Recaps

Huang Jiu and Hujin’s forces confronted Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and Lu Fanchen, only to discover that all three Obsidian Martial Arts Hall experts could match Half-step Spirit Merging Realm fighters. The battle ended with Luo Wu Shang capturing Huang Jiu and fleeing, while Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen took Hujin’s group back to Chiyue City; news of the fight spread across Azure Star.

• Huang Jiu and Hujin’s group met Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and Lu Fanchen around the Sky Battleship, and Hujin misrepresented what the three were saying.
• Huang Jiu attacked Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu, but their Energy Burst punches shattered the Sky Battleship and gravely injured the nearby Grandmasters.
• Lu Fanchen launched Double Burst at Huang Jiu, who countered with Flame Wave; the clash devastated the area and seriously wounded both fighters.
• Ye Qinglu attacked Huang Jiu with Three Thousand Worlds, but Huang Jiu killed her with Flame Wave before Luo Wu Shang cut Huang Jiu apart and took her head.
• Luo Wu Shang escaped with Huang Jiu, while Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen captured Hujin and the surviving watch captains and returned to Chiyue City.
• News of Huang Jiu’s capture and the battle spread across Azure Star in less than a day.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall captured the city lords of the three major domain cities and the Zerg's Watch Captains, prompting forces across Azure Star to rally behind it and the Holy Hall to prepare an evacuation. Lin Qi questioned Huang Jiu about the powers beyond Azure Star while weighing whether the martial arts hall should leave before Prison Dragon Star's forces arrived.

• Yinghu and Ling Ye told the Third Elder that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had defeated a Grandmaster army and captured the three domain city lords, then he saw the captives brought into the hall.
• Major forces across the four regions learned that the domain city lords had been captured and rushed to invest in Chiyue City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Soul Shatter learned that Huang Jiu and the other Watch Captains had been captured, then ordered the Holy Hall's shelters to gather their geniuses and Grandmasters and evacuate to Sacred Wood Star.
• Vanessa brought the Holy Hall's evacuation invitation to Lin Qi, who distributed Crazy Chocolate to the martial arts hall's guard corps and summoned Huang Jiu.
• Lin Qi asked Huang Jiu to explain the power structure beyond Azure Star, offering to release her if her information proved useful.

Lin Qi revealed overwhelming strength to Huang Jiu and learned about the universe’s major powers and the Zerg threat facing Azure Star. He arranged for Huang Jiu and Vanessa to seek one year of protection from the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce, while preparing to hold off Prison Dragon Star’s attack; two days after they departed, Prison Dragon Star learned its four Watch Captains had gone silent.

• Lin Qi suppressed Huang Jiu with his vitality, convincing her that he possessed Spirit Merging Realm combat power, and asked her to explain the universe’s major forces and Prison Dragon Star.
• Huang Jiu described the universe’s peak powers, the Insect Emperor Divine Kingdom’s control over Azure Star, and the strength of Prison Dragon Star’s Star Lord.
• Lin Qi asked whether the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce could protect Azure Star, and Huang Jiu said her father could likely arrange one year of protection if Lin Qi joined.
• Lin Qi agreed to join the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce and said he could hold off Prison Dragon Star long enough for negotiations to take place.
• Lin Qi sent Vanessa and Luo Wu Shang’s garrison regiment with Huang Jiu to Crimson Demon Star to negotiate, and the players accepted a mission to establish a branch dojo there.
• Two days after Huang Jiu and the others left, Prison Dragon Star learned that it had received no word from Azure Star’s four Watch Captains.

Prison Dragon Star prepared a massive punitive expedition against Azure Star after the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall captured its Watch Captains and a Half-step Spirit Merging Star Bandit. As Bocas’s fleet arrived to attack, its instruments detected more than five thousand approaching targets.

• Baroque agreed to join forces with Dicky to target the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and pursue the Soul Resonance Crystal.
• Star Lord Bocas revealed that Gusang had become a Half-step Spirit Merging expert and appointed him first adjutant before announcing an invasion of Azure Star.
• Soul Shatter brought Azure Star’s shelter residents to Sacred Wood Star, where they marveled at its cultivation environment and learned Bocas would personally lead the expedition.
• Bocas arrived at Azure Star with more than a hundred Space Battleships and ordered the army to prepare to attack.
• Azure Star’s life-detection instruments registered more than five thousand approaching targets, stunning everyone aboard the fleet.

Shelter leaders arrived at Chiyue City and learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples and newly empowered allies were far stronger than they appeared. When Prison Dragon Star’s Zerg fleet reached Azure Star, its detectors identified twenty-two ultra-dangerous lifeforms and one Spirit Merging expert among the defenders, leaving the invaders stunned.

• Tens of thousands of shelter experts arrived in Chiyue City, and Hank explained that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Gray-robed Disciples could fight above their realms.
• Hank revealed that Tang Yilong had advanced to Half-step Spirit Merging and demonstrated a transformation that raised his own strength enough to contend with a Spirit Merging expert.
• Chiyue City’s alarm announced the approaching Zerg fleet, and Hank, the shelter experts, and more than ten thousand qualified players assembled in Azure Star’s atmosphere to meet it.
• Prison Dragon Star’s fleet detected twenty-two ultra-dangerous lifeforms among the defenders, then registered one extremely dangerous lifeform and realized Azure Star had a Spirit Merging expert.

Prison Dragon Star’s army confronted Azure Star’s Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, expecting Star Lord Bocas to overcome its defenders. Tang Yilong revealed overwhelming strength and killed Bocas, leaving the invading army stunned.

• Gusang and the other commanders recognized Tang Yilong and the twenty-two Half-step Spirit Merging Realm experts, while Bocas ordered Prison Dragon Star’s troops to prepare for battle.
• Wu Zhuo Qun ordered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s forces to charge, and One Leaf Floating Cloud and eleven other players attacked Bocas with powerful martial skills.
• The twelve players injured Bocas, who resolved to capture them, but Tang Yilong appeared and matched him in strength.
• Tang Yilong activated his energy burst and overwhelmed Bocas with a barrage of attacks, killing him after several dozen exchanges.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall routed Prison Dragon Star’s invasion of Azure Star, with Tang Yilong defeating Star Lord Bocas and Gusang fleeing the planet. As news spread across the Goddess Star System, the Crimson Demon ordered Huang Yi and Huang Jiu to go to Azure Star.

• Rock Dragon and the Forbidden Zone shelters rushed to support Azure Star, then watched Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples and Tang Yilong destroy Prison Dragon Star’s invading force.
• Gusang ordered the star gate closed behind the fleeing Prison Dragon Star ships, while survivors feared the loss of most of their forces would leave their world weakened.
• Gusang suspected Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had transformed Tang Yilong, feared a demigod might stand behind the school, and secretly left Prison Dragon Star.
• Luo Wu Shang reminded Twilight of the Gods to focus on protecting Vanessa as they explored Crimson Demon Star and its valuable shops and cultivation environment.
• Huang Yi rejected Huang Jiu’s request to help protect Azure Star, but the Crimson Demon ordered them both to go after learning that Bocas had been defeated by an Azure Star Spirit Merging Realm power.

Soul Shatter was summoned to meet Sacred Wood Star’s Star Lord after learning that an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall expert had defeated Bocas. On Azure Star, Lin Qi began optimizing a Goddess Fragment Stele while preparing to meet an envoy from Crimson Demon Star.

• Soul Shatter’s six disciples placed in Tianxing City’s top hundred, but Soul Shatter urged them to keep working to overcome the advantages of Sacred Wood Star’s local geniuses.
• Caitlin arrived with the Star Lord’s decree and told Soul Shatter that Bocas had been defeated on Azure Star by an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall Spirit Merging Realm expert.
• Caitlin took Soul Shatter aboard her spacecraft to meet the Star Lord, leaving Tang Yuanchen and the other disciples stunned by the news.
• Wu Zhuo Qun delivered training methods and martial skills recovered from the Zerg ships, along with a damaged Goddess Fragment Stele, to Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi’s system began reading and optimizing the training methods after he touched the stele, while Wu Zhuo Qun reported that a Crimson Demon Star envoy had arrived.
• Lin Qi told Wu Zhuo Qun to have Vanessa bring the Crimson Demon Star envoy to the martial arts hall reception room.

The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall joined the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce and accepted a garrison mission on the first-class resource planet Ten Thousand Dragon Star. Lin Qi sent Tang Yilong and one hundred players there, where the Demon Race’s elders vowed to obstruct them and other factions began investigating the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Huang Yi and Huang Jiu arrived at Chiyue City and were astonished by the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s many experts, including three Spirit Merging Realm powerhouses.
• Lin Qi agreed to help establish the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce on Azure Star and accepted the Ten Thousand Dragon Star garrison mission on behalf of the hall.
• Lin Qi had Tang Yilong take the garrison mission and recruited one hundred players, prioritizing Heavenly Human Realm players, to travel to Ten Thousand Dragon Star.
• The Demon Race elders at the Ten Thousand Dragon Star base resented Crimson Demon for giving the mission to an outsider and planned to prevent Lin Qi’s group from obtaining dragon crystals.
• Other factions investigated the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and were shocked to learn that it had seized an Imperial Kingdom breeding planet.

Lin Qi learned that his cultivation methods had become three Super Tier Spirit Merging Realm Secret Techniques and sent players to collect dragon crystals on Ten Thousand Dragon Star. Fang Zhen’s team found an Imperial Kingdom mining camp, and the chapter ended as they charged toward it.

• The Demon Race elders learned that Crimson Demon had brought Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to Ten Thousand Dragon Star and feared the Imperial Kingdom’s response.
• Lin Qi opened the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce on Azure Star and confirmed that he would build its cross-system star gate there because of Azure Star’s valuable resources and martial arts facilities.
• The system announced that Lin Qi’s three cultivation methods had become Super Tier Spirit Merging Realm Secret Techniques and that Fang Zhen had triggered a dragon-crystal quest.
• Fang Zhen found a five-colored dragon crystal in a cave, then led other players deeper inside and discovered a camp mining a dragon-crystal vein.
• Fang Zhen and the other players charged toward the camp, whose miners recognized them as gray-clad intruders threatening an Imperial Kingdom mine.

Fang Zhen and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall players attacked the Imperial Kingdom’s Dragon Crystal camp, where Light God Envoy Sean wiped out their first assault. The players devised a way to steal Dragon Crystals, succeeded on their second raid, and left Sean ordering a deadly hunt for them.

• Fang Zhen, Ye Qinglu, and their group attacked the Imperial Kingdom’s camp but were annihilated by Sean’s single move.
• After reviving, Fang Zhen proposed using Dragon Crystals to accelerate cultivation, and Ye Qinglu suggested recruiting faster and tougher allies to raid the camp.
• Fang Zhen gathered a hundred players, and Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing restrained Sean while Luo Wu Shang and other speed specialists seized Dragon Crystals.
• Sean broke free and killed the attackers, but Luo Wu Shang’s group escaped with the stolen Dragon Crystals.
• Sean ordered the Imperial Kingdom to watch the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce’s base and kill any Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members who emerged; news of the raid spread across Ten Thousand Dragon Star.

Luo Wu Shang’s group returned with 141 Dragon Crystals, and Lin Qi let them keep experimenting with the dangerous treasures. Luo Wu Shang used a Dragon Crystal to advance the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique to Perfection, startling Lin Qi.

• Laos grew furious that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s raid had trapped the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce’s people, but Qiao Boyi proposed that they take turns leaving the base to collect Dragon Crystals.
• Sean asked Vito to help stop Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s manager if the group came out, and Vito agreed.
• Luo Wu Shang and the others revealed that they had stolen 141 Dragon Crystals from Sean’s camp, and Lin Qi watched as they prepared to use them for cultivation.
• Luo Wu Shang discovered that Dragon Crystal energy could help cultivate the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, and she repeatedly trained with the crystals even when the energy killed her.
• On the twentieth day, Lin Qi sensed a tremendous surge from Luo Wu Shang and saw that her fourth-level Body Strengthening Secret Technique had reached Perfection.

Luo Wu Shang perfected the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, gaining immense strength and blood-and-qi power that made her resemble a Spirit Merging Realm fighter. She led the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members to challenge the camp on Ten Thousand Dragon Star, where they spotted Sean and the Imperial Kingdom group approaching.

• Huang Yi and Huang Jiu sensed Luo Wu Shang's breakthrough and discussed the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's extraordinary training facilities as newcomers from Sacred Wood Star arrived in Chiyue City.
• Luo Wu Shang reached the Perfection Realm of the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and demonstrated a punch that made space seem to warp.
• Lin Qi suspected Luo Wu Shang's unusual blood-and-qi power came from her repeated use of undiluted dragon crystal energy, while Zhang Qingwei and Zhao Hu judged her nearly comparable to a Spirit Merging Realm mighty figure.
• Luo Wu Shang agreed with Elder Yu Tian that the group could challenge the camp and told the others to prepare to seize it.
• Laos and Qiao Boyi watched the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members leave the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce's base, and a Demon Race expert livestreamed their flight.
• Luo Wu Shang and her group encountered a large force led by the Imperial Kingdom's peerless genius, Light God Envoy Sean.

Sean attacked Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing overwhelmed him with their physical strength. Vito arrived to rescue Sean, and the chapter ended as nearly a hundred Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members revealed power that made Sean believe they were all smuggled-in Spirit Merging Realm powerhouses.

• Sean rushed Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but Lu Fanchen punched him back and injured his arm.
• A tall woman and Li Tianxing struck Sean in turn, leaving the Imperial Kingdom observers stunned by the three fighters' strength.
• Sean fled from the trio, but Vito arrived, knocked Li Tianxing and Lin Xinyao away, and slammed Lu Fanchen into a crater.
• Luo Wu Shang said she would hold Vito back while the others looked for an opening.
• Nearly a hundred Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members erupted with energy, and Sean realized their team appeared to consist of Spirit Merging Realm powerhouses.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fought Four-star Divine General Vito over the Imperial Kingdom’s Dragon Crystal Vein, with Luo Wu Shang and the other players unable to break his defenses until Ye Qinglu used Heaven and Earth Annihilation to defeat him. News of the battle spread across Ten Thousand Dragon Star, and Huang Yi informed Crimson Demon of the escalating conflict.

• Luo Wu Shang attacked Vito, and the other players joined her, but Vito withstood their combined martial skills with Dance Heaven Earth Shattering.
• As the players began to tire, Ye Qinglu used Heaven and Earth Annihilation, and Vito’s assault could not stop her from unleashing the technique.
• Ye Qinglu’s attack erased the battlefield within its domain and defeated Vito, while the Demon Race managers watched the battle on a screen.
• News spread that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out Imperial Kingdom geniuses, defeated Vito, and seized the public-zone Dragon Crystal Vein.
• Huang Yi interrupted Crimson Demon’s cultivation to report the battle and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s actions.

Azure Sky noticed the arrival of an advanced spacecraft in Chiyue City and prepared his garrison regiment for a possible game event, while Razor offered to support the regiment in High Martial Descent. The spacecraft brought Crimson Demon and Sacred Wood to meet the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, leaving the city’s visitors stunned by the powerful Star Lords’ arrival.

• Azure Sky led more than a thousand Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples back from a planetary exploration mission after discovering a C5-grade Primal Ore Vein, and he predicted the E4-grade spacecraft signaled a major event.
• Azure Sky urged Star Mad and Star Shadow to strengthen their garrison regiment before international conglomerates and guilds entered High Martial Descent following the Global Competition.
• Razor contacted Azure Sky and proposed funding and technical support in exchange for Azure Sky leading his people in High Martial Descent, and Azure Sky went to meet him with Star Mad and Star Shadow.
• Crimson Demon arrived at Chiyue Spaceport, where Huang Yi and Huang Jiu welcomed him, and onlookers recognized him as a powerful Star Lord from the Blood Sand Star System.
• Sacred Wood arrived aboard a Holy Temple spacecraft and joined Crimson Demon, then both Star Lords flew to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with Huang Yi and Huang Jiu.

Crimson Demon and Sacred Wood visited Lin Qi to invite the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall into their alliances of Late Spirit Merging Realm powerhouses, explain that Venerable Zi Jie would deter Imperial Kingdom retaliation, and buy Dragon Crystals. After they left, Lin Qi launched a campaign to liberate Prison Dragon Star, and more than a million players descended there.

• Soul Shatter and Caitlin learned from Huang Yi that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had defeated an Imperial Kingdom Four-star Divine General, killed Imperial Kingdom geniuses, and seized a Dragon Crystal Vein on Ten Thousand Dragon Star.
• Crimson Demon and Sacred Wood each invited Lin Qi to join their teams, explained their goals, and assured him that Venerable Zi Jie would prevent the Imperial Kingdom from retaliating over Ten Thousand Dragon Star.
• Crimson Demon and Sacred Wood bought 300 and 200 Dragon Crystals from Lin Qi, respectively.
• Lin Qi decided to pursue a first-class strange land on Prison Dragon Star and announced the mission to liberate the planet.
• More than a million players above the Bone Forging Realm gathered at the resurrection point on Prison Dragon Star.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall launched an assault on Prison Dragon Star, where Harleg and the Imperial Kingdom’s forces were overwhelmed by the attackers’ vastly superior strength. Luo Wu Shang killed Star Lord Bocas and the other Divine Generals, leaving Prison Dragon Star conquered and the Imperial fleet fleeing.

• Harleg reviewed a list of the Goddess Star System’s geniuses and prepared to face its strongest fighter, but alarms announced an invasion at the Heaven-Imprisoning Prison.
• Fang Zhen led Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Gray-robed Disciples onto Prison Dragon Star, and Li Ranxing defeated Harleg as the invaders subdued the local commanders and seized their Alliance Coins.
• Thousands of Imperial Kingdom battleships arrived with the six other Divine Generals, but hundreds of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters charged to meet them.
• Luo Wu Shang split Bocas in two and destroyed him with Lightning Palm before Lu Fanchen, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and the others killed the remaining Divine Generals.
• The Imperial fleet and the Zerg forces fled, and news spread that Prison Dragon Star had fallen.

Crimson Demon learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had captured an Imperial Kingdom planet and possessed more than five hundred Spirit Merging Realm-level combatants, prompting him to seek support for Azure Star. As powerful allies arrived, Lin Qi activated the completed Advanced Cultivation Tower, and Azure Star began rapidly absorbing energy as its planetary rank started to rise.

• Crimson Demon told the Hall of Thrones that Lin Qi had not yet decided whether to join their alliance, then received news that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had captured a second-class life planet and defeated seven Divine Generals.
• Crimson Demon revealed that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had more than five hundred Spirit Merging Realm-level combatants and left to contact the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce for help.
• Yan Sha arrived at Azure Star to support Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Lord of Pure Light arrived with Sheng Mu to offer the Holy Temple's backing.
• Lin Qi activated the completed Advanced Cultivation Tower beneath Chiyue City, causing Azure Star to absorb energy and begin advancing in planetary rank.

Lin Qi witnessed Azure Star’s energy environment surge after the Advanced Cultivation Tower took effect, astonishing residents, players, and visitors to Chiyue City. As powerful energy gathered around an Intermediate Cultivation Tower, Vanessa successfully broke through into the Spirit Merging Realm.

• Lin Qi discovered that Azure Star’s energy had risen close to the level of a second-class life planet and considered how the Advanced Cultivation Tower could transform it further.
• Chiyue City’s residents and players sensed the sudden increase in energy and began cultivating, while Razor, Demon Elephant Zakka, and Polaris Scarlett rapidly improved their ranks.
• Crimson Demon, Huang Yi, Huang Jiu, Yan Sha, and Lord of Pure Light arrived in Chiyue City and marveled at its transformed energy environment and cultivation facilities.
• A terrifying aura erupted from the Intermediate Cultivation Tower, alarming the visiting experts and players as Lin Qi suspected Vanessa was attempting a breakthrough.
• Vanessa, cultivating in the tower’s fifth-floor training room, merged her will into every cell of her body and advanced into the Spirit Merging Realm.

Lin Qi learned of Vanessa’s extraordinary strength as the Imperial Kingdom sent a fleet led by the White Dragon King to Azure Star. Vanessa confronted the famed dragon and sent him crashing into his flagship with a single punch.

• Lin Qi reviewed Vanessa’s test results, which showed her base strength exceeded 1.26 million tons and her actual strength reached more than 3.27 million tons.
• Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that Crimson Demon and Sacred Wood wanted to meet, while Yan Sha and Lord of Pure Light waited at the martial arts hall.
• Alarms warned Chiyue City that hundreds of Imperial Kingdom battleships had surrounded Azure Star, and Crimson Demon identified their leader as the White Dragon King.
• The White Dragon King threatened Yan Sha and Lord of Pure Light, who refused to abandon the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Vanessa flew out to face the White Dragon King and knocked him into his flagship with a punch, shattering his body against its armor.

Vanessa destroyed the White Dragon King and the Imperial Kingdom’s first-rate legion, establishing Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s dominance in Black Mountain Star Region. At the Imperial Kingdom capital, the White Dragon King learned that the Imperial Princess had been injured in a spatial rift, six demigods from rival powers had perished, and the universe was nearing a major upheaval.

• Vanessa defeated the White Dragon King in dragon form and annihilated the Imperial Kingdom legion with Reverse Star Hand, leaving Yan Sha and Lord of Pure Light convinced she was a Venerable.
• News of Vanessa’s power spread through Black Mountain Star Region, prompting forces from more than a hundred star systems to seek cooperation with or protection from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall on Azure Star.
• The White Dragon King arrived at the Imperial Kingdom capital to seek reinforcements, but Venerable Tian Yan barred him from entering and said Venerable Ming She was occupied.
• The White Dragon King learned that the Imperial Princess had been injured while exploring a spatial rift on Initial Star.
• Venerable Tian Yan told the White Dragon King that the Imperial Princess had gained greatly and might break through the demigod realm, while six demigods from other major powers had perished and the universe was about to change.

Lin Qi formed a powerful Star Law Domain and negotiated with Crimson Demon to send Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters to compete for a vacant super-grade exotic land. The chapter ended with Luo Wu Shang breaking through to the Spirit Merging Realm.

• Ling Ye worried that the influx of powerful extraterrestrial geniuses would threaten her place in the Obsidian guard corps.
• Lin Qi perfected his tenth profound meaning, formed a Star Law Domain, and measured its sixteenfold enhancement.
• The Crimson Dragon Envoy invited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to join Venerable Lei Xiao's team seeking a super-grade exotic land, but Lin Qi demanded one hundred Law Stones a year.
• Crimson Demon accepted Lin Qi's terms and agreed to provide fifty Law Stones upfront, while the Crimson Dragon Envoy left to recruit Venerable San Jue instead.
• Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Spirit Merging Realm, becoming the first among her group to reach that stage.

Luo Wu Shang completed the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique after reaching the Spirit Merging Realm, becoming a Half-High-Dimensional Energy Body with immense strength and near-immortality. Lin Qi extracted her and brought the story to Initial City, where the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived just before six top-grade strange lands opened.

• Lin Qi learned that a player had reached the Spirit Merging Realm and discovered that Luo Wu Shang was drawing energy into herself in the Cultivation Tower.
• Luo Wu Shang used Dragon Crystals and vast amounts of energy to complete the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique, reaching the fifth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and becoming a Half-High-Dimensional Energy Body.
• Luo Wu Shang showed Zhang Qingwei her extraordinary attributes and endured Zhang Qingwei's full-strength attack, explaining that her body could weaken impacts and regenerate through higher-dimensional energy.
• Lin Qi examined the costly Advanced Meditation Room authorization, extracted Luo Wu Shang, and decided to go to the Initial Star to obtain a top-grade strange land.
• Huang Yi and Huang Jiu walked through Initial City as powerful factions and Venerables gathered ahead of the opening of six top-grade strange lands.
• The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived shortly before the opening, and more than ten thousand Spirit Merging Realm players emerged from its warship, stunning the gathered experts.

Lin Qi sent Vanessa and five thousand members of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall into the first opened Special-Grade Exotic Land while White Rakshasa’s team held back. After an hour, Ming She was expelled, and Vanessa and Luo Wu Shang emerged as the apparent owners of the Exotic Land.

• Lin Qi arrived with more than ten thousand Spirit Merging Realm experts and three Venerables, startling the teams gathered in Initial City.
• A Special-Grade Exotic Land opened above the city, and most powerful teams chose to wait rather than challenge Ming She’s team for it.
• White Rakshasa declined to contest the first Exotic Land, so Lin Qi ordered Vanessa to take five thousand people inside and claim it.
• Luo Wu Shang joined Vanessa’s mission while several player teams held back to save their strength for later event missions.
• After an hour, the Exotic Land closed and Ming She appeared outside, apparently expelled; Vanessa and Luo Wu Shang then emerged through the opening as its owners.