Chapter Summaries

Shi Feng countered Lu Xingluo’s attempt to block cooperation between Zero Wing and the Thirteen Royal Courts by accepting Star Ring’s challenge to a ten-thousand-player battle. He returned to Zero Wing’s headquarters in White River City, confident that three days would be enough to strengthen his guild.

• Lu Xingluo offered Zero Wing only one thousand Ancient Gold Coins for watching the siege, and Shi Feng retorted that Star Ring should pay more if it could not defeat a bystander.
• Lu Xingluo challenged Zero Wing to a ten-thousand-player battle in the Godfiend Battle Arena and proposed that Li Hen witness it.
• Shi Feng accepted the challenge and asked what Lu Xingluo would wager if Star Ring lost.
• Lu Xingluo wagered ten thousand Ancient Gold Coins and set the battle for Night City three days later.
• Shi Feng left for Zero Wing’s headquarters in White River City, believing his new flying mount would help him transform the guild’s strength before the battle.

Shi Feng returned to Zero Wing’s White River City residence and learned that the guild had rapidly gained Subtle Realm and Flowing Water Realm experts. He assembled a hundred-man team and announced that he would lead them to the Level 100 Endless Sand Sea, where Thunder Eagle could help them reach its safer inner region.

• Water Rose reported that Zero Wing had grown to eighty-six Subtle Realm experts and seven Flowing Water Realm experts, with more expected soon.
• Shi Feng was surprised by the guild’s progress and told Water Rose to gather a hundred-man team for a raid.
• Water Rose assembled the team, whose members were generally Level 76 and equipped with Level 75 Adamantite Grade gear.
• When Heizi asked whether they were heading to the Bottomless Abyss, Shi Feng said they would instead enter the Level 100 Endless Sand Sea.
• Shi Feng explained that Thunder Eagle would let him guide the team through the dangerous outskirts to the desert’s safer inner region.

Shi Feng led Zero Wing's experts away from the Bottomless Abyss and toward the level 100 God-Forsaken Land, saying it offered a better opportunity. At Cliff Valley, he revealed his Thunder Eagle flying mount and prepared to take the group across the deadly cliff.

• Shi Feng told Yan Tianxing that their levels were sufficient for a level 100 map and that the Endless Sand Sea rivaled the Bottomless Abyss.
• Shi Feng led the group through several teleportations to Cliff Valley, the level 80 border map outside the God-Forsaken Land.
• The group felt the cliff's oppressive deathly aura, and Bai Qingxue noted that even Tier 2 experts would struggle to climb it.
• Shi Feng summoned the Thunder Eagle and said he would fly the group across the cliff.
• Shi Feng confirmed to Heizi, Water Rose, Bai Qingxue, and the others that the Thunder Eagle was a flying mount.

Shi Feng took Zero Wing’s experts to the God-Forsaken Land to level by having Tier 3 demons tank Level 100 undead monsters. After reaching Level 86, he found a Blood Refining Fragment among a Skeleton Demon General’s drops.

• Shi Feng promised a flying mount to anyone who cleared the second floor of the Tower of Transcendence, inspiring the guild’s experts to challenge it.
• Shi Feng flew Water Rose, Bai Qingxue, and others into the Endless Sand Sea, where they settled on a sandstone pillar amid Level 101 and 102 undead.
• Shi Feng summoned Tier 3 demons to tank groups of Skeleton Demon Wraiths, allowing the guild members to gain levels rapidly.
• Shi Feng summoned three Tier 3 demons and led the fight against Skeleton Demon Generals while the others watched from safety.
• Shi Feng used Divine Grace to finish a Skeleton Demon General, reached Level 86, and found a Blood Refining Fragment among its drops.

Shi Feng discovered that Skeleton Demon Generals could drop Blood Refining Fragments, rare items that could yield powerful Blood Refining Forging Secret Arts. After two days of hunting, he gathered ten fragments and began extracting them with Divine Grace active.

• Shi Feng identified the Blood Refining Fragment as a potential source of forging secret arts and ordered everyone to prioritize Skeleton Demon Generals.
• Shi Feng explained that Blood Refining Secret Arts could create powerful items, including Advanced items that might let players below Tier 4 fight across tiers.
• Shi Feng led the group through a relentless hunt in the Endless Sand Sea, and everyone reached Level 87 while Shi Feng reached Level 90.
• Fire Dance brought Shi Feng another fragment, completing his collection of ten Blood Refining Fragments.
• Shi Feng activated Divine Grace and began extracting the fragments using a method available to forging masters.

Shi Feng obtained the Forged Molten Goldstone Design, a rare Blood Refining Secret Art that could permanently enhance a main weapon and boost its user's strength. After sending Zero Wing's members back to the city, he returned to White River City, where its Auction House was thriving, and received a prompt to unlock its advanced functions.

• Shi Feng used the ten Blood Refining Fragments to reveal the Forged Molten Goldstone Design, one of the Twenty-Eight Blood Refining Chapters.
• Shi Feng learned that Forged Molten Goldstone could permanently link a main weapon's power to its user, with its effects depending on mastery of the secret art.
• Shi Feng decided to study the design and judged that Zero Wing could readily gather the materials needed to make Forged Molten Goldstones.
• Shi Feng dismissed Water Rose and the others to return to the city and rest, then teleported to White River City to visit the Candlelight Trading Firm.
• Shi Feng saw that White River City had become a major trading hub because its Auction House connected to Stone Forest City's and offered goods from the Bottomless Abyss.
• A system notification told Shi Feng that White River City's Auction House met the conditions to unlock advanced functions.

Shi Feng unlocked White River City's Auction House advanced functions and studied the Blood Refining Threefold Magic Array, gaining the ability to craft Forged Molten Goldstone. The chapter ended as he fused the stone into the Thunder Slayer to test its effect.

• Shi Feng unlocked White River City's Auction House advanced functions and discovered that the Noble District Level Reduction and Auction Proxy functions required far more Gold than they had in his previous life.
• Shi Feng decided to reduce Zero Wing's expenditures so the Guild could save enough Gold to activate the functions in less than ten days.
• Shi Feng entered the Candlelight Trading Firm and studied the Blood Refining Threefold Magic Array, mastering its first and second layers but giving up on the third.
• Shi Feng used the second-layer array to craft Forged Molten Goldstone, which absorbed surrounding energy and lowered the ambient mana density.
• Shi Feng fused the Forged Molten Goldstone into the Thunder Slayer to see how effective it was.

Shi Feng used Forged Molten Goldstone to strengthen Thunder Slayer and crafted 300 pieces to bolster Zero Wing. After turning down Immortal Battle Heart’s offer of reinforcements for Zero Wing’s coming battle against Star Ring, he equipped the Guild’s main force and gathered its ten thousand top experts, preparing to set out.

• Shi Feng fused Forged Molten Goldstone into Thunder Slayer, granting it Blood Refining Power and improving his mental state.
• Shi Feng tested Forged Molten Goldstone on a Level 75 Dark Gold battle axe, confirmed it also gained powerful attributes and mental-strength recovery, and reflected on the potential of the Advanced Blood Refining Secret Art.
• Shi Feng spent over twenty hours crafting with 326 material sets and produced 300 pieces of Forged Molten Goldstone.
• Immortal Battle Heart warned Shi Feng about Zero Wing’s disadvantage in its ten-thousand-player battle against Star Ring and offered hidden experts and equipment, but Shi Feng refused to protect War Soul Unfallen’s secrets.
• Shi Feng distributed the 300 Forged Molten Goldstones to Zero Wing’s main force and core members, then gathered ten thousand top experts and led them toward White River City’s Teleportation Hall.

Experts gathered outside the Gods and Demons Arena to watch the ten-thousand-man battle between Star Ring and Zero Wing. Star Ring arrived with a formidable army and Battle Scar Studio, but Zero Wing appeared with even more players, leaving the crowd stunned.

• A Level 74 Berserker told a newly arrived Ranger that Star Ring had reserved the arena and required sixth-floor Trial Tower proof or one hundred gold for entry.
• Feng Yibei led the Wind Wave Adventurer Team into the arena after the crowd made way for them.
• Star Ring arrived with an army of Level 77-or-higher players equipped with powerful gear, including more than ten Evil Ghost Sets.
• Xue Linglong told Immortal Battle Heart that War Soul Unfallen should abandon Zero Wing and join her, but he refused.
• Zero Wing arrived at the arena with more players than Star Ring, all bearing silver-white Six-Wing Emblems.

Zero Wing’s high levels and growing roster of experts impressed the powers gathered at the Gods and Demons Arena, though Star Ring still appeared overwhelmingly stronger. Lu Xingluo offered Zero Wing a chance to concede, but Shi Feng rejected the offer with a defiant response.

• The gathered powers were shocked that Zero Wing had more than three thousand Level 78 players, and Immortal Battle Heart argued that its levels and equipment showed the benefits of Stone Forest City.
• Xue Linglong pointed out that Star Ring had more than seven hundred Micro Realm experts compared with Zero Wing’s nearly one hundred, leaving Immortal Battle Heart silent.
• Li Hen observed that Zero Wing had four peak combatants and had grown into a force capable of contending with superpowers, though Star Ring remained far stronger.
• Lu Xingluo offered to let Zero Wing concede, allow Star Ring into Stone Forest City, and avoid further conflict.
• As the assembled powers expected Zero Wing to accept, Shi Feng declared that Star Ring was not qualified to demand its surrender.

Shi Feng rejected Star Ring’s demand for Zero Wing to surrender and led his forces into a direct battle against Lu Xingluo’s vastly larger army. As Star Ring unleashed a coordinated barrage, Shi Feng answered with a sword strike that wiped out the incoming attacks.

• Shi Feng refused to yield to Lu Xingluo, angering Star Ring and alarming the other powers gathered in the hall.
• Lu Xingluo threatened Zero Wing and led Star Ring into the competition grounds, while observers warned that the conflict could spread across the Dark Night Empire.
• The major powers gathered to watch the Ten Thousand Player Battlefield, expecting Zero Wing to face Star Ring’s superior numbers and Subtle Realm experts.
• Shi Feng led three hundred Zero Wing members across the open battlefield instead of retreating into the forest.
• Lu Xingluo ordered Star Ring’s ranged forces to concentrate their fire on Shi Feng and his advancing troops.
• Shi Feng drew Thunder Slayer and used Thousand Blades Flowing Light to erase Star Ring’s barrage, carving a fifty-yard trench into the ground.

Shi Feng and Water Rose defended Zero Wing against Star Ring’s attacks, but Star Ring sent its Feral Beast Legion battle arrays to crush them. Shi Feng answered with a single strike that split the legion’s formation and killed its core.

• Shi Feng shattered Star Ring’s first concentrated assault with a sword technique, and Water Rose blocked the second wave with Raging Water Assault.
• Star Ring’s defensive magic arrays stopped Water Rose’s wave, revealing the superpower’s powerful combined magic skills.
• Lu Xingluo ordered Jingfeng to send the Feral Beast Legion’s three battle arrays against Zero Wing’s vanguard.
• Sword Fiend predicted that Shi Feng could withstand only seven or eight strikes from the battle arrays, while Evil Blade dismissed him as a poor opponent.
• Shi Feng used Thunderflash Slash to split the Feral Beast Legion’s formation, killing dozens of its members and its Guardian Knight core, Black Panther Under Heaven.

Shi Feng fought off the Feral Beast Legion’s battle array after instantly killing Black Panther Under Heaven, but two coordinated arrays and their leaders kept him from finishing off his opponents. He called on Water Rose and the others to join the fight as Yumo led another charge.

• Shi Feng killed Black Panther Under Heaven with Thunderflash Slash, stunning the Feral Beast Legion and the watching experts.
• Jingfeng ordered the legion to coordinate its attacks, and its ranged fighters forced Shi Feng to defend with Sword Trajectory.
• Yumo and Radiant Python attacked Shi Feng while the legion protected them and healed their wounds, leaving him unable to kill them.
• Shi Feng admitted that the two battle arrays were difficult to overcome without a finishing skill, then withdrew from the fight.
• Yumo taunted Shi Feng and led the array toward him, and he told Water Rose and the others to join in.

Water Rose and Zero Wing’s forces charged the Feral Beast Legion, but Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue proved stronger than its battle-array-enhanced fighters. The Feral Beast Legion fell into retreat, leaving Lu Xingluo and the watching powers stunned.

• Water Rose and the others charged the Feral Beast Legion as Lu Xingluo mocked Shi Feng’s plan.
• Yumo used Nine Shadows One Kill against Fire Dance, but Fire Dance dispersed the nine images with a casual dagger swing.
• Fire Dance counterattacked with Everchanging and drove Yumo back, forcing her to defend.
• Zero Wing clashed with the Feral Beast Legion, but its members pushed the enhanced fighters back.
• Bai Qingxue overwhelmed Radiant Python alone, while Lu Xingluo and the major powers watched in disbelief.

Zero Wing gained the upper hand against Star Ring’s Feral Beast Legion, but Lu Xingluo sent eight Demon God Transformation experts to turn the battle. Shi Feng stopped them from overwhelming Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue, then called more than twenty Zero Wing fighters to join the fight.

• Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue overwhelmed Yumo and Radiant Python, while Zero Wing’s fighters drove up the Feral Beast Legion’s casualties.
• Jingfeng warned Lu Xingluo that the Feral Beast Legion was close to defeat, so Lu Xingluo ordered Jingfeng and the other Domain Realm experts to fight.
• Xue Linglong recognized that Jingfeng and seven others had undergone Demon God Transformation.
• Jingfeng, Evil Blade, and their companions coordinated attacks that forced Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue onto the defensive.
• Shi Feng struck the eight experts with ten sword lights and prevented them from landing a killing blow on Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue.
• Shi Feng summoned Water Rose, Zi Yan Liu Yun, Sword Shadow, Yan Tianxing, and more than twenty others to surround the eight Star Ring experts.

Zero Wing’s powerful experts overwhelmed Star Ring’s elite fighters, but Star Ring’s larger army and defensive array kept the overall battle in its favor. As Jingfeng declared Zero Wing’s defeat inevitable, Shi Feng activated Dusk Shadow and Ragnarok and split into eight copies, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Water Rose and Zero Wing’s other experts revealed their strength, prompting Jingfeng to order Star Ring’s forces to surround them and attack with combined spells.
• Water Rose, Zi Yan Liu Yun, and Zhao Yueru neutralized Star Ring’s spells, while Zero Wing’s fighters held off Ghost Shadow Four Fiends and the other elite opponents.
• Fire Dance and Bai Qingxue pushed back Yumo and Radiant Python, as Shi Feng forced Jingfeng and Evil Blade to defend themselves against his attacks.
• Despite Zero Wing’s advantage among the elite fighters, its vanguard and main army suffered heavy losses against Star Ring’s larger force and defensive magic array.
• Jingfeng declared that Shi Feng could not turn the ten-thousand-player battle around, but Shi Feng activated Dusk Shadow and Ragnarok and split into eight copies.

Shi Feng used Dusk Shadow to create eight copies and overwhelm Star Ring’s fleeing experts. He killed Jingfeng and Evil Blade despite their escape attempts and their healers’ support, leaving the arena stunned.

• Jingfeng, Evil Blade, and Star Ring’s experts fled after Shi Feng split into eight, hoping to outlast the skill.
• Shi Feng sent his clones to surround Jingfeng and Evil Blade, choosing to kill them before turning back to Zero Wing’s struggling battlefield.
• Shi Feng’s clones struck both experts repeatedly, while Star Ring’s healers used their strongest abilities to keep them alive.
• Shi Feng’s clones unleashed Swordlight Reincarnation and killed Jingfeng and Evil Blade before the healers could save them.
• The arena, including Li Hen, reacted with shock at Shi Feng killing two peak God's Domain experts at once.

Shi Feng and Zero Wing overwhelmed Star Ring after Shi Feng killed its leading experts and deflected a massive ranged attack. Lu Xingluo ordered a retreat, and Zero Wing was declared the victor in the Gods and Demons Battlefield.

• Shi Feng and his clone killed Jingfeng, Evil Blade, and Star Ring's Subtle Realm experts as they charged toward Sword Fiend and the others.
• Shi Feng used Sword Trajectory with Abyssal Walker's phantoms to block more than a thousand ranged attacks while advancing.
• Sword Fiend's ultimate strike failed to break Shi Feng's defense, and Shi Feng and his clone killed him.
• Shi Feng killed Wind Fiend and Cloud-Covered Mountains, while Yan Tianxing and Bai Qingxue killed Xuanyuan Sansha and Fire Dance and Yiluo Fei killed Mo Yu.
• Zero Wing gained the upper hand despite losing more than six thousand players, and Lu Xingluo ordered Star Ring to retreat rather than use its final trump card.
• The battle ended with the map declaring Zero Wing Guild the victor.

Zero Wing defeated Star Ring in the ten-thousand-man battle after Lu Xingluo conceded, making Zero Wing a new power in the Dark Night Empire. Shi Feng planned to use the victory and his prize to strengthen the Guild and travel to Dragonheart Island.

• The arena crowd and Xue Linglong were stunned when Star Ring conceded and Zero Wing was declared the winner.
• Immortal Battle Heart said the victory would draw wavering factions in the Dark Night Empire to Zero Wing, while Xue Linglong planned to report the result to her commander.
• Li Hen praised Zero Wing’s strength, assigned Yi Yun to coordinate with it over the fortress, and warned Shi Feng that Super Guilds might covet its rapid growth.
• Shi Feng wondered why Lu Xingluo had conceded so quickly, then resolved to use Zero Wing’s increased prestige to recruit talent and prepare for the attention it had attracted.
• Shi Feng decided to visit Dragonheart Island with the ten thousand ancient gold coins he had won, leaving Water Rose to handle Zero Wing’s affairs in the Dark Night Empire.

Lu Xingluo met with Green Face, who revealed that his superior was interested in Zero Wing and warned Lu Xingluo not to act against it until negotiations were over. Meanwhile, Shi Feng went to Dragonheart City to buy a shop and spotted an unexpected option on the list.

• Lu Xingluo dismissed Chenhui and assured Green Face that the task assigned to him was proceeding smoothly.
• Green Face told Lu Xingluo that his superior was interested in Zero Wing and instructed him to wait until the talks were finished before acting.
• Shi Feng arrived in Dragonheart City, hoping to buy a shop that would help Zero Wing prepare for Tier 3 advancement.
• Shi Feng reviewed the shop list at City Hall, found most two-star shops too expensive, and noticed a gray-listed one-star shop called Wanderer's Shop.