Chapter Summaries

Xiao Fan realized Leopard Woman had been struck by the first bolt of Zijin’s Lightning Tribulation, while Zijin prepared to face the second. Across the Monster Region, Players mistook the tribulation for a dangerous weather zone as magical beasts watched in dread, and Fairy Fish paused torturing Players to observe the storm.

• Xiao Fan spotted Leopard Woman charred and motionless after she fled from beneath Zijin and was caught by the first Lightning Tribulation.
• Zijin gathered herself to withstand the more powerful second bolt, determined to use the tribulation to transform her body and bloodline.
• Players and magical beasts throughout the Monster Region stopped to watch the storm, while Players speculated that it was a forbidden Thunderstorm zone.
• Fairy Fish recalled how Players had gathered at her lake and how she had seized and tortured them after one recoiled from her appearance.
• Fairy Fish turned her attention to Zijin’s tribulation, leaving the captive Players to tremble and plead for rescue.

Zijin endured the eighth bolt of her unexpectedly powerful Ninefold Divine Lightning tribulation while Xiao Fan tried to keep her alive. The Five Elements Land’s self-repair healed her after the strike, leaving her alive but barely conscious as the final bolt still loomed.

• Magical beasts across the Monster Region hid from the terrifying Lightning Tribulation, while some central-region beasts wondered who was undergoing it.
• After surviving the seventh bolt, Zijin refused Xiao Fan’s suggestion to use the Lightning-Avoiding Fruit early, saving it for the final bolt.
• The seventh bolt overwhelmed Zijin’s bloodline power and left her near death, intensifying Xiao Fan’s helplessness and determination to become stronger.
• The Five Elements Land’s self-repair released healing energy that restored some of Zijin’s strength as the eighth bolt gathered.
• Zijin endured the eighth bolt while lying on the ground, and Xiao Fan found her alive afterward as the land’s healing power and his treatment continued repairing her.

Xiao Fan helped Zijin recover and prepare for the ninth Lightning Tribulation, while Zijin resolved to survive so she could return to her homeland and uncover her lost memories. The divine lightning struck, leaving Zijin reduced to a tiny, badly injured bird and the Five Elements Land in ruins.

• Xiao Fan bought Heavenly Spirit Treasures to heal Zijin while the ninth divine lightning gathered, and Zijin told him her injuries would heal if she survived the tribulation.
• Xiao Fan helped Zijin eat a Lightning-Avoiding Fruit, then meditated to restore his mana as they waited for the final bolt.
• Zijin recalled her Spirit Sparrow Clan, her imprisonment in the Myriad Phenomena Tower, and her missing memories, then resolved to endure the tribulation and return home.
• Zijin drew on her remaining origin bloodline power, told Xiao Fan to hide beneath her wings, and faced the ninth divine lightning.
• The lightning struck, destroying Zijin's true form and leaving her as a charred, palm-sized bird while Xiao Fan witnessed the devastation of the Five Elements Land.

After Zijin survived the ninth bolt of her growth-stage Lightning Tribulation, a tenth bolt began gathering, leaving her badly injured and Xiao Fan terrified. Zijin revealed that the tenth bolt had killed a legendary Spirit Sparrow before and told Xiao Fan to break their Life Bond so he could survive.

• Xiao Fan found Zijin charred in a crack, healed her, and laid her on a clean cloth to recover.
• Xiao Fan realized the dark clouds had not dispersed and feared another bolt would strike.
• Thunder confirmed that a tenth bolt was forming, and Zijin weakly told Xiao Fan she had sensed her tribulation was not over.
• Zijin explained that a tenth bolt had killed a Spirit Sparrow ten thousand years earlier and caused her clan's decline.
• Zijin told Xiao Fan to remember her instructions and said breaking their Life Bond could let him survive.

Xiao Fan refused to abandon Zijin as the tenth divine lightning gathered, but every attempt to find a way to save her failed. With the golden strike about to descend, he prepared to face it himself while shielding Zijin, and challenged the lightning to hit him.

• Xiao Fan rejected Zijin’s suggestion to break their Life Bond, and Zijin recalled how a human genius had once abandoned her clan’s pure-blooded ancestor before a tenth-level tribulation.
• Zijin tried to offer her life to save Xiao Fan, but he knocked her unconscious before she could break their contract.
• Xiao Fan failed to place Zijin in the Contract Space, and Luo Yi, Zhou He, and Mirror City’s contacts could offer no way to avoid the lightning.
• As the golden tenth divine lightning took shape, Xiao Fan activated Wine of Blood Brewing and prepared to protect Zijin with his own body.
• Xiao Fan rose to face the descending tribulation and called on the divine lightning to strike him.

Xiao Fan and Zijin faced the final bolt of her Lightning Tribulation, but it stopped just before striking and vanished after a system prompt revealed their bond had been tested. Zijin recovered and transformed after passing the tribulation, though she and Xiao Fan were left wondering why the test had worked that way.

• Xiao Fan waited anxiously for the tenth divine lightning bolt while holding Zijin and preparing to face it with her.
• The golden lightning struck toward Xiao Fan, but froze less than a centimeter above his head and then dissolved as the tribulation clouds cleared.
• The system told Xiao Fan that he and his Contract Beast had passed the Deep Bond test, qualifying Zijin to continue growing.
• Zijin's wounds healed and her feathers regrew in golden light, completing her transformation after the tribulation.
• Zijin celebrated her survival, circled Xiao Fan, and asked why the final Lightning Tribulation had not struck them.

Zijin explained that the Spirit Sparrow clan's tenth divine lightning bolt tested whether they had chosen a loyal contractor, and she approved Xiao Fan as her Life Bond contractor. Xiao Fan found the Leopard Woman barely alive after the tribulation and, unable to carry her, watched Zijin fling her into the Five Elements Land to recover.

• Zijin told Xiao Fan that the tenth divine lightning bolt would spare a Spirit Sparrow whose contractor did not dissolve their Life Bond, and she declared that he had earned her approval.
• Zijin boasted that her new Heavenly Lightning made her powerful, while Xiao Fan considered the Five Elements Land as a possible future safe-city site.
• Xiao Fan went to check whether the Leopard Woman had survived the lightning tribulation, and Zijin sensed that she still had a breath left.
• Xiao Fan used a healing skill on the charred Leopard Woman, but it had little effect, so Zijin suggested moving her into the Five Elements Land to heal.
• Zijin grabbed the Leopard Woman and hurled her hundreds of meters into the Five Elements Land, leaving Xiao Fan stunned and worried that the impact had killed her.

After Zijin survived her Lightning Tribulation, she flew Xiao Fan to the injured Leopard Woman, who woke in the Five Elements Land and apologized for stealing his Lightning-Avoiding Fruit. Zijin demanded that Leopard Woman become Xiao Fan’s mount, and Xiao Fan welcomed the offer.

• Zijin transformed into a purple great bird and carried Xiao Fan across the Monster Region to Leopard Woman.
• The monsters across the Monster Region hid in fear of Zijin’s post-tribulation cry, while high-level monsters warned each other not to provoke her.
• Xiao Fan saw that his healing skills barely helped high-level monsters and decided to evolve his professions when he had time.
• Leopard Woman woke in the Five Elements Land, realized Xiao Fan had carried her there, and apologized for taking his Lightning-Avoiding Fruit.
• Leopard Woman offered the location of a thousand-year-old lingzhi as compensation, but Zijin instead proposed that she become Xiao Fan’s mount.

Zijin forced Leopard Woman to submit and become Xiao Fan’s mount, after which Xiao Fan discussed building a city in the Five Elements Land and set out with Zijin and Baobao to hunt magical beasts. A sudden message darkened Xiao Fan’s expression and made him turn back before they reached the Monster Region.

• Zijin used her pure-blooded aura and Heavenly Lightning to make Leopard Woman choose submission over death, and Leopard Woman agreed to become Xiao Fan’s loyal mount.
• Xiao Fan asked Baobao about establishing a city in the Five Elements Land and about the metal vein beneath it, but Baobao knew nothing of the vein.
• Xiao Fan rested in the Five Elements Land, then planned to hunt magical beasts and remove the Seal on the Dragon Token.
• Baobao carried Xiao Fan and Zijin toward the Monster Region to find magical beasts after Xiao Fan helped treat her injuries and gather Heavenly Spirit Treasures.
• A message notification arrived, and Xiao Fan told Zijin and Baobao to turn back without explaining what had happened yet.

Xiao Fan learned that Players from all four servers had gathered to rescue those captured by the Fairy Fish and were considering attacking her. After warning Zhou He not to trust the Seven-Colored Deer’s plan, Xiao Fan headed toward the lake to negotiate with the Fairy Fish, while Baobao offered to confront her.

• Zhou He told Xiao Fan that level-one-hundred Players from all four servers had gathered to rescue their captured companions from the Fairy Fish.
• Baobao and Zijin warned Xiao Fan that the Players could not defeat the level-three-hundred Fairy Fish, who had held back when she previously chased him.
• Xiao Fan messaged Zhou He to stop the alliance from attacking the Fairy Fish, especially after the Seven-Colored Deer proposed destroying a rock it claimed was connected to her life crystal.
• Xiao Fan rejected Baobao’s offer to capture the Fairy Fish because he wanted to negotiate with her and complete his transformation quest.
• Xiao Fan asked Baobao about the grudge between the Seven-Colored Deer and the Fairy Fish.

The four-server rescue force gathered to save the Players captured by the level-300 Fairy Fish, but the Seven-Colored Deer’s assurances made the assembled Players eager to fight for a first kill. The chapter ended with Zhou He warning the leaders that the Deer had deceived them and that the Fairy Fish could kill them if provoked.

• Nearly five hundred level-100 Players assembled, and the Seven-Colored Deer reassured them that Neutral monsters could not kill Players, turning their fear into greed for the Fairy Fish’s first-kill rewards.
• Hei Mi urged the leaders to launch the rescue, but Jian Qingfeng and the other representatives resisted rushing into battle against the level-300 monster.
• Shen Long supported an early attack, but Jian Qingfeng challenged him and Hei Mi to go first, and neither dared accept.
• Jian Qingfeng suspected Zhou He had contacted Xiao Fan and messaged him while the leaders waited.
• Zhou He returned and warned that the Seven-Colored Deer had lied: the Fairy Fish could become hostile and kill them if enraged, and the rock in the lake was not her life crystal.
• Zhou He added that the captured Players had provoked the Fairy Fish after the Seven-Colored Deer claimed they could form contracts with her, leaving the gathered Players stunned and doubtful.

Hei Mi challenged Zhou He’s warning that the captured Players faced danger from a level-three-hundred Fairy Fish, and the gathered forces split over whether to mount a rescue. The Dragon Nation players stood with Zhou He as the others prepared to go without them, while the White Nation leader asked Zhou He to identify his source.

• Hei Mi mocked Zhou He’s report and questioned why no other explorers had heard the rumor about the Seven-Colored Deer.
• Zhou He urged the Players to contact the captives, but no one received a reply, prompting Hei Mi to call for an immediate rescue.
• Zhou He warned that provoking the Fairy Fish could get everyone killed, and Hei Mi accused Dragon Nation of refusing to risk itself because it had fewer captives.
• The Dragon Nation players rallied behind Zhou He, while Falling Leaf and the City of Kings players also joined them despite Shen Long’s anger.
• Hei Mi announced that the other forces would rescue the captives without Dragon Nation, and the White Nation leader asked Zhou He to name the expert who had informed him.

Zhou He explained that Jiu Chen had exposed the Seven-Colored Deer’s deception, but other leaders doubted Jiu Chen could have survived meeting the Fairy Fish. Shen Long linked Jiu Chen to Cannon’s son’s murder, and Cannon’s investigation confirmed that Jiu Chen had committed it.

• Zhou He told the gathered leaders that Jiu Chen had learned of the Seven-Colored Deer’s deception while exploring the Monster Region and had previously encountered the Fairy Fish.
• Hei Mi and others questioned Zhou He’s account, but players who had traveled with Jiu Chen said he had survived facing the Fairy Fish after staying behind to help them escape.
• Shen Long recalled the investigation into Cannon’s son’s murder: Huang Quan had an alibi, and clues pointed to a second player impersonating him.
• Shen Long identified Jiu Chen as the killer, reasoning that Jiu Chen could have used a skill to disguise himself as Huang Quan.
• Cannon sent people to investigate, and they confirmed that Jiu Chen had killed his son.

Cannon and Shen Long plotted to use a beast-attracting potion to kill Jiu Chen during a joint rescue mission, while Cannon also planned to target Xiao Yi’s group. After Jiu Chen unexpectedly joined the expedition in the Monster Region, the two men prepared to carry out their scheme.

• Cannon decided to avenge his son by targeting Jiu Chen’s friends and family instead of confronting Jiu Chen directly, while Shen Long secretly hoped Cannon would kill Xiao Fan.
• Cannon planned an ambush against Xiao Yi’s group in Yanhuang City, but Shen Long proposed using the Bai Family’s beast-attracting potion during a joint rescue mission to attack Jiu Chen.
• Shen Long asked Falling Leaf to help apply the potion, but Falling Leaf refused, so Cannon took on the task himself.
• Shen Long and Cannon joined the rescue team after learning Jiu Chen was absent, then discovered in the Monster Region that Zhou He had called Jiu Chen over.
• Cannon and Shen Long exchanged pleased looks when Jiu Chen arrived, ready to put their plan into action.

Xiao Fan learned how the Fairy Fish and Seven-Colored Deer became enemies after a Jade Heart disrupted their transformations. Bao Bao admitted she had thrown the Jade Heart into the Fairy Fish’s pool, leaving Xiao Fan convinced she had caused the feud.

• Bao Bao explained that the Fairy Fish’s transformation drew the Jade Heart’s water energy, which then drained the wood energy the Seven-Colored Deer needed to transform.
• Bao Bao described how the Seven-Colored Deer lost its beauty and blamed the Fairy Fish, while the Fairy Fish felt guilty but failed to explain herself.
• Xiao Fan concluded that the two beasts’ feud began with a misunderstanding, then questioned how Bao Bao knew what had happened.
• Zijin suspected Bao Bao had put the Jade Heart in the pool, and Bao Bao admitted she had casually tossed it there.
• Xiao Fan rejected Bao Bao’s claim that she had not meant to cause trouble.

Hei Mi convinced the other factions that Zhou He was lying and led them into the forest to hunt the level-three-hundred Magic Beast, leaving Zhou He, Jian Qingfeng, Shen Long, and their people behind. A huge, hostile Giant Leopard then charged the remaining group, and Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng prepared to face what looked like certain defeat.

• Hei Mi accused the Dragon Nation players of plotting against the other factions, and the other factions believed him and agreed to press on with the rescue.
• Hei Mi led the joint rescue team into the forest while Zhou He, Jian Qingfeng, Shen Long, and their people stayed behind.
• Shen Long realized that the authorities now outnumbered his weakened Shen Sect, leaving him anxious about a possible confrontation.
• A savage roar and approaching tremors alerted the remaining players to a charging Magic Beast, so Zhou He ordered everyone to prepare for battle.
• A massive Giant Leopard burst from the forest and dodged the archers’ arrows, prompting Zhou He to tell Jian Qingfeng to flee with the Wind Element players.
• Jian Qingfeng refused to leave Zhou He behind, and Zhou concluded that none of them could escape the Giant Leopard.

Xiao Fan arrived with Bao Bao, his subdued Giant Leopard mount, just as the Dragon Nation players faced certain defeat, and learned that the rescue mission had angered the Fairy Fish. He set out to negotiate for the captured players and pursue his Water-Avoiding Bead quest.

• The Giant Leopard overwhelmed the Dragon Nation players, but Jian Qingfeng drew his sword and attacked it, only to crack his weapon without harming the beast.
• The Giant Leopard stopped and asked whether the players were the people its master sought, then Xiao Fan ordered Bao Bao to shrink and appeared before the group.
• Xiao Fan revealed that Bao Bao was his newly subdued mount, and Zhou He and Jian Qingfeng recognized him as Jiu Chen.
• Bao Bao explained that a monster's life crystal could not be an external stone, while Shen Long and Cannon postponed their plan to use a potion on Xiao Fan.
• Zhou He told Xiao Fan what had happened, and Xiao Fan decided to visit the Fairy Fish to seek the captured players and complete his Water-Avoiding Bead quest.

As the group traveled toward Fairy Fish, Xiao Fan apologized to Jian Qingfeng for Bao Bao damaging his sword and revealed that Bao Bao was a level-three-hundred monster. Bao Bao heard Xiao Fan conceal how she had been forced to submit and decided she truly acknowledged him as her master.

• Jian Qingfeng regretted losing his longtime weapon and resented Xiao Fan for failing to warn him that Bao Bao would join the fight.
• Xiao Fan apologized to Jian Qingfeng and offered to compensate him with another weapon.
• Xiao Fan told the group that Bao Bao was a level-three-hundred monster who had willingly become his servant after he saved her.
• The group reacted with shock and admiration at Xiao Fan’s powerful monster mount.
• Bao Bao heard Xiao Fan describe her as loyal and grateful, and her lingering grievance disappeared as she accepted him as her master.

Dong Hu’s party warned the joint rescue team that the Seven-Colored Deer had lured Players toward the Fairy Fish, but Lion King mistook them for traitors and had them restrained. The rescue team reached the Fairy Fish’s pool, where its beautiful appearance contrasted with the captured Players scattered nearby.

• After reading urgent faction messages, Dong Hu realized the Seven-Colored Deer had deceived Players and feared the rescue team was being led into another trap.
• Dong Hu’s party caught up with the joint rescue team and warned Lion King about the Seven-Colored Deer’s scheme.
• Lion King suspected Dong Hu’s party of serving Dragon Nation and ordered the Ferocious Tiger Sect to restrain them.
• As the rescue team reached the Fairy Fish’s pool, the Players saw the golden-haired Mermaid sitting on a stone amid the captured Players.

Hei Mi’s joint rescue team tried to lure the Fairy Fish away so another squad could destroy her life crystal, but her effortless defense exposed the danger of their plan. Hei Mi insisted they keep provoking her, while the White Nation youth and other players began to doubt whether the Seven-Colored Deer had told them the truth.

• Hei Mi’s squad waited for the Mirror City leaders’ team to reach its ambush point before beginning their attack on the Fairy Fish.
• Hei Mi ordered two players to fire rocket launchers at the Fairy Fish from a carefully chosen distance.
• The Fairy Fish dissolved both shells with two droplets of water and warned the players to leave or die.
• Several players reconsidered Zhou He’s warning, but Hei Mi argued that the Fairy Fish would not attack them and urged the team to continue.
• A player suggested attacking again with greater firepower to enrage the Fairy Fish, then fleeing.