Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qing and Li Wannian discussed the coming battle and the truth about Sequences, including the Imperial City’s immense power and the dangers of advancement. Zhang Qing withheld the path he had found for his own Transcendence, leaving Li Wannian to face the looming battle and a future still shrouded in darkness.

• Zhang Qing promised Li Wannian and the Sunrise Realm experts that he would join the coming battle and that Great Xia would win.
• Zhang Qing regretted giving Li Wannian Hu Feiyun’s Fate Stone, while Li Wannian said he wanted to learn the names of the powers behind the Sequences.
• Zhang Qing explained that Sequences drew on fate, described the power of higher tiers, and revealed the Imperial City’s Sequence Sovereigns.
• Zhang Qing told Li Wannian about the dangers of Sequence advancement, including the city-wide massacre that followed it.
• Li Wannian recognized the burden Zhang Qing carried and asked whether he had found his path of Transcendence, but Zhang Qing kept his bloody path to himself.

As war between An City and Mountain City approached, the Blood Dragon Army’s banner drew attention while Cheng Yu’s team learned Mountain City’s leaders suspected them of being Specters and decided to flee. In the wilderness, a Rabbitfolk merchant fleeing with his group discovered that the maps he had stolen as a token of allegiance were missing.

• An City players celebrated the Blood Dragon Army’s banner and speculated about the guild’s strength, but a forum user who revealed its members’ cultivation levels was swiftly removed by the Think Tank.
• Cheng Yu told Yun Yue and the others that Uncle Shan had warned her to run because Mountain City’s leaders had noticed their rapid growth and might treat them as Specters.
• Yun Yue convinced the team to flee into the dangerous wilderness rather than stay in Mountain City, and Cheng Yu revealed she had picked up detailed maps of the city and its surroundings.
• Cheng Yu’s team packed and set out, while a group of Starflash Realm and Moon-Shattering Realm merchants fled Mountain City carrying their merchant banner.
• The Rabbitfolk merchant leading the group realized the stolen maps he had planned to offer An City as a token of allegiance were missing.

Cheng Yu and her companions escaped Mountain City with Shan Qi's help, then encountered a player mob and the Star Ring merchant caravan on the trade road. Yun Yue used the confusion to deliver two maps to Ouyang Lin, who remained confident that An City would win.

• Shan Qi urged Cheng Yu to flee Mountain City and stayed behind as Yun Yue led her away.
• Yun Yue and the others traveled along the ruined trade road without encountering Specters.
• The fleeing group met the Star Ring merchant caravan, whose leader Duo An considered attacking them.
• Players mistook the caravan for Specters, but Yun Yue identified the experts and sent the players fleeing to seek Blood Dragon Army reinforcements.
• Yun Yue delivered two maps to Ouyang Lin, who believed An City was certain to win.

Rich Brother’s 8,000-player assault on Rong City ended in seconds when its City Lord killed them all, prompting Wisdom Star to reveal that city lords were likely Heavenly Demons. The revelation made players reconsider attacking cities and raised doubts about An City’s coming battle.

• Rich Brother organized an 8,000-player attack on Rong City and arranged an illustrated livestream of the assault.
• When the players charged the City Lord Mansion, Rong City's City Lord struck them with repeated attacks that killed all 8,000 within seconds.
• The players accused the game company of cheating and debated whether a hidden city-attack mechanism had caused the massacre.
• Wisdom Star posted that most city lords were likely Heavenly Demons capable of killing thousands of players, and said no one in the Blood Dragon Army had changed into one.
• Players became angry and wary of attacking cities, while the revelation fueled predictions that An City's coming battle would go badly.

An City and Mountain City began their long-awaited battle, with Li Liming leading the Blood Dragon Army and Zhang Qing preparing to confront Kati’s forces. Mountain City’s vanguard activated a pseudo-domain that immediately damaged An City’s core regiment, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Players argued online over whether An City or Mountain City deserved their loyalty, while Mountain City’s revealed Sequence User strength discouraged An City’s supporters.
• Li Liming gathered 350,000 Blood Dragon Army soldiers and a mass of players outside An City as the battle began.
• Zhang Qing rejected Yang Man’s offer to bring Yan Qingshan and the Tyrant Army, then flew toward the battlefield with Yun Xiaoxi.
• Kati arranged for ten Sequence Four members of the Screaming Ghoul Tribe to suppress Zhang Qing’s Sequence power and prepared Mountain City’s forces to attack.
• Li Liming ordered the 3,000-member core regiment to charge, and its discipline unnerved Mountain City’s commanders.
• Mountain City’s vanguard activated a pseudo-domain and Trample Authority, causing damage numbers to appear above Li Liming’s core regiment.

Li Liming’s vanguard turned the battle around after Zhang Qing’s Kinship Pseudo-Domain blunted the Heavenly Demon’s mass damage and let their strength grow as they fought. After Celestial Demons entered the fray and knocked the vanguard back, Zhang Qing arrived atop a blood dragon, striking Kata and revealing himself as An City’s lord.

• Zhang Qing’s Kinship Pseudo-Domain united the three thousand core members of the Blood Dragon Army and protected them as they charged the enemy vanguard.
• Li Liming led the Blood Dragon Army through the enemy formation, gaining health and attack power as the troops killed their opponents.
• Ouyang Lin’s central army followed the breach, and Mountain City’s forces began to rout.
• Celestial Demons unleashed a Mental Storm that sent Li Liming’s vanguard flying, forcing him to order a retreat.
• Zhang Qing descended on a blood dragon and struck Kata into the ground as the battlefield watched.

Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi faced ten sixth-generation Screaming Ghouls, whose spiritual suppression disrupted Zhang Qing’s powers as Kata and his fellow disciples attacked. Zhang Qing realized the encirclement was a trap aimed at someone else and spotted Kati, founder of the Trample Dao Lineage, watching through the clouds.

• Zhang Qing confronted Kata, who climbed out of the crater after surviving Zhang Qing’s tail sweep.
• Yun Xiaoxi identified the blizzard as a fabricated phenomenon created by the Screaming Ghoul Tribe, and ten sixth-generation Screaming Ghouls appeared.
• The Screaming Ghouls opened the mouths on their chests and suppressed Zhang Qing’s Sequence powers, forcing Yun Xiaoxi to shrink and cling to his shoulder.
• Zhang Qing charged the Screaming Ghouls, but Kata attacked first and deliberately struck with a blow as light as a feather.
• Kata’s fellow disciples surrounded Zhang Qing with heavy axe strikes, and Zhang Qing spotted Kati watching through the clouds.

Zhang Qing fought Kata and his fellow disciples, built his Authority to its peak, and evolved his movement technique into the Extreme Dao Level Heavenly Wind. As Zhang Qing faced the remaining attackers, Su Changqi appeared and killed the Screaming Ghoul Tribe members and the surviving disciples with a space-shattering Trample.

• Zhang Qing pierced Kata's chest, causing Kata to fall and drop Kati's Authority Artifact.
• Zhang Qing's Authority stacked his Blood Volume and attack power as he fought off Kata and his fellow disciples, then he used Predation to kill Kayi and devour an Authority-grade armor.
• Zhang Qing spent 6000 Universal Experience to raise Chuan Shattering Steps to LvMAX and evolved it into the Extreme Dao Level movement technique Heavenly Wind.
• Zhang Qing used Heavenly Wind to evade Kaqi's attack and killed him with an Extreme Strike.
• The Screaming Ghoul Tribe urged the remaining attackers to charge, but a Minotaur appeared and used Trample to shatter space, killing the nine Screaming Ghoul Tribe members and the surviving Kata senior brothers.
• Su Changqi stepped out of a crack in space and spoke to Kati.

Kati sacrificed himself to create an Inheritance Fate Stone and bind the Trample Sequence to Zhang Qing as a border army, breaking free from the Screaming Ghoul Tribe. After Kati died, Zhang Qing led the Blood Dragon Army in a charge to capture Mountain City, while Cheng Yu’s team raced ahead to find Thirty-Seven and the others.

• Kati offered Zhang Qing an Inheritance Fate Stone and negotiated for the Trample Sequence to become a border army with commanders rotating every three hundred years.
• Kati condemned the Imperial Cities and the Screaming Ghoul Tribe for leaving him no way to survive, then died after completing the Inheritance Fate Stone and breaking the Screaming Ghoul Tribe’s marks.
• Zhang Qing took the Inheritance Fate Stone as Su Changqi watched in silence.
• The Blood Dragon shattered the mental domain, and Zhang Qing ordered Li Liming and the Blood Dragon Army to attack Mountain City.
• The Blood Dragon Army swept through Mountain City, clearing resistance and organizing personnel to maintain order as players rushed in.
• Cheng Yu’s team raced toward Mountain City to reach Thirty-Seven and the others before the players could harm them.

After Mountain City fell under An City's control, Zhang Qing learned that food in the Dark Realm was controlled by authorities held by rival Imperial Cities and accepted a Fate Stone from Su Changqi. He planned to travel to Rat Emperor City with Su Changqi later, while wondering why the Screaming Ghoul Tribe had fought him so fiercely.

• Mountain City fell to the Blood Dragon Army, and Zhang Qing had Ouyang Lin take Kata around to familiarize him with the city.
• Su Changqi told Zhang Qing that Mountain City's fertile land could advance a special Sequence, prompting Zhang Qing to infer that Imperial Cities controlled authorities related to farming or food.
• Zhang Qing accused Rat Emperor City of gambling on his ability to open a food-related Sequence, then persuaded Su Changqi to give him a Fate Stone.
• Zhang Qing agreed to travel with Su Changqi to Rat Emperor City later and wondered why the Screaming Ghoul Tribe had targeted him.
• Zhang Qing called for Hu Ben, who appeared from beside the doorway.

Zhang Qing sought information about his newly comprehended Extreme Path Movement Technique while Fan Adkin checked on Ye Linwang, who was trapped among the Mad Blood Ghoul Race. Fan Adkin then prioritized Zhang Qing’s growth and told Ares to make others wait.

• Zhang Qing asked Hu Ben to find the Sixth Floor so he could research his incomplete Extreme Path Movement Technique.
• Fan Adkin and Saka discussed Ye Linwang, who had received imperial blood and seemed to have become a Sequence User in an unusual way.
• Ye Linwang found himself trapped in the Mad Blood Ghoul Race’s nest, unable to kill himself because Abyssal Sequence authority permeated the area, though he could still log out.
• Fan Adkin met Ye Linwang and whispered a path for him to leave the swamp and see the real Dark Realm.
• The Sixth Floor traveled underground as Fan Adkin praised Zhang Qing’s technique and told Ares to delay the Phoenix Imperial City and Serpent Emperor City while he focused on Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing learned that Sounding Forest targeted him because his food agreement with Rat Emperor City threatened its control over food, and he decided to create an Orthodox Sequence tied to food. After returning to Great Xia with Yun Xiaoxi, he told Li Wannian they needed to find people to farm in the Dark Realm.

• Zhang Qing told Fan Adkin that the Screaming Ghoul Tribe had attacked him and he had killed ten sixth-generation Specters, then asked about Sounding Forest's stance.
• Fan Adkin explained that Sounding Forest wanted Zhang Qing dead because his food cooperation agreement with Rat Emperor City threatened the food monopoly held by powerful orthodox lineages.
• Zhang Qing resolved to create a food-related Orthodox Sequence so Great Xia would never have to depend on others for food.
• Yun Xiaoxi searched the Sixth Floor's secret Sequence archives while Zhang Qing spent the day with Fan Adkin, and Fan Adkin eventually kicked them out.
• Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi returned to Great Xia with news of vast uncultivated land in the Dark Realm, and Zhang Qing told Li Wannian they needed to find people to farm there.

Zhang Qing, Li Wannian, and Yun Xiaoxi identified three food-related authorities and planned to use the Fantasy System to strengthen Great Xia, despite its risks. Li Wannian led Zhang Qing to meet an elderly rice researcher, who remained devoted to traditional farming even as technology made it seem obsolete.

• Li Wannian inferred that food production was tied to Sequence authority, prompting Zhang Qing to discuss the matter with him and Yun Xiaoxi.
• Yun Xiaoxi revealed that Ox Emperor City held Abundance, Monkey Emperor City held Prosperity, and the Screaming Ghoul Tribe held Proliferation, all of which boosted food production.
• Zhang Qing proposed using the Fantasy System to extend the lives of Great Xia's leaders, and Li Wannian accepted the plan despite its dangers.
• Zhang Qing showed Li Wannian the Sequence slots recovered from Rock Venerate's trap, and Li Wannian took him to meet someone.
• An elderly rice researcher continued tending his experimental field while his wife urged him to leave the mud and accept the new era.

Cheng Qiping learned that the Dark Realm would invade Great Xia and accepted a dangerous Sequence path to secure the nation’s food supply. After he entered the game and spawned in Bone City, Zhang Qing found him and restored his health.

• Cheng Qiping offered his experimental farmland for factory construction, then agreed to pursue a dangerous path to gain Sequence power and extend his life.
• Li Wannian appointed Zhang Qing as chief operations adviser and put him in charge of coordinating with Cheng Qiping.
• Cheng Qiping entered the game but was killed by refugees; after rerolling, he spawned in Bone City’s eastern refugee tents.
• Zhang Qing traveled with Su Changqi through a spatial rift to Bone City and searched for Cheng Qiping.
• Zhang Qing found Cheng Qiping in a collapsing shack, protected him with his mental force, and restored his health with a spiritual pill.

Zhang Qing began turning Mountain City’s fertile grasslands into farmland, mobilizing workers and protection from across the region. With Specters driven from the area and the army unable to grow there, he decided to open another front by taking War City.

• Cheng Qiping discovered rich black soil around Mountain City, and Zhang Qing asked him to lead efforts to cultivate it with grain seeds from Great Xia.
• Li Liming gathered more than ten thousand people to reclaim the land, while Guan Yutian enforced the work and Rat Emperor City later sent over a million more people.
• Rat Emperor City secured the farmland by bringing in the Frost Snow Ghoul Tribe, causing the surrounding Specters to flee and leaving Mountain City without targets for the army.
• Li Liming and Ouyang Lin complained that the army had lost its chance to fight, so Zhang Qing proposed taking War City and having the Tyrant Army hold the line while he went to Rat Emperor City.

Zhang Qing prepared to leave for Treasure Snatching Mountain after learning it might contain spatial Authority-grade Secret Treasure Weapons, while Yun Xiaoxi and Yang Man remained to oversee Mountain City and its defenses. Meanwhile, players and merchants expanded their influence, and Ye Linwang discovered that his Dark Realm power had followed him into reality, leaving him unable to distinguish what was real.

• Zhang Qing arranged for Yun Xiaoxi to oversee affairs and heard from Yang Man that Great Venerables had shed teeth at Treasure Snatching Mountain, potentially yielding spatial Authority-grade Secret Treasure Weapons.
• After Zhang Qing left, Yun Xiaoxi managed player organizations seeking official recognition, while the Blood Dragon Army offered guilds missions and Cheng Yu's team joined the Star Ring caravan in trading food.
• Ye Linwang logged out and found that his body retained immense strength and mental power, which wrecked his room when he lost control.
• Ye Linwang struggled to suppress the madness inside him and, hearing his mother outside the door, could no longer tell whether he was in reality or the Dark Realm.

After Ye Linwang’s power surged beyond the Sunrise Realm, Yun Xiaoxi subdued him and explained that the Sixth Floor may have created his fusion of Sequence and Specter powers as a gesture of goodwill toward Zhang Qing. The chapter left Li Wannian learning about the Sixth Floor’s interest in Zhang Qing and the fearsome Mad Blood Ghoul Race behind Ye Linwang’s altered bloodline.

• The Think Tank detected Ye Linwang’s red logout signal, and Yao Wang’s Sunrise Realm squad rushed to his room but was blasted back when they tried to enter.
• Li Wannian called for reinforcements, while Li Liming went to find Zhang Qing and learned from Yun Xiaoxi that Zhang Qing would be away for about a month.
• After hearing that a Heavenly Demon had appeared in Magic City, Yun Xiaoxi found Ye Linwang’s location, raced there, and subdued him in less than three seconds.
• Yun Xiaoxi brought Ye Linwang to Li Wannian, then identified his power as a fusion of Sequence abilities and Specter-blood authority, likely connected to the Sixth Floor.
• Yun Xiaoxi told Li Wannian that the Sixth Floor knew about their world and was interested in Zhang Qing, then linked Ye Linwang’s mutated bloodline to the Mad Blood Ghoul Race.

Ye Linwang learned that Great Xia had captured him and agreed to be sent to An City, while Yun Xiaoxi and Li Wannian decided to let Zhang Qing investigate the Sixth Floor’s plans. Zhang Qing arrived in Rat Emperor City to help Su Yue with its Succession Competition and learned that Treasure Snatching Mountain would open in three days.

• After regaining his rationality, Ye Linwang learned from the Think Tank that the Blood Dragon Army served the military and that he had reached the strength needed to bring power back from the Dark Realm.
• Yun Xiaoxi and Li Wannian concluded that the Sixth Floor had guided Ye Linwang to stir up trouble in An City, so they decided to send him there and let Zhang Qing investigate its intentions.
• Yun Xiaoxi returned to coordinate affairs in An City and Mountain City as the war in War City, player unrest, and the Tyrant Army’s entry approached.
• Zhang Qing arrived in Rat Emperor City with Su Changqi and met Su Yue, who explained that the Ratfolk hid among the city’s population and used ancient technology alongside Square Crystal energy.
• Su Yue told Zhang Qing that Rat Emperor City’s Succession Competition rewarded spatial affinity built through trials and that Treasure Snatching Mountain, a space created by a Great Venerable, would open in three days.

Zhang Qing learned that Treasure Snatching Mountain was a brutal selection trial where princes and their hired fighters competed for advancement and valuable treasures. Su Yue explained its dangers and combat tactics, and Zhang Qing prepared to use his Phoenix Blood Longbow; meanwhile, Cheng Qiping oversaw the expanding wilderness reclamation in Mountain City.

• Su Yue explained that Treasure Snatching Mountain tested Rat Emperor City's princes and offered Great Venerable teeth as rewards, helping weaker princes recruit powerful allies.
• Su Yue described how spatial rifts weakened Sequence Users and made long-range attacks, especially archery, effective in Treasure Snatching Mountain.
• Su Yue warned Zhang Qing to attack everyone on sight because princes and their helpers would kill without hesitation, and Zhang Qing learned that princes themselves could be killed.
• Zhang Qing brought out his Phoenix Blood Longbow and considered investing Universal Experience in the Moon Bow Technique for the upcoming trial.
• In Mountain City, Cheng Qiping directed reclamation efforts involving more than a million people while Razor kept them under control and players helped with the work.

As Zhang Qing’s forces prepared to attack War City, players joined organized groups and Yang Man’s Tyrant Army extorted protection money from nearby city lineages. The Screaming Ghoul Tribe decided to oppose Zhang Qing directly and planned to send its Ghoul Army to attack Mountain City.

• Guan Yutian warned Cheng Qiping to avoid players, then sent Pusan and Niu Qi into the city to catch Specters.
• Players discussed joining martial arts schools and merchant caravans as preparations for the war against War City advanced.
• Yun Xiaoxi proposed a player logistics army, and Li Wannian supported building the players’ strength for the Dark Realm.
• Yang Man sent Yan Qingshan and the Tyrant Army to demand protection money from nearby city lineages, which paid after Rat Emperor City refused to help them.
• The Screaming Ghoul Tribe saw Zhang Qing’s martial arts and food plans as threats to its power and resolved to attack Mountain City with the Ghoul Army.