Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan searched for Jian Qingfeng while hiding his newly created Elemental Skill from nearby villages, then learned that Jian Qingfeng’s group had been captured and resolved to rescue them. The group discovered the captives were imprisoned in the Lost Land, where Pseudo-Apostles faced starvation and could truly die in Combat Mode.

• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo led search parties and disguised the phenomenon from the previous night as a sighting of a Monster Beast to mislead nearby Apostles.
• Xiao Fan warned his group to avoid attracting attention from nearby villages as they searched for Jian Qingfeng and collected Monster Beast materials.
• After a fruitless day of searching, Xiao Fan returned to the village and learned that over a dozen villages had captured the two groups of Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo explained that the captives were being held in the Lost Land, where Pseudo-Apostles could starve to death, and Xiao Fan urged the group to rescue them.

Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf’s group searched the Lost Land for a way out, then failed to overpower the guards at its only exit. Meanwhile, Xiao Fan and Yu Mo prepared a nighttime rescue and waited for a chance to ambush the ten guards.

• Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf realized the Lost Land had no resources or other exits, and argued over whether anyone would come to save them.
• Jian Qingfeng led the group in a charge at the exit, but the guards’ superior strength and elemental power drove them back.
• Jian Qingfeng recognized that the secret realm relied on elemental attacks, but saw no way to gain elemental power in the barren Lost Land.
• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo watched the entrance at night and confirmed that ten guards were stationed there.
• Xiao Fan assigned the rescuers their roles and waited for the guards to be off guard before launching the ambush.

Xiao Fan led a rescue team into the Lost Land and found Jian Qingfeng just as he and the others prepared to escape. Jian Qingfeng recognized Xiao Fan as Jiu Chen and agreed to follow him, while Falling Leaf remained unsure who the masked leader was.

• Xiao Fan’s group fought the guards at the exit while he led a few Apostles into the Lost Land to find Jian Qingfeng.
• Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf heard the commotion and prepared to investigate, but Jian Qingfeng’s group mistook the arriving masked rescuers for enemies and charged them.
• Xiao Fan called out that he had come to rescue them, and Jian Qingfeng recognized his familiar voice and stopped his group.
• Xiao Fan introduced himself as Jiu Chen and urged Jian Qingfeng’s group to cooperate before nearby villages arrived.
• Jian Qingfeng pretended to hesitate, then agreed to go with Xiao Fan, and both groups ran toward the cave entrance.

Xiao Fan rescued Jian Qingfeng and the other Pseudo-Apostles from the guards, then helped them survive and level up while the Trial Land searched for them. With Combat Mode approaching, Xiao Fan and Jian Qingfeng discussed their shared quest and the possibility of advancing to the Lower Stream.

• Xiao Fan and Yu Mo fought the guards while Yu Ling led Jian Qingfeng and the others toward the woods, and Xiao Fan trapped the pursuers with a skill so the group could escape.
• Back in the village, Jian Qingfeng agreed that his group would cooperate with Xiao Fan in exchange for protection.
• Xiao Fan took the group hunting in the following days, while Yu Ling helped them evade search parties looking for the rescued Pseudo-Apostles.
• Three days before Combat Mode, Jian Qingfeng and the others had reached level 70, while Xiao Fan explained that the Lower Lower Stream's level cap was 100.
• Jian Qingfeng told Xiao Fan that his group also had a quest to eliminate 50 villages, and Xiao Fan said they might need to advance to the Lower Stream to leave the instance.

On the eve of Combat Mode, Xiao Fan planned to attack Shui Tuntun’s village, but discovered that Roar’s forces were preparing to ambush Xiao Fan’s own village. The chapter ended with both groups waiting in the grass near Xiao Fan’s village, poised to attack each other when Combat Mode began.

• Xiao Fan and the others planned to attack nearby villages first, choosing Shui Tuntun’s village as their initial target.
• Xiao Fan learned that Shui Tuntun’s village had allied with Roar, whose combined forces numbered seventy Apostles.
• Xiao Fan led his masked team to surround Roar’s village before Combat Mode began.
• When Roar’s seventy Apostles left their village, Xiao Fan ordered his team to follow them through the darkness.
• Xiao Fan’s team discovered that Roar’s group had stopped near Xiao Fan’s village and was preparing to ambush it.

Xiao Fan used the lights and Straw Men in his village to lure Roar’s group into an ambush when Combat Mode began. Roar killed Shui Tuntun after realizing his village had helped set the trap, but the ensuing fight threatened to wipe out Xiao Fan’s intended targets.

• Xiao Fan and his group watched Roar’s party while Straw Men patrolled the village as decoys.
• Roar sent an Apostle to scout, and the scout reported seeing figures patrolling inside the village.
• Combat Mode began under a blood-red moon, and Roar’s group charged into the village.
• Shui Tuntun discovered the patrol figures were dummies, and Xiao Fan’s masked group arrived and attacked Roar’s party.
• Roar suspected Shui Tuntun had betrayed him and stabbed him, eliminating him from the Trial Land.
• Roar ordered his group to kill Shui Tuntun’s villagers, and Xiao Fan realized they were killing his targets.

Xiao Fan’s team used a God-Tier Skill to defeat Roaring’s village and then raided nearby villages during the night. They returned to Yu Mo Village with mission progress at 9/50, while Yu Ling mapped which villages were cleared and which still had Apostles.

• Roaring ordered his Apostles to charge Xiao Fan’s team, then tried to flee, but a skill trapped his team with branches and Xiao Fan’s allies eliminated them.
• A masked woman killed Roaring as the phantom of a Mystic Turtle appeared, revealing the skill behind the strange phenomenon from the previous night.
• Xiao Fan checked the mission panel and saw that his progress was 1/50 after the first victory.
• Xiao Fan’s team wiped out ten nearby villages during the night, but two villages still had surviving Apostles, leaving his progress at 9/50.
• Xiao Fan led his exhausted team back to Yu Mo Village, where Yu Ling marked cleared villages and charted the villages that still had Apostles.

Xiao Fan split the team so they could earn points quickly and try to reach the top ten in Combat Mode. While Yu Mo’s group worried that Xiao Fan and the Pseudo-Apostles had gone missing, their points rose, showing that a village had been wiped out.

• Xiao Fan checked the leaderboard, saw his village ranked near the bottom, and decided they needed to earn points by attacking stronger villages.
• Xiao Fan split the team, taking Jian Qingfeng’s group to target defensive villages while Yu Mo’s group searched for villages already under attack.
• Xiao Fan led the Pseudo-Apostles to a hidden cave and helped forty-five of them create Elemental Skills using Monster Beast materials.
• Yu Mo and Yin grew suspicious when Xiao Fan’s group earned no points for two hours, but their score then increased by one hundred.
• Yu Mo decided his group should get moving and earn points while they waited for Xiao Fan.

Xiao Fan and his allies rapidly gained points by eliminating villages, while Yu Mo’s group realized Jiu Chen had likely helped Pseudo-Apostles create skills. Yu Ling chose to keep quiet and enjoy the benefits, and Xiao Fan prepared to lead everyone into another region.

• Xiao Fan and his allies cleared attack-focused villages, pushing their points higher and bringing his mission progress to 29/50.
• Yu Mo’s group questioned how their points could rise so quickly when Jiu Chen’s skill had a one-hour cooldown.
• Yu Ling concluded that Jiu Chen had probably helped the Pseudo-Apostles create Elemental Skills.
• Yu Ling offered the group the choice of pretending not to know or exposing the Pseudo-Apostles, then advised them to play dumb and lie back.
• Xiao Fan returned in the middle of the night and decided to take everyone to another region the next morning.

On the fourth day of Combat Mode, Xiao Fan’s team neared completion of its quest while Yu Mo’s Apostles confronted the history behind the Pseudo-Apostles and the Tokens of Four Extremes. Yu Ling argued that the tokens had always been meant for the Destined Ones.

• Xiao Fan saw that his team had reached rank 218 and needed to defeat one more village to complete the Secret Realm Quest.
• Yu Mo’s Apostles complained about being separated from Jian Qingfeng’s player team and feared the players might take the remaining Tokens of Four Extremes.
• An Apostle recounted how Destined Ones had taken six tokens, leading the continent to purge them and label them Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo agonized over choosing between family vengeance and protecting the continent from the growing Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Ling pointed out that no one from the continent had claimed a token in five thousand years and said the Tokens of Four Extremes were meant for the Destined Ones.

After completing the mission to clear fifty villages, Xiao Fan learned that he could leave the secret realm but chose to pursue the new Combat Mode ranking mission. His village entered the top hundred, and with less than two days remaining, he decided to unite the teams and challenge higher-ranked zones.

• Yu Ling told Yu Mo and the others to lie low, and Xiao Fan overheard that the Tokens of the Land of Four Extremes drove the conflict between Pseudo-Apostles and Apostles.
• The system announced that Xiao Fan had completed the village-clearing mission and could leave the secret realm, while the players celebrated having a way out.
• A new mission called for a top-ten Combat Mode ranking, and Xiao Fan persuaded the team to stay and pursue it.
• On the sixth day of Combat Mode, Apostle Village 48 from Zone 10 entered the top hundred and appeared on the map with the other leading teams.
• With less than two days left and the team gaining points slowly, Xiao Fan ordered everyone to merge teams and target higher-ranked zones.

Xiao Fan chose the fiftieth-ranked Apostle Village 27 in District 3 as his team’s next opponent, while Ying Qi’s team also set out to attack them. As the top teams watched and predicted Ying Qi’s victory, his team suddenly disappeared from the map.

• Xiao Fan decided to challenge teams from the top hundred and selected Apostle Village 27 in District 3, ranked fiftieth.
• Ying Qi judged Xiao Fan’s District 10 team an easy target and led his team toward them.
• Xiao Fan saw Ying Qi’s team approaching and welcomed the chance to meet them sooner.
• The top ten teams watched the two sides converge, and Great Wood God dismissed Xiao Fan’s team as lucky and backed Ying Qi.
• As the top teams mocked Xiao Fan’s chances, someone announced that Ying Qi’s team had disappeared from the map.

After Xiao Fan's team eliminated Ying Qi's team, Great Wood God urged the top ten villages to unite against them, warning that they might target established teams before Combat Mode ended. The other leaders remained reluctant as Xiao Fan's team headed for the twentieth-ranked team.

• Everyone discovered that Ying Qi's team had vanished from the map and Leaderboard, while Zone 10 Apostle Village 48 climbed to seventy-eighth.
• Great Wood God concluded that someone on Xiao Fan's team had created a high-level Elemental Skill, explaining their rapid rise and victory over Ying Qi's team.
• The leader of Village 9 privately persuaded Great Wood God to support a united resistance against Xiao Fan's team.
• Great Wood God proposed that all ten villages join forces, but the other leaders refused to commit because they expected to advance without him.
• Great Wood God warned that Xiao Fan's team could attack them before Combat Mode ended, then revealed that it was heading toward the twentieth-ranked team.

Great Wood God persuaded the District 10 captains to form alliances against Xiao Fan’s team, while Xiao Fan’s team continued hunting highly ranked opponents. After the twentieth-ranked team fled and allied groups gathered, Xiao Fan chose a group of ten teams as their next target.

• Great Wood God warned the District 10 captains that Xiao Fan’s team attacked stronger opponents and urged them to ally, winning their agreement.
• Xiao Fan’s team recalled how quickly they had eliminated the fiftieth-ranked team, and Yu Mo realized every Pseudo-Apostle had an Elemental Skill.
• Jian Qingfeng told Xiao Fan that the twentieth-ranked team was fleeing, while Falling Leaf reported that Top Hundred Teams were forming alliances.
• Xiao Fan rejected hunting teams outside the Top Hundred because there was too little time to reach the top ten.
• Xiao Fan found an allied group of ten teams on the map and chose them as the next target.

Xiao Fan led his team past the Fourteen-Team Alliance and the fleeing Thirteen-Team Alliance, aiming for the Great Wood God's allied team in the Top Ten. The onlookers realized his target was the Top Ten Alliance as his team headed straight toward it.

• Yu Mo asked Xiao Fan which team they were going to fight, but Xiao Fan kept the target secret and planned to attack in waves.
• The Fourteen-Team Alliance prepared to fight, then saw Xiao Fan's team pass them and felt relieved that they were not the target.
• The Thirteen-Team Alliance decided to flee rather than risk heavy losses, and other teams watched them run.
• The Thirteen-Team Alliance was not Xiao Fan's target either, and the onlookers realized his team was heading for the Top Ten Alliance.

The Village 9 Captain realized the Top Ten Alliance had left his team with little chance to advance, then saw Xiao Fan’s team heading toward the alliance. When Yu Mo feared the numbers against them, Xiao Fan inspired his team by declaring that a true warrior faced danger without retreating, and they continued toward the fight.

• The Village 9 Captain regretted joining the Top Ten Alliance and discovered that Xiao Fan’s team was approaching it.
• The Village 9 Captain kept the news from the Great Wood God, hoping the alliance could defeat Xiao Fan’s smaller team.
• Yu Mo protested when Xiao Fan confirmed that the Top Ten Alliance was their target, citing the enemy’s greater numbers and strength.
• Xiao Fan asked Yu Mo what it meant to be a warrior and declared that true warriors faced even certain death without retreating.
• Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and Yu Ling were moved by Xiao Fan’s words and recognized his courage.

Xiao Fan led his team toward the Top Ten Alliance and planned a ranged attack, but found the enemy gathered and unaware of their arrival. He decided to infiltrate the crowd and use his immobilizing skill, leaving his teammates worried as he approached without his mask.

• Xiao Fan reassured his team and ordered them to use ranged attacks and retreat when needed against the Top Ten Alliance.
• Xiao Fan reached the Top Ten Alliance’s location and found that its members had stayed in place, while the Village 9 Captain secretly planned to keep his Apostles behind the others.
• Great Wood God told the gathered alliance about the Lower Stream as the Village 9 Captain noticed Xiao Fan’s team approaching on the map.
• After a scout reported that the Top Ten Alliance was listening to Great Wood God, Xiao Fan ordered his team to prepare a ranged assault.
• Xiao Fan chose to infiltrate the crowd and activate his skill despite Yu Ling and Jian Qingfeng warning him of the danger, then removed his mask and approached the alliance.

Xiao Fan infiltrated the Top Ten Alliance’s gathering by disguising himself as one of its Apostles and using flattery to reach the center of the crowd. When the alliance discovered District 10’s team was nearby and prepared for battle, Xiao Fan activated Black Tortoise Domain.

• Xiao Fan sneaked into the Top Ten Alliance’s crowd, where its members mistook him for an Apostle from another village.
• Xiao Fan praised an Apostle into making room beside him, then pointed toward the Great Wood God when asked which village he came from.
• Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others waited nearby and reviewed their attack order, while Xiao Fan waited for the Great Wood God to approach.
• An Apostle checked the map, spotted District 10’s team next to the alliance, and alerted the Great Wood God.
• The Great Wood God moved toward the crowd and called everyone to prepare for battle, and Xiao Fan activated his God Rank skill, Black Tortoise Domain.

Xiao Fan and Jian Qingfeng’s team ambushed the Top Ten Alliance with binding and attack skills, killing Great Wood God and most of the alliance. With fewer than fifty enemies left, Yu Mo urged the team to pursue them.

• Xiao Fan activated a skill that bound the Top Ten Alliance with branches, while Jian Qingfeng killed Great Wood God with Wind Blades.
• Jian Qingfeng and the others attacked the trapped alliance members with Elemental Skills, and Xiao Fan killed a man who recognized him as part of the District 10 team.
• Xiao Fan ran ahead as the team followed their skills with arrows, then detonated his skill, killing two-thirds of the Top Ten Alliance.
• The Village 2 captain ordered the survivors to turn and fight, but Jian Qingfeng and the others launched another barrage of skills and killed most of them.
• Yu Mo called for the team to chase the remaining enemies, as fewer than fifty of the alliance’s five hundred members remained.

Xiao Fan and his team defeated the Top Ten Alliance, shocking the other Top Hundred teams. A captain suspected the District 10 team were disguised Pseudo-Apostles, and grew suspicious of their choice to target the Top Ten Alliance.

• Xiao Fan, Yu Mo, and the others chased down the fleeing Top Ten Alliance and eliminated its members.
• The other Top Hundred teams watched the Top Ten Alliance disappear from the map and struggled to understand how it had been defeated so quickly.
• A team captain concluded that the District 10 team were likely Pseudo-Apostles who had concealed their identities and grown powerful.
• The captain checked the Leaderboard and saw Apostle Village 48, Zone 10 in first place with 43,591 Points.
• The captain recalled that the District 10 team had bypassed two alliances to attack the Top Ten Alliance and suspected their choice was strange.