Chapter Summaries

Alec and Wild Wolf discovered that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s silver-gray-clad disciples were the force behind the attacks that had pushed Star Tower City and the Holy Blood Mercenary Group into a ceasefire. Lin Qi learned the war had ended and received compensation from Star Tower City, including a Golden Stone Sculpture that Fansen said could help someone reach beyond Blood Condensation.

• Ino identified the gray-clothed attackers as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s internally trained disciples, and Wu Zhuo Qun showed images that confirmed it.
• Di Luoya began peace negotiations with Alec, and City of Light Chasing and Star Tower City signed a twenty-year non-aggression pact.
• Lin Qi was dismayed that the war ended before he could sell more Player Resurrection Devices, while players celebrated their rewards and Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, One Leaf Floating Cloud, and Lu Fanchen established garrisons.
• Di Luoya visited Lin Qi with Ino, Wu Zhuo Qun, and Fansen, a Domain City student, to congratulate him on Star Tower City’s compensation.
• Di Luoya presented Lin Qi with a Golden Stone Sculpture and promised the remains of a Calamity-class Monster; Fansen said the sculpture could help someone reach beyond Blood Condensation.

Lin Qi learned that the Golden Stone Sculpture was a key to the Mist Mountain Prison, a relic built by a civilization that had birthed a demigod, and agreed to explore its lower levels with Fansen. As the city war ended and people began returning to Maple Forest Town, Lin Qi received a system notice that the Cultivation Tower had been rebuilt.

• Fansen and Di Luoya explained that the Golden Stone Sculpture opened the Mist Mountain Prison, where powerful prisoners’ remains and other treasures could be found.
• Fansen asked Lin Qi to join him in exploring the prison’s lower levels during its next visitation, one week away, and Lin Qi agreed despite worrying about the dangers afterward.
• Ino considered leaving the garrison corps to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Wu Zhuo Qun thought of recommending that Xiong Yuedie join if she failed to enter a domain city.
• Di Luoya and Fansen left the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as the city war ended and people began returning to Maple Forest Town.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that the Cultivation Tower had been rebuilt.

Lin Qi toured the rapidly expanding Crimson Moon Town and activated its Cultivation Tower, which drew in energy and created increasingly powerful cultivation rooms. The chapter ended with Luo Wu Shang surviving another attempt at a breakthrough and realizing she had finally made progress.

• Lin Qi arrived at Crimson Moon Town with Xia Ling and Estina, and Flo reported that the town held 415,458 residents and could house one million.
• Flo led Lin Qi to the Cultivation Tower, while merchants and drifters recognized Lin Qi as the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's Dojo Master.
• Lin Qi activated the Cultivation Tower using three hundred Energy Crystals, causing it to draw energy from the surrounding area and greatly increase local energy density.
• Lin Qi tested the tower's cultivation rooms and found that the third-floor room had eight times the energy density of the outside world, but decided not to attempt the Bone Forging Realm yet.
• Luo Wu Shang collapsed after her Extraordinary State ended, but smiled and said she had finally gotten the hang of it.

Lin Qi opened the Cultivation Tower to outsiders and assigned the martial arts hall guard corps combat and cultivation duties. A system notification revealed that Luo Wu Shang had reached the Bone Forging Realm through a dangerous fusion that gave her Extraordinary Bones, and Lin Qi began copying her method.

• Lin Qi ordered the Cultivation Tower opened to outsiders, set its usage prices, and told Flo to triple land lease prices within five kilometers of the tower.
• Lin Qi assigned the martial arts hall guard corps to secure the route between the City of Light Chasing and Crimson Moon Town, take over the town's defense, and compete for reserved Cultivation Tower slots.
• The system notified Lin Qi that a player had reached the Bone Forging Realm and offered a Martial Skill Enhancement after ten players reached that realm.
• Lin Qi found that Luo Wu Shang had reached the Bone Forging Realm and extracted her memories, learning that she had fused the Glimmer Training Method with the Star Energy Construct Secret Technique and gained stable Extraordinary Bones.
• After seeing Luo Wu Shang's exceptional strength and speed, Lin Qi drank a Type III Energy Potion and began cultivating using her memories.

Lin Qi perfected the first level of the Mental Secret Technique and smoothly broke through to the Bone Forging Realm, gaining greatly enhanced strength and senses. The next day, a powerful delegation from the regional city arrived in City of Light Chasing, where Bert revealed he had come to capture a company traitor known as Poison Rose.

• Lin Qi extracted players’ Mental Secret Technique proficiency until its first level reached Perfection Realm, greatly improving his control over blood, vitality, and energy.
• Lin Qi entered the Extraordinary State and tempered every bone in his body, completing his breakthrough to the Bone Forging Realm in less than five minutes.
• Lin Qi examined his improved attributes and concluded that, with his Great Club, his strength matched that of an Initial Stage Blood Condensation Realm martial artist.
• More than one hundred young Bone Forging Realm martial artists arrived in City of Light Chasing aboard a regional-city Sky Battleship, led by the Blood Condensation Realm expert Bert and accompanied by Presia.
• Bert told Presia that he had come to capture a Dixing Pharmaceutical traitor in the city and identified her current name as Yakro, also known as Poison Rose.

Presia refused to let Dixing Pharmaceutical seize Yakro without evidence, citing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s ties to North Grey Robes. Dixing Pharmaceutical’s young talents secretly attacked the hall anyway, and Yakro recognized them as they descended on the training ground.

• Presia checked Yakro’s records and told Bert that Yakro was a registered martial artist and member of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, so Dixing Pharmaceutical needed clear evidence to take her.
• Presia warned Bert that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was North Grey Robes, prompting him to report the matter while his group stayed in the City of Light Chasing.
• Presia learned that Dixing Pharmaceutical’s young talents had left to capture Yakro but decided not to send help, expecting the hall to hold them off.
• Shadow Fang, Fire Snake, and a hundred Dixing Pharmaceutical talents gathered near the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and launched a nighttime assault.
• Yakro drank her homemade Meditation Potion, considered leaving the hall to protect its members, and then recognized Dixing Pharmaceutical’s attackers as they landed around her.

More than a hundred Bone Forging Realm experts from Dixing Pharmaceutical descended on the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to capture Yakro, while the players counterattacked with reckless enthusiasm. After hundreds of players died and twelve attackers fell, Luo Wu Shang appeared before Yakro and challenged Fire Snake.

• Wu Zhuo Qun and Xiong Yuedie prepared to defend the hall, while Wuka held back the Long-Eared Race group because they feared provoking Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang ordered the Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses to seize Yakro, but the players charged in to protect the pharmacist.
• The players used Heavy Ion Bombs and sacrificed themselves, killing twelve Dixing Pharmaceutical members before all several hundred attackers were wiped out.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Xiong Yuedie moved to join the fight, but Luo Wu Shang flashed out from the second floor and stopped the remaining attackers.
• Luo Wu Shang confronted Fire Snake and used the Extraordinary Martial Skill Heaven Severance.

At Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Luo Wu Shang fought Dixing Pharmaceutical super genius Fire Snake and was apparently defeated by his Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skill. As Fire Snake prepared to seize Yakro, the gray-robed players gathered to fight, and Luo Wu Shang emerged from the rubble unharmed, ready to transform for a second round.

• Luo Wu Shang killed five Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses with a sword slash, but Fire Snake deflected her attack with Seven Changes of the Fiery Serpent.
• Fire Snake drew his greatsword and struck Luo Wu Shang with Serpent Shadow Transformation, blasting her into the martial arts hall’s rubble.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang moved to take Yakro, while One Leaf Floating Cloud, Fang Zhen, Lu Fanchen, and the other players gathered to challenge the invading Bone Forging Realm experts.
• Wuka told the Long-Eared Race woman to wait, believing the gray-robed martial artists had yet to reveal their strength.
• Luo Wu Shang emerged from the rubble largely recovered and told Fire Snake she would transform for their second round.

Luo Wu Shang’s transformation gave her the strength to overpower Fire Snake, while Fang Zhen and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members fought off Dixing Pharmaceutical’s forces. The invaders were defeated and killed, and Luo Wu Shang realized that killing Fire Snake was required to unlock a new expansion.

• Luo Wu Shang transformed in the Bone Forging Realm and sent Fire Snake crashing through a building with one punch.
• Fire Snake used the Seven Changes of the Fiery Serpent, but Luo Wu Shang’s Heaven’s End sword technique gave her the upper hand.
• Fang Zhen used Golden Roar to blast Shadow Fang away, while Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the others blocked Dixing Pharmaceutical’s attempt to seize Yakro.
• Ye Qinglu, Chen Ya, and the other Obsidian Martial Arts Hall members defeated Dixing Pharmaceutical’s martial artists, leaving Fire Snake and Shadow Fang badly injured.
• Fire Snake and Shadow Fang tried to flee, but Luo Wu Shang killed Fire Snake and Ye Qinglu and the others killed Shadow Fang.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s victory over Dixing Pharmaceutical’s force left the City of Light Chasing and the domain city stunned, especially after they learned that its disciples had killed two super geniuses. As Bert reacted with fury and demanded a meeting with Hall Master Lin Qi, the threat of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s retaliation loomed over the hall.

• Wuka worried that Dixing Pharmaceutical would retaliate for Fire Snake and Shadow Fang’s deaths, while Yakro, Wu Zhuo Qun, and Xiong Yuedie marveled at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s strength.
• The City of Light Chasing’s garrison corps investigated the battlefield, and a Three-Eyed Race elder reported the deaths to City Lord Di Luoya.
• Presia told her Half-Scale Race senior brother that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples had killed Dixing Pharmaceutical’s super geniuses, and he arranged for her to join the domain city’s representative team in Mist Mountain Prison.
• Bert learned that Fire Snake, Shadow Fang, and the rest of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s force had died, then ordered Hall Master Lin Qi to come to the Martial Artist Association for a meeting.

Bert of Dixing Pharmaceutical arrived in Crimson Moon Town to confront Lin Qi, while the town’s remarkable energy density and Cultivation Tower impressed his party and Ino. Lin Qi learned Bert had come and told Qin Mu to bring him up, setting up their meeting.

• Igor and Dona recognized Ino and sensed that the young Forest Tribe man accompanying her, Bert, had Blood Condensation Realm strength.
• Bert admired Crimson Moon Town’s energy density and considered taking control of the Cultivation Tower to increase his influence within Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Ino brought Bert and the Dixing Pharmaceutical geniuses to the Cultivation Tower, where its cultivation rooms astonished them.
• Bert agreed to wait for Lin Qi, planning to obtain Yakro and seize the Cultivation Tower.
• Qin Mu warned Lin Qi that Bert had arrived and asked whether to delay him until people from the domain city came.
• Lin Qi revealed he had mastered Reverse Star Triple and told Qin Mu to bring Bert up.

Lin Qi reviewed his greatly increased strength after learning Li Ranxing’s training method and announced that players could choose whether to enter the Bone Forging Realm in an ordinary or Transcendent State. When Bert demanded Yakro and an explanation for the deaths of Fire Snake and Shadow Fang, Lin Qi fought back and left Bert shocked by his strength.

• Lin Qi saw that learning Reverse Star Triple had raised his strength substantially and considered how players’ advancement choices would affect his training.
• Lin Qi updated the official forum to let players choose between ordinary and Transcendent State advancement into the Bone Forging Realm.
• Qin Mu brought Bert and a Forest Tribe youth into Lin Qi’s training room, where the unusually dense energy amazed Ino and the Dixing Pharmaceutical members.
• Bert demanded that Lin Qi surrender Yakro and answer for the deaths of Fire Snake and Shadow Fang, then attacked him with Heaven Imprisoning Hand.
• Lin Qi activated his Transcendent State and struck Bert with Reverse Star Hand, forcing Bert back and giving Lin Qi the advantage.

Lin Qi defeated Bert, a Blood Condensation Realm expert from Dixing Pharmaceutical, and killed Bert and the company members who tried to flee. As Lin Qi prepared for the opening of Mist Mountain Prison, Presia learned that Bert and his group had not left Crimson Moon Town.

• Lin Qi discovered that reaching the Bone Forging Realm had greatly increased his strength in the Extraordinary State, then faced Bert wielding the Tier 3 saber Frostbite Blade.
• Bert attacked with Ice Dragon Break, but Lin Qi used Divine Might to deflect the strike and countered with Lightning Palm, disarming and injuring Bert.
• Lin Qi ignored Bert's threats and beat him to death with the Great Club.
• When Bert's Dixing Pharmaceutical companions tried to escape, Lin Qi crushed them with his power.
• Ino and Qin Mu questioned Lin Qi about provoking Dixing Pharmaceutical, but Lin Qi said their conflict had already become unavoidable and took Frostbite Blade.
• Presia received a report that Bert and his companions had not come out of Crimson Moon Town for more than two days.

Presia and the Half-Scale Race man learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out Dixing Pharmaceutical’s delegation, while word of the killings drove allies away and isolated the hall. Lin Qi decided to enter Mist Mountain Prison anyway, as Li Ranxing tested whether a Berserk Potion could help him form armor around his Transcendent Lifeform.

• Presia told the Half-Scale Race man that Bert and the other Dixing Pharmaceutical delegates had vanished inside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Cultivation Tower, and they concluded the delegation had been killed.
• Presia returned to Mist Mountain Domain City to report the news, which spread shock throughout the city.
• Lan Yu warned Fansen that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out Dixing Pharmaceutical’s delegation and demanded that Fansen cancel their cooperation; Fansen agreed and sent word to the hall.
• Qin Mu told Lin Qi that Fansen had withdrawn and that other powers might target them in Mist Mountain Prison, but Lin Qi insisted that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would still go.
• Lin Qi learned that Yakro’s Berserk Potions were being produced for the disciples, while Li Ranxing drank one and tried again to form a mech-like armor around himself.

Li Ranxing accidentally developed a giant-form Extraordinary Martial Skill that briefly gave him Blood Condensation Realm power, prompting players to rush to imitate him. Lin Qi then met Xie Fina, a deputy leader from the Mist Mountain Domain City delegation, who offered to restrain Dixing Pharmaceutical in exchange for help dealing with a living prisoner in the lower district.

• Li Ranxing's attempt to stabilize a manifested mecha caused energy and force to surge back into his body, transforming him into a giant with fifty tons of strength.
• Fang Zhen showed the players Li Ranxing's status panel, and Li Ranxing explained how he had entered the giant form, inspiring players and Luo Wu Shang to experiment with Berserk Potions.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that a player had created an Extraordinary Martial Skill, then learned that Li Ranxing's giant form lasted only three minutes before his cells disintegrated.
• Qin Mu brought Xie Fina, Presia, and a Half-Scale Race man from the domain city to meet Lin Qi.
• Xie Fina offered to prevent Dixing Pharmaceutical's Blood Condensation Realm experts from attacking Obsidian Martial Arts Hall if Lin Qi helped her deal with a living prisoner in the lower district.

Lin Qi traded his cooperation with Xie Fina for nine hundred Mist Mountain Prison entry slots, intending to use players to explore the prison and acquire its lost techniques. When Xie Fina arrived to collect the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall team, she was astonished to find more than a thousand gray-robed disciples had reached Martial Artist rank.

• Xie Fina explained that the lower district held conscious mechanical prisoners, and proposed teaming up with Lin Qi to capture one in exchange for protection from Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Lin Qi requested Mist Mountain Prison entry slots instead of protection, and Xie Fina agreed to provide nine keys for nine hundred slots.
• Presia warned Xie Fina that their captain might oppose the alliance, but Xie Fina revealed she planned to challenge him for leadership after mastering the second level of a Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skill to Perfection.
• Lin Qi told Qin Mu that the entry slots could help the martial arts hall resist Dixing Pharmaceutical, then announced a prison dungeon for players ranked Martial Artist or above.
• Players rushed to meet the rank requirement after hearing they could earn Sequence Extraordinary Martial Skills and hidden advanced classes by exploring the prison and capturing guard Mechanical People.
• A few days later, Xie Fina’s Sky Battleship arrived, and Presia marveled at the more than a thousand gray-robed Martial Artists gathered at Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Players arrived at the Mist Mountain event dungeon as guilds and independent players prepared to compete for its rewards. Dark Judgment organized retired mercenaries into a prospective guild, while the major garrison corps planned their strategies; the chapter ended with a massive battleship bearing the Dixing Pharmaceutical insignia appearing before Presia.

• Eliminated players discussed how guild recruitment and real-world cultivation were making competition for High Martial Descent events more intense.
• Dark Judgment persuaded Chi Sha and other retired mercenaries to form a mercenary guild and recruit their old comrades.
• Luo Wu Shang described Heavenly Might's plans for the dungeon and her ten-person battle formation, hoping to win access to the Cultivation Tower's third floor.
• The Sky Battleship carrying the players arrived at Mist Mountain, where hundreds of battleships were gathered between enormous peaks.
• A colossal battleship bearing Dixing Pharmaceutical's crimson flame insignia passed by, and Presia reacted in shock.

At Mist Mountain Prison, Lin Qi and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived as Dixing Pharmaceutical’s veteran team joined forces with Commander Palius. After Xie Fina lost her place on Palius’s team and gave up on capturing the prisoner, Lin Qi offered to help her.

• Dixing Pharmaceutical’s massive Sky Battleship arrived, and the gathered forces speculated about its plans and North Grey Robes.
• Lin Qi and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived with over four hundred Advanced Martial Artists and fourteen Bone Forging Realm experts, impressing Alec and Wild Wolf.
• Commander Palius defeated Xie Fina in blood and qi after reaching the third level of the Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill at the Perfection Realm, and Xie Fina left his team.
• Palius revealed that Dixing Pharmaceutical had helped him break through and that Beast Karad had brought his team to assist with capturing a prisoner in the lower level.
• Xie Fina told Lin Qi that she had to cancel their cooperation because she no longer had a team, but Lin Qi offered a way to help her capture the prisoner.

Lin Qi negotiated with Xie Fina for C Grade Alloy machine tools in exchange for helping capture the prisoner's Mechanical Person, then led a group into Mist Mountain Prison's lower district. There, the Mechanical Person revealed its Energy Domain and threatened the assembled teams, leaving the fight's outcome uncertain.

• Lin Qi convinced Xie Fina to cooperate, asking her for twenty machine tools capable of processing C Grade Alloy in addition to their original agreement.
• Xie Fina joined Lin Qi's team, and the two arranged for fewer than two hundred people to enter the lower district while the remaining players explored the middle district.
• Lin Qi's group entered the lower district and found Palius and Beast Karad leading an assault on the guard Mechanical Person Xie Fina wanted to capture.
• Lin Qi recognized that the Mechanical Person's power came from Star Energy Civilization techniques and predicted that Palius's team would struggle to defeat it.
• As Palius urged the teams to exhaust the Mechanical Person's energy, it activated its Energy Domain, declared the assembled fighters low-grade civilizations, and began attacking everyone within range.

The guard Mechanical Person overwhelmed Palius and Beast Karad’s teams with its energy-eroding field and devastating Sword Qi, but Lin Qi chose to let Obsidian Martial Arts Hall confront it. The players identified a strategy to exhaust the boss’s energy by taking turns dying and attacking it from outside its field, and Fang Zhen asked who would go first.

• The guard Mechanical Person’s energy field forced Palius and Beast Karad’s teams to retreat, and its Sword Qi killed dozens of fleeing fighters.
• Palius and Beast Karad fled toward the middle district, while Xie Fina urged Lin Qi and Presia to escape with them.
• Lin Qi refused to leave and told Xie Fina and Presia to keep other teams away while Obsidian Martial Arts Hall handled the prisoner.
• Lin Qi instructed the players to take on the guard Mechanical Person while he watched, and Xie Fina led Presia away to guard the area.
• The players reasoned that they could drain the boss’s energy by taking turns feeding it kills and attacking it from outside its field, and Fang Zhen asked who would go first.