Recaps

Chen Ming and his companions discovered a graveyard filled with valuable Sorrowful Bone Tears in a merged dungeon with no listed completion conditions. When three Bone Demons emerged and one stole a resource, Chen Ming attacked and instantly cleaved it apart.

• Chen Ming, Lin Wei, Sun Yang, and Qin Zhixue arrived in a barren graveyard and learned that the merged dungeon had no completion conditions and a seventy-two-hour time limit.
• Chen Ming found that each bone tombstone held a Sorrowful Bone Tear, a rare resource with both mental and attribute properties.
• Chen Ming and Qin Zhixue each lost mental power when they plucked a tear, and Qin Zhixue described its disorienting, controlling mental attack.
• Three Bone Demons charged from distant caverns, then one swallowed a Sorrowful Bone Tear beneath a tombstone.
• Chen Ming rushed the Bone Demons with Pale Flame and cleaved a level 8 Bone Demon apart in one strike.

Chen Ming used Qin Zhixue’s class buff to shatter three Bone Demons, including a Level 9 one, with escalating attacks. The demons’ remains still held faint ghostly flames, while Qin Zhixue watched the Demon Cave for more enemies.

• Chen Ming killed a Level 8 Bone Demon with one slash and picked up its Sorrowful Bone Tear, but saw no kill notification.
• Two Bone Demons attacked Chen Ming, and he shattered the Level 8 demon before identifying Necrotic Rebirth as the reason it remained unconfirmed dead.
• Chen Ming struck the Level 9 Bone Demon twice, using a permanent Armor Piercing boost to raise his final damage to 14,040 and break it apart.
• Sun Yang and Lin Wei watched Chen Ming’s attack, while Qin Zhixue arrived and prepared to guard against more Bone Demons from the Demon Cave.
• The ghostly flames inside the shattered Bone Demons dwindled to tiny sparks but did not disappear completely.

After reaching Spirit level 1, Chen Ming discovered that his attacks gained a powerful damage bonus and that his armor-piercing mark remained on targets after resurrection. As the Bone Demons revived stronger and three more approached from the Demon Caves, Lin Wei and Sun Yang feared Chen Ming would be surrounded.

• After killing a level 9 Bone Demon, Chen Ming saw that Spirit had reached level 1, increasing his Spirit damage and granting a 100% attack-damage boost after a hit.
• A Bone Demon revived in Netherfire with stronger physical abilities, but Chen Ming shattered it again and found his armor-piercing effect persisted.
• Chen Ming struck the Bone Demon's remains and confirmed his attacks still dealt Spirit damage, which could drain the power behind its resurrection.
• Two other Bone Demons that Chen Ming had defeated also revived, while Lin Wei noticed three more level 9 Bone Demons emerging from the Demon Caves.
• Sun Yang worried aloud that Chen Ming would be surrounded as the three new Bone Demons raced toward the cemetery.

Chen Ming fought the rapidly multiplying Bone Demons while Qin Zhixue guarded the graveyard resources and Sun Yang collected them. As more demons joined the siege around Chen Ming, a blazing eruption suddenly blasted them away.

• Chen Ming killed a level 8 Bone Demon for good with repeated attacks that inflicted mental damage, and noticed the demons were drawn to the Sorrowful Bone Tear.
• Qin Zhixue arrived to intercept Bone Demons targeting the resources, while Chen Ming told Sun Yang to collect the flowers and leave the Sorrowful Bone Tears untouched.
• Sun Yang ran down the hillside to dig up the resources as Qin Zhixue used Angel's Verdict to shatter the Long-tailed Bone Demon.
• Chen Ming drew the fight toward the Demon Caves and was surrounded as more Bone Demons appeared, including a level 10 demon.
• Qin Zhixue moved to help Chen Ming, but a blazing eruption burst from the mass of Bone Demons and blasted them away.

Chen Ming’s Annihilation Strike damage stacked to 9,000%, triggering energy manifestation and dramatically increasing his attack range and power. He demonstrated the change by killing a level 10 Bone Demon with a long-range blade of energy.

• Chen Ming’s attacks against the Bone Demon horde reached 9,000% damage, causing a burst of energy that blasted the surrounding Bone Demons away.
• Sun Yang and Lin Wei saw Chen Ming’s manifested energy, and Lin Wei explained that Class Changers usually attained it at level 20 or above.
• Lin Wei said the lowest-level person recorded in the Huaxia Alliance to manifest energy had been an SSS-Rank genius at level 15, while Chen Ming had done it at level 6.
• Chen Ming tested his new power by sending a blade of energy across the wasteland and cleaving the surviving level 10 Bone Demon in two.

Chen Ming held off the Bone Demon tide, reaching the 10100% attack damage bonus while repeatedly killing the monsters before they could strike. Sun Yang and Lin Wei watched his one-sided defense as Qin Zhixue finished off a Level 9 Bone Demon and found that no stragglers were getting past Chen Ming.

• Chen Ming swept through the Bone Demon corpses, killing the monsters repeatedly and receiving a Spirit Rune Stone from every kill.
• Level 10 Bone Demons charged Chen Ming, but his paired blade strikes shattered them before they could attack.
• Chen Ming's attack damage bonus reached its 10100% limit, leaving him able to kill the Bone Demons in one or two strikes.
• Sun Yang gathered flowers in the graveyard and watched Chen Ming's kills earn him shared experience.
• Lin Wei saw that Chen Ming had turned the beast tide into a one-sided slaughter, with Bone Demons appearing more slowly than he could kill them.
• Qin Zhixue killed a Level 9 Bone Demon after striking it more than ten times, then saw that Chen Ming had stopped every Bone Demon at the cave entrance.

Chen Ming finished the Demon Cave challenge, leveled up while slaughtering Bone Demons, and unlocked a one-shot challenge in the mysterious dungeon Bone Burial Ground. He chose the extremely high difficulty and prepared to take on the nest.

• Chen Ming noticed barriers sealing the Demon Caves and continued killing the remaining Bone Demons.
• Chen Ming reached level 7, and his Spirit · Annihilation skill leveled up again.
• Chen Ming killed the final Bone Demon and noticed that the three cave barriers had different spiritual fluctuations.
• The dungeon announced that completing the Demon Cave challenge unlocked Bone Burial Ground and offered Chen Ming one challenge attempt.
• Chen Ming rejected the option to forfeit and chose the extremely high difficulty.
• Sun Yang finished collecting the Sorrowful Bone Flowers, saw Chen Ming heading toward the nest, and exclaimed that Chen was on a rampage.

Chen Ming entered the Bone Burial Ground, a mysterious dungeon beneath the wasteland, and discovered an enormous underground world filled with endless corpses. The chapter ended with him staring in shock at the vast expanse.

• Sun Yang and Lin Wei learned that the mysterious dungeon appeared after the Demon Cave challenge, while Qin Zhixue decided she might develop her Holy Radiance Angel into a support role.
• Chen Ming entered the middle Demon Cave, and the two caves beside it collapsed as the system announced that he had entered the Bone Burial Ground, also called Nine-Layer Soul Suppression.
• Chen Ming fell through a dark passage and landed on a platform suspended above a seemingly endless sea of bones.
• The underground space shook and filled with green light, revealing a vast world piled high with corpses, which left Chen Ming stunned.

Chen Ming discovered that the underground Bone Land beneath Cloud Sea City was vast and that a Pitch-Black Tower tested him with waves of wraiths. After learning he could not harm them but could withstand their mental attacks, he welcomed the trials as suited to his abilities, just as the third trial began.

• Chen Ming realized the Bone Land beneath Cloud Sea City extended beyond the dungeon and noticed a nine-story Pitch-Black Tower on his platform.
• A skeleton became a wolf-shaped wraith, and Chen Ming's attack passed through it before it struck him and entered the tower, completing the first trial.
• Ten beast-shaped wraiths attacked Chen Ming, who endured their mental damage and completed the second trial.
• Chen Ming concluded that enduring wraith attacks suited him better than fighting the countless corpses directly.
• The third trial began as a hundred corpses became beast-shaped wraiths, including one humanoid wraith.

Chen Ming completed the Soul Suppression trial’s sixth and final stage in the Bone Burial Ground, enduring increasingly powerful mental attacks. He received the legendary equipment Nether Eye, while the Pitch-Black Tower continued to light up behind him.

• After Chen Ming completed the third stage, he received 100 Spirit Rune Stones and chose to continue the trial.
• Sun Yang and the others saw Chen Ming’s reward in their party feed and marveled at how many rune stones he had earned.
• Chen Ming completed the fourth and fifth stages as thousands and then tens of thousands of Nether Shadows attacked him, lighting more floors of the Pitch-Black Tower.
• In the sixth stage, a gigantic Nether Shadow formed from hundreds of thousands of bones and struck Chen Ming with a meteor-like mental attack.
• The sixth floor lit up, and Chen Ming received the legendary equipment Nether Eye after completing the trial’s final stage.

Chen Ming obtained and equipped the legendary-grade Nether Eye, which boosted his mental power and granted the Spirit Exhaustion skill. His party learned that the first-tier Bone Burial Ground had dropped legendary-grade equipment, a discovery that could draw powerful Class Changers to Cloud Sea City.

• Chen Ming found the Nether Eye bound to his mental space and equipped it inside his left eye.
• Chen Ming learned that the Nether Eye increased mental power by 20% and gave him the Spirit Exhaustion skill, which reduced a target’s mental power to 1 for a short time.
• Chen Ming enhanced the Nether Eye with 50 Spirit Rune Stones, raising his maximum mental attribute to 2180.
• Sun Yang saw the dungeon notification that Chen Ming had obtained legendary-grade equipment and excitedly told Lin Wei and Qin Zhixue.
• Lin Wei and Qin Zhixue confirmed the first-tier Bone Burial Ground had dropped the Nether Eye and realized the news could attract advanced Class Changers to Cloud Sea City.

After claiming the Legendary [Nether Eye], Chen Ming continued the Soul Suppression Trial beyond the instance’s rules and defeated its seventh and eighth layers. With only a few Spirit Power points lost, he watched the Pitch-Black Tower absorb every Nether Shadow in the Bone Land, leaving the mechanism’s next move unknown.

• Chen Ming examined the [Nether Eye] and recognized its Spirit Power depletion skill as especially useful against Class Changers.
• Chen Ming chose to continue the trial after learning that the mysterious instance had ended its highest difficulty and the Pitch-Black Tower would oversee the remaining layers.
• The Pitch-Black Tower replaced the instance rules, and Chen Ming endured the million Nether Shadows’ assault to clear the seventh layer.
• Every skeleton in the Bone Land rose into a colossal Spirit Power tide, but Chen Ming survived its assault and cleared the eighth layer.
• The Pitch-Black Tower absorbed all the Nether Shadows and illuminated the Underground World, prompting Chen Ming to say that the mechanism had kicked in.

Chen Ming completed the ninth layer of Soul Suppression and discovered that the Bone Burial Ground had become a miniature world inside his Nether Eye equipment. He emerged from the Demon Cave as a quake shook the wasteland and Cloud Sea City, leaving his companions relieved but himself stunned by his discovery.

• A one-meter black skull formed from the Underground World's eerie glow and brushed past Chen Ming, dealing mental damage and establishing a connection with him.
• The skull merged into the Pitch-Black Tower, completing the ninth layer of Soul Suppression and transferring their mental connection to the tower.
• Outside the Demon Cave, Sun Yang, Qin Zhixue, and Lin Wei worried that Chen Ming might have died or become trapped, and Qin Zhixue prepared to enter.
• A powerful earthquake shook the wasteland, the Exotic Beast Forest, and all of Cloud Sea City before Chen Ming appeared at the Demon Cave's exit.
• Chen Ming realized the Bone Burial Ground had vanished from the Underground World and now existed as a miniature world inside his Nether Eye, containing tens of millions of corpses and the Pitch-Black Tower.
• Chen Ming discovered that the entire Bone Burial Ground was one enormous skull.

Chen Ming discovered that the Pitch-Black Tower could summon Bone Demons and learned he could command nearly five million of them. He gathered the Sorrowful Bone Tears needed to clear the Fusion Dungeon, and the tower shuddered when he compared the flowers’ mental damage to the Nine-Layer Soul Suppression.

• Chen Ming used the Pitch-Black Tower to summon a level-one Bone Demon, which stood obediently beside him before returning through the Nether Gate.
• Chen Ming realized the tower could summon nearly five million Bone Demons at no cost, though their level could not exceed his own.
• Chen Ming went to the Grave Flowers and plucked their Sorrowful Bone Tears, taking mental damage as he collected exactly one hundred.
• Chen Ming checked his mental power and remarked that plucking the tears had hurt him more than the Nine-Layer Soul Suppression, making the Pitch-Black Tower shudder.

Chen Ming and his team cleared the Fusion Dungeon with a Legendary rating, earning rewards and leveling up before the Day 4 Grand Exam results were announced. The Morning Light Squad held first, second, third, and sixth place on the leaderboard.

• Chen Ming collected the final Sorrowful Bone Tear, ending the Fusion Dungeon and returning the team to the boundary of the Exotic Beast Forest and wasteland.
• Chen Ming received a Legendary rating, 120 dungeon points, 4,000 experience, 100 Tier 1 Crystals, and a Resurrection Bone Spirit, then reached level 8.
• Qin Zhixue and Lin Wei reached level 7, while Sun Yang reached level 6; the teammates declined Chen Ming's offer to share the Sorrowful Bone Tears.
• Chen Ming showed the team 100 rare resources, and the Grand Exam Day 4 results placed Chen Ming first, Qin Zhixue second, Lin Wei third, and Sun Yang sixth.

Chen Ming and his companions returned from the dungeon after gaining levels and rare rewards, while Qin Zhixue told her grandfather she wanted to become a support. Sun Yang reached Level 6 and stunned Cloud Sea City's onlookers by saying he had gained three levels just by watching Chen Ming fight.

• Qin Zhixue and Chen Ming killed a Crimson Flame Lizard, allowing Qin Zhixue to reach Level 8 as Chen Ming reviewed his gains and considered which skill to awaken at Level 10.
• Qin Zhixue and Lin Wei met the Angel Old Man in the wilderness, where he confronted Qin Zhixue about wanting to take the support path.
• Sun Yang parted from Chen Ming and headed toward the guild to buy Agility Rune Stones, deciding to focus on speed as an agile support.
• People in Cloud Sea City recognized Sun Yang as the day's sixth-ranked player after he reached Level 6, and he said he had gained three levels by watching the dungeon battles.

Chen Ming cultivated his mental power overnight and increased his mental potential to 21%. The next morning, Cloud Sea City gathered to watch Morning Light Squad and Abyss Squad compete for the chance to advance, and the match began under the Inspector’s supervision.

• Chen Ming meditated and broke through to 21% mental potential.
• Cloud Sea City’s residents gathered to watch the team battle between Morning Light Squad and Abyss Squad.
• The crowd debated which squad would win and placed bets on the match.
• The Inspector’s Mechanical Crow appeared and projected the event across a giant light screen.
• Chen Ming and Wang Yan led their squads onto the platform as the Mechanical Crow announced that the contestants must avoid taking lives.

The Abyss Squad began its planned assault on Chen Ming, using four members to surround him while their rock-armored guard blocked Qin Zhixue. The chapter left the teams mid-battle, with the Abyss Squad trying to bring down Chen Ming before his power could build.

• Sun Yang asked Chen Ming about tactics, and Chen Ming told him to join in if he wanted to fight.
• Wang Yan reminded Song Chuan of his task: use Golden-Horned Pangolin Beast essence blood to gain armor-piercing power and break Chen Ming's defense.
• The match began, and Chen Ming advanced with his flaming longsword drawn.
• Wang Yan ordered the Abyss Squad to attack, sending four members after Chen Ming while Luo Bing blocked Qin Zhixue.
• Qin Zhixue recognized that the Abyss Squad meant to keep her from supporting Chen Ming, though Chen Ming did not need her help.

Abyss Squad launched coordinated attacks against Chen Ming, but his Absolute Defense reduced every hit to zero. When Song Chuan charged, Chen Ming used Spirit Exhaustion to drain his spiritual power, leaving him staggering toward Chen Ming, who sidestepped to avoid the embarrassing collision.

• Wang Yan and the Gale Archer attacked Chen Ming from both sides, but all their attacks dealt zero damage.
• Wang Yan realized Abyss Squad could not break Chen Ming's defense and relied on Song Chuan to turn the fight around.
• Chen Ming used Nether Eye's Spirit Exhaustion on Song Chuan as he charged.
• Song Chuan's spiritual power ran dry, his skill failed, and he fainted while continuing forward in a crooked stumble.
• Chen Ming sidestepped Song Chuan's comical charge as the crowd watched in silence.

Song Chuan lost control during the match, charged Chen Ming, and fell off the platform, while the Inspector revealed that beast blood essence was behind his behavior. As Chen Ming advanced on the Abyss Squad, Wang Yan offered him any amount of gold to buy a place on the team and join the Alliance’s favored generation.

• Song Chuan regained consciousness after falling from the platform, realized the crowd had seen his disgrace, and fainted again in anger.
• Principal Zhou recognized Chen Ming’s legendary equipment, while the Inspector told Principals Wang and Wu that Song Chuan had consumed high-level beast blood essence.
• Chen Ming declared the Abyss Squad’s time was nearly up and walked toward them with Pale Flame surrounding him.
• Wang Yan offered Chen Ming any amount of gold to buy the Abyss Squad’s open spot, hoping to join the generation the Alliance planned to cultivate.

Wang Yan tried to recruit Chen Ming after his plan to defeat him failed, but Chen Ming ignored the offer and attacked the Abyss Squad. His armor-piercing ability overwhelmed the Gale Archer, and he turned to face Wang Yan.

• Wang Yan planned to have Chen Ming and Qin Zhixue join the Abyss Squad so he could protect his own future and avoid the Inspector's scrutiny.
• Chen Ming rejected Wang Yan's offer and struck the Gale Archer, whose defenses were then completely bypassed by Chen Ming's 100% Armor Piercing.
• Chen Ming caught up to the Gale Archer and dealt increasingly powerful blows while the archer's wind arrows inflicted no damage.
• Chen Ming left the badly injured Gale Archer and advanced on Wang Yan, whose dark elemental attack also dealt no damage.
• Wang Yan attacked Chen Ming and briefly thought Chen Ming's damage had decreased, but Chen Ming's 100% Armor Piercing activated against him.

Chen Ming overwhelmed Wang Yan, shattered his epic-grade constitution equipment, and forced him to surrender. Wu Qingyang surrendered as well, leaving the rock-armored guard to realize the fight was already over.

• Chen Ming stripped away Wang Yan's defense and sent him flying with a slash that shattered his epic-grade constitution equipment.
• As Chen Ming pressed his attack, Wang Yan surrendered before the next blade strike could hit him.
• Chen Ming lowered his blade, and Wu Qingyang surrendered after seeing Wang Yan defeated and Chen Ming look his way.
• The A-rank rock-armored guard, distracted by watching Qin Zhixue, realized his teammates had lost when Sun Yang told him they had all fallen.

Chen Ming’s Morning Light Squad crushed Abyss Squad, securing Cloud Sea City’s place in the Provincial Selection. As other cities mocked Chen Ming and his team online, a gigantic mechanical creature flew toward the Exotic Beast Forest.

• Chen Ming defeated Abyss Squad after only five swings, and Principal Zhou announced Morning Light Squad’s victory.
• Inspector Lin congratulated Chen Ming, Qin Zhixue, Lin Wei, and Sun Yang and prepared to lead them to the Provincial Selection.
• Cloud Sea City listed Morning Light Squad as its top team, and Class-Changers from other cities mocked Chen Ming’s rank and lineup.
• Cloud Sea City residents stayed quiet about Chen Ming’s records, confident that the other cities would soon see his strength for themselves.
• A gigantic mechanical creature took flight from a high-rise and headed toward the Exotic Beast Forest.

Morning Light Squad learned that the Provincial Selection would give the Alliance a chance to identify and heavily cultivate ten promising teams. Inspector Lin revealed that rising energy tides had prompted the Alliance to prepare for a new era by breaking through the Exotic Beast Forest.

• Inspector Lin took Chen Ming, Sun Yang, Qin Zhixue, and Lin Wei aboard a Mechanical Crow bound for Abyss-Border City, where top teams from other cities would gather.
• Inspector Lin explained that his Mechanical Crow carried his consciousness and that he used it to speak because a cursed injury had damaged his voice.
• Inspector Lin showed Morning Light Squad a list of ten slots for teams the Alliance planned to nurture, with Purple Firmament Team and Yuqing Team already listed.
• Inspector Lin said provincial figures would arrange for every city's top team to reach Level 10, and he urged Morning Light Squad to seize the opportunity.
• Inspector Lin revealed that the Alliance intended to use the rising energy tides to end the era of exotic beasts and expand beyond the Exotic Beast Forest.

Inspector Lin revealed that the Pale Moon Wolf King had been gathering a Saint Grade resource, which Chen Ming had secretly taken, and concluded that Chen Ming had absorbed it. As the Morning Light Squad traveled into the wilderness, Chen Ming learned the Special Assessment could lead to teams being reorganized, and they arrived at Abyss-Border City.

• Inspector Lin told Chen Ming and Sun Yang that the Level 49 Pale Moon Wolf King had used a rare heavenly radiance to gather resources for a breakthrough to Saint Beast.
• Inspector Lin hinted that someone had stolen the Wolf King's Saint Grade resource, and Chen Ming privately realized it was the [Azure Flame True Core] in his spiritual space.
• Inspector Lin suspected Chen Ming had absorbed the resource and awakened a spiritual skill, but warned him to keep it hidden and did not expose him.
• Inspector Lin explained that the Provincial Selection could reorganize teams and that Chen Ming would need to prove his potential to secure a place for his squad.
• Chen Ming and the other Morning Light Squad members traveled into the depths of the Exotic Beast Forest, where Mechanical Crow blasted attacking flying beasts.
• The Morning Light Squad crossed the wilderness and arrived at Abyss-Border City.