Chapter Summaries

Chen Ming took the defense test without moving, revealing that a Level 2 Mechanical Beetle could not damage him. As the crowd and the Inspector judged his apparent carelessness, Chen Ming urged the test to hurry so he could meet Qin Zhixue afterward.

• Song Chuan celebrated taking first place in defense and hoped to join a team with Qin Zhixue, Wang Yan, and Wu Qingyang.
• Chen Ming heard that Cloud Sea City's principals were considering merging the Morning Light Squad and the Abyss Squad, but dismissed the idea of others arranging his choices.
• Qin Zhixue told Chen Ming she had waited for him to use the Dungeon Rune Stone, and he promised to join her after his tests.
• Chen Ming began the defense test by standing still without using skills or equipment, confusing the spectators and disappointing the Inspector.
• A Level 2 Mechanical Beetle struck Chen Ming's shirt button and dealt no damage, so Chen Ming asked for the test to hurry.

Chen Ming passed the Level 2 and Level 6 defense tests without taking damage, leaving the crowd and the principals astonished. The Inspector raised the difficulty to Level 10, eager to find out whether Chen Ming could finally be hurt.

• Chen Ming stood still as the Level 2 Mechanical Beetle attacked him ten times without causing damage, and he passed the defense test.
• Principal Wang and Principal Wu wondered whether Chen Ming had another or hidden class, while the Inspector recognized that none of the attacks had affected him.
• The testing platform skipped to a Level 6 test and sent a Mechanical Rhino charging at Chen Ming, but it toppled over without hurting him.
• Chen Ming passed the Level 6 test after ten attacks, leaving the crowd speechless.
• The Inspector raised the defense test to Level 10 and insisted that he would make Chen Ming lose at least a drop of blood.

Chen Ming stopped a level 10 Mechanical Great Ape's hammer with one hand and took first place on the defense leaderboard with 9999 points. He then headed to the attack testing platform and ignited his Rock-Shattering Blade with azure flames.

• A level 10 Mechanical Great Ape attacked Chen Ming with a massive steel hammer, and he caught the blow with one hand while taking only one point of damage before recovering it.
• The Mechanical Great Ape returned to its platform form, and Chen Ming earned 9999 points to claim first place on the defense test leaderboard.
• The crowd and the principals marveled at Chen Ming's defense, while the Inspector recognized his terrifying potential.
• Chen Ming walked to the attack testing platform, drew his Rock-Shattering Blade, and covered it in azure flames with Blade-Igniting Infusion.

Chen Ming used his newly revealed psychic skill, Pale Flame, during the attack-power test, where his strikes grew stronger until he dominated the rankings. The chapter ended with him leading both the attack and defense rankings and taking first place overall by a crushing margin.

• Principals recognized Chen Ming's flames as a psychic skill and Principal Wang identified them as Pale Flame.
• Principal Zhou defended Qin Zhixue's decision to team up with Chen Ming and celebrated Chen Ming's record-breaking potential.
• Chen Ming began the attack-power test with a score of 300, briefly reassuring the watching crowd.
• With each successive strike, Chen Ming's score rose by 300 as the Pale Flame around him intensified.
• Chen Ming finished with a 3000-point attack score, placing above Qin Zhixue in the attack rankings and earning 6500 points overall.

Chen Ming stunned Cloud Sea City with test scores far beyond even Qin Zhixue’s, then reunited with his Bright Morning team at the border. Qin Zhixue gave him a Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone and proposed they enter the dangerous dungeon without waiting to reach level 10.

• Chen Ming demonstrated Annihilation Strike during the attack test, raising his damage tenfold after ten strikes and earning a score above 6,000.
• News of Chen Ming’s exceptional test results spread across the border, while Chen Ming paid little attention to the commotion.
• Chen Ming’s Bright Morning team gathered, and Sun Yang realized even an S-Rank Class-Changer might be dead weight beside Chen Ming.
• Lin Wei arrived after the test and was astonished by Chen Ming’s rankings, while Qin Zhixue confirmed they were real.
• Qin Zhixue gave Chen Ming a Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone and explained that such dungeons were exceptionally difficult.
• Qin Zhixue suggested that Chen Ming’s strength meant they no longer needed to wait until both of them reached level 10 before challenging the dungeon.

Chen Ming used Qin Zhixue’s Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone and prepared to lead his squad into the Exotic Beast Forest. Before they left, two principals asked him and Qin Zhixue to join the Abyss Squad for Jiangnan Province’s selection, but Chen Ming refused.

• Chen Ming used the Fusion Dungeon Rune Stone and found that its marked location was near the special valley in the Exotic Beast Forest.
• Chen Ming prepared to take his three teammates to the Fusion Dungeon, but Principal Wu and Principal Wang stopped him.
• Principal Wu asked Chen Ming and Qin Zhixue to join Wang Yan, Wu Qingyang, and Song Chuan in representing Cloud Sea City at the provincial selection.
• Principal Wang suggested the five Class Changers practice working together, leaving Lin Wei and Sun Yang overlooked.
• Chen Ming rejected the proposal, saying he was not interested.

Chen Ming rejected Principals Wang and Wu’s offer to join Abyss Squad, and Qin Zhixue demonstrated her support for Morning Light Squad by giving Chen Ming and Sun Yang epic-grade equipment. The principals were left speechless as Qin Zhixue’s generous gift settled where she stood.

• Principal Wu warned Chen Ming that his squad would be disadvantaged against five all-S-rank squads, but Chen Ming questioned whether they could score 5,000 points combined.
• Principals Wang and Wu offered Chen Ming and Qin Zhixue two pieces of epic-grade equipment and five portions of rare resources to join Abyss Squad for the selection.
• Qin Zhixue took out a storage bead and presented Chen Ming and Sun Yang with four pieces of epic-grade equipment each.
• Qin Zhixue said the equipment was a perk of joining Morning Light Squad, making clear that she was joining Chen Ming’s squad.
• Sun Yang excitedly accepted the equipment, while Principals Wang and Wu and the onlookers stared in stunned silence.

Qin Zhixue rejected the Abyss Squad’s recruitment, revealed her rich supply of epic-grade equipment and Dungeon Rune Stones, and stood by the Morning Light Squad. The Inspector announced that the Morning Light and Abyss Squads would battle for a place in the provincial selection, leaving the Abyss Squad’s members apprehensive about facing Chen Ming.

• Qin Zhixue offered epic-grade equipment as a perk for joining the Morning Light Squad and confirmed that she had no intention of joining the Abyss Squad.
• When Principal Wang offered the Abyss Squad’s Dungeon Rune Stones as an incentive, Qin Zhixue revealed that she had twelve tier-one Dungeon Rune Stones.
• Principal Zhou refused to force Chen Ming and Qin Zhixue into the Abyss Squad, reasoning that the Abyss Squad members were no match for Chen Ming.
• The Inspector announced that the Morning Light Squad and the Abyss Squad would fight in a team battle the next day, with the winner advancing to the provincial selection in Jiangnan Province.
• Wang Yan, Wu Qingyang, and Song Chuan dreaded facing Chen Ming, and Song Chuan regretted joining the Abyss Squad.

Chen Ming tested his new equipment and Annihilation Strike in the Exotic Beast Forest, where he quickly became powerful enough to kill a level 7 beast in two strikes. Qin Zhixue watched his strength grow and began to wonder whether she could truly serve as a main force on his team.

• Chen Ming equipped the four Epic Grade items Qin Zhixue had given him and saw that their rune stone bonuses raised his attributes substantially.
• Sun Yang took Chen Ming and the team's old equipment to the guild to have the rune stones removed before the group headed into the forest.
• Chen Ming discovered that attacking within an hour refreshed Annihilation Strike's duration, and he built its damage boost to 6000%.
• Chen Ming killed a level 7 Red-Armored Turtle in two strikes, dealing more than 11,000 damage with the second hit.
• Qin Zhixue watched Chen Ming's overwhelming performance and questioned whether she could be a main force on the Morning Light Squad, thinking instead about how her team bonus could support him.

Chen Ming led Morning Light Squad into the five-part Bone Burial Ground Fusion Dungeon despite Lin Wei’s warnings about its extreme difficulty. The dungeon’s 72-hour clear conditions required them to repel three Demon Cave beast tides and collect at least 50 Sorrowful Bone Tears, while the mysterious Bone Burial Land had no stated clear condition.

• Chen Ming led Qin Zhixue, Sun Yang, and Lin Wei through the forest toward the Fusion Dungeon.
• The squad discovered the Gloomy Wind Wasteland and learned that Bone Burial Ground combined five dungeons.
• Lin Wei warned that the dungeon’s difficulty could exceed their limits, but Chen Ming decided to enter and Qin Zhixue and Sun Yang followed.
• Chen Ming activated the Dungeon Rune Stone, transporting all four into Bone Burial Ground.
• The dungeon revealed a 72-hour time limit and required them to repel three Demon Cave beast tides and collect at least 50 Sorrowful Bone Tears.

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.