Recaps

Xiao Fan learned the secret realm’s rules about guaranteed Special Rooms and their random events, then realized the Rule Room could trigger one as soon as the announcements ended. The chapter left him confronting a sudden golden glow spreading across the floor.

• Xiao Fan considered whether opening six Empty Rooms guaranteed that the seventh room would be Special, and noted that his previous Special Rooms might have appeared through this mechanism.
• Xiao Fan suspected that the two Puppets’ attack after he completed their contract had been a bad random event from a Special Room.
• Xiao Fan heard the announcement end after four foundational rules and judged that they revealed little useful information.
• Xiao Fan grew wary because the Rule Room was a Special Room that could trigger a random event.
• A dazzling golden light burst from beneath Xiao Fan’s feet and spread across the floor, making him retreat and question what was happening.

After obtaining a Beast Core from a beneficial special event, Xiao Fan wondered how else players could acquire them. He entered a Beast Room and faced five Blue-Skinned Rhinos, then prepared to use his magic-based Profession against their high physical defense.

• Xiao Fan examined the Beast Core and learned that it could be exchanged for rare special items in the Shop Room.
• Xiao Fan wondered whether Beast Cores could only be obtained through beneficial special events, then suspected there was another way.
• Xiao Fan opened the twenty-first door and entered a Beast Room after hearing a roar from inside.
• Xiao Fan saw five Blue-Skinned Rhinos with high physical defense and activated his magic-based Profession.

Xiao Fan fought five Blue-Skinned Rhinos in the Beast Room and discovered that healing his Puppet let it withstand their deadly charges. After defeating the rhinos, he collected five Beast Cores and understood more about the dangers of the secret realm’s Calamity Rooms.

• Xiao Fan found that his spells dealt heavy damage to the Blue-Skinned Rhinos, but their charging attacks threatened him and his Puppet.
• After the Puppet nearly broke from a rhino’s charge, Xiao Fan used his healing skill to repair it.
• Xiao Fan combined spell attacks, healing, and the Puppet’s protection to defeat the remaining three Blue-Skinned Rhinos.
• Xiao Fan collected five Beast Cores from the rhinos’ corpses and realized that hunting beasts in the secret realm was a way to obtain them.
• Xiao Fan concluded that the Calamity Rooms contained varied dangers, including curses, beasts, and traps.

Xiao Fan realized special rooms appeared after every six rooms and hurried through the Secret Realm, where he faced a harder Beast Room. He defeated six Eight-Spirit Goats and left with twelve beast cores.

• Xiao Fan concluded that every six rooms opened guaranteed one special room and decided to inspect every door while moving as quickly as possible.
• Xiao Fan passed through several empty rooms before entering another Beast Room.
• Xiao Fan recognized that the six Eight-Spirit Goats had high magical resistance, weak physical defense, and agility that made them difficult to target.
• Xiao Fan combined ancient martial arts with his Armor weapon to kill all six Eight-Spirit Goats.
• Xiao Fan collected six beast cores from the goats, bringing his total to twelve.

Xiao Fan cleared two dangerous rooms and hoped to find a Secret Realm Shop among the last two rooms on the first floor. The final room opened without any unusual sign, leaving him uncertain about what awaited inside.

• Xiao Fan used his new exploration skill and Shield Puppet to survive a Beast Room and a Trap Room, earning eight Beast Cores and bringing his total to twenty.
• Xiao Fan searched the remaining rooms for a Secret Realm Shop where he could spend his Beast Cores.
• Xiao Fan entered an empty room and received a system prompt confirming that nothing happened.
• Xiao Fan controlled the Puppet to open the final room, but nothing unusual happened when the door opened.

Xiao Fan discovered the Secret Realm Shop on the first floor and spent Beast Cores on a Bodyguard Spirit Shield to protect himself against the Boss. With the shield automatically applied, he continued toward the coming Boss fight.

• Xiao Fan probed the last room on the first floor and detected a faint glimmer inside.
• Xiao Fan entered the room, activated the Secret Realm Shop, and inspected its Boss-fighting items.
• Xiao Fan compared the shop's items and chose the Bodyguard Spirit Shield as his safest option.
• Xiao Fan spent eight Beast Cores, and the shield formed an invisible barrier against his skin.

Xiao Fan spent nine Beast Cores to redeem the Flicker Jade, choosing its teleportation and invincibility over the safer combination of two other items. The chamber then shook, and two Mysterious Horn Beasts appeared.

• Xiao Fan weighed redeeming the Ailment-Breaking Pill and Keen Edge Rune against the Flicker Jade, knowing the shop would disappear when he entered the final Boss room.
• Xiao Fan followed his instincts and redeemed the Flicker Jade for nine Beast Cores.
• A blue light delivered the physical jade to Xiao Fan's waist, and he examined it with surprise.
• The chamber shook violently, and Xiao Fan suspected he had triggered an event that awakened strange beasts.
• Two Mysterious Horn Beasts appeared in the chamber, each with 8000 HP and high magic damage.

Xiao Fan defeated two beasts spawned by a special event and collected their Beast Cores without losing much strength. He then approached the bronze door to face the first floor’s final Boss, whose domain opened before him.

• Xiao Fan sent the Shield Puppet to draw the two beasts’ attacks while he shielded it and attacked them.
• Xiao Fan and the Shield Puppet defeated the beasts, and Xiao Fan collected their two Beast Cores.
• Xiao Fan prepared for the final Boss with his defensive and escape abilities ready.
• Xiao Fan left the Shop Room and walked through the passage toward the bronze door carved with twin dragons.
• The bronze door opened, releasing a terrifying pressure as the first floor’s guardian Boss domain opened.

Xiao Fan faced the first floor’s ultimate Boss, the Void-Erosion Behemoth, after it locked its aggro onto him. Its traits forced him to abandon his plan to use the Shield Puppet as a tank and prepare to kill the Boss quickly.

• A system notification marked Xiao Fan as the target as the Dungeon doors burst open and the Boss emerged.
• Xiao Fan ordered the Shield Puppet to stand between him and the approaching monster.
• Xiao Fan identified the monster as the Void-Erosion Behemoth, a Boss with 100,000 HP.
• Xiao Fan learned that the Boss permanently locked aggro onto him and steadily reduced nearby targets’ defense and energy recovery.
• Xiao Fan decided he had to fight the Boss directly and kill it as fast as possible.

Xiao Fan fought a Boss whose relentless attacks threatened to overwhelm him and his Shield Puppet. He dodged the Boss’s corrosive breath, but the red targeting mark remained fixed on him.

• The Boss struck the Shield Puppet with a claw, leaving it critically low on health and sending force back through Xiao Fan’s mental link.
• The Boss charged another attack aimed at Xiao Fan, who activated Half-Blood War God mode and summoned a Big Iron Pot with [Wine of Blood Brewing].
• The Boss briefly paused at the Iron Pot, then resumed its assault and ignored the Shield Puppet’s attempts to draw its attention.
• Xiao Fan dodged the Boss’s corrosive black fog, which ate into the stone wall behind him.

Xiao Fan fought the first-floor Boss, whose corrosive attacks overwhelmed his defenses and destroyed his Shield Puppet. He escaped the black fog with Gift of the Saint, but the Boss’s magic attacks left the battle far from over.

• The Boss struck Xiao Fan with corrosive black fog, dealing 6666 damage and applying its defense-reducing, energy-draining Void-Erosion Corrosion trait.
• Xiao Fan sent the Shield Puppet to attack and block, but it dealt only 120 damage to the Boss.
• The Boss swept the Shield Puppet into a stone pillar, destroying it.
• Xiao Fan ran from the Boss and used Gift of the Saint to escape the black fog’s range.

Xiao Fan concluded that the secret realm Boss had low defenses and launched his Demon God Mage’s strongest single-target attack. The Boss’s black mist swallowed the spell without effect, leaving Xiao Fan stunned.

• Xiao Fan replaced his purple longsword with his Demon God Mage’s Twin-Headed Staff and assessed the Boss’s likely weaknesses.
• Xiao Fan decided the Boss had very low defense and that the fight would come down to who could deal damage faster.
• Xiao Fan charged and fired a powerful single-target spell at the Boss.
• The Boss’s black mist spread around its body and absorbed the attack without a ripple or damage numbers.
• Xiao Fan stared at the Boss’s crimson eyes in shock, wondering what kind of bugged enemy he faced.

Xiao Fan suspected the first-floor guardian Boss had unusual defenses and watched as its protective black fog receded. He fired a rocket launcher at the exposed Boss to test whether it could be damaged.

• Xiao Fan noticed the Boss’s powerful attacks and black fog could absorb players’ skill damage, and suspected something was wrong with its abilities.
• Xiao Fan considered whether the Boss had high magic resistance, but realized its dense fog also prevented him from landing physical attacks.
• The black fog withdrew, exposing the Boss, and Xiao Fan guessed its defensive skill might be on cooldown.
• Xiao Fan took a rocket launcher borrowed from Shen Long and thought Shen Long and Cannon had likely been killed by level 300 magic beasts.
• Xiao Fan aimed at the exposed Boss and fired a rocket at it.

Xiao Fan tested a gem-enhanced rocket launcher on the first-floor Boss, but the attack failed to overcome the creature’s black fog. He suspected the fog was defensive armor and searched for another way to fight it.

• Xiao Fan fired a gem-enhanced rocket at the Boss, creating a massive explosion across the secret realm platform.
• Xiao Fan watched the flames clear and saw the Boss surrounded by dense black fog with scarlet eyes.
• Xiao Fan realized the black fog might block all damage and reconsidered whether it was an innate ability.
• Xiao Fan remembered the Keen Edge Rune could break through a Boss’s outer armor, but regretted not exchanging for one before the Item Room disappeared.
• Xiao Fan resolved to find another way to defeat the Boss.

Xiao Fan endured the Boss’s roar as its [Void-Erosion Corrosion] trait steadily drained his mana and weakened his healing. Unable to harm the Boss through its black fog, he suspected its exposed scarlet eyes were its weakness.

• The Boss roared, sending waves of damage through Xiao Fan and steadily draining his mana.
• Xiao Fan healed himself, but [Void-Erosion Corrosion] reduced the amount his skill restored by half.
• Xiao Fan realized his attacks could not penetrate the black fog and he could not approach the Boss.
• Xiao Fan noticed the Boss’s scarlet eyes were always exposed and suspected they were its weakness.

Xiao Fan struggled to find a way past the Boss’s black fog, then fought off its shadow tentacles with his purple longsword. He escaped the attack, but the severed tentacles rapidly regenerated as black fog surged toward him.

• Xiao Fan realized that his attacks were swallowed by the Boss’s black fog and that striking its eyes would be extremely difficult.
• The Boss launched its shadow tentacles at Xiao Fan, who dodged their strikes until they cornered him.
• Xiao Fan drew a purple longsword and severed three tentacles, using the opening to escape.
• The severed tentacles began regrowing, and a cloud of black fog hurtled toward Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan used his Bodyguard Spirit Shield to survive the Boss's lethal black fog attack, but the shield was consumed in the process. He was left trapped among the Boss's tentacles, wondering how to strike its eyes and realizing he had no second shield.

• The Boss's tentacles surrounded Xiao Fan and left him no way to dodge its approaching black fog.
• Xiao Fan activated the Bodyguard Spirit Shield just before the black fog struck him.
• The shield endured the corrosive attack until it and the black fog dissolved together, saving Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan considered how to hit the Boss's eyes and realized he had used his only shield.
• Xiao Fan suddenly thought of something, and his eyes lit up.

Xiao Fan planned to use the Flicker Jade’s invincible teleport to reach the Boss’s vulnerable eyes and strike with his sword. He activated the jade and vanished, leaving the outcome of his attack unknown.

• Xiao Fan realized the Flicker Jade’s teleport and brief invincibility could help him bypass the Boss’s black fog and counterattack.
• Xiao Fan decided to save the jade for one close-range strike and chose his purple longsword instead of using skills or a rocket launcher.
• Xiao Fan set his destination on the Boss’s eyes after seeing the jade’s fifteen-meter teleportation range.
• Xiao Fan crushed the Flicker Jade and vanished from his position.

Xiao Fan vanished from the Boss’s sight, then reappeared at close range and thrust his sword toward its vulnerable eyes. The Boss counterattacked desperately as its black fog failed to form in time, leaving both their lives at stake.

• The Boss searched frantically for Xiao Fan after he vanished without a trace.
• Xiao Fan suddenly appeared before the Boss and thrust his sword toward its eyes.
• The Boss recognized that Xiao Fan had found its weakness and tried to restore its black fog defense.
• The Boss lunged at Xiao Fan with its claws, gambling on killing him even if its eyes were pierced.

Xiao Fan used the Flicker Jade to evade the Void-Erosion Behemoth's lethal pounce and strike both of its eyes, exposing its weakness and dispersing its black fog defense. He then finished off the weakened Boss.

• Xiao Fan realized the Void-Erosion Behemoth's eyes were its weakness and used the Flicker Jade to dodge its desperate pounce.
• Xiao Fan slashed both of the Boss's eyes, causing it to crash into the cavern wall and floor.
• The injured Boss lost half its HP, and its black fog defense disappeared.
• Xiao Fan confirmed his attacks could damage the Boss without the black fog and killed it.

After defeating the first-layer Boss, Xiao Fan found no immediate loot and followed the stone stairs to the Secret Realm Second Layer. He accepted a challenge that promised upgraded rewards and arrived in the World of Mirrors, where the system asked him to choose an exploration route.

• The first-layer Boss dissolved, revealing a stone stairway, but Xiao Fan found no loot in the room.
• Xiao Fan stepped onto the stairs and saw the system offer him the choice to leave or accept a greater challenge for upgraded rewards.
• Xiao Fan accepted the challenge, and the room transformed into a blinding space covered in mirrors.
• The system welcomed Xiao Fan to the World of Mirrors and asked him to select an exploration route.

Zijin meditated on Bao Bao's head while Dali watched in awe, recognizing Zijin as a rare pure-blood magic beast. As night fell, Zijin asked how long Jiu Chen had been inside the secret realm and learned he had been gone for almost a day.

• Dali watched Zijin with awe and reflected on the extraordinary power and rarity of pure-blood magic beasts.
• Zijin finished meditating as night fell and asked Bao Bao how long Jiu Chen had been in the secret realm.
• Bao Bao told Zijin that Jiu Chen had been inside for almost a day.
• Zijin frowned in surprise at how much time had passed.

Bao Bao worried about Xiao Fan while he remained inside a secret realm, but Zijin sensed through their Life Bond that he was safe. To pass the time, Zijin asked Dali to describe the Magic Beast Forest.

• Bao Bao paced anxiously outside the secret realm, and Zijin explained that she could not enter it with Xiao Fan.
• Zijin reasoned that Xiao Fan would not have entered an unknown Special Secret Realm recklessly before the approaching Life and Death Contest.
• Zijin sensed that her Life Bond with Xiao Fan remained steady and assured Bao Bao that he was not in mortal danger.
• Zijin called Dali over and asked her to explain the situation in the Magic Beast Forest.

Zijin asked Dali about the Magic Beast Forest, and he imagined she planned to challenge the Human Race Supreme behind the Monster Treaty. Dali described the forest’s powerful ruler and its other leaders, while Zijin remained focused on learning about the Monster Region.

• Dali misinterpreted Zijin’s question and concluded that her master intended to confront the Human Race Supreme who established the Monster Treaty.
• Bao Bao kicked Dali and urged him to answer Zijin, so he explained the Magic Beast Forest while hinting at beasts he wanted her to defeat.
• Dali identified the level 500 Colorful Flying Rooster as the forest’s overlord, noting its claimed Phoenix bloodline and Heavenly Flame.
• Zijin ignored Dali’s suggestion to kill the Colorful Flying Rooster because she saw no need to challenge it yet.
• Dali began describing the five great kings of the forest’s central region.

Zijin asked Dali about the Five Great Kings and then sought a location with many level 295 earth-element magic beasts to help Xiao Fan advance his quests. Dali did not know where to find them and asked why she was looking.

• Zijin asked why Dali had not become the sixth king despite being level 350, and Dali blamed the Five Great Kings for falsely claiming ancient bloodlines.
• Dali said the Withered Wood Vine King claimed to have grown from a leaf of the ancient Tree of Life and had won recognition partly through its healing ability.
• Zijin declined Dali's offer to describe lower-level beasts and asked where she could find many level 295 earth-element magic beasts.
• Zijin considered that hunting earth-element beasts could help Xiao Fan pursue his Dragon Token quest while he was still below level 100.
• Dali frowned because he rarely tracked beasts below level 300 and asked why Zijin wanted to find earth-element magic beasts.