Chapter Summaries

Lin Xiao led his elite force far beyond the Expeditionary Army Fortress, crossing dangerous terrain and defeating a super fel magma giant before reaching the Blood Wasteland. After buying Xi Feng Ri Xia’s detailed map, he learned the region’s history and set his sights on the undead-filled Shattrath Ruins.

• Lin Xiao departed the Expeditionary Army Fortress with twenty-one bosses, four lords, five enhanced elites, 241 elites, and 352 ordinary NPCs.
• Two months into the journey, Lin Xiao’s Astral Mage bound a Level 81 super fel magma giant, and the force defeated it and claimed its drops.
• Lin Xiao’s team crossed shattered hills and detoured around a vast abyss before reaching the barren Blood Wasteland, where they destroyed a Demon Camp.
• Lin Xiao met the Level 68 Elf Rogue Xi Feng Ri Xia, bought his detailed map for a route back and one thousand gold, and learned that the Blood Wasteland was a remnant of Hellfire Plain’s final battle.
• Lin Xiao learned that the Shattrath Ruins lay west of his position and considered seeking a powerful undead there to unlock a local reputation system.

Lin Xiao explored the Shattrath Undead’s territory, gained their trust, and collected reputation rewards while preparing for stronger enemies. After half a year, he left with rare items and led his force into an ancient passage beneath Hell’s Wall toward the world beyond the mountains.

• Lin Xiao discovered that Shattrath’s undead were neutral toward him and gained access to their reputation system by declaring his hatred of demons.
• Lin Xiao met the undead council and learned that destroying a nearby demon city was required to obtain the legendary Undead Will trinket, so he postponed that goal until his force grew stronger.
• Lin Xiao spent half a year killing demons, raising his reputation, and exchanging it for a magic airship, the Staff of the Forgotten's Power, and T4 equipment.
• Lin Xiao left the Shattrath Ruins and entered an underground passage beneath Hell’s Wall because a demon city blocked the canyon route.
• Lin Xiao followed the map toward the far side of the mountains and fought the ancient undead in the passage, whose allegiance was unaffected by his Shattrath reputation.

Lin Xiao and Girlfriend abandoned a blocked route and an impassable Demon City, then chose a one-way teleportation to the Void Storm. After arriving in the Alcoron Ruins, Lin Xiao met Dominique and learned that Biggsas had established a nearby fortress; he went there to meet his old acquaintance.

• Lin Xiao and Girlfriend stopped digging when they sensed a terrifying presence beyond the blocked passage and returned to the surface.
• Dark Moon reported that Demon City could not be taken, so Lin Xiao consulted the High Lich Lord, accepted a quest to find an object in the Forbidden Land, and chose the one-way teleportation.
• Lin Xiao and his army emerged from the sinkhole in the Alcoron Ruins, where Dominique explained the Void Storm and shared a map of its floating lands and player bases.
• Lin Xiao recognized Biggsas's name on the map, and Dominique contacted his boss after Lin Xiao said he wanted to visit him.
• Biggsas arrived at Lin Xiao's location, and Lin Xiao reached his fortress, an ancient ruin converted into a fortified base.

Lin Xiao visited Biggsas's fortress, learned of the Nightmare Children and the routes between floating lands, then reached the Astral Conglomerate's Bunaer Node. There, he encountered a rival Nightmare Child and met the Ethereal merchant Kazzare, who suspected Lin Xiao's race had once served a great being.

• Lin Xiao entered Biggsas's Arkolon Arena, where Biggsas was impressed that Sven and the Astral Mage had Lord Templates and showed Lin Xiao the fortress's valuable portals.
• Biggsas told Lin Xiao that Nightmare Children had entered the Outland and explained the rival Astral Conglomerate and Astral Marauder factions.
• Lin Xiao left the fortress and traveled to the Bunaer Node, a town established by the Astral Conglomerate, intending to learn about teleportation and unlock faction reputation.
• Lin Xiao encountered a level-seventy-one Nightmare Child Army Stream player outside the Astral Conglomerate's central building, and the two left without fighting.
• Kazzare questioned Lin Xiao about his race and said his people had encountered a similar high-ranking servant race; Lin Xiao denied that his race served any great being.

Lin Xiao unlocked Friendly standing with the Astral Conglomerate, then defeated a Nightmare Child and earned his first Honor Point. After seven months of traveling between floating lands, he arrived at a major Node and agreed to speak with a human who offered to show him around.

• Lin Xiao received Friendly reputation with the Astral Conglomerate and accepted quests to trade with them and kill Astral Marauders.
• Lin Xiao and his girlfriend lured a Nightmare Child and his forces into the wilderness, where the Greater Nagas broke through the enemy army.
• The Nightmare Child fused more than a hundred of his creatures into a Nightmare Giant, but Lin Xiao’s subordinates overwhelmed it, and Lin Xiao killed the Nightmare Child to earn an Honor Point.
• Lin Xiao traded materials for Astral Conglomerate Coins and traveled with his force through floating lands and Nodes over the next seven months.
• At a major Node, Lin Xiao declined a human’s invitation to attack a departing Nightmare Child, then accepted the human’s offer to have a drink and learn about the area.

Lin Xiao traveled to Purgatory Floating Land to inspect a site for a fortress, attracted by the dungeons in its demon-filled ruins. After scouting the ruins and a nearby basin, he was instantly killed by a level-eighty Demonized Bear Monster.

• Lin Xiao bought Gu Cheng’s detailed map and identified two possible fortress sites: a strategic canyon frequented by Void Marauders and a ruin containing powerful demons and seven dungeons.
• Lin Xiao chose to inspect the demon ruins and, with Girlfriend and his subordinates, traveled for months to reach an Astral Conglomerate outpost and board a void airship to Purgatory Floating Land.
• After landing, Lin Xiao’s group fought off Demonized Centaurs and demons, then battled through the monster-infested land toward the ruins.
• Lin Xiao flew alone to survey the enormous fel-energy-covered ruins and saw demons moving throughout them.
• Lin Xiao flew to a nearby mountain basin occupied by Demonized Bear Monsters, where a level-eighty leader-class monster killed him and his Red Ridge Wyvern with a Lightning Ball.

Lin Xiao trained his subordinates for half a year before attacking a Demonized Bear Monster tribe and trying to tame its level eighty Chieftain. After repeated beatings and the slaughter of its tribe, the Chieftain finally submitted, though its loyalty was dangerously low.

• Lin Xiao waited until his Chieftain- and Lord-template subordinates had reached level seventy-five or higher, then ambushed the Demonized Bear Monsters in their mountain basin.
• The Bear Monster Chieftain emerged and attacked, but Sven One, Star Chaser, the mages, and the Lord-level warriors overwhelmed and pinned it down.
• Lin Xiao repeatedly demanded that the Chieftain submit, beating it near death and letting it recover, but it continued to resist for more than ten hours.
• Lin Xiao ordered his subordinates to restrain the Chieftain while they attacked the tribe, killing Bear Monsters that resisted or tried to rescue their leader.
• When Sven No. 3 raised his greatsword against a Bear Monster, the Chieftain cried out and became allied to Lin Xiao with a loyalty of 13/100.

Lin Xiao used the Miracle Radiance Ring to cleanse the fel energy from the bear monster leader, winning its loyalty and the allegiance of the bear monster race. After purifying the bears over a month and a half, he began searching Purgatory for other demonized creatures he could save.

• Lin Xiao obtained the Miracle Radiance Ring, whose Miracle Purification skill could cleanse fel energy from a creature's soul.
• Lin Xiao purified the bear monster leader, driving the fel energy from its body and raising its loyalty above one hundred.
• The bear monster leader swore that its race would serve Yi Xi Cheng Dao, and Lin Xiao began purifying the other bears one by one.
• A month and a half later, Lin Xiao had purified the entire bear monster race and incorporated it into his combat system.
• Lin Xiao set out to find and cleanse other demonized creatures across Purgatory while Girlfriend stayed behind to build the valley's defenses.

Lin Xiao established Demon Suppression Fortress beside the central Demon City and upgraded it to level one, drawing a massive demon siege. With his allied races and powerful subordinates, he survived the initial assault, but a regular Demon Legion advanced and began the final battle at the valley entrance.

• Lin Xiao placed a fortress core in the valley, rallied the Purgatory Centaurs, Hellfire Ogres, Chimera, and bearfolk, and upgraded the fortress to level one.
• The upgrade stirred demons across the region, and Lin Xiao learned from Gu Cheng that Nightmare Children had destroyed another player’s fortress.
• Gu Cheng discussed Lin Xiao’s risky location with two companions, who decided to wait and see whether he could withstand the siege before joining his planned alliance.
• Lin Xiao named the fortress Demon Suppression Fortress and used the valley’s two passages to defend against waves of demons with his more than thirty Lords and five Lord Template BOSSes.
• After the cannon fodder breached the valley walls and left mountains of corpses, a regular demon division advanced; its warlocks summoned Hellfire while shamans pinned down and corrupted a Lord Ice Mage.

Lin Xiao’s forces suffered heavy losses defeating a Demon Legion, but they successfully built a level-one fortress and replenished their ranks. After sorting the loot and setting up a dungeon, Lin Xiao began designing it so the fortress could profit from players who ran it.

• Lin Xiao’s forces killed Fallen Shen Lan and fought the demons at the fortress entrance, suffering mounting casualties until Chimeras, Centaurs, and Ogres arrived as reinforcements.
• The Demon Legion Division Adjutant failed to escape after an Astral Mage interrupted his teleportation, and Lin Xiao’s forces killed him and wiped out the remaining demons.
• Lin Xiao counted the losses, exchanged Demon Marks for new subordinates, appointed his Girlfriend deputy commander, and converted surplus loot into fortress supplies.
• Lin Xiao installed a Dungeon Core in one of the fortress’s Portals and began editing a Demon Camp dungeon, considering how to make it profitable through services such as potion sales and equipment repairs.

Lin Xiao adjusted Demon Camp’s difficulty and rewards, then traveled to Bunaer Floating Land as conflict between humans and the Nightmare Children escalated. After nearly seventy Nightmare Children marched out with a huge army, Lin Xiao joined Gu Cheng and the others to prepare a counterattack.

• Lin Xiao revised Demon Camp’s monster placement, mechanics, and loot after consulting Gu Cheng, Biggsas, and other Army Stream players.
• Lin Xiao left his girlfriend in charge of his fortress and traveled to Bunaer Floating Land to reinforce the human players.
• Bloodthirst Keller and Gu Cheng warned Lin Xiao to remain in the Node town as Nightmare Children gathered outside it.
• Over the following days, the Nightmare Children’s forces grew to more than 35,000 soldiers, and Lin Xiao stayed in town under their watch.
• Nearly seventy Nightmare Children departed, and Lin Xiao alerted the group; Gu Cheng and more than twenty human players arrived to plan an attack on the enemy force near Biggsas’s fortress.

Lin Xiao joined human players preparing to defend Biggsas's Ancient Arena fortress against the Nightmare Children and learned that the celebrated Dragon Emperor Wu Zhonglin was expected to arrive. After the Nightmare Children proposed a field battle, the humans prepared to unite their forces and fight back.

• Biggsas reported that the Nightmare Children were attacking the Ancient Arena, while Lin Xiao kept his small force low-profile among the human players.
• Gu Cheng and Yue Lingzhi discussed Dragon Emperor Wu Zhonglin's reputation and revealed that Lin Xiao had been ranked first on the Heavenly Pride Main Ranking; Lin Xiao privately chose Star God as his nickname.
• A blazing attack marked the start of the assault, and the human players' commanders decided to regroup at a defensible highland near the Ancient Arena.
• The humans held their position as the Nightmare Children attacked the fortress, and the second reinforcement force arrived around noon, doubling the defenders' strength.
• The Nightmare Children halted their assault and sent an envoy challenging the humans to a field battle, which the players accepted as an opportunity to fight back.

Lin Xiao reunited with Wu Zhonglin, and the two took command of the assembled forces to face the Nightmare Children. After comparing their strengths and making plans, their armies met the enemy; Wu Zhonglin attacked from the air as a gigantic Nightmare Child rose to confront him.

• Lin Xiao saw Wu Zhonglin arrive in the form of a huge red dragon, then watched him transform and approach.
• Wu Zhonglin greeted Lin Xiao as an old acquaintance and revealed his identity to the other players, who reacted with shock and excitement.
• Lin Xiao and Wu Zhonglin compared their forces and discussed their templates, troops, and combat strength.
• Lin Xiao and Wu Zhonglin took command and led roughly twenty-two thousand troops toward the Nightmare Children, joined by Biggsas and players from the Ancient Arena.
• Both armies traded cannon fodder for half an hour before deploying their elites, and Wu Zhonglin attacked from above as a thirty-meter-tall Nightmare Child emerged.

Lin Xiao freed Void Dragon Gulsaga from the super Nightmare Child’s control, forcing the Nightmare Children to retreat and earning the Void Dragons’ friendship. He and Wu Zhonglin then led attacks on Nightmare Child fortresses, before the group reached Tara Floating Land and destroyed an abandoned fortress near the enemy teleportation array.

• The super Nightmare Child controlled players and released Gulsaga, but Lin Xiao used Miracle Purification to free the Void Dragon from its enslavement.
• Gulsaga and Wu Zhonglin’s red dragon attacked the Nightmare Child forces, prompting their retreat and leaving Lin Xiao with a dragon-scale token that could summon Void Dragon aid.
• Lin Xiao and Wu Zhonglin led groups that captured several Nightmare Child fortresses, including one claimed by Eyesight Casting.
• The players decided to target a key fortress near the Nightmare Children’s teleportation array and traveled to Tara Floating Land.
• The group found an abandoned fortress near the array, occupied it, then destroyed it and looted its supplies.

Lin Xiao and the human forces attacked the Nightmare Child Fortress, where Prophet Rex used a blood sacrifice to summon Yarji, whose true body descended and banished everyone into the void. Lin Xiao escaped the void’s lethal damage aboard his Magic Airship with a small group of survivors, while many humans and Nightmare Children perished.

• Lin Xiao and the assembled human forces prepared to attack the fortress, despite his vague sense of danger.
• Wu Zhonglin spotted a blood-soaked sacrificial array inside the fortress and warned everyone as Prophet Rex offered his tentacle to it.
• Prophet Rex summoned Yarji, and Lin Xiao and Wu Zhonglin recognized the creature as a Nightmare Child’s true body.
• Yarji banished everyone around the fortress, leaving the fortress empty and scattering the humans and Nightmare Children through the void.
• Lin Xiao used a shield and his Magic Airship to survive the void’s damage and rescue a little over thirty subordinates, while corpses drifted nearby.

After being exiled into the void, Lin Xiao and the other players contacted Void Dragon Asarniel and learned that their route home ran through the occupied world of Du Long Er. They chose to travel there and arrived at the planet after half a year, hoping to reach its resistance and restore a teleportation route.

• Lin Xiao gathered Wu Zhonglin and the surviving players aboard the Magic Airship, then tried unsuccessfully for weeks to summon a Void Dragon with Gulsaga’s scale.
• Void Dragon Asarniel answered Lin Xiao’s call and revealed that Du Long Er’s teleportation array could lead them home, but the city of Mahadune was occupied by the Ancient Gods’ minions and an Ancient God’s Tentacle.
• Asarniel offered to take the players to Du Long Er or let them wait for him to find a new home for his kin, and the players chose to go to the planet.
• Asarniel sent Lin Xiao and the others toward the former Void Dragon habitat in Du Long Er, warning them that Ancient Gods’ minions occupied it and asking them to help any dragons they encountered escape.
• After half a year of travel, Lin Xiao and the others reached a brown planet, while Lin Xiao had accumulated Bloodline Essence, Divinity, and Divinity Crystals.

Lin Xiao and his surviving subordinates were stranded in a region of Du Long Er Planet corrupted by the Ancient Gods after a monster destroyed their airship. He used a Divinity Crystal to advance to the Hero Template, greatly increasing his power and raising his level cap to ninety.

• Lin Xiao’s Magic Airship descended into Du Long Er Planet’s corrupted atmosphere, where Corrupted Black Ravens swarmed it and the corruption aura weakened his group.
• An enormous shadow smashed the airship and sent Lin Xiao and his companions crashing to the ground, killing nearly all the other players except Wu Zhonglin.
• Lin Xiao gathered his surviving subordinates and fought off pursuing Flesh Abominations, then stayed to kill hundreds more drawn to their location.
• Lin Xiao consumed a Divinity Crystal from the Creation Cube and advanced from an ordinary player template to a Hero Template.
• Lin Xiao’s skills and attributes transformed, his level cap rose to ninety, and he looked forward to leveling faster and eventually becoming a demigod.

After reaching the Hero Template, Lin Xiao discovered a city held by the Ancient Gods’ minions and enhanced two subordinates into Hero Lords. He led the assault, where Wandering Swordsman Sven unleashed devastating Hero skills to kill the city’s Flesh Fallen and most of its forces, leaving Lin Xiao close to leveling up.

• Lin Xiao used repeated Lightning Strikes to kill Flesh Abominations as he traveled across the plains, then spent two months reaching a mountain gorge containing a city ruled by an Ancient Gods’ minion.
• Lin Xiao investigated the ruins and learned that a level 80 Flesh Fallen guarded them for a Flesh Dominator; he then used Divinity and Divinity Crystal to advance his Lord-tier warrior and priest into Hero Lords.
• The warrior became Wandering Swordsman Sven, while the priest became Saint of Light and learned Resurrection Spell, which he could cast even during battle.
• Lin Xiao unleashed Wrath of the Thunder God, leveling up and killing every monster in the city below Enhanced Elite rank, while Sven charged through the breach and fought the Flesh Fallen.
• Sven used God's Strength to kill the Flesh Fallen and most of the remaining minions with powerful Sword Qi strikes, after which Lin Xiao finished off the surviving monsters with another Wrath of the Thunder God.
• Lin Xiao gained enough experience to approach another level and decided to focus on extracting Divinity and Divinity Crystal so he could become a demigod.

Lin Xiao fought the Ancient Gods’ minions in the White Bone Wilderness, gaining the undead’s trust and reaching level seventy-five while Prophet Rex and other Nightmare Children joined the enemy. After a month, Lin Xiao used his accumulated merit to obtain a larger divine spark fragment from the Creation Cube.

• Lin Xiao retreated from a city after spotting Sarguyron’s Touch, then found undead and Ancient Gods’ minions battling across the White Bone Wilderness.
• Lin Xiao attacked the Ancient Gods’ minions alongside the undead, earning their neutrality and unlocking Du Long Er and Forgotten Ones reputation.
• Prophet Rex countered Lin Xiao’s spell, revealed his transformed strength, and attacked Lin Xiao’s group, forcing Lin Xiao to retreat.
• Lin Xiao continued fighting elsewhere in the White Bone Wilderness, reached level seventy-five, and saved his advancement.
• After a month passed, Lin Xiao connected to the Creation Cube and exchanged his accumulated merit for a divine spark fragment.

Lin Xiao chose the godhead fragment as his transformation path and became a Black Hole-like Hero, devouring much of the White Bone Wilderness as his power awakened. He learned that Star Soul Du Long Er had made him its Child and shared part of its essence with him because the world was nearing destruction.

• Lin Xiao used the Creation Cube to prepare a godhead fragment based on the mythical devourer Enigma and leveled up to trigger his Hero transformation.
• Lin Xiao swallowed the fragment, chose the new transformation path, and began transforming as his subordinates gathered to protect him.
• The Ancient Gods' minions attacked Lin Xiao, while Star Soul Du Long Er sent a colossal light figure that reached toward his cocoon.
• Lin Xiao became a Black Hole that swallowed his subordinates, nearby creatures, and vast amounts of energy, forcing Prophet Rex and the Child of the Ancient God to retreat.
• A point of light from Du Long Er merged into Lin Xiao's soul, completing his transformation into a Deification Hero with Incomplete Star Soul and Black Hole Essence.
• Lin Xiao learned that four Ancient Gods had corrupted Du Long Er and that only the strongest, Life Devourer Sageron, remained.