and Vital Energy with Black Fire, then killed it once he understood how its altered body worked.

Luo Jun used the tenth-round BOSS’s flawed cultivation method and the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to develop a way to solidify his hands into powerful weapons and armor. After naming the technique Armament Transformation, he saw the contestants’ phantoms and cards appear as the eleventh-round challenge began.

• Luo Jun copied the BOSS’s method for solidifying Vital Energy in his hands and used the Dice of Heavenly Secrets to overcome its flaws and lock the energy in place.
• Luo Jun tested his solidified hands and found that they could cut like blades and claws, strike with armor-piercing force, and block attacks like a shield.
• Luo Jun named the technique Armament Transformation and resolved to extend it beyond his hands.
• Phantoms of the contestants appeared around the table, cards appeared before them, and the eleventh-round challenge began.

Luo Jun faced the final challenge’s BOSS, which drank the Saint Condensed Essence Liquid and transformed the Giant Divine Tree into a colossal Treant. After surviving a divine lightning strike that split the tree and apparently killed him once, Luo Jun pursued the BOSS through the Gate of Myriad Realms and found it attacking a modern port in another world.

• Luo Jun equipped Treasure Tools and entered the Sea of Flowers atop the Giant Divine Tree for the final challenge.
• The BOSS attacked Luo Jun with an Elemental Giant Spirit, but Luo Jun destroyed it with one punch and demanded that the BOSS use its final move.
• The BOSS drank the Saint Condensed Essence Liquid, causing the Giant Divine Tree to transform into a Treant that attacked Luo Jun with mutated plants, branches, and lightning.
• A bolt of lightning split the Treant in two and snapped Luo Jun’s Calamity Blocking Red Thread, but Luo Jun survived and realized the BOSS had escaped through a Gate of Myriad Realms.
• Luo Jun followed the BOSS through the Gate of Myriad Realms and found it attacking a modern port with enormous tentacles while the city’s weapons fired at it.

Luo Jun pursued the deified BOSS across the [Natural Disaster] world, destroyed its Life Drain ability with Black Fire, and faced its transformed Elemental God form. An upgrade kept him alive inside the BOSS’s elemental attack, and he accepted a survival mission, successfully using Vital Energy circulation to ease his pain.

• Luo Jun watched the BOSS emerge from the sea, destroy a port city with a fireball, and flee toward a snow-capped mountain.
• The BOSS emerged from a Stone Giant and attacked Luo Jun’s mind with a Body Snatching illusion, but Luo Jun burned it through their soul link with Black Fire and destroyed its Life Drain ability.
• Luo Jun realized the BOSS had been draining monsters in the [Natural Disaster] world to sustain its rapidly fading life force.
• The BOSS transformed into an Elemental God and struck Luo Jun with lightning and fire, trapping him in a sphere of condensed elements.
• Luo Jun’s upgrade restored his body as the elemental attack repeatedly destroyed it, and he accepted a mission to survive the deified enemy.
• Luo Jun used a dice roll to successfully circulate Vital Energy and ease his pain.