Chapter Summaries

Star Ring Guild mistook Shi Feng’s fourteen cloaked fighters for bait and attacked them at the Stream Moon Town blockade. Qi Guang and the others evaded a barrage of arrows and smashed through Star Ring’s Shield Warrior line, leaving the confrontation underway.

• A scout warned Xuanyuan Sansha that fourteen cloaked riders were approaching, and Star Ring prepared to stop them.
• Xuanyuan Sansha learned that a thousand-man Hundred Flowers Palace regiment was approaching elsewhere and sent Mountain Mist Wanderer with three thousand players to support Mad Tiger.
• Xuanyuan Sansha ordered Star Ring’s ranged players to attack Shi Feng’s group, but a Magic-Sealing Domain prevented them from using skills and magic.
• Shi Feng’s fourteen fighters advanced through several volleys of arrows with ease.
• Qi Guang, Silent Blade, Remnant Cloud, and the others charged Star Ring’s shield wall and blasted dozens of Shield Warriors and Guardian Knights into the air.

Qi Guang and his companions smashed through two of Star Ring Guild’s defensive lines, overwhelming thousands of players with their superior equipment and Tier 2 skills. As Mountain Mist Wanderer and Star Ring’s top experts moved to stop them, Shi Feng effortlessly shattered Mountain Mist’s arrows with Thunder Slayer.

• Qi Guang and his companions broke through Star Ring Guild’s first and second lines of defense, sending hundreds of players falling in less than ten seconds.
• Xuanyuan Sansha ordered Mountain Mist Wanderer and the guild’s personal guard to intercept the attackers before they reached the third line.
• Mountain Mist Wanderer and nine other top experts appeared in front of Qi Guang’s group, while Star Ring’s remaining players regained hope.
• Mountain Mist Wanderer fired his Three Stars Pierce the Moon technique at Shi Feng, but the arrows shattered when they struck Thunder Slayer.

Shi Feng faced Mountain Mist Wanderer’s advanced archery techniques and killed him with a single decisive strike. The Xuanyuan Three Kills Guard Squad recoiled, recognizing Shi Feng as a dangerous expert.

• Mountain Mist Wanderer’s Three Stars Pierce the Moon was effortlessly blocked by Shi Feng, who praised the technique and angered him.
• Mountain Mist Wanderer unleashed Rainstorm Rapid Fire, but Shi Feng walked through the arrow barrage by redirecting its trajectories with precise combat technique.
• Mountain Mist Wanderer sensed Shi Feng’s skill and focused his senses, but Shi Feng used Instant Shift to appear within striking range and kill him with Thunder Slayer.
• Steel Tyrannosaurus and the other guard squad members backed away from Shi Feng, while Steel Tyrannosaurus realized Qi Guang and his companions had been watching Shi Feng to learn from him.

Shi Feng quickly eliminated another personal guard while Qi Guang fought Steel Tyrannosaurus and revealed the power of his Demonkin Set. Xuanyuan Sansha was left shaken and demanded to know who Shi Feng and Qi Guang really were.

• Shi Feng appeared before a Tier 2 Assassin and killed him before his Phantom Execution could reach him.
• Qi Guang blocked Steel Tyrannosaurus’s retreat and used Attack Fusion, surprising him with the technique.
• Qi Guang’s fused attacks weakened as Steel Tyrannosaurus learned to counter them and anticipated the Anti-Magic Domain ending.
• Qi Guang activated the Demonkin Set’s six-piece effect, transformed, and defeated Steel Tyrannosaurus with two sword strikes.
• Xuanyuan Sansha watched the transformed Qi Guang and demanded that he and Shi Feng reveal their identities.

Shi Feng’s group broke through Star Ring Guild’s blockade and revealed that they belonged to Zero Wing, despite Star Ring’s refusal to believe them. Mu Yun learned of their success and recognized a chance for Hundred Flowers Palace to break through as well.

• Xuanyuan Sansha accused Shi Feng’s group of belonging to a rival superpower, but Shi Feng said they were neither War Soul Unfallen nor the Crimson Emperor.
• At Shi Feng’s request, Qi Guang announced that the group belonged to Zero Wing Guild and had been invited by Hundred Flowers Palace.
• Star Ring members dismissed Qi Guang’s claim, so Shi Feng’s group removed their cloaks and showed their Zero Wing emblems.
• Independent players witnessed Zero Wing’s group break through Star Ring’s defenses and began recording the event.
• Mu Yun heard from a scout that Zero Wing had broken through and realized Hundred Flowers Palace had an opportunity to advance.

Fei Xin led the battered Black Cloud Legion through Star Ring's checkpoints toward Stream Moon Town, only to be trapped by Desert Mad Tiger and his experts. As Desert Mad Tiger attacked, a young man in a black cloak arrived and apologized to Fei Xin for the wait.

• Fei Xin used Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls to break through a Star Ring checkpoint, then left two Great Lords behind to delay the pursuing forces.
• The Black Cloud Legion fought through the remaining checkpoints and neared Stream Moon Town with fewer than two hundred members left.
• Desert Mad Tiger ambushed Fei Xin's group with flaming arrows and a Magic Barrier, revealing that he had caught up using a flying item.
• Desert Mad Tiger's experts overwhelmed the Black Cloud Legion, and he urged Fei Xin to join Star Ring rather than die for Hundred Flowers Palace.
• As Desert Mad Tiger charged Fei Xin, a black-cloaked young man arrived with more than a dozen people and apologized for keeping her waiting.

Shi Feng and his group arrived at the battle near Stream Moon Town, and Mu Yun revealed that Zero Wing had broken through Xuanyuan Sansha’s blockade with minimal losses. The story left off after Shi Feng killed ten Subtle Realm experts in one strike and shattered the magic barrier.

• Fei Xin asked Shi Feng how he had passed Xuanyuan Sansha’s blockade, and he said his group had fought through it.
• Mu Yun arrived with nearly a thousand Hundred Flowers Palace players and credited Zero Wing with breaking through the route while losing only a few dozen people.
• Desert Mad Tiger ordered a fifty-player team, including a ten-man Subtle Realm squad, to attack Shi Feng and the others.
• Shi Feng used a flash of azure lightning to kill all ten Subtle Realm experts and cause the magic barrier to collapse.
• Fei Xin watched Shi Feng put away Thunder Slayer and wondered whether Mu Yun had been telling the truth about Zero Wing.

Shi Feng and Zero Wing helped Fei Xin and Mu Yun repel Desert Mad Tiger’s attack, then escorted them to Stream Moon Town to prepare its defenses. As Hundred Flowers Palace’s reinforcements approached, Star Ring’s vast army appeared to halt beyond the town’s defensive towers, leaving Fei Xin to suspect a much larger threat was coming.

• Qi Guang and the other Zero Wing experts overwhelmed Star Ring’s attackers, killing many and forcing Desert Mad Tiger to order a retreat.
• Fei Xin thanked Shi Feng for arriving in time, and her forces joined Mu Yun’s group to reach Stream Moon Town safely.
• Fei Xin and Mu Yun organized the town’s defenses and distributed four thousand Blood Source Potions as they awaited Hundred Flowers Palace’s relief army.
• Mu Yun reported that the Guild Leader was bringing over two hundred thousand elites who could arrive within three hours.
• Star Ring’s enormous army appeared across the plains but stopped beyond the defensive towers, prompting Fei Xin to order the defensive magic array activated and warn that a superpower might be getting serious.

The Star Ring Guild revealed more than a hundred large heavy crossbows, making Stream Moon Town’s defenses appear hopeless and throwing the Dark Night Empire’s forces into turmoil. Lu Xingluo demanded that Hundred Flowers Palace kill the Zero Wing members in exchange for safe passage, but Fei Xin chose to fight Star Ring and ordered Mu Yun to help Zero Wing escape; Lu Xingluo then launched the attack.

• Star Ring deployed more than a hundred large heavy crossbows outside Stream Moon Town, frightening Hundred Flowers Palace and revealing the threat to the Dark Night Empire’s guilds.
• Immortal Battle Heart and Hua Yingyue learned of the weapons, and Hua Yingyue ordered Fei Xin and Mu Yun to abandon the town and save as many people as they could.
• Lu Xingluo told Fei Xin that Hundred Flowers Palace could leave safely only if it killed every Zero Wing member within ten minutes.
• Fei Xin rejected the demand, ordered Hundred Flowers Palace to fight Star Ring, and instructed Mu Yun to lead Zero Wing away from the battle.
• After ten minutes passed, Lu Xingluo ordered Star Ring to attack Stream Moon Town and prevent any Hundred Flowers Palace members from escaping.

Star Ring’s 300,000 elite players and more than a hundred large crossbows threatened to overwhelm Stream Moon Town, and Hundred Flowers Palace prepared to abandon it. Shi Feng offered to defend the town, secured an alliance with Hundred Flowers Palace, and assigned Qi Guang and the others to target Star Ring’s crossbows.

• Star Ring’s forces advanced on Stream Moon Town, and Shi Feng assessed the cost and threat posed by their large crossbows.
• Mu Yun told Shi Feng that Hundred Flowers Palace planned to retreat because the town could not withstand Star Ring’s attack.
• Shi Feng offered a 70–80 percent chance of defending the town if Hundred Flowers Palace allied with Zero Wing.
• Hua Yingyue approved the alliance, and Mu Yun signed a contract giving Zero Wing 50% of Hundred Flowers Palace’s shop operating rights if the town was saved.
• Mu Yun reported Hundred Flowers Palace’s forces in Stream Moon Town, and Shi Feng said they were sufficient for his plan.
• Shi Feng ordered Qi Guang and the others to attack Star Ring’s large crossbows.

Shi Feng watched Star Ring bombard Stream Moon Town with large crossbows, then sent Qi Guang and three others to confront its army. The four summoned enormous Mechanical Puppets that stopped Star Ring’s ballista bolts, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Shi Feng joined Fei Xin and Mu Yun on Stream Moon Town’s walls as Star Ring’s army approached with sixty large crossbows.
• Fei Xin ordered the town’s cannons and war weapons to fire, but Star Ring’s field defensive magic array blocked their attacks.
• Star Ring’s large crossbows struck Stream Moon Town’s defensive barrier, cracking it and alarming Hundred Flowers Palace.
• Shi Feng told Qi Guang, Remnant Cloud, Silent Blade, and Savage Bone to charge at Star Ring’s army and watch out for crossbow attacks.
• Lu Xingluo ordered four ballistas to target the charging group, but four enormous Mechanical Puppets appeared and caught the bolts.

Qi Guang and the other Guard Puppet controllers dodged Star Ring’s ballista barrage and advanced on its defenses, but a defensive magic array stopped them. Lu Xingluo focused sixty ballistas on Qi Guang, who survived their attacks and then blasted a hole through the barrier with Flame Thrust.

• Star Ring redirected its large ballistas at the four Guard Puppets, but Qi Guang and the others dodged the bolts and charged forward.
• Lu Xingluo’s defensive magic array stopped the Guard Puppets, and he ordered all sixty ballistas to focus on Qi Guang.
• The ballistas struck Qi Guang’s Guard Puppet repeatedly, but it emerged from the crater with only minor durability loss.
• Qi Guang charged the barrier and used Flame Thrust to blast a massive hole through it.

Qi Guang and the other Guard Puppets tore through Star Ring's defenses and destroyed many of its large ballistae, but Lu Xingluo ordered a full assault on Stream Moon Town. As Shi Feng arrived at the town's other side, a crimson magic array formed a flaming dragon in the sky, revealing that Zero Wing was ready to get serious.

• Qi Guang and the other Guard Puppets shattered Star Ring's defensive magic array and destroyed its large ballistae with Tier 3 peak attacks.
• Lu Xingluo sent Great Lords to stop the Guard Puppets and ordered Star Ring's forces to attack Stream Moon Town.
• Fei Xin and Mu Yun saw Star Ring's army and sixty large ballistae closing in on the town, and Fei Xin asked Shi Feng how to stop them.
• Shi Feng said four Guard Puppets were not enough and led Fei Xin and the others to the other side of Stream Moon Town.
• As Star Ring pressed its attack against the town's defensive magic array, a crimson magic array appeared overhead and formed a flaming dragon.

Shi Feng's Fire Spirit devastated the Star Ring army outside Stream Moon Town with two Forbidden Curses, then attacked the guild's large ballistae. The Star Ring forces were left stunned as the Fire Spirit began destroying their siege weapons.

• Lu Xingluo and the Star Ring army reacted with shock to the Level 80 flaming dragon, while Star Ring summoned eight Tier 3 beasts and prepared its ballistae.
• The Fire Spirit cast Firefall Descent, killing more than two thousand players and heavily wounding the eight summoned beasts.
• The Fire Spirit cast another large-scale spell that engulfed the Star Ring army and erased several thousand players.
• Shi Feng ordered the Fire Spirit to destroy Star Ring's large ballistae, and it flew past their attacks and burned eleven of them with flaming spears.

Zero Wing’s Guard Puppets and summoned Fire Spirit devastated Star Ring’s siege of Stream Moon Town, forcing Lu Xingluo to order a retreat. The town was saved, and the battle revealed Zero Wing as a power capable of challenging Star Ring.

• The Fire Spirit destroyed eleven large ballistae, then unleashed Flame Light Spray and burned through Star Ring’s forces and two more ballistae.
• Fei Xin and the powers watching through Magic Water Mirrors realized the Fire Spirit and Guard Puppets were Zero Wing’s weapons, and questioned their assumptions about the guild’s strength.
• Lu Xingluo learned Star Ring had lost forty-three large ballistae and ordered the army to retreat rather than risk losing the rest.
• Qi Guang and the others let Star Ring’s scattered forces flee, while Mu Yun and Fei Xin celebrated Stream Moon Town’s survival.
• Players across the Dark Night Empire reacted with shock as Zero Wing’s victory challenged the region’s existing balance of power.

After Zero Wing defeated Star Ring at Stream Moon Town, the Dark Night Empire’s major powers turned their attention to Zero Wing, while Hundred Flowers Palace and Zero Wing completed a shop handover. A system announcement then revealed that Auction Houses in promoted NPC cities would activate the Auction Arena System in three hours.

• War Soul Unfallen learned that Star Ring had retreated from Stream Moon Town after suffering heavy losses, and its leaders discussed seeking an alliance with Zero Wing and taking advantage of Star Ring’s weakness.
• Major powers across the Dark Night Empire began investigating Zero Wing after hearing that it had defeated Star Ring.
• Fei Xin received a steady stream of guild representatives seeking cooperation and introductions to Zero Wing.
• Shi Feng confirmed that he wanted the operating rights to selected smaller NPC cities and towns rather than Hundred Flowers Palace’s shops in Night City.
• A system announcement stated that Auction Houses in all promoted NPC cities would activate the Auction Arena System in three hours.

After the Auction Arena opened, Shi Feng prepared Zero Wing to compete for control of NPC city Auction Houses by gathering Epic materials and strengthening its raiding teams. He then used the Ancient God Secret Key and vanished from the Candlelight Trading Firm.

• Shi Feng realized the Auction Arena would intensify the struggle among God's Domain's major powers over control of NPC city economies.
• Shi Feng returned to White River City and found players from powers across God's Domain gathering information about its Auction Arena.
• Shi Feng gave Melancholy Smile a materials list and a Thunder Axe Crystal, then sent two-star merchants to Thunder Axe City to buy Epic materials from NPC merchants.
• Shi Feng arranged for Melancholy Smile to gather Epic materials from other cities and told Water Rose and the others to focus on hundred-man dungeons.
• Shi Feng activated the Ancient God Secret Key in a Candlelight Trading Firm forging room and disappeared in a streak of black light.

Shi Feng entered the Ancient God Labyrinth and chose its newly revealed Asura difficulty, seeking a guaranteed Fragmented Legendary item for himself and Zero Wing. He opened the trial gate and sent Fire Spirit into a corridor whose dangers became clear when a genuine dragon roared from the darkness.

• Shi Feng arrived at the Ancient God Labyrinth, where the system warned that players could not contact the outside world and would be teleported out upon death.
• Shi Feng discovered the Ancient God Gate offered four difficulties, including Asura, which had not appeared in his memories.
• Shi Feng chose Asura difficulty because clearing it guaranteed a Fragmented Legendary item that could help Zero Wing develop future Tier 3 and Tier 4 experts.
• The Ancient God Gate opened onto a dark corridor lined with skeletons wearing ruined Epic Equipment, and Shi Feng sensed mortal danger ahead.
• Shi Feng summoned Fire Spirit to lead the way, but a genuine dragon roared from within the corridor.

Shi Feng entered a hall in the Ancient God Labyrinth, where elemental creatures guarded a Bloodline. Unable to use summons or burst skills, he began drawing out and killing the guards one by one, then discovered that one had dropped Epic armor fragments.

• Shi Feng summoned a Level 85 Tier 3 Battleaxe Demon and led it and Fire Spirit through the corridor under Dragon's Might's debuffs.
• When the Battleaxe Demon and Fire Spirit reached the hall's center, divine light destroyed them, and more than two hundred Elemental Guards and an Elemental Invoker appeared around a Bloodline.
• Shi Feng decided to clear the Elemental Guards before challenging the Elemental Invoker and drew one guard toward a corner of the hall.
• Shi Feng defeated the Level 72 Elemental Guard by targeting its elemental core, though the fight took several minutes and yielded little experience.
• Shi Feng picked up the guard's drops and froze when he saw Epic armor fragments.

Shi Feng farmed Elemental Guards in the Ancient God Labyrinth, collecting valuable Epic Armor Fragments and Elemental Cores before logging out to rest. As Zero Wing struggled with the cost of its rapid growth, Heizi arrived with news that the Blackwater Consortium wanted to talk.

• Shi Feng killed more than forty Elemental Guards, gaining thirty-one Epic Armor Fragments and one hundred twenty-six Elemental Cores.
• Shi Feng logged out after six hours of farming and considered Zero Wing's rapid expansion and need for more Credit Points.
• Shi Feng went to train at Zero Wing's headquarters, where he reflected on the guild's financial difficulties.
• Heizi entered the training room and told Shi Feng that representatives from the Blackwater Consortium had come to talk with Zero Wing.