Chapter Summaries

Shi Feng brought Holy Dragon Elbrack to Starlight Fortress, startling the superpowers and making them reconsider plans to seize it. Meanwhile, the Netherworld Empire’s elite legion learned of the dragon and prepared to visit the fortress after its commander received an invitation from Fitharia.

• Shi Feng arrived at the Divine Will Tribe’s garrison on Holy Dragon Elbrack, and Fitharia realized the Tier 4 dragon was his reason for rejecting the superpowers’ proposal.
• Spies reported the dragon’s presence to the major superpowers, causing forces considering an attack on Starlight Fortress to hesitate over the risks.
• The Netherworld Empire’s ace legion defeated a monster outpost and its Eight-Eyed Scorpion King without losing anyone, and its commander gave Thunder Beast an Epic battle axe.
• The legion’s commander learned that a Tier 4 young dragon guarded Starlight Fortress but remained confident his forces could still cause trouble there.
• After the black-clad assassin told the commander that Fitharia had invited him to talk, he ordered the legion to head to Starlight Fortress.

Hell Howl led the Hell Legion to Starlight Fortress, where the Divine Will Tribe warned them not to disturb a recovering dragon. The legion ignored the warning and charged inside, where Holy Dragon Elbrack appeared and trapped them with Spatial Confinement.

• Hell Howl and nearly three hundred Hell Legion members reached the newly repaired Starlight Fortress and admired its dense magical power.
• Hell Howl dismissed concerns about the lightly guarded main gate and led the legion toward the fortress.
• A Divine Will Tribe guard authorized the legion to enter after confirming Commander Fite had invited them.
• The guard warned Hell Howl that a dragon was recovering inside and urged the legion not to disturb it, but the members laughed off the warning.
• The Hell Legion charged into Starlight Fortress on their Demon-Horned Warhorses, triggering a crushing pressure that forced the mounts to their knees.
• Holy Dragon Elbrack descended before the legion and used Spatial Confinement to freeze the space around them.

The Hell Legion used a Magic Energy Barrier to escape Holy Dragon Elbrack’s Spatial Confinement, but a power from the sky suppressed their barrier and stopped their Return Scrolls. Hell Howl recognized the figure on the dragon’s back and asked whether he was Black Flame, Guild Leader of Zero Wing.

• Holy Dragon Elbrack trapped the Hell Legion with Spatial Confinement and advanced on them.
• Hell Howl ordered Black Wolf and the other Rangers to activate the Magic Energy Barrier, freeing the Legion from the confinement.
• The barrier blocked Holy Dragon Elbrack’s claw, and Hell Howl ordered the Legion to withdraw with Return Scrolls.
• A Phantom of a world appeared over Starlight Fortress, suppressed the barrier, and halted the Legion’s teleportation.
• Hell Howl spotted the figure atop Holy Dragon Elbrack and asked whether he was Black Flame, Guild Leader of Zero Wing.

Shi Feng revealed Starlight Fortress’s defenses to Hell Howl and offered the Netherworld Empire a discount in exchange for the Hell Legion’s help. He asked to borrow the legion so he could enter Star Valley’s God Grade regional dungeon and retrieve an item.

• Shi Feng confirmed his identity to Hell Howl, who accepted defeat after seeing the Holy Dragon and the Gospel Ring’s domain.
• Fitharia called the Hell Legion honored guests, and Shi Feng led them to Starlight Fortress’s City Lord’s Manor.
• Hell Howl and his men discovered the fortress prison and realized imprisonment could cripple their progress far more than being killed.
• Shi Feng offered the Netherworld Empire a forty-percent discount on basic expenses in exchange for cooperation.
• Shi Feng asked to borrow the entire Hell Legion to retrieve an item from Star Valley’s God Grade regional dungeon.

Shi Feng persuaded Hell Howl to send the Hell Legion into the Star Tomb in exchange for discounted activities and mana training rooms for the Netherworld Empire. Their alliance left rival superpowers alarmed as Shi Feng prepared to seek Starlight in the dangerous dungeon.

• Hell Howl warned Shi Feng that the Star Tomb's high gravity, stamina drain, and powerful monsters made entering it extremely dangerous.
• Shi Feng offered the Netherworld Empire eight mana training rooms and allowed the team to withdraw if the Star Tomb became too dangerous.
• Hell Howl agreed to cooperate on the condition that his team could retreat when necessary, and Shi Feng accepted.
• Shi Feng and Hell Howl signed a contract granting the Netherworld Empire a 40% discount at Starlight Fortress and access to the training rooms for 300 Magic Crystals per hour.
• The Hell Legion came under Shi Feng's command in the Star Tomb, while the Netherworld Empire agreed to help defend Starlight Fortress.
• News of Shi Feng and Hell Howl's strategic alliance spread, throwing the superpowers interested in Starlight Fortress into an uproar.

The major superpowers learned that the Hell Legion had allied with Starlight Fortress, while Yuan Xiaoqian resolved to focus on her family competition. Shi Feng led the Hell Legion into Star Tomb, and Starlight Fortress opened to the public.

• The major superpowers reconsidered attacking Starlight Fortress after the Hell Legion allied with its defenders, though they still sent experts to investigate.
• Yuan Xiaoqian heard that the Hell Legion had compromised, then agreed to pursue the family competition and vowed to defeat Miao Wuyin.
• Shi Feng led the Hell Legion through Star Valley's dangerous inner region to the boundary of Star Tomb.
• Hell Howl warned Shi Feng that players who died inside Star Tomb would revive there, but Shi Feng led the group inside anyway.
• Starlight Fortress's lockdown dissipated, and the fortress officially opened to the public.

Starlight Fortress opened under Holy Dragon Elbrack’s watch, and Maka Frey announced strict rules and steep Magic Crystal fees that drove many players away. Commander Kulo nevertheless led the Storm Heart Adventurer Team inside to see the fortress for themselves.

• Players from major forces and the independent players rushed toward Starlight Fortress as it opened.
• Holy Dragon Elbrack appeared at the gate, and its Dragon’s Might halted the thousands of Tier 3 experts approaching the fortress.
• Maka Frey announced that fighting inside Starlight Fortress would bring immediate death and eight days in prison, while staying beyond one day and using basic facilities required Magic Crystals.
• Many players and factions left in frustration after hearing the entry fee and ongoing Magic Crystal costs.
• Commander Kulo decided the Storm Heart Adventurer Team would enter Starlight Fortress despite the expense.

Kulo and the Storm Heart Adventurer Team entered Starlight Fortress as players and major powers rejected its steep fees and Magic Crystal-only prices. Inside, the team sensed that the fortress was gathering the three supreme elements, making its magic power increasingly resemble that of the ancient era.

• Most players left Starlight Fortress after seeing its twenty-silver entry fee, while the major powers mocked its pricing and ordered their teams to turn back.
• Maka Frey watched in frustration as players departed, believing the fortress could have prospered if Shi Feng had lowered its demands.
• Kulo and the Storm Heart Adventurer Team entered the fortress and felt its unusually dense magic power, though its one-Magic-Crystal nightly inn fee seemed unaffordable.
• A Tier 3 female Elementalist and Kulo sensed that the magical elements inside Starlight Fortress were changing and that the three supreme elements were growing denser.
• The Storm Heart members realized the fortress's magic power was becoming more like that of the ancient era, when all seven great elements were abundant.

Storm Heart moved to establish a permanent base in Starlight Fortress after discovering its mana-rich environment, while Shi Feng’s group prepared to break into the Star Tomb’s second floor. The chapter ended as Yan Tianxing and four others charged toward five High Grand Lords to draw them away from the monster horde.

• Kulo ordered Ice Rose to gather Storm Heart’s Magic Crystals and arrange a long-term inn rental in Starlight Fortress.
• Tier 3 independent players also began renting inns, bringing Starlight Fortress nearly five thousand Magic Crystals in under an hour.
• The Hell Legion struggled through the Star Tomb’s high-gravity first floor but earned valuable equipment and materials from its monsters.
• Hell Howl warned Shi Feng that the dense monster horde and five High Grand Lords blocked the route to the second floor.
• Shi Feng said his group could handle the five High Grand Lords, and Yan Tianxing led four others to draw them away.

Yan Tianxing, Fire Dance, Water Rose, Zi Yan Liu Yun, and Yiluo Fei charged into the earth giant horde, revealing movement unaffected by Star Tomb’s gravity. Fire Dance demonstrated the power of her fully unlocked top-tier Gold Mana Body by blocking an Earth Chieftain’s attack and striking it for over 400,000 damage.

• Yan Tianxing and the others rushed into the earth giant horde at astonishing speed, leaving the Hell Legion stunned.
• Hell Howl suspected that the five had unlocked their Mana Bodies after noticing the dense mana surrounding them.
• Fire Dance faced an Earth Chieftain’s attack head-on and blocked it without injury.
• Shi Feng recognized that Fire Dance had fully unlocked her Mana Body and marveled at its power.
• Fire Dance used Shadow Step to move behind the Earth Chieftain and dealt it more than 400,000 damage with Shadow Kill.

Fire Dance, Yan Tianxing, Water Rose, Yiluo Fei, and Zi Yan Liu Yun overwhelmed the Earth Leaders, revealing that all five had unlocked their Mana Bodies. Shi Feng agreed to guide the Netherworld Empire on Mana Bodies in exchange for the Hell Legion following his arrangements for one month.

• Fire Dance and the other four Zero Wing experts attacked the Earth Leaders with overwhelming force, astonishing the Hell Legion.
• Shi Feng confirmed to Hell Howl that all five experts had unlocked their Mana Bodies.
• Hell Howl offered to arrange long-term Hell Legion deployments and rare materials in exchange for Shi Feng’s guidance.
• Shi Feng offered guidance that could accelerate the Netherworld Empire’s Mana Body progress and asked the Hell Legion to follow his arrangements for one month.

Shi Feng offered to hire the Hell Legion for a month, promising guidance that would help every member unlock a Mana Body, because he needed a powerful force to pursue the Sword of Solomon's fragments and secure resources for Zero Wing. After the Hell Legion cleared the Earth Giants and helped defeat the five Earth Chieftains, the group received an enormous experience gain and a trove of loot.

• Shi Feng offered to hire the Hell Legion for a month and promised that its members could unlock Mana Bodies, but Hell Howl said the Netherworld Empire's higher-ups would have to decide.
• Shi Feng told Kele that he needed the Hell Legion to help pursue the Sword of Solomon's fragments and let Zero Wing contend for important resources.
• Fire Dance's group of five drew away the five Earth Chieftains while Hell Howl led the Hell Legion in clearing the nearby Earth Giants.
• After the Earth Giants were wiped out, Shi Feng ordered the Hell Legion to help Fire Dance's group finish off the weakened Earth Chieftains.
• The Hell Legion and Fire Dance's group killed all five Earth Chieftains, gaining a large amount of experience and dozens of drops.

After the Hell Legion saw the valuable Level 110 Flame Steel Set dropped by Earth Chieftains, Shi Feng offered the legion a chance to obtain sets if they accepted his conditions. The group advanced to Star Tomb’s second floor and farmed there for more than two days before Fire Dance discovered a Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest, which surprised Shi Feng.

• Water Rose reported that the five Earth Chieftains had dropped Level 110 equipment, including a piece of the Flame Steel Set, and Hell Howl praised the set’s defensive bonuses.
• Shi Feng offered Hell Howl’s legion a Flame Steel Set and said they could obtain twenty or thirty sets if the legion accepted his conditions.
• Shi Feng led the group to Star Tomb’s second floor, where the doubled gravity hindered movement but the monsters gave much more EXP and dropped valuable equipment.
• The group farmed the second floor for more than two days, gaining levels and improving their control over Mana Bodies, but Starlight did not drop.
• Fire Dance found a Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest, leaving Shi Feng astonished because he remembered Star Tomb having no treasure chests.

Shi Feng and the others found a Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest inside a sinister temple in Star Tomb, but Hell Howl warned that it was a Demon God's Temptation whose trial could destroy a player's character. As the group prepared to give up, Shi Feng said there might still be hope.

• Shi Feng suspected the Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest was a first-clear bonus and led the group to Fire Dance.
• Fire Dance's discovery excited Zero Wing and the Hell Legion, whose members discussed the chest's chance of containing a Fragmented Legendary item.
• Shi Feng and the others reached an ancient temple surrounded by black mist and saw the orange-red Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest inside.
• Hell Howl identified the temple as Demon God's Temptation and explained that failed trials could reset a player's level, consume half their soul, and force them to delete their account.
• Water Rose and the Hell Legion gave up on the chest, but Shi Feng said there was still hope.

Shi Feng attempted to obtain the temple’s sub-Legendary Treasure Chest without fighting the Demon God Phantom by cracking the magic array that sealed the temple. With the temple’s deadline approaching and only half the arrays deciphered, he used a Memory Crystal containing the Mana Combat Method to improve his control over mana.

• Shi Feng reassured Water Rose and Hell Howl that he would not challenge the Demon God Phantom directly and ordered Water Rose to set up the Starlight Energy Gathering Magic Array around the temple.
• Shi Feng began cracking the temple’s magic array while the Hell Legion guarded the area and rested.
• After more than a day, Shi Feng had deciphered only half the arrays and realized the later ones tested control over magic elements.
• Water Rose advised Shi Feng to handle the magic elements according to their patterns, like Combat Techniques.
• Shi Feng crushed the Memory Crystal containing the Mana Combat Method and received its instruction in a teaching scene.

Shi Feng studied the Azure Saint’s inheritance and gained a dramatic increase in mana control while deciphering the temple’s magic array. He shattered the array, causing the black mist and the temple’s sinister aura to disappear.

• Shi Feng experienced the inheritance’s guided practice of Light Shadow and studied the basic laws of all seven elements.
• Thunder Beast complained that the group was wasting time, while Hell Howl said they would leave if Shi Feng had not found the item by the agreed deadline.
• After less than three hours, Shi Feng resumed deciphering the array as mana gathered visibly around him, astonishing Hell Howl, Thunder Beast, and Zero Wing’s members.
• Shi Feng shattered the magic array on the temple’s stone pillar, and the black mist dispersed as the temple’s sinister feeling vanished.

Shi Feng broke the temple’s outer magic array, astonishing the Hell Legion and demonstrating his newly gained mana control. When the temple revealed a Level 120 Tier 4 Demon God guarding its treasure, Shi Feng entered alone to gamble on claiming the chest and summoned Anna.

• Shi Feng dispelled the temple’s outer magic array after gaining an initial level of mana control, leaving the onlookers stunned.
• Hell Howl realized Shi Feng’s abilities made Starlight Fortress far harder for rival superpowers to seize.
• Demon God Atlock appeared inside the temple, and Shi Feng and the others discovered he was a Level 120 Tier 4 Legendary phantom guarding the treasure.
• Despite Water Rose’s warning, Shi Feng entered the temple alone, intending to stall Atlock and take the Sub-Legendary Treasure Chest.
• Atlock attacked Shi Feng with divine might and threatened to erase his soul, so Shi Feng summoned Anna with a Personal Guard Summoning Scroll.

Shi Feng summoned an upper-ranked Battle Angel and the Tier 4 Hero Asret to distract Demon God Atlock while he opened a pseudo-legendary treasure chest. Atlock overwhelmed both guardians and turned his axe on Shi Feng, who activated the Seven Luminaries Ring’s Absolute Domain to stop the attack.

• Anna summoned a Tier 4 upper-ranked Battle Angel, stunning Hell Howl and the other Hell Legion members.
• Shi Feng used the Heroic Ancient Book to summon the Level 131 Tier 4 Hero Asret, then sent both guardians to attack Demon God Atlock while he rushed to the treasure chest.
• Atlock struck the Battle Angel and Asret with a single swing, but they endured as Shi Feng began channeling to open the chest.
• Atlock hurled a massive silver fireball at Shi Feng, and the Battle Angel and Asret combined their attacks to deflect it.
• Atlock shattered space with his axe, severely injuring both guardians before turning the attack toward Shi Feng.
• With no way to evade or block Atlock’s attack, Shi Feng activated the Seven Luminaries Ring’s Absolute Domain.

Shi Feng survived the Demon God Phantom’s attacks long enough to open the treasure chest and seize its contents. The Phantom then broke its restraints and rose to Tier 5 as Shi Feng teleported away.

• Shi Feng used the Seven Luminaries Ring’s magic array to survive the Demon God Phantom’s first devastating axe strike, but the Phantom prepared an even stronger black-hole attack.
• Shi Feng could not escape the temple, so he put the Red Dragon Airship and a Tier 4 defensive Magic Scroll between himself and the black hole.
• The black hole battered the airship until its durability nearly reached zero, then weakened and dissipated, allowing the Treasure Chest to finish opening.
• Shi Feng hurriedly took the chest’s items and put them into his Epic Bag while the Demon God Phantom grew enraged.
• The Demon God Phantom shattered its chains, rose from Tier 4 to Tier 5, and prompted Shi Feng to warn the others and teleport away with his Tier 3 Teleport Scroll.

After stealing the Demon God's treasure, Shi Feng escaped the Star Tomb with the Hell Legion and triggered the legendary quest Demon God's Wrath. The Demon God Phantom vowed to pursue him, and a server-wide announcement revealed that the Demon God Palace would open in Star Valley the next day.

• The Demon God Phantom reached Tier 5, pursued Shi Feng from the temple, and attacked him with the Forbidden Spell World-Ending Flame.
• Shi Feng escaped the flames with the Seven Luminaries Ring and opened a Space Gate to lead the Hell Legion and the others out of the Star Tomb.
• The Demon God Phantom arrived above the Space Gate and swore not to let Shi Feng escape.
• Shi Feng received the Demon God's soul curse and the Legendary Quest to kill the Demon God's avatar phantom.
• A regional announcement told Star Valley players that the Demon God Palace would open in one day, offering a chance to obtain a Demon God inheritance.