Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan returned to Dragon City after escaping a level 300 Magic Beast and learned that Jian Qingfeng and his team had disappeared. He suspected Shen Long had taken them through a vanished secret-realm portal and prepared to act against him.

• Xiao Fan searched for Jian Qingfeng and the others, then received Zhou He's message asking if he was safe.
• Xiao Fan flew back to Dragon City and asked Zhou He what had happened to Jian Qingfeng.
• Zhou He explained that Jian Qingfeng had gone after the archer he believed killed Xiao Fan, and that Shen Long's group later saw Jian Qingfeng's team enter a secret-realm portal that vanished.
• Xiao Fan accused Shen Long of causing the disappearance, and Zhou He showed his willingness to confront Shen Long.

Xiao Fan and Zhou He realized Shen Long had lured Jian Qingfeng and his team into a secret realm to force the authorities to rescue both them and the missing Level 99 team from the City of Kings. Shen Long’s plan was revealed, and Zhou He prepared to send Xiao Fan into the realm if the trapped teams did not emerge when its entrance returned.

• Xiao Fan told Zhou He that Shen Long had likely used Quan Zhong’s item to pull Jian Qingfeng and his team into the disappearing secret realm.
• Xiao Fan deduced that Shen Long wanted the authorities to rescue Jian Qingfeng’s team and the missing Level 99 team, while Zhou He agreed that they could not abandon Jian Qingfeng.
• Xiao Fan said he would enter the secret realm to rescue Jian Qingfeng if the entrance reappeared and the team did not come out.
• Shen Long reflected that he had found the reappeared entrance and used an item to pull Jian Qingfeng’s team inside, hoping Zhou He would enter and rescue his own missing team as well.
• Quan Zhong questioned whether Zhou He would enter the secret realm, and Shen Long confidently said Jian Qingfeng’s standing would ensure it.

Dragon City and Yanhuang City reached Level 5, while Xiao Fan entered the Land of Four Extremes secret realm to rescue Jian Qingfeng and the others. Shen Long learned that Xiao Fan had survived and hoped he would never return.

• Dragon City and Yanhuang City advanced to Level 5, gaining more room, citizens, and Profession slots as the government set rules for distributing them.
• Ling Feiyun regretted joining City of Kings instead of staying in Dragon City, then blamed Ling Xiao and beat him over the Millennium Ginseng Fruit.
• Zhou He learned that the secret-realm entrance had reappeared, but Jian Qingfeng and the others had not come out, so Xiao Fan entered alone to rescue them.
• The secret-realm entrance vanished after Xiao Fan entered, and Zhou He left with his party, planning to return in five days.
• Shen Long and Quan Zhong watched from the woods and realized Jiu Chen had survived; Shen Long hoped Xiao Fan and Jian Qingfeng would die inside the secret realm.

Xiao Fan entered the Land of Four Extremes secret realm and found that his character, Jiu Chen, had been reset to level one with his skills, Profession, friends, and equipment gone. After discovering an empty Novice Village, he met Shui Tuntun’s group and learned that villages competed for a chance to enter the Land of Four Extremes; Shui Tuntun advised him to develop in healing.

• Xiao Fan woke in a wooden house wearing hemp clothes and found that his interface had reset him to level one as Jiu Chen, with nearly everything gone except his active resurrection skill.
• Xiao Fan searched the silent village, found it empty and identical to a Novice Village, and decided not to venture into the surrounding forest alone.
• A group of twenty players returned from the forest, and Shui Tuntun welcomed Jiu Chen and said the villages competed for a chance to enter the Land of Four Extremes.
• Xiao Fan asked Shui Tuntun for advice on his development direction, and Shui Tuntun recommended healing.

Xiao Fan hid his ignorance of the secret realm’s rules by claiming he dreamed of becoming a Warrior, then let Shui Tuntun believe he was a naïve recruit. Shui Tuntun began teaching him the healer path and explained how Apostles gathered elements and sought entry to the Land of Four Extremes, leaving Xiao Fan puzzled by the rules and Shui Tuntun’s advice.

• Xiao Fan asked Shui Tuntun how to play as a healer, then deflected the group’s suspicion by saying he dreamed of becoming the continent’s strongest Warrior.
• Shui Tuntun reassured Xiao Fan that a healer could still become a Warrior of the Land of Four Extremes, and Xiao Fan pretended to believe him.
• That evening, Shui Tuntun began teaching Xiao Fan the healer path and explained that Apostles collected water, fire, metal, and earth elements from Monster Beasts.
• Shui Tuntun said Apostles could summon the Phenomenon of the Four Extremes at level 100 and enter the Land of Four Extremes by choosing the right Phenomenon.
• Shui Tuntun explained that each Apostle chose one of the four elements as a path and could hunt only Monster Beasts of that element, leaving Xiao Fan confused about why he had been told to pursue healing.

Xiao Fan learned how Healing Apostles absorbed unwanted elements from other Apostles and decided to try the path. On the village team’s first hunt, he passively absorbed elements from the group, quickly reached level five, and received a dropped dagger.

• Shui Tuntun explained that Healing Apostles absorbed unwanted elements from other Apostles, allowing them to level up quickly without hunting Monster Beasts.
• Xiao Fan decided to join the village team the next day, hoping to level up and find a way to contact Jian Qingfeng and the others.
• Shui Tuntun took Xiao Fan and the team out to hunt Monster Rabbits, telling him to stand aside until someone needed him to absorb an element.
• The Apostles freely transferred unwanted elements to Xiao Fan as they fought, and he reached level five while barely moving.
• The Monster Rabbits dropped one dagger, which Shui Tuntun gave to Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan joined Shui Tuntun’s party as a Healing Apostle and was forced to absorb the party’s elemental energy, learning that the process caused dangerous elemental chaos. After absorbing water, fire, and wind while the party fought monsters, he collapsed when the last Wind Wolf fell.

• Shui Tuntun gave Xiao Fan a dagger and had him absorb water element from the party after they fought Monster Snakes, causing him to reach level nine and suffer alternating chills and heat.
• Xiao Fan realized Shui Tuntun had concealed the dangers of absorbing multiple elements and decided to become the strongest person in the village.
• Shui Tuntun reassured Xiao Fan that his worsening condition was normal and promised him good equipment if he kept helping the party.
• The party encountered wind-elemental Demon Wolves, and Xiao Fan absorbed wind element despite already carrying water and fire.
• As the party defeated the Wind Wolves, Xiao Fan’s rising level helped him endure the elemental chaos, but he lost consciousness after absorbing the final Apostle’s element.

After Shui Tuntun’s group abandoned Xiao Fan during elemental chaos, Yu Ling and Yu Mo’s team carried him back to their village for treatment. As Xiao Fan fought to survive, Yin prepared to draw the Fire Element out of him while healing him.

• Xiao Fan collapsed from elemental chaos after absorbing Water, Fire, and Wind Elements, and Shui Tuntun decided to abandon him and took back his dagger.
• Yu Ling recognized Xiao Fan’s condition, and she persuaded Yu Mo and their team to carry him back to the village for treatment.
• Xiao Fan struggled against the clashing elements and resolved that he could not die before uncovering the truth behind the game’s invasion and his transmigration.
• Yin explained that removing the wrong element could worsen Xiao Fan’s elemental chaos, then decided to draw out the Fire Element while treating him.

After surviving the elemental chaos, Xiao Fan gained control over fire and water and woke in the Yu siblings’ village, where he pretended to be an arrogant stranger named Jiu Chen. He left Yu Mo stunned by displaying his elemental powers.

• Yin found that Xiao Fan’s elemental chaos had subsided and his aura had strengthened, but he could no longer draw elements out of Xiao Fan.
• After Yin left, Xiao Fan recalled being rescued by Yu Ling and Yin and learned that two groups of Pseudo-Apostles, likely including Jian Qingfeng and his companions, were being hunted in the Trial Land.
• Xiao Fan discovered that he could control fire and water outside his body and resolved to get stronger before trying to save Jian Qingfeng and the others.
• When Yu Ling and Yu Mo returned, Xiao Fan woke and introduced himself as Jiu Chen, claiming they would look up to him and that their village was honored to take him in.
• Yu Mo warned Xiao Fan not to betray the village, but Xiao Fan revealed fire in his left hand and water in his right, leaving Yu Mo speechless.

Xiao Fan demonstrated his rare Dual Element Fusion, convincing Yu Mo, Yin, and Yu Ling that he was a once-in-a-generation genius. After a secret realm mission appeared, he took command of the village and ordered an attack on Shui Tuntun’s village, only to learn that attacks were forbidden until Combat Mode began.

• Xiao Fan used Elemental Melt and Dual Element Fusion, astonishing Yu Ling, Yu Mo, and Yin with his mastery of water and fire.
• Yu Ling praised Xiao Fan extravagantly, and Yu Mo decided the village should recruit him as their path to rising through the Trial Land.
• A secret realm mission appeared, telling Xiao Fan to defeat fifty Apostle villages.
• Xiao Fan ordered every Apostle in the village to obey him, and Yu Ling enthusiastically accepted his authority.
• Xiao Fan ordered the village to attack Shui Tuntun’s village, but Yu Ling explained that villages could not fight until Combat Mode began.

Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf’s teams regrouped inside a dangerous story-driven secret realm after Shen Long lured them in and their levels were reset. They remained trapped with no plan to clear the realm, and Jian Qingfeng revealed that Jiu Chen had been killed.

• Jian Qingfeng recalled how Shen Long’s scheme drew his team into the secret realm, where their levels, equipment, skills, and stats were reset.
• Jian Qingfeng’s group escaped the village after learning the Apostles planned to kill them, but Apostles and Monster Beasts chased them into the forest.
• Falling Leaf’s team rescued Jian Qingfeng’s group, and Jian Qingfeng accused Shen Long of abandoning his own fighters and using them as scouts.
• Falling Leaf asked Jian Qingfeng to help find a way to clear the secret realm, but neither team had a solution.
• Jian Qingfeng told Falling Leaf that Jiu Chen would not come because Shen Long had killed him, leaving the teams with no hope of rescue.

Xiao Fan learned how far behind Yu Mo and Yu Ling's village was and focused on strengthening its Apostles so it could advance. After reaching level 20 and absorbing wind and wood elements, he looked for ways to recruit more people and thought of Jian Qingfeng's trapped team.

• Xiao Fan learned that Yu Mo and Yu Ling's village ranked 1,178th in the Lower Lower Stream and resolved to help it advance.
• Xiao Fan told the villagers he planned to become a Healing Apostle, then revealed he had three Elemental Melts.
• Xiao Fan led the villagers into the forest, where they leveled up while he absorbed elements without suffering ill effects.
• Xiao Fan reached level 20, gained water, fire, metal, and earth as his Four Extremes Affiliation, and absorbed wind and wood elements.
• Yu Mo explained why Apostles rarely changed villages, and Xiao Fan thought of bringing Jian Qingfeng's team into their village.

Xiao Fan tried to learn how Apostles created skills, hoping to gain leverage to bring Jian Qingfeng and the others back to the village. Yu Mo explained that skill creation required materials from a matching Monster Beast, leaving Xiao Fan worried he could not obtain the powerful materials he needed.

• Xiao Fan urged Yu Mo to create a skill, but Yu Mo said no Apostle had ever become a true warrior of the Land of Four Extremes.
• Yu Mo agreed to try, then saw a vine coil around Xiao Fan's arm as Xiao Fan fused with the Wood Element.
• The villagers noticed Xiao Fan's unfamiliarity with their world but chose to treat him as a real Apostle because he had fused with four elements.
• Yu Mo secretly explained that creating a skill required fusing an element with materials taken from the corresponding Monster Beast.
• Xiao Fan realized the Monster Beasts needed for his planned skills were too powerful for him to hunt.

Xiao Fan struggled to create a skill while Yu Mo planned a turtle-form skill. In the secret realm, Falling Leaf deduced that rescuers might have entered after Combat Mode ended, but he and Jian Qingfeng were captured with the other players before they could find them.

• Yu Mo said he planned to create a skill using a turtle form, and the group postponed hunting turtle beasts until the next day.
• Xiao Fan successfully melted other elements but failed to release fire and realized he still needed to create a skill.
• Falling Leaf reasoned that the secret-realm entrance might reopen after Combat Mode and that Zhou He’s rescuers could already be inside.
• Falling Leaf and Jian Qingfeng decided to find Zhou He’s group, then warned their companions to escape when enemies discovered their cave.
• Falling Leaf and Jian Qingfeng charged out, but the cave was surrounded, and the Apostles captured all 49 players.

Xiao Fan led the villagers in hunting Demon Turtles at Heavenly Pond to gather materials for creating a skill. After the group struggled to damage the turtles, he reorganized their attacks, helping them kill all five and reach level 35 before Yu Mo prepared to create his first skill.

• Xiao Fan accompanied Yu Mo and the villagers to Heavenly Pond, where they used Gold Elemental energy to lure out five Demon Turtles.
• Yu Mo and the Apostles struggled to harm the turtles, so Xiao Fan ordered them to focus Gold and Fire attacks on one turtle while the Water and Wood Apostles drew off the others.
• Yu Ling backed Xiao Fan's commands, and the group followed his strategy to kill the Demon Turtles one at a time.
• Xiao Fan absorbed the Monster Beasts' elemental energy, gained five levels from the first kill, and reached level 35 after all five were defeated.
• Yu Mo cut the shells from the turtles and returned to the village, eager to create his first skill.

Yu Mo attempted to create a skill using a Demon Turtle shell, but his carefully imagined technique failed and the shell crumbled. Xiao Fan offered him another shell, then revealed he wanted to try creating a skill himself.

• Yu Mo infused a Demon Turtle shell with his wood element, completing the first step of skill creation.
• Yu Mo pictured and rehearsed the skill he had spent twenty-five years imagining while the Apostles watched.
• Yu Mo's attempt failed, and the glowing shell turned gray and crumbled.
• Yu Mo fell to his knees and cried over the failure, while Yu Ling watched with concern.
• Xiao Fan offered Yu Mo one of the four remaining turtle shells, but Yu Mo refused.
• Xiao Fan asked for a shell so he could create a skill, leaving Yu Mo stunned.

Xiao Fan attempted to create an Elemental Skill from a Demon Turtle shell despite Yu Mo's warnings, but he lacked enough wood element to infuse it. As his attempt seemed doomed, Xiao Fan thought of a possible solution.

• Yu Mo warned Xiao Fan that creating a skill was extremely difficult, but Xiao Fan mocked Yu Mo's failure and insisted on trying.
• Yu Mo ordered another shell brought out and explained that Xiao Fan needed to infuse it with wood element and demonstrate how his skill would work.
• Xiao Fan placed his hand on the shell, and his wood element flowed into it automatically, but he quickly ran out of energy after filling only a quarter of the shell.
• Yin questioned whether Xiao Fan should be allowed to waste the precious materials, while Yu Mo said he expected Xiao Fan to fail and vowed to call him Dad if he succeeded.
• Xiao Fan realized he had rushed into the attempt without meeting the Trial Land's requirements, then suddenly thought of a possible solution.

Xiao Fan used Water Element to nourish the Wood Element around a turtle shell until he lit it and gained a chance to create a skill. He imagined combining Wood and Water to create a Black Tortoise skill, and the system began reviewing it.

• Xiao Fan tried to merge Water Element directly into the turtle shell, then realized the Wood Element around it could absorb the water.
• He used his Water Element to strengthen the Wood Element until the shell blazed with bright green and blue light.
• Yu Mo and the onlookers were shocked when Xiao Fan successfully lit the shell, while Yu Ling celebrated and teased Yu Mo about becoming Jiu Chen's son.
• Xiao Fan received the prompt to envision a skill and considered combining Wood and Water to create a Black Tortoise ability.
• Xiao Fan mentally rehearsed his imagined skill, and the system began reviewing it.

Xiao Fan successfully created the God Rank group skill Black Tortoise Domain, summoning a spectacular divine apparition that stunned the Apostles. After the skill was approved, Yu Mo immediately called Xiao Fan “Dad.”

• Yu Mo admitted that he would consider becoming Xiao Fan’s son a privilege if Xiao Fan successfully created a skill, while Xiao Fan worried the review might fail.
• Water and Wood energies surged as the Black Tortoise Divine Form appeared above the village, impressing the Apostles who witnessed it.
• A notification confirmed Xiao Fan’s skill creation had succeeded, and he viewed the God Rank Black Tortoise Domain’s effects.
• After the apparition vanished, the Apostles struggled to understand how Xiao Fan had created such a powerful skill from a Demon Turtle shell.
• Xiao Fan asked Yu Mo, his sister, and Yin what they should call him now that he had succeeded, and Yu Mo answered, “Dad.”

Xiao Fan persuaded the village Apostles to help him level up so they could enter the Trial Land’s Lower Stream when Combat Mode began. The village agreed to search for the two groups of fleeing Pseudo-Apostles and bring them into the village.

• Yu Mo considered how Xiao Fan could level up quickly without exposing his sensitive identity, then went with the other Apostles to Jiu Chen’s meeting.
• The Apostles asked Xiao Fan how he had created an Elemental Skill, and he joked that anyone with hands could do it.
• Xiao Fan announced his plan to lead the village into the Lower Stream when Combat Mode began in twenty-five days and asked everyone to help him level up.
• Xiao Fan rejected working with neighboring villages, claiming they might become jealous of his talent.
• The Apostles proposed recruiting the two groups of fleeing Pseudo-Apostles, and Xiao Fan agreed to have the village search for them.