Chapter Summaries

Ye Qinglu tested One Leaf Floating Cloud in a fight against Thousand Blade Fiend’s six bodyguards, then learned that Eternal Immortal Path was a preliminary selection for Cosmic Pioneers. After deciding to keep pursuing strength rather than abandon High Martial Descent, she studied the Thousand Sword Diagram and logged back in when the game update finished, as new and veteran players filled Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Ye Qinglu urged One Leaf Floating Cloud to fight all six bodyguards, and his Reverse Star Hand broke one man’s arm with a single punch.
• Ye Qinglu demonstrated her own Crushing Stone Fist by smashing a marble table, convincing Thousand Blade Fiend that One Leaf Floating Cloud qualified for the team.
• Thousand Blade Fiend told Ye Qinglu that Eternal Immortal Path was a preliminary selection for Cosmic Pioneers, but Ye Qinglu decided that personal strength could still earn her a place.
• Ye Qinglu studied the Thousand Sword Diagram and found that her mental power could control forty swords, allowing her to form a thirty-six-sword array.
• The High Martial Descent update finished, and Ye Qinglu connected as five hundred new players and veteran players gathered at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Five hundred new players joined High Martial Descent, including gaming experts and seventeen space mercenary trainees, as Lin Qi assigned the newcomers a Mithril Ore trial in Death Valley. During the convoy’s journey, Dark Judgment sent his trainees to investigate people following them, who turned out to be Featherfolk reporting to Lord Mans.

• Five hundred newcomers entered the game, drawing veteran players’ attention to the arrival of top gaming experts and seventeen space mercenary trainees led by Dark Judgment.
• Lin Qi welcomed the newcomers as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples and ordered each to bring back one ton of Mithril Ore from Death Valley within four days.
• The game offered veteran players a limited escort mission with a large Crimson Moon Town reputation reward, and Fang Zhen signed up after learning his Mithril Ore had been confiscated for public use.
• The next morning, five hundred newcomers and two hundred veteran players departed for Death Valley, while Dark Judgment sent his trainees to investigate those following the convoy.
• The trainees identified Featherfolk spies who were reporting the convoy’s destination to Lord Mans, then followed the messenger toward the White Feather Gang headquarters.

Galon’s arrival at the White Feather Gang stronghold led to six Obsidian Martial Arts Hall trainees dying by practicing the Star Explosion Meditation Technique, raising the risk of conflict between the factions. At Death Valley, Lin Qi mastered the Divine Might martial skill and left to test it, while players launched an attack on the stronghold.

• Riding the Wall Old Six and five other trainees tracked a messenger to the White Feather Gang stronghold, but Galon shot through their legs and captured them; they died using the Star Explosion Meditation Technique before they could be questioned.
• Mans warned Galon that the deaths could provoke Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but Galon said he welcomed a confrontation and revealed that Mihos would support the Three-Eyed Race fighters.
• Lin Qi set up a resurrection point at Death Valley, where new players discovered that carrying Mithril Ore while practicing their Breathing Method accelerated their training.
• Lin Qi received the proficient-level Divine Might martial skill, considered combining it with the Blood Red Bead, and returned to the martial arts hall to test it.
• Dark Judgment agreed with Luo Wu Shang to receive one-fifth of the profits from the hidden dungeon, then One Leaf Floating Cloud led more than forty martial artist players in an assault on the White Feather Gang stronghold.

Galon, Menluo, and Alius led nearly a hundred garrison captains against the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, expecting an easy victory. As the players scattered to draw the captains together, a woman unleashed Heavenly Might, killing more than fifty of them with one sword strike.

• Galon and Menluo discussed their perfected high-level Martial Skills with Alius after their sparring match at the White Feather Gang stronghold.
• Mans reported that more than forty Obsidian Martial Arts Hall martial artists were approaching, and the garrison captains went out to meet them.
• The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples overwhelmed the White Feather Gang elites and drifters while Mans secretly arranged to capture one of them and learn the secret of Crimson Moon Mountain.
• Galon ordered the garrison captains to clear the remaining enemies, and nearly a hundred elites charged the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall group.
• Luo Wu Shang told the players to scatter and draw the captains together, then one woman unleashed Heavenly Might and killed more than fifty captains with a single strike.

Luo Wu Shang and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters battled the guard corps captains and their powerful leaders at the White Feather Gang stronghold. After Ye Qinglu’s sword array trapped Menluo and Mihos arrived to stop the fighting, the Obsidian fighters killed Galon, Menluo, and Alius, leaving the battlefield stunned.

• Luo Wu Shang killed more than fifty guard corps captains with a single sword strike, and Galon, Menluo, and Alius joined the battle after recognizing the threat she posed.
• Galon, Menluo, and Alius attacked the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters, while Zhang Qingwei clashed with Menluo and One Leaf Floating Cloud narrowly missed killing him with an Electromagnetic Cannon shot.
• Ye Qinglu arrived with thirty-six B6 Grade arrows and trapped Menluo in her sword array, wearing down his armor as he called Galon and Alius for help.
• Galon and Alius struggled against Lu Fanchen’s group and the snipers, while emergency flares summoned Mihos, a Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm vice commander.
• Mihos ordered everyone to stop, but Ye Qinglu and the others kept fighting and killed Galon, Menluo, and Alius, shocking Mans.

Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan learned that Mihos had joined Galon, Menluo, and Alius against the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, then rushed to the White Feather Gang stronghold. After Mihos killed One Leaf Floating Cloud and attacked Ye Qinglu, Luo Wu Shang struck him with an Extraordinary Martial Skill, forcing him to retreat toward City of Light Chasing.

• Wu Zhuo Qun praised a young Martial Artist's progress in the Shadow Splitting Sword before Lin Yan arrived with news that three monsters and Vice Captain Mihos were threatening the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan contacted the elders and drove toward the White Feather Gang stronghold.
• Mihos arrived at the battlefield, found Galon, Menluo, and Alius dead, and killed One Leaf Floating Cloud with a saber strike.
• Ye Qinglu confronted Mihos and used the Great Sword Array, but Mihos shattered her descending greatsword with his Blood Light skill.
• Luo Wu Shang struck Mihos with an Extraordinary Martial Skill, wounded his saber arm, and shocked him into fleeing toward City of Light Chasing.

Mihos fled the White Feather Gang stronghold after the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples wounded him, and the players slaughtered the gang members before discovering a hidden Energy Vein and valuable supplies. Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan arrived to find Mihos injured and the three guard corps monsters dead, leaving them stunned by what had happened.

• Mihos escaped the battle, and the White Feather Gang members scattered as Mans ordered them to flee and regroup in the city.
• The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples pursued the gang, with Luo Wu Shang and Li Tianxing unleashing devastating attacks before Ye Qinglu killed the remaining members with arrows.
• Fang Zhen, Twilight of the Gods, Luo Wu Shang, and the others searched the stronghold and found abundant supplies, Energy Ore, and a micro Energy Vein.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan traveled toward the stronghold and spotted the injured Mihos fleeing toward the City of Light Chasing.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan saw the stronghold’s battlefield littered with corpses and recognized the three dead guard corps monsters.

After Obsidian Martial Arts Hall killed three monsters and routed the Three-Eyed Race’s Mihos, the city’s powers assessed the human race’s rising strength and Isaac hired the Red Moon Merchant Guild to assassinate Lin Qi. The Guild issued a bounty that reached Fred in Myriad Star City, and he set out to take the job despite a warning from his companion.

• Lin Yan and Wu Zhuo Qun confirmed that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had killed the three monsters and that Mihos had escaped, then reported the battle to the human race’s elders.
• Elder Xiang revealed that he had advanced his Super Tier Martial Skill to Second Realm Completion and said the human race’s future depended on Wu Zhuo Qun’s junior sister entering a domain city.
• The Feathered Race and Ape Race discussed Lin Qi’s suspected mid-stage Bone Forging Realm strength and the City Lord’s plan to gather high-stage experts to hunt an Earth Dragon.
• Isaac rejected his elder’s advice to flee and hired the Red Moon Merchant Guild to kill Lin Qi for 3,500 Energy Crystals.
• The Red Moon Merchant Guild classified Lin Qi as a first-rate genius, accepted Isaac’s payment, and promised to act within three days.
• Fred received the Guild’s bounty in Myriad Star City and departed to pursue it despite a golden-haired woman’s warning not to neglect their teacher’s business.

One Leaf Floating Cloud recruited players to mine the White Feather Gang’s Energy Vein while Lin Qi planned new facilities and sold Dona a Great Sausage. Lin Qi then advanced his Star Explosion Meditation Technique to the Perfection Realm by extracting Ye Qinglu’s proficiency.

• One Leaf Floating Cloud recruited Apprentice-level players to mine the White Feather Gang’s Energy Vein for a five-percent share of the Energy Ore.
• Lin Qi considered adding an NPC hiring system and calculated how much Energy Ore he needed to build a Special Grade Martial Arts Dojo and an Intermediate Gravity Chamber.
• The system notified Lin Qi that another Beginner Gravity Room had finished converting, and Dona bought a Great Sausage from him for forty Energy Crystals.
• Lin Qi extracted proficiency from players to improve his Star Explosion Meditation Technique, but several attempts only raised it to Skilled 100%.
• Lin Qi extracted Ye Qinglu’s Star Explosion Meditation Technique proficiency and reached the Perfection Realm.

Lin Qi reached Perfection in the Star Explosion Meditation Technique, gaining a powerful but mentally taxing ability to perceive everything within ten meters and control his body precisely. As he tested the Intermediate Combat Puppet, Fred attacked him, but the puppet overwhelmed Fred until he launched a desperate strike at Lin Qi.

• Lin Qi's spirit shattered the barrier of his mental world, flooding his brain with information and leaving him unable to move for over half an hour.
• Lin Qi discovered that his perfected meditation technique let him perceive everything within ten meters, though he had to shrink the range to seven meters to ease the strain on his brain.
• The system announced that the Intermediate Training Room renovation was complete, and Lin Qi inspected the puppet's strength, speed, and high-stage Microscopic Control.
• Fred entered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and attacked Lin Qi, but the Intermediate Combat Puppet intercepted him and repeatedly forced him back.
• Fred drew blades with his other three arms and unleashed Obscuring Moon at Lin Qi while the puppet continued attacking him.

Dona advanced to the Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm, then discovered that an assassin named Fred had attacked Lin Qi in the Intermediate Training Room. Lin Qi evaded Fred’s deadly strikes and overpowered him with a Great Club, but Fred’s armor kept him alive as Lin Qi prepared another attack.

• Dona broke through to the Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm after several days of training and went looking for Hall Master Lin, hoping for more Great Sausage.
• Dona and the other martial artists sensed a fierce battle in the Intermediate Training Room, but only Dona could approach its doors.
• Dona realized Fred was an assassin attacking Lin Qi, and Fred’s Super Tier Martial Skill, Obscuring Moon, failed to hit Lin Qi twice.
• Fred launched a frenzy of attacks, but Lin Qi emerged from the dust unharmed and struck Fred repeatedly with a Great Club.
• Fred tried to flee, and Lin Qi raised the Great Club to unleash the Extraordinary Martial Skill, Divine Might.

Lin Qi killed the assassin Fred with the Extraordinary Martial Skill Divine Might, then learned Fred was a Domain City genius whose death could bring serious consequences. Lin Qi chose to let the killing become public, and the chapter ended as the city guard corps identified Fred at the ruined Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Lin Qi used Divine Might to crush Fred with atmospheric pressure, killing him and destroying much of the Intermediate Training Room.
• Lin Qi stripped Fred's armor and bone blades while Dona realized the dead assassin was Four-armed Blade Demon Fred, a genius admitted to the Domain City.
• Dona urged Lin Qi to conceal Fred's death, but Lin Qi refused and explained that public recognition could help the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and his plans for Crimson Moon Town.
• Three city guard corps commanders arrived to investigate the fight and found Lin Qi and Dona beside Fred's body.
• The apekin commander identified the dead assassin as Four-armed Blade Demon Fred and announced that something major had happened.

Lin Qi killed Four-armed Blade Demon Fred when Fred attempted to assassinate him, and a recording convinced the garrison captains of Lin Qi’s strength. Fred’s Smart Watch revealed that the Red Moon Merchant Guild had hired him and that he was involved in a domain city mission; as Dona began cracking its encrypted messages, news spread that Lin Qi could become the City of Light Chasing’s fifth Deputy City Lord.

• The garrison captains doubted Lin Qi’s claim that he had killed Fred until Dona showed them a recording of the fight.
• Ino and the other captains accepted that Fred had tried to assassinate Lin Qi, then left with Fred’s corpse and treated Lin Qi with new respect.
• Dona explained that Lin Qi’s strength could qualify him for Deputy City Lord, and she and Lin Qi discovered that the Red Moon Merchant Guild had paid Fred two thousand Energy Crystals to kill him.
• Dona found signs that Fred had been carrying out an important domain city mission, took his Smart Watch, and began cracking its encrypted messages.
• Lin Qi restored the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while leaders across the City of Light Chasing held urgent meetings about his strength and possible appointment as Deputy City Lord.
• Lin Yan told Wu Zhuo Qun that Lin Qi had killed Fred and mastered an Extraordinary Martial Skill, prompting Wu Zhuo Qun to notify the human race’s elders.

Estina agreed to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall after Boran Lineage head Lutode named her the Lineage’s first heir and revealed that Lin Qi would become a deputy city lord. On assessment day, crowds of Lineage descendants and Cloud Haze Town’s reserve human geniuses gathered at the hall, where Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that Isaac had hired the Red Moon Merchant Guild to assassinate him.

• Estina demonstrated her mastery of Cyclone Slash, and Lutode ordered her to take the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall assessment instead of pursuing the Genius Training Camp.
• Lutode revealed that Lin Qi would become City of Light Chasing’s fifth deputy city lord, made Estina the Boran Lineage’s first heir, and promised her access to all its resources.
• The Boran Lineage’s two other geniuses celebrated Estina’s exclusion from the Genius Training Camp and hoped to surpass her there.
• Estina arrived at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to find a vast assessment crowd of descendants from major Lineages, while Meng Wei and Xia Ling remarked on the hall’s growth.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan brought Cloud Haze Town’s reserve human geniuses to join the hall, then Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that Isaac, the White Feather Gang’s leader, had arranged the assassination attempt.

Lin Qi learned that Isaac had hired the Red Moon Merchant Guild to assassinate him, but Smiling Skull protected Isaac after he fled. Lin Qi uncovered a hidden relic in the White Feather Gang stronghold: a severed arm whose presence terrified him.

• Wu Zhuo Qun gave Lin Qi evidence that Isaac had paid the Red Moon Merchant Guild 1,500 Energy Crystals to arrange his assassination, then explained Isaac had escaped into Smiling Skull's protection after killing a garrison captain.
• Wu Zhuo Qun agreed to promote the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's recruitment across the Wushan Region, and Lin Qi decided to search the White Feather Gang stronghold alone.
• Lin Qi reasoned that Isaac had tried to kill him because valuable items were hidden in the stronghold, where players were mining Energy Ore.
• A player broke through a rock wall and uncovered a cracked transparent container that killed him with its leaking spiritual energy and vital energy.
• Lin Qi saw a shriveled humanoid arm inside the container and felt an overwhelming fear of its former owner.

Lin Qi and the players investigated a hidden warehouse containing a gigantic monster arm whose mental fluctuations killed anyone who approached too closely. The players discovered that surviving its mental shock strengthened their mental power, while Lin Qi found an Inheritance Metal Plate inside the warehouse.

• Fang Zhen and Twilight of the Gods approached Lin Qi and accepted his request to investigate the space behind the rock wall.
• Fang Zhen and the others found a warehouse containing a nearly three-meter-long arm, Lord-class Monster remains, and signs of failed experiments by the White Feather Gang.
• Outlander Gunslinger died after approaching within ten meters of the arm, and Lin Qi realized its mental fluctuations could kill even powerful Martial Artists.
• After reviving, Outlander Gunslinger deliberately approached the arm again and discovered that the mental shock had strengthened his mental power and accelerated his Mental Secret Technique cultivation.
• Fang Zhen, Twilight of the Gods, and the others repeatedly let the arm kill them to test its effects, and Lin Qi confirmed that resisting its mental force tempered the mind.
• Lin Qi spotted a silver-black Inheritance Metal Plate in a storage case inside the warehouse.

Lin Qi learned that the Inheritance Metal Plate held the core Energy Secret Technique and realized Isaac remained a threat because he alone knew Lin Qi possessed it. After deciding to strengthen the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall before pursuing Isaac, Lin Qi discovered the White Feather Gang’s research could help him train experts and considered moving the severed arm to use as a mental cultivation aid.

• Lin Qi activated the silver-black Inheritance Metal Plate and learned that it contained the Energy Secret Technique, the core of the life-transforming Star Energy Construct.
• Lin Qi concluded that Isaac could expose his secret, but postponed killing him because the Smiling Skull’s territory was vast and Lin Qi lacked the strength to search it safely.
• Lin Qi opened two martial arts hall branch halls and decided to find a hidden location where he could develop the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Qi examined the White Feather Gang’s research and realized Isaac had likely never obtained the Mental Secret Technique plate because his vice leader had kept it secret.
• Lin Qi decided to use the research to select and train experts in energy burning, while relying on the Mental Secret Technique, meditation rooms, the severed arm, and Vitality Watermelons to improve their results.
• Lin Qi considered taking the severed arm back and using its mental impact as a cultivation aid.

Lin Qi secured the dangerous severed arm while players discovered that dying near it accelerated Mental Secret Technique training. The martial arts hall then announced the Mountain of the Dead and a difficult new Energy Secret Technique, leaving players eager and wary about its risks.

• Lin Qi recognized that the severed arm’s container concealed its true contents, arranged to transport it safely, and considered using it as a weapon against Smiling Skull’s forces.
• Twilight of the Gods, Fang Zhen, and Outlander Gunslinger found that their deaths had boosted Mental Secret Technique training; Fang Zhen also mastered the second layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
• The players saw Lin Qi move the arm into the martial arts hall and realized the opportunity to train by dying near it had ended.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud announced that players could explore the Mountain of the Dead after mastering a new secret technique, and the players discussed its potential for exploration and trade.
• Players debated on the forum whether the new secret technique was worth its extreme cultivation risks, while Ye Qinglu told One Leaf Floating Cloud she had died nearly thirty times before getting started.

Players struggled to master the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique as Ye Qinglu reached its beginner level and Chen Ya prepared to test a supercomputer-derived method. Lin Qi recruited new Guard Corps trainees, including Estina, and learned that a player had become a Transcendent Lifeform.

• Ye Qinglu told One Leaf Floating Cloud she had only reached the beginner level of the Energy Secret Technique, then prepared to fuse the three secret techniques using Energy Ore.
• Chen Ya reported that a Quantum Supercomputer simulation had derived a cellular structure with a success rate above sixty-five percent when using Type II Energy Potions, and Fang Zhen and Li Ranxing gave her the team's supply to attempt it.
• Disciples lined up for the Obsidian Guard Corps tests, while Lin Qi sparred with an Intermediate Combat Puppet and Meng Wei reported that nineteen of over a thousand candidates passed the energy tolerance test.
• Lin Qi was surprised to see Estina among the candidates and ordered the successful disciples to join the Guard Corps training.
• A system notification informed Lin Qi that a player had become a Transcendent Lifeform and awarded him authority to activate the Advanced Martial Arts Dojo Roulette.

Chen Ya mastered a semi-finished Star Energy Construct Secret Technique, entering an extraordinary state with physical stats close to those of a Peak Bone Forging Realm expert. After she revealed that Quantum Supercomputers could speed up cultivation, players began logging off to obtain them.

• Lin Qi sensed a vast life aura from Fang Zhen's lounge and wondered whether a player had mastered the Star Energy Construct.
• Players gathered outside Fang Zhen's lounge and learned from him that Chen Ya had caused the commotion and mastered the new secret technique.
• Chen Ya emerged in an extraordinary state and showed players her stats, which neared the strength and speed of a Peak Bone Forging Realm expert.
• Chen Ya explained that she had used a rented Quantum Supercomputer to simulate and deduce the secret technique, prompting major teams and wealthy players to seek their own computers.
• Lin Qi registered Chen Ya and saw that her Star Energy Construct Secret Technique was only a beginner-level, 4% semi-finished product.