Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming killed a Second-Order Miasma Beast, reached Level 30, and awakened an SSS-Rank skill. Meanwhile, a secret-realm ranking appeared on Blue Star, placing Chen Ming last by class rank as other factions watched.

• Chen Ming fought and killed a Second-Order Miasma Beast with Poseidon's Trident, earning experience and merit points.
• A group of five led by a crimson-haired man crossed the desert and headed toward the mountain range after noticing a fight.
• Chen Ming reached Level 30 and chose to awaken.
• A ranking inscription appeared at the secret-realm entrance, listing Qing Muyu at No. 901 and Chen Ming at No. 430050 with a C-rank class.
• The onlookers concluded the initial rankings assessed classes rather than true strength, and noted that more ranking boards remained unopened.
• Chen Ming successfully awakened the SSS-Rank skill [2%] One Strike.

Chen Ming awakened [2%] Strike, which replicated Heavenly Scourge’s effects as a low-cost basic attack, and began training it in his Pure Land. Elsewhere, a red-haired leader’s team identified Chen Ming’s group as outsiders from a lowly world and decided to kill them.

• Chen Ming learned that [2%] Strike copied 2% of his strongest attack’s power while retaining its effects and greatly reducing its Mental Power cost.
• Chen Ming realized the skill let him repeatedly launch nearly free, locked-on Heavenly Scourge attacks and could help him surprise enemies with the full-power version.
• Chen Ming sent his eight mental avatars to level up [2%] Strike in his Pure Land.
• A scout used a mirror to identify Chen Ming’s group as outsiders and report their class grades to the red-haired leader.
• The red-haired leader dismissed Chen Ming’s group as weak and ordered his team to kill them.

After strengthening his Spatial Domain and collecting a strange Withered Spirit Fire, Chen Ming led his companions toward the Withered Wood Forest. He detected an enemy team preparing to ambush them and killed most of them with a replicated Scourge Strike.

• Chen Ming absorbed spatial resources, improving his spatial abilities and gaining rudimentary insight into creating and destroying space.
• Chen Ming found the Miasma Beast's skeletal remains and stored its Withered Spirit Fire and bones, later transforming the bones into an ordinary Bone Demon.
• Chen Ming chose to lead the group toward the Withered Wood Forest as Sun Yang asked where they should go next.
• Chen Ming sensed a five-man team approaching with malicious intent and hurled Poseidon's Trident at them with a replicated Scourge Strike.
• Chen Ming reached the blasted hills and found three ambushers dead and two crippled.

Chen Ming questioned the two surviving attackers, learned the Secret Realm’s purpose and how Merit Points worked, then killed the red-haired man when he tried to betray him while escaping. As night approached on Desolate Star, Chen Ming’s group headed through the Withered Wood Forest and spotted people ahead.

• Chen Ming killed the shield-bearing attacker and forced the red-haired survivor to explain the Secret Realm’s purpose, its native inhabitants, and the value of Merit Points.
• The survivor, Kui Jiu, explained that some participants had suppressed their levels before entering the Secret Realm and then gained levels inside.
• When Kui Jiu tried to threaten Chen Ming during his final second of disengagement, Chen Ming killed him before he could escape.
• Chen Ming and his companions crossed the Withered Wood Forest as the Great Mist drew near and discussed the danger it might bring at night.
• Qing Muyu spotted people ahead in the forest.

Chen Ming and his companions crossed the miasma-filled Desolate Star and found a native girl sheltering beside a Withered Spirit Lamp. The girl recognized them as reinforcements from beyond the heavens and explained that the lamp was a Spirit Source used to resist the miasma tide.

• Chen Ming sensed the Great Mist’s permanent, erosive damage and used his Spatial Domain to shield the group.
• Chen Ming carried everyone through the mist toward a distant campfire while Miasma Beasts attacked the domain.
• Chen Ming found that a Withered Spirit Lamp kept the miasma and most Miasma Beasts away from a small area.
• A malnourished young girl with an S-rank class grabbed her bone blade when Chen Ming and the others entered her shelter.
• The girl recognized the group as reinforcements from beyond the heavens and identified the lamp as a spiritual-type Spirit Source.

Chen Ming acquired a Low-Tier Spirit Source, the Withered Spirit Lamp, after his Withered Spirit Fire ignited it and made it recognize him as its master. Su Yao explained the scattered settlements of the Desolate Star and asked him to bring hope by dealing with the Great Mist, just as a Miasma Beast entered the lamp’s outer zone.

• Chen Ming examined Su Yao’s Withered Spirit Lamp, and his Withered Spirit Fire ignited it, expanding its light to twenty meters and driving back nearby Miasma Beasts.
• The lamp established a spiritual connection with Chen Ming, who offered Su Yao compensation; she said she hoped he would get rid of the Great Mist and bring hope to the world.
• Chen Ming learned that Su Yao came from Baihua Town and that human settlements relied on Withered Spirit Lamps to survive across the fractured Desolate Star.
• Su Yao explained that killing Miasma Beasts provided the Withered Spirit Fire needed to keep the lamps burning, and warned Chen Ming when a first-rank purple-quality Miasma Beast entered the outer zone.

Chen Ming killed a Tier 1 Miasma Beast and discovered that tiny bugs devoured its corpse before vanishing through space. He gave Su Yao the resulting Withered Spirit Fire and equipment, then wondered whether a distant city served as a gathering place for the secret realm’s participants.

• Su Yao prepared to fight a Tier 1 Miasma Beast, but Chen Ming killed it instantly with Poseidon's Trident.
• Chen Ming watched tiny bugs consume the beast’s corpse and vanish with a faint spatial fluctuation, then collected its skeleton and Withered Spirit Fire.
• Chen Ming gave Su Yao the Withered Spirit Fire and a set of equipment, promising her all the fire he obtained that night.
• Chen Ming speculated that the Miasma Beasts and Withered Spirit Lamps were resources for secret realm participants and that a distant city might be their meeting place.
• Chen Ming killed two more Tier 1 Miasma Beasts with Poseidon's Trident and asked whether there was a way to hunt more efficiently.

Chen Ming and his companions reached Baihua Town with Su Yao after surviving a night in the Great Mist, and Chen Ming learned that Withered Wood Swamp held the Withered Spirit Lamps he sought. In town, a robed outsider tried to seize the mid-tier Withered Spirit Lamp protecting the residents, provoking another team of Class Changers to intervene.

• Su Yao explained that only High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamps could illuminate an area while being carried, and offered to lead Chen Ming to Withered Wood Swamp after daybreak.
• Chen Ming gained substantial experience and occasionally found beast cores and rune stones by killing the Miasma Beasts that entered the lamp's illuminated area overnight.
• Su Yao led Chen Ming and the others to Baihua Town, where she planned to store her Withered Spirit Fire before taking them to Withered Wood Swamp.
• At the town's altar, a robed outsider struck a resident who pleaded with him not to take the mid-tier Withered Spirit Lamp protecting the town.
• A team of outsiders confronted the robed man, warning that the town's residents might not survive the night without the lamp, and he insulted them.

Chen Ming arrived as a high-tier team tried to take the Withered Spirit Lamp that protected the town, and he challenged their right to do so. Qing Muyu struck to stop them, revealing her God-Serving Priest class and forcing the team to treat Chen Ming’s group as a serious threat.

• A high-tier team declared that lower-tier teams should guard towns while it took the Withered Spirit Lamp to travel to the distant city and join the campaign.
• Chen Ming learned that the lamp protected the town and condemned the team for trying to take it from the natives.
• A member of the robed team reached for the lamp while the other teams hesitated to confront them.
• Qing Muyu shot the member’s hand away with a radiant arrow, stopping him from taking the lamp.
• The robed team recognized Qing Muyu’s God-Serving Priest class and formed a battle formation against Chen Ming’s group.

Qing Muyu discovered that her God-Serving class let her combine her abilities with Chen Ming’s, and the pair demonstrated the power of a spatially severing arrow. When the robed group tried to claim Qing Muyu for themselves, Chen Ming attacked their leader, leaving him gravely wounded.

• Qing Muyu’s arrow combined her light ability with Chen Ming’s Spatial Severing and severed a robed Class Changer’s hand.
• A member of the robed group recognized Qing Muyu’s God-Serving Series Class and realized it could bind her to another Class Changer.
• The robed group assumed the God-Serving Position belonged to Qin Zhixue and dismissed Chen Ming’s team as weak.
• The robed group’s leader asked Chen Ming and Qing Muyu which astral realm they came from, then discussed keeping Qing Muyu and unbinding her class.
• Chen Ming summoned Poseidon’s Trident and struck the leader with Minor Scourge, hurling him into a pit and badly injuring him.

Chen Ming fought off three teams, using Poseidon's Trident to destroy the robed team's defenses and wipe out all five members. The other two teams approached him afterward, impressed and wary of his strength.

• Chen Ming struck the robed captain with Poseidon's Trident, and the other teams suspected he possessed Mythical Grade equipment and a dual-class.
• The robed team raised a coordinated barrier, but Chen Ming's next Trident strike shattered it.
• Chen Ming trapped the robed team with a spatial barrier and killed all five with a third Trident strike.
• Chen Ming praised the robed team for enduring three attacks, leaving the other two teams speechless.
• Members of the Long-Armed Humanoid Race and the other team approached Chen Ming and asked whether he came from a Divine Realm.

After learning the route to Qingqiu City and the importance of Withered Spirit Lamps, Chen Ming led the group into Withered Wood Swamp to seek a Spirit Source. The group reached the swamp’s edge, where they witnessed Heartfire burn a Class Changer to death.

• Chen Ming learned that teams had to cross dangerous special regions to reach Qingqiu City and that a high-tier Withered Spirit Lamp would make the journey safer.
• Chen Ming brought Su Yao and the two other teams from Baihua Town through the desert to Withered Wood Swamp.
• Chen Ming felt the swamp’s Heartfire warming his heart, while Su Yao explained that the flames could cause spontaneous combustion once they entered the swamp.
• A long-haired man caught blue Heartfire while standing in the swamp, and his teammates’ buffs could not stop him from burning to death.

After losing their captain in the Withered Wood Swamp, four Class Changers considered forming a temporary team while they waited for other teams to suffer casualties. Chen Ming entered the swamp alone, endured its heartfire, and continued searching for better Withered Spirit Lamps and the swamp’s source of energy.

• The four survivors considered leaving the secret realm, then decided to wait at the swamp for other teams needing to reorganize.
• Chen Ming and two teams from Baihua Town arrived at the swamp, where Su Yao explained the Withered Spirit Lamps and warned that heartfire could burn Class Changers to death.
• Chen Ming entered the swamp alone, and the onlookers were shocked when he passed the first stretch unharmed.
• Chen Ming passed a nearly rotten Withered Spirit Lamp without taking it and continued deeper, inspecting the swamp and searching for its energy source.

Chen Ming entered the Forbidden Zone of Withered Wood Swamp, endured its heartfire through Eternity Recovery, and obtained a high-order Withered Spirit Lamp. As he recognized the lamp as a true Spirit Source, he noticed a thread of golden airflow visible through his Eternal Mental Power.

• Chen Ming followed a vague underground guidance through the swamp and reached its deepest Forbidden Zone.
• The heartfire ignited on Chen Ming’s chest, but Eternity Recovery restored the Constitution it permanently damaged.
• Chen Ming found three flawless high-tier Withered Spirit Lamps and picked one from a branch.
• Chen Ming identified the lamp as a high-order Spirit Source and sensed that his mental space longed to absorb it.
• Chen Ming saw a thread of golden airflow through his Eternal Mental Power.

Chen Ming followed a golden thread beneath Withered Wood Swamp and discovered that its three High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamps grew from an enormous buried tree. The thread led him to green sprouts growing on the dead trunk, where the chapter left him poised to investigate their significance.

• Chen Ming endured Heartfire and followed a golden thread deeper into the swamp, despite the crowd's confusion.
• He sank beneath the swamp and discovered an enormous Withered Spirit Tree bearing High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamps on its branches.
• Chen Ming followed the golden thread to the tree's withered main trunk and found green sprouts growing from it.

Chen Ming discovered that the New Sprout grew by consuming Withered Spirit Fire, then emerged from the Dead Water swamp and absorbed a High-Order Withered Spirit Lamp. The observers mistook his survival and blazing heartfire for signs of extraordinary Eternal Defense, while Chen Ming remained unaware that flames covered his whole body.

• Chen Ming found that the New Sprout had rooted inside the Withered Spirit Lamp and consumed its Withered Spirit Fire to grow.
• The teams at the swamp’s edge worried that Chen Ming had died after spending so long underground, but Qing Muyu, Qin Zhixue, and others trusted he would return.
• Chen Ming emerged from the swamp, prompting the onlookers to speculate that he possessed Eternal Defense and was a God Grade dual-class user.
• Su Yao and the others saw blue flames engulf Chen Ming and recognized the sign of a fully ignited Withered Spirit Heartfire, but Chen Ming noticed only that its damage remained at [-1].
• Chen Ming entered his mental space and began refining the High-Order Withered Spirit Lamp, planning to obtain another if absorbing it made it disappear.

Chen Ming absorbed the New Sprout-bearing High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamp into his mental space and discovered he could manifest and control it in reality. The New Sprout revealed golden threads pointing toward six other holders, leaving Chen Ming prepared to hunt Miasma Beasts with his newly mobile light.

• Chen Ming absorbed the Withered Spirit Lamp into his mental space and endured a temporary trial that covered his body in blue Heartfire.
• Chen Ming manifested the High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamp above his palm and realized it was appearing as a Spirit Body from his mental space.
• Chen Ming noticed golden threads extending from the New Sprout and inferred that they pointed toward other New Sprout holders; another thread appeared, bringing the total to seven.
• Chen Ming realized he could move the manifested Withered Spirit Lamp around himself and planned to use it to hunt Miasma Beasts, gaining experience, light, and Withered Spirit Fire for the New Sprout.

Chen Ming discovered that the New Sprout in his mental space could grow into a Saint-Tier Spirit Source, then endured heartfire to collect more High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamps. Su Yao saw him as a possible answer to the Great Mist, and Chen Ming prepared to nourish the New Sprout with Withered Spirit Fire outside Baihua Town.

• Chen Ming returned the New Sprout to his mental space and decided to cultivate it before following the golden threads.
• Chen Ming endured a fresh surge of heartfire, took a High-Tier Withered Spirit Lamp from a branch, and collected several more from underground.
• Su Yao watched Chen Ming and believed he might be able to resolve the Great Mist.
• Other teams retreated from Chen Ming while his body still burned, then cautiously resumed gathering Withered Spirit Lamps after the flames died out.
• Chen Ming returned to Baihua Town as night fell and stood outside the town with a Withered Spirit Lamp above his head to nourish the New Sprout.

On Blood Moon Day, the Blood Moon suppressed every Withered Spirit Lamp and turned the territory into a crimson dimly lit zone. Chen Ming defended the town’s eastern front alone, discovered New Sprout’s light resisted the Blood Moon, and charged into the oncoming Miasma Beast horde.

• The town’s guards prepared for the Blood Moon as Chen Ming stood alone outside the eastern gate to defend the territory.
• The Great Mist arrived, and the Blood Moon overwhelmed the Withered Spirit Lamps, leaving the entire region unprotected.
• Chen Ming killed five Tier One Miasma Beasts with Minor Scourge and Poseidon's Trident, gaining experience and Withered Spirit Fire for New Sprout.
• New Sprout absorbed the five wisps, grew taller, and emitted faint light that the Blood Moon did not suppress.
• A massive Miasma Beast horde charged from the Great Mist, and Chen Ming rushed to meet it as observers recognized his terrifying lightning attack.

Chen Ming slaughtered the Miasma Beasts attacking the town, then pursued their retreat into the Great Mist to keep gaining experience and Withered Spirit Fire. He discovered a vast migrating mirage in the Forbidden Zone and spotted a pack of third-tier Miasma Beasts emerging from it.

• Chen Ming used Minor Scourge to kill large numbers of Miasma Beasts while the Withered Spirit Lamp absorbed Withered Spirit Fire and its new shoot grew.
• The Miasma Beasts retreated, ending the attack on the town without casualties, and Chen Ming reached Level 31.
• Chen Ming chased the retreating Miasma Beasts into the Great Mist, hoping to find their nest and hunt stronger creatures.
• Chen Ming entered a Forbidden Zone filled with indistinct migrating figures, where the remaining Miasma Beasts began merging into a vast mirage.
• A pack of enormous third-tier Miasma Beasts charged out of the mirage, exciting Chen Ming with the prospect of more experience and Withered Spirit Fire.