Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao ambushed the Lizardman hero after he left the Stone Golem Treasure House, took the treasure and troops as ransom, and continued exploring the ruins. After the creatures grew stronger at the three-month mark, Lin Xiao narrowly escaped a tentacled monster and returned to its lair, determined to kill it and claim its Golden Treasure Chest.

• Lin Xiao waited outside the treasure house, ambushed the Lizardman hero as he emerged, and forced him to surrender his loot and another treasure as ransom.
• Lin Xiao converted Stone Man Cards into an Elite Stone Man, installed the Stone Man Nest Heart, and upgraded his Stone Man Barracks to Level Two.
• Contestants fought over resources and dungeons across the ruins, and the Hero Level and Individual Overall Strength rankings opened; Lin Xiao ranked 1,237th.
• At the three-month mark, the creatures in the ruins grew stronger, and Lin Xiao barely escaped the tentacled monster after losing many troops.
• Lin Xiao replenished his forces and returned to the monster’s pit to kill it and take the Golden Treasure Chest embedded in its body.

Lin Xiao defeated the tentacle monster and chose a Gold Treasure Chest reward, gaining a Magic Book and a treasure that strengthened him. After preparing in Strength Castle, he returned toward the Undead Ruins, where rival groups were watching the area, and stopped short of the spreading death mist.

• Lin Xiao waited for the Iron Men and Elite Archers to kill the tentacle monster, then opened the Gold Treasure Chest and chose Treasure.
• Lin Xiao received a Magic Book containing seven strategic spells and the Beast's Fury treasure, then decided to revisit the Undead Ruins treasure.
• Lin Xiao returned to Strength Castle, learned that Li Wenze and Lin Huan had fought over the Undead Ruins treasure, and exchanged Archer Barracks fragments for enough Spearman Barracks fragments to complete and upgrade a barracks.
• Lin Xiao traveled through Glory City's territory toward the Undead Ruins and saw two groups watching the area from rival outposts near the former Big Ear Monster camp.
• Lin Xiao flew low over the forest on a Griffin, spotted denser death mist near the Undead Ruins, and halted before approaching it.

Lin Xiao entered the Undead Ruins and began a challenge to defend a city from a Tier Three Undead Hero. After three days of preparation, the undead army arrived in overwhelming numbers, leaving the city’s defense about to begin.

• Lin Xiao discovered that two True Body Descenders were invading Li Wenze’s Divine Domain while he entered the Undead Ruins to claim its treasure.
• Lin Xiao was transported to a city and learned that he had to defend it for one week while keeping its integrity and civilian survival above 75%.
• Lin Xiao surveyed the surrounding area, declared martial law, gathered civilians inside the city, and requisitioned food and supplies.
• Lin Xiao spent three days recruiting guards from merchants and nobles and preparing the city for the undead attack.
• A vast undead army approached, including more than ten thousand Skeletons and dozens of high-tier troops, greatly outnumbering Lin Xiao’s forces.

Lin Xiao dismantled his treasures and used their Creation Energy and excess Troop Cards to enhance the Stone Heart into a powerful third-tier Crystal Heart. With its new resistances and immunities bolstering his forces, he began defending the city as the undead army reached its walls.

• Lin Xiao realized the difficulty of obtaining high-level treasures and suspected that the Creation Cube could synthesize and enhance treasures.
• Lin Xiao dismantled four treasures, extracted their Creation Energy, and used it with the Stone Heart as the base for a synthesis.
• Lin Xiao added excess Troop Cards to the Creation Cube, and the Stone Heart transformed into a third-tier Crystal Heart with powerful attributes and immunities.
• Lin Xiao beat the war drum and ordered his archers to fire on the approaching undead, bringing down skeletons with volleys of arrows.
• Skeletons and zombies crowded beneath the walls and attacked them while ghosts, vampires, and Corpse Wights approached behind them.

Lin Xiao used strategic magic and the Crystal Heart to blunt the Undead Hero’s assault and destroy the enemy’s Corpse Wights. After the undead launched a decisive attack, Lin Xiao’s defenders held the walls and inflicted heavy losses, forcing the Undead Hero to retreat.

• The Undead Hero attacked the city with Corpse Wight bombardments, while Lin Xiao used his archers and strategic spells to counter the assault.
• Zuo Feng and the griffins fought vampires and ghosts as the defenders held the walls, and Lin Xiao repeatedly healed his troops.
• Lin Xiao’s archers destroyed all the Corpse Wights, while the Crystal Heart neutralized the ghosts’ deadly ability and the defenders held two breaches in the wall.
• The Undead Hero sent nearly two hundred vampires and over three hundred ghosts against the battlements, and Lin Xiao deployed his two Tier Six knights from reserve.
• The ghosts and vampires attacked Lin Xiao’s archers, but the spearmen and Stone Men helped repel them; after losing over a hundred ghosts and more than thirty vampires, the Undead Hero ordered a retreat.

Lin Xiao’s forces drove back the undead army and completed the challenge with an Excellent score, earning generous rewards. After leveling up and claiming treasures, he used his talent and resources to start advancing an Elite Archer into a Hero and examined the Crystal Wall Origin.

• An Elite Archer advanced into an Elite Marksman, and a second archer followed soon after as Lin Xiao focused his archers on killing vampires.
• Zuo Feng’s attempt to ambush the Corpse Wights failed when the Undead Hero surrounded his force, trapping and killing most of the Elite Spearmen.
• The undead army retreated, and Lin Xiao completed the challenge with a score of 88 and an Excellent evaluation.
• Lin Xiao claimed his rewards, used Hero experience to reach level two, and assigned both strategic attributes to Agility.
• Lin Xiao spent 200,000 Gold Coins to replace missing unit experience and began advancing an Elite Archer into a Hero.
• Lin Xiao claimed three undead-themed treasures and learned that the Crystal Wall Origin could strengthen cards, relics, and the Divine Domain or help him comprehend laws.

Lin Xiao completed his preparations after clearing the Undead Ruins and emerged with a Level Two Hero ranking, then watched Li Wenze lose his Divine Domain to two attackers. Li Wenze offered a large share of his resources for rescue, and Lin Xiao stopped to consider intervening.

• Lin Xiao stored the Crystal Wall System Origin, upgraded Vampire's Fang, fused the Archer and Griffin Barracks into Level Three Griffon Archers, and equipped his available troops.
• Lin Xiao left the Undead Ruins, appeared eighth on the Myriad Phenomena Ruins Hero Ranking, and drew the attention of nearby contestants.
• Lin Xiao spectated the battle and saw Li Wenze's Divine Domain collapse as two opponents plundered his resources and stripped away his loaded cards.
• Li Wenze offered Lin Xiao treasures, barracks, Divinity Cards, half his Divine Domain, an Ancient Card, and an ancient relic in exchange for rescue.
• Lin Xiao initially refused, but reconsidered after Li Wenze explained that he could engage one attacker while Li Wenze held off the other.

Lin Xiao left the Undead Ruins after accepting Hua Zhang’s payment to abandon Li Wenze, then sailed east in search of riches. After spotting a light pillar on a remote island, he approached to investigate what appeared to be valuable loot.

• Lin Xiao accepted Hua Zhang’s offer of two hundred thousand Gold Coins, two Spearman Barracks, and two Level One treasures, then left Li Wenze without a signed contract.
• Lin Xiao upgraded his Swordsman and Griffon Archer Barracks, traveled to the coast, and bought a Three-Masted Sailing Ship.
• Lin Xiao set sail with his troops and subordinate Hero Weiya, then crossed the Sea of Tranquility into the outer ocean.
• After a storm delayed the voyage, Lin Xiao’s crew spotted an island with a pillar of light rising from its center.
• Lin Xiao approached the island and saw two light circles on the beach with indistinct figures inside.

Lin Xiao defeated a Rampart hero, gathered resources from an island, and spent the next months growing stronger while the rankings changed. In his sixth month at sea, he spotted a giant treasure-laden warship and headed toward it.

• Lin Xiao’s ship collided with a Rampart hero’s vessel, and Lin Xiao’s Griffon Archers gained the advantage over the Pegasus Knights.
• The Elf hero surrendered and paid Lin Xiao a Withered Vine and half his Gold Coins; Lin Xiao then looted the island and found a Harpy Treasure House.
• Over the following months, Lin Xiao drifted between islands and grew stronger as the rankings changed; by the second season, he ranked eighth in overall combat power and Little Aunt ranked fifteenth.
• Lin Xiao spotted a colossal warship near two fighting vessels and sensed that it was a treasure site restricted to heroes below Level Two.

Lin Xiao prepared to challenge a Level Two treasure by using Creation Energy to transform the Crystal Heart and create powerful treasures. When two rival players joined forces to attack his warship, he summoned Crystal Golems and accelerated his troops, leaving the battle about to begin.

• Lin Xiao reviewed his accumulated troops and decided he needed to strengthen himself before attempting the treasure challenge.
• Two Level Two Heroes, one from the Stronghold Barbarians and one from the Swamp, stopped fighting each other and joined forces against Lin Xiao.
• Lin Xiao used five units of Creation Energy and three Level One treasures to transform the Crystal Heart into a Level Four treasure that could summon Crystal Golems.
• Lin Xiao fused his remaining four Level One treasures and one unit of Creation Energy into Swift Boots, creating a Level Three treasure that accelerated all his troops.
• The two enemy warships hooked onto Lin Xiao's ship and attacked, so Lin Xiao summoned two hundred Level Six Crystal Golems and cast an undispellable Attack Acceleration over his forces.

Lin Xiao and his warship were pulled into a Ghost Ship and carried through a lightless void filled with hostile wills. The ship reached a besieged Floating Island, where its heroes and troops joined the defense against Evil Spirit entities.

• Lin Xiao used two hundred Crystal Golems to crush the enemy forces, eliminated two players, and discovered their giant vessel was a Ghost Ship.
• Lin Xiao tried to enter the Ghost Ship, but its powerful Evil Spirit will knocked him back; he rammed his warship into it and lost consciousness after clashing wills.
• Lin Xiao awoke as a ghost aboard his transparent warship, embedded in the Ghost Ship and surrounded by countless hostile wills in a pitch-black void.
• Lin Xiao remained motionless for a week as the Ghost Ship sailed through the void, then spotted a distant light approaching.
• The Ghost Ship reached a Floating Island under attack by Evil Spirit entities, and a Barbarian Hero led troops onto the island to fight them.
• A level-three Elf Hero with stronger troops than Lin Xiao's and the Barbarian Hero's emerged from the Ghost Ship.

Lin Xiao was forced onto the Floating Island, where evil spirits attacked him and his troops. After discovering how to destroy the spirits’ cores, he found that the Creation Cube could extract a trace of Creation Energy from them.

• An immense force destroyed Lin Xiao’s warship and transported him and his troops to the Floating Island, where Prayer was cast on them.
• A black humanoid spirit attacked Lin Xiao, imitated his units, and summoned waves of tier-four enemies.
• Lin Xiao discovered Magic Lightning could expose the spirit’s core, and he and Weiya destroyed it, causing its summoned creatures to collapse.
• Lin Xiao and Weiya defeated six more black figures and collected their cores as other nearby spirits withdrew.
• Lin Xiao placed a core in the Creation Cube and discovered that its destruction produced a small amount of Creation Energy.

Lin Xiao farmed experience and Creation Energy on the Floating Island until the ghost battleship forcibly carried him away, ending his month of relentless hunting. After drifting for another month, the ship reached a similar island and dropped him and the surviving ghost heroes there, where Lin Xiao eagerly resumed the hunt.

• Lin Xiao discovered that refining black shadow cores yielded Creation Energy and that their Unknown Energy converted into one thousand experience points each, so he began hunting the monsters with Magic Lightning.
• Lin Xiao reached Hero Level Three after two days and Level Four ten days later, putting his new strategic attributes into Intelligence as he continued farming experience and Creation Energy.
• As most of the ghost heroes died in battle, Lin Xiao guessed they had failed the ghost ship's challenge and began helping them survive while stealing some of their kills.
• A message appeared in Lin Xiao's mind, and the ghost battleship pulled him, his troops, and the surviving ghost heroes aboard, then departed from the Floating Island with his accumulated fifty-six units of Creation Energy.
• After another month of drifting, Lin Xiao spotted a second Floating Island, and the ghost battleship dropped him and the surviving ghost heroes onto it.
• Lin Xiao excitedly ordered his troops to charge the nearest monster and resume hunting.

Lin Xiao was sent to a colossal Floating Island, where he encountered an overwhelming evil presence and lost most of his forces fighting toward its Altar. After taking a monster’s core despite Titan Heberlein’s warning, Lin Xiao secretly swallowed it with the Creation Cube.

• Lin Xiao sensed the Ghost Dreadnought entering the Void Depths and was sent to a Floating Island more than a hundred times larger than the previous one.
• A colossal evil face beneath the black liquid overwhelmed Lin Xiao, and the Creation Cube protected his consciousness at the cost of twenty units of Creation Energy; afterward, strange eyes and tentacles appeared on his body.
• Lin Xiao led his troops toward the island’s Altar, sacrificing nearly all of them while fleeing powerful monsters and reaching the Titan Giants’ platform.
• Lin Xiao used Magic Lightning to destroy a monster’s core after it transformed and struck a Titan Giant, then moved to retrieve the core when it became inert.
• Titan Heberlein warned Lin Xiao that the core was too dangerous to handle and asked him to give it to the Eternal Fire, but Lin Xiao secretly absorbed it with the Creation Cube.

Lin Xiao refined the Evil Spirits’ dangerous law power and, after the Titan Giant Leader allowed him to keep hunting under constant watch, summoned his Divine Domain Kinfolk to replace his depleted troops. His Asura Nagas and elemental forces proved powerful enough to fight the Evil Spirits directly, leaving him poised to farm the island more efficiently.

• The Titan Giant Leader trapped Lin Xiao in a lightning cage after the core vanished, then let him continue hunting while warning that it would kill him if the evil affected him.
• Lin Xiao used the Creation Cube to refine the unknown law power, absorbed the pure result, and glimpsed a fleeting vision.
• Lin Xiao spent six or seven days luring Evil Spirits to the Titan Giant Leader and collecting their spoils, gradually accumulating experience, Creation Energy, and law power.
• After his troops died and he could no longer afford replacements, Lin Xiao opened four portals and summoned Asura Nagas, Wise Goblin Mages, Fire Elementals, and Air Elementals from his Divine Domain.
• Lin Xiao’s Kinfolk buffed an Asura Greater Naga, which charged an Evil Spirit and cleaved it in two with its Guan Dao.

Lin Xiao used his growing Creation Energy to strengthen his treasures and experiment with the Rule Power gathered from Evil Spirits. The experiment consumed one hundred units and caused a singularity to explode, overwhelming his consciousness with rules and knowledge; back in his Divine Domain, he survived the influx and gained an extraordinary leap in understanding.

• Lin Xiao raised his Hero Level to five, put his strategic attribute points into Constitution, and prepared his Kinfolk for a prolonged fight on the Floating Island.
• Lin Xiao spent twenty units of Creation Energy to upgrade the Crystal Heart to level five, granting him magic immunity and the power to summon powerful creatures.
• Lin Xiao upgraded Vampire's Fang and Swift Boots to level-four treasures and equipped them.
• Lin Xiao poured Creation Energy into the gathered Rule Power until it had consumed exactly one hundred units, whereupon it collapsed into a singularity and exploded inside the Creation Cube.
• Lin Xiao's consciousness was swept up in the explosion, while his true body in the Divine Domain contained its effects with a divine barrier and survived the torrent of laws and knowledge.
• Lin Xiao's understanding of rules surged, and his Truth Godhood took shape as the incoming knowledge was forcibly fused with him.

Lin Xiao’s true body and incarnation underwent major changes, strengthening his Godhood mastery, Divinity, and talent just as the Source of Evil began to awaken. Unable to enter the refuge Altar or leave the astral realm, he prepared his forces and chose to gamble on surviving the coming invasion.

• Lin Xiao examined his transformed attributes, noting that his Truth Godhood had condensed, his Creation mastery had risen to 3.24%, and his Divinity had increased to twenty-seven points.
• Lin Xiao’s incarnation gained the Master of Truth talent and tested its powerful spell bonuses, while a distant presence began to awaken beneath the Void Sea.
• The Titan Giant Leader announced that the Source of Evil was about to awaken and refused Lin Xiao entry to the refuge Altar, warning him to prepare for an invasion.
• Lin Xiao learned that he could not leave through the Astral Giant Ship and could not enter the Eternal Divine Palace, leaving him trapped on the Floating Island.
• Lin Xiao ordered a reinforced temporary base built, recalled most of his Kinfolk, and kept only five hundred Level Six Asura Naga warriors and two thousand Wise Goblin Mages outside the Divine Domain.

Lin Xiao and his forces endured a month-long assault by the Black Liquid Tide, but their layered defenses steadily weakened and yielded little Creation Energy. Meanwhile, Hero Continent’s strongest players prepared for changes approaching with the one-year deadline, and Shen Yuexin held a treasure map to the Emerald Secret Realm.

• Lin Xiao’s mages built more than twenty layers of defenses, and his troops held off the Black Liquid Tide while he healed and strengthened them.
• As the battle and attrition continued, the Strength Rankings revealed Lin Xiao in second place and an unknown player in first, while players increasingly hunted one another for experience and points.
• Dongfang Piaoxue fought undead forces with his Cyclopes and Thunderbirds, then discussed the approaching deadline and possible plans with Li Xiushen and Shen Yuexin.
• Shen Yuexin stood above a hidden army in the forest and examined a treasure map marked Emerald Secret Realm.
• After a month of attacks, Lin Xiao’s fortress had lost more than half its defensive layers and accumulated only a little over forty units of Creation Energy.

Lin Xiao used his Creation Energy to repair the Crystal Wall System Origin Core Shell, hoping it could help his trapped avatar escape its crisis. After the repairs revealed a choice between enhancing the relic and reactivating its dormant Origin Core, he chose to attempt reactivation, leaving the outcome unknown.

• Lin Xiao’s avatar sent his true body a note through the Creation Cube, explaining his desperate situation and suggesting that strengthening a relic might help.
• Lin Xiao’s true body judged his two Rank 1 relics inadequate and decided to spend Creation Energy repairing the Crystal Wall System Origin Core Shell instead.
• Lin Xiao used 220 units of Creation Energy to repair the shell’s cracks and other damage, completing its restoration.
• The Creation Cube presented Lin Xiao with a choice: enhance the restored shell further later, or spend another 100 units of Creation Energy to relight its dormant Origin Core.
• Lin Xiao chose to reactivate the Origin Core, sending 100 units of Creation Energy into the cube as lightning struck the core.

Lin Xiao awakened the Crystal Wall System Origin Core, greatly expanded and strengthened his Divine Domain, and began planning a new universe’s rules. His incarnation was swallowed by an overwhelming Evil Spirit, and the one-year trial ended with the Myriad Phenomena Treasure Land opening.

• Lin Xiao awakened the Crystal Wall System Origin Core, raising his Divine Domain’s spatial strength and energy concentration to Eighth Order and unlocking the ability to fuse two additional cards each month.
• Lin Xiao rejected restoring the destroyed universe’s rules or copying another universe’s system, and decided to create a unique rules network with the Creation Cube’s help using Creation Energy.
• Lin Xiao fused the Origin Core into his Divine Domain, and Slarda advanced to Eighth Order Legend while other powerful kinfolk gained the potential to advance.
• Lin Xiao’s incarnation faced a massive Evil Spirit that broke through the Defense Barrier, so he recalled his kinfolk and watched as the black tide swallowed him; his ranking then vanished.
• The one-year period ended, and the Hero System opened the Myriad Phenomena Treasure Land for three months while warning that entrants could not leave; many heroes teleported there to compete for its treasures.