Chapter Summaries

As Treasure Snatching Mountain prepared to open, Zhang Qing learned that no Martial Gods would attend, while Yun Xiaoxi received a warning that the Screaming Ghoul Tribe was organizing a massive Ghoul Tide. The Insect Ghoul Tribe might join the attack, and a Specter carrying Mad Blood Ghoul imperial blood arrived in Mountain City, prompting Yun Xiaoxi to call for Hu Feiyun.

• Zhang Qing asked Su Yue about the martial artists gathering near Rat Emperor City and learned that the hidden Martial Gods had refused the princes’ offers because they sought a realm Above Martial God.
• Fang Dao warned Yun Xiaoxi that five generations of the Screaming Ghoul Tribe had sought the Ghoul Mother lineage and would likely launch an organized Ghoul Tide.
• Fang Dao added that the Insect Ghoul Tribe might join the attack because of its feud with Zhang Qing and his slaughter of them on the Sky City Battlefield.
• Yang Man suggested negotiating with the Insect Ghoul Tribe, but Yun Xiaoxi noted that Rat Emperor City was locked down and Treasure Snatching Mountain was about to open.
• Yun Xiaoxi and Yang Man spotted a Specter bearing Mad Blood Ghoul imperial blood, recognized that Hu Ya’s path had brought him to Mountain City, and Yun Xiaoxi asked Yang Man to notify Hu Feiyun about the coming fight.

Yang Man set out to contact Hu Feiyun while Yun Xiaoxi brought the looming Ghoul Tide crisis to Great Xia’s leaders. They decided to fight and mobilize the players, whose enthusiasm surged even as many demanded a way to reach An City.

• Yang Man went to find a way to contact Hu Feiyun, hoping the Tiger Clan Transcendents protecting him could restrain the Mad Blood Ghoul Race.
• Yun Xiaoxi logged off and joined Great Xia’s Crisis Response Team meeting in Zhang Qing’s place.
• Li Wannian and the officials decided they could not retreat from the Grain Plan and would organize their forces to fight the millions-strong Ghoul Tide.
• Yun Xiaoxi said their allies could handle the Dark Realm’s high-end combat power and proposed mobilizing players for the large-scale battle.
• The Mountain City siege announcement electrified Great Xia’s players, and those far from An City demanded that the officials open teleportation so they could join the fight.

Zhang Qing entered Treasure Snatching Mountain with Su Yue, learned how its fragile space favored archers, and killed an attacker with his bow. Meanwhile, Yun Xiaoxi persuaded Fan Adkin to open teleportation gates, bringing millions of players and troops to An City and Mountain City as Great Xia prepared for a desperate defense.

• Zhang Qing entered Treasure Snatching Mountain with Su Yue and discovered that spatial rifts consumed Sequence power while making arrows unusually fast.
• A Meteor Realm archer ambushed Su Yue, but Zhang Qing caught the arrow and killed the attacker with three shots from his Phoenix Blood Longbow.
• Yun Xiaoxi reminded Fan Adkin of his promise to Zhang Qing, and Fan Adkin agreed to open several teleportation gates.
• Teleportation gates brought more than ten million players to An City, where guilds and merchant groups recruited them and warned them not to provoke Razor.
• Another 1.7 million troops arrived, bringing the combined defenders of An City and Mountain City to more than twelve million.

Zhang Qing and Su Yue discovered that Blood Fang was likely the only treasure in Treasure Snatching Mountain and rushed to the altar, where ambushers had made the meadow a deadly trap. Zhang Qing began digging a tunnel to attack from underground, leaving the pair to fight their way toward the treasure.

• Zhang Qing and Su Yue learned that Treasure Snatching Mountain might contain only Blood Fang, a legendary authority-grade Secret Treasure, and headed for the spatial altar.
• They reached the altar meadow and saw that ambushers had killed anyone who tried to cross it, making the princes’ competition a fight to the death.
• Zhang Qing recognized that they needed to eliminate the hidden attackers and pulled shovels from his spatial storage device to start digging a tunnel.
• Su Yue joined Zhang Qing in digging, and he used tubes for ventilation and his storage device to clear away the excavated soil.
• Zhang Qing peered through a tube, opened a patch of turf, shot an arrow, and ducked back underground as a prince’s head exploded.

Zhang Qing and Su Yue dug an underground maze inside Treasure Snatching Mountain while the Screaming Ghoul Tribe prepared a Ghoul Tide against Mountain City. With Zhang Qing trapped amid reports of Blood Fang, the tribe also targeted Cheng Qiping to seize the Grain Authority and undermine Mountain City.

• Zhang Qing and Su Yue became absorbed in digging and expanding an underground labyrinth in Treasure Snatching Mountain, where a deadly battle was unfolding around the spatial altar.
• Li Wei and Li Qi learned that Blood Fang might have appeared in Treasure Snatching Mountain and planned to exploit Zhang Qing’s possible death by attacking Mountain City and claiming the Grain Authority.
• The Screaming Ghoul Tribe began sending waves of Specters toward Mountain City after obtaining the Ghoul Mother lineage’s authority to produce and direct a Ghoul Tide.
• Yang Man warned Yun Xiaoxi that Zhang Qing faced grave danger, Sheep Emperor City’s elders doubted his return, and the Screaming Ghoul Tribe was targeting Cheng Qiping, the Grain Sequence candidate.

Yun Xiaoxi worried that Great Xia’s fast-growing rice might fall under the Grain Authority’s control, while players and the Blood Dragon Army grew stronger amid the Ghoul Tide. After Cheng Yu’s team revealed the profits and purpose behind Mountain City’s food production, players rallied around the Food Defense War.

• Yun Xiaoxi asked Cheng Qiping whether the rice could grow more slowly, fearing the Grain Authority would record the crop unless a Fantasy System Sequence anchored it first.
• Players slaughtered waves of Specters and rapidly gained strength, while the Blood Dragon Army’s Morning Sun Realm warriors found they could not advance to the Blazing Sun Realm without spiritual power.
• Great Xia increased its monitoring of the forums and rejected a proposal to reveal the truth to players, fearing that some would cause chaos or defect to Dark Realm forces.
• As Specters grew stronger, some reckless players died and lost their progress, while Yuan Hong’s army took over more of An City’s front lines.
• Cheng Yu’s team returned from An City with major trading profits and spiritual pills, then concluded that the Ghoul Tide event was meant to protect Mountain City’s food production and give players a path to rise.
• Players embraced the Food Defense War and worked harder to defend Mountain City’s crops.

Zhang Qing and Su Yue left their underground refuge to join the fighters on Treasure Snatching Mountain, where Zhang Qing realized the mountain was a Theater designed for Rat Emperor City's princes. Su Yue revealed that her third Waypoint was Hidden Kill, leaving Zhang Qing to recognize the hidden purpose behind the open battle.

• Mountain City organized its players into a logistics army by merchant guilds and martial arts schools, offering war contributions a share in future grain profits.
• Zhang Qing and Su Yue continued digging a labyrinth beneath Treasure Snatching Mountain as the fighters' Sequence powers were drained and only martial abilities remained.
• A fighter challenged everyone to leave hiding and battle openly, and Zhang Qing agreed after realizing the prolonged contest was wasting time.
• Zhang Qing led Su Yue onto the grassland, where the fighters gathered for a mass battle and Su Yue clung to him for security.
• Zhang Qing connected Rat Emperor City's concealment Sequence to the contrast between hiding and open combat, and asked Su Yue about her third Waypoint.
• Su Yue said her third Waypoint was Hidden Kill, confirming Zhang Qing's suspicion that Treasure Snatching Mountain was a Theater prepared for the princes.

Zhang Qing recognized that Treasure Snatching Mountain was a Theater designed to help Su Yue complete her role and advance, then fought off the entire battlefield after his identity was exposed. As the slaughter continued, Su Yue’s role progressed toward completion.

• Zhang Qing explained that Treasure Snatching Mountain would help Su Yue complete her Theater and advance if she survived until only one team remained.
• As the battle began, Zhang Qing carried Su Yue while she used her perception to warn him about spatial rifts.
• Zhang Qing shattered an opponent’s blade and killed him with Martial Path Extreme, revealing his identity to the battlefield.
• Martial artists and Sequence Users swarmed Zhang Qing for his reputation and bounty, while he vowed to fight the entire field.
• Zhang Qing used Heavenly Wind, his blade, and his bow to kill attackers as the bloody battle continued and Su Yue’s role advanced.

As the Ghoul Tide gathered outside Mountain City and the rice blossoms began to ripen, Yang Man and Yun Xiaoxi faced a looming battle with Zhang Qing still missing. Great Xia estimated its chances of victory at under twenty percent, but Li Wannian declared that he believed in Zhang Qing.

• Li Qi's Ghoul Tide grew beyond thirty million while ten million players used a contribution system to strengthen their ranks, though they could not yet change the battle against Sequence-level foes.
• Ratfolk drove rice blossoms through Mountain City, and Yang Man warned that the rice would mature and Cheng Qiping would advance within five days.
• Yang Man worried about Zhang Qing's absence and the uncertain support of Sheep Emperor City and the Short-toothed Ratfolk, while Hu Feiyun insisted Zhang Qing would survive and offered to fight the Specters himself.
• Great Xia's Think Tank reported that Mountain City's victory chance was below twenty percent, the Blood Dragon Army had over six thousand Sunrise Realm experts, and Zhang Qing had still not returned.
• Li Keming asked whether they could only believe in miracles, and Li Wannian said he believed in Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing fought for hours against waves of martial artists on a blood-soaked meadow while Su Yue warned him about spatial rifts. As his opponents waited for him to tire, the final battle in Mountain City began to turn against the players, and Rich Brother arrived at Great Xia Main City.

• Zhang Qing kept fighting head-on for hours, using martial arts and Kaiyuan Art to sustain himself while Su Yue warned him about incoming spatial rifts.
• Zhang Qing noticed groups of Imperial City Highnesses probing his strength and learned from Su Yue that powerful Ratfolk tribes backed several large alliances.
• The martial artists outside the encirclement believed Zhang Qing was tiring and expected to kill him once his stamina failed.
• As Rice Blossom Fragrance spread, players began losing ground in Mountain City's final battle, though the promised 300% profit kept many from fleeing.
• Rich Brother arrived at Great Xia Main City after his city activated its teleportation array and was stunned by how useful money was there.

Rich Brother funded and organized the player guilds as the battle against the Specters intensified, while the Tyrant Army charged through the Ghoul Tide and turned the front line around. The chapter left the rice nearing ripeness as Imperial City forces gathered above the battlefield and watched Cheng Qiping.

• Rich Brother promised guild members salaries and company positions, then pledged 900 million for the war and urged them to fight without fear of dying.
• The Specters' front line grew stronger as the Ghoul Tide advanced, prompting the Blood Dragon Army and Wei City Army to engage across the battlefield.
• Li Qi arrived with Abyssal Sequence Users, including Rong Gen, while Hu Feiyun urged Yang Man to send the Tyrant Army into battle before Yan Qingshan was restrained.
• Yan Qingshan empowered the hundred thousand Tyrant Army soldiers, who charged through the Ghoul Tide and broke its formation as players followed behind them.
• Yang Man watched the Tyrant Army push the front line back and saw the rice beneath Mountain City nearing ripeness, while Imperial City forces gathered above and Serpent Emperor City's people searched for Old Fan Deng.

Ye Linwang fought through the Ghoul Tide as the battle for the grain escalated, while the Pebble Border Army backed Yang Man’s forces with its Dao Lineage. At Treasure Snatching Mountain, Zhang Qing faced the princes of the major tribes as they prepared to reveal their strength.

• Ye Linwang unleashed his Mad Blood Ghoul Race power to kill Specters, while Li Qi ordered Li Wei to advance the Ghoul Tide toward Mountain City and pressure Zhang Qing’s Grain Sequence User.
• Pan Tong arrived with Pebble Venerable’s authorization, and Yang Man sent him to find the Blood Dragon Army with Yun Xiaoxi’s hairpin.
• Pan Tong and seven Pan Clan Sequence Users empowered Li Liming’s 1.7 million Blood Dragon Army with the Pebble Dao Lineage, prompting Li Qi to deploy the Screaming Ghoul army.
• At Treasure Snatching Mountain, Zhang Qing faced the remaining princes of the major tribes, who declared that the mountain would show him true despair and shouted, “Armor up!”

Zhang Qing overwhelmed the armored Ratfolk forces with Blood Momentum and cleared Treasure Snatching Mountain. After the Sequence power returned, Su Yue began advancing while Zhang Qing claimed Blood Fang and discovered its spatial power.

• Su Yue urged Zhang Qing to retreat, but he refused and declared he was guaranteed to win.
• Zhang Qing unleashed Blood Momentum, forming a vast Blood River that broke the enemy formation and powered his slaughter of the remaining Ratfolk.
• After the battle, Zhang Qing and Su Yue went to the spatial altar, where Zhang Qing waited for his Sequence power to recover before claiming Blood Fang.
• Su Yue's spatial affinity surged as her theater reached completion, and she began to advance.
• Zhang Qing found that Blood Fang could travel through space and embedded it in an arrow as its arrowhead.

As the grain beneath Mountain City ripened and the Ghoul Tide threatened to overwhelm the defenders, Cheng Qiping waited for Zhang Qing while Sequence Users entered the battlefield. After Su Yue learned that Mountain City had reached its most critical moment, she and Zhang Qing returned and mobilized the Gnawing Border Army.

• The Blood Dragon Army and Tyrant Army fought the Ghoul Tide as players borrowed the Blood Dragon Army's Authority buff and were quickly slaughtered by Specters.
• Yang Man stopped Hu Feiyun from charging into the battle and told him to protect Cheng Qiping, whom she identified as the key to the overall situation.
• Yun Xiaoxi urged Cheng Qiping to wait for Zhang Qing before advancing, fearing the ensuing chaos would disrupt him.
• Su Yue told Zhang Qing that Su Changqi had reported Mountain City's crisis, and they teleported out of Treasure Snatching Mountain.
• Su Yue called on the Ratfolk Transcendents to open a passage to the Short-toothed Ratfolk and asked Cang Li to mobilize the Gnawing Border Army.
• Cang Li assembled more than thirty million Gnawing Border Army soldiers in three seconds and awaited Su Yue's order.

Li Qi sent Li Wei to kill a Grain Sequence User, but Saka intercepted him as Rat Emperor City’s forces faced the Screaming Ghoul Tribe. As the players retreated, they stopped before the golden fields, turned back, and prepared to fight for the grain.

• Li Qi learned Su Yue could mobilize the entire Gnawing Border Army and ordered Li Wei to assassinate the Sequence User preparing to advance.
• Li Wei entered the battlefield, blasted apart the Ghoul Tide, and destroyed the Flesh and Blood Great Wall, forcing the players to retreat.
• Saka attacked Li Wei, drawing him into battle, while Li Qi summoned Fifth Generation Ghouls from Sounding Forest.
• The retreating players halted before the golden fields, unwilling to trample the grain.
• Rich Brother offered another two hundred million in prize money, and Star Ring, Dragonrise, Daybreak, Dawn Guild, and other players turned back to fight.

Zhang Qing returned to Mountain City as Li Qi’s forces threatened to break through the Flesh and Blood Great Wall, and Su Yue’s Gnawing Border Army reversed the battle. With Rat Emperor City’s supernaturals arriving and more Imperial Cities choosing sides, the Ghoul forces were driven back, leaving Li Qi unable to act.

• Li Qi ordered the fifth-generation Specters to attack Mountain City while Li Liming and Pan Tong held the defensive line with the Pebble Dao Lineage’s blessing.
• Li Ge charged the Flesh and Blood Great Wall, but Zhang Qing returned and stopped the breakthrough as Su Yue summoned the complete Gnawing Border Army under Cangzun.
• The Gnawing Border Army pushed the Ghoul Tide back, while more than fifty Rat Emperor City supernaturals appeared and prevented Li Qi from intervening.
• Zhang Qing ordered Li Liming to lead the Blood Dragon Army in gathering Attribute Points and nodded to Pan Tong to maintain the Dao Lineage.
• Rock Venerate arrived with the Tyrant Army as Imperial City Transcendents chose sides, and Hu Bai'e killed a Fifth Generation Ghoul of the Screaming Ghoul Tribe.

Cheng Qiping advanced through the Fantasy System by choosing Grain Dream, whose historical and cultural significance resisted Rong Gen’s Grain Authority. The Ghoul Tide was cleared and the Abyssal Sequences withdrew, leaving Zhang Qing’s side with a successful advancement and a new path tied to the Imperial City Sequence.

• Li Qi brought Rong Gen, the holder of the Proliferation Authority, forward as the transcendent factions stopped fighting and the Screaming Ghoul Tribe remained silent.
• Zhang Qing asked everyone to clear the area for Cheng Qiping’s advancement, and Fan Adkin offered to cleanse the marks of fate.
• As Cheng Qiping advanced, Rong Gen spread the Grain Authority and tried to suppress the new path, but Cheng Qiping declared, “Grain Dream! You are my only path! I! Have seen! History!”
• Cheng Qiping’s Grain Dream resisted the Grain Authority, and Fan Adkin recognized that it complemented Zhang Qing’s Imperial City Sequence and shared its tide of fate.
• Li Qi ordered Rong Gen to stop Cheng Qiping’s advancement, but Rong Gen admitted that the Grain Authority could not reach it; then Li Wei crashed down, battered by the Mad Blood Ghoul Race, and the Abyssal Sequences withdrew.

After the show, Zhang Qing used the pressure of confronting Li Qi to evolve his Moon Bow Technique and strike the Transcendent with a space-piercing arrow. Li Qi fled, and Fan Adkin began cleansing the Mountain City players’ fate marks.

• Zhang Qing faced Li Qi and warned that he had a gift in return for the Abyssal Sequence.
• Zhang Qing entered enlightenment, spent Universal Experience to evolve Moon Bow Technique into Ultimate Archery: Reverse Light, and shot Li Qi between the brows.
• Li Qi survived the arrow, tore it free, and fled with the Abyssal Sequence after recognizing the threat.
• Zhang Qing reflected that the strike would deter further attacks, then asked Fan Adkin to handle what came next.
• Fan Adkin began cleansing the Mountain City players’ fate marks.

After the battle, Zhang Qing negotiated with Rabbit Emperor City and Pig Emperor City over trade routes and realized the Imperial Cities intended to keep his territory away from the Dark Realm’s expanding edge. Meanwhile, Old Fan Deng promised Serpent Emperor City the Orange System Sequence in half a month, setting off alarm bells over the timing of the Serpent Venerable’s metamorphosis.

• The players celebrated the epic battle’s conclusion and began counting their losses and gains as the Abyssal Sequence retreated.
• Zhang Qing met Tu Shan and Zhu Zhen, who proposed opening trade routes for Rabbit Emperor City and Pig Emperor City.
• Tu Shan showed Zhang Qing a map that revealed how the Imperial Cities’ territorial plans would leave him surrounded and restrict his future expansion toward the Dark Realm’s edge.
• Zhang Qing agreed to arrange trade routes, and Zhu Zhen stayed in Mountain City to enjoy its food.
• Old Fan Deng promised Serpent Emperor City that Zhang Qing would deliver the Orange System Sequence in half a month, with Yun Xiaoxi accompanying him.
• The Serpent Emperor City Transcendent realized the deadline fell just before the Serpent Venerable’s metamorphosis, but Old Fan Deng had already disappeared.

After Zhang Qing’s victory in Mountain City, he planned to build capital through trade as he prepared for the challenge of Sequence Five. Mountain City opened trade opportunities for players while Great Xia considered how to manage their growing power, and Fan Adkin discussed guiding Yan Hua and bringing Zhang Qing to Serpent Emperor City.

• Zhang Qing celebrated the victory, discussed opening a trade route to Tiger Imperial City, and asked where Rock Venerate and Pan Tong had gone.
• Guan Yutian granted player guilds trading rights, while Mo Li began arranging Mountain City’s shop leases.
• Li Keming warned Li Wannian that players could soon reach the Sunrise Realm, prompting Li Wannian to consider producing Sequence Users for the military.
• Fan Adkin reflected on how Zhang Qing’s group could change the stagnant Dark Realm and asked Ares about the core of their civilization.
• Fan Adkin told Ares to guide Yan Hua to Phoenix Imperial City and help her draw on Ji Zi’s preparations for Transcendence.
• Fan Adkin decided to find a pretext to bring Zhang Qing to Serpent Emperor City without revealing his intentions.