Chapter Summaries

Liu Zhi accepted a silver unicorn horn from the Witch King and discovered it could locate a high-level game. After learning about wild Summoning Towers, he continued his journey and heard a stable hand warn that his destination town seemed fake.

• The Witch King offered Liu Zhi a silver unicorn horn to settle their disagreement, and Liu Zhi accepted it before leaving.
• Liu Zhi realized the horn could pinpoint a game that would be at least Level 5.
• Liu Zhi returned to the carriage and reviewed information about wild Summoning Towers that connected the real world to the underworld.
• Liu Zhi explored a foggy town during a rest stop and noticed its residents and daily life seemed unusual.
• A stable hand told Liu Zhi that his destination town seemed fake because it had no old people or children.

Liu Zhi arrived in Racoon Town and suspected its residents were members of a secret organization monitoring Trodie Manor. After the town’s director transferred the manor to him, he ordered its secrets removed before Liu Zhi could discover them.

• Liu Zhi entered Racoon Town and noticed its residents seemed to be acting ordinary, with no children or elderly people in sight.
• Liu Zhi brought his deed to the Council Hall, where the town’s director completed the paperwork making Trodie Manor his.
• The director ordered Kayat to escort Liu Zhi to the manor and inform its farmers of the new owner.
• After Liu Zhi left, the director ordered increased surveillance exercises and discussed whether to send corpses to the manor, since Liu Zhi was a druid.
• The director ordered people to remove hidden items and genetically modified corn seeds from Trodie Manor, and Liu Zhi found its cornfield harvested bare.

Liu Zhi arrived at his manor and discovered that its cemetery and the ghosts there were closely tied to the residence. After learning his lingering task was complete, he began searching the estate for useful knowledge and treasures.

• Kayat brought Liu Zhi to the manor and left after introducing him to its three stewards.
• The head steward showed Liu Zhi the residence and revealed that the supposed haunting came from the nearby family cemetery.
• Liu Zhi identified seven ghosts in the cemetery, impressing the head steward with his supernatural knowledge.
• Liu Zhi realized Sandru's lingering obsession had been fulfilled and that killing a supernatural being from either army would let him leave the game.
• Liu Zhi dismissed the steward and began searching the family library for books about supernatural beings or a legacy.

Liu Zhi ignored a ghost’s warnings and read books in the manor library before asserting his authority over the butler and the ghosts at dinner. He left the ghosts with a clear warning not to disturb him while he stayed in the manor.

• Liu Zhi continued reading copied books in the library despite a ghost girl urging him to search for the original manuscripts.
• The butler told Liu Zhi the originals had been taken away, but Liu Zhi showed no interest in investigating them.
• The butler warned Liu Zhi not to sit in several haunted seats, and Liu Zhi deliberately sat at the head of the table.
• Liu Zhi ordered the butler to prepare food only for him and have the staff eat separately.
• When ghosts appeared and one objected to his seat, Liu Zhi shocked it with lightning and warned all the ghosts not to disturb him or act like the manor’s masters.

Liu Zhi used the Sun Crystal to subdue the ghosts who challenged his authority in the manor, then learned from Christine that the manor stood over a Netherworld Qi node. He refused her offer to trade it for a woodland experimental plot, insisting he had earned the manor.

• Liu Zhi ordered the ghosts to leave him alone as he ate, while the servants and butler expected him to flee before midnight.
• The butler snuffed out the dining-room candles, but Liu Zhi illuminated the room with the Sun Crystal and made the ghosts suffer under its light.
• Christine asked Liu Zhi to spare the ghosts and explained that the manor sat over a Netherworld Qi node where the living and dead coexisted.
• Christine offered Liu Zhi a nearby woodland rich in natural energy as an alternative, and Liu Zhi recognized her as the ghosts' leader.
• Liu Zhi extinguished the Sun Crystal, noticed the manor's undead transformations, and told Christine he would not give up a manor he had earned fairly.

Liu Zhi explored the manor’s hidden basement passage, subdued Christine, and uncovered a concealed control chamber beneath the storage room. As he approached the corpse of a Necromancer seated on its throne, it opened its eyes.

• Liu Zhi found a hidden room beneath the manor, and a surge of bloody water spilled through its doorway.
• Christine tried to stop Liu Zhi from entering, but he used Soul Extraction to seize her soul and trap it in the doorknob.
• Liu Zhi entered the storage room and sensed that the underworld’s aura was being drawn there.
• Liu Zhi deciphered the strange numbers written around the room, revealing a control chamber with an obsidian-and-bone throne.
• Liu Zhi approached the shriveled corpse seated on the throne, and it opened its eyes.

Liu Zhi questioned Daniel Parker Curtis about the King of the Wilderness battle and learned how participants entered, made wishes, and wagered something of equivalent value. Daniel’s explanation gave Liu Zhi a path toward joining the contest, though Daniel warned that its power had limits.

• Liu Zhi challenged Daniel’s disdain and asked him to explain why he had been sealed in the manor.
• Daniel said he had lost the King of the Wilderness battle twice, losing his life the first time and his freedom the second.
• Daniel explained that the battle involved supernatural participants competing for wishes, with losers surrendering what they had wagered.
• Liu Zhi told Daniel that his eldest daughter, Christine, was sealed to a doorknob outside, and Daniel asked him to bring her in exchange for information.
• Daniel explained how to sign up on a full moon, how wishes affected the rules, and why participants should state what they were willing to lose.
• Daniel said the winner received their wish but could not simply claim every participant’s wager, and warned Liu Zhi that the battle’s power had limits.

Liu Zhi secured control of Daniel Parker Curtis’s manor and drove out its servants after discovering that some were connected to a spy organization. He kept one butler and prepared to search for something behind a difficult-to-open door.

• Liu Zhi told Daniel he wanted cultivation methods for death intent representing harvest and sunlight, then asked to use the manor while preparing for the King of the Wilderness’s challenge.
• After returning to the manor, Liu Zhi gathered the servants and announced that he had spoken with its original owner, Daniel Parker Curtis.
• Two butlers resigned, while the third agreed to serve Liu Zhi as the manor’s new butler.
• When Jason refused to leave, Liu Zhi transformed him into a skeleton, prompting the servants to resign and depart.
• Liu Zhi told the servants to warn their leader not to disturb him, then took the remaining butler to help open a difficult door and ordered him to treat every window except the main entrance.

Liu Zhi explored Daniel’s study and uncovered agreements between the White Eagle Duchy and extraordinary factions, along with Daniel’s plague research. He learned the Plague Research skill and gained a new direction for developing his necromancy.

• Liu Zhi entered the main study and found copied manuscripts, including a magical first edition of the Declaration of Independence signed by extraordinary organizations.
• Liu Zhi read the manuscripts and learned that the White Eagle Duchy had made agreements with powerful factions such as the Ivy League and the Sky Druids.
• Liu Zhi reconsidered the world’s power limits, then resolved to grow stronger by completing the battle for the King of the Wilderness.
• Liu Zhi discovered that Daniel had researched plague-based necromancy to strengthen his serfs through a project called the Super Serum Project.
• Liu Zhi read Daniel’s manuscript and learned the Plague Research advancement skill, which synergized with Poison Knowledge and City Planning.

Liu Zhi uncovered evidence that Racoon Town was a secret research facility and wrote a proposal offering the manor or his lightning power in exchange for death-related techniques. After he left for the library, an unknown figure entered the study and recovered the words he had written.

• Liu Zhi found three plague recipes and learned from the manor records that land exchanges had concealed two enormous holes in the estate.
• Liu Zhi discovered that the manor’s corn yields never changed and concluded that Racoon Town was likely a broad, clandestine research facility.
• Liu Zhi wrote a proposal seeking forms of death representing harvest and sun, offering ownership of the manor or his lightning power in return.
• Liu Zhi returned to the library to read more practical books after realizing the night had passed.
• An unknown figure entered the study and used fine sand to reveal the marks left by Liu Zhi’s note.

The mayor of Racoon Town ordered Steve and Kayat to handle a potential challenger, while the white-robed man and the Witch King decided to enter the King of the Wilderness battle. In the forest, a black-feathered man confronted a black panther druid searching for a stolen wolf-pack relic.

• The mayor of Racoon Town told a shadow-shrouded man to have Steve and Kayat deal with the challenger but leave him alive.
• The white-robed man connected the phrase “the death of the harvest” to Master Daniel's research notes and decided to enter the King of the Wilderness battle in two days.
• The Witch King resolved to enter the battle to reclaim her lost power over time, and Kabishan offered to accompany her as a potential opponent.
• A black-feathered man entered the forest, noticed someone else had come in, and summoned a black-clad man wearing a leopard-head helmet.
• The black-clad man said he was tracking a sacred relic stolen from the wolf pack, and the black-feathered man warned him not to interfere before leaving.

A Black man entered the King of the Wilderness battle to reclaim a holy relic, while Liu Zhi joined the contest and prepared poison to face the other participants. Following a demonic summoning and his instincts, Liu Zhi found a Fishman in the woods.

• A Black man entered the battle with his flaming skeleton companion, hoping to recover the holy relic from a White man.
• Liu Zhi's note burned, drawing him into the battle's contract as signals from the participants appeared in the sky.
• Liu Zhi prepared Daniel's poisons and used the trees to learn about the participants and locate several enemies.
• Liu Zhi followed the pentagram's direction, caught the scent of sulfur, and found a Fishman.

Liu Zhi killed a demonized fishman and permanently locked fishmen in as his sworn enemies. He found that the kill had produced a Sworn Enemy Scale, which could be collected toward a nature reward.

• Liu Zhi attacked the demonized fishman’s tentacles with lightning and Wind Blades, then wounded it with the Giant Lizard’s Bloodstained Fang.
• Liu Zhi exploited the fishman’s exposed muscles and internal weakness, draining its strength until he killed it with a final sword strike.
• Liu Zhi learned that his Sworn Enemy effect had permanently designated fishmen as his enemies.
• Liu Zhi searched the corpse and found a Sworn Enemy Scale that counted toward a reward after he collected three thousand identical scales.

After killing a Fishman demon, Liu Zhi claimed its equipment and tested the Demon Heart, then followed the trail to a battle between two wilderness challengers and their summoned allies. He watched from the shadows until the Wolverine Spirit Druid sensed him and turned toward him with killing intent.

• Liu Zhi took the Shattered Bone Coral Reef hammer and Demon Heart from the Fishman, replacing the Lightning Coral in his glove with the Demon Heart.
• Liu Zhi tested the Demon Heart’s magma attacks and found them powerful, persistent, and comparable to Lightning Bolt.
• Liu Zhi followed the Fishman’s trail to a chaotic battle between a Black Druid and a red-skinned, horned challenger, each accompanied by summoned allies.
• Liu Zhi watched as a vulture tried to drag a mummy-like demon through a magma pentagram toward Hell, while an Evil Spirit Knight attacked a spider demon.
• Liu Zhi realized the red-skinned challenger’s demons represented water, fire, and earth, while the Black Druid had summoned the Evil Spirit Knight.
• The Black Druid sensed Liu Zhi watching from the shadows and looked toward him with killing intent.

Liu Zhi was drawn into a fight with the Black Druid and Red Skin after the Black Druid tried to use Red Skin to force him into combat. As the Black Druid unleashed his Frenzied Wolf’s Bite, Liu Zhi countered with a sword thrust shaped by his emerging understanding of Eternal Stillness.

• The Black Druid lured Red Skin into the woods, hoping to make him fight Liu Zhi while he watched for an advantage.
• Liu Zhi saw through the plan, dodged Red Skin’s attack, and exposed the Black Druid with a Wind Blade.
• The Black Druid recognized Liu Zhi’s Thunderwing Druid techniques and attacked him at close range, while Liu Zhi kept Red Skin at bay with Wind Blades and lightning.
• The Black Druid accused Liu Zhi of killing the Old Man and attacked with enhanced claws and his Wolverine Spirit.
• The Black Druid trapped Liu Zhi against a tree and unleashed Frenzied Wolf’s Bite, but Liu Zhi answered with a measured thrust inspired by Eternal Stillness.

Liu Zhi killed the black druid and was pulled into the Evil Spirit Knight’s Eye of Judgment, where he resisted its accusation and defeated the knight. He returned to the real world as the knight’s flames went out and its human form fell, while the vulture dragged the corpse into Hell and Red Skin continued charging toward him.

• Liu Zhi’s sword strike failed to trigger Eternal Stillness, but he stabbed the black druid and killed him with a Wind Blade.
• The Evil Spirit Knight abandoned its fight with the demon spider and charged at Red Skin, drawing Liu Zhi into its Eye of Judgment.
• Liu Zhi rejected the accusation of guilt, and the Feathered Serpent God’s rain extinguished the flames surrounding him.
• The Evil Spirit Knight attacked Liu Zhi in the mental world, but Liu Zhi cut a Z-shaped mark across its brow and struck its skull with his sword hilt.
• Liu Zhi returned to the real world as the Evil Spirit Knight reverted to a black laborer and fell, while the vulture dragged the corpse into Hell and Red Skin charged toward Liu Zhi.

Liu Zhi attacked Red Skin before the paralyzed spider demon could interfere and killed him with a rapid combination of sword strikes, a Bone Spear, and enhanced punches. Red Skin’s death left Liu Zhi facing the remaining spider demon.

• Liu Zhi struck the spider demon with lightning, then charged Red Skin while gathering Wind Blades around himself.
• Liu Zhi thrust with the Giant Lizard's Bloodstained Fang, and its Sword Shadow Split trait sent three sword strikes toward Red Skin.
• Red Skin activated Bloodsucking, but Liu Zhi countered by driving an enhanced Bone Spear into his chest and detonating it.
• Liu Zhi severed Red Skin’s left arm to stop Bloodsucking, then impaled his head with the Giant Lizard's Bloodstained Fang.
• Liu Zhi punched Red Skin’s temples with lightning and Wind Blades, making his head explode.

After killing Red Skin, Liu Zhi searched the fallen enemies and claimed new abilities and equipment. He used the Jacob's Four-Horned Ramman Horn to summon three ram-headed troops.

• Liu Zhi noticed that the spider demon vanished after Red Skin died and saw two purple participant marks on his arm.
• Liu Zhi learned Wild Rampage from an Animal Hide recovered from the Black Druid, and his Wild Spirits took the form of snakes.
• Liu Zhi found the Evil Spirit Flame Striker on the Evil Spirit Knight and decided it was unsuitable for him, though he considered trading it to Edmond or taking it to Fireblade City.
• Liu Zhi searched Red Skin's belongings and found Jacob's Four-Horned Ramman Horn, which gave him Neutral 300 reputation with the faction.
• Liu Zhi spent 300 reputation to summon three Jacob's Four-Horned Ramman troops.

Liu Zhi encountered the father of Biat, who bound them together with a Revenge Ring and attacked him with powerful lightning. Liu Zhi countered with wind, sand, and Bone Spears, leaving the druid impaled as the fight continued.

• Liu Zhi released three Jacob's Four-Horned Rammen and sent them in different directions while he searched for another enemy.
• Liu Zhi found a young-looking druid beside a charred corpse, and the man revealed that Biat had been his son.
• The druid created a Revenge Ring linking their lives and attacked Liu Zhi with lightning; Liu Zhi fought back with Wind Blade.
• The druid recognized Liu Zhi's elemental body and Thunderbird's trial, then intensified his attack with purple lightning and Thunder Descent.
• Liu Zhi flew into the sky and concealed himself inside a Reverse Storm, then launched seven Bone Spears that pierced the druid.

Liu Zhi defeated the Thunderwing Druid by overwhelming his defenses and finishing him with the Giant Lizard's Bloodstained Fang. After the Druid was reduced to a charred corpse, Liu Zhi found two items that offered him new skills.

• Liu Zhi battered the Druid with Bone Spears and a barrage of elemental attacks, leaving him gravely wounded.
• Liu Zhi pierced the Druid with more Bone Spears and froze him, then charged with the Giant Lizard's Bloodstained Fang as the Druid unleashed black lightning.
• Liu Zhi's solar chariot smashed through the Druid's defenses, and Liu Zhi drove his weapon into the Druid's brow.
• The Druid's lightning bracelet exploded and reduced his body to charred remains, while Liu Zhi's weapon absorbed traces of black electricity.
• Liu Zhi found an animal-hide scroll and a black feather, which offered him the Thunderwing Shield and Death Lightning skills.