Recaps

Ye Qinglu helped Sky Dome Sanctuary repel a Zerg assault, and Tang Yilong learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could provide powerful fighters and systematic training. With Frost Shelter close to falling, Fan Yaoguang offered the Hall’s garrison three thousand Energy Blood Essences to help rescue it, and the players negotiated an advance payment.

• Ye Qinglu wounded the Zerg Legion Commander with Three Thousand Worlds, and Tang Yilong and Sky Dome Sanctuary’s Grandmasters forced the Zerg commanders to retreat.
• Tang Yilong returned to Sky Dome Sanctuary and learned that the attack had caused heavy casualties and that several nearby sanctuaries were under assault.
• Elder Xingguang told Tang Yilong that Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli had grown stronger through training at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and that Frost Shelter urgently needed help.
• Tang Yilong decided to seek the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s aid in rescuing Frost Shelter, and Fan Yaoguang offered the Hall’s garrison three thousand Energy Blood Essences for the mission.
• Encountering Azure Sky asked Fan Yaoguang for a twenty-percent advance, promising repayment with an additional ten percent if the mission failed, and Fan Yaoguang agreed.

Tang Yilong prepared to support Frost Shelter while the Sky Garrison used its mission deposit to recruit players and subcontract the dangerous commission. As the deadline arrived, more than thirty thousand players gathered outside Sky Dome Sanctuary, far exceeding the ten thousand the Sky Garrison had hired.

• Tang Yilong refused Fan Yaoguang's request to join the expedition and decided to lead the first group to Frost Shelter, with Elder Xingguang to follow later.
• The Sky Garrison received six hundred Energy Blood Essences as a deposit, and Encountering Azure Sky proposed using them to recruit players and subcontract the support mission.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud appointed Encountering Azure Sky a second Vice Commander, and the Sky Garrison posted contracts offering advances to teams of Bone Forging Realm players.
• War Heaven Half-Step organized War God Alliance members to hire qualified teams and provide additional support in exchange for a share of the rewards.
• As Elder Xingguang waited for the Sky Garrison's preparations to finish, Tang Yilong remained out of contact and Frost Shelter continued broadcasting its distress signal.
• A crowd of more than thirty thousand players in silver-gray clothing arrived outside Sky Dome Sanctuary, surprising One Leaf Floating Cloud and the others.

Frost Shelter faced destruction as its Energy Blood Essence reserves dwindled and a Zerg army besieged its barriers, until reinforcements from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived. The players’ extraordinary durability and devastating point-blank gunfire stunned both sides and left the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Hank and Tang Yilong prepared to confront the Zerg Legion Commander as Frost Shelter ran low on Energy Blood Essence, while Tang Yilong urged them to wait for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s reinforcements.
• Vanessa identified the approaching force as tens of thousands of genuine humans, and Tang Yilong recognized them as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s army.
• Hank ordered Frost Shelter’s Blood Condensation Realm fighters to join the battle as the Zerg divided their forces to meet the reinforcements.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and the other commanders set up resurrection devices, then split the Bone Forging Realm players into groups armed with Super Electromagnetic Guns.
• The Zerg evaded the players’ first volley and struck them, but the players caught the blows with their hands and suffered only muscle wounds.
• The players fired at point-blank range, killing more than ten thousand Zerg Blood Condensation Realm fighters and leaving both armies and Frost Shelter’s defenders stunned.

The players from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall overwhelmed the Zerg army with their reckless fighting style, then sent a group to fight Legion Commander Gusang. Their sacrifice shattered his defenses and left him gravely wounded, while the source of the final, devastating blast remained unseen.

• Twenty thousand players arrived at Frost Shelter and countered the Zerg army’s ranged attacks with powerful martial skills, astonishing Hank and Tang Yilong.
• Hank and Tang Yilong engaged Gusang to stop him from using the Zerg army’s combined martial skill against the shelter’s Energy Barrier.
• More than a hundred players approached Gusang, and One Leaf Floating Cloud proposed testing their attacks against him.
• Li Ranxing, Chen Ya, and Lu Fanchen attacked Gusang in turn, breaking his blood and qi barrier and sending him flying.
• The players charged Gusang and traded their lives for wounds, leaving most of them dead and Gusang badly injured.
• A dazzling blast rose from below, pierced Gusang’s shattered defenses, and tore through his chest.

Hank and Tang Yilong failed to kill Gusang, who used their assault to break through toward the False God realm before retreating with captives from Frost Shelter. Aboard the Zerg ship, Twilight of the Gods and the other captured players discovered a vast interplanetary world and met Huiyang, an elder who warned them about their situation on a second-class Zerg planet.

• Tang Yilong and Hank attacked the gravely wounded Gusang, but his three blood-energy barriers protected him from their combined strike.
• Gusang replaced his destroyed organs with blood-energy constructs, revealed he had achieved Condensing Qi to Create Matter, and carved a breach in Frost Shelter's barrier before leaving with his forces and captives.
• Luo Wu Shang wanted to test how blood energy could be used, but Zhang Qingwei told her that Twilight of the Gods and his group had been captured after trying to follow the Zerg ship into space.
• Twilight of the Gods and the other captives watched the Space Battleship travel through a star gate to a bustling planet, confirming that the game world extended beyond their home planet.
• Huiyang, an elder of Glimmer Shelter, introduced himself to the captives and explained that they had been brought to a second-class Zerg planet because they were considered valuable.

Luo Qi and the mechanics completed the Guardian Heavy Armor, which gave Ino the strength of a Heavenly Human High-Stage Grandmaster. Lin Qi discovered that players had reached a Zerg ship and chose to observe them, while Twilight of the Gods learned that captured prisoners could study Zerg-held inheritances to improve their evaluations and delay parasitism.

• Luo Qi completed the Guardian Heavy Armor, and Ino tested it, gaining a measured strength of 3,112 tons.
• Lin Qi sensed players traveling far into space, then saw forum posts showing they had reached a Zerg ship and been captured; he decided not to cut their connection.
• A Titan man told the Zerg Legion Commanders that the top contributor in the coming harvest would receive a Soul Resonance Crystal.
• Baroque offered Gusang a month in the Place of Life in exchange for permission to raid Gusang's shelters, and Gusang agreed.
• Huiyang explained to Twilight of the Gods that prisoners could study the spire's inheritances to raise their evaluations and earn more time before the Zerg parasitized them.

Huiyang explained that captives kept improving to pursue the spire’s Demigod inheritances, and Twilight of the Gods organized Heavenly Might to learn one together before the players killed themselves to escape their collars. Lin Qi gained the players’ methods and inheritance, while Baroque’s fleet approached Frost Shelter for an assault.

• Huiyang told the captives that the spire held powerful training methods and six Demigod inheritances, and warned them to choose forms suited to their abilities.
• Twilight of the Gods proposed that Heavenly Might’s players each master a different form, then combine their knowledge into a complete inheritance.
• Twilight of the Gods selected Arrogant’s life-burning Star Law inheritance, and the twenty-three players learned its forms and received Zerg training methods.
• Twilight of the Gods and the other players used the Astonishing God Meditation Technique to destroy their minds, leaving their bodies outside the spire and prompting the Zerg to inspect its teachings.
• Lin Qi obtained more than twenty Spirit Merging Realm training methods and a complete Demigod inheritance from the Zerg.
• Baroque ordered his Space Battleship and army to enter the Forbidden Zone and head for Frost Shelter.

Frost Shelter prepared to send its young people to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but a Zerg fleet arrived before they could depart. Lin Qi opened an emergency player mission to defend the shelter, while Baroque’s legion discovered far more valuable captives than expected and faced a rapidly rising count.

• Vanessa welcomed Ino and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall teams at Frost Spaceport as Frost Shelter’s first group of children prepared to travel to Chiyue City for training.
• A citywide alarm announced an approaching Zerg attack, and players at Frost Shelter excitedly recognized the arrival of a Space Battleship.
• Lin Qi opened the Frost Garrison Battle emergency mission, offering Energy Blood Essence, contribution points, and merit points for defeating the invasion.
• Baroque arrived with two hundred thousand Zerg warriors and more than four hundred Grandmasters, then asked Yelo how many valuable people Frost Shelter contained.
• Yelo reported 65,964 second-grade goods, 948 superior goods, and 11 of the very best, with all three counts continuing to increase.

Baroque’s Zerg army attacked Frost Shelter after confirming its extraordinary stock of goods, and his first strike shattered the shelter’s three-layer Energy Barrier. With reinforcements still on the way, the players of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall mobilized to hold off the invasion, leaving more than forty top experts facing Baroque.

• Yelo confirmed Frost Shelter had 71,056 second-rate goods, 1,107 high-grade goods, and twenty-two top-grade goods, prompting Baroque to order his army to charge once the Energy Barrier fell.
• Hank learned that reinforcements from three shelters were coming, but Frost Shelter had only a little over forty thousand Energy Blood Essences in reserve.
• Baroque’s nine-headed serpent martial skill pierced Frost Shelter’s three-layer Energy Barrier, and he ordered the Zerg army to attack.
• Fang Zhen and One Leaf Floating Cloud organized the players to fight the Zerg forces, with over forty top experts assigned to delay Baroque and his two deputy legion commanders.
• More than sixty thousand Bone Forging Realm players held off the Zerg warriors while nearly a thousand Blood Condensation Realm players fought the captains and battalion commanders, astonishing Hank, Yelo, and Baroque.
• Baroque punched toward the forty-plus silver-gray-clad experts who confronted him, intending to show them a Grandmaster’s power.

Frost Shelter and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall repelled the Zerg army after more than forty experts risked their lives to badly injure Baroque, who escaped aboard his Space Battleship. As nearby sanctuaries rushed to help, they learned Frost Shelter had already won and credited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Hank ordered the elders to aid Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while he and Vanessa went to confront Baroque.
• Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu attacked Baroque, but he countered their strikes with overwhelming force.
• Fang Zhen led more than forty experts in a full-force assault with Double Burst, severely injuring Baroque but failing to kill him.
• Hank attacked the wounded Baroque, but Baroque's deputy Legion Commanders held Hank back while Baroque escaped aboard the Space Battleship.
• The Zerg army retreated toward Prison Dragon Star as the players and Frost Shelter members pursued them, killing most of the invaders.
• War Mad and the reinforcements heading for Frost Shelter received word that the Zerg had been driven back, thanks to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

After the Zerg army was crushed at Frost Shelter, its City Lord introduced the leaders of Apocalypse Shelter and Glory Shelter to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Lin Qi counted the cost of the players’ mission and anticipated their progress, while the injured Baroque returned to Prison Dragon Star and Shax asked Frost Wolf to investigate the silver-gray-clad humans.

• War Mad and the Half-Scale Race elder arrived at Frost Shelter, saw the Zerg corpses, and learned from Hank that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had defeated the army.
• War Mad and the Half-Scale Race elder asked to meet Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Hank offered to introduce them to Ino.
• Lin Qi calculated that the unexpectedly large number of players on the mission would cost more Energy Blood Essence than Frost Shelter’s contract covered, then considered how the rewards could help players advance.
• Players celebrated the mission on the official forum and discussed demigod martial skills, future battles, and the people captured by the Zerg.
• Baroque returned to Prison Dragon Star severely wounded after losing much of his force at Frost Shelter, and Shax asked Frost Wolf to investigate the silver-gray-clad humans.

Shax and Frost Wolf identified the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as the force that had wounded Baroque and plotted to seize it, with Frost Wolf planning to mobilize Mist Mountain Domain City. In Chiyue City, Xie Fina and Presia were summoned away as Monde warned that the City Lord planned to destroy the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Shax recognized the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s transformed Gray-robed Disciples as the fighters who had wounded him and Baroque’s legion.
• Shax persuaded Frost Wolf to join him in capturing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Frost Wolf agreed to take seventy percent and mobilize Mist Mountain Domain City.
• Two masked men delivered a Domain City Order and a secret message to Di Luoya, who urgently summoned the city garrison commanders.
• Xie Fina broke through to the Mid-level Blood Condensation Realm, then learned that she and Presia had to return to Mist Mountain Domain City within six hours.
• Monde warned Xie Fina that Chiyue City might be destroyed because the City Lord intended to destroy the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Lin Qi refused to evacuate Chiyue City after Mist Mountain Domain City issued a Domain City Order against the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and he revealed three Grandmaster allies to reassure the surrounding city lords. He prepared to fight the approaching Zerg forces, but the chapter ended as a massive Zerg army descended over Chiyue City.

• Xie Fina and Presia learned from Monde that Mist Mountain Domain City had ordered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall destroyed and hurried to warn Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi told the assembled city lords and other visitors that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would defend Chiyue City, then revealed Vanessa and two other Grandmasters as allies.
• The visitors chose to remain in Chiyue City after witnessing the Grandmasters' power, and War Mad, City Lord of Apocalypse Shelter, agreed to cooperate with Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi began the version event, offering players contribution rewards and the Warrior title for defending Chiyue City, and explained why he had chosen to face the attack rather than flee.
• A Space Battleship descended above Chiyue City, releasing a vast Zerg army that left Xie Fina and the surrounding forces stunned.

Domain City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall deployed overwhelming forces against the Zerg army, while Lin Qi sent the players into battle to wear down the enemy. Twilight of the Gods’s team used a borrowed weapon and demigod techniques to repeatedly strike Frost Wolf, killing him as the battle continued.

• Domain City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall revealed their vast armies, including more than a thousand Grandmaster-level Gray-robed Disciples, shocking Chiyue City's residents.
• Frost Wolf and Shax learned that War Mad and other city lords were in Chiyue City, assigned Shax to deal with them, and ordered their forces to capture Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s people.
• Lin Qi sent the players to attack first, relying on the Intermediate Cultivation Tower’s enhancement to wear down the Zerg; the players inflicted heavy casualties while suffering many losses themselves.
• Twilight of the Gods borrowed One Leaf Floating Cloud’s staff and led his team to attack Frost Wolf with demigod Arrogant’s techniques.
• Number One struck Frost Wolf with Sky Piercer, and Numbers Two through Four followed with further attacks until Frost Wolf died, leaving the Zerg and Chiyue City's residents stunned.

Twilight of the Gods and his team killed Frost Wolf, but Shax swiftly wiped them out and threatened the remaining fighters. Lin Qi then confronted Shax, overwhelmed him, and destroyed him and the retreating Zerg army with Shadow World and Thunderous Mountain Charge.

• Twilight of the Gods and three teammates used Arrogant's profundity to kill Frost Wolf, shocking Shax and the onlookers across Chiyue City.
• Twilight of the Gods led his team toward Shax, who killed them with a barrage of Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills and demanded that Luo Wu Shang and the others surrender.
• Lin Qi appeared before Shax and struck him with his Great Club, sending him flying and revealing that Lin Qi could overpower him in a direct clash.
• As Lin Qi suppressed Shax, Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, and other fighters turned the battle against the Zerg army, killing a Vice Legion Commander and a Vice Watch Captain.
• Shax ordered the Zerg army to retreat, but Lin Qi used Shadow World and Thunderous Mountain Charge to destroy Shax and the retreating Zerg army.

Lin Qi annihilated Mist Mountain Domain City’s army, and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall took control of the Wushan Region. As news spread to Tianhe Domain City, its leaders learned that Frost Wolf was dead and demanded an explanation.

• Farin and War Mad discussed whether the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could develop in their shelters after Lin Qi destroyed the invading army.
• Ino, Xia Ling, and Estina began taking over Mist Mountain Domain City with Xie Fina and Presia’s help.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei chose to pursue the Heavenly Human Realm instead of entering Eternal Immortal Path’s tournament, while Chu Qingtian decided to lead the tournament team himself.
• War Heaven Half-Step agreed to prepare for the tournament after Gui Hou relayed the Guild Leader’s request.
• News of Mist Mountain Domain City’s defeat and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s rise spread across the regions, prompting Ling Ye and Yifeng to seek their teacher in Tianhe Domain City.
• An elderly Three-Eyed Race man confronted three vice city lords after learning that Frost Wolf had died.

Hujin ordered an investigation into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and considered hiring Huang Jiu, while visitors from across the four domains arrived in Chiyue City and witnessed the Hall’s overwhelming strength. The chapter ended with Lin Qi receiving the option to advance to Level 4 Administrator privileges.

• Hujin questioned three deputy city lords about Frost Wolf’s death, ordered them to investigate Chiyue City and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and contacted Huang Jiu for help capturing Grandmasters.
• Huang Jiu demanded thirty thousand tons of fourth-tier Blood Food to take the job, and Hujin asked for time to consider while she warned she would soon leave the star system.
• On the third day after the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall replaced Mist Mountain Domain City, factions from the four domains arrived in Chiyue City and marveled at the enormous Zerg Space Battleship.
• Tianhe Domain City’s Third Elder, Ling Ye, Yifeng, Lexar, and Yinghu were stunned by the Hall’s many Blood Condensation Realm disciples and more than a hundred Heavenly Human Grandmasters in its Intermediate Cultivation Tower.
• Xie Fina brought more than a hundred young Heavenly Human Grandmasters to tour the Cultivation Tower as newly recruited formal disciples, leaving the Tianhe Domain City visitors speechless.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that he had met the conditions to advance to Level 4 Administrator privileges.

Lin Qi upgraded to fourth-level administrator authority, unlocking a hundred million player slots, time acceleration, and powerful new facilities and apparel functions. As High Martial Descent’s version 3.0 update drew players’ attention and promised a surge in popularity, Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm.

• Lin Qi confirmed the fourth-level authority upgrade and discovered its hundred-million-player limit, time conversion, upgraded monitoring, training facilities, and resurrection apparel function.
• Lin Qi announced a version 3.0 update that raised the online-player cap, activated double time acceleration, added town gameplay and new martial arts hall buildings, and ended the Outer Domain City event.
• Players reacted to the forced thirty-six-hour logout and update, while Ye Qinglu and One Leaf Floating Cloud celebrated High Martial Descent’s time acceleration and its potential to extend real-world lifespans.
• Luo Wu Shang absorbed large amounts of Energy Blood Essence in the Intermediate Cultivation Tower and broke through into the Heavenly Human Realm, sending a pillar of blood and qi over Chiyue City.

Luo Wu Shang became a Heavenly Human Grandmaster in High Martial Descent, discovered that the breakthrough had transformed her real-world body, and helped drive a surge of interest in the game. The chapter left her and Zhang Qingwei reeling from news that President Chu Qingtian’s tournament defeat had pushed Heavenly Might Guild toward bankruptcy, just as he called Luo Wu Shang.

• Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, and Lin Qi saw her extraordinary status and immense power through player monitoring.
• After logging out, Luo Wu Shang suffered intense hunger, ate a huge supply of food, and discovered that her senses, bodily control, strength, and expected lifespan had improved.
• High Martial Descent’s double game-time feature sparked heated forum discussions, and reservations surged from fewer than twenty million to one hundred million.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei learned that Chu Qingtian had been eliminated in the third round of Eternal Immortal Path’s tournament and that investors and shareholders were abandoning Heavenly Might Guild.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei stared at the news as Luo Wu Shang’s phone rang with a call from the president.

Luo Wu Shang accepted the presidency of Heavenly Might after the guild learned that even the powerful Chu Qingtian had been eliminated by an unknown contestant who himself failed to reach the main tournament. She ordered the guild to abandon its existing game businesses for High Martial Descent, then revealed that in-game levels could increase real-world lifespan.

• Chu Qingtian announced that Heavenly Might’s investors had withdrawn and appointed Luo Wu Shang as the new guild president.
• Luo Wu Shang asked to see footage of Chu Qingtian’s defeat and watched an unknown young man overwhelm him in a few seconds.
• Chu Qingtian revealed that the young man was eliminated in the fourth round because the contestants who reached the main tournament were even stronger.
• Luo Wu Shang accepted the presidency, backed by Zhang Qingwei, Zhao Hu, and Elder Yu Tian, who said she could contend with the new experts.
• Luo Wu Shang ordered Heavenly Might to abandon its other game businesses and devote itself to High Martial Descent, citing its paid reservations, game acceleration technology, and her Town Building Order.
• When Elder Lu questioned whether players would pay for in-game residences, Luo Wu Shang revealed that raising one’s level in High Martial Descent could increase lifespan in reality.

Luo Wu Shang revealed that High Martial Descent could improve players’ real-world strength and lifespan, then outlined how Heavenly Might would profit from a town in the game. As the game’s influence spread, corporations and powerful players prepared to secure access, while Azure Sky’s forces obtained thousands of slots.

• Luo Wu Shang demonstrated superhuman strength to the elders and explained that her in-game advancement had improved her body and could extend her lifespan.
• Luo Wu Shang described her plan to build a town over an Energy Vein and earn revenue from mining rights and housing, and Chu Qingtian agreed to negotiate with corporations.
• Major corporations began searching for High Martial Descent’s creators and offering vast sums for access to its Game Acceleration Technology.
• Razor offered to cooperate with Azure Sky using two Cosmic Pioneer slots, but Azure Sky said they could discuss it after Razor’s experts qualified for the Global Competition.
• Mad Star told Azure Sky that his slot had been secured and more than five thousand members of his corps had been selected.
• After the thirty-six-hour update ended, five million players logged into High Martial Descent at once.

Millions of new players flooded Chiyue City, prompting major guilds to recruit them and the other domain cities to fear the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s growing strength. Lin Qi prepared to accelerate Energy Blood Essence production, while Luo Wu Shang challenged the Hell Snake King in the Mountain of the Dead, and the monster struck at her.

• Five million new players appeared in Chiyue City, where Heavenly Might and other major teams began recruiting and organizing them.
• Ling Ye and the Third Elder saw the millions of Gray-robed Disciples and decided to report Chiyue City’s strength alongside representatives from the other domain cities.
• Lin Qi used his new level-four authority to extract martial techniques, then told Xie Fina to ignore the cities’ report and increase Energy Blood Essence production across forty-one cities.
• Lin Qi noticed Luo Wu Shang leading players through the Mountain of the Dead and saw her approach the mountain hiding a super-large Energy Vein.
• Luo Wu Shang charged toward the Hell Snake King as Zerg captains watched, and the awakened monster erupted from underground and swung its enormous tail at her.

Luo Wu Shang killed the Hell Snake King with a single martial skill and ordered Heavenly Might to establish a town atop a super-large Energy Vein. The Zerg Watch Captains arranged to hire Huang Jiu to eliminate the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Hujin accepted her price.

• Luo Wu Shang survived the Hell Snake King's crushing tail strike, then unleashed Energy Eruption and Gloomlight Fist to kill it.
• Luo Wu Shang ordered Heavenly Might to process the monster and build a town at the super-large Energy Vein.
• Zerg captains reported the Hell Snake King's death, and Hujin assessed Luo Wu Shang as comparable to Prison Dragon Star's top three Legion Commanders.
• Hujin and the other Watch Captains agreed to pay Huang Jiu forty-five thousand tons of Fourth-tier Blood Food to attack the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Huang Jiu received Hujin's communication, and he told her he accepted the deal.

Huang Jiu agreed to capture an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall expert for Hujin in exchange for a share of the proceeds, while Soul Shatter warned Lin Qi that Huang Jiu was on her way. Lin Qi welcomed the chance to test his players against her and issued an emergency mission to capture her.

• Hujin offered Huang Jiu ownership of the Half-step Spirit Merging expert in place of payment, and they signed a contract giving her thirty percent if she captured the target within one day.
• Huang Jiu agreed to transport Soul Shatter's six disciples to Sacred Wood Star after finishing Hujin's commission.
• Soul Shatter learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall discussed by Huang Jiu was the one Tang Yuanchen's father had mentioned, and contacted Lin Qi with a warning about Huang Jiu.
• Lin Qi thanked Soul Shatter but showed interest in fighting Huang Jiu, then issued an emergency mission for players to capture her and bring her to the martial arts hall.

Several players broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm as Lin Qi drew the purple heavy sword Wufeng, while the garrisons prepared to face the three domain cities’ forces. Huang Jiu reached the Mountain of the Dead to confront the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but the battleship detected two more super-dangerous lifeforms approaching.

• Lu Fanchen used Golden Blood to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm and cultivate the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, then ordered Lin Xinyao to gather the garrison experts for the mission.
• Lin Qi drew the purple heavy sword Wufeng from the roulette and learned that forces from the three domain cities were gathering in the Mountain of the Dead.
• Lin Qi told Vanessa to inform the garrisons about the approaching forces, and Vanessa also warned the Holy Temple.
• Huang Jiu arrived with Hujin and over a thousand Grandmasters to attack the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, insisting that she could handle the fight alone.
• The battleship detected one super-dangerous lifeform approaching, then sounded a second alarm reporting two more.