Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan took command of the Dungeon team despite objections and discovered that players had to use their skills on teammates. As the countdown ended and the monsters were about to appear, he ordered the Gold Fist Players to use their skills on the Gold Seal Players and on him.

• Zhou He announced that Xiao Fan would lead the Dungeon run, prompting Yu Tianqing and Judge Young Master to object.
• Zhou He handed command to Xiao Fan as the countdown dwindled, and Xiao Fan told everyone to test their skills.
• Jian Qingfeng used the Gold Seal skill at range, while Ye Bugu, Uncle Justice, and Young Master Panguang struggled to activate their skills.
• Xiao Fan explained that the skills had to be used on teammates, and Ye Bugu used his skill on himself, feeling refreshed.
• When the countdown reached zero, Xiao Fan ordered the Gold Fist Players to use their skills on the Gold Seal Players and on him.

Xiao Fan led the players into battle against invisible Wandering Souls by ordering them to use Nether Ghost Eye. Judge Young Master eagerly followed orders and tracked the skill’s timing as the Gold Seal Players attacked.

• Judge Young Master used Nether Ghost Eye on Xiao Fan, revealing a group of level-50 Wandering Souls approaching the team.
• Xiao Fan praised Judge Young Master and ordered players who had Nether Ghost Eye to reveal the Wandering Souls to every Gold Seal Player.
• Judge Young Master discovered the skill was on cooldown and was assigned to track its timing.
• The Gold Seal Players received eyes above their heads, and Xiao Fan ordered them to attack the Wandering Souls.
• Judge Young Master reported that Nether Ghost Eye had a twelve-second cooldown and lasted twenty seconds, and Xiao Fan praised him again.

Xiao Fan questioned Luo Yi about Spirit Bodies while Judge Young Master helped coordinate the formation. As the Wandering Souls closed in on the players, Xiao Fan reassured the group but began to suspect the Dungeon had another mechanic.

• Judge Young Master tracked the Gold Seal Players' eyes and kept curious Gold Book and Gold Pen Players from crowding the front.
• Xiao Fan asked Luo Yi about Spirit Bodies, and Luo Yi warned him that the Blue Star players might turn against them once they were no longer useful.
• Xiao Fan persuaded Luo Yi to use their knowledge of future versions to remain valuable, and Luo Yi explained that sealing or dispelling Spirit Bodies gave different rewards from killing them.
• Jian Qingfeng warned Xiao Fan that the Wandering Souls were approaching, but Xiao Fan believed the players could handle their attacks and feared stronger monsters might appear later.
• Zhou He alerted Xiao Fan that the Wandering Souls had reached less than five meters from the group.

Xiao Fan’s group struggled to hold back the Wandering Souls as they broke into the formation and frightened players, forcing the Gold Book Players to clear the resulting Black Fog. When the counter reached 500/2000 and the four skill options reappeared, Xiao Fan realized the Dungeon had reached a new stage.

• Xiao Fan assigned the Gold Seal Players to attack Wandering Souls from the front and rear, while the Justice Alliance watched players’ HP and the Gold Book Players looked for Black Fog.
• Wandering Souls revealed themselves as they attacked players inside the formation, and the experienced Gold Seal Players fought them while the Gold Pen Players healed the damage.
• A Wandering Soul struck Judge Young Master after Black Fog appeared above his head, but Ye Bugu cleared the effect and Uncle Justice healed him.
• Xiao Fan grew anxious as the Wandering Souls kept breaking through and the counter reached 493/2000.
• The four skill options appeared again at 500/2000, and Xiao Fan realized the Dungeon had reached a new stage.

Xiao Fan guided the team through repeated skill upgrades, prioritizing the Celestial Master Seal to increase their damage and push back the Wandering Souls. After they completed the first round’s objective, the skill options appeared larger, and Jian Qingfeng froze after choosing the Celestial Master Seal.

• Jian Qingfeng selected the Celestial Master Seal, increasing the team’s skill damage and easing the pressure from the Wandering Souls.
• At 1,000 kills, Xiao Fan again chose the Celestial Master Seal for the upgrade, and its increased firepower pushed the Spirit Bodies back.
• At 1,500 kills, Xiao Fan chose another Celestial Master Seal upgrade, which expanded its area of effect and let it hit two Wandering Souls at once.
• The team reached 2,000 kills and completed the first round of the objective as the skill options appeared larger.
• Xiao Fan decided to prioritize the Celestial Master Seal again, and Jian Qingfeng chose it before freezing in place.

Xiao Fan realized the players could choose two skills to upgrade in the final round and had Jian Qingfeng select the Heart-Clearing Mantra. As three level-50 Wandering Soul Bosses approached, Xiao Fan coordinated the players’ attacks to stagger their health thresholds and prepared the Gold Book Players to dispel each Boss’s fear effect.

• Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng to choose the Heart-Clearing Mantra as a second upgrade, and the four options disappeared.
• Xiao Fan ordered the Gold Fist Players to share eyes with the Gold Book Players and had Ye Bugu place quick-witted players in front as three Wandering Soul Bosses appeared.
• Xiao Fan directed the Gold Seal Players to attack different Bosses in stages, staggering their health so their skills would not trigger all at once.
• Xiao Fan warned the Gold Book and Gold Pen Players before the middle Boss reached its skill threshold, and the Gold Book Players used the Heart-Clearing Mantra to dispel its fear effect.
• The Gold Book Players dispelled the fear effects from the right and left Bosses, and Zhou He recognized how well Xiao Fan had anticipated the mechanics.

Xiao Fan led the team through the first two stages of the Ghost Domain dungeon, prioritizing upgrades to the Gold Seal Players’ attack skills and earning the group’s admiration. After defeating the second stage’s Lonely Wandering Ghosts, the team faced its next Boss.

• Judge Young Master and Yu Tianqing admired Xiao Fan’s command and resolved to learn from him.
• Xiao Fan assigned the Night Blade Sect members to help the Gold Book Players handle the Wandering Soul Boss’s fear effects, and the team cleared the first stage.
• The team’s skills leveled up, and Xiao Fan prepared them to fight three thousand level-sixty Lonely Wandering Ghosts in the second stage.
• Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng to upgrade Celestial Master Seal, then selected Gold Seal and Gold Eye at the final upgrade.
• The team killed the Lonely Wandering Ghosts, and the second-stage Boss appeared.

After the fifth-stage BOSSes fell, Xiao Fan discovered that Ye Bugu’s Heart-Clearing Mantra could dispel fatigue, helping the team prepare for longer battles. In the sixth stage, Xiao Fan recognized that the Millennium Yaksha’s unusually low health signaled greater danger and reorganized the team, just as the creature began showing its strength.

• After the fifth-stage BOSS fight, everyone’s skills leveled up, and Xiao Fan made sure his support skills reached level six.
• Xiao Fan asked Ye Bugu to use Heart-Clearing Mantra on him and discovered that it could dispel fatigue.
• When the sixth stage began, Xiao Fan saw that the level-100 Millennium Yaksha had only 12,000 health and suspected it would deal more damage than earlier enemies.
• Xiao Fan assigned Gold Book Players to dispel fatigue or fear and had Gold Fist Players use Gold Eye on those preparing to dispel fear.
• Gold Seal Players attacked the Millennium Yaksha, which soon began demonstrating how dangerous it was.

Xiao Fan and the players survived the Red-Light Millennium Yakshas by coordinating Purification and healing skills, then chose to upgrade the Soul-Healing Brush. Afterward, Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He that he had a better way to handle the Yakshas and began explaining what Jian Qingfeng should do.

• After the group killed 500 Millennium Yakshas without receiving upgrade options, Xiao Fan spotted four glowing Red-Light Yakshas and ordered players to retreat and prepare their skills.
• A Red-Light Yaksha charged into the players, inflicting Fear on twelve nearby players before exploding; Xiao Fan and Uncle Justice healed the two players who were not purified in time.
• Xiao Fan used groups of Gold Book Players to ensure the next three Red-Light Yakshas' Fear effects were purified, while Gold Pen Players healed the affected players after each explosion.
• When the upgrade options appeared, Xiao Fan chose the Soul-Healing Brush, and Jian Qingfeng selected it.
• Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng and Zhou He that he had a better strategy for the Red-Light Yakshas and began giving Jian Qingfeng instructions.

Xiao Fan devised a way to draw each Red-Light Yaksha’s fear effect onto Jian Qingfeng and have Ye Bugu dispel it, saving skills and easing pressure on the group. The strategy carried the team through the sixth stage, including its four bosses, and four new options appeared afterward.

• Xiao Fan assigned Ye Bugu, Uncle Justice, and other players to watch Jian Qingfeng and prepare Purification skills for the Red-Light Yakshas.
• Jian Qingfeng stepped away from the group and let a Red-Light Yaksha collide with him, while Ye Bugu dispelled its fear before it exploded; Xiao Fan’s plan worked.
• The group praised Xiao Fan’s command, and Xiao Fan upgraded the Purification skill after the Red-Light Yakshas were defeated.
• Jian Qingfeng drew each remaining Red-Light Yaksha to himself as Xiao Fan called out their positions and Ye Bugu dispelled the fear effect.
• The group controlled the health of the four Millennium Yaksha bosses and completed the sixth stage, after which four new options appeared.

Xiao Fan led the team through the later stages of the Ghost Domain Dungeon, choosing upgrades and items that helped them survive as the monsters grew stronger. As the final stage began, the team used Nether Ghost Eye to reveal the monsters ahead, and Xiao Fan was stunned by their numbers.

• Xiao Fan reasoned that the four icons were teamwide choices, and he told Jian Qingfeng to pick the Gold Shield and Golden Skull.
• Xiao Fan upgraded Nether Ghost Eye and Heart-Clearing Mantra, while the Golden Skull gained energy from killed Spirit Bodies and later unleashed powerful explosions.
• After clearing ten stages, Xiao Fan chose the Gold Sword and Gold Flag, and the system revealed that the Dungeon had a 24-hour limit with just over eight hours remaining.
• The team admired Xiao Fan for apparently anticipating the time limit, while Xiao Fan privately realized they had mistaken his earlier focus on attack for foresight.
• As the final stage began, the Gold Fist Players cast Nether Ghost Eye on everyone, and the team saw an enormous horde of monsters that left Xiao Fan stunned.

Xu Shengguo struggled to manage Dragon City while Zhou He, Jian Qingfeng, and others remained missing at Crystal Mist Peak, and he carried out Zhou He's warning about a possible game update. Meanwhile, Shen Long learned that members of the Four Great Families had united at King Base and that his own people had also disappeared near Crystal Mist Peak.

• Xu Shengguo panicked over the disappearance of Zhou He, Jian Qingfeng, and Jiu Chen, but followed Zhou He's orders by warning players to log out before a possible game shutdown for an update.
• A soldier told Xu Shengguo that construction of the Level 3 City at Cloud Dream Marsh was nearly complete, with players from nearby areas helping.
• Xu Shengguo learned that the Four Great Families had joined forces at King Base, where Shen Long had made his Hook Master Profession available.
• Shen Long learned that the Military had obtained another Level 3 City Building Token and vented his anger over Zhou He and Xiao Fan's earlier dealings with him.
• Shen Long asked Yu Feiyu about the disappearances at Crystal Mist Peak and learned that members of the Shen Sect had gone missing there too.

Inside the Ghost Domain Dungeon, Xiao Fan led the Gold Seal Players against an army of Spirit Bodies from all ten previous rounds. His strategy used the Golden Skull to repeatedly wipe out clustered enemies, and activating the Gold Flag revealed a barrier that could protect the team from enemy breakthroughs.

• The Gold Seal Players saw that the eleventh round contained Spirit Bodies from every earlier round, including twice as many BOSSes, and prepared to fight.
• Xiao Fan divided the teams between the BOSSes and weaker monsters, then ordered them to hold off attacking the weaker monsters until the two items were nearly charged.
• Xiao Fan had Team One attack the weaker monsters while the other teams focused on the BOSSes, letting twelve Skull Bombs kill many enemies and finish off three weakened BOSSes.
• The players cleared the remaining weaker monsters and saw that the Golden Skull had nearly recharged, while Xiao Fan noticed that the Gold Flag had not activated on its own.
• Xiao Fan asked Jian Qingfeng to touch the Gold Flag, and a barrier appeared around the players, confirming that the flag was a manually activated defensive item.

Xiao Fan led the team through the Nether Doll Bosses’ control mechanic without using the barrier, saving it for the final Boss. After the last Spirit Body fell, he warned everyone to prepare for another battle.

• Xiao Fan explained the Nether Doll Boss’s dance mechanic and directed the team to focus on the Boss on the right.
• When the Boss danced and controlled most of the players, Ye Bugu purified Xiao Fan, who ordered the Gold Book Players to cleanse the others.
• Xiao Fan guided the team through another dance, telling everyone when to turn so they could avoid being controlled.
• When both Bosses danced three seconds apart, Jian Qingfeng urged Xiao Fan to activate the barrier, but Xiao Fan instead coordinated the team’s turns and saved it.
• The team killed the Boss on the right, then cleared the remaining Spirit Bodies, but Xiao Fan told everyone to prepare for battle.

Xiao Fan and the players encountered the Ghost Child Boss, answered her question about her missing best friend, and received an Extra Life each. They began fighting her, but her eerie face and a new attack mechanic left the players frightened as the battle continued.

• The Ghost Child appeared above the players and demanded that they find her best friend within three seconds.
• Xiao Fan recognized that the Rag Doll in the Ghost Child’s arms was her best friend, earning every player an Extra Life.
• Xiao Fan ordered the players to focus their attacks on the Ghost Child while he watched for her mechanics.
• The Ghost Child stood and turned around, revealing the back of her head and terrifying many players.
• Xiao Fan told Ye Bugu to use Purification to ease the players’ psychological fear, then saw the Ghost Child point her Rag Doll toward them.

Xiao Fan and the players struggled to survive the Ghost Child Boss’s repeated high-speed charges across the arena. Xiao Fan ordered them to spread out, reducing the damage from each pass, but the countdown was running low as the Ghost Child began to move again.

• The Ghost Child Boss repeatedly charged through the crowd on its Altar, leaving players badly injured and overwhelming the Gold Pen Players’ healing skills.
• Xiao Fan realized the group was too tightly packed and ordered the players to spread out across the arena in four directions.
• Zhou He organized the teams into positions, and Judge Young Master asked whether the other groups should move if the Boss kept targeting one direction.
• Ye Bugu pointed out that they could simply leave the targeted area empty, while the Ghost Child’s random charges injured fewer players after the teams spread out.
• With 00:28:19 remaining, Xiao Fan worried the group might not defeat the high-health Boss in time, and the Ghost Child began moving again.

The Ghost Child Boss turned its Rag Doll into a giant and began a Cat and Mouse mechanic that forced the players to evade it. Xiao Fan realized the Ghost Child was the mouse and redirected most of the teams to attack the Boss; the Rag Doll was called back, leaving the players poised to exploit the Boss's lowered defenses.

• The Ghost Child tossed the Rag Doll into the air, transforming it into a five-meter giant, then sent it after the players.
• Xiao Fan noticed the players' attacks could knock the Rag Doll back, so the group focused their fire on it for five minutes without killing it.
• With the Dungeon countdown running low, Xiao Fan realized the players were not the mice and ordered Team One to hold off the Rag Doll while the other three teams attacked the Ghost Child Boss.
• The Ghost Child called the Rag Doll back as the players attacked, and Xiao Fan smiled, believing the Boss's defenses had dropped.

Xiao Fan led the players through the Ghost Child Boss’s mechanics as the countdown neared its end, but the Boss entered Rampage and unleashed a devastating Fear attack before they could activate the barrier. The chapter ended with a gigantic Rag Doll flying into the crowd.

• Xiao Fan explained that attacking the Ghost Child forced it to recall the Rag Doll, and the players continued damaging the Boss while dodging its Altar.
• Xiao Fan inferred from the Rag Doll’s changing expressions that the Boss was near death and warned the players to regroup before the countdown reached two minutes.
• The Boss’s dress turned red and its laughter grew sinister, confirming Xiao Fan’s fear that it had entered Rampage.
• Xiao Fan ordered the players to focus their attacks and told Gold Book and Gold Pen Player to watch their health and status as the Boss began Descent of Fear.
• The Boss spun its Altar and unleashed clouds of Fear across the area, overcoming Jian Qingfeng and Ye Bugu before the barrier could be activated.
• Xiao Fan dodged a cloud of black mist, then saw a gigantic Rag Doll fly into the crowd.

Ghost Child Boss’s Black Clouds and Rag Doll nearly wiped out the players, but Xiao Fan survived the attack and gave the party a chance to continue the Dungeon. With only seconds left before the barrier activated, the players focused their attacks on the Boss.

• Ghost Child Boss filled the battlefield with Black Clouds, leaving the players fearful and unable to fight back as Rag Doll slaughtered them.
• Jian Qingfeng, Zhou He, Judge Young Master, and Luo Yi watched their comrades die as the Boss’s spinning mechanic neared its end.
• The Black Clouds scattered, and the players discovered that Xiao Fan was still alive, keeping the Boss’s aggro from resetting.
• Jian Qingfeng ordered the players to revive, and Ye Bugu used Purification on Xiao Fan while the others attacked Ghost Child Boss.
• Xiao Fan urged the players to keep attacking until the barrier activated, and Ghost Child screamed as it merged with the Altar again.

Xiao Fan's group used the barrier to survive the Ghost Child Boss's Black Fog, but the Rag Doll blocked their attacks as the Dungeon countdown ran out. Xiao Fan ordered everyone to focus fire on the Rag Doll, and when it fell, the chapter ended with the group facing the seemingly unbeatable Boss.

• Jian Qingfeng activated the barrier, which protected the players from the Black Fog and bounced the Rag Doll away.
• The Rag Doll stepped in front of the spinning Ghost Child Boss, blocking the players' attacks while the countdown dwindled.
• Xiao Fan refused to let anyone leave the barrier and ordered the group to focus all their fire on the Rag Doll.
• The players destroyed the Rag Doll with seconds remaining, revealing the Ghost Child Boss behind it.
• The players stopped attacking when only one second remained, but Xiao Fan roared at them to continue, and something unexpected happened.