Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming gathered the pearls from across the Mist Coral Sea to draw every crab swarm to his ship and trigger the hidden stage. The crabs fused their pincers into a Demonic Pincer Beast, which attacked with a blade-filled spread as Chen Ming prepared to fight back.

• Chen Ming realized the pearls increased his Eternal Mental Power perception and crab-attraction range, then ordered teams to bring their pearls to him instead of leaving the Mist Coral Sea.
• Teams including Gu Feng's Purple Firmament Team delivered pearls to Chen Ming, while Qin Zhixue boosted his recovery and he fought the growing crab swarm around his ship.
• As the crab swarms gathered around Chen Ming, the sea elsewhere cleared and teams collected more pearls until one team delivered the last pearl and his attraction range covered the entire Misty Coral Sea.
• The crabs shed their pincers, which joined together into a level 30 Demonic Pincer Beast with a chance to yield an Eternal Attribute when killed.
• Chen Ming's Pale Flame slash failed to damage the reassembled beast substantially, and it spread its pincers into a vast blade attack with Demonic Pincer Thousand Blades.

Chen Ming endured the Demonic Pincer Beast’s relentless attacks and broke its pincers down through a battle of attrition. As the beast gathered its remaining pincers into a massive blade for a new attack, Chen Ming prepared to face it.

• The Demonic Pincer Beast unleashed a barrage of pincers, but Chen Ming’s shield absorbed most of their damage.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless shattered pincers while the other teams watched and realized the crab swarm had left pearls easy to collect.
• Shadowless’s automatic explosion destroyed a large number of pincers, leaving Chen Ming with 28,200 Constitution.
• Chen Ming continued fighting without using Shadowless again, judging that the remaining pincers were manageable.
• The Demonic Pincer Beast gathered its remaining pincers into a massive blade, and Chen Ming recognized the formation as Ten Thousand Pincers Unite.

Chen Ming killed the Demonic Pincer Beast, gained 1% eternal strength, and upgraded his Silver Scale Armor to fine grade. After finishing the second-day challenge, he returned to help the other teams while the Nether Sea Race watched him take first place again.

• Chen Ming survived the Demonic Pincer Beast’s Ten Thousand Pincers Unite and killed it, obtaining 1% eternal strength and rune stones.
• Chen Ming brought pearls out of the Mist Coral Sea and used them to raise his Silver Scale Armor to 100% progress and fine grade.
• Chen Ming returned to the Mist Coral Sea to help the other teams and test how eternal strength affected enemies.
• Chen Ming took first place in the second-day challenge with a one-hour completion time, disappointing the Nether Sea Race.

After the second day's challenge ended with a perfect clear in the eastern waters, the group chose to remain in the Illusion Sea Temple dungeon. Chen Ming recovered overnight, then warned everyone that the third day's surging-undercurrents challenge was more dangerous as a storm began to gather over the sea.

• The Nether Sea Race realized Chen Ming had completed the hidden stage by drawing the crab swarms' aggro, and that no other region could trigger the same stage.
• More people completed the second day's challenge, while Chen Ming's help let the eastern teams and Elite Department avoid deaths and upgrade all their dungeon equipment perfectly.
• After the challenge ended, everyone declined to settle their rewards and exit the dungeon, choosing to continue toward the third day.
• Chen Ming used Eternity Recovery overnight and discovered that Qin Zhixue's Angel Holy Ring boosted its recovery by 300%.
• When the third day's challenge began, Chen Ming warned the group to prioritize survival because they had to enter the sea and could not rely on large-scale cooperation.
• The sea grew turbulent beneath dark clouds, thunder, and lightning, leaving the group uneasy as the storm approached.

On the third day of the Temple Dungeon, Chen Ming entered a death whirlpool to retrieve the Heart of the Azure Sea, fighting off deep-sea swordfish with his Absolute Defense. He returned safely to the ship and looked toward the dark clouds, where he suspected the hidden stage was located.

• Chen Ming identified the dark clouds as the location of the hidden stage, though flight was prohibited and the day's challenge required diving into the sea.
• Chen Ming sailed toward a death whirlpool, crushed a Tide Pearl to form a protective barrier, and leaped into the water.
• Deep-Sea Swordfish attacked Chen Ming in the dark depths, but their strikes dealt no damage to him.
• Chen Ming reached the Heart of the Azure Sea, grabbed it, and shattered the surrounding undercurrent with a punch.
• The Heart of the Azure Sea thrust Chen Ming back to the surface, where he landed on his ship and looked thoughtfully at the sky.

Chen Ming suspected that gathering multiple Hearts of the Azure Sea underwater could create a powerful wave to carry him skyward, so he searched the deep sea while the others evacuated the area. He collected a second Heart of the Azure Sea and rubbed the two together, leaving the result unknown.

• Chen Ming decided to gather multiple Hearts of the Azure Sea before claiming them so their combined force might propel him upward.
• Chen Ming asked Sun Yang to move the ships and warn everyone to leave the area, then plunged into a death vortex using a Tide Pearl.
• Sun Yang led the evacuation as ships across the Eastern Sea Region left the waters, while a Nether Sea Race Class-Changer reported their movements to the race’s SSS-Rank members.
• Chen Ming searched the deep sea for more Hearts of the Azure Sea, relying on his unaffected Eternal Mental Power to detect another undercurrent.
• Chen Ming grabbed a second Heart of the Azure Sea and rubbed it together with the first in his hands.

Chen Ming gathered the Hearts of the Azure Sea, while three Nether Sea Race SSS-Rank Class-Changers copied his discovery and raced to trigger the hidden stage. When the undercurrents erupted, Chen Ming was blasted upward atop a colossal wave.

• Chen Ming confirmed that converging two undercurrents enlarged the Death Vortex and searched the deep sea for more Hearts of the Azure Sea.
• After noticing the expanding vortex, an SSS-Rank Class-Changer of the Nether Sea Race deduced the trigger condition, and three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers dove down to compete with Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming found fifteen linked Hearts of the Azure Sea and continued searching, while three enormous vortices formed in the northern sea as the Nether Sea Race followed his lead.
• Class Changers across the four seas stopped their challenges to watch as Chen Ming collected the twentieth Heart of the Azure Sea and the undercurrents erupted.
• The eastern vortex collapsed and sent a vast waterspout and tidal wave skyward, with Chen Ming standing at the wave’s crest.

Chen Ming and three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers ascended through Dragon Draws Clouds into the hidden stage, the Sky Illusion Sea. The Nether Sea Race members confronted Chen Ming, but an Azure Sea Spirit Beast appeared before they could fight.

• Chen Ming rose through Dragon Draws Clouds as three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers ascended over the northern waters and claimed they would deal with him in the hidden stage.
• Chen Ming entered the clouds and discovered a vast sea floating above the sky, while people below identified it as the Sky Illusion Sea.
• Chen Ming encountered the three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers, who demanded that he surrender or be beaten down.
• An Azure Sea Spirit Beast emerged from the waves, and Chen Ming saw that it could yield a single Eternal Attribute when killed.

Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast fought off three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers in the Phantom Sea, killing two and driving the last one to flee. The Nether Sea Race recovered the wounded fighters below as the crowd waited for the real battle to begin.

• Chen Ming and the three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers inspected the Eternal Beast's rewards, and the Nether Sea Race members grew resentful when they realized Chen Ming had already claimed two rewards.
• The three Nether Sea Race Class-Changers attacked Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast, but Chen Ming and the beast turned on them together.
• Chen Ming and the Azure Sea Spirit Beast struck down two attackers, killing them instantly.
• The last Nether Sea Race Class-Changer fled by leaping from the Phantom Sea, while onlookers mocked the trio.
• The Nether Sea Race retrieved the two injured fighters, and spectators turned their attention back to the Phantom Sea.

Chen Ming fought the level 30 Azure Sea Spirit Beast in the Phantom Sea and defeated it with Shadow Explosion. The battle revealed the hidden stage’s formidable difficulty to the watching Class Changers, while Chen Ming gained 2% Eternal Agility.

• Chen Ming split the Azure Sea Spirit Beast’s waterspout with one slash, then found that its rippling defenses reduced his damage to 3,000.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless attacked the Azure Sea Spirit Beast as it fought with swift, precise strikes and unusual evasion.
• Class Changers from the four seas watched the battle and used the Nether Sea Race’s earlier defeat to understand the hidden stage’s difficulty.
• Alliance Class Changers turned their attention back to gathering the Heart of the Azure Sea for their equipment quest.
• Chen Ming unleashed Shadow Explosion, killing the Azure Sea Spirit Beast and gaining 2% Eternal Agility.

Chen Ming killed the Azure Sea Spirit Beast, gained eternal agility, and discovered it let him briefly phase and greatly boost his speed. He upgraded his armor to epic grade and returned from the challenge, while others looked forward to activating equipment resonance with him.

• Chen Ming's Shadow Explosion reduced the Azure Sea Spirit Beast to 8% health, triggering his execution mechanic and killing it; he gained eternal agility and leveled up to 28.
• Chen Ming tested eternal agility and found he could spend its points for brief invulnerability and extreme boosts to attack speed, movement speed, and perception, with Eternity Recovery restoring the points after battle.
• Chen Ming considered whether eternal attributes belonged to a higher domain than ordinary attributes and skills, then used Eternity Recovery to repair damage from the fight.
• Chen Ming spent ten Hearts of the Azure Sea to fully unlock his Golden Scale Armor, upgraded it to epic grade, and equipped it.
• Chen Ming descended from the Phantom Sea in his Golden Scale Armor, and the people below anticipated using equipment resonance with him once they obtained epic-grade gear.

The third day's challenge ended with Chen Ming in first place and most of the Alliance and Elf Race teams upgrading their equipment to epic grade. On the fourth morning, the Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge began, and Chen Ming searched for its hidden stage as he prepared to upgrade his armor to legendary grade.

• The Nether Sea Race's three SSS-Rank leaders returned in disgrace, and one discovered that Chen Ming had inflicted severe permanent damage on his constitution.
• The third day's challenge ended with 160 of the Alliance and Elf Race's 200 participants upgrading their equipment to epic grade, while Chen Ming placed first in 2.5 hours and earned 50 Hearts of the Azure Sea.
• Gu Feng asked the seven team members who had failed the challenge whether they would leave, and they chose to stay on the island until the next day.
• Gu Feng and Qingmu Ya continued managing the Alliance and Elf Race teams as the remaining SSS-Rank Class Changers set their sights on legendary-grade equipment.
• The fourth day's Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge began, and Chen Ming used eternal mental power to search for its hidden stage and viewed the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor's 0% unlock progress.

Chen Ming examined the Legendary-grade Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor as the fourth-day challenge began: Class Changers had to use Hearts of the Azure Sea to lure golden carp through Dragon Gates and hunt the transformed Dragon Carp. He watched Lu Shan successfully lure a carp through a gate, where it transformed into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp, while wondering how the challenge would yield the day's Eternal reward.

• Chen Ming examined the Phantom Sea Golden Scale Armor and concluded that today's Eternal reward would have to come from the regular challenge rather than a hidden stage.
• Golden koi filled the sky, and four Dragon Gates appeared where the sea regions met, opening connections between them.
• Chen Ming joined the Class Changers at a Dragon Gate between the Eastern and Northern Sea Regions to watch the challenge.
• Lu Shan placed a Heart of the Azure Sea beneath the Dragon Gate and lured a golden carp toward it.
• The golden carp leaped through the Dragon Gate and transformed into a level 30 Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp.

Lu Shan and Su Lingyue each watched a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp escape after evolving, leaving the challengers unsure how to catch one. Chen Ming considered Qing Muyu’s suggestion to mark a Dragon Carp with mental power, and the crowd saw him approach the Dragon Gate.

• Lu Shan caught a golden carp that evolved into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp, but it reverted to an ordinary golden carp and vanished into the school of fish.
• Chen Ming realized the Dragon Carp carried a faint trace of Eternal Grade energy, while Qing Muyu suggested using a mental imprint to track it.
• Gu Feng and Su Lingyue tried the challenge; Gu Feng’s carp failed to leap through the Dragon Gate, while Su Lingyue’s evolved into a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp.
• Su Lingyue trapped the Dragon Carp with Thousand Boats, Myriad Shadows, but it slipped through the jade boats, changed back into a golden carp, and disappeared.
• The crowd saw Chen Ming approach beneath the Dragon Gate and hoped he would succeed.

Chen Ming discovered that a mental imprint let him track a Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp after it crossed the Dragon Gate, and he used an Eternal Mental Imprint to preserve the mark. He then fed the carp again, prompting it to cross the gate a second time and transform further.

• Chen Ming fed a Golden Carp the Heart of the Azure Sea and let the newly transformed Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp swim away, while secretly tracking it with a mental mark.
• Qing Muya identified the mental mark as the reason Chen Ming had let the dragon carp go, and Chen Ming agreed that its return would confirm their theory.
• After the dragon carp returned, Chen Ming replaced his temporary mark with an Eternal Mental Imprint that cost 10 points of Eternal Mental Power.
• Chen Ming fed the marked dragon carp another Heart of the Azure Sea, and it crossed the Dragon Gate for a second time.
• The Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp transformed again, gaining a second golden scale on its back.

Class-Changers began attempting the Golden Carp Leaps Dragon Gate challenge after learning to use mental power marks, while Chen Ming continued building up his Dragon Carp’s golden scales. Gu Feng tested his strength and judged Chen Ming’s limits to be tied to the dungeon’s, as Chen Ming’s carp emerged with five golden scales and increasingly dragon-like features.

• Class-Changers learned that mental power marks could guide repeated Dragon Gate leaps and began trying the challenge.
• Chen Ming kept stacking the prize pool instead of fighting his Dragon Carp, whose mark cost rose to 20 points.
• Gu Feng fought a returning Dragon Carp with one golden scale, severed part of its tail, then withdrew to assess its strength.
• Gu Feng told Su Lingyue that he could likely handle three golden scales and might attempt four, while marking scales consumed considerable mental energy.
• Gu Feng said Chen Ming’s limit rose and fell with the dungeon’s limit.
• A five-golden-scale Dragon Carp emerged from the Dragon Gate, displaying a long golden body, brow protrusions, and a dragon pattern.

Chen Ming took his five-golden-scaled Dragon Carp to the Northwest Dragon Gate after realizing the other gates might allow greater enhancement. The Nether Sea Race feared he had come for revenge, but he claimed their gate to attempt the next transformation, leaving them stunned as the carp gained a sixth golden scale.

• Chen Ming learned that the East Sea Region's Dragon Gate had reached its five-scale limit and suspected the other gates could offer further enhancements.
• Chen Ming traveled through the North Sea Region toward the Northwest Dragon Gate, alarming the Nether Sea Race, who thought he had come to attack them.
• Chen Ming ordered the Nether Sea Race Class Changers to clear the Northwest Dragon Gate area, and they reluctantly made way for him.
• Chen Ming began the Dragon Carp's sixth leap through the Northwest Dragon Gate, and the Nether Sea Race watched in disbelief as six golden scales appeared.

Chen Ming raised his Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp through the Dragon Gates in the North, Southwest, and Southeast Sea Regions until it transformed into a Golden Scale Flood Dragon. The four Dragon Gates then formed a battle platform, where the flood dragon attacked Chen Ming, who remained unharmed.

• Chen Ming left the Northwest Dragon Gate after filling its Golden Scale Blessing, then found the Holy See Alliance’s Southwest Sea Region strangely deserted and its Class Changers puppet-like.
• Chen Ming used fifty Hearts of the Azure Sea to bring his Golden-Scaled Dragon Carp to nineteen golden scales before its twentieth leap at the Southeast Dragon Gate.
• The carp successfully crossed the Dragon Gate and transformed into a level 30 Golden Scale Flood Dragon with four percent Eternal Attributes.
• The four Dragon Gates moved together to form a battle platform, and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon attacked Chen Ming with its tail and golden dragon breath.
• Chen Ming stood unscathed after the attack, taking only one point of damage.

Chen Ming and Shadowless tested their Eternal Agility against the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, unleashing a devastating burst of attacks before the combatants vanished from sight. The battle continued amid unseen clashes, leaving the watching Class Changers baffled.

• Chen Ming endured the Golden Scale Flood Dragon’s attacks while his Shield of Reversal reflected damage back at it.
• Chen Ming summoned Shadowless, who shared his abilities and Eternal Attributes.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless used Eternal Agility to strike the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, inflicting massive damage.
• The Golden Scale Flood Dragon activated its own Eternal Agility, and Chen Ming matched it.
• Chen Ming, Shadowless, and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon disappeared from the platform as their clash continued unseen.

Chen Ming and Shadowless overwhelmed the Golden Scale Flood Dragon in a rapid exchange, leaving the beast badly wounded while Chen Ming remained nearly unharmed. As the flood dragon launched a powerful water attack, Chen Ming stood firm and Shadowless moved in to finish the battle.

• Qing Muya explained that Chen Ming and the Golden Scale Flood Dragon were moving too fast for the crowd to see, and observers using spiritual power saw countless afterimages across the platform.
• Chen Ming and Shadowless reappeared, with the Golden Scale Flood Dragon bloodied and Chen Ming still standing unscathed, though he had lost 900 Constitution.
• The Golden Scale Flood Dragon eyed Shadowless warily and summoned a massive water dragon that charged toward Chen Ming.
• Chen Ming put away his sword and stood his ground as the water dragon broke apart against him, causing only one point of damage and adding 18,400 shield.
• Shadowless used the opening to reach the Golden Scale Flood Dragon, ready to end the battle.