Chapter Summaries

Shi Feng’s team overwhelmed the Petrified Trolls with Fire Dance’s and Bai Qingxue’s attacks while Shi Feng demonstrated the power of his equipment and skills. After the trolls were weakened, he ordered the team to gather the remaining monsters around the Troll Chieftain and unleashed a barrage that killed every elite troll and badly wounded the Troll Witch Doctor.

• Fire Dance wounded and paralyzed a Petrified Troll with rapid attacks, then Bai Qingxue blocked its spear strike and protected her.
• Shi Feng used Dragon’s Might and Sword Trajectory to knock back two Petrified Trolls, then dealt them massive damage with Flame Burst.
• Shi Feng ordered Heizi, Rose, and Pinellia to prepare destruction spells while the team focused on the other Petrified Troll.
• Shi Feng gathered the surrounding monsters around the Troll Chieftain, and Kele activated Dragon Scale Protection to withstand their attacks.
• Shi Feng sealed the monsters’ movement and led the team in a barrage of large-scale spells, killing all the elite trolls and reducing the Troll Witch Doctor to less than half health.

Shi Feng led the team through a battle against the Troll Chieftain and three Petrified Trolls, carefully separating them from their healers and saving the bosses for a coordinated finish. After Shi Feng used Divine Grace and Thunder God Descent to help kill all four monsters, four golden explosions announced a massive drop.

• Several team members leveled up after the group killed hundreds of elite trolls, while the drops proved poor.
• Shi Feng ordered Kele to draw the Troll Chieftain away from the troll witch doctors, letting the team kill the healers and weaken the Petrified Trolls.
• Shi Feng told the team to leave the Petrified Trolls at 5% health, then directed Fire Dance to tank them away from the Troll Chieftain while everyone attacked the boss.
• As the Troll Chieftain used Death Whirlwind at 30% health, Shi Feng activated Phantom Kill and Nine-Headed Dragon Slash, and the team unleashed its strongest attacks.
• When the Troll Chieftain and the three Petrified Trolls reached 1% health, Shi Feng used Divine Grace and Thunder God Descent to kill all four, triggering four golden explosions.

After the team defeated the Troll Chieftain and three Petrified Trolls, they collected a huge haul that included Basic Soul Return. Shi Feng then noticed hidden watchers nearby and called them out.

• The team gained several levels, with Water Rose, Fire Dance, Zi Yan Liu Yun, and others reaching Level 45.
• The group sorted through 115 drops, including 22 pieces of Green Ebony Wood that brought them closer to making another Advanced Transport Carriage.
• Shi Feng appraised the remaining items and discovered the Basic Soul Return skill book, which could revive a player in battle and halve death penalties.
• Shi Feng dismissed the idea of searching for another Troll gathering spot and called out to the people watching from the dead forest.

Shi Feng’s group met Midnight Tea Party again at Ghostcry Ridge after Shi Feng detected them hiding under Stealth Scrolls. Clear Breeze Brewing Wine explained that his team was on a quest and invited Shi Feng’s group to help in exchange for three pieces of Level 45 Dark Gold Equipment.

• Shi Feng called out the players hiding nearby, and Midnight Tea Party debated whether to reveal themselves or fight.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine led Midnight Tea Party out of hiding and explained that they had no hostile intentions.
• Shi Feng said he had recognized the team from Ghost Forest Town and asked whether they had come to Ghostcry Ridge for a quest.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine confirmed his team had a quest and offered three pieces of Level 45 Dark Gold Equipment if Shi Feng’s group helped complete it.
• Dark Sorrow and the other team members reacted with confusion to their captain inviting strangers to join a quest they had pursued for half a month.

Shi Feng declined Clear Breeze Brewing Wine’s offer of Level 45 Dark Gold Equipment, but accepted Unending Faint Trace’s offer of 4,000 Magic Crystals to help Midnight Tea Party with a dangerous task. As they traveled toward the task site, Shi Feng recognized the canyon as the location of the legendary Fallen Ark.

• Shi Feng refused Clear Breeze Brewing Wine’s offer of three Level 45 Dark Gold pieces because Zero Wing needed Azure Crow Wood more urgently.
• Unending Faint Trace offered Shi Feng 4,000 Magic Crystals for one hour of help, and he accepted and signed a contract with Clear Breeze Brewing Wine.
• Dark Sorrow questioned why Midnight Tea Party had hired strangers for a sub-Legendary task that could yield a Legendary Item Fragment.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine explained that activating the Fallen Ark’s key would summon one High Lord and four Great Lords while the team maintained a magic array, and that Shi Feng’s group improved their chances of success.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine led the group to a canyon, where Shi Feng recognized the site as the location of the Fallen Ark.

Clear Breeze Brewing Wine activated a magic array connected to the Fallen Ark, prompting Shi Feng to flee before its awakening could bring powerful abyssal monsters. The array summoned steel giants that killed Clear Breeze Brewing Wine, then vanished, and Unending Faint Trace approached Shi Feng’s group.

• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine revealed an orange-red crystal whose divine aura caused the canyon to shake as a violet-gold magic array formed.
• Shi Feng recognized that Midnight Tea Party was activating the Fallen Ark and ordered Zero Wing to retreat, warning that its awakening could unleash formidable abyssal monsters.
• Unending Faint Trace decided Midnight Tea Party should retreat too, abandoning Clear Breeze Brewing Wine because the activation array could not be stopped midway.
• Five steel giants appeared, including a Level 65 Fallen Guard Captain and a Level 63 Fallen Patroller, and their pressure stunned both groups.
• The Fallen Guard Captain killed Clear Breeze Brewing Wine in one strike; the magic array and steel giants disappeared, and Unending Faint Trace approached Shi Feng’s group.

Shi Feng reconsidered entering the Fallen Ark after Unending Faint Trace revealed that it held valuable treasure chests and that she possessed a map to its inner area. He agreed to help Midnight Tea Party get inside in exchange for a map copy and independent rights to whatever each side found.

• Unending Faint Trace thanked Shi Feng for withdrawing his people before the special lifeforms attacked and gave him one thousand Magic Crystals.
• Unending Faint Trace proposed that Shi Feng's group join Midnight Tea Party in exploring the Fallen Ark and split its treasures thirty-seventy.
• Shi Feng doubted they could overcome the five special lifeforms, but Unending Faint Trace revealed the Fallen Ark contained sub-Legendary and Epic Treasure Chests and showed him a map fragment.
• Shi Feng accepted the expedition after learning the map could guide them through the Fallen Ark's traps.
• Shi Feng demanded a copy of the Fallen Ark Map and that both sides keep whatever they found without interfering with each other.

Shi Feng convinced Unending Faint Trace to cooperate by explaining that the Fallen Ark’s Abyss monsters required Magic Crystal Stones to lure away. After preparing the stones and other supplies, he returned to Ghostcry Ridge and demanded command of the operation.

• Unending Faint Trace rejected Shi Feng’s initial terms, but he warned her that opening the Fallen Ark would release stronger monsters and offered a way to handle them.
• Unending Faint Trace agreed to cooperate and promised a map copy after they entered the ark, provided Shi Feng’s information proved true.
• Shi Feng signed a contract with Unending Faint Trace, and Zi Yan Liu Yun revived Clear Breeze Brewing Wine to reduce his death penalty.
• Shi Feng returned to White River City, delivered Azure Crow Wood to Melancholy Smile, and synthesized twenty Magic Crystal Stones.
• Shi Feng made nine Nine-Star Domain Magic Scrolls, returned to Ghostcry Ridge, and set up a magic array with ten Magic Crystal Stones to lure the Abyss monsters.
• Shi Feng returned to the Grand Canyon and told Unending Faint Trace that he was ready, but he would command the operation.

Shi Feng and Midnight Tea Party began fighting the Fallen Guard Captain and four Fallen Patrollers after activating the Nine-Star Domain. The magic array weakened the Bosses, but their powerful attacks immediately put the teams in danger and killed one Midnight Tea Party member.

• Midnight Tea Party rejected Shi Feng's request to command them, so he assigned their members to maintain the magic array and restrain two Fallen Patrollers while his team handled the other Bosses.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine summoned the five Bosses, and Shi Feng and Unending Faint Trace ordered the Nine-Star Domain activated.
• The magic array reduced the Fallen Guard Captain's HP from 120 million to 96 million and the Fallen Patrollers' HP from 57 million to 41 million.
• Shi Feng's three tanks charged their targets, and the Fallen Guard Captain's opening slash sent Kele flying and shattered his shields.
• The four Fallen Patrollers unleashed overlapping domains of erupting golden streams, and the attacks killed a Level 41 Berserker from Midnight Tea Party.

Shi Feng's team and Midnight Tea Party struggled against the Fallen Ark's guardian Bosses, whose overlapping domains and overwhelming defenses threatened to wear them down. Shi Feng began casting a Tier 4 Super Spell as the Fallen Guard Captain reached him, and Annihilation Space was about to be unleashed.

• A Berserker died when golden streams from overlapping domains sealed off every escape route, and Shi Feng ordered the Patrollers drawn to the four corners.
• Unending Faint Trace and Underworld Wanderer used Tier 3 Summoning Scrolls to lure away two Patrollers, but their summoned beasts dealt only 4,000 damage to the Patrollers' immense defenses.
• Turtledove and Ye Wumian drew away the other Patrollers, while Kele struggled to hold the Fallen Guard Captain and the team dealt negligible damage to its 96 million HP.
• Bai Qingxue urged Shi Feng to retreat and bring more guild members, but Shi Feng said Kele needed to hold the Boss for three seconds.
• Shi Feng produced a blood-red Tier 4 Magic Scroll and began casting as the Guard Captain ignored Kele's taunts and advanced toward him.
• Shi Feng finished chanting and revealed the Fourth-Tier Super Spell, Annihilation Space.

Shi Feng used the Tier 4 Super Magic scroll Phantasmal World Space to weaken the Fallen Guard Captain and Fallen Patrollers, letting the raid defeat them before the magic expired. Their victory revealed a water-blue temple and triggered a God's Domain system upgrade that required players to log out.

• Shi Feng activated Phantasmal World Space, boosting his allies’ attributes and slowing the five Fallen monsters for fifteen minutes.
• Shi Feng and the others used their burst skills to kill the Fallen Guard Captain in six minutes, earning substantial experience.
• The raid defeated the four Fallen Patrollers just before Phantasmal World Space expired, leveling Midnight Tea Party’s members to Level 43.
• The grand canyon collapsed, and a water-blue temple rose from the earth after the guarding monsters fell.
• God's Domain announced that a player had activated a new expansion and ordered everyone to prepare to log out for a system upgrade.

After God's Domain announced a system update, Shi Feng decided to enter the Fallen Ark before its traps became harder to handle. Unending Faint Trace gave him the promised map, and Shi Feng revealed that he was Black Flame before leading Zero Wing toward the entrance, leaving Unending Faint Trace stunned.

• A system update interrupted Shi Feng and the others just after they opened the Fallen Ark's gates.
• Shi Feng explained that the update would make the Fallen Ark's ancient traps more difficult and asked Unending Faint Trace and Clear Breeze Brewing Wine whether they would enter immediately.
• Clear Breeze Brewing Wine chose to wait for the monsters inside to leave, while Unending Faint Trace handed Shi Feng a copied Fallen Ark Map.
• Shi Feng thanked Unending Faint Trace, removed his cloak, and revealed that he was Black Flame, Zero Wing's Guild Leader.
• Shi Feng led his group toward the Fallen Ark's entrance, and Unending Faint Trace remained stunned by his identity.

Blackwater Guild struggled with the loss of members and the success of Candlelight Trading Firm’s Stamina Secret Potion, but Qi Yitao prepared to exploit the coming Dark Arena match against Zero Wing. Meanwhile, Shi Feng found the unopened War Weapon Arsenal inside Fallen Ark.

• Qin Muyun reported that tens of thousands of elite members and over a hundred thousand ordinary members had left Blackwater Guild.
• Gale Soulbreaker told Qi Yitao that the Stamina Secret Potion had sharply reduced traffic to Blackwater Trading Firm, and that Candlelight Trading Firm had sold out its stock.
• Drunken Laugher said he had given Miracle Guild detailed information about Zero Wing’s experts and expected Miracle to defeat them in the Dark Arena match.
• Qi Yitao ordered the others to organize Blackwater Guild’s resources and planned to watch the match as a chance to recover the guild’s losses.
• Shi Feng used a Stealth Scroll to evade Fallen Patrollers and traps as he advanced through Fallen Ark’s corridors.
• Shi Feng discovered the unopened War Weapon Arsenal with less than twenty minutes remaining.

Shi Feng abandoned the inner zone and led Zero Wing toward a war weapon vault while patrollers closed in and an Abyssal Elder awakened. The group reached the vault, but the Abyssal Elder immobilized them and turned four Fallen Patrollers into specimens, leaving Shi Feng as the only one able to move.

• Low-Key North Wind spotted two approaching patrollers, and Shi Feng chose to secure the outer-zone weapon vault instead of pressing toward the inner zone.
• Shi Feng sent Kele and Turtledove to hold off the patrollers while Fire Dance picked the secret room lock and the others searched for nearby trap arrays.
• Low-Key North Wind reported two more patrollers approaching, so Shi Feng and Ye Wumian moved to intercept them while Fire Dance continued unlocking the door.
• Shi Feng's group heard the Abyssal Elder roar, and Midnight Tea Party realized that Shi Feng had been right about the monster's strength.
• Fire Dance opened the secret room, and Shi Feng's group slowly retreated toward the weapon vault as the Abyssal Elders' presence made movement difficult.
• The Abyssal Elder struck four Fallen Patrollers into the walls and immobilized everyone except Shi Feng as the others entered the vault.

Shi Feng protected his group from the Soul Devouring Lord with a Tier 4 Water Domain and led them into the Fallen Ark’s armory. They uncovered powerful weapons and supplies, and Fire Dance dismantled the final trap just before the group logged out.

• The Soul Devouring Lord appeared and trapped the group with its complete domain, but Shi Feng cast Water Domain to shield them.
• Shi Feng led everyone into the armory, locked the door, and reassured them that the Fallen Ark’s divine runes would keep the monster out.
• Fire Dance and Flying Shadow dismantled most of the armory’s traps as the group discovered Intermediate Magic Pulse Cannons, a mobile defensive magic array, and over a thousand Basic Magic Pulse Bombs.
• Fire Dance could not remove the final trap, so Shi Feng gave her the Heart of Icarus to raise her Trap Removal skill to Master rank.
• Fire Dance removed the last trap with two seconds remaining before logout, and everyone entered the offline resting space.

Shi Feng planned to prepare Zero Wing for the system update, which would make niche secondary professions such as mages and trap specialists more important. After Liang Jing brought him to Xiao Yu’s office, he found Xiao Yu meeting with Gan Xingteng and Xie Qiwen.

• Shi Feng saw that the system update would finish in nearly fifteen hours and recalled how it would raise the value of niche secondary professions and make trap disarming dangerous.
• Shi Feng decided to have Melancholy Smile gather Purple Morning Dew and Five-Colored Flowers so Zero Wing could make Talent Potions to identify players’ aptitude for secondary professions.
• Shi Feng slept until morning, then prepared to inspect Zero Wing’s new internal recruits before Liang Jing told him that Xiao Yu wanted to meet him.
• Shi Feng went with Liang Jing to the chairman’s office on the Big Dipper Building’s top floor, where Xiao Yu, Gan Xingteng, and Xie Qiwen were waiting.

Shi Feng learned that the White Tiger Martial Arts School had invited Beidou to an under-twenty team competition offering a Green God Auction invitation and a million Credit Points. He agreed to find competitors and asked Xiao Yu for around ten S-Grade Nutrient Potions to prepare them.

• Xiao Yu introduced Shi Feng to Xie Qiwen and Gan Xingteng, who soon left after meeting him.
• Xiao Yu told Shi Feng about the White Tiger Martial Arts School’s opening ceremony and its three-person competition for students under twenty.
• Shi Feng warned that Beidou’s trainees were unlikely to match the White Tiger Martial Arts School’s elite students, and Xiao Yu suggested using Zero Wing Workshop fighters.
• Shi Feng explained that most of the workshop’s experts were over twenty and that the one eligible fighter could not form a team alone.
• Shi Feng thought of several under-twenty guild members and asked Xiao Yu for around ten S-Grade Nutrient Potions to help them improve.

Shi Feng arranged with Xiao Yu to obtain ten S-Grade Nutrient Potions in exchange for a place on Green God Company's invitation list, then called Sword Shadow and Turtledove to Jinhai City. He met You Ziping, who asked whether Shi Feng's offer to teach him how to become stronger still stood.

• Xiao Yu agreed to find ten S-Grade Nutrient Potions after Shi Feng offered to pay half the cost, securing a place on Green God Company's invitation list.
• Shi Feng told Heizi to bring Sword Shadow and Turtledove to Jinhai City, explaining that the training center acquisition was still being negotiated.
• Heizi told Shi Feng that You Ziping had come to the workshop to see him.
• Shi Feng met You Ziping, who asked whether he could still join Zero Wing Workshop and learn how to become stronger.

You Ziping considered joining Zero Wing Workshop to improve quickly enough to earn a place in the national competition. After watching Lü Xiu defeat him, he asked Shi Feng whether the workshop would teach him, while Shi Feng reflected on how money and training opportunities had widened the gap between You Ziping and Xie Qiwen.

• You Ziping explained that Xie Qiwen’s arrival had left him little time to prove himself at the White Tiger Martial Arts School, so he asked Shi Feng how much Zero Wing Workshop could help him improve in a month.
• Shi Feng brought You Ziping to the training room and arranged a three-minute match against Lü Xiu, whom You Ziping had known as a barely intermediate student.
• Lü Xiu dodged You Ziping’s attacks and defeated him with a strike to the neck followed by a palm to the abdomen.
• You Ziping recognized that Lü Xiu’s combat experience had surpassed his own and asked Shi Feng whether the workshop would teach him the same skills.
• Shi Feng considered You Ziping’s potential and the financial advantages that had allowed Xie Qiwen to receive far better nutrition and instruction.

Shi Feng evaluated You Ziping for Zero Wing Workshop, where his exceptional results earned him a reserve core member position. He then welcomed Sword Shadow and Turtledove, supplied them with S-Grade Nutrient Potions, and logged into God's Domain as its update neared completion.

• Shi Feng explained Zero Wing Workshop's ranks and contracts, then had Heizi test You Ziping.
• You Ziping scored A-rank in every category and S-rank in observation, but chose to become a core member rather than a main member.
• Shi Feng gave the workshop members their usual combat guidance until Sword Shadow and Turtledove arrived.
• Shi Feng gave Sword Shadow and Turtledove five bottles each of S-Grade Nutrient Potion, astonishing You Ziping.
• Shi Feng drank an A-Grade Nutrient Potion, entered his Virtual Reality Pod, and logged into God's Domain.