Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling exposed Xian Donglai’s supposed Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit as an Illusion-Transformation Fruit and beat him when he tried to leave. After Yang Ling fed him the fruit, Xian Donglai died, leaving the others unable to interrogate him about his suspected collusion.

• Xian Donglai refused to let the Precious Medicine Gang elder test the fruit and tried to leave with it.
• Yang Ling blocked Xian Donglai, broke his arm, and beat him until he could no longer fight back.
• Yang Ling gave the wooden box to the Precious Medicine Gang elder, who poured clear water over the fruit and revealed its true appearance.
• Lampbearers Xu and Xiao concluded that Xian Donglai was involved in something suspicious and planned to interrogate him.
• Yang Ling fed Xian Donglai the Illusion-Transformation Fruit, and Xian Donglai’s flesh rotted as his flesh regeneration failed.

Yang Ling refused the Cicada-Holding Directorate’s attempt to detain him after killing Xian Donglai, and he left Golden Lion Ridge with Eunuch Chen. At the Precious Medicine Gang headquarters, Zhu Xiu explained that Xian Donglai’s death had prevented a massacre, and Yang Ling was invited to join the gathering.

• Shi Haixuan demanded that Yang Ling remain at Golden Lion Ridge, but Yang Ling refused and left with Eunuch Chen after handing Xian Donglai’s corpse to the Lampbearers.
• The Lampbearers and Shi Haixuan declined to stop Yang Ling, agreeing to wait for instructions from above.
• Yang Ling told Eunuch Chen that he had not read the Great Dream Law despite invoking it to challenge Shi Haixuan’s authority.
• Zhu Xiu told Zhu Qing that the Five Venom Emperor Lord’s forces had entered the war and that they should leave the matter to their superiors.
• The Precious Medicine Gang elder reported that Yang Ling had killed Xian Donglai, and Zhu Xiu said Xian Donglai’s death had saved everyone at Golden Lion Ridge from a massacre.
• Zhu Xiu asked the elder to invite Yang Ling to the hall, and Yang Ling arrived with Eunuch Chen.

Yang Ling learned that Shi Tianhu and Xian Donglai had been sent to kill him as part of a plot involving Land Immortals, though he insisted he had killed them simply because he could not stomach their attacks. He sold Shi Tianhu’s head to the Precious Medicine Gang for a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit, which strengthened his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling.

• Zhu Xiu arrived at the Precious Medicine Gang and joined Yang Ling, Eunuch Chen, Zhu Qing, and Zhu Qing’s son for a private discussion.
• Zhu Xiu explained that Land Immortals were plotting against the Great Dream Dynasty and that Shi Tianhu and Xian Donglai had targeted Yang Ling because of his investigations.
• Zhu Xiu said that killing Xian Donglai and Shi Tianhu had likely prevented further attacks on Golden Lion Ridge, while Yang Ling claimed he had acted because he could not stomach them.
• Yang Ling offered Shi Tianhu’s head to Zhu Qing, who paid with a Three-Thousand-Year Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit.
• Yang Ling swallowed the fruit, increasing his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling to 426/500.

Yang Ling’s tribulation-fire martial way kindling explained why he had not advanced despite consuming powerful medicines, and Zhu Xiu and Zhu Qing recognized his potential. Zhu Qing promised the Precious Medicine Gang would give him rare kindling herbs when they arrived, and Yang Ling asked to borrow several hundred men for the Immortal God Cult Symposium.

• Yang Ling assessed the growth in his flesh regeneration after his Sacred Kirin Martial Way Kindling expanded.
• Zhu Xiu questioned whether Zhu Qing’s Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruit was faulty because Yang Ling had not advanced to the Fourth Rank.
• Yang Ling confirmed the fruit was genuine and revealed that he had condensed tribulation fire, making his advancement unusually difficult.
• Zhu Qing promised the Precious Medicine Gang’s rare kindling herbs as a congratulatory gift once they arrived from the Abyssal Beast Cavern.
• Yang Ling thanked Zhu Qing and asked to borrow two or three hundred Precious Medicine Gang members to attend the Immortal God Cult Symposium.

Yang Ling infiltrated an Immortal God Cult gathering at Evernight Tower and identified Li Jun, who had become an Eighth Rank Expert. When Li Jun recognized him and dropped his cup, Zhu Yunbo’s men stormed the hall, then abruptly withdrew.

• Zhu Yunbo and Shopkeeper Wang revealed that Li Jun had joined the Precious Medicine Gang as a Protector, and Yang Ling told Zhu Yunbo to use a smashed cup as the signal to arrest the cult members.
• Yang Ling entered Clear Water Hall under the name Zhang Wei and learned that the cult’s members concealed their affiliation after Divine Domain 2.0 exposed their Attribute Panels.
• Li Jun mourned Zhai Zhen, praised the Immortal God Cult, and urged the gathered members to donate to the families of those killed at Eagle Valley Red Copper Mine.
• Yang Ling inspected Li Jun’s Attribute Panel and confirmed his Eighth Rank cultivation before Li Jun recognized him and dropped his cup.
• Zhu Yunbo led two hundred fighters into Clear Water Hall, bowed to Yang Ling, then waved his men out after noticing the shattered cup was in front of Li Jun.

Yang Ling exposed himself to the players gathered at Evernight Tower and questioned them about their involvement in the Immortal God Cult. After letting most of them leave, he learned that Li Jun suspected the person using Li Fengxian’s account was not his real father and that Li Fengxian had sent cultists to watch him.

• Yang Ling revealed his identity and warned the players that Precious Medicine Gang fighters were guarding the exits.
• Yang Ling allowed players who had not killed other players to leave, while nine cultists remained.
• Dong Jing removed his cultist class and was allowed to go, while the remaining cultists were accused of lying about their actions.
• Li Jun said he had neither killed nor ordered the killing of players, but admitted to robbing them and claimed Li Fengxian had sent people to watch him.
• A cultist tried to attack Yang Ling with an explosive, but Yang Ling took it from him.
• A cultist swallowed a poison pill rather than reveal Li Fengxian’s whereabouts and died, while the other cultists refused to follow suit.

Yang Ling learned how Li Jun exposed the impostor using Li Fengxian’s name, then met Ji Nian and the Emergency Department officers as they investigated the Immortal God Cult. He hurried to the Cicada-Holding Directorate, where an Abyssal envoy demanded Zhu Xiu’s surrender, and realized the envoy might know where his sworn brother was.

• Li Jun explained that the fake Li Fengxian had failed to answer messages from her younger sister, and Yang Ling concluded that the impostor likely had two accounts.
• Zhu Yunbo brought Ji Nian and two Emergency Department officers to Clear Water Hall, where Yang Ling learned they had joined forces with Li Jun against the Immortal God Cult.
• Ji Nian questioned the killing of the cult members, but Yang Ling and Li Jun argued that the cultists were terrorists and that they had only quit the game.
• Zhu Yunbo told Yang Ling that an Abyssal Martial Artist had arrived as an envoy, so Yang Ling rushed to the Cicada-Holding Directorate.
• The envoy, Wang Yu, threatened Golden Lion Ridge with four beast tides unless Zhu Xiu was handed over, and Zhu Xiu recognized him as a former enemy from the Crimson-Refined Fire Flood Dragon Sect.
• Yang Ling realized Wang Yu might know where his sworn brother was.

Wang Yu revealed that a Beast Tide had surrounded Golden Lion Ridge and warned that the Abyssal Martial Artists’ Land Immortal chief wanted Yang Ling alive. The defenders divided up their positions, and the next day Yang Ling and the lampbearers faced a million Ghost King Bees as players received rewards for killing them.

• Wang Yu disclosed that the Beast Tide had surrounded Golden Lion Ridge and that he had come to confirm Zhu Xiu’s location while identifying Yang Ling as a target for his Land Immortal chief.
• Shi Haixuan concluded that a faction within the Martial Alliance had allied with the Five Venom Emperor Lord and the Red Flame Emperor, then assigned the defenders to the ridge’s four approaches.
• Shi Haixuan confirmed that the Abyssal Martial Artists’ chief was a First Rank Land Immortal and warned Yang Ling that the chief intended to take him alive.
• The next day, Yang Ling, Lampbearer Xu, and Lampbearer Xiao saw a swarm of at least a million Ghost King Bees approaching the western approach.
• Players received notices offering treasure chests for killing Ghost King Bees and a Diamond Treasure Chest for killing their Beast King, and Yang Ling reacted to the reward.

The Divine Domain announced rewards for killing the Exotic Beasts attacking the four routes, and Yang Ling learned that the Ghost King Bee venom could suppress a Fifth Rank Expert’s regeneration. As the Western Route prepared to hold for six hours, Yang Ling used flying daggers to kill the approaching bees while the two lampbearers led the charge.

• The Divine Domain announced that killing Exotic Beasts earned treasure chests, including a Diamond Treasure Chest for killing a Beast King.
• Lampbearers Xu and Xiao donned their Divine Weapon Armor and warned Yang Ling that Ghost King Bee venom could kill powerful martial artists and suppress Fifth Rank regeneration.
• A young eunuch reported that the Western Route had to hold for six hours until Commander Shi could come to help, and Yang Ling learned that the other routes faced different Beast Tides with the same rewards.
• Yang Ling declined to fight in close combat and summoned over two hundred flying daggers, killing more than a hundred Ghost King Bees in moments.
• Lampbearers Xu and Xiao led the charge as Yang Ling’s Ghost King Bee kill count surged past five hundred.

Yang Ling helped the Western Route forces fight off the Ghost King Bees while pursuing the guaranteed Emerald Treasure Chest reward. The Ghost King Bee Beast King emerged from the swarm, and Yang Ling identified it as a formidable Level 875 opponent.

• Yang Ling observed the Western Route's fighters and used his flying daggers to protect players from the Ghost King Bees.
• Yang Ling summoned White Bone Warriors to the battle, leveling up as the warriors and fighters killed more bees.
• The Ghost King Bee Beast King ambushed Lampbearer Xiao and Lampbearer Xu, but Yang Ling's flying dagger weakened its strike and helped Lampbearer Xu escape with Xiao.
• Yang Ling tracked the Beast King and examined its attributes, noting its immense strength and wondering about his Diamond Treasure Chest.

Yang Ling held the Western Route together after Lampbearers Xu and Xiao withdrew with the Cicada-Holding Directorate to reinforce Jiajiu City, leaving him to face the Ghost King Bee swarm. He reached 100,000 kills and qualified to redeem a treasure chest while the battle continued.

• Yang Ling judged that the Ghost King Bee Beast King outmatched him in strength and agility, so he considered using the White Bone Ring’s General Form while waiting to secure his guaranteed reward.
• Lampbearers Xu and Xiao received Chen Zhangyin’s order to withdraw to Jiajiu City because a Beast Tide was launching an all-out attack there, and they warned Yang Ling before leaving Golden Lion Ridge.
• Yang Ling realized the Western Route had been left without a Grandmaster, then rallied the wavering martial artists by promising to hold the line.
• Zhu Yunbo and Eunuch Chen fought back-to-back, while Yang Ling’s Metal Storm and White Bone Warriors cut through the Ghost King Bees.
• Yang Ling saved a player who had opened a treasure chest during the battle and warned the others to wait until they were safe.
• Yang Ling’s Ghost King Bee kill count reached 100,000, qualifying him to redeem a treasure chest.

Yang Ling secured an Emerald Treasure Chest by killing 100,000 Ghost King Bees and continued attacking while waiting for the cautious Beast King to reveal itself. When eight Abyssal Martial Artists moved to capture him, he killed six and froze the two middle fourth-rank grandmasters, then evaded a sudden bee-stinger attack.

• Yang Ling confirmed that the guaranteed chest reward was a one-time mission and decided to pursue rewards on other routes after dealing with the Ghost King Bee Beast King.
• Yang Ling focused his attacks on leader-level Ghost King Bees, easing the pressure on Golden Lion Ridge’s martial artists and giving players easy kills.
• Eight Abyssal Martial Artists, including Wang Yu, discussed capturing Yang Ling alive and approached the battlefield.
• Yang Ling grew larger, crossed several li, and killed all eight Abyssal Martial Artists with his flying daggers before freezing the two middle fourth-rank survivors.
• Yang Ling put the frozen grandmasters into the Green Dragon Ring and shifted aside as a Ghost King Bee’s stinger shot toward him.

Yang Ling fought the Ghost King Bee Beast King, which overwhelmed him with its speed and strength until he summoned the White Bone General. He drove the beast king off but could not pursue it beyond his Origin Spirit’s range, and turned his fury on the remaining swarm.

• The Ghost King Bee Beast King battered Yang Ling into a crater while its stingers and punches outpaced his attempts to dodge.
• Yang Ling activated the White Bone Ring, merging his five White Bone Warriors into a towering White Bone General that forced the beast king to retreat into the swarm.
• The White Bone General chased the beast king as Golden Lion Ridge’s fighters rallied and attacked the Ghost King Bees.
• Yang Ling severed the beast king’s left wing and landed hundreds of slashes, but its wounds healed almost instantly and it escaped on foot.
• Yang Ling’s White Bone Origin Spirit reached the limit of its distance from his body, so he abandoned the chase and vowed to kill the remaining swarm.

After the Ghost King Bees retreated, Yang Ling stayed on the Western Route while Zhu Yunbo and Eunuch Chen went to reinforce the Eastern Route. A message reported that Zhu Xiu was losing badly on the Northern Route, but Yang Ling waited for his Emerald Treasure Chest to finish forming before going to help.

• The Ghost King Bees fled, and Yang Ling ordered the Golden Lion Ridge martial artists to guard the area and clear away the corpses.
• Players redeemed their rewards, while Yang Ling watched the Emerald Treasure Chest continue to form.
• Zhu Yunbo and Eunuch Chen asked to reinforce the other routes, and Yang Ling sent them to the Eastern Route with Abyssal Army troops.
• Li Jun messaged Yang Ling that Abyssal Martial Artists had joined the Northern Route battle and Zhu Xiu was close to being overwhelmed.
• Yang Ling waited as the Emerald Treasure Chest completed its formation a quarter of an hour later.

Yang Ling opened the Emerald Treasure Chest and received a three-use pass that could transport him to the dangerous Abyssal Beast Cavern and return him after a month. Realizing the pass could save his life, he vanished to scout the Northern Route while the other players wondered whether Divine Domain was real.

• Yang Ling opened the Emerald Treasure Chest and found an Abyssal Beast Cavern Pass instead of equipment or other expected rewards.
• Yang Ling loaded the pass and learned that each use would send him to a random spot in the Abyssal Beast Cavern for a month before returning him to his starting location.
• Yang Ling recognized the pass as a powerful way to escape danger and resolved to seek out more passes.
• Yang Ling told the other players to watch for the Ghost King Bees, then vanished to scout the Northern Route.
• The players discussed Yang Ling's speed and speculated that Divine Domain was real, noting that players had become missing persons in the outside world.

Yang Ling arrived at Golden Lion Ridge, killed Qin Haitian and the surrounding Abyssal Martial Artists, then prepared to face the Vajra Dragon Spider Beast King. The Beast King instead turned and fled, leaving Yang Ling stunned.

• Players on the Northern Route struggled against the Vajra Dragon Spiders while Li Jun said Yang Ling would come to help.
• Zhu Xiu held off Qin Haitian and his forces with his flying sword and invisible wall of qi as Qin Haitian urged him to join the rebellion.
• Yang Ling killed Qin Haitian and more than a dozen Abyssal Martial Artists with Quenching Gold Armor Piercing Flying Daggers, then collected Qin Haitian's body in the Green Dragon Ring.
• Yang Ling asked Zhu Xiu about his invisible wall and learned it came from the Dongting Nine-Character True Scripture.
• Yang Ling and Zhu Xiu considered joining forces against the Vajra Dragon Spider Beast King, but it glanced at Yang Ling and fled.

Yang Ling found that only battles on the Western Route counted toward his rewards, then traveled to the Southern and Eastern Routes after their Beast Tides withdrew. The defenders reported heavy losses and three dead Fourth-Rank Grandmasters among the Abyssal Martial Artists, while Wang Yu remained unaccounted for.

• Yang Ling watched the Vajra Dragon Spiders retreat and realized killing them brought no rewards; Zhu Xiu then went to support Zhu Qing while Yang Ling headed for the Southern Route.
• Shi Haixuan told Yang Ling that the Poison Dart Frogs withdrew after he beheaded a Heaven's Mandate Sect Grandmaster, whose severed head continued to accuse him.
• Yang Ling said he had killed Qin Haitian on the Northern Route and claimed Qin Haitian's body had vanished; Shi Haixuan warned him not to keep the corpse.
• Yang Ling and Shi Haixuan reached the Eastern Route, where Zhu Qing reported that the Plague Rats had retreated and an Abyssal Martial Artist had been beaten to death.
• Shi Haixuan counted three dead Fourth-Rank Grandmasters as a major victory, and Zhu Xiu noted that Wang Yu was missing.

Yang Ling traded his merits for Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits to strengthen his kindling, then received a fourth-rank Thunder Talisman as a Beast Tide reward. The talisman’s purpose remained unknown as Zhu Yunbo examined it.

• Zhu Xiu and Shi Haixuan suspected the Nine Immortal Talisman Sect might be involved in Qin Haitian’s disappearance and the rebellion.
• Yang Ling offered to trade his merits for kindling materials, and Shi Haixuan exchanged two fifteen-hundred-year-old Blackwood Snake-Gall Fruits for them.
• Yang Ling ate both fruits, raising his Kindling Progress from 426 to 442 out of 500.
• A Divine Realm settlement awarded Yang Ling a fourth-rank Thunder Talisman from the Nine Immortal Talisman Sect for his Beast Tide kills.
• Yang Ling asked Zhu Yunbo to identify the talisman, and Zhu Yunbo confirmed it was fourth rank.

Yang Ling obtained five Jade-Blood Golden Toads to raise his Heavenly Will Divine Saber’s proficiency and asked Zhu Yunbo to strike him with a fourth-rank Thunder Talisman so he could train in lightning. Meanwhile, Ji Nian and Li Jun discussed recruiting Yang Bangyi and learned that Luo Yu had joined the Immortal God Cult.

• Yang Ling learned that a fourth-rank Thunder Talisman could sustain a powerful lightning formation and asked Zhu Yunbo for help.
• Players at Golden Lion Ridge received settlement rewards, while Ji Nian and Li Jun discussed the dangers of instances and prepared to meet Yang Bangyi.
• Li Jun told Ji Nian that Luo Yu had joined the Immortal God Cult, and Ji Nian said he would ask Yang Ling about him.
• Zhu Yunbo brought Yang Ling five Jade-Blood Golden Toads, which together could add one hundred thousand martial skill proficiency points.
• Yang Ling gave Zhu Yunbo the Thunder Talisman and solemnly asked him to use it to strike him, but Zhu Yunbo objected.

Yang Ling asked Zhu Yunbo to use a Fourth-Rank Thunder Talisman to help him cultivate, alarming Ji Nian, Li Jun, and three grandmasters. He endured the lightning strike with limited injury, though his immunity did not prevent all damage.

• Ji Nian and Li Jun arrived at the Precious Medicine Gang’s Martial Arts Arena, where Yang Ling said Luo Yu had quit the game.
• Zhu Yunbo activated a Thunder Talisman, summoning dark clouds and lightning above the arena.
• Zhu Xiu, Zhu Qing, and Shi Haixuan rushed in and feared a rebel was attacking Yang Ling, but Yang Ling explained he had requested the talisman for cultivation.
• Yang Ling urged Zhu Yunbo to activate the Thunder Talisman and struck up his defenses with his internal skills and White Bone Buddha Overlord Body.
• Zhu Yunbo called down lightning that struck Yang Ling, costing him 100 Health Points but leaving him with only limited injuries.