Recaps

Lin Qi’s campaign announcement introduced a merit system that excited players and prompted wealthy players and teams to prepare for the war. Fang Zhen and Chen Ya set out to raid a Smiling Skull stronghold while testing reverse-engineered NPC martial skills, and Luo Wu Shang emerged with her second cultivation-method level perfected.

• Players discussed the campaign’s merit ranks and the discounts, cultivation rooms, and guild permissions they could earn.
• A young CEO ordered his company to recruit five thousand gaming workers for a new High Martial Strategy Department so he could build an advantage before the war.
• Fang Zhen’s team decided to raid a Smiling Skull stronghold for loot before returning to the campaign, while Chen Ya planned to test a martial skill reverse-engineered from Presia’s battle footage.
• Fang Zhen and Chen Ya drew the stronghold’s attention as Li Ranxing and the others infiltrated it to steal loot.
• Luo Wu Shang emerged from a cave after her second cultivation-method level reached Perfection Realm, and Twilight of the Gods sent her the martial arts hall’s latest announcement.

Luo Wu Shang and Heavenly Might prepared for the total war between City of Light Chasing and Star Tower City, while the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall faced the added threat of the Holy Blood Mercenary Group. As the city’s army prepared to depart, Qin Mu asked Lin Qi whether the garrison regiment could join the battle.

• Luo Wu Shang explained that reaching the Second Perfection Realm had greatly increased her physical strength and speed, and Zhang Qingwei and Zhao Hu decided to perfect their Training Method before attempting the Bone Forging Realm.
• Heavenly Might returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to await the war, where disciples worried that Star Tower City and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group would target them.
• Estina and Xia Ling discussed their choices to join the martial arts hall, then sparred using Startling Swan while Qin Mu instructed them in Microscopic Control.
• Qin Mu reported that fifteen of the garrison regiment’s five hundred martial artists had reached Microscopic Control and seventy-six had mastered the Energy Secret Technique.
• Qin Mu asked Lin Qi whether the garrison regiment could join the army departing the next day, eager to gain experience in the war.

Lin Qi agreed to take Qin Mu and the martial arts school guard corps into the city war, and he decided the Lionheart Merchant Guild trainees would join them. Meanwhile, Heavenly Might players discussed the growing difficulty of recruiting players before Elder Yu Tian revealed how he had beaten the game’s entry test and entered High Martial Descent.

• Qin Mu argued that the martial arts school guard corps needed real combat experience, and Lin Qi agreed to bring him into battle the next day.
• Lin Qi told Qin Mu to bring the Lionheart Merchant Guild trainees along, reasoning that the city war offered valuable practical combat training.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud, Fang Zhen, Luo Wu Shang, Lu Fanchen, and Zhang Qingwei discussed the influx of inexperienced newcomers and the need for Heavenly Might to secure more game slots and funding.
• Zhao Hu suggested that Heavenly Might’s elders pool their money, and Zhang Qingwei proposed persuading Elder Yu Tian to invest.
• Elder Yu Tian appeared among the newcomers and explained that he had practiced the Star Explosion Meditation Technique, a breathing method, and Pilgrimage’s Nine Transformations of Heavenly Gang until he formed his force and survived the entry test for twenty seconds.

Lin Qi learned that players could cultivate in the testing spaces and prepared them for the city war, which brought massive forces from City of Light Chasing and Star Tower City to Maple Forest Town. When Ino requested help defending a transport convoy, Lin Qi assigned the players a support mission and gave them a free respawn point.

• Elder Yu Tian explained that players could study the Star Explosion Meditation Technique and Breathing Technique in the hole-digging testing space, prompting Lin Qi to consider opening a cultivation assessment.
• Lin Qi addressed the newcomers and told disciples who wanted to join the city war to gather the next morning, while players discussed the upcoming battle through the night.
• Lin Qi, Elder Yu Tian, and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall players boarded a Sky Battleship and traveled with a large fleet to Maple Forest Town.
• Lin Qi learned that City of Light Chasing and Star Tower City had each assembled over a million troops, and City Lord Di Luoya ordered him to keep Maple Forest Town secure.
• Ino asked Lin Qi to help the Seventeenth Regiment protect a transport convoy from three enemy groups, and Lin Qi accepted and requested the attack coordinates.
• Lin Qi assigned players the Transport Convoy Support Mission for ten merit points and set up a free respawn point, sending the players rushing to work.

Ino’s Seventeenth Regiment faced an ambush by Blood Rider’s forces, including the mercenaries Stone Axe and Iron Claw, who charged to kill her. Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing arrived in a Flying Transport Vehicle, and the two mercenary leaders immediately fled after recognizing the grey-robed newcomers, leaving Blood Rider confused.

• Ino detected more than forty Bone Forging Realm experts approaching and ordered her Seventeenth Regiment to prepare for battle.
• Blood Rider decided to attack Ino’s regiment with Stone Axe and Iron Claw, whose speed revealed them as top-tier Bone Forging Realm experts.
• Ino recognized that the two attackers were likely targeting her and told her soldiers to retreat as Stone Axe and Iron Claw closed in.
• Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing arrived aboard a Flying Transport Vehicle and jumped down to confront the attackers.
• Stone Axe and Iron Claw turned and fled after seeing Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing, while Blood Rider demanded an explanation.
• Iron Claw told Blood Rider that the grey-robed people were known as North Grey Robes near the Mountain of the Dead and that the mercenaries would not honor the contract.

Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing used a reconstructed Golden Roar to repel Blood Rider, revealing that they could transform into calamity-like forms. As their teams pursued the fleeing mercenaries toward Angry Wind Town, the town’s deputy city lord left the confrontation to the Holy Blood Mercenary Group’s vice-captains.

• After Stone Axe and Iron Claw fled, Blood Rider attacked Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing with his Super Tier Martial Skill, Blood Destruction.
• Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing transformed, and Fang Zhen’s illusory golden lion shattered Blood Rider’s attack; Stone Axe and Iron Claw recognized it as Golden Roar.
• Fang Zhen explained that he had reconstructed about sixty percent of the sequence martial skill, while Li Ranxing considered how to shape force and blood and vitality into a controllable mech.
• Blood Rider fled, and Chen Ya told Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing to pursue the enemies; Li Ranxing called other teams to help hunt down the fugitives.
• Luo Wu Shang sent Twilight of the Gods after Stone Axe and Iron Claw as they ran toward Angry Wind Town, believing the gray-robed pursuers would turn back at the stronghold.
• Angry Wind Town detected the mercenary captains and the pursuing Flying Transport Vehicle, and its deputy city lord left the response to the Holy Blood Mercenary Group’s vice-captains.

Luo Wu Shang led the Grey Robes to Angry Wind Town, where she learned it was defended by over a hundred thousand Martial Artists and a Blood Condensation Realm commander. The Grey Robes charged anyway and were wiped out, but after reviving in Maple Forest Town, Luo Wu Shang planned to recruit more allies for another attempt.

• Wild Wolf prepared to lead the Holy Blood Mercenary Group toward Maple Forest Town, then blocked Stone Axe and Iron Claw as they fled toward Angry Wind Town with the Grey Robes pursuing them.
• Luo Wu Shang stepped out of the Flying Transport Vehicle and ignored Wild Wolf's warnings that Angry Wind Town was heavily defended.
• Luo Wu Shang ordered the Grey Robes to attack, and Zhang Qingwei led more than a hundred members of Heavenly Might toward the town.
• The town's garrison opened fire, and Luo Wu Shang's Absolute Heaven slash destroyed part of the alloy wall before Wild Wolf, Star Tower City's commanders, and vice city lords killed her and the other Grey Robes.
• Stone Axe and Iron Claw fled Angry Wind Town, while Luo Wu Shang and the Grey Robes revived in Maple Forest Town less than an hour later.
• Luo Wu Shang asked her companions to contact Fang Zhen, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and others to invite them to join a merit-farming mission at Angry Wind Town.

Wild Wolf, Zhuo Gu, and Lie Shan prepared Angry Wind Town to face the grey-robed men, but the attackers proved far stronger than expected and devastated the town. After dawn, another force of more than a thousand grey-robed men appeared, leaving the defenders stunned.

• Wild Wolf told Zhuo Gu and Lie Shan that Stone Axe and Iron Claw had abandoned Angry Wind Town, while Lie Shan dismissed the grey-robed men's reputation and Zhuo Gu ordered Wild Wolf to remain until the threat was dealt with.
• A garrison scout reported nearly a thousand life signs approaching, and Wild Wolf led the defenders to meet the force as the grey-robed men charged the town.
• Fang Zhen deflected the defenders' arrow storm with a golden lion, and Lu Fanchen blasted open the town gate with Heaven Shaking Fist.
• Ye Qinglu fought Wild Wolf with the Heavenly Sword Array, while Chen Ya held off four vice city lords and other grey-robed fighters battled the defenders.
• The battle left half of Angry Wind Town in ruins, killed more than ten thousand martial artists, and cost Star Tower City two vice city lords and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group two vice captains.
• After dawn, a town alarm revealed more than a thousand grey-robed men approaching again, despite the defenders believing they had killed them all.

Star Tower City and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group tried to stop the gray-clad players from taking Angry Wind Town with repeated waves of Heavy Ion Bomb attacks, but the players kept returning and wore down the town’s defenders. After Star Tower City withdrew, Di Luoya learned that Angry Wind Town had been emptied and devastated by a massive battle.

• Wild Wolf and Alec consulted Zhuo Gu and Lie Shan, who ordered them to use Heavy Ion Bombs against the approaching gray-clad force.
• Fang Zhen and Luo Wu Shang prepared resurrection points as the players gathered outside Angry Wind Town to claim its spoils.
• The players countered the first bomb-carrying wave with force-energy attacks and self-destruction, killing the attackers while sacrificing many of their own.
• Star Tower City sent repeated bomb-carrying waves, but more gray-clad players appeared after each battle until the defenders exhausted their Heavy Ion Bombs and retreated.
• Luo Wu Shang and the players entered the abandoned Angry Wind Town as Star Tower City withdrew from the front line.
• Ino reported to Di Luoya that Angry Wind Town had no living residents and bore signs of a vast battle and heavy Heavy Ion activity.

Di Luoya learned that Star Tower City had withdrawn from Angry Wind Town after a mysterious force devastated it, then received Star Tower City's offer of Energy Crystals and a truce. The negotiations ended on a baffling note when Alec referred to men in gray helping City of Light Chasing, a force Di Luoya had never heard of.

• Ino reported that Angry Wind Town had been abandoned by Star Tower City after a catastrophic battle, with no enemy bodies or signs of an invading force found.
• Di Luoya and Fansen discussed the region's hidden powers and the unknown force that had driven Star Tower City from Angry Wind Town.
• Wu Zhuo Qun announced that Alec and Wild Wolf had arrived as Star Tower City's envoys to negotiate peace.
• Di Luoya welcomed Alec and Wild Wolf, then heard Alec offer one hundred thousand Energy Crystals for Angry Wind Town in exchange for a permanent truce, or a twenty-year pact as a final alternative.
• Alec warned that Star Tower City would fight even if the men in gray helped City of Light Chasing, leaving Di Luoya confused about who the men in gray were.

Alec and Wild Wolf discovered that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s silver-gray-clad disciples were the force behind the attacks that had pushed Star Tower City and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group into a ceasefire. Lin Qi learned the war had ended and received compensation from Star Tower City, including a Golden Stone Sculpture that Fansen said could help someone reach beyond Blood Condensation.

• Ino identified the gray-clothed attackers as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s internally trained disciples, and Wu Zhuo Qun showed images that confirmed it.
• Di Luoya began peace negotiations with Alec, and City of Light Chasing and Star Tower City signed a twenty-year non-aggression pact.
• Lin Qi was dismayed that the war ended before he could sell more Player Resurrection Devices, while players celebrated their rewards and Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and Lu Fanchen established garrisons.
• Di Luoya visited Lin Qi with Ino, Wu Zhuo Qun, and Fansen, a Domain City student, to congratulate him on Star Tower City’s compensation.
• Di Luoya presented Lin Qi with a Golden Stone Sculpture and promised the remains of a Calamity-class Monster; Fansen said the sculpture could help someone reach beyond Blood Condensation.

Lin Qi learned that the Golden Stone Sculpture was a key to the Mist Mountain Prison, a relic built by a civilization that had birthed a demigod, and agreed to explore its lower levels with Fansen. As the city war ended and people began returning to Maple Forest Town, Lin Qi received a system notice that the Cultivation Tower had been rebuilt.

• Fansen and Di Luoya explained that the Golden Stone Sculpture opened the Mist Mountain Prison, where powerful prisoners’ remains and other treasures could be found.
• Fansen asked Lin Qi to join him in exploring the prison’s lower levels during its next visitation, one week away, and Lin Qi agreed despite worrying about the dangers afterward.
• Ino considered leaving the garrison corps to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Wu Zhuo Qun thought of recommending that Xiong Yuedie join if she failed to enter a domain city.
• Di Luoya and Fansen left the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as the city war ended and people began returning to Maple Forest Town.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that the Cultivation Tower had been rebuilt.

Lin Qi toured the rapidly expanding Crimson Moon Town and activated its Cultivation Tower, which drew in energy and created increasingly powerful cultivation rooms. The chapter ended with Luo Wu Shang surviving another attempt at a breakthrough and realizing she had finally made progress.

• Lin Qi arrived at Crimson Moon Town with Xia Ling and Estina, and Flo reported that the town held 415,458 residents and could house one million.
• Flo led Lin Qi to the Cultivation Tower, while merchants and drifters recognized Lin Qi as the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's Dojo Master.
• Lin Qi activated the Cultivation Tower using three hundred Energy Crystals, causing it to draw energy from the surrounding area and greatly increase local energy density.
• Lin Qi tested the tower's cultivation rooms and found that the third-floor room had eight times the energy density of the outside world, but decided not to attempt the Bone Forging Realm yet.
• Luo Wu Shang collapsed after her Extraordinary State ended, but smiled and said she had finally gotten the hang of it.

Lin Qi opened the Cultivation Tower to outsiders and assigned the martial arts hall guard corps combat and cultivation duties. A system notification revealed that Luo Wu Shang had reached the Bone Forging Realm through a dangerous fusion that gave her Extraordinary Bones, and Lin Qi began copying her method.

• Lin Qi ordered the Cultivation Tower opened to outsiders, set its usage prices, and told Flo to triple land lease prices within five kilometers of the tower.
• Lin Qi assigned the martial arts hall guard corps to secure the route between the City of Light Chasing and Crimson Moon Town, take over the town's defense, and compete for reserved Cultivation Tower slots.
• The system notified Lin Qi that a player had reached the Bone Forging Realm and offered a Martial Skill Enhancement after ten players reached that realm.
• Lin Qi found that Luo Wu Shang had reached the Bone Forging Realm and extracted her memories, learning that she had fused the Glimmer Training Method with the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique and gained stable Extraordinary Bones.
• After seeing Luo Wu Shang's exceptional strength and speed, Lin Qi drank a Type III Energy Potion and began cultivating using her memories.

Lin Qi perfected the first level of the Mental Secret Technique and smoothly broke through to the Bone Forging Realm, gaining greatly enhanced strength and senses. The next day, a powerful delegation from the regional city arrived in City of Light Chasing, where Bert revealed he had come to capture a company traitor known as Poison Rose.

• Lin Qi extracted players’ Mental Secret Technique proficiency until its first level reached Perfection Realm, greatly improving his control over blood, vitality, and energy.
• Lin Qi entered the Extraordinary State and tempered every bone in his body, completing his breakthrough to the Bone Forging Realm in less than five minutes.
• Lin Qi examined his improved attributes and concluded that, with his Great Club, his strength matched that of an Initial Stage Blood Condensation Realm martial artist.
• More than one hundred young Bone Forging Realm martial artists arrived in City of Light Chasing aboard a regional-city Sky Battleship, led by the Blood Condensation Realm expert Bert and accompanied by Presia.
• Bert told Presia that he had come to capture a Dixing Pharmaceutical traitor in the city and identified her current name as Yakro, also known as Poison Rose.

Presia refused to let Dixing Pharmaceutical seize Yakro without evidence, citing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s ties to North Grey Robes. Dixing Pharmaceutical’s young talents secretly attacked the hall anyway, and Yakro recognized them as they descended on the training ground.

• Presia checked Yakro’s records and told Bert that Yakro was a registered martial artist and member of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, so Dixing Pharmaceutical needed clear evidence to take her.
• Presia warned Bert that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was North Grey Robes, prompting him to report the matter while his group stayed in the City of Light Chasing.
• Presia learned that Dixing Pharmaceutical’s young talents had left to capture Yakro but decided not to send help, expecting the hall to hold them off.
• Shadow Fang, Fire Snake, and a hundred Dixing Pharmaceutical talents gathered near the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and launched a nighttime assault.
• Yakro drank her homemade Meditation Potion, considered leaving the hall to protect its members, and then recognized Dixing Pharmaceutical’s attackers as they landed around her.

More than a hundred Bone Forging Realm experts from Dixing Pharmaceutical descended on the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to capture Yakro, while the players counterattacked with reckless enthusiasm. After hundreds of players died and twelve attackers fell, Luo Wu Shang appeared before Yakro and challenged Fire Snake.

• Wu Zhuo Qun and Xiong Yuedie prepared to defend the hall, while Wuka held back the Long-Eared Race group because they feared provoking Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang ordered the Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses to seize Yakro, but the players charged in to protect the pharmacist.
• The players used Heavy Ion Bombs and sacrificed themselves, killing twelve Dixing Pharmaceutical members before all several hundred attackers were wiped out.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Xiong Yuedie moved to join the fight, but Luo Wu Shang flashed out from the second floor and stopped the remaining attackers.
• Luo Wu Shang confronted Fire Snake and used the Extraordinary Martial Skill Heaven Severance.

At Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Luo Wu Shang fought Dixing Pharmaceutical super genius Fire Snake and was apparently defeated by his Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skill. As Fire Snake prepared to seize Yakro, the gray-robed players gathered to fight, and Luo Wu Shang emerged from the rubble unharmed, ready to transform for a second round.

• Luo Wu Shang killed five Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses with a sword slash, but Fire Snake deflected her attack with Seven Changes of the Fiery Serpent.
• Fire Snake drew his greatsword and struck Luo Wu Shang with Serpent Shadow Transformation, blasting her into the martial arts hall’s rubble.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang moved to take Yakro, while One Leaf Floating Cloud, Fang Zhen, Lu Fanchen, and the other players gathered to challenge the invading Bone Forging Realm experts.
• Wuka told the Long-Eared Race woman to wait, believing the gray-robed martial artists had yet to reveal their strength.
• Luo Wu Shang emerged from the rubble largely recovered and told Fire Snake she would transform for their second round.

Luo Wu Shang’s transformation gave her the strength to overpower Fire Snake, while Fang Zhen and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members fought off Dixing Pharmaceutical’s forces. The invaders were defeated and killed, and Luo Wu Shang realized that killing Fire Snake was required to unlock a new expansion.

• Luo Wu Shang transformed in the Bone Forging Realm and sent Fire Snake crashing through a building with one punch.
• Fire Snake used the Seven Changes of the Fiery Serpent, but Luo Wu Shang’s Heaven’s End sword technique gave her the upper hand.
• Fang Zhen used Golden Roar to blast Shadow Fang away, while Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the others blocked Dixing Pharmaceutical’s attempt to seize Yakro.
• Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the other Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members defeated Dixing Pharmaceutical’s martial artists, leaving Fire Snake and Shadow Fang badly injured.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang tried to flee, but Luo Wu Shang killed Fire Snake and Ye Qinglu and the others killed Shadow Fang.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s victory over Dixing Pharmaceutical’s force left the City of Light Chasing and the domain city stunned, especially after they learned that its disciples had killed two super geniuses. As Bert reacted with fury and demanded a meeting with Hall Master Lin Qi, the threat of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s retaliation loomed over the hall.

• Wuka worried that Dixing Pharmaceutical would retaliate for Fire Snake and Shadow Fang’s deaths, while Yakro, Wu Zhuo Qun, and Xiong Yuedie marveled at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s strength.
• The City of Light Chasing’s garrison corps investigated the battlefield, and a Three-Eyed Race elder reported the deaths to City Lord Di Luoya.
• Presia told her Half-Scale Race senior brother that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples had killed Dixing Pharmaceutical’s super geniuses, and he arranged for her to join the domain city’s representative team in Mist Mountain Prison.
• Bert learned that Fire Snake, Shadow Fang, and the rest of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s force had died, then ordered Hall Master Lin Qi to come to the Martial Artist Association for a meeting.

Bert of Dixing Pharmaceutical arrived in Crimson Moon Town to confront Lin Qi, while the town’s remarkable energy density and Cultivation Tower impressed his party and Ino. Lin Qi learned Bert had come and told Qin Mu to bring him up, setting up their meeting.

• Igor and Dona recognized Ino and sensed that the young Forest Tribe man accompanying her, Bert, had Blood Condensation Realm strength.
• Bert admired Crimson Moon Town’s energy density and considered taking control of the Cultivation Tower to increase his influence within Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Ino brought Bert and the Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses to the Cultivation Tower, where its cultivation rooms astonished them.
• Bert agreed to wait for Lin Qi, planning to obtain Yakro and seize the Cultivation Tower.
• Qin Mu warned Lin Qi that Bert had arrived and asked whether to delay him until people from the domain city came.
• Lin Qi revealed he had mastered Reverse Star Triple and told Qin Mu to bring Bert up.

Lin Qi reviewed his greatly increased strength after learning Li Ranxing’s training method and announced that players could choose whether to enter the Bone Forging Realm in an ordinary or Transcendent State. When Bert demanded Yakro and an explanation for the deaths of Fire Snake and Shadow Fang, Lin Qi fought back and left Bert shocked by his strength.

• Lin Qi saw that learning Reverse Star Triple had raised his strength substantially and considered how players’ advancement choices would affect his training.
• Lin Qi updated the official forum to let players choose between ordinary and Transcendent State advancement into the Bone Forging Realm.
• Qin Mu brought Bert and a Forest Tribe youth into Lin Qi’s training room, where the unusually dense energy amazed Ino and the Dixing Pharmaceutical members.
• Bert demanded that Lin Qi surrender Yakro and answer for the deaths of Fire Snake and Shadow Fang, then attacked him with Heaven Imprisoning Hand.
• Lin Qi activated his Transcendent State and struck Bert with Reverse Star Hand, forcing Bert back and giving Lin Qi the advantage.

Lin Qi defeated Bert, a Blood Condensation Realm expert from Dixing Pharmaceutical, and killed Bert and the company members who tried to flee. As Lin Qi prepared for the opening of Mist Mountain Prison, Presia learned that Bert and his group had not left Crimson Moon Town.

• Lin Qi discovered that reaching the Bone Forging Realm had greatly increased his strength in the Extraordinary State, then faced Bert wielding the Tier 3 saber Frostbite Blade.
• Bert attacked with Ice Dragon Break, but Lin Qi used Divine Might to deflect the strike and countered with Lightning Palm, disarming and injuring Bert.
• Lin Qi ignored Bert's threats and beat him to death with the Great Club.
• When Bert's Dixing Pharmaceutical companions tried to escape, Lin Qi crushed them with his power.
• Ino and Qin Mu questioned Lin Qi about provoking Dixing Pharmaceutical, but Lin Qi said their conflict had already become unavoidable and took Frostbite Blade.
• Presia received a report that Bert and his companions had not come out of Crimson Moon Town for more than two days.

Presia and the Half-Scale Race man learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out Dixing Pharmaceutical’s delegation, while word of the killings drove allies away and isolated the hall. Lin Qi decided to enter Mist Mountain Prison anyway, as Li Ranxing tested whether a Berserk Potion could help him form armor around his Transcendent Lifeform.

• Presia told the Half-Scale Race man that Bert and the other Dixing Pharmaceutical delegates had vanished inside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Cultivation Tower, and they concluded the delegation had been killed.
• Presia returned to Mist Mountain Domain City to report the news, which spread shock throughout the city.
• Lan Yu warned Fansen that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out Dixing Pharmaceutical’s delegation and demanded that Fansen cancel their cooperation; Fansen agreed and sent word to the hall.
• Qin Mu told Lin Qi that Fansen had withdrawn and that other powers might target them in Mist Mountain Prison, but Lin Qi insisted that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would still go.
• Lin Qi learned that Yakro’s Berserk Potions were being produced for the disciples, while Li Ranxing drank one and tried again to form a mech-like armor around himself.

Li Ranxing accidentally developed a giant-form Extraordinary Martial Skill that briefly gave him Blood Condensation Realm power, prompting players to rush to imitate him. Lin Qi then met Xie Fina, a deputy leader from the Mist Mountain Domain City delegation, who offered to restrain Dixing Pharmaceutical in exchange for help dealing with a living prisoner in the lower district.

• Li Ranxing's attempt to stabilize a manifested mecha caused energy and force to surge back into his body, transforming him into a giant with fifty tons of strength.
• Fang Zhen showed the players Li Ranxing's status panel, and Li Ranxing explained how he had entered the giant form, inspiring players and Luo Wu Shang to experiment with Berserk Potions.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that a player had created an Extraordinary Martial Skill, then learned that Li Ranxing's giant form lasted only three minutes before his cells disintegrated.
• Qin Mu brought Xie Fina, Presia, and a Half-Scale Race man from the domain city to meet Lin Qi.
• Xie Fina offered to prevent Dixing Pharmaceutical's Blood Condensation Realm experts from attacking Obsidian Martial Arts Hall if Lin Qi helped her deal with a living prisoner in the lower district.