Chapter Summaries

Eugene learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had attacked the Two-Headed Gang with six Martial Artists, and ordered his people to delay them while reinforcements returned. Luo Wu Shang's group fought through the gang’s headquarters as One Leaf Floating Cloud reached Nison Walker, leaving the gang leader confronting the raid without understanding its purpose.

• Eugene’s subordinate reported that more than a hundred Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members, including six Martial Artists in B1 Grade Battle Armor, were attacking the Two-Headed Gang’s base.
• Eugene ordered the nearby elders to return and the gang members to stall the attackers until the four honorary elders arrived.
• Luo Wu Shang’s group fought Lizardmen in the first-floor hall, while Ye Qinglu’s swords killed more enemies and the others practiced their martial techniques.
• Eugene watched the fight on surveillance footage and wondered why the attackers were not heading straight for him.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and more than twenty Quasi-Martial Artists fought their way to the rooftop and confronted Nison Walker.

One Leaf Floating Cloud and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall group confronted Nison Walker, leader of the Two-Headed Gang, and their attempt at negotiation turned into a battle. Their Golden Desert Eagles overwhelmed the gang’s guards, and Nison Walker died while trying to flee.

• Nison Walker demanded an explanation from One Leaf Floating Cloud and presented a memory chip, while more than twenty Lizardman guards surrounded the group.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud slammed a Golden Desert Eagle onto the desk as his answer, prompting Nison Walker to order his guards to attack.
• Outlander Gunslinger and Chen Ya used their Golden Desert Eagles to pierce the guards’ armor and kill them within moments.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud fired at Nison Walker, who dodged his shots, while the group’s gunfire forced him to retreat.
• Chen Ya, Outlander Gunslinger, and Peerless One Shot shot Nison Walker as he tried to escape, and he fell to his death below the Two-Headed Gang building.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wiped out the Two-Headed Gang, killing its leader Nison Walker, while Eugene tried to escape with the gang’s potions. The massacre shocked City of Light Chasing’s major factions, who suspected that a Bone Forging Realm expert had been hired.

• Eugene watched Luo Wu Shang and the other martial artists kill Nison Walker and attack the gang’s headquarters, then fled toward a secret passage with Type II Potions.
• Hero Wild and several dozen players encountered Eugene underground and killed him after a fierce fight; they took his B2 Grade Battle Armor and found a suitcase of potions.
• Hero Wild ordered the players to hand the potions to the Vice President and continue searching the Two-Headed Gang’s underground area.
• Two-Headed Gang members fled through Nanxing Street, and witnesses saw Nison Walker’s body and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members stripping corpses outside the headquarters.
• News of the Two-Headed Gang’s destruction spread across City of Light Chasing, prompting the major factions to wonder whether Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had hired a Bone Forging Realm expert.

Estina investigated the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and decided the Bran Lineage should try to win it over, while the four major powers chose to avoid provoking it. Lin Qi learned that his disciples had killed Nison Walker and taken over the Two-Headed Gang’s territory, then left recruitment to Meng Wei; by morning, the hall’s recruitment announcement had spread through the outskirts.

• Estina reviewed reports about the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and planned to visit it to assess a possible alliance with the Bran Lineage.
• Kadwen ordered the North Ao Family to restrain itself and avoid confronting the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while he pursued a breakthrough.
• The Gorilla Gang and the Bane and Peven Lineages also strengthened their defenses and told their subordinates to avoid provoking the hall.
• Meng Wei told Lin Qi that the disciples had killed Nison Walker and that he had sent people to take over the Two-Headed Gang’s territory.
• Lin Qi assigned Meng Wei to handle the hall’s recruitment, and news that the hall was recruiting spread through the outskirts the next morning.

Xia Ling brought Zoe to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, where its newly offered VIP instruction impressed them with rare high-level martial skills. Estina visited Lin Qi on behalf of the Boran Main Family to propose cooperation, warning that a Monster Tide could soon attack City of Light Chasing.

• Xia Ling told Zoe that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had cultivated six Martial Artists and was opening its training and martial skills to the public.
• Xia Ling and Zoe bought VIP guest cards and chose Point Star and Eight Leaves One Sword Flash to study.
• Estina arrived at the hall, surprising Zoe, and went to meet Lin Qi in the hall master's lounge.
• Estina told Lin Qi that the Monster Tide that destroyed Emerald Sky had scattered monsters throughout the region and that investigators feared City of Light Chasing would be the first major city attacked.

Lin Qi learned that a Monster Tide could threaten City of Light Chasing and agreed to cooperate with Estina’s Boran Lineage on transport escorts. He announced Version 1.3, the Age of Savage Beasts, as the cities prepared for mobilization and the forum erupted.

• Emerald Sky’s investigation led Lin Qi to fear that the Monster Tide might target City of Light Chasing and destroy Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Estina explained that the Boran Lineage wanted Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to escort transport convoys and offered help joining the Boran escort teams for mandatory missions.
• Estina described the rewards for city mobilization, including access to Type II Potions and special plants in exchange for Intermediate Grade Monster materials.
• Lin Qi agreed to cooperate with Estina and signed the city-certified contract.
• After Estina left, Lin Qi posted and published the Version 1.3 update announcement, Age of Savage Beasts, and Blue Star’s official forum erupted.

After the Version 1.3 update stirred excitement among players, Lin Qi advanced to Advanced Martial Artist and prepared to fuse three player-created footwork skills. The chapter ended as he activated the fusion reward and awaited its result.

• The Version 1.3 announcement introduced the Age of Savage Beasts expansion, new exploration and mission systems, apothecary training, and a Beginner Training Room, prompting lively forum discussion.
• Veteran players speculated that the expansion would bring battles against the giant snakes, while forum users realized selection depended on combat skill rather than a lottery.
• Lin Qi used up his Type II Energy Potions and Type II Healing Potions to advance to Advanced Martial Artist, reaching 50.3% strengthening of his viscera and bowels.
• Li Tianxing created the Advanced Martial Artist-level footwork skill Void Treading Step, giving Lin Qi the third skill he needed for his planned fusion.
• Lin Qi selected Luo Wu Shang, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang, and Li Tianxing's footwork skills and activated the martial skill fusion reward.

Lin Qi unlocked the Martial Arts Hall Reward Wheel, gained two useful vitality items and a powerful club, and successfully fused his footwork into the perfected Advanced Martial Artist-level skill Startling Swan. He planned to use players to expand the hall’s influence, as a new wave of players appeared in its underground confinement rooms.

• Lin Qi received three reward draws after the Martial Arts Hall recruited three thousand disciples, then decided not to lower its recruitment requirements.
• Lin Qi drew a Vitality Pear that increased mental activity and a Vitality Watermelon that boosted vitality and blood, and saved the watermelon for promising residents.
• Lin Qi won a three-star wolf-toothed club with Beginner Giant Strength and Beginner Inner Strength Amplification, giving him a powerful new weapon.
• Lin Qi’s fusion succeeded, granting him Startling Swan at the Perfection Realm and a burst skill he named Instant Flash.
• Lin Qi decided to recruit more disciples by having players publicize the martial arts hall, and waves of players appeared in its underground confinement rooms at midnight.

Fang Zhen learned that High Martial Descent greatly strengthened martial artists, and Ye Qinglu warned him against drawing attention by beating famous game experts. Lin Qi assigned Meng Wei to organize the new disciples and ordered him to create tasks clearing drifters from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s territory; the next morning, hundreds of tasks appeared for players to accept.

• Fang Zhen considered entering the trial assessment, but Ye Qinglu warned that his victory could bring unwanted attention and more competition to High Martial Descent.
• After Lin Qi released the newcomers, teams and wealthy players competed to recruit them, and 140 newcomers began cultivating the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique.
• Lin Qi appointed Meng Wei to supervise training and gave him a checklist for issuing tasks against destabilizing elements in the hall’s territory.
• Meng Wei warned that clearing out the drifters could provoke them and other factions, but Lin Qi insisted that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would create a safe territory.
• Meng Wei investigated the drifters and posted several hundred clearing tasks the next morning, astonishing the new and veteran players.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall purged drifters across its newly acquired districts, alarming the city’s factions while improving safety for local residents. Mans told Isaac that the drifters were gathering to retaliate and that the White Feather Gang was preparing to enter the outskirts; Isaac then showed him a frontline report and a city mobilization order.

• Firefly Emperor guided five Obsidian Martial Arts Hall newcomers as they killed Black Hand Pachi in the Root of the Wilderness bar and stripped his corpse for loot.
• A second team of six armored newcomers killed Iron Tail Shute with coordinated Lightning Palms, prompting witnesses to fear that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was purging drifters.
• Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples carried out similar purges in several districts, and residents welcomed the improved public order even as news of the crackdown stirred other factions.
• Mans reported to Isaac that drifters were gathering to retaliate and that the White Feather Gang had received supplies from the Red Moon Merchant Guild to train dead soldiers into martial artists.
• Isaac recalled the White Feather Gang’s hidden gains from Crimson Moon Mountain and revealed a letter containing frontline news and a mobilization order from City of Light Chasing.

As City of Light Chasing prepared for a possible Monster Tide, the Martial Artist Association ordered factions to send martial artists on dangerous supply convoys and warned that monsters had spread through the wilderness. Lin Qi arranged for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s twelve martial artists to escort a convoy, then issued its martial artist players a mandatory emergency mission.

• Mans urged Isaac to seize the chance to expand the White Feather Gang by forcing its death warriors to attempt breakthroughs, and Isaac agreed.
• Bess worried about his summons to a frontline convoy, but Wright promised to join his team and protect him.
• Kadwen agreed to help the Peven and Bane families adjust their juniors’ assignments in exchange for a gift.
• Meng Wei warned Lin Qi that wanderers might attack while Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s martial artists escorted supplies, but Lin Qi welcomed the chance for players to fight them.
• Lin Qi told Meng Wei to prepare for the convoy departing the next morning and noted that the twelve martial artists would travel with two members of the Bran Lineage.
• Lin Qi issued every martial artist player a mandatory emergency transport mission, prompting players to react to its rank.

Lin Qi led the Martial Artist players on an A-rank escort mission to a wilderness settlement, where a powerful city garrison force gathered to protect the convoy. The mission began under the command of Bailuo, a Bone Forging Realm Martial Artist.

• Players discussed the rewards and wilderness resource-site permits tied to the mandatory escort mission, while One Leaf Floating Cloud sold B2 Grade Desert Eagles and Energy Crystal Shards to Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang.
• Before departure, Lin Qi absorbed martial arts techniques from six players and set out with ten companions aboard a transport vehicle.
• At the eastern outskirts of City of Light Chasing, more than fifty transport vehicles and over five hundred Martial Artists assembled, including fifty city garrison troops.
• Bailuo arrived from an armored flying transport vehicle, demonstrated his immense strength, and ordered everyone to board under his command.
• Meng Wei regretted turning down the city garrison’s invitation, and Lin Qi reassured him before boarding the vehicle.

Lin Qi and the other Martial Artists traveled toward a wilderness stronghold, where players' boasts led others to believe he could match Bone Forging Realm expert Bailuo. After joining Guard Corps Squad 427, Lin Qi revealed that he had mastered two high-level combat skills and carried a club, surprising the squad leaders.

• Players aboard the transport praised Lin Qi as stronger than Bailuo, and the other Martial Artists, including Meng Wei, believed he could contend with the Bone Forging Realm expert.
• Morton introduced himself as captain of Guard Corps Squad 427 and ordered Intermediate Grade and stronger Martial Artists to join the combat team while Beginner Martial Artists provided support.
• Morton explained the squad's monster-harvest rules, and he and Leike promised to look after Lin Qi at Estina's request.
• The squad members described their combat specialties and weapons, and Lin Qi said he had mastered two high-level Martial Artist combat skills before opening his weapon box.
• Morton and Leike saw Lin Qi's club and questioned whether it was really his weapon.

Lin Qi joined the convoy’s fight against a horde of Intermediate Grade Monsters and tested his new Great Club against a Wind-Chasing Wolf. He ended the battle by smashing the wolf’s head with a strike exceeding thirty-three tons.

• Morton assigned roles as the convoy traveled toward the wilderness outpost, and the vehicles stopped when a large monster horde blocked the road.
• Bailuo intercepted the High Grade Monster while the City Guard Corps and martial artists fought the Intermediate Grade Monsters around the vehicles.
• Morton warned the Beginner Martial Artists that the monsters’ blows exceeded eight tons, so they provided ranged support instead of fighting up close.
• A High Grade man from the Three-Eyed Race gained the upper hand against two monsters, while Morton and Leike moved on to attack others.
• Lin Qi blocked a Wind-Chasing Wolf’s attacks with his Great Club until he had adapted to the weapon.
• Lin Qi used Reverse Star Hand’s First Layer, Star Rotation, to smash the Wind-Chasing Wolf’s head with a strike exceeding thirty-three tons.

Lin Qi helped his convoy defeat several monster packs and gather valuable materials on the return trip. Near the City of Light Chasing, he discovered another convoy under attack and raised the mission rating to AAA-class after learning its Bone Forging Realm guard might have been killed.

• Lin Qi used Reverse Star Hand to smash a Wind-Chasing Wolf's head with one blow, then killed seven more as the pack fled.
• Bailuo killed the wolf pack's leader, and Team 427 collected materials from eight Wind-Chasing Wolves, earning more than the other teams.
• The convoy fought off four more monster attacks on the way to the wilderness outpost and back, including an attack led by a Lord-class Monster.
• Less than three hundred kilometers from the City of Light Chasing, the convoy stopped at the scene of another transport convoy's attack, and Bailuo ordered everyone to help.
• Morton warned Lin Qi that the attacked convoy's Bone Forging Realm guard might have been killed, and Lin Qi raised the players' mission rating from A-class to AAA-class.

Lin Qi and the reinforcements reached a convoy besieged by Golden Winged Snakes, where the four major factions were close to being overwhelmed. As fifteen snakes charged the newcomers, crimson beams suddenly pierced the monsters, leaving only five alive and terrified.

• Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu divided the players into groups to support Lin Qi and Meng Wei as they approached the battle.
• Morton warned the convoy that guards and monsters had been dead for some time, and the group advanced toward the ongoing fight in formation.
• Wright and Kadwen struggled to protect Bess and hold back the Golden Winged Snakes as their numbers continued to grow.
• The reinforcements arrived, and many snakes turned to attack Lin Qi's group while Kadwen recognized members of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall among them.
• Crimson beams shot from behind the reinforcements, killing more than half of the fifteen attacking snakes and frightening the survivors.

Lin Qi revealed that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Desert Eagles could kill Golden Winged Snakes but required a special martial skill taught only to its formal disciples. As the players turned to face a powerful Unicorn Golden Winged Snake, their gunfire wounded it and stunned everyone watching.

• Fang Zhen and the other players killed the remaining Golden Winged Snakes with their Desert Eagles, astonishing Morton, Leike, and the convoy.
• Lin Qi said the weapons belonged to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and could only be used effectively by those who learned its signature martial skill as formal disciples.
• Morton offered two Energy Crystals for a Desert Eagle, while several Beginner Martial Artists considered joining the hall to gain access to its training.
• Fang Zhen, Luo Wu Shang, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and the other players rapidly cleared more Golden Winged Snakes, drawing attention from the convoy and Wright and Kadwen.
• A Unicorn Golden Winged Snake burst from the forest, and One Leaf Floating Cloud led the players in firing at it.
• The players’ B2-class bullets tore deep wounds into the Unicorn Golden Winged Snake, leaving the battlefield silent with shock.

One Leaf Floating Cloud's group used Desert Eagles to wound a Unicorn Golden Winged Snake, but its rapid healing and the arrival of more monsters turned the retreat into a desperate battle. As the survivors scattered and another Unicorn Golden Winged Snake charged Lin Qi's group, Lin Qi boosted his inner force and struck with Thunderous Flash.

• Luo Wu Shang ordered her team to target the Unicorn Golden Winged Snake's vital points and stall it while the rescued martial artists retreated.
• Three more Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes and over two hundred Golden Winged Snakes surrounded the retreating convoys, overwhelming the city guard regiment's defenses.
• Wright fled with Bess, Kadwen fled with Drock, and the other martial artists scattered as the Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes attacked.
• Morton warned Lin Qi to run, but Lin Qi sensed more monsters in the forest and told Meng Wei that they had to fight.
• Lin Qi pulled Meng Wei back, drew his Great Club and Blood Red Bead, and attacked the charging Unicorn Golden Winged Snake with Thunderous Flash.

Lin Qi fought the Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes and revealed power that led the gathered martial artists to believe he had reached the Bone Forging Realm. The battle continued as he faced multiple snakes in the air, while Wright, Kadwen, and Bess struggled to accept his apparent strength.

• Lin Qi struck the Unicorn Golden Winged Snake with Thunderous Flash, badly wounding it and shocking Wright, Meng Wei, and Morton.
• Two more Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes charged Lin Qi, but he repeatedly struck the first until it collapsed.
• Lin Qi evaded the two attackers with Startling Swan, leapt fifty meters into the air, and hit them with Thunderous Flash.
• The onlookers concluded that Lin Qi might be a Bone Forging Realm expert, while Wright, Kadwen, and Bess reacted with disbelief.

Lin Qi returned to the city after fighting off Golden Winged Snakes, while Bailuo revealed that a wounded High-level Lord had threatened the region. News of Lin Qi’s Bone Forging Realm strength spread, Xia Ling decided to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Qin Mu arrived with an urgent request for Lin Qi to meet an association figure.

• Lin Qi overwhelmed two Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes as a black fighter jet blasted the valley, driving the surrounding Golden Winged Snakes away.
• Bailuo returned badly injured and reported that a High-level Lord had been wounded and driven off; Morton identified Lin Qi as the person who killed five Unicorn Golden Winged Snakes.
• After the convoy returned to City of Light Chasing, news of Lin Qi’s Bone Forging Realm strength spread, and the four major powers surrendered their territories to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Xia Ling rejected an invitation to the Half-Scale Training Camp and resolved to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall because of its cultivation technique and talented disciples.
• Qin Mu visited Lin Qi and said an association figure who had returned from outside urgently wanted to meet him.