Chapter Summaries

Kaseth ordered his forces to retreat after admitting that Qin Feng had defeated him. He left the Spirit Ring God Domain’s people subdued and led his followers toward another Second-Class God Domain to continue searching for the Dragon God.

• Kaseth ordered Purple Scorpion and the others to retreat, refusing to risk being punished by the Heavenly Dao.
• Purple Scorpion questioned whether Kaseth had truly lost to a Fifth-Rank Overgod, but Kaseth insisted that he had.
• Gold Tiger asked whether they should report to Lord Chaos, and Kaseth said the Spirit Ring God Domain’s people had already become their people.
• Kaseth warned Gold Tiger to stop asking questions and led his forces away to search another Second-Class God Domain for the Dragon God.
• The people of the Spirit Ring God Domain watched the invaders leave and turned to look at Qin Feng.

After defeating Kaseth, Qin Feng reassured the Spirit Ring God Domain’s residents that their realm was safe because they had become Kaseth’s auxiliary army. He then prepared to enter the Chosen Path to search for Xue Er.

• The Spirit Ring God Domain’s fighters asked Qin Feng how he had defeated Kaseth, and he said he had used soul skills.
• Tang San and Qin Rou warned that Kaseth could send stronger forces and urged the group to prepare before rebuilding.
• Ning Rongrong asked the Light God King about ways to increase their strength, and he said they could use the God Domain Source at the cost of the realm gradually withering.
• Qin Feng assured everyone that Kaseth would not return because the Spirit Ring God Domain had become his auxiliary army.

Qin Feng explained that he had narrowly defeated Kaseth and agreed to join the West God Domain Holy War as an independent auxiliary force in exchange for protection. With their crisis resolved, the group decided to hold a celebration banquet before Qin Feng entered the Chosen Path.

• Qin Feng told his companions that he had narrowly beaten Kaseth in their battle.
• Qin Feng explained that he had agreed for them to join the West God Domain Holy War as an independent auxiliary force, while Kaseth protected their Spirit Ring God Domain.
• Qin Feng said he would contact Kaseth after leaving so someone could come pick them up, and Qin Rou asked whether everyone would go.
• The Shrek companions agreed to hold a celebration banquet, and the God Domain began a long-awaited carnival.

Qin Feng entered the Chosen Path and faced trials that shifted between dangerous environments. After easily defeating an Evil Tiger, he reached an illusory ocean and sensed a sea beast approaching.

• Qin Feng entered the Chosen Path as everyone saw him off, hoping he would return with Qian Renxue.
• Qin Feng sensed that the Chosen Path connected to the wider universe and felt a threat greater than Kaseth.
• Qin Feng entered a forest illusion and sliced an attacking Evil Tiger in half.
• Qin Feng continued along the white-cloud passage as the surroundings changed into a vast ocean.
• Qin Feng sensed traces of a sea beast emerging from the previously empty ocean.

Qin Feng slaughtered the sea beasts and defeated Azure Dragon, the outer region's strongest guardian deity, before entering a passage. He arrived in a new world identified as an extreme-difficulty world with a 0% survival rate.

• Qin Feng bound and killed dozens of sea beasts with his elemental power.
• Azure Dragon attacked Qin Feng with a water blade, and Qin Feng countered with his Heavenly Gang Hammer, briefly getting knocked back by Azure Dragon's tail.
• Qin Feng rushed Azure Dragon and killed him within a few breaths.
• Qin Feng chose one of several unmarked passages and emerged into a new world.
• An ancient voice welcomed Qin Feng to an extreme-difficulty world with a 0% survival rate, leaving him astonished.

Qin Feng discovered that he had reached the Spirit Ring God Domain’s Trial of Fate, a Chosen Path stage said to have a zero survival rate. After learning that clearing it could reveal the mysteries of the domain’s Chosen Path, he chose to enter.

• Qin Feng sensed Xue Er and the Spirit Ring God Domain’s aura, confirming that he had not left the domain.
• A mechanical voice welcomed Qin Feng to the Trial of Fate, a stage no one in the domain had cleared for millions of years.
• Qin Feng learned that he could refuse entry, but doing so would forfeit his only remaining opportunity to enter the Chosen Path.
• The voice explained that clearing the trial could let Qin Feng comprehend the Spirit Ring God Domain’s Chosen Path and greatly increase his strength.
• Qin Feng chose to enter the Trial of Fate and walked ten steps forward.

Qin Feng entered the first checkpoint of the Trial of Fate, a crowded ancient-style city where he had to find an Overgod Official and pass a test. After searching all morning without success, he was approached by a woman inviting him into a brothel.

• A voice told Qin Feng that the Trial of Fate had nine checkpoints, each guarded by two Overgod Officials, and that he had to find the first one and pass their test.
• Qin Feng learned there was no time limit, but the voice gave him no directions and disappeared.
• Qin Feng searched the busy ancient streets, suspecting that people who vanished in the Chosen Path might have become trapped in such trials.
• After a fruitless morning, a woman in seductive clothing invited Qin Feng into a brothel, and he angrily turned her down.

Qin Feng tried to determine whether the trial space was real and learned from Little Nine that its people and objects seemed to truly exist. After a strange girl warned him that monsters and spirits roamed the forest, he realized he knew nothing about the world or the trial.

• Qin Feng left the city and camped in a forest rather than risk staying at an inn.
• Qin Feng summoned Little Nine, who said the space and its inhabitants seemed real but could not explain how to find the Overgod Official or pass the test.
• Qin Feng shouted at the sky for instructions, but no voice answered.
• Qin Feng recalled Little Nine after hearing a noise and encountered a girl carrying a longbow in the forest.
• The girl said she was hunting and warned Qin Feng about monsters and spirits, then looked astonished when he did not know about them.

Qin Feng learned that he was in the Fa Lan Continent, a place where demons and spirits preyed on humans, and realized the Trial of Fate might be a trial set across an entire world. A fifteen-year-old girl mistook him for mentally disabled and took him with her to keep him safe.

• Qin Feng asked the girl about demons and spirits, then was shocked to learn he was on the Fa Lan Continent.
• The girl called Qin Feng mentally disabled and warned him that demons and spirits hunted humans at night.
• Qin Feng considered whether the Chosen Path held entire worlds as trials and wondered how to clear this one.
• The girl grabbed Qin Feng's clothes and brought him along, afraid he would be eaten if he stayed in the forest.

Qin Feng learned from Qiu Bingxin that Xijing City was one of humanity’s Nine Great Cities, but hunters like her could not afford to live there. She took him toward her home, and he was stunned when they arrived.

• Qiu Bingxin warned Qin Feng that monsters and demons could eat him if he stayed outside, and mistook him for an idiot.
• Qin Feng asked why Qiu Bingxin did not live in Xijing City, and she explained that entry cost money and hunters could not afford it.
• Qiu Bingxin introduced herself, learned Qin Feng’s name, and asked whether he had eaten.
• Qiu Bingxin and Qin Feng admitted they were both hungry, and she led him to her home.
• Qin Feng was stunned when he saw Qiu Bingxin’s home.

Qin Feng followed Qiu Bingxin to her hidden mud-hole home and learned why people outside the protected cities lived underground. There, he met Bingxin’s injured grandfather, who reacted warily to the stranger.

• Qin Feng was astonished to discover that Qiu Bingxin’s home was a mud hole.
• Qiu Bingxin explained that people unable to enter protected cities hid in caves or mud holes to avoid monsters and spirits.
• Qiu Bingxin brought Qin Feng inside, where he saw the crude furnishings and realized how simply they lived.
• Qiu Bingxin greeted her injured grandfather and explained that she had gone hunting to find food to help him recover.
• Qiu Bingxin’s grandfather noticed Qin Feng and became suspicious of the man accompanying his granddaughter.

Qin Feng met Bing Xin’s injured grandfather, who cautiously welcomed him and asked Bing Xin to make him dinner despite their scarce supplies. Bing Xin agreed to feed Qin Feng, and he faced the prospect of helping her gather wild vegetables the next morning.

• Bing Xin told her grandfather that she had found Qin Feng near the forest and brought him home because she thought he was intermittently mentally disabled and in danger from demons and spirits.
• Qin Feng greeted Bing Xin’s weak, malnourished grandfather, who asked whether he had eaten and judged him to seem well-mannered.
• The grandfather asked Bing Xin to cook Qin Feng a meal, and she complained that they had few vegetables left before adding another portion to the pot.
• Qin Feng said he did not need to eat, but Bing Xin’s grandfather explained that they could host him only briefly because they had little food.
• Bing Xin told Qin Feng that if he had a conscience, he would go with her to gather wild vegetables the next morning.

Qin Feng shared a meager meal with Qiu Bingxin and her injured grandfather, then told them he had no home. The grandfather assumed Qin Feng had been driven out of a city for failing to pay taxes, while Qiu Bingxin went outside despite the danger.

• Qiu Bingxin complained that Qin Feng could not catch meat, and he realized she and her grandfather had gone weeks without prey.
• Qiu Bingxin explained that demons and spirits controlled the local wildlife and made gathering food dangerous.
• Qiu Bingxin served Qin Feng and her grandfather a few wild greens while secretly eating even less herself.
• The old man urged Qin Feng to spend the night and leave for a city the next day, but Qin Feng said he had no home.
• Qiu Bingxin declared herself full and headed outside at night, and her grandfather anxiously warned her not to go.

Qin Feng followed Qiu Bingxin out to hunt despite her warnings, hoping to learn more about the monsters and his trial without revealing his power. They headed for a monster breeding farm, where they spotted rabbits in their burrows and sensed a wolf nearby.

• Qin Feng reassured Qiu Bingxin’s injured grandfather and went after her when she took her bow and arrows outside.
• Qiu Bingxin explained that she hunted at night because prey was easier to catch, while Qin Feng insisted on coming along.
• Qiu Bingxin warned Qin Feng to obey her and run if danger arose, and he agreed to conceal his Fifth-Rank Overgod power.
• Qiu Bingxin told Qin Feng that humans hunted livestock from monster breeding farms, where monsters might catch and eat them.
• Qin Feng and Qiu Bingxin walked through the forest for over half an hour and found rabbits in their burrows with a wolf apparently nearby.

Qin Feng and Qiu Bingxin hunted rabbits, but a wolf monster ambushed Qiu Bingxin after she retrieved one. Qin Feng killed it with two arrows, and as they prepared to leave, he fired several arrows toward the rabbit nest.

• Qiu Bingxin shot a rabbit and went to retrieve it while Qin Feng stayed behind.
• A wolf monster attacked Qiu Bingxin, who threw the rabbit and hunting gear to Qin Feng and tried to hold it off.
• Qin Feng shot two arrows into the wolf monster’s forehead and killed it, saving Qiu Bingxin.
• Qiu Bingxin urged Qin Feng to leave before other wolf monsters found them, but Qin Feng fired five or six arrows toward the rabbit nest.

Qin Feng and Bing Xin returned to the cave with nineteen rabbits after Qin Feng’s remarkable archery secured their catch. On the way, Qin Feng learned that demons were animals and spirit creatures were sentient plants.

• Qin Feng’s six arrows each pierced three rabbits, bringing the total catch to nineteen, and Bing Xin hurried to gather them.
• Bing Xin urged Qin Feng to return to their cave before the wolf demons discovered the stolen rabbits and their slain companion.
• Bing Xin thanked Qin Feng for his archery, and he asked her to make the rabbit meat delicious for supper.
• Qin Feng asked Bing Xin about demons and spirit creatures, and she explained that demons were animals while spirit creatures were sentient plants.
• Qin Feng and Bing Xin reached the cave, and Bing Xin called out to her grandfather.

Qiu Bingxin returned safely with Qin Feng and a haul of rabbits after he saved her from a demon. As she cooked their catch, her grandfather thanked Qin Feng and asked where he came from.

• Qiu Bingxin's grandfather went to the cave entrance in alarm after she stayed away for nearly an hour, then relaxed when she returned.
• Qiu Bingxin and Qin Feng brought back more than a dozen rabbits, astonishing her grandfather.
• Qiu Bingxin told her grandfather that Qin Feng had saved her from a demon, and the old man thanked Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng said he was looking forward to the rabbit meal, and Qiu Bingxin went to cook it.
• Qiu Bingxin's grandfather asked Qin Feng whether he had learned archery from his family and which of the Nine Great Cities he came from.

After Qiu Bingxin forgot to pass by the Holy Spirit Pool, wolf demons tracked her and her companions to their cave. With the exits likely blocked, they prepared to defend themselves against the approaching pack.

• A wolf demon howled outside the cave, and Qiu Bingxin's grandfather realized the demons had found them.
• Qiu Bingxin admitted she had hurried home without passing by the Holy Spirit Pool to remove her scent.
• Qin Feng asked why the Holy Spirit Pool mattered, and Qiu Bingxin's grandfather explained that the scent could lead demons to their home.
• Qiu Bingxin's grandfather warned that the wolf demons had likely blocked the exits because Qiu Bingxin had killed one of their kind.
• Qiu Bingxin gathered their arrows and vowed to defend the cave as the wolf howls grew louder.

Qin Feng took charge when wolf demons broke into the cave, telling Qiu Bingxin to prepare rabbit meat while he faced the pack. He drew the bow as the wolves advanced, leaving his ability to drive them back unresolved.

• A wolf demon charged into the cave, and Qiu Bingxin’s injured grandfather shot it with an arrow that only wounded it.
• Qiu Bingxin fired two arrows into the wolf demon, but several more wolves rushed into the cave.
• Qin Feng told Qiu Bingxin to prepare rabbit meat and said he would handle the wolves.
• Qin Feng grabbed the arrows and quickly drew the bow as the pack advanced.

Qin Feng killed two werewolves with his bow and dragged their bodies outside, leaving Qiu Bingxin and her grandfather stunned by his strength. He faced the pack surrounding the cave and fired at two charging wolves.

• Qin Feng shot a wolf demon and a werewolf, then dragged both corpses outside.
• Qiu Bingxin and her grandfather marveled at Qin Feng's strength, and the old man urged her to prepare the rabbit and treat their guest well.
• Qin Feng found more than thirty werewolves surrounding the cave, including a silver-furred wolf with purple eyes that he suspected was their king.
• The wolves howled in fury at Qin Feng, and two charged him.
• Qin Feng drew his bow and shot at the charging wolves.