Chapter Summaries

Zhang Qing used the remaining Nirvana Fire to transform Ouyang Lin’s Scale into Dragon Scale, granting the Dragon Scale Army a Spark Pseudo Domain, while Great Xia’s fighters returned with greatly improved physiques. Zhang Qing left for the Lava Zone as powerful factions weighed their next moves and Ghoul Mother bet against his Forbidden Sequence.

• Zhang Qing spent the remaining Nirvana Fire to merge Ouyang Lin’s Scale into Dragon Scale, awakening the Dragon Scale Army’s Spark Pseudo Domain.
• Yang Man, Su Yue, and Hao returned with the exhausted Great Xia True Spirits, and Hao gained a Nirvana Mark.
• Zhang Qing left the battlefield with the Strange Fish before a Sky City Sequence Great Venerable arrived, while the Venerables complained that his people had claimed too many Nirvana Marks.
• Ghoul Mother urged Little Lion to take Zhang Qing to the Lava Zone to claim the Flame Authority Artifact, then bet that Zhang Qing’s Forbidden Sequence would fail.
• Great Xia’s returning fighters received Innate Physiques infused with Ancient Star Array power, and Zhang Qing saw their transformation as a chance for Great Xia to advance toward Above Martial God.

Zhang Qing and his companions headed into the Lava Zone to retrieve Little Lion's tailbone, but found Sea Emperor had transformed its core into a burning ocean. As they entered the water, Sea Emperor appeared before them, leaving his purpose unknown.

• Little Lion led Zhang Qing through the ruined Lava Zone to retrieve the tailbone he had shed, while Zhang Qing considered his Sequence Six advancement and whether to prioritize individual or racial survival.
• Zhang Qing and his companions decided to retrieve the Authority Artifact and then contact the Sixth Floor to investigate its secrets.
• At the Lava Zone's core, Zhang Qing found a vast ocean burning with flames, and Little Loli identified Sea Emperor's Water Authority concealment.
• Yun Xiaoxi explained Sea Emperor's unusual history and discussed the Ancient Star Array, the Sovereign Lords, and the secret upheaval in Sheep Emperor City.
• Zhang Qing guided the Strange Fish into the viscous, Authority-reinforced water, where Sea Emperor appeared as two merging and separating silver mermaids.
• Zhang Qing greeted Sea Emperor, and a throne of flesh appeared.

Zhang Qing refined Little Lion’s tailbone into the Phoenix Blood Saber with help from the three Imperial City Lords. With his new weapon and Flame Authority Crystals, he prepared to confront the Sixth Floor and learn its stance on his path to Sequence Six.

• The Sea Emperor explained that she had brought the sea to the Lava Zone and helped Zhang Qing enter Sequence Six as repayment for a favor to the Sixth Floor.
• Zhang Qing and the three Imperial City Lords traveled to Little Lion’s territory to obtain her tailbone as an Authority Artifact.
• Little Lion helped Zhang Qing refine the tailbone, and he merged it into the Phoenix Blood Saber to greatly increase its power.
• The Sea Emperor gathered fire-aspect Authority Crystals for Zhang Qing after the refinement was complete.
• Little Loli proposed that they go find the Sixth Floor, and Zhang Qing agreed.

Lin Tian and Great Xia’s top guilds joined the Dragon Scale Army to suppress people stirring up trouble after missing Nirvana Fire. Meanwhile, Fan Adkin wondered whether Zhang Qing had reached Sequence Six, only for Zhang Qing to appear at the Sixth Floor with three First Generation Ancestors.

• Lin Tian demonstrated his new Martial Path Extreme ability, while Zhu Yi had reached Brilliance completion and begun attempting the second level.
• Yun Yue mocked Lin Tian for being only around the three-hundredth person in Great Xia to enter Martial Path Extreme.
• After some people demanded another Nirvana and caused trouble, Ouyang Lin and the Dragon Scale Army crushed their unrest, and Lin Tian’s group agreed to help purge those with ill intentions.
• Star Ring, Dawn, Dragonrise, Daybreak, and other top guilds joined the Dragon Scale Army to protect Great Xia’s stability.
• Fan Adkin speculated that Zhang Qing would reach Sequence Six and soon meet a Great Venerable.
• Zhang Qing opened a gate into the Sixth Floor and arrived with Ghoul Mother, Lava First Generation Ancestor, and Sea Emperor, shocking Fan Adkin.

Zhang Qing forced Fan Adkin to reveal the major players and their aims in the struggle over fate, then studied a chessboard that represented its evolution. Though the board showed becoming a Sovereign as his best outcome and resisted every attempt to overturn it, Zhang Qing resolved to fight against the odds.

• Fan Adkin warned Zhang Qing that bringing the Ghoul Mother, Lava First Generation Ancestor, and Sea Emperor into the Dark Realm risked drawing the Imperial City Lord's attention.
• Zhang Qing demanded that Fan Adkin disclose the truth, and Fan Adkin created a chessboard to explain the factions and their goals.
• Fan Adkin identified the Sixth Floor, Sky City, and Imperial City Lord as players in the struggle, then showed Zhang Qing as a piece caught among them.
• Zhang Qing tried to flip the chessboard and then cut down its phantoms, but the board's laws of fate restored the scene and resisted him.
• The Ghoul Mother, Little Lion, and Sea Emperor each lent their power to Zhang Qing's phantom, but none could overturn the board.
• The chessboard showed Zhang Qing becoming a Sovereign as his best outcome, but he chose to pursue the seemingly impossible path of defeating every player.

Zhang Qing learned that the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield could help him advance his Consciousness Authority, so he agreed to go there. As the Sky City Sequence deployed forces to clear the battlefield, the Sixth Floor began transforming and its future grew uncertain.

• Old Fan Deng told Zhang Qing about the Ghoulblood Ancestor’s transformation into the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield and suggested Zhang Qing go there to develop his Consciousness Authority.
• Zhang Qing agreed to head for the ancient battlefield after discussing its details with Old Fan Deng, then left with Little Lion’s help.
• Old Fan Deng ordered Ares to begin the Sixth Floor’s transformation, and a gigantic Mecha passed through space toward its depths.
• Si Bei Li ordered the Sky City Sequence to use intelligent machines and recovery systems to clear the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield quickly.
• The Sky City Sequence took over the battlefield, which also served as a rare training ground where border troops could survive.

Hu Feiyun and the others camped near the Giant Soldier Ancestor’s territory while Zhang Qing explored the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield. Zhang Qing seized control of Sky City’s intelligent machines and began secretly collecting their Authority Crystals, leaving Sky City’s High Venerables puzzled.

• Hu Feiyun and the others roasted Giant Soldier Ghouls, and Su Yue wished Rat Emperor City were beside their territory.
• The Ghoul Mother told Zhang Qing that the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield could produce rare Consciousness Authority crystals.
• Zhang Qing used Mechanical Authority to seize Sky City’s intelligent machines, combine them into a mecha, and disguise his control as an approved damage report.
• Zhang Qing and Little Lion decided to target the Mechanical Heavenly Court, while the Sea Emperor concealed Zhang Qing in a bubble.
• Zhang Qing covertly gathered intelligent machines and Authority Crystals as Si Bei Li and the other High Venerables debated whether an awakened Sky City Lord was behind the strange activity.

Zhang Qing used Little Lion’s Flame Authority reinforcement to devise a way to make True Spirits stand in for artificial intelligence. In Great Xia, the Starfire Login System activated and sent martial artists and Sequence Users into the Mechanical Heavenly Court, where countless True Spirits gathered.

• Zhang Qing realized that True Spirits could replace artificial intelligence in combat after Yun Xiaoxi reminded him of Ji Zi’s advancement.
• Zhang Qing asked Little Lion to open a passage and reinforce his Authority, and Little Lion reluctantly agreed.
• Li Keming’s Starfire mark activated the Azure Venerable Version 1.0 Starfire Login System, locating him at the Mechanical Heavenly Court.
• Martial artists and Sequence Users across Great Xia shouted “Login” and collapsed as they entered the system.
• Countless True Spirits assembled in the Flame Authority Zone and excitedly prepared to charge.

Zhang Qing launched a realistic simulation system that let True Spirits control intelligent machines and fight Scorpios on the ancient battlefield. As players grew stronger and Madblood Ancestor’s power rose with their battles, Si Bei Li discovered Zhang Qing was behind the machines poaching her kills and vowed revenge.

• Zhang Qing introduced the flame domain’s True Spirits to the simulation system and linked it to the intelligent machines in the Bubble Mechanical Heavenly Court.
• The players read the login rules, charged onto the ancient battlefield, and killed Scorpios for Divine Gold and other spoils while training their martial skills.
• The players’ battles intensified the violence of the ancient battlefield, causing Madblood Ancestor to grow stronger and the Scorpios to fight more fiercely.
• Si Bei Li investigated rising intelligent-machine losses and discovered that offline machines were attacking her forces under Zhang Qing’s control.
• Si Bei Li concluded that Zhang Qing was interfering with her campaign and angrily vowed revenge.

Zhang Qing’s players overwhelmed Sky City’s intelligent machines by salvaging them and assembling replacements, prompting Si Bei Li to send forces into a massive battlefield. Ouyang Lin realized Sky City’s Transcendent Sequence Users were holding back, while the Madblood Ancestor enjoyed the fighting; Zhang Qing’s machine reserves were nevertheless running low.

• Players swarmed Sky City’s intelligent machines, salvaged their wreckage, and used Zhang Qing’s production line to assemble replacements that let more players enter the battlefield.
• Si Bei Li increased Sky City’s machine deployments and prioritized eliminating the players, triggering a battle that drew more than a million intelligent machines to one location.
• Ouyang Lin entered with the Blood Dragon Army and activated the Starfire Pseudo Domain, forcing Sky City’s Sequence Users to confront them despite their reluctance to risk deep fusion.
• Ouyang Lin noticed Sky City’s Transcendent Sequence Users were barely fighting and privately told Great Xia’s guild leaders, whose members challenged them to learn from their techniques.
• Zhang Qing warned that Sky City had discovered them and his machine reserves were falling faster than his production line could replenish them.
• Little Lion explained that the Madblood Ancestor welcomed the battle as an enjoyable chance to fight, and Zhang Qing’s players made the experience even more entertaining.

Madblood Ancestor erupted in fury and tore through the Sky City Battlefield, forcing the twelve Sky City Lords to awaken and stop it. After it returned to the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield, Si Bei Li was punished for provoking it, while Zhang Qing and the others learned about the Dark Realm’s supreme laws.

• Madblood Ancestor roared, then launched from the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield and smashed the Serpent Emperor City garrison and Giant Soldier Ghoul Tribe’s nest.
• Madblood Ancestor broke into the upper Sky City Battlefield, making all twelve Sky Cities flee as their structures shook apart.
• The twelve Sky City Lords joined forces against Madblood Ancestor, dispersed its body, and watched it return to the Scorpion Ancient Battlefield.
• The Sky City Lords cut ninety-eight percent of Si Bei Li’s profits, and she ordered the intelligent machines to stop fighting Zhang Qing and clear out the Scorpions.
• Little Lion replayed the battle for Zhang Qing and the others, and Ghoul Mother Little Loli explained that the Dark Realm’s laws protected it from catastrophic destruction.
• Zhang Qing began to speculate about the Ultimate Leap, but Little Lion, Little Loli, and Little Mermaid stopped him from saying more.

Yun Xiaoxi suspected Zhang Qing was waiting for a way out of the stalemate, while the players and Si Bei Li’s forces returned to clearing Scorpions in the Ancient Battlefield. Zhang Qing expanded his control over the battlefield, and Hu Feiyun chose not to challenge She Qi over the Giant Soldier Ancestor’s star array key.

• Yun Xiaoxi realized Zhang Qing was refusing to advance because everyone was waiting for him, and she wondered whether he was counting on the Great Xia True Spirits in the Flame Domain.
• Si Bei Li ordered her forces to stop fighting the pirated mechs and clear Scorpions, while Zhang Qing likewise restrained the players and sent them to kill monsters.
• Ye Linwang absorbed the Madblood Ancestor’s aura through his mech and sent its purifying effects back to his body on Blue Star.
• Zhang Qing used Little Lion’s help to expand his Mechanical Authority until he controlled forty percent of the Ancient Battlefield, and both sides then cleared Scorpions without fighting each other.
• Hu Feiyun learned that She Qi had obtained the Giant Soldier Ancestor’s star array key and decided to keep her universal rune stones rather than make an enemy of him.

Hu Feiyun’s group prepared to confront the Night Spirit Progenitor while Fan Adkin opened the River of Time and summoned the Lord of the Sixth Floor. On the ancient battlefield, players found an entrance to the Night Spirit Ghoul Tribe’s underground burrow, and Zhang Qing was urged to seize its star array rune stones.

• Yang Man warned Hu Feiyun and the others about the Night Spirit Ghoul Tribe and its progenitor as they continued their campaign against the sleeping progenitors.
• Fan Adkin entered a dead zone, opened the River of Time with his scepter, and summoned the Lord of the Sixth Floor from the future.
• Yun Xiaoxi sensed an unexplained supernatural threat on the ancient battlefield, where a Sequence Eight boss formed from Mad Blood’s lingering berserk aura defeated players and Sky City.
• Zhao Huanhuan told the players that Azure Venerable expected the boss to weaken over time, and Lin Tian then reported a huge cavern in the northwest.
• The players entered the cavern and discovered the Night Spirit Ghoul Tribe’s burrow; Ghoul Mother told Zhang Qing to seize the Night Spirit Progenitor’s star array rune stones.

Players struggled against the powerful Night Spirits in Night Spirit Cavern, so Zhang Qing entered the cavern with Yun Xiaoxi and Little Loli to investigate. Little Loli used the Flesh Authority to scout, drawing notice from Hu Feiyun and the other Imperial City Highnesses as they searched for the rune stone key.

• Players repeatedly died fighting the beautiful but vicious Night Spirits, whose strength ranged from below Sequence Four to as high as Sequence Seven despite all bearing the aura of Sequence Five.
• Zhang Qing asked Little Lion to look after the players, then entered Night Spirit Cavern with Yun Xiaoxi and Little Loli while Little Lion and the Little Mermaid supported the group outside.
• Little Loli explained that the Night Spirits were reincarnations of the Night Spirit Progenitor and that their strength varied unpredictably.
• Zhang Qing asked Little Loli to use the Flesh Authority to scout the cavern, and she agreed.
• Hu Feiyun and the other Imperial City Highnesses sensed the Flesh Authority and speculated that a Flesh Zone Leviathan had developed consciousness.
• Hao urged the group to find the rune stone key and leave, while Hu Feiyun had Su Yue scout ahead.

Zhang Qing disguised himself as a Flesh Aberration and reached the hall at the heart of Night Spirit Cavern, where the Star Array Rune Stone key and a host of powerful Night Spirits awaited. From the ceiling, he spotted a large group of Ghoulifiers as fighting broke out.

• Zhang Qing learned that the Star Array Rune Stone key lay in a hall crowded with Night Spirits, while the Imperial City Highnesses were also heading there.
• Tu You gathered Ghoulifiers and planned to seize the star array while keeping the Highnesses alive.
• Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi fought through Night Spirits, and Little Loli warned them that Ghoulifiers had entered the cavern before falling asleep.
• Zhang Qing transformed into a Flesh Aberration and slipped into the hall, then climbed to the ceiling to avoid the fighting below.
• Zhang Qing saw a huge group of Ghoulifiers as combat broke out in the hall.

Zhang Qing and Yun Xiaoxi joined the players’ assault on the Night Elf hall, where the Dragon Scale Army was struggling against the defenders. Zhang Qing unleashed the genuine Spark Domain and led the charge, leaving the players empowered and their morale soaring.

• Ghoulifier Tu You led Ghoulifiers into the Night Elf hall, and the arriving Imperial City Highnesses were pulled into the battle.
• Players explored the route into the hall, then flooded inside and attacked in organized formations as Night Elves killed them in large numbers.
• Ouyang Lin led the Dragon Scale Army in holding the front line and urged Yao Wang and the troops to help Azure Venerable despite doubts about the system’s mission.
• A powerful Night Elf broke through Ouyang Lin’s defenses, but Zhang Qing blocked its strike and countered with a Blazing Fire Slash that swept the hall in flames.
• Zhang Qing fully unleashed the Spark Authority, transformed the Pseudo Domain into the genuine Spark Domain, and empowered the Dragon Scale Army and players for the continuing fight.

Zhang Qing led his allies into the Night Elf Hall to seize the runestone keys, using his Flame Authority and Starfire Great Trend to overwhelm the Night Elves. After clearing out the weaker enemies, he prepared to test whether Ouyang Lin and the border army could take on the remaining Sequence Seven Night Elves.

• Hu Feiyun, Yang Man, and Su Yue chose to fight Zhang Qing for the runestone keys, while Hu Feiyun proposed first driving out the other factions.
• Sequence Seven Night Elves rapidly overwhelmed Tu You's Ghoulifiers, who had no powerful leaders willing to emerge.
• Zhang Qing led a wedge formation through the hall and unleashed Starfire Prairie Fire, wiping out the Sequence Five and Sequence Six Night Elves.
• She Qi and Liu Jin retreated from the flames at another entrance after recognizing their power as that of a Flame Authority Artifact.
• Yun Xiaoxi warned Zhang Qing about the Sequence Seven Night Elves, and Zhang Qing asked Ouyang Lin if he could face them; Ouyang Lin confidently accepted.

Zhang Qing urged Ouyang Lin to summon Scale’s Authority Artifact, which left the Sixth Floor and began traveling toward its new owner. As the Dragon Scale Army prepared for battle, Zhang Qing led the charge against the Night Elves in Night Spirit Hall.

• Zhang Qing told Ouyang Lin to try summoning Scale’s Authority Artifact, and Ouyang Lin formed a connection to it.
• Scale’s Guardian Shield flew out of Old Fan Deng’s treasure room, and Old Fan Deng realized it had answered the Dragon Scale Army’s call.
• Ouyang Lin lost the connection, but Zhang Qing said the artifact might be on its way and ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• Zhang Qing charged the Sequence Seven Night Elves and was quickly surrounded by more than five of them.
• The Dragon Scale Army caught Zhang Qing, let him unfold his domain, and crushed a one-armed Night Elf to death.
• Zhang Qing’s Spark Domain pressed against the Night Elves’ resistance as Hao mocked him, and Zhang Qing vowed to teach Hao a lesson.

Zhang Qing fought the Night Spirits until one revealed itself as the Night Spirit Progenitor and challenged him to a martial arts duel. As the Progenitor unleashed sword intent powerful enough to tear apart Authority, Zhang Qing stood his ground and prepared to counter with his blade.

• Zhang Qing used Yun Xiaoxi’s pink flames to weaken the Night Spirits while fighting alongside Ouyang Lin and the others.
• A Night Spirit regenerated its bitten-off arm, revealing flesh and blood, and the Night Spirit Progenitor spoke through it to challenge Zhang Qing.
• Zhang Qing and the Progenitor fought one-on-one, and Yun Xiaoxi merged her consciousness with his as he struggled against the Progenitor’s martial arts.
• Zhang Qing gained the upper hand with his grand saber intent, but the Progenitor transformed its longsaber into a sword and unleashed a strike that tore through Authority.
• Zhang Qing refused to retreat and gathered his blade intent, preparing to meet the Progenitor’s sword with his own.

Zhang Qing broke through to the Martial God Realm and defeated the Night Spirit Progenitor’s lingering sword intent with his new strike, Thorn Cutter. The Progenitor withdrew, while Zhang Qing’s breakthrough inspired Great Xia’s fighters even as the battle against the Night Spirits continued.

• The Night Spirit Progenitor challenged Zhang Qing to stake his life against a powerful sword strike.
• Zhang Qing became a Martial God and unleashed Thorn Cutter, carving through space with his saber.
• Zhang Qing endured the borrowed sword intent until it faded, and the Night Spirit Progenitor began to disappear.
• The Night Spirit Progenitor withdrew without interfering in the wager, and the Sequence Seven Night Spirits resumed their assault.
• Hu Feiyun’s side grew fearful of Zhang Qing’s breakthrough, while Great Xia’s fighters were inspired and many players went offline to meditate on what they had witnessed.