Chapter Summaries

Wang Xian returned and reunited with Cheng Yao, Su Jin, and Nangong Wu, who discussed their dungeon troubles and the arena. Nangong Wu laid out her plans to fill the new guild, while Wang Xian admitted he had little to contribute to guild planning.

• Cheng Yao complained that Sword Twenty-Three had taken Wang Xian’s father into a dungeon, leaving no runs for him to help with their Purgatory Difficulty dungeon; Wang Xian promised to join them the next day.
• Su Jin asked Wang Xian to avenge her defeat in Balanced Mode, but he refused because he was also inexperienced at arena combat.
• Wang Xian introduced Lu Yu and Zhao Hong, then discussed guild preparations with Nangong Wu.
• Nangong Wu explained that she had prepared three thousand talented recruits for the Level 1 guild, and Wang Xian struggled to offer any advice.

Wang Xian discovered that Keyboard Warrior had secretly inflicted a negative status on him that his status panel could not detect. After Cheng Yao cleansed it, Su Jin could no longer smell the strange odor, and Wang Xian called Lu Yu and Zhao Hong over.

• Nangong Wu teased Wang Xian about his dream, and he claimed it was to gain everyone's recognition despite not knowing what that meant.
• Su Jin sensed an uncomfortable smell on Wang Xian, and Feng Luoli, Yue Rushuang, Hua Xiangrong, and Xue Fangfei confirmed it.
• Wang Xian checked whether the Thunder Spirit was causing the smell, but Su Jin said it was coming from elsewhere.
• Wang Xian asked Cheng Yao to cleanse his negative statuses, and Su Jin confirmed the smell disappeared.
• Wang Xian explained that Keyboard Warrior had controlled hundreds of people and secretly afflicted him with a status that his panel did not show.
• Wang Xian called Lu Yu and Zhao Hong over.

Wang Xian checked that Lu Yu and Zhao Hong were not affected by the enemy’s skill, then examined the Legendary Heavenly Dragon Ring and helped the others deal with the Thunder Spirit. After sleeping through the morning, he woke to learn that Nangong Wu had gone to fight in the arena, and the group planned to run a dungeon.

• Wang Xian confirmed that Lu Yu and Zhao Hong had no strange scent and gave them equipment and Gold Coins.
• Wang Xian explained the Thunder Spirit to the others, who tried to tame it and were shocked by its lightning attack.
• Wang Xian inspected the Heavenly Dragon Ring, equipped it, and banished its Ultimate Berserk skill because of its dangerous HP cost.
• The Thunder Spirit gave Su Jin, Nangong Wu, and Cheng Yao enormous afros, and Wang Xian went to sleep.
• Wang Xian woke at noon and learned Nangong Wu had gone to the arena, so Cheng Yao offered to call her back before they ran a dungeon.

Wang Xian learned that the Dragon Country Ruins dungeon’s Dried Corpses inflicted stacking poison and realized the Five-Venom Bead could help counter it. At the auction house, he bought all seventeen beads available, hoping to upgrade them.

• Nangong Wu told Wang Xian about the Dragon Country Ruins, its powerful level 50 Dried Corpses, and the tokens awarded for clearing its difficulty levels.
• Wang Xian confirmed Cheng Yao could remove negative effects every five seconds and decided the dungeon’s poison damage was manageable.
• Wang Xian took out the Five-Venom Bead and asked whether anyone was selling poison, prompting Nangong Wu to connect his questions to the bead.
• Wang Xian went with Nangong Wu, Cheng Yao, and Su Jin to the auction house to find more Five-Venom Beads.
• Wang Xian learned that seventeen beads were listed for five to nine Gold Coins each and bought them all.

Wang Xian upgraded Five-Venom Beads and prepared his party for the Dragon Country Ruins dungeon, then invited Ling Fei to join them as a precaution. The chapter left the group gathered in the courtyard, with Nangong Wu suspecting Wang Xian was hiding a danger from them.

• Wang Xian bought poisons and upgraded the Five-Venom Beads, then explained how their resistance reduced stacked poison damage.
• Wang Xian agreed with Su Jin that they should quietly buy more Five-Venom Beads, and Nangong Wu took charge of the plan.
• Wang Xian gathered the dungeon party and decided to invite one more person, choosing someone other than Lu Yu or Zhao Hong.
• Wang Xian contacted Ling Fei, who agreed to come to Azure Dragon City.
• Ling Fei arrived, and Wang Xian said he had invited her for safety, leaving Nangong Wu suspicious that he was concealing a danger.

Wang Xian revealed his Forbidden Grade Talents to Nangong Wu, who deduced that he could gain multiple talents and teased him before they entered the Purgatory Difficulty Dragon Country Ruins dungeon. He effortlessly defeated the first group of Imperial Guards, then got lost in the palace and returned to study Nangong Wu’s badly drawn map.

• Wang Xian showed Nangong Wu his Human King Soul and Earth Emperor's Blessing talents, and she guessed that he could gain multiple talents.
• Nangong Wu kissed Wang Xian on the cheek and teased him before the group entered the dungeon, where Cheng Yao and Ling Fei gave him buffs.
• Wang Xian drew the Imperial Guards’ attention and killed more than a dozen of them with his area attacks before they could reach him.
• Wang Xian ran deeper into the palace, got lost among its many paths, and returned to the group.
• Nangong Wu gave Wang Xian her map marking the BOSS’s location, and he questioned her about its crude drawings.

Wang Xian led the group through the Purgatory Difficulty dungeon with ease, following Nangong Wu’s directions and wiping out the Imperial Guards. When the group reached a dark road leading to the final boss, they discovered its walls were closing in and ran toward the black palace.

• Wang Xian gave up trying to read Nangong Wu’s map, followed her directions, and killed waves of Heavenly Dragon Country Imperial Guards with ease.
• Ling Fei refreshed Wang Xian’s buffs while Su Jin, Nangong Wu, and Cheng Yao joked that he left them no chance to fight.
• After more than an hour, the group reached a dark road that Nangong Wu said was the only route to the final boss.
• Wang Xian led the group down the road, and they spotted a massive black palace at its far end.
• Ling Fei noticed the road narrowing, and Feng Luoli confirmed that the walls were closing in.
• Wang Xian shouted for everyone to run, and the group sprinted toward the black palace to escape being crushed.

Wang Xian and the others crossed a trap-filled passage where moving faster made the walls close in and carved creatures come alive. They reached the black palace, opened its doors, and found a red coffin at its center; Wang Xian lifted the lid, revealing what was inside.

• Wang Xian discovered that the passage walls stopped closing when the group stopped moving, but carved creatures began crawling out of them.
• Wang Xian identified the creatures' high physical defense and zero magic defense, and the group used magic attacks to destroy them.
• Wang Xian told everyone to move at their original pace, and they made it through the narrowing passage while fighting off the creatures.
• Wang Xian and the others rested outside the palace, then entered its empty hall and found a red coffin.
• Wang Xian opened the coffin lid as the others stepped back.

Wang Xian and his group found a red-clad female corpse in the coffin instead of the dungeon BOSS. When Wang Xian touched the token in her hands, the corpse exploded into poisonous smoke, and seemingly invulnerable Imperial Guard monsters appeared.

• Wang Xian searched beneath the coffin’s flowers and found a female corpse wearing a red bridal gown.
• Nangong Wu spotted a golden token under the corpse’s hands, and Wang Xian reached for it after pulling Su Jin away.
• The corpse cracked and exploded when Wang Xian touched it, releasing poisonous black smoke and triggering mechanical sounds.
• Wang Xian warned the group about the poison and fought a burly monster whose health did not decrease when he struck it.
• Wang Xian gathered the group, and they identified the monsters as Heavenly Dragon Country Imperial Guards marked with the character “Demon.”

Wang Xian discovered that the Heavenly Dragon Country Imperial Guards (Demon) could only be killed by striking their glabella, and the group cleared dozens of them for a large amount of experience. As the ground began to shake, a giant BOSS emerged from a widening crack.

• Wang Xian explained that reaching one thousand in a base attribute unlocked a lottery chance, and urged the others to claim the reward before the first ten slots were taken.
• Wang Xian accidentally killed an Imperial Guard with a strike to its glabella, then confirmed the weakness by doing it again.
• Su Jin failed to hit an Imperial Guard's glabella with a Star Arrow because she had not enabled full Freedom of Action, while Nangong Wu demonstrated a successful glabella strike.
• Wang Xian and the others killed the remaining Imperial Guards, gained over a million experience points, and leveled up, though Su Jin did not.
• Wang Xian warned the group as the ground shook, and a giant over fifteen meters tall emerged from a crack.

Wang Xian and the women fought the enormous BOSS, dealing heavy damage while he endured its attacks. When the BOSS reached seventy percent health and unleashed a shockwave, Wang Xian shielded Xue Fangfei, then recovered and charged back into battle.

• Su Jin and Nangong Wu joked about the BOSS’s size while Wang Xian started the fight with a spear attack.
• The BOSS slammed Wang Xian into the ground, but he triggered Forsaken and blasted it away before the group joined the attack.
• Wang Xian and the women rapidly reduced the BOSS’s health to the seventy percent threshold.
• Wang Xian spotted Xue Fangfei attacking the BOSS’s heel and flew over to pull her away before its area attack.
• The BOSS released a black shockwave that injured Wang Xian, who shielded Xue Fangfei; after she healed him, he charged back at the BOSS.

Wang Xian discovered that the BOSS poisoned anyone who attacked it, and the group controlled the poison while damaging it to 40% health. The BOSS then trapped them in the palace with a skull attack that resisted purification, and Wang Xian fled toward the doors just as they slammed shut.

• Wang Xian learned that attacking the BOSS stacked poison on him and relied on Cheng Yao and Ling Fei to remove it before it reached ten layers.
• The group coordinated their attacks and brought the BOSS down to 40% health.
• At the phase change, green skulls appeared above everyone, and both Cheng Yao's and Ling Fei's purification failed to remove Wang Xian's skull.
• The skulls joined into a larger one that targeted Wang Xian, so he used Soaring Golden Light to escape.
• The palace doors slammed shut as Wang Xian neared the exit.

Wang Xian survived the BOSS’s third-phase attack with the women’s help, then chose to keep fighting despite Nangong Wu’s pleas to leave. He discovered that the Heavenly Dragon Spear’s Execution effect had dealt over a million damage as the BOSS entered its final phase.

• Wang Xian ran out of mana and lost Soaring Golden Light, but Ling Fei’s sound-wave barrier and Cheng Yao’s Willow Dark Flower Bright kept him alive through the skull’s attack.
• Cheng Yao revived Ling Fei after the attack killed her, and Wang Xian resumed fighting the BOSS.
• Nangong Wu realized Wang Xian could not be resurrected and pleaded with him to abandon the dungeon, but he broke free and charged back into battle.
• Wang Xian struck a gap between the BOSS’s scales and triggered the Heavenly Dragon Spear’s Execution effect, dealing over 1.4 million damage.
• The BOSS entered its fourth phase, and Nangong Wu warned everyone that it would be difficult to defeat.

Wang Xian and his companions defeated the level 75 Young Demon in the Purgatory Difficulty Dragon Country Ruins after its final-stage defense made most of their attacks deal no damage. They cleared the dungeon, and Su Jin’s experience talent triggered, leaving her unexpectedly at level 46 as everyone went to collect the boss’s drops.

• The Young Demon gained immense defense, so Wang Xian and the others relied on Su Jin’s fixed damage, Cheng Yao’s Flower Breaks Intestines, and Wang Xian’s strongest skills to wear down its HP.
• Wang Xian spent over an hour kiting the boss until Cheng Yao suggested he could tank its attacks, after which his strikes began dealing a fixed 3,530 damage.
• Wang Xian and the others killed the Young Demon, cleared the dungeon, and received experience, a Purgatory Point, and level-up rewards.
• Su Jin discovered that her talent had triggered its one-in-ten-thousand chance for ten times experience, raising her to level 46.
• Wang Xian scolded Su Jin for her laughter, then Nangong Wu took his arm and led him toward the boss’s drops.

After defeating the dungeon boss, Wang Xian's group used the golden token to establish the world's first guild. The chapter ended with the announcement that Nangong Wu had founded Blue Star's first guild, while officials in the Imperial Capital suspected Su Jin's luck talent had helped them gather the required materials.

• Su Jin showed Wang Xian the boss's drops: an ordinary blue helmet, the golden token, gold coins, and materials.
• Su Jin opened a Star Gate that took the group to the dungeon entrance, and Wang Xian went home to rest while Nangong Wu's group continued to establish the guild.
• Cheng Yao and Su Jin asked Nangong Wu for the guild's name, but she teased them without revealing it.
• Ling Fei reported the dungeon events to her contacts, prompting officials in the Imperial Capital to suspect Su Jin's Goddess of Luck's Favor talent had accelerated the group's progress.
• A world announcement declared that Nangong Wu had established Blue Star's first guild.

After Nangong Wu established the first guild, Immortal Palace, Dragon Kingdom officials worried that Wang Xian might not be able to revive and agreed to send her life-saving Skill Books. Wang Xian and the others grew furious over a mocking World Channel message, and Sword Twenty-Three arrived with money just as Wang Xian wanted to retaliate.

• The world announcement named Nangong Wu as the founder of Blue Star’s first guild, Immortal Palace, prompting Dragon Kingdom officials to discuss Wang Xian’s possible inability to revive.
• The officials unanimously agreed to send Nangong Wu several life-saving Skill Books under the pretense of congratulating her.
• Wang Xian tried to contact Nangong Wu, Cheng Yao, and Su Jin, then saw a sarcastic message from the western Free Nations mocking Dragon Kingdom’s first guild.
• Nangong Wu and the others returned through a Star Gate, angry about the message’s insult toward Nangong Wu and Dragon Kingdom’s men.
• Sword Twenty-Three rushed in and told Wang Xian he had come to deliver money.

Wang Xian held back his response to the first World Channel provocation until several countries had spoken, then sent a new message that stunned everyone watching. The chapter ended without revealing what he had written.

• Sword Twenty-Three gave Wang Xian one million Gold Coins so he could respond to the attack on Nangong Wu.
• Nangong Wu persuaded Wang Xian to wait for more countries to reveal their intentions before replying.
• Wang Xian shared his crude draft with the group, and his joke about Sword Twenty-Three's father made everyone laugh.
• Several countries posted statements that mocked Dragon Kingdom's men and tried to isolate Nangong Wu, while Universe Country claimed she belonged to them.
• Nangong Wu told Wang Xian to respond, and he sent a newly edited message that stunned the World Channel's viewers.

Wang Xian answered the countries challenging the Dragon Kingdom on the World Channel with strings of symbols, leaving everyone stunned and silencing the channel. Nangong Wu explained that the opponents had stopped responding because they could not match his insults and each message cost Gold Coins.

• After the Dragon Kingdom waited for Nangong Wu to answer Free Nations, Wang Xian posted a message of symbols on the World Channel that delighted Dragon Kingdom people and shocked everyone else.
• Sword Twenty-Three confronted Wang Xian for sending the message after promising not to, and Wang Xian argued that it differed from his earlier draft.
• When Free Nations called Wang Xian a hooligan and scum, Wang Xian sent another symbolic insult, spending all one million Gold Coins Sword Twenty-Three had brought.
• No other country posted on the World Channel, and Wang Xian boasted to Cheng Yao that he had silenced them.
• Nangong Wu explained to Cheng Yao that the opponents had too many concerns, could not match Wang Xian's insults, and had to pay Gold Coins to speak.

Wang Xian’s insults in the world channel raised his recognition among the people of the Dragon Kingdom to 70%, triggering blessings from his Human King Soul and Earth Emperor’s Blessing talents. After revealing the talents to Nangong Wu, Su Jin, and Cheng Yao, he accepted Cheng Yao’s invitation to join Nangong Wu’s guild.

• Wang Xian learned that his recognition among the people of the Dragon Kingdom had reached 70%, granting recognized people 10% damage reduction and 10% to all attributes.
• People across the Dragon Kingdom’s chat channels discussed the new blessings, while Wang Xian refused to tell Sword Twenty-Three that he was the Human King and Earth Emperor.
• Nangong Wu recognized the system prompts as effects of Wang Xian’s Forbidden Grade Talents and noted that another boost required recognition from 90% of the Human race.
• Wang Xian showed Su Jin and Cheng Yao screenshots of his talents, revealing that he was the Human King and Earth Emperor.
• Cheng Yao invited Wang Xian to join the guild Nangong Wu had established, and Wang Xian accepted.

After joining Immortal Palace, Wang Xian’s guild-wide blessings and Mercy skill improved, and Nangong Wu teased him into greeting the guild. She then told him about the special territory reward for establishing the first guild.

• Wang Xian joined Immortal Palace, triggering three guild blessings and his promotion to Honorary Guild Leader.
• Wang Xian discovered that joining the guild had upgraded Mercy, boosting party experience gains.
• Nangong Wu persuaded Wang Xian to greet the guild, whose more than two thousand female members all called him “Uncle.”
• Nangong Wu asked Wang Xian about the reward for establishing the first guild and explained that she had received a territory without the usual month of tasks or Gold Coin costs.