Chapter Summaries

Lin Mu destroyed the Lava Titan and left the Freedom Federation forces terrified, prompting them to retreat while Huaxia's soldiers saluted him. At an emergency meeting, the Federation leaders decided to portray the stolen spacecraft wreckage as a gift and shifted their hopes to the Star Gates.

• Lin Mu returned to Huaxia's base with Lilith, Chen Feng, Ye Chen, and Elvira, while Li Weiguo and the Huaxia soldiers saluted him.
• Kane Smith ordered the Freedom Federation advance force to retreat and send all footage and details to headquarters under the highest encryption.
• The Federation President and senior officials watched recordings of the Steel Skeletons and Lin Mu destroying the Lava Titan, then concluded conventional warfare could not stop him.
• The Secretary of Defense proposed announcing that the spacecraft wreckage had been a friendly gift to Huaxia's Pioneers, and the President approved the plan.
• The President ordered the Federation to continue sending advance teams to the North-South Star Gates, saying their hopes no longer lay on Blue Star.

Lin Mu learned that the new [Godforsaken Combat Arena] was an exceptionally dangerous Dungeon where entrants faced deadly one-on-one battles, but its high-level monsters and a possible connection to the mysterious Fragments made him determined to enter. The chapter left Lin Mu preparing to investigate the Arena despite Diwu Weifeng’s warning.

• Lin Mu gave the captured spaceship wreckage to Chen Feng for Huaxia’s research department and put the eighth pitch-black Fragment away with the other seven.
• A world announcement revealed that the above-World-Ending [Godforsaken Combat Arena] had appeared above the equator, and a Freedom Federation team was wiped out within three minutes of entering.
• Diwu Weifeng told Lin Mu that his divine-sense avatar had been erased inside the Arena after encountering a monster at least LV.160 in a forced one-on-one duel.
• Lin Mu saw the Arena as a chance to gain experience and dismissed Diwu Weifeng’s warnings about its danger and its suppression of the Undead Legion.
• Diwu Weifeng reported that the Arena’s energy carried an aura similar to the pitch-black Fragments, strengthening Lin Mu’s resolve to enter.

Lin Mu led Lilith, Chen Feng, Ye Chen, and Elvira into the Godforsaken Combat Arena, where its voice imposed a trial on them. The trial began with a level 150 Exiled Minotaur appearing, while Lin Mu remained unfazed.

• Lin Mu took Lilith, Chen Feng, Ye Chen, and Elvira through a spatial rift to the arena above the Pacific equator.
• Lin Mu entered the Godforsaken Combat Arena, drawing the attention of observers around the world.
• The group found themselves in a bloodstained arena, where a disembodied voice declared that there was no retreat or mercy and ordered them to kneel.
• The arena's pressure weakened Chen Feng, Ye Chen, and Elvira, but Lilith's barrier protected her and Lin Mu dismissed the pressure.
• The arena announced the start of the trial, and a level 150 Exiled Minotaur appeared with a massive black battle-axe.

Lin Mu instantly killed the LV.150 Exiled Minotaur with Soul Stripping, passing the first trial in the Gladiator Arena. When the arena offered him more than a hundred powerful gladiator souls as his next opponents, he asked to fight them all, and the arena’s voice angrily agreed.

• The Exiled Minotaur charged Lin Mu, but he used Soul Stripping to disintegrate it in seconds.
• The arena’s voice announced that Lin Mu had passed the first trial and summoned over a hundred gladiator souls, most of them at least LV.150.
• The arena’s voice told Lin Mu to choose his next opponent, expecting him to struggle against the powerful souls.
• Lin Mu asked if he could choose them all, and the arena’s voice accepted his request with anger.

Lin Mu annihilated more than a hundred planetary-level gladiators with one empowered Bone Spike Impact and advanced to LV.98. The arena’s voice activated its highest authority and summoned three stellar-level champions to face him.

• More than a hundred planetary-level gladiators charged Lin Mu, who summoned the Throne of Withered Bones and unleashed Bone Spike Impact.
• Lin Mu’s bone tide destroyed the gladiators, granting him enough experience to reach LV.98.
• Chen Feng, Ye Chen, and Elvira watched in shock as the arena fell silent, while its voice struggled to comprehend Lin Mu’s strength.
• The arena’s voice initiated the Champion sequence and raised a platform bearing three stellar-level opponents: Fallen Divine General Xifeier, Voidwalker Kassadin, and Doomsday Dragon Knight Valencia.

Lin Mu faced three stellar-ranked champions in the Gladiator Arena and answered their coordinated attack by unleashing an enormous undead army. The champions were overwhelmed by the scale of his forces as a mythic battle began.

• The Fallen Divine General, Void Walker, and Doomsday Dragon Knight encircled Lin Mu with a coordinated attack.
• Lin Mu rose from his throne and opened Styx Rifts behind him.
• Ninety million Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals, nine million Skeleton Tactical Artillery, and ninety thousand Super-Tier Skeleton Mages poured from the rifts.
• Lin Mu's two Death Dragon Knights revealed themselves and flew on their Bone Dragons to confront the Fallen Divine General.
• The undead army filled the Gladiator Arena, leaving the three champions horrified as the battle erupted.

Lin Mu’s undead forces overwhelmed the three champions, and he killed Fallen Divine General Xifeier with a single Spear of Vengeful Souls. After leveling up to LV.99, Lin Mu turned toward the shaken Void Walker and Doomsday Dragon Knight.

• Lin Mu ordered nine million rocket launchers and ninety thousand transcendent mages to bombard the three champions while ninety million Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals charged them.
• The champions defended against the endless attacks, but ten minutes of fighting depleted their energy and damaged Fallen Divine General Xifeier’s armor.
• Lin Mu threw a Spear of Vengeful Souls through Xifeier’s exposed core, killing him instantly.
• Xifeier’s death left the Void Walker and Doomsday Dragon Knight fearful, while the majestic voice fell silent.
• Lin Mu leveled up to LV.99 and told the remaining two champions that they were next.

Lin Mu’s Undead Legion killed the fleeing Void Walker and Doomsday Dragon Knight, bringing his experience to 60% of LV.99. He challenged the hidden power controlling the Godforsaken Combat Arena, and a vast golden eye opened beyond a rift in the sky.

• The Void Walker tried to escape through the void, but the Undead Legion sealed the space and annihilated it with spells and artillery.
• The Doomsday Dragon Knight fled on his skeletal dragon, but the Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals brought them down and tore them apart.
• Lin Mu received experience from the two champions, raising his experience bar to 60% of LV.99.
• Lin Mu dismissed his army, demanded that the hidden arena master appear, and counted down from three.
• The Godforsaken Combat Arena shook as the sky split open and a vast golden eye appeared beyond the rift.

Lin Mu defeated the [Godforsaken Combat Arena]'s master, [Ancient Adjudicator Kronos], and claimed the ninth Fragment. The victory raised Lin Mu to LV.100 and unlocked his fifth class advancement quest.

• [Ancient Adjudicator Kronos] descended into the arena and vowed to erase Lin Mu for defying him.
• Lin Mu unleashed [Death Prayer], empowered his undead army, and attacked Kronos with his strongest skills.
• Lin Mu shattered Kronos's law-based defenses and pierced his core with the [Spear of Vengeful Souls].
• Kronos crumbled into law fragments and dropped a pile of loot containing the ninth Fragment.
• Lin Mu reached LV.100 and received a prompt to go to the Holy Temple for his fifth class advancement quest.

After returning from the Godforsaken Combat Arena, Lin Mu reached level one hundred and went to Shengjing Academy for his fifth class advancement. The altar revealed an unusual mission: clear three newly appeared Dungeons and collect three specific quest items.

• Lin Mu examined his nine fragments, found they still showed no response, and put them away before leaving the collapsing arena with his companions.
• Lin Mu entrusted Chen Feng with sorting the loot and returned with the group to Shengjing Academy.
• Lin Mu went to the Holy Temple, where Zhou Pingxia and the High Priestess awaited his fifth advancement.
• Lin Mu activated the advancement altar, but the darkness it released faded without damaging the Holy Temple.
• Lin Mu told Zhou Pingxia that his mission was to clear three newly appeared Dungeons and collect three specific quest items.

Lin Mu revealed that his fifth advancement mission required him to collect three Era Marks from newly generated dungeons, beginning with the Mist Ruins. After learning how dangerous the first dungeon was, Lin Mu left immediately to face it.

• Lin Mu explained his Path of Transcendence mission to Zhou Pingxia, who realized its three dungeons had been newly created by the world's laws for Lin Mu.
• Zhou Pingxia had the High Priestess use Holy Word Echo to retrieve information about the Mist Ruins.
• The altar revealed that the LV.100–150 Mist Ruins lay deep in the Amazon rainforest and contained spatial distortions, perception-isolating fog, a curse of silence, and unknown powerful guardians.
• Zhou Pingxia warned Lin Mu about the dungeon's dangers and offered resources from the Academy Treasury, but Lin Mu declined.
• Lin Mu vanished from the Holy Temple to begin the mission, leaving Zhou Pingxia to wonder if Blue Star's future depended on him.

Lin Mu reviewed the dangers of the [Mist Ruins] and learned that a powerful Western expedition had vanished shortly after entering. He ignored Zhou Pingxia’s warning, gathered his companions, and set off for the Amazon rainforest.

• Lin Mu studied the [Mist Ruins]’s spatial distortion, sensory isolation, and Curse of Silence, and decided he wanted to face its monarch.
• Zhou Pingxia told Lin Mu that the Holy Eagle Expedition had vanished less than ten minutes after entering the ruins.
• Zhou Pingxia urged Lin Mu to wait for more intelligence, but Lin Mu decided to go immediately.
• Lin Mu agreed to bring Chen Feng along with Lilith, Ye Chen, and Elvira.
• Lilith opened a spatial rift to the Amazon rainforest, and Lin Mu and the others stepped through.

Lin Mu and his companions crossed the Amazon rainforest, where he effortlessly killed the powerful monsters that attacked them. They reached the Mist Ruins, and Lin Mu stepped into its silent fog while the others followed.

• Lin Mu led Chen Feng, Lilith, Ye Chen, and Elvira through the distorted Amazon rainforest.
• Lin Mu killed an Emerald Predator with a single Bone Tooth strike, then dispatched the rainforest’s other monsters with ease as Chen Feng photographed their corpses.
• Lin Mu’s group reached the Mist Ruins, and Chen Feng hesitated before following the others toward its fog wall.
• Lin Mu sensed unusual laws within the fog and stepped into the Mist Ruins.

Lin Mu led Chen Feng and his companions into a cursed fog that suppressed their senses, where they encountered Mist Stalkers. After Lin Mu destroyed the attackers with Soul Stripping, an enormous shadow appeared ahead in the mist.

• Lin Mu entered the fog with Chen Feng and used Lilith’s help to protect him from its Silence Curse and spiritual toxin.
• Lin Mu summoned several hundred Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals and advanced with Chen Feng through the ruins of an abandoned city.
• Dozens of level 110 Mist Stalkers teleported into the formation and attacked Lin Mu’s group with silent spikes.
• Lin Mu used Soul Stripping to destroy the Mist Stalkers before they could harm the group.
• A massive shadow dozens of meters tall rose in the fog, shaking the ground as Lin Mu’s formation continued forward.

Lin Mu's undead army defeated a Lord-rank Ruins Giant, then encountered the Mist Ruins' spatially shifting maze. He unleashed millions of skeletons to clear a path to the city center, and discovered that a western scouting unit had vanished.

• The Ruins Giant charged Lin Mu's group, but two Death Dragon Knights evaded its attacks and killed it with a scythe strike.
• The Mist Ruins thickened the fog and rearranged the streets, trapping the group in a spatial maze, which Lilith identified as a core dungeon rule.
• Lin Mu summoned an undead army numbering in the millions and ordered it to flatten obstacles and clear a road to the city center within ten minutes.
• The undead army advanced in every direction, crushing ruins and monsters as it pushed through the shifting city.
• More than ten thousand Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals scouting westward vanished, and Lin Mu fixed his gaze on their last known location.

Lin Mu discovered that a plaza barrier severed his soul connection to the Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals, then used his Rotten Poison Corpse Demons to destroy the Stone Tear Guardians. As the last guardian fell, the plaza’s central fountain began to crack and shake, releasing a powerful aura of sorrow and despair.

• The Iron Cavalry Skeleton Generals entered the plaza, lost their soul connection to Lin Mu, and were attacked by the Stone Tear Guardians.
• Lin Mu identified the barrier and summoned two Rotten Poison Corpse Demons to fight the guardians.
• The Corpse Demons resisted the guardians’ stone tears and melted their petrification with venom.
• The Corpse Demons smashed and dissolved all the Stone Tear Guardians in less than a minute.
• The statue of a mother holding an infant atop the fountain cracked, and the plaza began to quake as a sorrowful presence emerged.

The Mother of Sorrow Clara emerged as a Monarch-rank Boss and instantly petrified Lin Mu’s two Rotten Poison Corpse Demons. Lin Mu weakened her with Soul Stripping, then targeted the petrified infant she had dropped with Bone Tooth.

• The statue atop the fountain crumbled, revealing the Mother of Sorrow Clara, whose Sorrow Domain overwhelmed Chen Feng with negative emotions.
• Clara petrified and shattered both of Lin Mu’s Rotten Poison Corpse Demons with her tears.
• Lin Mu used Soul Stripping on Clara, but the infant in her arms blocked most of its power, leaving her in agony and causing her to drop the infant.
• Lin Mu launched Bone Tooth at the falling petrified infant, and the beam of death swallowed the bundle.

Lin Mu defeated the Monarch-rank Boss Mother of Sorrow Clara and led his army through the mist-shrouded city to the black spire. After Ye Chen and Elvira cleared the Silent Tower Guards, the spire’s entrance began to open, revealing the path to the dungeon’s final Boss.

• Lin Mu destroyed the petrified infant, causing Mother of Sorrow Clara to lose her sorrow and crumble to ash, while the severed link to his undead army was restored.
• Lin Mu rejoined the army, ordered it to advance, and carved a road through the ruins to a towering black-metal spire.
• Lin Mu left most of his army behind and approached the spire with Lilith, Ye Chen, Elvira, and a small guard detail.
• Silent Tower Guards emerged from the spire, and Lin Mu ordered Ye Chen and Elvira to fight them.
• Ye Chen used Abyssal Demonic Flame and Elvira used Holy Light Judgment to destroy the guards.
• After the guards were cleared, the spire’s black gate opened a crack and released a stronger aura of deathly stillness.

Lin Mu and Lilith entered the spire and confronted the Mist Soul Hunter, who guarded her master's resting place. After learning that the runes on the walls sustained her mist domain, Lin Mu summoned an army of Skeleton Tactical Artillery to destroy them.

• Lin Mu entered the spire with Lilith and found a vast chamber centered around a black crystal pillar.
• The Mist Soul Hunter Arachne emerged from the walls and warned Lin Mu to leave her master's resting place.
• Arachne wove her Destiny's Web to trap Lin Mu, while he identified the wall runes as the source of her mist domain.
• Lin Mu summoned nine hundred thousand Skeleton Tactical Artillery and ordered them to fire rockets at the chamber walls.

Lin Mu destroyed the Mist Ruins’ mist source, killed the Mist Soul Hunter, and obtained the Heart of Mist for his advancement quest. As sunlight returned, a powerful entity began awakening inside the spire’s crystal pillar.

• Lin Mu’s bombardment destroyed the runes sustaining the mist, weakening the Mist Soul Hunter and unraveling her Web of Fate.
• The Mist Soul Hunter tried to flee, but Lin Mu used [Soul Stripping] to kill her.
• Lin Mu collected the Heart of Mist and stored it as the first objective of his fifth-class advancement quest.
• The Mist Ruins began shaking as cracks opened in the crystal pillar and a powerful presence awakened within it.
• Lilith protected Lin Mu with an Illusion Dream Barrier, and Lin Mu anticipated gaining more experience from the stronger enemy.