Chapter Summaries

After Xiao Fan’s team reached first place, the other Top Hundred Teams gathered and prepared to attack what they believed was a Pseudo-Apostle team. Xiao Fan and his teammates realized they were surrounded, leaving Yu Ling worried about how they could conceal his identity and protect Jian Qingfeng and the others.

• A captain reasoned that the Top Ten Alliance’s small size made it vulnerable to a powerful Pseudo-Apostle team, then urged the other teams to unite and attack before Combat Mode ended.
• After the Top Ten Alliance was wiped out, ten newly promoted teams appeared, and all the Top Hundred Teams began moving toward the center.
• Xiao Fan received confirmation that his second mission was complete after his team claimed first place, though no third-round mission appeared.
• Yu Mo praised Xiao Fan and again asked to be his son, but Xiao Fan rejected him.
• Yu Ling pointed out that the other teams’ red dots had gathered together, and suggested they planned to attack because they suspected Xiao Fan’s team was made up of Pseudo-Apostles.
• Xiao Fan’s teammates insisted he had always lived in their village, while Yu Ling worried about concealing his identity and protecting Jian Qingfeng and the others.

Yu Ling and her team realized that the Top Hundred Alliance had identified Xiao Fan and the other Pseudo-Apostles, leaving them at risk of being hunted across the Trial Land. Xiao Fan warned that fleeing would not be enough and urged the native Apostles to leave so they would not be dragged into the conflict.

• Yu Ling recalled how she had decided to stay with Xiao Fan after suspecting he was the Destined One, but worried when the Top Hundred Teams joined forces against them.
• Yu Mo suggested running away from the Top Hundred Alliance, and Yin agreed that they could survive until Combat Mode ended.
• Xiao Fan warned that other teams throughout the Trial Land might hunt them too, though they could still leave the secret realm if necessary.
• Xiao Fan told Yu Mo, Yu Ling, and the other native Apostles to leave the team so they would not be endangered or suspected of sheltering Pseudo-Apostles.
• Yu Mo and the others were moved by Xiao Fan's apparent concern, while Xiao Fan privately feared they might betray the team.

Yu Mo and the others stayed with Xiao Fan as his team prepared to face the Top Hundred Alliance and the other teams gathered against them. The alliance marched toward Xiao Fan’s team, unaware that the scouts’ report had given Xiao Fan a new plan.

• Yu Mo and the others chose to stay, and Xiao Fan led his team into battle rather than retreating.
• The Village 9 Captain escaped Xiao Fan’s area attack and rallied the Top Hundred Teams and nearby teams into an Anti-Apostle force of more than six thousand.
• The Village 9 Captain reassured the alliance that Xiao Fan’s skills had limited range and cooldowns, and the force marched toward the Pseudo-Apostles.
• The Village 9 Captain saw on the map that Xiao Fan’s team was heading straight toward the alliance, while its members assumed the team was walking into a trap.
• One of Xiao Fan’s scouts returned with news that teams outside the Top Hundred had joined the alliance, and Xiao Fan devised a new plan.

Xiao Fan sent his team to infiltrate the Anti-Apostle Alliance while he stayed behind to pursue a personal challenge quest. The Village 9 Captain discovered the infiltrators and began sorting the alliance by village, leaving Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others facing imminent exposure as they waited for their turn.

• Xiao Fan split his team into small groups that quietly joined the Anti-Apostle Alliance, then told Jian Qingfeng to lead the remaining members in while he stayed behind to tackle his personal challenge quest.
• The Village 9 Captain noticed Xiao Fan's team's map marker had vanished and deduced that the team had infiltrated the alliance.
• The Village 9 Captain warned the alliance that Pseudo-Apostles were among them and ordered everyone to regroup by village, threatening to kill anyone who tried to leave.
• Yu Ling told Yu Mo and the others to gather with their village near the edge of a Top Hundred Team, while Jian Qingfeng's group regrouped nearby and realized Xiao Fan was absent.
• Jian Qingfeng proposed using their skills to hold off the people checking them and then flee, and he quietly warned the group to get ready as their turn approached.

Jian Qingfeng’s group escaped the Anti-Apostle Grand Group amid panic caused by Xiao Fan’s invisible underground attacks, which earned him challenge Points. The allied Apostles eventually split up to evade the killer, giving Xiao Fan an easier chance to hunt them, while Qingfeng Jian sneaked back toward the group.

• Yu Mo gave the search party a false village number, and a sudden report of Pseudo-Apostles threw the crowd into chaos before the searchers could expose him.
• Jian Qingfeng led his team away while the Village 9 Captain investigated reports of Apostles vanishing and noticed Village 48, Zone 10 moving away on the map.
• Xiao Fan used Earth Escape Technique and Gold Spike to eliminate Apostles from underground and gain challenge Points.
• Village 9 Captain realized the killer was underground, but the Apostles could not stop Xiao Fan from striking again.
• Village 9 Captain ordered the allied team to split up, and Xiao Fan welcomed the scattered red dots as easier targets.
• Qingfeng Jian saw the allied team split up and sneaked back toward them.

After the Anti-Apostle Alliance disbanded, Xiao Fan and the Masked Squad hunted the Top Hundred Teams to farm Points, wiping out team after team. With less than two hours left in Combat Mode, the remaining teams began splitting up, and Xiao Fan found only one person at the next set of coordinates.

• The Village 9 Captain watched the alliance scatter and decided he was better off surviving alone.
• Xiao Fan emerged from underground in front of Jian Qingfeng, Yu Mo, and the others, then promised to teach Yu Mo the burrowing skill after Combat Mode.
• Xiao Fan sent the Masked Squad after Top Hundred Teams, having his companions damage opponents while he finished them off with elemental attacks.
• The Masked Squad wiped out numerous ranked villages, leaving the Top Hundred Teams terrified and desperate to avoid being eliminated.
• With less than two hours remaining, the Top Hundred Teams decided to split up, and Xiao Fan found a lone person at the coordinates he had followed.

Xiao Fan reached 10,000 Challenge Points while hunting apostles, but Falling Leaf was killed by a Gold Element Fusion Apostle just before Combat Mode ended. Xiao Fan chased the killer and, with the countdown nearly over, eliminated him using his underground skill.

• Yu Mo urged Xiao Fan to stop eliminating people, but Xiao Fan persuaded the group to continue and burrowed underground to farm more points.
• Xiao Fan found a forty-member team, pursued them, and encountered Jian Qingfeng and Falling Leaf.
• A hidden Gold Element Fusion Apostle killed Falling Leaf with a surprise attack, and Jian Qingfeng mourned his fellow disciple.
• Xiao Fan reached 10,000 Challenge Points, promised Jian Qingfeng he would avenge Falling Leaf, and raced after the killer.
• The Gold Element Fusion Apostle attacked Xiao Fan, but Xiao Fan burrowed underground and caused the killer to dissolve just before Combat Mode ended.

After Combat Mode ended, Jiu Chen used the Resurrection Art to bring Falling Leaf back to life. Before the secret realm closed, Xiao Fan gave Yu Mo a paper containing skills and departed with his companions.

• Combat Mode ended, and the system announced the ten villages advancing to the Lower Stream and the players' impending ejection from the secret realm.
• Falling Leaf, buried after his death, received Jiu Chen's resurrection invitation and accepted it before his remaining time ran out.
• Jian Qingfeng saw Falling Leaf move in the grave, then watched him cough, sit up, and reveal that Jiu Chen had resurrected him.
• Xiao Fan explained that the Resurrection Art let him revive Falling Leaf after avenging him, then handed Yu Mo a paper with skills.
• Xiao Fan and his companions vanished as the secret realm closed, and Yu Ling wondered whether the voice announcing Combat Mode's end had sounded like Boss Jiu Chen.

Xiao Fan cleared the Land of Four Extremes, earned major rewards including a God Rank Wood Seed Jade Bone, and emerged from the secret realm. Zhou He’s rescue team was relieved to see Jian Qingfeng and Jiu Chen return, and Jian Qingfeng said Jiu Chen had saved them from being trapped.

• Xiao Fan received clearing rewards, including an Evolution Bead and an extra Evolution Bead from the Lone Brave title.
• Xiao Fan unlocked the Level Four challenge reward by earning ten thousand Points and received a God Rank Wood Seed Jade Bone.
• Zhou He waited with a hundred-man team at the reappeared secret realm entrance, planning to enter if the trapped players did not emerge by sunset.
• Falling Leaf and the Shen Sect team emerged, followed by Jian Qingfeng, while Zhou He asked where Jiu Chen was.
• Xiao Fan emerged, and Jian Qingfeng told Zhou He that Jiu Chen had saved them from being trapped in the secret realm.

After returning from the secret realm, Xiao Fan heard about the new Healing Potion and the plan to bring high school students into the game, while Shen Long learned that Falling Leaf had returned. The chapter left Shen Long suspecting that Jiu Chen had rescued Falling Leaf.

• Falling Leaf added Xiao Fan as a friend and left with his people, while Jian Qingfeng said his return to Shen Long would cause trouble for the City of Kings.
• On the journey back to Dragon City, Xiao Fan recounted the secret realm, and Zhou He told him the country had developed a stronger Healing Potion and planned to sell it at the Bai Family's old price.
• Zhou He said researchers had found no diary from the level 80 Boss on Conqueror Island, but Xiao Fan believed the item had a low drop rate and urged them to keep farming.
• Zhou He told Xiao Fan that high school students would soon enter the game and that his younger cousins had been assigned to Zone 18; Xiao Fan planned to give them Heaven Spirit Treasures and explain skill creation.
• Xiao Fan and the others returned to bustling, level-five Dragon City, while Shen Long received word that Falling Leaf had returned and guessed Jiu Chen had brought him out of the secret realm.

Xiao Fan exchanged for a Treasure Map in Dragon City's Contribution Point Exchange Mall and prepared to return to Yanhuang City. Before leaving, he unexpectedly encountered Crush Your Bird.

• Qian Juduo brought Xiao Fan Talent Stones and Heavenly Spirit Treasures, then asked him for help obtaining a Profession change slot.
• Xiao Fan told Qian Juduo to go to Chief Zhou for the Profession change slot and asked him to watch for unknown items on the market.
• Xiao Fan visited the Contribution Point Exchange Mall, found Star Stones on the fourth floor, and bought a Treasure Map on the fifth floor.
• Xiao Fan discovered that the Treasure Map pointed to the Monster Region and kept 200,000 contribution points to test whether they remained usable after leaving the city.
• Xiao Fan planned to return to Yanhuang City and was surprised to find Crush Your Bird still there.

Xiao Fan offered to escort Crush Your Bird back to Yanhuang City, then left Dragon City after speaking with Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng. On the journey, Zijin advanced to the Growth Stage, and Xiao Fan decided he wanted to bring her into the Real World.

• Xiao Fan invited Crush Your Bird to travel with him to Yanhuang City, and she eagerly accepted.
• At Zhou He's residence, Zhou He promised to send Xiao Fan the collected Star Stones, while Jian Qingfeng asked whether his Evolution Bead could create a God Rank profession.
• Xiao Fan told Jian Qingfeng that the Token of Four Extremes might turn an Evolution Bead into an attribute Evolution Bead, giving Jian Qingfeng hope of obtaining a God Rank profession.
• Xiao Fan withdrew from Dragon City, froze his unused contribution points, and rode toward Yanhuang City with Crush Your Bird.
• During the journey, Xiao Fan discovered that Zijin had advanced to Level 300 and gained the Heavenly Lightning Purple Eyes element, which also raised his Life Lightning Element to Heaven Rank.
• Xiao Fan decided that he would use his chance to bring Zijin into the Real World if it was possible, while Crush Your Bird wondered whether he had gone crazy.

Xiao Fan returned to Yanhuang City with Crush Your Bird and reunited with his battered team. Concerned that Bai Qian’s Bai Family ties made her a risk to his relatives, he told her to leave, and she departed despite having grown attached to the team.

• Crush Your Bird thanked Xiao Fan for escorting her back to Yanhuang City and went home, promising to introduce him to her younger sister, I Kick Your Lung.
• Xiao Fan met Fatty, Xiao Yi, and the others, who explained that they had failed to clear a dungeon rather than been robbed.
• Xiao Fan noticed Bai Qian was still with the team and told her she did not need to return the next day because they no longer needed a healer.
• Liu Xiujuan, Fatty, and Qin Muyu questioned Xiao Fan’s decision, but he worried the Bai Family might target his relatives after the Healing Potion business threatened them.
• Xiao Fan confronted Bai Qian about why she had joined the team, and she accepted that she had to leave despite valuing the team’s camaraderie.

Bai Qian returned home after Jiu Chen fired her and learned that government Healing Potions had ended the Bai Family’s monopoly in Dragon City. As Third Master Bai considered retaliating and sought information about the Island of Light, Xiao Fan’s team left for home and began explaining the unusually difficult secret realm.

• Bai Qian complained to Third Master Bai that Jiu Chen had discovered her reason for joining the team and dismissed her.
• Third Master Bai told Bai Qian that government Healing Potions had undercut the Bai Family’s sales, and he suspected Jiu Chen had withheld Water of Life before giving some to the family.
• Third Master Bai said the family would stop selling Healing Potions in Dragon City and Yanhuang City, focus on City of Kings, and have Bai Qian seek information about Island of Light from Jiu Chen.
• Bai Qian told Third Master Bai that Jiu Chen had fired her, and Third Master Bai ordered an investigation while threatening to retaliate against him.
• Xiao Fan’s team stopped discussing Bai Qian and told him that the secret realm they had entered was far more difficult than ordinary secret realms.

Xiao Fan learned that the Twelve Heavens Execution secret realm had stalled his friends and promised to help clear it after logging out the next day. He also discovered that Zijin faced a dangerous Lightning Tribulation and asked her about absorbing Element Seeds, revealing that he already possessed two.

• Xiao Fan heard that the Twelve Heavens Execution had twelve Bosses, and his friends had not defeated even one because a Boss kept summoning minions.
• Xiao Fan agreed to help his friends clear the secret realm after logging out the next day and invited his uncle and aunt to log out with him.
• Xiao Fan called Zijin and learned that her growth-stage advancement had summoned a powerful Lightning Tribulation that could threaten them both because of their Life Bond.
• Zijin told Xiao Fan that a Lightning-Avoiding Fruit or another Heavenly Spirit Treasure could reduce the lightning damage, and Xiao Fan committed the advice to memory.
• Xiao Fan asked Zijin about absorbing an Element Seed, then showed her an Earth Rank Ghost Fire and a God Rank Jade Bone Wood.

Bai Shu and Bai Cangsheng blamed Jiu Chen for damaging the Bai Family's reputation and secretly planned to target his younger siblings in the Novice Zone. Meanwhile, Sea City No. 1 High School's students prepared for their Cloud Sea Forest exam, relying on Jiu Chen's custom skills and team tactics.

• Bai Shu realized the government’s cheaper, more effective Healing Potions had exposed the Bai Family’s claims and damaged its reputation.
• Bai Cangsheng proposed kidnapping Jiu Chen, but Bai Yuxin warned that he was too powerful to underestimate, and Bai Shu ordered his son to stand down.
• Bai Cangsheng told Bai Shu that Jiu Chen’s younger siblings were entering the Novice Zone, then proposed using a Beast Attracting Bead to lure Fierce Beasts to them.
• Bai Shu approved the plan on the condition that it be carried out discreetly.
• At Sea City No. 1 High School, the teacher reminded students to review their preparations for the Cloud Sea Forest exam and dismissed the class.
• The students began forming teams by choosing players whose classes and roles fit their tactics.

Xiao An and Xiao Le remained undecided about their Skill Chains, while Wang Pengfei resented their reserved place in Zone 18 and tried to undermine Li Ming’s willingness to team up with them. After leaving school, Wang Pengfei accepted a mysterious man’s business card and a chance to enter Zone 18 in exchange for an undisclosed favor.

• Li Ming asked Xiao An and Xiao Le to join his group, but they said they had not chosen their Skill Chains yet.
• Wang Pengfei mocked Li Ming for waiting for the siblings and complained that they had a reserved place in Zone 18 because of their cousin Xiao Fan.
• Li Ming defended Xiao An and Xiao Le, and Wang Pengfei left after his attempt to turn them against each other failed.
• A Black-Clad Man offered Wang Pengfei a way into Zone 18 in exchange for doing something for his family.
• Wang Pengfei took the man’s business card and agreed to contact him after receiving his Zone 18 acceptance notice, though the favor remained unexplained.

Xiao Fan returned from Cloud Sea with attribute-boosting Heavenly Spirit Treasures and prepared his younger siblings Xiao An and Xiao Le for their first game entry. After giving them the treasures, Heaven-Tier Skill Chains, and his knowledge of Zone 18, he sent them off to their exams while he and his parents returned to the game.

• Xiao Fan materialized Heavenly Spirit Treasures for Xiao An and Xiao Le, paying seventy million Core Power.
• Xiao Fan reunited with Xiao Yi and Liu Xiujuan, then shared a meal with his family after Xiao An and Xiao Le came home.
• Xiao Fan gave Xiao An and Xiao Le attribute-boosting Heavenly Spirit Treasures and explained that they would use the increased attributes to create Heaven-Tier Skills.
• Xiao An and Xiao Le ate the treasures, felt their bodies grow stronger, and learned Xiao Fan's Skill Chains and detailed guidance about Zone 18.
• Xiao An and Xiao Le left for school confident they would win their exams, while Xiao Yi and Liu Xiujuan decided to return to the game rather than wait for them.

Xiao Fan returned with Xiao Yi and the others to tackle the Twelve Heavens Execution dungeon, but their group struggled to recruit a fourth party after other players mistook them for a weak carry team. As Feng Qi offered to call in another party, a familiar voice appeared behind them and offered to team up.

• Xiao Yi and the others logged in early, and Xiao Yi said they had rushed back to tackle the dungeon with Xiao Fan.
• Xiao Fan's party traveled to the level 60 Twilight Rainforest and met Ye Bugu and the Yanhuang City's official team at the dungeon gathering point.
• Ye Bugu explained that Emperor's party had joined another group, so the party tried to recruit a replacement at the entrance.
• Fatty insulted the recruiting parties, who retaliated by mocking the group and calling them a carry team.
• The insults made other players refuse to join, so Feng Qi offered to call in another party, but a familiar voice appeared and asked to team up.

Xiao Fan joined Bai Qian and the other teams to enter the Twelve Heavens Execution secret realm, where they began testing its twelve Zodiac Bosses. The chapter left Xiao Fan's team facing the Rabbit Boss, Shattered Frost, and its first summoned minion.

• Bai Qian asked to join Xiao Fan's group, and he agreed to let her team tag along.
• The four teams entered Twelve Heavens Execution and saw twelve human-bodied, animal-headed Bosses arranged around a vast plaza.
• The teams chose different Bosses to test, and Xiao Fan's team selected the Rabbit.
• Xiao Fan activated the platform device, and all four teams ascended to their Bosses' platforms together.
• Shattered Frost and twelve minions attacked Xiao Fan's team; Xiao Fan noticed the Boss and minions had unusually high health.
• A five-second countdown appeared, and Shattered Frost summoned an Undying minion.