Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Real-world figures worry that God’s Domain is increasingly merging with reality. Reports of unusually aggressive monsters, along with the Tide Clan’s Holy Relic nearing full awakening, suggest the game’s assimilation rate may be approaching 90% and a major upheaval is close.
• Qin Xiao Youhui contacts Zhang Mingzhen (Chongxing) and urges him to return to Dragon Han. Zhang has already recognized the danger and decides to go home, though he refuses to intervene in the Warcraft crisis surrounding Ning Kingdom.
• Zhang’s Azurewave Clan has grown to 62 members. His evolution progress reaches 90%, and he is level 88, still ahead of the other top players. Many leading players have passed level 80 and are eager to attempt an level-80 dungeon.
• A cross-server group assembles for the Sword Cavern. Shiyade has insisted they recruit archer One Arrow Shoots the Sun, despite Dragon Diagram Frenzy’s doubts. The team struggles against even the opening monsters, whose knockdowns, interruptions, and other control effects make melee combat especially difficult.
• At the first leader, the Sword Spirit Body, Shiyade explains the team’s plan: use One Arrow Shoots the Sun’s Power Strike, which can store damage and release an equal burst later. The archer reveals his S-rank Deception talent can temporarily alter a skill’s effects, potentially shortening Power Strike’s cooldown against leaders.

Character developments and interactions

• Zhang Mingzhen/Chongxing remains pragmatic and guarded: he prioritizes preparation and personal survival over becoming a celebrated savior. His progress shows how far ahead he is of the other players.
• Gao Linzhi approves of Zhang’s refusal to help without expecting anything in return, sharing his preference for equal-value exchanges over charitable acts that might invite resentment.
• Qin Xiao Youhui is increasingly anxious about the game’s impact on Earth and stresses that the team must get stronger quickly.
• Dragon Diagram Frenzy begins skeptical of One Arrow Shoots the Sun and becomes frustrated by the dungeon’s melee control effects. Shiyade defends the archer and later teases Dragon about his luck-boosting equipment.
• One Arrow Shoots the Sun is modest about his abilities, but Shiyade vouches for him. His unusual talent may make him a valuable specialist against dungeon leaders.
• The gathered guild leaders share their concern about the real-world crisis, then set aside their worries to focus on the dungeon.

Significant themes

• Survival and preparation: Characters see strength as essential in a world facing an uncertain, possibly apocalyptic transformation.
• Pragmatism versus altruism: Zhang and Gao Linzhi question the risks of helping others when gratitude is uncertain.
• Teamwork and specialization: The dungeon’s challenges make coordinated tactics and distinctive class abilities crucial.
• Escalating change: The game’s increasingly dangerous monsters and growing link to reality signal that its rules—and humanity’s circumstances—are changing.

Summary

Key plot points and events

• Qin Xiao’s dungeon team tests One Arrow Shoots the Sun’s deception talent against the Sword Spirit Body. Despite the dungeon’s resistance, he successfully alters Charged Strike, making the boss take its accumulated damage twice at the end of its charging phase. This substantially increases the team’s damage.
• The team defeats the boss without casualties, despite a dangerous wave of summoned monsters. The chest yields a level-80 Silver-tier Xiaoyi Necklace. Shiyade takes it, while One Arrow—who could have used it—steps aside out of gratitude for Shiyade’s recommendation.
• The team continues deeper into the dungeon. One Arrow’s contribution earns him a permanent place in the high-level group, giving him a reliable way to gain experience and farm equipment.
• Elsewhere, Zhang Mingzhen unexpectedly learns Dispel, a skill that removes negative effects from himself and up to five teammates. He suspects the Golden House’s insight-enhancing property helped him acquire it and heads out to test the skill on monsters that inflict control effects.
• On the way, Zhang encounters a fleeing group that warns him about the Corpse Demons. These monsters are stronger than reports suggested, use varied control and mental attacks, and can possess defeated summoned beasts. Zhang continues toward their territory to investigate.

Character developments and interactions

• One Arrow Shoots the Sun proves the value of his unusual talent and moves from newcomer to trusted team member. He also shows consideration by giving Shiyade first choice of the necklace.
• Shiyade is rewarded for bringing One Arrow into the group, though he continues to rue his poor equipment luck.
• Qin Xiao directs the dungeon team, divides its roles carefully, and plans for the next stage by having both Shield Guards share the defensive burden.
• Zhang Mingzhen gains a skill that strengthens his ability to withstand control effects. He remains cautious around strangers—masking his identity—but is determined to investigate the Corpse Demons himself.
• The fleeing players warn Zhang about the danger, while he politely reassures them and declines their offer to join their team.

Significant themes

• Teamwork and earned trust: One Arrow’s skill benefits the whole group, and his performance wins him a place on a stable team.
• Unequal access to power and resources: The gap between well-equipped players like Zhang Mingzhen and ordinary players remains immense; many struggle to find teams, gear, or even basic survival supplies.
• Preparation versus uncertainty: Dungeon knowledge and online reports help, but cannot replace firsthand experience—and inaccurate information can put players at serious risk.
• A changing world: The Corpse Demons’ growing strength suggests monsters, like players, may be evolving in response to the forces shaping God’s Domain.

Zhang Mingzhen fought the Corpse Ghouls and then learned that Earth would merge fully with the game, bringing drastic changes to resurrection and safety. As players scrambled to recruit priests, Liu Guang and Fan Cheng faced a monster breaking into their home.

• Zhang Mingzhen entered the Corpse Ghouls' territory, dispelled their curses, and destroyed the creatures while worrying that a leader might possess a player.
• Gao Linzhi read the server-wide announcement that Earth would merge with the game and two other worlds, with resurrection circles removed and death becoming permanent after thirty minutes.
• Players and organizations urgently sought priests, while Zhang Mingzhen logged out and realized his Yin Yang Walker talent was temporarily sealed.
• Liu Guang and Fan Cheng discussed joining the Legion Guild after the update made survival more difficult.
• A bloodied monster clung to Liu Guang and Fan Cheng's window, smashed through the glass, and entered their room.

After Earth became fully integrated into God's Domain, monsters invaded safe zones and communications failed, while Zhang Mingzhen uncovered Corpse Ghouls disguised as players. The military sought his help as the upheaval spread across Ling City, its wildlife, and the ocean.

• Liu Guang and Fan Cheng fought a high-level monster in their home, and South of South City and their companions joined them to destroy it.
• The group went to check on Xiao Shi after he failed to answer, but he revealed himself as a monster and attacked them.
• The update let players access game equipment and interfaces in reality, while authorities warned that monsters had entered safe zones and communications were disrupted.
• Zhang Mingzhen shot down an approaching figure in Ling City, and the figure transformed into a Corpse Ghoul that had been posing as a player.
• The military ordered Zhang Yu to locate Chongxing, while Zhang Mingzhen observed mutated plants, animals, and sea creatures around Blue Star.

Zhang Mingzhen explored the changed world, raised his life-tier progress with the Azurewave Clan’s Spirit Cores, and searched for stronger monsters. At Sand Lake, the Golden Toad discovered Seven-Leaf Grass that could provide ingredients for resurrection medicine, and Zhang Mingzhen cleared the lake of it.

• Zhang Mingzhen returned to crowded Ling City, explained that high mental strength or special detection talents could reveal Corpse Ghouls, and took the teleportation array to the Undersea Dragon Palace.
• Zhang Mingzhen met Xichen, learned that the Azurewave Clan had grown to more than three thousand members, and absorbed their Spirit Cores until his progress reached ninety-five percent.
• Zhang Mingzhen surveyed the wilderness near Tomb City and sent the three Flower Spirits to the Strange Stone Forest while he searched for high-level monsters.
• At Sand Lake, the Golden Toad sensed medicinal plants, but Seven-Leaf Grass dragged it beneath the sand until Zhang Mingzhen rescued it and defeated the plant.
• The Golden Toad identified the Nine-Fragrance Seed as a main ingredient for resurrection medicine, and Zhang Mingzhen used the Wildsea Candle Dragon to expose and destroy the lake’s Seven-Leaf Grass.

Zhang Mingzhen fought swarming Red Tree Leaves in the Red Leaf Forest while waiting for his Wildsea Candle Dragon to learn a skill. After players began sharing their pets’ new abilities, his frustration with the Candle Dragon boiled over, and he angrily refused a military official’s request for help with the Corpse Ghoul crisis.

• Zhang Mingzhen and the Wildsea Candle Dragon gathered Nine-Fragrance Seeds, then traveled to the Red Leaf Forest and were attacked by its living trees and blood-draining leaves.
• Zhang Mingzhen fought the Red Tree Leaves for experience while Dandan Feng’s Winged Swallow learned Focused Strike, prompting players to discuss pet skills across the world channel.
• Players shared more newly learned pet skills, and Guandong Quake’s pet attracted attention for acquiring Hitting the Ox Through the Mountain.
• Zhang Mingzhen scolded the Wildsea Candle Dragon for failing to learn a skill and considered replacing it, though he feared losing his talent if he killed it.
• When a military official asked Zhang Mingzhen how to handle the Corpse Ghoul crisis, he angrily refused to help and warned them not to bother him again.

Chongxing became Earth’s first Level One Lifeform, drawing the attention of players and authorities seeking information about Life Levels. After he warned the military about higher lifeforms and the coming Ten Thousand Races War, Dragon Han ordered an urgent global response and launched a campaign to eliminate the Corpse Ghoul threat.

• Zhang Mingzhen’s attributes doubled as he crossed into Level One, and a global announcement named Chongxing Earth’s first player to reach that stage.
• The military offered Chongxing an Aptitude Potion in exchange for information, and he explained that higher lifeforms and a future Ten Thousand Races War threatened humanity.
• Lu Zheng reported Chongxing’s warning to his superiors, who called for an emergency global conference and authorized Qin Xiao to eradicate the Corpse Ghouls.
• Qin Xiao Youhui and the other Legion Guild captains began screening players, using Yang Extreme Talisman Water developed from fire-aspected ore to guard against Corpse Ghoul possession.

Zhang Mingzhen’s world forcibly screened players with Yang Extreme Talisman Water, exposing Corpse Ghouls and prompting the creation of a global Training Camp. He refused to join as an instructor and focused on strengthening his Wildsea Candle Dragon and finding ghost-type materials for his own plans.

• Authorities forced guilds to screen players with Yang Extreme Talisman Water, and Corpse Ghouls were exposed and killed across the world.
• The Starlight Merchant Guild and the Alchemists Association developed a constitution-boosting pill, while players formed associations for life professions.
• Governments worldwide announced a joint Training Camp, but Zhang Mingzhen declined the Legion Guild’s request to serve as an instructor.
• Zhang Mingzhen fed his Wildsea Candle Dragon an Aptitude Potion and trained it until it learned Lethal Strike.
• Zhang Mingzhen asked his military liaison for ghost-type materials, and factions across Blue Star began searching for them in exchange for a possible trade.

The Training Camp selection exposed factional schemes as guild leaders learned that Earth was preparing for a coming conflict with other races in God's Domain. Zhang Mingzhen met Fifty-Fifty, whose unusual talent and ghost-type material led him to reveal a newly discovered item in the Training Tower Marketplace.

• Lu Zheng warned the Legion Guild administrators that sabotaging the Training Camp selection would cost them their lives, as the selection was meant to prepare Earth for a major threat.
• Dragon Diagram Frenzy and Imperial Dynasty Defies Heaven learned that higher life forms and other races would emerge as God's Domain merged with other worlds, so they sent guild members to join the selection and ordered them to find ghost-type materials for Chongxing.
• Zhang Mingzhen met Fifty-Fifty, who offered a ghost-type spirit seed and asked to become his apprentice, but Zhang refused.
• Fifty-Fifty revealed his B-rank Gambler talent, which let him wager a randomly selected attribute in a duel, and explained that he stacked agility to exploit its luck bonus.
• Fifty-Fifty told Zhang Mingzhen that the Training Tower Marketplace had added a Talent Advancement Talisman, an item players believed could defy fate.

Zhang Mingzhen and Fifty-Fifty entered the Dragon Whiskers Adept’s hidden valley and secretly took its spirit herbs, including blood corpse grass, to advance Zhang’s resurrection-potion quest. The enraged Adept trapped them in an illusion and confronted Zhang, whose talent had been temporarily unlocked by the resurrection clue.

• Fifty-Fifty offered Zhang Mingzhen a way into the Dragon Whiskers Adept’s treasure ground in exchange for a Talent Advancement Talisman, and Zhang agreed.
• Zhang and Fifty-Fifty found the Dragon Whiskers Adept in the swamp and entered his hidden valley after he agreed to gamble with Fifty-Fifty.
• While Fifty-Fifty kept the Adept occupied, Zhang summoned Golden Toad, which carried off the valley’s spirit herbs, including the blood corpse grass.
• The Adept let Fifty-Fifty choose one plant, but Zhang and Fifty-Fifty left without taking it and hurried away on the Wildsea Candle Dragon.
• When Zhang and Fifty-Fifty realized they were flying in circles, Zhang shattered the illusion and exposed the furious Dragon Whiskers Adept.
• Zhang sent Fifty-Fifty away with the Candle Dragon and prepared to face the level 100 spirit after his resurrection clue temporarily unlocked his talent.

Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Dragon Whiskers Adept, helped Wuwukai advance his talent to S rank, and evolved the Wildsea Candle Dragon with a rare herb. He then inspected the Golden Toad’s improved resurrection pills and ordered it to make more protective medicines, while the toad asked for more funds.

• Zhang Mingzhen used resistance pills and illusion-breaking skills to expose the Dragon Whiskers Adept’s tricks, immobilized him, and killed him despite the adept grabbing Wuwukai as a hostage.
• Zhang Mingzhen received a dragon whisker strange herb, and Wuwukai used a Talent Advancement Talisman to gain an S-rank talent through the Double Leap effect.
• Wuwukai joined the Legion Guild’s Training Camp, while Zhang Mingzhen fed the dragon whisker herb to the Wildsea Candle Dragon, which shrank into a pet egg.
• Zhang Mingzhen returned home and learned that the Golden Toad had made ninety-six Nine-Death Soul-Returning Pills, which could revive him at full strength once a day.
• Zhang Mingzhen praised the Golden Toad and ordered it to prepare more protective medicines, and the toad asked him for more money.

Zhang Mingzhen reached level ninety, unlocked the Demon-Suppressing Tower, and began its weekly challenge, earning Experience Pills as he cleared its floors. The chapter left him facing the Crimson Blood Jiao King, an imprisoned guardian tied to a mystery that caught Gao Linzhi’s attention.

• Zhang Mingzhen reached level ninety, triggering a world announcement that opened the Demon-Suppressing Secret Pagoda and revealed the Body Tempering realm.
• Zhang Mingzhen paid the entrance fee and entered the Demon-Suppressing Tower, where he defeated the Ironclad Stone Scorpion and its advanced form for two Experience Pills.
• Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Wine Immortal and its advanced form on the second floor, earning two more Experience Pills.
• Zhang Mingzhen recognized the third-floor guardian, the Crimson Blood Jiao King, as the leader of the clan he had previously exterminated.
• Zhang Mingzhen began fighting the Crimson Blood Jiao King while wondering why its clan had angered the rules of God's Domain, and Gao Linzhi considered whether his discoveries could help lift his seal.

Zhang Mingzhen cleared the Demon-Suppressing Tower’s first five floors, overcoming increasingly dangerous guardians and discovering that the sixth floor required the maximum level. The chapter ended with the system announcing Chongxing as the first player to clear the fifth floor and top the rankings.

• Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Crimson Blood Jiao King and earned Accuracy Gems and Experience Pills from the third floor.
• Zhang Mingzhen overcame the Thunderbolt Tiger’s knockback attacks and lethal charge, then defeated the Spore Fairy Mushroom despite its paralyzing spores.
• Zhang Mingzhen defeated the Yin-Yang Twin Butterflies and their giant second form by finding a moving safe zone that stopped his health from draining.
• The Starlight Merchant Guild informed Zhang Mingzhen that avoiding every spore triggered the Spore Fairy Mushroom’s second phase and that reaching maximum level was required to enter the sixth floor.
• The system announced that Chongxing had cleared the fifth floor and taken first place on the player rankings.

As God's Domain launched a seven-day spirit-tree event to help players level up, Zhang Mingzhen was paired with Chen Jianguo and planted a tree with him. Zhang Mingzhen then began draining spiritual energy from other players' trees, provoking widespread anger.

• The system announced the Land-Reclamation Plan, pairing players to grow spirit trees for experience and allowing them to draw spiritual energy from other trees.
• Zhang Mingzhen received a common Spirit Seed and waited for his assigned teammate, Chen Jianguo, who hesitated to contact him after realizing he might have been paired with the famous Chongxing.
• Zhang Mingzhen called for Chen Jianguo in the world channel, and Chen Jianguo joined his team after his guildmates realized who his partner was.
• Zhang Mingzhen and Chen Jianguo planted their spirit tree in a conspicuous location, and Chen Jianguo volunteered to guard it while Zhang Mingzhen went to gather spiritual energy elsewhere.
• Zhang Mingzhen flew around draining spiritual energy from other players' trees, and the affected players complained that his strength let him rob them without consequence.

Zhang Mingzhen carried teammates through the spirit-tree event, collected powerful rewards, and traded Resurrection Potions for a level-four gem. After the event ended and players reached the level required for the Sword Cavern Instance, Linghu Zhazha ran a dungeon with Rose and Little Bell, who struggled to keep him alive.

• Zhang Mingzhen helped Chen Jianguo raise their spirit tree to rare grade, earning Chen a cosmetic outfit and making other players envy their partnership.
• As the event continued, Zhang Mingzhen synthesized attribute gems, bought Pet Skill Books, and received a Divine Array Disk from his level-seven spirit tree reward.
• Zhang Mingzhen bought his teammate's level-four Critical Hit Gem in exchange for five Resurrection Potions and socketed it into his main weapon.
• The seven-day event ended, and players' average level reached eighty, allowing most of them to enter the Sword Cavern Instance.
• Linghu Zhazha fought a boss in the Sword Cavern Instance while Rose and Little Bell urged him to use his defensive skill as they struggled to heal him.

A temporary team cleared the Sword Cavern’s second stage, while Zhang Mingzhen handled growing demand for supplies and resurrection medicine. The chapter ended with his Wildsea Candle Dragon completing its second evolution into a powerful Nine Yin Candle Dragon, after which he requested another Aptitude Potion from the Legion Guild.

• Linghu Zhazha tanked Fire Pixiu with help from Rose and Little Bell, and the team cleared the Sword Cavern’s second stage.
• Greatsword shared his special-grade Pearl Meatballs with the team, and the members agreed to sell him a dropped Mage armor piece at the lowest price.
• Zhang Mingzhen refused to sell his limited Resurrection Potions but offered to process player-supplied materials for a share of the finished medicine.
• Guilds and players gathered rare herbs for Zhang Mingzhen, though no one had found ghost-type spiritual herbs.
• Zhang Mingzhen’s Wildsea Candle Dragon completed its second evolution and became a level-one Nine Yin Candle Dragon with greatly increased attributes and a new master-guard skill.
• Zhang Mingzhen contacted the Legion Guild to request another Aptitude Potion, saying it was not for the same pet.