Chapter Summaries

Yang Ling rebuffed Ding Yuan’s attempt to intimidate him and learned about a Black Market held inside a dangerous quest. After hearing that the Nine-Star Thundercloud Pool equalized entrants’ attributes and contained valuable Thunder Crystals, Yang Ling decided to enter it with Huo Si.

• Yang Ling rejected Ding Yuan’s offer to negotiate with Ding Zong and refused to reveal what he had paid for the Black Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills.
• Yang Ling asked Huo Si to find a Black Market, and Huo Si explained that some Grandmaster Network quests hosted discreet trading events.
• Huo Si learned that a Black Market would take place in the Nine-Star Thundercloud Pool, a quest open to third-rank Grandmasters with a three-thousand-Trade-Point admission fee.
• Huo Si explained that the quest restricted entrants’ attributes to five thousand, offered valuable Thunder Crystals, and lacked preliminary protection or a force-exit option.
• Yang Ling decided to enter the quest, and Huo Si agreed to join him and invite Gui He.

Yang Ling entered the Thundercloud Pool with Huo Si and the others, only to discover that the gathering was hosting a Black Market trade event. When Madman offered Strength Supplements that increased strength by 200 points but damaged the martial way furnace, Yang Ling decided to buy all five.

• Yang Ling and Huo Si joined a team of fifty and entered the Thundercloud Pool, where their attributes were suppressed and they learned they had seven days to collect Thunder Crystals.
• Gui He greeted Yang Ling and asked him for protection before Madman announced a Black Market trading event.
• Madman explained that Strength Supplements increased strength by 200 points but could damage the martial way furnace without a Furnace Supplement.
• Madman displayed five Strength Supplements priced at twelve thousand trade points each, and Yang Ling declared that he would buy them all.

Yang Ling bought and consumed all five Strength Supplements, raising his Strength Attribute by 1,000 points without suffering their aftereffects. At the Black Market, a dispute over an internal-skill bid turned into a threat against Yang Ling.

• Yang Ling transferred Kuang Tu 60,000 Trade Points for all five Strength Supplements and drank them one after another.
• The Divine Qilin Martial Way Furnace refined the supplements’ effects, raising Yang Ling’s Strength Attribute from 5,400 to 6,400.
• Kuang Tu offered the first-class Yin-Tempering Body-Refining Art for sale, explaining that it required Mental Power below 3 points.
• A Third-Rank Grandmaster offered 40,000 Trade Points, but the buyer tried to withdraw after the owner accepted, so Kuang Tu demanded a 10,000-point penalty.
• The angry man and several other Grandmasters confronted Kuang Tu, and one threatened Yang Ling, demanding Trade Points or threatening to beat him to death.

Ye Divine Fist of the Flame Dragon Security Company confronted Yang Ling at Madman's Black Market, revealing that Yang Ling was Luo Kai and had been jointly blacklisted by major corporations. Huo Si and Gui He refused to abandon him, and Ye prepared to attack with his veteran Third-Rank team.

• Yang Ling watched the Third-Rank Grandmasters while Gui He and Huo Si guarded him, as a group withdrew its bid and Madman allowed trading to continue.
• Ye Divine Fist identified himself as the Flame Dragon Security Company's general manager and said Yang Ling was their target.
• Ye revealed that Yang Ling, known as Luo Kai, had been jointly blacklisted by the Mystic Antiquity Ding Clan Pill Group and other leading corporations, prompting Madman to step aside.
• Ye said he had brought seven veteran Third-Rank Grandmasters and threatened that Yang Ling would not leave Thundercloud Pool intact.
• Ye offered Huo Si and Gui He a chance to cut ties with Yang Ling, but Huo Si said they knew the corporations would pursue them regardless.

Yang Ling overwhelmed the Flame Dragon Security Company’s Third-Rank Grandmasters and Ye Divine Fist, then took 60,000 trade points from Ye Divine Fist. When Kuang Tu asked him to do a favor, Yang Ling asked whether he had any trade points.

• Ye Divine Fist brought his Third-Rank Grandmasters forward, but Yang Ling’s strength and aura made them halt in fear.
• Yang Ling used Wind God Vajra Leg to destroy the bodies of the company’s Grandmasters and Ye Divine Fist, leaving their heads alive.
• Ye Divine Fist offered to withdraw from the blacklist and help reconcile Yang Ling with the Mystic Antiquity Ding Clan Pill Group.
• Yang Ling repeatedly asked Ye Divine Fist for trade points, collecting transfers of 20,000, 30,000, and 10,000.
• Kuang Tu asked Yang Ling to do him a favor, and Yang Ling asked whether he had any trade points.

Yang Ling killed Ye Divine Fist and the Flame Dragon Security Company’s Third-Rank Grandmasters while collecting their Trade Points. A man with a Life-Substitution Bamboo Slip offered cooperation on behalf of his boss, but Yang Ling killed the recruits he meant to ransom and demanded the man’s Trade Points.

• Yang Ling demanded Trade Points from Kuang Tu and Ye Divine Fist, then killed a Flame Dragon Security Company Grandmaster when the transfers seemed insufficient.
• Ye Divine Fist offered Yang Ling 200,000 Trade Points and promised not to oppose him, but Yang Ling killed him after he admitted he could not pay immediately.
• Yang Ling asked Huo Si and Gui He about the Flame Dragon Security Company’s Treasure-Hiding Talismans, then learned a Third-Rank Grandmaster had a Life-Substitution Bamboo Slip.
• The man said his boss wanted to work with Yang Ling under terms of “Absolute Fairness,” offered help against Ding Zong’s blacklist, and proposed ransoming the Flame Dragon Security Company’s Grandmasters for recruitment.
• Yang Ling killed the Flame Dragon Security Company’s remaining Grandmasters, then left the man alive only long enough to ask whether he had any Trade Points.

Yang Ling forced Zhang Taiyuan to transfer him 20,000 Trade Points, then let the other Third-Rank Grandmasters leave the Thundercloud Pool without continuing the Black Market trading. A suspicious seller privately revealed a red-gold potion called the Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion, which Yang Ling suspected could trigger another gene mutation.

• Zhang Taiyuan tried to bargain by mentioning his boss and the Immortal Network, but Yang Ling demanded a transfer of 20,000 Trade Points instead.
• Zhang Taiyuan transferred the Trade Points, and Yang Ling let him recover from his severed head while observing the limits of Third-Rank flesh regeneration.
• Yang Ling announced that Black Market trading could continue, but the Grandmasters seeking Thunder Crystals chose to leave the Thundercloud Pool.
• A suspicious Third-Rank Grandmaster offered Yang Ling another illicit item, and Yang Ling followed him aside to hear the offer.
• The seller produced a vial labeled Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion, and Yang Ling wondered whether it could trigger another gene mutation.

Yang Ling negotiated with a wary man to buy a Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion, which could raise all three attributes and might exceed the Third-Rank limit. After hearing its risks and bargaining the price down, Yang Ling completed the purchase for one hundred and fifty thousand Trade Points.

• Yang Ling learned that the potion could trigger another gene mutation, but it carried risks including physical changes, failure, and death.
• The seller claimed Yang Ling had a ninety percent chance of success and that the potion could raise each of his three attributes by at least fifteen hundred points.
• Yang Ling initially rejected the two-hundred-thousand-Trade-Point price, then asked the seller to lower it.
• The seller offered the potion for one hundred and fifty thousand Trade Points and revealed a rumor that its attribute gains could exceed a Third-Rank Grandmaster's limit.
• Yang Ling required the seller to hand over the potion before he transferred the payment to Kuang Tu.
• Yang Ling received the potion and paid one hundred and fifty thousand Trade Points, startling the other Third-Rank men.

Yang Ling returned to the Black Market trades, bought a Stormcloud Arena entry ticket, and learned that his Qi and Blood far exceeded what most Third-Rank Grandmasters possessed. When a War God Crescent Moon Blade appeared, he could meet its attributes except for its level requirement, and Kuang Tu offered to sell him Experience Gift Packs.

• Yang Ling allowed Kuang Tu to resume the Black Market trading after the other Grandmasters saw that no one was being robbed.
• Kuang Tu offered a Stormcloud Arena Entry Ticket for 5,000 Trade Points, and Yang Ling bought it.
• Kuang Tu presented the War God Crescent Moon Blade, but the Grandmasters hesitated because its level, attribute, and Qi and Blood requirements were high.
• Yang Ling learned that Gui He had 110,000 Qi and Blood and realized his own 460,000 put him far above ordinary Grandmasters.
• Yang Ling admitted he was interested in the blade but lacked its level requirement, and Kuang Tu offered him Experience Gift Packs.

Yang Ling decided to buy Kuang Tu’s entire stock of experience gift packs to save time leveling, despite the steep cost. After negotiating, he agreed to pay 150,000 trade points for them.

• Huo Si explained that experience gift packs traded time for trade points and advised Yang Ling that leveling through the Grandmaster Network was better value.
• Yang Ling told Kuang Tu he would buy all the experience gift packs Kuang Tu had in stock.
• Kuang Tu described the red, orange, and yellow packs and quoted his inventory and prices, totaling 170,000 trade points.
• Yang Ling calculated that the packs could raise his level enough to reach major milestones and decided the benefits were worth the expense.
• Kuang Tu offered his entire stock at a loss for 150,000 trade points, and Yang Ling accepted.

Yang Ling bought rare goods and all 150 Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills at Kuang Tu’s Black Market, while Zhang Taiyuan reconsidered his suspicions about him. After the market closed, Kuang Tu invited the remaining Grandmasters to trade or fish for Thunder Crystals, which he would buy for 200 Trade Points per gram.

• Yang Ling declined Kuang Tu’s War God Crescent Moon Blade, then reflected that equipment was cheaper in the Grandmaster Network than in the Divine Domain.
• Yang Ling bought all 150 Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills for 15,000 Trade Points despite Gui He warning him about their side effects.
• Zhang Taiyuan suspected Yang Ling had a strong team in the Divine Domain and considered seeking cooperation with that team for the Miss.
• Yang Ling calculated that the Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills could add 500 Strength Attribute points without harming him.
• Kuang Tu ended the Black Market trading and offered 200 Trade Points per gram for Thunder Crystals.
• About twenty Third Rank experts entered the Thundercloud Pool to fish for Thunder Crystals while others stayed on the island to trade.

Yang Ling arranged for Kuang Tu to procure Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills and beginner equipment from other games, seeing a chance to profit by recycling gear that was considered junk there. He ordered test batches of Flying Eagle and Iron Bear Sets, along with treasure-hiding talismans, and planned to settle everything after the Thundercloud Pool mission.

• Gui He and Huo Si jumped into Thundercloud Pool to search for raw Thunder Crystals, while Yang Ling sent his Five White Bone Warriors underground to search cautiously around threatening flashes of lightning.
• Yang Ling asked Kuang Tu about Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills, then ordered a thousand through Kuang Tu as a middleman at a commission of five Trade Points per pill.
• Yang Ling asked Kuang Tu to investigate cheap beginner equipment and learned that level-10 Flying Eagle Sets gave 30 attribute points.
• Yang Ling ordered a thousand Flying Eagle Sets at one Trade Point each and ten level-50 Iron Bear Sets at ten Trade Points each after hearing they granted 60 points across two attributes and included Petrified Skin.
• Yang Ling also asked Kuang Tu to gather Basic, intermediate, and Advanced Treasure-Hiding Talismans and arrange the pill and equipment deliveries for after the mission.

As the Nine-Star Thundercloud Pool quest neared its end, Yang Ling learned that Thunder Crystals were rare, single-use materials for resisting Thunder Tribulations. When Gui He and Huo Si fled a Thunder Dragon Fish carrying newly spawned Thunder Crystal Ore, Yang Ling rushed across the water to attack it.

• Yang Ling and Kuang Tu discussed the Players’ poor Thunder Crystal hauls, the crystals’ value, and their use in equipment against Thunder Tribulations.
• A Player escaped a Thunder Dragon Fish after losing half his Divine Weapon Armor and part of his body, then offered his Thunder Crystal Ore to Kuang Tu.
• The Player revealed that Gui He and Huo Si had also found Thunder Crystal Ore but were still pursued by the fish.
• Gui He and Huo Si burst from the water and called for Yang Ling to save them as the Thunder Dragon Fish chased them toward the island.
• Yang Ling activated his skills and Mystic Fire Qilin Armor, ran across the water to reach them, and struck the fish with Wind God Vajra Leg and a fourfold critical hit.

Yang Ling subdued a Thunder Dragon Fish in Thundercloud Pool, collected its thunder crystal ore, and sold the fish to Zhang Taiyuan for 100,000 Trade Points. After returning to Song Yu Plaza, he faced Ding Zong, who confronted him over killing Ye Divine Fist.

• Yang Ling knocked the Thunder Dragon Fish unconscious with repeated kicks and dove into its lair to collect the thunder crystal ore.
• Gui He and Huo Si sold their ore to Kuang Tu for 7,000 Trade Points each.
• Yang Ling brought the Thunder Dragon Fish ashore and sold it whole to Zhang Taiyuan for 100,000 Trade Points.
• The Thundercloud Pool mission ended, and Yang Ling and Huo Si returned to Song Yu Plaza.
• Ding Zong confronted Yang Ling about killing Ye Divine Fist, and Yang Ling admitted it and challenged him to object.

Yang Ling confronted Ding Zong in Grandmaster Plaza as Ding Zhan arrived and offered him a deal to open a sales channel between the Divine Domain and the Grandmaster Network. Yang Ling rejected the proposed partnership terms and insisted that any business would happen entirely on his terms.

• Ding Zong confronted Yang Ling but held back from attacking because the Grandmaster Network punished assaults in its plaza.
• Yang Ling mocked Ding Zong until Ding Zhan arrived with Zhang Taiyuan and criticized Ding Zong for damaging the Ding Clan Pill Group's reputation.
• Ding Zhan offered Yang Ling twenty percent of the profits to establish a Divine Domain sales channel, explaining that the corporations could not find any other Divine Domain Players.
• Yang Ling said the Ding Clan could buy whatever he chose to sell, on whatever terms he set, and declared that he feared nothing.

Yang Ling learned that Curse Techniques could only threaten Players during missions and gave Ding Zhan three days to get his Blacklist Order lifted. After Ding Zong warned that the Flame Dragon Dynasty would target him over Ye Divine Fist, Yang Ling bought a secluded cultivation space and prepared his items for use.

• Yang Ling reasoned that Curse Techniques were restricted to missions and warned Ding Zhan that he had three days to lift the Blacklist Order.
• Ding Zhan said he would pass Yang Ling's demands up the chain, while Ding Zong mocked him and then left after Yang Ling insulted his standing in the Ding family.
• Ding Zong warned Yang Ling that the Flame Dragon Dynasty would seek revenge for Ye Divine Fist, prompting Yang Ling to memorize the appearances and auras of the watching Grandmasters.
• Huo Si explained the Flame Dragon Dynasty's power and grudge-holding reputation, and Yang Ling decided to help create a safe environment for Divine Domain Players.
• Huo Si showed Yang Ling where to buy cultivation spaces, and Yang Ling purchased an ordinary-grade space for secluded cultivation.
• Yang Ling arrived at a quiet mountaintop and took out a Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion, an Experience Points Mega Gift Pack, and one hundred Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills.

Yang Ling used pills and experience gift packs to strengthen himself before drinking a Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion. The mutation left him with unbearable itching and hundreds of tiny hands scratching his body, while his attributes had not yet changed.

• Yang Ling took a hundred Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills, and his strength increased from 6,400 to 6,900 as his divine qilin martial way furnace suppressed their toxins.
• Yang Ling ate the red, orange, and yellow Experience Gift Packs, raising his level from 434 to 532 and gaining 98 free attribute points.
• Yang Ling assigned all 98 attribute points to agility, increasing it from 7,672 to 7,770.
• Yang Ling drank the Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion and felt intense itching, but his attributes initially showed no change.
• Yang Ling discovered hundreds of pairs of tiny hands on his body scratching him, and the sight nearly made him faint.

Yang Ling survived a dangerous fourth gene mutation from the Primary Bloodline Gene Mutation Potion, which sharply increased his attributes and raised his mental power enough to unlock the White Bone Emperor Form. As his mental power began climbing again, a glowing crack appeared on his forehead.

• Yang Ling suppressed the abnormal hands and second head that appeared during the potion’s mutation, then suspected the seller had passed off an unfinished or failed product.
• Yang Ling drove his divine qilin martial way furnace and flesh regeneration power to control the mutation while inspecting his body for further changes.
• After the mutation ended, Yang Ling checked his panel and found his strength at 8,900, agility at 9,770, and mental power at 6,000.
• Yang Ling realized he had reached the threshold for the White Bone Emperor Form and assessed how his skills would give him an advantage over other middle third rank grandmasters.
• Yang Ling noticed his mental power soaring without explanation as a crack opened on his forehead and golden light shone from within.

Yang Ling awakened the Forest of All Phenomena Dharma Eye, recovered from its debilitating side effect, and used Kuang Tu to buy pills, talismans, and equipment. After boosting his attributes close to the middle third-rank limit, he returned to the Abyssal Beast Cavern and asked the White-Haired Elder to take twenty Basic Treasure-Hiding Talismans.

• Yang Ling awakened the Forest of All Phenomena Dharma Eye, which doubled his skill effects for ten seconds but drained his mental power to one point and left him weak for three days.
• After sleeping for three days, Yang Ling arranged a delivery at Song Yu Plaza and bought 200 Counterfeit Tyrant Blood Pills, 20 Basic Treasure-Hiding Talismans, 1,000 Flying Eagle Sets, and 10 Iron Bear Sets from Kuang Tu for 103,100 trade points.
• Yang Ling learned from Kuang Tu that missions and instances on the Immortal Network were tied to level, and decided to level up before advancing.
• After taking the pills, Yang Ling raised his strength to 9,900 and kept both strength and agility below the middle third-rank upper limit until he completed his forced mission.
• At the Abyssal Beast Cavern in Jiajiu City, Yang Ling assessed his combat strength and asked the White-Haired Elder whether he could take twenty Basic Treasure-Hiding Talismans.

Yang Ling exchanged twenty Basic Treasure-Hiding Talismans for Black Tiger Spirit Nurturing Pills at the Myriad Manifestations Office, while Nangong Fengge investigated their origin and suspected a connection to the Abyssal Beast Cavern. After overhearing Nangong’s plans to meet the Directorate’s Grand Ancestor, Yang Ling feared she might bring him to Fire Flood Dragon Island and decided to return there first.

• Yang Ling traded twenty Basic Treasure-Hiding Talismans to the White-Haired Elder and asked the Myriad Manifestations Office to prepare more pills, including Black Tortoise Longevity Blood Pills.
• Two Fourth Ranks followed Yang Ling after he left, but he vanished; they returned to find Nangong Fengge inspecting the talismans.
• Nangong Fengge concluded that the talismans likely came from outside forces cooperating with the Abyssal Beast Cavern, but ordered the others not to seize Yang Ling.
• Nangong Fengge said she would question Yang Ling herself and revealed that she had come to meet the Grand Ancestor through Seal-Bearing Official Feng.
• The White-Haired Elder led Nangong Fengge and the others into the Cicada-Holding Directorate, while Yang Ling stayed back because of the pressure he sensed there.
• Yang Ling realized Nangong Fengge might ask the Grand Ancestor to visit Fire Flood Dragon Island and decided to return first.