Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi met Liu Tianzong, received a city council seat and access to the inheritance ground, and learned that Lord Monsters and monster hordes threatened the wilderness near the city. To protect Crimson Moon Mountain and build up his forces, Lin Qi ordered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to establish a town and invite drifters to settle there.

• Qin Mu brought Lin Qi to meet Liu Tianzong at the Martial Artist Association, where Liu Tianzong confirmed Lin Qi's Bone Forging Realm-level strength.
• Liu Tianzong personally processed Lin Qi's appointment as a city councilor, granting him monthly access to Type Three Potions and slots for the inheritance ground, which would open in twenty days.
• Liu Tianzong warned Lin Qi that Lord Monsters and small Monster Tides had appeared near the city and advised him not to venture outside.
• Lin Qi returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and learned from Meng Wei that it had recruited 5,347 disciples, with more expected soon.
• Meng Wei proposed turning Crimson Moon Mountain into a town to attract drifters, and Lin Qi ordered him to begin building it and offer free housing to disciples and their families.
• News that Crimson Moon Mountain would become a town spread through the city before sunset.

Isaac assembled a coalition of drifters to undermine Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s plan to build Crimson Moon Town, while the nomads flocked to join the hall. Underground, Lu Fanchen created the Heaven Shaking Fist and died after helping Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing collect Molten Fire Crystals; they escaped and headed to Lin Qi with their haul.

• Isaac introduced Mans to more than twenty powerful drifters and assigned him to sabotage Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s operations in the wilderness.
• Nomads celebrated the planned construction of Crimson Moon Town, and more than ten thousand people gathered at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to join or trade.
• Lu Fanchen recreated his supreme skill as the Heaven Shaking Fist, injured the mechanical man, and died from the technique’s backlash.
• Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing collected hundreds of Molten Fire Crystals while the mechanical man recovered, then escaped through the underground passage.
• Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing reached the surface safely and carried the crystals toward Lin Qi’s lounge.

Lin Qi completed the Beginner Meditation Room conversion after Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing turned in Molten Fire Crystals, then rewarded them with a Vitality Watermelon that could help them break through into martial artists. Meanwhile, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and Fang Zhen discovered a B3-class Mithril Ore vein, but a large Myriad Star City convoy arrived to claim the mountain.

• Lin Qi drew a Magic Sausage and several Vitality Fruits, then gave the Magic Sausage to Luo Qi for her research on Unicorn Golden Winged Snake materials.
• Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing turned in Molten Fire Crystals, allowing Lin Qi to convert a third-floor training room into a Beginner Meditation Room.
• Lin Qi rewarded Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing with a Vitality Watermelon, and Lin Xinyao took it to Lu Fanchen so the three could attempt to become martial artists.
• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and Fang Zhen found a B3-class Mithril Ore vein and agreed to cooperate to claim the mine.
• A large convoy from Myriad Star City arrived at the mountain, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and Fang Zhen realized its people intended to take the mine.

Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang discovered that Myriad Star City had occupied the Mithril Ore mine and that Lucis could kill them with a single spear strike. After returning to Death Valley, they devised a plan to draw monsters toward the guarded mine, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang led hundreds of Intermediate Grade Monsters and one High Grade Monster toward a surveillance post.

• Lucis spotted Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang from nearly a kilometer away and hurled a bone spear that killed them both before they logged off.
• Fang Zhen agreed with Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang to return for the B3 Grade Primal Mithril Ore despite the threat from Myriad Star City.
• Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang found Death Valley guarded by patrols and surveillance posts, making the mine an advanced wilderness dungeon they could not approach directly.
• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang proposed using the game's independent monster AI to lure monsters into attacking the Myriad Star City NPCs.
• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang drew several hundred Intermediate Grade Monsters and one High Grade Monster toward a Death Valley surveillance post.

Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang lured successive monster hordes into Death Valley, where Myriad Star City's garrison was overwhelmed after a Twin-headed Bloodflame Tiger appeared. They returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with the dungeon drops, while Myriad Star City learned that Lucis's entire team had died and blamed the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang lured more than four hundred monsters to Death Valley, where Ralph and Eva's squads were destroyed before Lucis arrived with reinforcements.
• Fang Zhen led another wave of monsters toward the valley, and Lucis struck him with a thrown stone, but Fang Zhen survived long enough to report that the monster-luring plan worked.
• Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang repeatedly brought more monsters to Death Valley, forcing Lucis and his troops into a prolonged battle that killed most of their miners and wounded Lucis.
• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang brought another monster wave, and the Twin-headed Bloodflame Tiger appeared; it killed Lucis and wiped out everyone at Death Valley.
• Fang Zhen found the battlefield empty of survivors and notified Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang to bring a transport vehicle to collect the equipment and other drops.
• Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang returned to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall the next morning, as Myriad Star City received news that Lucis's team had died in a conflict allegedly involving the hall.

Igor and Dona learned that Lucis and nearly two hundred garrison soldiers had died in Death Valley, and they considered investigating the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall before acting. At the hall, Twilight of the Gods demonstrated how gravity training had hardened her body, prompting Fang Zhen to sell recovered high-grade armor and reveal that he and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang had wiped out a Myriad Star City outpost.

• Dona told Igor that Lucis and nearly two hundred garrison corps members had died in Death Valley, where evidence linked Lucis's last clash to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Igor refused to abandon the mission against the hall and decided to request clan support while investigating who had killed Lucis and the garrison corps.
• Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang brought high-grade weapons and armor to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, where Twilight of the Gods identified them as likely loot from an advanced dungeon.
• Twilight of the Gods explained that gravity-room training had strengthened her body enough to withstand Fang Zhen's Crushing Stone Fist, and she described how high gravity improved the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
• Fang Zhen sold dozens of scrapped B4-to-B6 battle armor sets to Meng Wei and admitted that he and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang had wiped out a Myriad Star City outpost.

Fang Zhen and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang sold battle armor salvaged from a Myriad Star City outpost, while Lin Qi learned of their attack and judged that Myriad Star City would not retaliate openly because the outpost was mining mithril in City of Light Chasing's territory. Lin Qi appointed Meng Wei to command a new garrison corps, then posted a Core Disciple assessment notice that set the players up for a wilderness mining expedition.

• Fang Zhen received 580 million points for the damaged battle armor he and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang had brought back from Myriad Star City's outpost, drawing envy from other players.
• Lin Qi found that Yakro's daily output of Type II Potions could not meet demand as more disciples advanced to Martial Artist, so he decided the martial arts hall would need to exchange for additional potions from the city.
• Meng Wei told Lin Qi that disciples had destroyed Myriad Star City's outpost in Death Valley, and Lin Qi explained that Myriad Star City had been secretly mining mithril in City of Light Chasing's territory, giving the martial arts hall leverage against retaliation.
• Lin Qi appointed Meng Wei commander of a new five-hundred-member garrison corps and gave him a Vitality Watermelon to help him advance to Intermediate Martial Artist.
• Lin Qi posted a new Core Disciple assessment notice, planning to send the players to mine Rem Titanium Gold Ore in the wilderness, and the players were stunned by the announcement.

Players reacted to the Core Disciple assessment by training in Beginner Gravity Rooms, while Lin Qi opened a Beginner Meditation Room and arranged training for the garrison corps. In the wilderness, Lu Fanchen and his companions exploited an injured Shadow Leopard King for its blood, just as Dona came upon Lu Fanchen fighting it.

• Ye Qinglu advised One Leaf Floating Cloud that the assessment required wilderness preparation, and they planned to share a Beginner Gravity Room to train their Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
• Lin Qi inspected the completed Beginner Meditation Room, found it improved his control over vitality and blood, and arranged for the garrison corps to train there.
• Meng Wei told Lin Qi that Xia Ling and other gifted disciples had joined the garrison corps, and Lin Qi issued a daily mission to collect Molten Fire Crystals.
• Martial Artist players attempted the Core Disciple assessment but were repeatedly wiped out in the wilderness, while Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing trained by drinking blood from an injured Twin-Horned Leopard.
• Dona led a convoy near the trio and rushed toward an explosion, where she saw Lu Fanchen wound the Shadow Leopard King before Lin Xinyao and Li Tianxing leapt onto its back and bit its wound.

Lu Fanchen and his companions drove the Shadow Leopard King away while trying to consume its blood, prompting Dona to investigate their silver-gray uniforms. At the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Xia Ling entered the Meditation Room and emerged as a Martial Artist, leaving Zoe stunned.

• Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing drank the Shadow Leopard King's blood, but it blasted them away and fled deeper into the wilderness.
• Lu Fanchen decided the three would keep pursuing the Shadow Leopard King to improve their strength, while Dona ordered an investigation into their silver-gray uniforms.
• Xia Ling told Zoe she had refused the Half-Scale Training Camp and chosen to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's guard regiment.
• After earning a place among the day's ten outstanding performers, Xia Ling entered the Meditation Room and cultivated the second layer of the Soul Shocking Breathing Technique.
• Xia Ling emerged from the Meditation Room as a Martial Artist, astonishing Zoe and the people at the martial arts hall.

Xia Ling became a Martial Artist, drawing a flood of recruits to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Liu Tianzong’s death left Lin Qi and the hall facing threats from rival factions and a dangerous conscription. Lin Qi gathered the Guard Corps Martial Artists and announced specialized training, beginning with lessons on how to fly.

• Xia Ling told Zoe she had broken through to become a Martial Artist, and the two agreed to settle their rivalry at the Genius Training Camp assessment.
• News of Xia Ling’s breakthrough attracted thousands of recruits to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, bringing its accumulated roulette draws to ten; Lin Qi used them and received only one-star rewards, including two Vitality Watermelons.
• Meng Wei informed Lin Qi that Liu Tianzong had died and rival races were moving to seize Cloud Haze Town, while the city planned to send Lin Qi and other humans on dangerous frontline supply missions.
• Lin Qi realized that the conscription was also meant to weaken the martial arts hall’s Guard Corps and ordered its Martial Artists to assemble.
• Lin Qi told the assembled Guard Corps Martial Artists that the hall’s specialized training would begin with learning how to fly.

Lin Qi taught Startling Swan to the martial artists at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while humanity in City of Light Chasing faced losses and political pressure after Liu Tianzong’s death. As several player teams joined forces to pursue a wilderness training opportunity, Mans learned their group had left the city and prepared to ambush them.

• Lin Qi demonstrated Startling Swan’s ability to fly, distributed copies of the skill, and began training the martial artists at his hall.
• Elder Xiang told Xiong Yuedie that Liu Tianzong’s death had weakened humanity and that the city would take thirty percent of its central residential area; he said other powers were targeting Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Wu Zhuo Qun’s team would retaliate against them.
• Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing agreed to cooperate with other teams to reach the Twin-Horned Leopard and use its blood to improve their training.
• Luo Wu Shang mastered the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and agreed to join Lu Fanchen’s group in the wilderness.
• More than thirty martial artists from several teams left Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in a transport vehicle, and Mans learned of their departure and planned to join the other powers in attacking them.

Lin Qi refused to leave the martial arts hall to confront Fang Ya and Gang Gu, trusting his players to withstand their attack, while Qin Mu considered joining the hall’s guard corps. Outside the city, Fang Ya and Gang Gu assembled drifters for their ambush and spotted Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s approaching team.

• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan learned that Fang Ya and Gang Gu had sent two teams to ambush Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, so they set out to support the hall’s team.
• Qin Mu warned Lin Qi that more than forty Advanced Martial Artists were preparing to attack the team outside the city, but Lin Qi decided not to go because he trusted the players’ strength and ability to revive.
• Lin Qi invited Qin Mu to join Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s guard corps, and Qin Mu said he would consider the offer.
• At Thorn Marsh, Mans gathered drifters to cooperate with Fang Ya and Gang Gu, who planned to blame the attack on them if Lin Qi retaliated.
• Fang Ya and Gang Gu arrived and dismissed the drifters, then Mans pointed out the approaching lights of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s team.

Gang Gu and Fang Ya confronted Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while Wu Zhuo Qun's team moved in to support them, but the players treated the armored elites as loot to divide. Gang Gu attacked, only for Luo Wu Shang to block his strike and send him flying.

• Lin Yan detected more than eighty life signals ahead and identified Gang Gu and Fang Ya's forces, while Wu Zhuo Qun's team decided to join Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Gang Gu and Fang Ya learned Wu Zhuo Qun was approaching and planned to block Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while challenging him to a fight.
• Gang Gu and Fang Ya stepped onto the road as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's vehicle stopped nearby and its disciples emerged.
• The players discussed how to divide the two elites' B6 Grade Battle Armor and agreed that one person from each team could compete to defeat both enemies.
• Gang Gu charged the players and struck at them with Crushing Mountain Palm, but Luo Wu Shang blocked his attack with one hand and knocked him away with a counterblow.

Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu overwhelmed the Garrison Corps captains Fang Ya and Gang Gu during the confrontation on the forest road. Fang Ya and Gang Gu died, leaving the Wanderers and the supporting forces stunned by Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s strength.

• Luo Wu Shang blocked Gang Gu’s attack, sent him flying, and then struck Fang Ya hard enough to send him rolling across the road.
• Fang Ya charged One Leaf Floating Cloud with his spear, but Ye Qinglu redirected all twenty-one spear strikes with arrows and then summoned thirty-six B4-class arrows.
• Ye Qinglu used the fourth form of Three Forms of Lightning, Lightning Fang, to shatter Fang Ya’s spear and kill him with a blazing beam.
• Luo Wu Shang caught Gang Gu’s battle axe and killed him with repeated Sword Light Slash attacks.
• The Wanderers and both Garrison Corps groups stared in stunned silence as Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang stood over the two dead captains.

After Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang killed Fang Ya and Gang Gu, Wu Zhuo Qun planned to bring them into the garrison corps and Genius Training Camp to protect them from the city’s three strongest Advanced Martial Artists. As the pair continued their wilderness journey, Myriad Star City’s envoys Igor and Dona arrived, while Lin Qi narrowly survived attempting to reproduce Luo Wu Shang’s version of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.

• Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang collected their spoils after killing Fang Ya and Gang Gu, and Wu Zhuo Qun decided to discuss recruiting them into the garrison corps and Genius Training Camp.
• Mans fled and resolved to tell Isaac that Crimson Moon Mountain might hold a secret behind Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s powerful new disciples.
• Lu Fanchen led Ye Qinglu, Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and Twilight of the Gods into the wilderness, where they discussed challenging Lord Monsters after growing stronger.
• The ape man and Elegant Winged Woman learned that two envoys from Myriad Star City had arrived and chose to wait and see what they intended.
• Igor and Dona arrived at the Martial Artist Association and planned to find someone to guide them to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Qi nearly died while trying to cultivate the second layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique using the force in Luo Wu Shang’s inherited experience.

After mastering the second layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, Lin Qi gained a major increase in strength and recovery. He agreed to meet two Beastkin visitors, while their inspection of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall revealed its startling strength and left them hesitant to face him.

• Lin Qi recovered from the sixteen-times-gravity training, saw his improved attributes, and learned his true strength exceeded the Advanced Bone Forging Realm threshold.
• Meng Wei told Lin Qi that Qin Mu had brought Igor and Dona to discuss an important matter, and Lin Qi directed him to take them to a reception room.
• Igor and Dona recognized the hall’s uniforms as belonging to the people who had driven off the Shadow Leopard King, and Qin Mu explained that the hall had grown rapidly in only one or two months.
• Xia Ling and seven others descended through the air, stunning Igor, Dona, and Qin Mu; Meng Wei said flight was required of the garrison corps’ true disciples.
• Meng Wei led Igor and Dona to Lin Qi’s reception room, where Igor hesitated before entering after seeing how different the hall was from what he had expected.

Lin Qi negotiated a Mithril Ore trade with Igor and Dona of Myriad Star City, then revealed Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s powerful Gravity Rooms. The chapter ended with Lin Qi offering to rent them out for one Energy Crystal per twelve hours.

• Igor and Dona met Lin Qi and clarified that Myriad Star City supported his plans to build Crimson Moon Town.
• Lin Qi agreed to trade 465 tons of Mithril Ore for five Flying Transport Vehicles, one hundred sets of B4-class Battle Armor, and a Life Detector, promising delivery in five days.
• Igor asked to learn Startling Swan, but Lin Qi refused because the martial technique was reserved for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s garrison corps.
• Igor and Dona saw disciples competing to enter the hall’s Beginner Gravity Rooms and learned they could reach twenty times normal gravity.
• Lin Qi offered to rent the Gravity Rooms to the visitors for one Energy Crystal per twelve hours.

Lin Qi rented Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s gravity room to Dona, sold her a Vitality Pear, and gained Qin Mu as a new disciple and guard corps captain. Meanwhile, Isaac plotted to seize Crimson Moon Town with help from three ambitious fighters, while Luo Wu Shang advanced to an Advanced Martial Artist and proposed testing her new strength against an approaching Lord Monster.

• Dona rented the Beginner Gravity Room for a month and bought a Vitality Pear from Lin Qi, while Igor supplied the Energy Crystals.
• Qin Mu joined Obsidian Martial Arts Hall after learning that its disciples could access gravity rooms, and Lin Qi welcomed him into the guard corps.
• A Featherfolk noblewoman and a golden-furred ape clansman agreed to pursue Crimson Moon Town, and the noblewoman tasked Isaac with persuading three fighters to act against Lin Qi.
• Isaac told Mans that he had already persuaded the three fighters with the prospect of obtaining Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s training method, and Mans left to contact them.
• Luo Wu Shang emerged from her cultivation after advancing to an Advanced Martial Artist and improving the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, just as Li Tianxing warned that a beginner Lord Monster was approaching.
• Luo Wu Shang proposed testing her new strength against the approaching Lord Monster, and One Leaf Floating Cloud agreed they were ready to move.

Dona used a Vitality Pear to accelerate her cultivation, while Lin Qi received a reward for the third player-created Extraordinary Martial Skill and began fusing martial skills. The system then announced a sixteen-hour upgrade that unlocked Level 2 Administrator Privilege, raising Lin Qi’s player-management limit to 4,000.

• Dona ate a Vitality Pear and found that its two-hour effect let her make rapid progress toward mastering her advanced Bone Forging Realm training method.
• Dona contacted Igor and asked him to bring more Energy Crystals so she could buy Vitality Pears and reach the Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm.
• Lin Qi learned that Luo Wu Shang had created her eighth martial skill, completing the first Extraordinary Path mission and triggering its next stage.
• Lin Qi used his fusion reward on Lu Fanchen’s Heaven Shaking Fist and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang’s Boundless Full Moon, then waited as the fusion progressed slowly.
• Luo Wu Shang and the other players revived after their battle with a Six-tailed Giant Scorpion and discussed their gains before the system ordered everyone to log off for an update.
• Lin Qi discovered that his Level 2 Administrator Privilege upgrade would take sixteen hours and raise his player-management limit from 500 to 4,000.

Lin Qi planned Version 1.4 around new player rewards and the requirements for upgrading his administrator privileges, while players reacted to the update and prepared for the wilderness opening. Ye Qinglu brought One Leaf Floating Cloud to meet a veteran Sky Travelers member, who challenged him to face five of six bodyguards at once.

• Lin Qi reviewed the new training room and Cultivation Tower, then decided to use upgraded apparel as rewards in Crimson Moon Town's Reputation System to motivate players.
• The game announced Version 1.4, raising player capacity, opening reputation missions and nearby wilderness exploration, and prompting players to debate the changes on the forum.
• Fang Zhen and his friends discussed preparing for the National Mecha Competition, while Ye Qinglu took One Leaf Floating Cloud to meet a Sky Travelers member in person.
• At an underground fighting arena, the burly guild member told One Leaf Floating Cloud to choose one of six bodyguards who would sit out while the other five fought him.