Recaps

Xiao Fan learned that Shen Tao had crippled his uncle, Xiao Yi, and discovered the Shen Family’s immense power. After six days of training and spending Core Power to reach level ten, Xiao Fan gained the trait Sun and Moon Messenger.

• Xiao Yi accepted Xiao Fan’s offer to quit the game and thanked him for his help.
• Xiao Fan resolved to learn about the Shen Family and avenge his uncle, then asked Qin Muyu about Shen Tao and the family’s strength.
• Qin Muyu explained that the Shen Family was a powerful faction led by level-98 Shen Long, though she knew little about Shen Tao.
• Xiao Fan focused on training his group over the next six days while continuing to reroll his traits.
• Xiao Fan spent Core Power to reach level ten, declined the chance to create a skill, and found Sun and Moon Messenger among his traits.

Xiao Fan created and upgraded two Heaven-Tier skills, then remembered that he had to pass the level-ten trial before advancing. The next morning, he gathered his team to help them create skills and planned to prepare for the trial Dungeon.

• Xiao Fan allocated attribute points and created Sun and Moon Firefly, a healing skill with Sun and Moon forms.
• Xiao Fan created Sun and Moon Rotation, a magic damage skill, and earned 200 Core Power for each Heaven-Tier skill.
• Xiao Fan upgraded both skills to level five but learned he could not reach level eleven until he passed the trial.
• Xiao Fan decided to get used to his skills and then explore the level-ten trial Dungeon.
• The next morning, Xiao Fan gathered his team to help the four members of Swift as Wind's group create skills and to create a first skill for the chubby guy.

Xiao Fan decided to save his last skill-creation opportunity until after the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm, then helped five teammates create skills suited to their roles. He left Qin Muyu to create her own skill, and the group headed out to hunt Fierce Beasts.

• Xiao Fan chose not to use his remaining skill-creation opportunity before entering the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm.
• Xiao Fan asked his teammates to buy attributes and helped Zai Zai create a charge-and-taunt skill.
• Xiao Fan created skills for Han the Person, Swift as Wind, Garfield Without Fei, and the Fatso, while telling Qin Muyu to create her own.
• Zai Zai and the others succeeded in creating Earth-Tier and Heaven-Tier Skills and thanked Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan led the group to hunt Fierce Beasts, and Qin Muyu hurried after them.

Xiao Fan led his team through the Southwest Forest dungeon, where his new level, unusual skills, and powerful damage surprised Qin Muyu. After clearing the dungeon ahead of schedule, he took the team toward the Northwest Forest to fight stronger beasts.

• Fatty and the others discovered that Xiao Fan had reached Level 10, then joined him in the Southwest Forest to clear the dungeon.
• Zai Zai tested his new Earth-Tier Skill on a Diamond Behemoth, and Qin Muyu explained the colored weapon glows and how game rules differed inside a Novice Village.
• The team practiced their skills on beasts, while Xiao Fan wondered why his own skill use produced no weapon glow.
• Inside the dungeon, Xiao Fan healed Fatty, then used Sun and Moon Rotation to wipe out most of a swarm of spiders, leaving Qin Muyu puzzled by his growing collection of skills.
• The team cleared the dungeon in half their usual time and, with time to spare before noon, Xiao Fan led them toward the Northwest Forest.

Xiao Fan Team defeated a Level 8 Steel-Backed Beast Boss, and Xiao Fan arranged to explore the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm with Wind Snow Traveler. Qin Muyu told Xiao Fan about Shen Tao’s background, then hesitated when Xiao Fan offered to help her create a skill.

• Zai Zai attacked the Steel-Backed Beast Boss, and Xiao Fan healed him before the team defeated it for 512 Core Power.
• Xiao Fan passed another team hunting a Boss without interfering, then invited Wind Snow Traveler to explore the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm the next morning.
• Wind Snow Traveler discovered that Xiao Fan had already reached Level 10 in just over a month.
• Qin Muyu told Xiao Fan that Shen Tao was Shen Long’s adopted stepson and had been sent to manage the Shen Sect branch at the Never Setting Sun settlement.
• Xiao Fan offered to help Qin Muyu create a skill, and she fell silent, visibly hesitant.

Qin Muyu revealed her Forsaken trait, and Xiao Fan suggested ways she could turn its drawbacks into powerful skills. The next morning, Xiao Fan set out with Zone 18’s veteran players to challenge the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm, taking command of the expedition.

• Qin Muyu told Xiao Fan her trait was The Forsaken, and he suggested skills that traded a sacrifice for a powerful benefit.
• Qin Muyu thanked Jiu Chen and hurried away, eager to create a skill.
• Xiao Fan checked on his uncle, who said he planned to leave the game the next day, and vowed to avenge him against Shen Tao.
• Xiao Fan told the Fatty and the others to level up without him, then met Wind Snow Traveler and the veteran players at the village entrance.
• Wind Snow Traveler ordered the veterans to follow Jiu Chen, and Xiao Fan asked about their Skill Chains on the way to the Trial Secret Realm.
• Wind Snow Traveler led the group to the entrance of the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm in the Northwest Forest.

Xiao Fan led the team through the Lost Island Trial Secret Realm, discovered that Serrated Sharks lurked beneath the sea, and used Sun and Moon Rotation to help the group survive repeated attacks. After they defeated five waves of sharks, a whirlpool formed and a fish tail appeared, setting the stage for the Boss encounter.

• Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler searched the endless ocean for clues and concluded that monsters might be hiding underwater.
• Xiao Fan asserted his authority when the Archer resisted his order, and the Archer fired into the sea, drawing out more than twenty Level 10 Serrated Sharks.
• The sharks tried to overturn the boat, but Xiao Fan used Sun and Moon Rotation to damage and slow them while the team fought them off.
• Xiao Fan ordered the group to keep provoking the underwater monsters, and they defeated five waves of sharks.
• A gale darkened the sky, a vast whirlpool opened, and a fish tail emerged from the water.

Xiao Fan’s team found the Mermaid Princess, the first BOSS of the Lost Island, but were wiped out when they tried to fight her from a boat. Xiao Fan realized the Ice Condensation Bead she mentioned might be the key to reaching and defeating her.

• The Mermaid Princess appeared on the sea, leaving Wind Snow Traveler and the others stunned by her humanlike form.
• Xiao Fan rejected using Flower Grafting and led the team to approach the BOSS by boat to test her mechanics.
• The Mermaid Princess warned them that they challenged her without the Ice Condensation Orb, then capsized their boat and killed five players with her tail.
• Xiao Fan damaged the BOSS before she wiped out the rest of the party, and the team revived after she returned to her original spot.
• As the team considered abandoning the secret realm, Xiao Fan suggested the Ice Condensation Bead could freeze the sea and provide a way to fight the BOSS.

Xiao Fan and the others gathered Ice Condensation Bead fragments from the rain and used the completed bead to freeze the sea so they could fight the Mermaid Princess. The ice melted faster than they could damage the Boss, leaving Xiao Fan struggling to find a way to save the team.

• Xiao Fan realized that raindrops contained Ice Condensation Bead fragments, and the players gathered ten fragments to form the bead.
• Xiao Fan placed the bead in the sea, temporarily freezing its surface, and led the group onto the ice to attack the Mermaid Princess.
• Xiao Fan and the players took turns drawing the Boss's aggro, but their low damage made the fight progress slowly.
• Xiao Fan noticed the ice melting while the Mermaid Princess still had more than half its health, revealing a time limit on the fight.
• Wind Snow Traveler asked what they should do, while Xiao Fan struggled to find a strategy that could overcome the team's lack of damage and defense.

Xiao Fan discovered how to keep the Mermaid Princess out of reach while the archers held her aggro, allowing the team to defeat her and clear the first stage of the Trial Secret Realm. The group entered the next stage on the Lost Island and found its Level 10 Boss, a Giant Stone Monster.

• Xiao Fan realized the Mermaid Princess could not leave the ice and ordered an archer to draw her aggro from the boat.
• The archer kept attacking from a distance, while Xiao Fan told the rest of the team to strike the Mermaid Princess without interruption.
• The team depleted the Mermaid Princess's HP just before the ice ran out and celebrated clearing the first stage.
• Xiao Fan entered the white vortex and led the group to a barren island he and Wind Snow Traveler identified as the Lost Island.
• Xiao Fan and the team followed the island's only path and found the Level 10 Giant Stone Monster at its center.

Xiao Fan and the other players fought the Giant Stone Monster in the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm and discovered that its attacks grew stronger as its health fell. After surviving a second rock-shaking skill, they faced the Boss at 7,000 HP with its damage increased to 480.

• Xiao Fan tested the Giant Stone Monster's defenses and learned that ordinary attacks dealt very little damage while the Boss hit players for 120 HP.
• The Giant Stone Monster lost a tenth of its health, shook loose the rocks covering its body, and damaged players caught in the barrage as its own HP fell by 5,000.
• Xiao Fan noticed that the Boss's resistance dropped and its damage doubled as its health declined, then led the group to continue attacking.
• The Boss shook loose its rocks again at 12,000 HP, and Xiao Fan spent 20,000 Core Power to raise Gift of the Saint to Level 6 and keep healing the group.
• After the second barrage, the Giant Stone Monster had 7,000 HP left and dealt 480 damage per hit.

Xiao Fan’s party survived the Giant Stone Monster’s rubble attack with only Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler left standing, but the weakened Boss evolved a lethal beam attack and killed Wind Snow Traveler. The chapter ended with the Boss targeting Xiao Fan as he used his skill in a last attempt to survive.

• Xiao Fan rotated aggro and managed the party’s healing as they reduced the Giant Stone Monster to 5,500 HP.
• The Boss unleashed its final rubble attack, killing most of the party despite Xiao Fan’s warnings not to revive.
• Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler were the only survivors when the Boss’s skill ended with 500 HP remaining.
• The Boss evolved a red-beam attack and killed Wind Snow Traveler before he could strike.
• The Boss turned its aggro on Xiao Fan, who unleashed his skill as the beam came toward him.

Xiao Fan defeated the second Boss after upgrading his skills and dodging its deadly attack, while Wind Snow Traveler’s team watched in disbelief. Xiao Fan began to suspect Cloud Sea was a high-martial world, and the group entered the portal to continue the trial.

• Wind Snow Traveler and the other players assumed Xiao Fan had failed to kill the Boss and praised his leadership despite their defeat.
• The players saw Xiao Fan dodge the Boss’s red-light attack, and the Boss’s health bar emptied moments later.
• Xiao Fan explained that he had upgraded Sun and Moon Circulation and Sun and Moon Firefly, then used Sun Form to boost his damage enough to defeat the Boss.
• Xiao Fan noticed that his skills contradicted Cloud Sea’s supposed low-martial setting and suspected the world was high-martial.
• Wind Snow Traveler’s team considered quitting because they had few resurrections left, but Xiao Fan entered the white-light portal and said they would continue.

Xiao Fan and his party began the third trial stage by awakening the twin Bosses Stillness and Annihilation, then used the Judgment Spear and a shield to counter their mechanics. They defeated Annihilation, but an unexpected event interrupted their chance to celebrate.

• Xiao Fan identified the armored Stone Lions as the stage's Bosses and created a new skill before the fight.
• Xiao Fan took the Judgment Spear, and Wind Snow Traveler took the shield, awakening Stillness and Annihilation.
• Xiao Fan charged the spear with dark energy while Wind Snow Traveler charged the shield with light energy, then the party split up to fight the two Bosses.
• Xiao Fan's party sheltered inside Wind Snow Traveler's force field during Annihilation's dark storm, then Xiao Fan pierced Annihilation's shield with the charged spear.
• Annihilation's health ran out and its body dissolved into dark energy, but something unexpected happened before the party could celebrate.

Xiao Fan and the other players fought Boss Ji after Boss Mie’s death caused Ji’s damage to keep rising. The players brought Ji down to 500 health, but a panicked teammate ran behind Xiao Fan and caused the Boss’s attack to hit him.

• Xiao Fan realized Boss Ji had become berserk after Boss Mie died and ordered everyone to focus their attacks on Ji.
• Xiao Fan noticed Boss Ji used his skills in the opposite order from Boss Mie and stopped Wind Snow Traveler from wasting the shield.
• The group survived Boss Ji’s Light Storm inside Wind Snow Traveler’s shield, then struggled to manage aggro as Ji’s attacks became lethal.
• Several players died after mistakes under pressure, leaving only five alive as Boss Ji’s health fell to 500.
• A panicked player ran behind Xiao Fan while Boss Ji targeted him, and the Boss’s attack struck Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan survived Boss Ji’s final attack by using his new skill, Stealing Heaven and Changing Day, which spent MP instead of HP, then killed the Boss with Sun Flare. The team cleared the Level 10 Special Trial Secret Realm Lost Island, though Xiao Fan worried about the skill’s limitations and learned their Novice Zone had received an Evolution Fragment.

• After Xiao Fan revived, the team argued with the player whose mistake had gotten him killed, while Xiao Fan waited for Sun Flare’s cooldown to end.
• Boss Ji roared, stunned the survivors, then killed the Archer and Blade Shadow before targeting Wind Snow Traveler.
• Xiao Fan used Gift of the Saint to free Wind Snow Traveler from the stun, shoved him out of danger, and died in his place.
• Xiao Fan revived and endured Boss Ji’s 9,999-damage attack because Stealing Heaven and Changing Day deducted MP instead of HP.
• Xiao Fan used Sun Flare to burn Boss Ji, clearing the secret realm and earning 100,000 Core Power as his Novice Zone gained an Evolution Fragment.
• Xiao Fan examined Stealing Heaven and Changing Day and wondered why it could not protect him from a fatal hit while he was at full HP.

Xiao Fan and his team cleared Zone 18’s unusually difficult Lost Island Trial Secret Realm, earning an Evolution Fragment and triggering a permanent difficulty reduction. Wind Snow Traveler sent out a detailed guide, leaving players baffled and Qin Muyu questioning how little they understood about Cloud Sea.

• The team discussed the Evolution Fragment and suspected it might be connected to evolving Zone 18, while Xiao Fan considered why the special secret realm had dropped it.
• The system announced the first clear of Lost Island and a permanent 20% difficulty reduction, and Zone 18’s veterans gathered to celebrate the team’s success.
• Wind Snow Traveler invited Xiao Fan to explore the Level 11 Beast Zone, but Xiao Fan left the plan undecided and considered his other tasks.
• Wind Snow Traveler wrote and distributed a detailed guide to Lost Island, prompting veteran and new players to doubt they could clear it.
• Qin Muyu compared Zone 18’s guide with Zone 1’s Trial Secret Realm and wondered whether everyone had misunderstood Cloud Sea.

Xiao Fan agreed to help Wind Snow Traveler explore a higher-level area after finishing a secret realm run with his friends. Wind Snow Traveler demonstrated his newly created Earth-Tier skill, and the two set off into the outskirts of a vast mountain range to investigate its Fierce Beasts.

• Wind Snow Traveler asked Xiao Fan to explore a high-level Fierce Beast area, and Xiao Fan promised to go after completing the secret realm with the Fatty and the others.
• Xiao Fan and his teammates dug up Seven-Colored Flowers in the Southwest Forest, and Xiao Fan replanted them while Wind Snow Traveler watched in confusion.
• Wind Snow Traveler showed off Whirlwind Slash, an Earth-Tier skill that wiped out a swarm of spiders in the secret realm.
• Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler helped the group clear the Misty Forest secret realm in under two hours.
• The Fatty and the others headed to the Northwest Forest to hunt Fierce Beasts, while Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler entered the outskirts of a distant mountain range.

The Dragon Nation’s leaders searched for the players who created Heaven-Tier and God-Tier Skills, then discussed a deadly secret realm expedition and Shen Long’s conditions for helping. The chief ordered investigations in Novice Village Zones 1 and 2 and agreed to Shen Long’s terms so the nation could prioritize exploring the secret realm.

• Zhou He reported that neither the Dragon Nation nor other nations had found the five anonymous Heaven-Tier Skill creators.
• Zhou He suggested that some of the creators were novices, prompting the chief to order investigations in every Novice Village, especially Zones 1 and 2.
• Zhou He said the Dragon Nation had no leads on the mysterious God-Tier Skill creator and that the White Race Nation’s claim about Cannon had proved false.
• The chief asked about the Shen Family’s refusal to help explore a glacier secret realm where only eight of twenty National Team players, including Jian Qingfeng, had survived.
• Zhou He reported that Shen Long would cooperate only if the nation withdrew its people from the Falling Star gathering place, and the chief agreed to the terms for now.

Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler discovered that moving Vitality Tree Spirits had led them deeper into the mountain range, where one tree could attack with sharpened leaves and rapidly restore its health. Wind Snow Traveler struggled to defeat it, leaving them unsure how to proceed.

• Xiao Fan sensed that the mountain range was unnaturally silent, and he and Wind Snow Traveler turned back toward the exit.
• After walking for a long time without escaping, Xiao Fan concluded that the trees were moving and leading them toward the inner area.
• Wind Snow Traveler struck a tree, revealing it as a Level 11 Vitality Tree Spirit, which attacked them with razor-sharp leaves.
• Wind Snow Traveler damaged the tree spirit with his axe, but it restored its health to full whenever it was badly wounded.
• Wind Snow Traveler kept attacking until he was exhausted, while the tree spirit healed itself completely.

Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler learned to counter the Vitality Tree Spirits’ healing with fire damage and grievous-wound skills, then shared their knowledge with other players. As they returned to Novice Village after a day of leveling, an enormous Vitality Tree Spirit appeared before them.

• Xiao Fan used Sun and Moon Rotation’s fire damage to overcome a Vitality Tree Spirit’s recovery, and Wind Snow Traveler helped chop it down.
• Xiao Fan explained grievous wounds and the Vitality Tree Spirits’ behavior to Wind Snow Traveler, who shared the information with other players.
• Qin Muyu revealed that she had created a Heaven-Tier Skill, and Xiao Fan and Wind Snow Traveler praised her achievement.
• Blade Shadow created an Earth-Tier grievous-wound skill and helped the players defeat Vitality Tree Spirits.
• Xiao Fan, Wind Snow Traveler, and the other players spent the day leveling against tree spirits before an enormous Vitality Tree Spirit appeared in their path.

Xiao Fan and his party defeated the Vitality Tree Spirit Boss and received a Healing Evolution Fragment before the Cloud Sea server announced a week-long maintenance. As Xiao Fan left the game, he manifested his attribute points at a much higher-than-expected cost.

• Xiao Fan joined Wind Snow Traveler, Blade Shadow, and the others in fighting the Vitality Tree Spirit Boss, coordinating their attacks around its rapid healing.
• The party defeated the Boss before Blade Shadow and Xiao Fan's Wound effects expired, earning 8,000 Core Power and a Healing Evolution Fragment for their Novice Zone.
• The system announced that the Cloud Sea server would undergo a week of maintenance, and Xiao Fan's party returned to Novice Village before the shutdown.
• Xiao Fan bought ten Strength points and received Qin Muyu's real-world contact information before exiting the game.
• Xiao Fan agreed to manifest his 113 attribute points, then discovered the system would charge him 230,000 Core Power and confirmed the payment.

After failing to manifest his Heaven-Tier Skill, Sun and Moon Rotation, Xiao Fan logged out during Cloud Sea’s seven-day update and returned home. His family celebrated his achievements and welcomed him warmly, while Xiao Yi warned them to keep Xiao Fan’s God-Tier Skill secret.

• Xiao Fan learned that manifesting Sun and Moon Rotation would cost ten million Core Power, then left Cloud Sea when the game shut down for an update.
• Xiao Yi, recovering at home after losing his legs, learned that Xiao Fan possessed the only God-Tier Skill in Cloud Sea and told his family to keep it secret.
• Xiao An told the family that Cloud Sea would be unavailable for seven days, and Liu Xiujuan prepared dinner for Xiao Fan’s return.
• Xiao Fan arrived home and found his family happily waiting for him, easing his worries about how they had been coping.
• At dinner, Xiao Fan told his family he had reached Level 10 and led players through the Level 10 Trial Secret Realm, and they celebrated his achievement.

After dinner, Xiao Fan browsed the Cloud Sea Game Forum and found a post asking about a secret realm boss that made a teammate attack his allies. The post’s author, Zhou He, was frustrated by the mockery, but a reply suggested the problem came from a special dungeon mechanic.

• Xiao Yi gave Xiao Fan Ye Bugu’s contact information, and Xiao Fan revealed he had created Ye Bugu’s Heaven-Tier Skill.
• Xiao Fan offered to create a Heaven-Tier Skill for Xiao Yi, who declined because his condition made playing difficult.
• Xiao Fan browsed the forum and learned about limits on buying and materializing attribute points.
• Xiao Fan read Zhou He’s pinned post about a secret realm boss that made a companion attack his teammates, while forum users mocked the question.
• Zhou He and a black-clad man discussed their unit’s losses and their need to clear the secret realm, and Zhou He found a reply suggesting a special dungeon mechanic was responsible.

Xiao Fan explained special BOSS mechanics to Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng, who were investigating a difficult level-eighty secret realm. After learning about its Ice Wolves and the first BOSS’s effects, Xiao Fan recognized the behavior as a BOSS mechanic.

• Xiao Fan faced mockery on the forum but explained to the OP what special BOSS mechanics were.
• Zhou He learned Xiao Fan was only level ten, but Jian Qingfeng urged him to keep asking questions.
• Xiao Fan offered to analyze the secret realm for extra payment, and Zhou He agreed to pay him five million Dragon Nation Currency.
• Zhou He described the glacier secret realm, where Ice Wolves froze players and the first BOSS made a teammate turn red and attack the party.
• Xiao Fan read the description and recognized the first BOSS’s behavior as a mechanic.