Chapter Summaries

After the Blue Star servers merged, Xiao Fan read about the surviving systems, new features, and seven-day triple rewards before entering the game. He claimed a meager 200 Core Power reward and saw the newly combined playerbase flooding the World Channel.

• Xiao Fan learned that the Black Nation Server had retained the Player Battlefield and reasoned that removed systems would stop developing, though existing player data would remain and materials would be compensated.
• Xiao Fan read about server-wide broadcasts, a small merger reward, increased City Building Token drops, and seven days of triple experience, Core Power, and rewards; he wondered what Black Face Village Movie was.
• Xiao Fan entered the game and claimed his server merger reward, receiving only 200 Core Power.
• Xiao Fan opened the World Channel and saw players complaining about the reward, recruiting, seeking relatives, and arranging duels across the merged servers.

Xiao Fan explored the gameplay systems added by the server merge and discovered that the Butterfly ring had accumulated half its energy. He found that he needed a token to enter Black Face Village and that he could use Player Battlefield for PvP, while the Gem System could not upgrade his transformed equipment.

• Xiao Fan saw Shen Long and Cangqiong announce their recruitment and trade plans for City of Kings, then was shocked by the cost of a server-wide broadcast.
• Xiao Fan discovered that Zhuangzi's Dream of the Butterfly had reached fifty percent energy and suspected the server merge had filled it halfway.
• Xiao Fan tried to enter Black Face Village but learned that he needed the map's token.
• Xiao Fan studied Player Battlefield's team formats, ranks, schedule, and matchmaking limits, then planned to use it to train for the Life and Death Contest.
• Xiao Fan redeemed his previously created handgun and confirmed that gems could only be socketed into equipment that had not undergone Armor Transformation.

After the servers merged, Xiao Fan’s party explored the crowded wilderness, saw the growing conflicts between players, and decided to tackle newly revealed Secret Realms. Back in Yanhuang City, Xiao Fan noticed that officials charged visitors from other servers and entered the battlefield with Ye Bugu’s party.

• Xiao Fan joined Fatty and the I Kick Your Lung sisters to leave the city and level up during triple event time.
• Qin Muyu explained the other servers’ distinctive player styles and revealed that some Jing City families had joined Dragon Nation; Xiao Fan chose not to probe her secrets.
• Xiao Fan’s party saw frequent fights between players from the four servers, cleared two Secret Realms, and found that someone had already killed the Wild Boss.
• Xiao Fan suggested that the party explore newly revealed Secret Realms the next day, since first-clear rewards were especially valuable during triple-reward time.
• The party returned to Yanhuang City, where Xiao Fan saw officials expel a Black Nation player for attacking someone and realized the city charged visitors an entrance fee.
• Xiao Fan formed a 20v20 battlefield party with Ye Bugu and accepted a match.

Xiao Fan’s team easily won three battlefield matches before facing a White Nation team armed with a rocket launcher. Xiao Fan held his team back while Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu went invisible to attack the rocket launcher, and the chapter ended as the White Nation team realized two opponents were missing.

• Xiao Fan’s team won three matches against Dragon Nation teams, raising his battlefield level to two.
• Xiao Fan matched into a 20v20 battle against a White Nation team with several ranged fighters and a rocket launcher.
• Xiao Fan ordered Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu to use stealth and take out the rocket launcher player while he stayed back to support his teammates.
• The White Captain ordered his team to approach and have the rocket launcher fire at Xiao Fan’s group, believing they had no way to ambush them on the simple map.
• Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu went invisible and moved behind the rocket launcher player as the White Nation team advanced.
• The White Nation team noticed Xiao Fan’s side seemed short of players, then heard a scream from behind.

Qin Muyu and Ye Bugu ambushed the White team, killing Rocket before escaping with their skills. Xiao Fan regrouped with them, and the Dragon Nation team wiped out the White team, giving Xiao Fan his fourth consecutive win.

• Qin Muyu killed Rocket while Ye Bugu failed to pick up his dropped rocket launcher, and the two retreated as the White team attacked.
• Ye Bugu used Phantom Shift to escape, and Qin Muyu turned transparent and disappeared when the White team attacked her.
• Xiao Fan pulled Qin Muyu back to the Dragon Nation team, which appeared behind the White team with him.
• Fatty challenged the White team to fight, and Xiao Fan and the others defeated them after their ranged advantage failed.
• Xiao Fan returned to his room after earning four consecutive wins.

Xiao Fan matched against Zong Heng’s Jing City team in his final Player Battlefield round. Zong Heng saw Xiao Fan as a chance to restore his standing, but Xiao Fan ignored his taunts and flew into battle with Armor Transformation.

• Xiao Fan recognized Zong Heng across the battlefield and realized his final match had paired him against the Jing City Server.
• Zong Heng blamed Xiao Fan and Chen Xuewei for his disgrace after the Puppet Tomb match and decided to defeat Xiao Fan to regain his family’s favor.
• Zong Heng’s teammates warned him that Xiao Fan ranked third on the planetwide Combat Power Leaderboard, but Zong Heng dismissed Xiao Fan’s strength and taunted him in chat.
• Xiao Fan stopped his teammates from replying and decided to end the match quickly after Zong Heng called him a coward and accused him of relying on dirty tricks.
• Xiao Fan activated Armor Transformation, spread golden wings, and flew toward Zong Heng’s team as Fatty and the others expected to be carried.

Xiao Fan overwhelmed Zong Heng’s team with a Thunder Dragon in the Player Battlefield, leaving Zong Heng and his companions terrified of his strength. The next morning, Xiao Fan prepared supplies and set out to spend several days leveling in the wilderness.

• Xiao Fan revealed golden wings and summoned a Thunder Dragon, wiping out Zong Heng’s team with one skill and securing his fifth battlefield victory of the night.
• After the match, Zong Heng and his teammates discussed Xiao Fan’s power, and several decided they might leave Zong Heng’s party.
• Zong Heng abandoned his grudge against Xiao Fan and chose not to warn his family about their plan to eliminate Jiu Chen.
• The next morning, Xiao Fan prepared to remain in the wilderness until the event ended, and Fatty suggested he bring extra supplies to sell at temporary settlements.
• Xiao Fan packed more supplies into his Space Ring and left the city with his party.

Xiao Fan disguised his face before leaving Yanhuang City with his team, while Li Aohan and Yun Pei arrived hoping to challenge Jiu Chen. Unable to find Jiu Chen, Li Aohan decided to target his teammates to draw him out.

• Xiao Fan used a skill to change his face, then led his team out of the city.
• Li Aohan questioned his followers about Jiu Chen's whereabouts, and they admitted they did not know.
• Yun Pei told Li Aohan that Jiu Chen's absence was understandable and urged him to focus on leveling during the remaining six days of the event.
• Li Aohan recalled his doubts about Xiao Fan's combat ranking and resolved to challenge him to prove his own strength.
• After failing to find Jiu Chen, Li Aohan decided to go after Jiu Chen's teammates and led his group out of the city.

Xiao Fan and his group headed for a new Level 65 Special Secret Realm amid growing tensions between Dragon Nation players and the merged servers. They found White Nation and Black Nation teams blocking the entrance, and the chapter ended with the Dragon Nation players looking to Xiao Fan for help.

• Xiao Fan and his group discussed crowded leveling zones, the risks of future conflict, and how Blood Bar Healing had reduced player deaths.
• Xiao Fan led the group toward a newly appeared twenty-five-person Secret Realm that still had its first clear available.
• Xiao Fan and his group arrived to find White Nation and Black Nation players blocking the entrance while two Dragon Nation teams faced them.
• A Dragon Nation player told Xiao Fan that the foreign teams claimed the Secret Realm for themselves and would not let others enter.
• The Dragon Nation player explained that his side had only three teams against at least ten foreign teams, leaving them unable to force their way past.

Xiao Fan joined two Dragon Nation teams facing foreign players who were blocking a Secret Realm entrance and trying to seal it with Barrier Stones. As the foreign team mocked them, someone arrived behind Xiao Fan and challenged the blockade.

• Xiao Fan and his companions saw that foreign teams greatly outnumbered Dragon Nation players at the Secret Realm entrance.
• Xiao Fan agreed to join the two Dragon Nation teams, and they approached the foreign players blocking the entrance.
• Xiao Fan introduced himself as Huang Quan to team leaders Flying Fish and Old Crab, who learned he was level 90 and carrying his friends.
• The foreign players mocked the Dragon Nation teams for trying to claim access to the Secret Realm.
• A voice behind Xiao Fan demanded to know who dared block the entrance.

Xiao Fan faced a Jing City team led by Li Aohan, who had come to challenge Jiu Chen. Xiao Fan avoided accepting the duel by invoking the Combat Power Leaderboard, but Pei Mei then suggested a solution that excited Li Aohan.

• Li Aohan asked whether Xiao Fan's team was Jiu Chen's and insisted that he had come to find Jiu Chen.
• Xiao Fan admitted he was Jiu Chen, but Li Aohan dismissed him as an impostor and handed him a challenge letter for a duel after the event in Yanhuang City.
• Xiao Fan learned that Li Aohan's team came from the Jing City players who had joined Dragon Nation and worried about the political consequences of fighting them.
• Xiao Fan said Jiu Chen would only accept challenges from players in the Combat Power Leaderboard's top ten, and Li Aohan realized he did not qualify.
• Pei Mei whispered an idea to Li Aohan, whose eyes lit up as he praised her cleverness.

Xiao Fan bargained with Li Aohan, who had blocked the Secret Realm entrance, and agreed to persuade Jiu Chen to accept a challenge if Li Aohan’s team proved its strength by clearing the Secret Realm first. After Li Aohan secured access, both teams entered Disordered Temple, while five of his players stayed behind to keep Jiu Chen’s team from leaving.

• Li Aohan offered to let the teams enter the Secret Realm if Xiao Fan got Jiu Chen to accept his challenge.
• Xiao Fan proposed that Li Aohan prove his strength by clearing the Secret Realm before their team, and Li Aohan accepted.
• Li Aohan persuaded the foreign players to leave the entrance, then allowed Xiao Fan’s team and Flying Fish and Old Crab’s team to enter.
• Xiao Fan’s team entered the twenty-five-player Special Secret Realm, Disordered Temple.
• Li Aohan ordered five players to guard the entrance and prevent Jiu Chen’s team from fleeing, then entered the Secret Realm with his team.

Five players from Jing City waited outside Disordered Temple and learned that Jiu Chen's team had already claimed its first clear. Inside, Li Aohan and his group struggled against a Boss, while Li Aohan realized he could not clear the secret realm and ignored a message telling him to come out.

• The five players from Jing City speculated that teams were still inside because Disordered Temple could be cleared that day.
• The system announced that Jiu Chen, Ye Bugu, Soul Piercer, Dazhuang, and I Kick Your Lung had achieved the server's first clear of Disordered Temple.
• The five players confirmed the announcement referred to the secret realm before them and sent Li Aohan a message that Jiu Chen was about to emerge.
• Li Aohan and his exhausted group stood before a towering Boss in the ancient city's Central Plaza, unable to advance through the twenty-five-player secret realm.
• A teammate reassured Li Aohan that Jiu Chen might have started earlier and that they could still win their bet by finishing first.
• Li Aohan received the outside message, grew angry, and closed it without replying because his team could not get past even one Boss.

Xiao Fan revealed himself as Jiu Chen after clearing the Secret Realm with his team, leaving the Jing City Players stranded while Li Aohan remained inside. His team departed to rest before tackling more Secret Realms, and the five Jing City Players anxiously waited for Li Aohan as night approached.

• The five Jing City Players wondered why Jiu Chen's teammates had emerged from the Secret Realm while Li Aohan's team had not.
• The fatty explained that Players could only leave after clearing the Secret Realm, and Xiao Fan told the Jing City Players that Li Aohan was unqualified to challenge him unless he reached the Combat Power Leaderboard's top ten.
• Xiao Fan revealed that he was Jiu Chen, then led his team away after warning the Jing City Players about the Invisible Monsters that appeared at night.
• The team discussed the Secret Realm's difficult mechanics and generous rewards, and Xiao Fan decided they would rest at a nearby settlement before clearing other Secret Realms the next day.
• The five Jing City Players feared being attacked by Invisible Monsters after dark and hurried to message Li Aohan about Jiu Chen's identity and ask when his team would emerge.

Dragon Nation Players were publicly confronted by White Nation Players after complaining about foreign Players stealing their monsters. The chapter ended with the White Nation leader demanding that they kneel, kowtow, and publicly call Dragon Nation Players trash, leaving them humiliated and furious.

• Dragon Nation Players complained about foreign teams stealing their monsters and making it difficult to level.
• A young White Nation player mocked them for criticizing foreign Players, and they apologized to avoid a conflict.
• The White Nation player's companions accused the Dragon Nation Players of badmouthing them, drawing ridicule from the gathered Players.
• A Dragon Nation player challenged the young white man to say what he wanted, and the man demanded a hundred kowtows and a hundred World Channel posts calling Dragon Nation Players trash.
• The Dragon Nation Players refused to accept the humiliating demand and trembled with anger.

Xiao Fan arrived as Dragon Nation players were being threatened with death unless they kowtowed, and silently killed the man who attacked one of his compatriots. The white young man apologized, but Xiao Fan rejected the excuse and left him facing consequences.

• The white young man threatened the Dragon Nation players with death unless they knelt and kowtowed a hundred times.
• Xiao Fan and his team arrived, and one of the threatened players urged them to leave before they were endangered.
• A burly man struck a Dragon Nation player for speaking, and Xiao Fan demanded to know who had done it.
• The burly man mocked Xiao Fan, then suddenly died from an unseen attack.
• The white young man realized Xiao Fan had killed the burly man and tried to pass off the earlier threats as a joke.
• Xiao Fan refused to accept the white young man's apology as enough.

Xiao Fan confronted the White Nation young man over a clash with Dragon Nation players, but the young man invoked his father Cannon, a renowned top player, to try to escape consequences. The Dragon Nation players urged Xiao Fan to accept an apology, while the young man secretly planned revenge and asked Xiao Fan who he was.

• Xiao Fan demanded that the White Nation young man kneel and kowtow a thousand times and post a thousand insults about White Nation on the World Channel.
• The young man threatened Xiao Fan by revealing that his father was Cannon, White Nation's strongest, and then offered an apology to end the dispute.
• Xiao Fan remembered Cannon's reputation, and the Dragon Nation players became alarmed and stepped in to urge him to let the matter go.
• The young man pretended to apologize and privately vowed to take revenge once Cannon returned.
• Believing Xiao Fan had accepted the apology, the young man asked for his name.

Xiao Fan attacked the young white man after realizing he would seek revenge, but the man’s gilded shield blocked Xiao Fan’s first sword strike. Xiao Fan then pulled him and his subordinates back with his skill and killed him with two more sword strikes.

• The young white man fled and ordered his subordinates to run after Xiao Fan warned him he would not get the chance to take revenge.
• Xiao Fan summoned a purple sword and launched a Heaven-Tier Skill attack at the fleeing young white man.
• The young white man used a gilded shield from his father to block the attack, but the shield shattered under the sword energy.
• Xiao Fan used his skill to pull the young white man and his subordinates back toward him.
• Xiao Fan struck the young white man with two sword-energy attacks, reducing his HP to zero.

Xiao Fan killed Cannon’s son and claimed to be Huang Quan from the City of Kings, driving the young man’s terrified followers and the other foreign players away. He reassured the remaining Dragon Nation players that the identity he gave them was fake.

• Xiao Fan killed Cannon’s son in front of the gathered players, shocking the crowd with the power of his Heaven-Tier Skill.
• Xiao Fan told the young man’s subordinates that his name was Huang Quan from the City of Kings and dared Cannon to seek revenge.
• Xiao Fan threatened the subordinates, who fled with the dead young man’s body, and the other foreign players soon left as well.
• Dragon Nation players warned Xiao Fan that Cannon would retaliate and that Shen Long might not protect him.
• Xiao Fan reassured the remaining players that Huang Quan and the City of Kings were fake information.

After the foreign players fled, Xiao Fan dismissed the Dragon Nation players’ worries about Cannon and hinted the fugitives might not escape. The white youth’s subordinates devised a cover story for Cannon, but a black figure attacked them before they could send it.

• The Dragon Nation players apologized to Xiao Fan for exposing him, and he said Cannon posed no threat to him.
• Xiao Fan suggested Ye Bugu and Qin Muyu might still be pursuing the fleeing players.
• The white youth’s subordinates panicked over Cannon’s likely punishment and agreed to claim Huang Quan had overwhelmed them and killed their young master.
• As the eldest subordinate opened a message to Cannon, a black figure appeared behind him and slit his throat.