Chapter Summaries

Ye Qinglu and successive teams of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples challenged the guarding Mechanical Person, using each wave’s fight to wear down its strength and learn its attacks. After more than a dozen waves, the Mechanical Person began retreating from the courtyard, and Presia realized the disciples might force it to flee.

• Ye Qinglu led the Sky Garrison into battle, unleashed her Nine Heavens Thunder Fang, and survived a devastating strike before her team was killed within fifteen minutes.
• Li Ranxing, Chen Ya, and the Machine God Garrison fought the Mechanical Person for about fifteen minutes before their transformation energy ran out and they were wiped out.
• Luo Wu Shang led another team into battle as Presia and Xie Fina watched the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s super geniuses repeatedly risk their lives.
• After a wave of 197 Gray-robed Disciples was nearly wiped out, another batch arrived and joined the fight, while the Mechanical Person became increasingly familiar to the players.
• Fang Zhen noticed the Mechanical Person retreating as its energy dwindled, and Presia recognized that the Gray-robed Disciples were driving it toward escape.

Fansen and Lan Yu watched Obsidian Martial Arts Hall defeat a powerful guard Mechanical Person near the lower district’s forbidden cultivation area. The players discovered five more guard Mechanical Persons, agreed to auction the rewards, and began splitting the enemies apart for a raid.

• Fansen and Lan Yu’s team explored the lower district and spotted Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighting a dual-greatsword guard Mechanical Person.
• Fansen recognized Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and regretted turning down the chance to cooperate with them.
• Obsidian Martial Arts Hall pursued the guard Mechanical Person into the cultivation area, exhausted its energy, and defeated it.
• Fang Zhen and the other players discovered five guard Mechanical Persons, agreed to distribute rewards through team auctions, and assigned fliers to lure the enemies apart.
• Li Tianxing and four other players drew the five guard Mechanical Persons away, and Fang Zhen ordered the rest to attack.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall sacrificed dozens of disciples to capture six guard Mechanical Persons in Mist Mountain Prison, astonishing Fansen and Lan Yu. Lin Qi agreed to let Xie Fina extract data from five prisoners in exchange for her parsing device, while Xie Fina sought the information to advance her ambitions.

• Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples fought prisoners in exhausting battles, sacrificing dozens of people to capture them as Fansen and Lan Yu watched in disbelief.
• Lin Qi presented Xie Fina with the lone prisoner she had requested and asked her to provide its data and twenty machine tools as agreed.
• Xie Fina showed Lin Qi the regional city's device for quickly parsing guard Mechanical Persons and explained that it could not extract their memory regions.
• Xie Fina offered to sell the device to Lin Qi in exchange for extracting data from the other five prisoners, despite Presia's warning about the consequences.
• Lin Qi agreed on the conditions that only Xie Fina view the extracted data and that she give him the device, and Xie Fina began parsing the five prisoners.

Xie Fina and Lin Qi analyzed the guard Mechanical Persons’ stored data, finding valuable combat records and an incomplete high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method that Lin Qi traded for Presia’s Initial Stage Heavenly Human Realm method. Near the end of the prison visit, Lin Qi began reviewing the final Mechanical Person’s sparse recordings and discovered a battle between two fighters in space.

• Xie Fina found that the lone prisoner had recorded detailed combat data from the Bone Forging Realm through Above Blood Condensation Realm, giving her a chance to learn his Limitless Tier Martial Skill.
• Xie Fina discovered an incomplete high-level Blood Condensation Realm cultivation method in the fourth guard Mechanical Person, and Presia offered Lin Qi her Initial Stage Heavenly Human Realm cultivation method in exchange for it.
• Lin Qi learned that advancing through the Blood Condensation Realm required Energy Blood Essence, prompting him to reconsider his plans to secure more energy resources and establish cities.
• The 197 players captured twenty guard Mechanical Persons before the prison visit ended, exceeding Lin Qi’s expectation of eighteen.
• Lin Qi analyzed the final guard Mechanical Person and watched a brief recording of two fighters battling beside a star, their blows shattering a surrounding asteroid belt.

Lin Qi discovered that a prisoner had recorded a demigod’s phantom, nearly suffering a fatal injury when he viewed it, and prepared to sell the clip to the players as a meditation technique. Outside Mist Mountain Prison, the leaders of the major forces watched teams emerge, then gaped as Lin Qi and Xie Fina arrived with twenty guard Mechanical Persons.

• Lin Qi watched the prisoner’s second video of stone sculptures and then saw the final recording continue the battle between two Starry Sky Experts.
• A wounded Starry Sky Expert crushed a crystal ball, revealing a demigod’s phantom that made Lin Qi bleed from his seven orifices and nearly burst his skull.
• Lin Qi read that demigods could not be directly observed or depicted, realized the prisoner had carved sculptures while meditating on the demigod’s appearance, and saved the dangerous clip to sell to the players.
• At the prison exit, Hu Lei and other leaders watched teams emerge carrying guard Mechanical Persons, while the battered Palius and Beast Karad lamented their losses and failure to capture one.
• Lin Qi and Xie Fina emerged with a team of mostly Advanced Martial Artists carrying twenty guard Mechanical Persons, leaving the onlookers stunned.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall stunned the major forces by capturing twenty Guard Mechanical Persons without Xie Fina’s help. As the others reconsidered whether to threaten Lin Qi’s group, Lin Qi announced that the Hall would auction the machines in Crimson Moon Town, aiming to establish its place in the Wushan Region.

• Palius and the other forces envied Obsidian Martial Arts Hall after seeing its twenty Guard Mechanical Persons, while Xie Fina and Presia left without taking any of them.
• Xie Fina told Palius that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had captured the machines by itself and that she had gained valuable battle data and part of a Blood Condensation Realm inheritance.
• Palius and Beast Karad discussed the danger of local powers attacking Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while other forces considered whether Lin Qi might trade the machines to the Domain City for protection.
• Lin Qi announced to the Sky Battleships that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would auction Guard Mechanical Persons in Crimson Moon Town in five days, accepting Blood Condensation Realm or Heavenly Human Realm training methods as bids.
• Hu Lei called the plan reckless, but Zhuo Gu said Lin Qi intended to use the auction to establish Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s position in the Wushan Region.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall announced an auction of Mist Mountain Prison’s guard Mechanical Persons, drawing attention from forces across the Wushan Region and prompting players to pursue powerful event rewards. Ye Qinglu began studying the Astonishing God Meditation Technique and blacked out after one second, leaving her unsure whether she had died.

• Hu Lei and Zhuo Gu decided to attend Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s auction, while Presia and Xie Fina also prepared to go.
• News of the auction spread across the Wushan Region, and Isaac learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would sell the prison guard Mechanical Persons in Crimson Moon Town.
• Lin Qi awarded participating players access to the Astonishing God Meditation Technique and combat videos, including Blood Condensation Realm and Heavenly Human Realm techniques.
• Zhang Qingwei and Luo Wu Shang discussed pooling event contribution points with other teams to obtain more Heavenly Human Realm combat videos.
• Ye Qinglu tested the Astonishing God Meditation Technique, lost consciousness almost immediately, and wondered whether she had died.

Lin Qi prepared the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall for the influx of Bone Forging Realm experts expected at Crimson Moon Town’s auction and gave Ino a chance to pursue the Blood Condensation Realm. A player’s astonishing martial skill creation triggered major system rewards, and Lin Qi investigated the mysterious technique behind it.

• Ino reported the martial arts hall’s rapid growth, and Lin Qi gave her a Magic Sausage and part of a Blood Condensation Realm training method so she could attempt a breakthrough and help manage Crimson Moon Town’s security.
• Lin Qi checked player cultivation progress and found that many players’ training methods had not advanced, with some players still dead.
• A powerful boom shook the martial arts hall, and the system announced that a player had created a Limitless Transcendent Martial Skill and completed a quest phase.
• Lin Qi discovered that Ye Qinglu had created the skill after mastering the Zhou Tian Sword Array, which devastated a training room and its Intermediate Combat Puppet.
• Players attributed Ye Qinglu’s power to repeated head explosions while practicing the Astonishing God Meditation Technique, so Lin Qi used his last extraction opportunity to investigate the technique.

Lin Qi discovered that Ye Qinglu's meditation method involved explosively expanding her mind, while Lu Fanchen's full-body explosion inspired a new approach to martial skills. One Leaf Floating Cloud used that idea to create an energy-storing spear and summoned a colossal phantom above the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Lin Qi examined Ye Qinglu's memories and realized she meditated by exploding and expanding her mind before receiving a demigod phantom's information.
• Lu Fanchen's entire body exploded while he rehearsed a martial skill, and Li Tianxing proposed trading his research method to One Leaf Floating Cloud for five Heavenly Human Realm battle videos.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud learned that Lu Fanchen planned to use qi, blood, and energy to imitate the Astonishing God Meditation Technique's phantom.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud built a C Grade Alloy spear embedded with Energy Crystals to gather and store energy.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud spun with the spear, unleashed his qi and blood, and summoned a phantom more than three hundred meters tall above the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

One Leaf Floating Cloud and Fang Zhen experimented with using a silver-gray spear to gather energy into a giant blood-qi phantom, and Fang Zhen evolved the Electromagnetic Cannon into a Limitless Transcendent Martial Skill. Two days later, Lin Qi’s fusion of two martial skills finished.

• Xiong Yuedie and Wu Zhuo Qun watched One Leaf Floating Cloud’s enormous phantom and discussed the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s foundations and Gray-robed Disciples.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud collapsed after condensing the phantom, and Fang Zhen borrowed his spear to test the technique.
• Fang Zhen formed his own giant phantom and used it to launch the spear with an immensely powerful Electromagnetic Cannon.
• The system announced that a player had created a Limitless Transcendent Martial Skill, and Lin Qi realized he could fuse it with another such skill.
• Players rushed to learn the evolved Electromagnetic Cannon, and two days later Lin Qi’s martial skill fusion finished.

Isaac accompanied Smiling Skull to Crimson Moon Town, where rival powers planned to seize the guard Mechanical People and turn the auction into a trial and looting ground. Just as the gathered forces prepared to head to the auction, a tremendous burst of blood energy announced that someone in Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had broken through into the Blood Condensation Realm.

• Isaac traveled with Mo Xiao and Smiling Skull’s recruits to Crimson Moon Town, hoping to exploit the town’s destruction to uncover Crimson Moon Mountain’s secrets.
• At Crimson Moon Mountain, Mo Xiao met Black Steel Heavy Industry’s Legion Commander Tie Mu, and they discussed Smiling Skull’s plans to take the guard Mechanical People and the threat of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s coming move.
• Mo Xiao led Smiling Skull toward the auction, while Zhuo Gu and Hu Lei’s groups realized that major forces intended to use the event as a trial and an opportunity to seize resources.
• A vast wave of blood energy erupted from the mountaintop and forced everyone in Crimson Moon Town to the ground.
• The crowd stared at the Cultivation Tower in disbelief as they realized someone from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had reached the Blood Condensation Realm.

Ino broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm with Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s support, and the powers gathered for the Crimson Moon Auction saw that the hall had enough strength to rival the region’s major forces. Just as Lin Qi prepared to admit them into the venue, a massive Dixing Pharmaceutical Sky Battleship arrived over Crimson Moon Town with thousands aboard.

• Ino emerged from the Cultivation Tower as a Blood Condensation Realm expert, astonishing City Lord Di Luoya, Igor, Dona, and the watching powers.
• Wild Wolf and Alec recognized that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could nurture powerful fighters, while the auction guests reassessed the hall’s standing in the Wushan Region.
• The guests saw more than a thousand Gray-robed Disciples guarding the auction venue, including fifty-two Bone Forging Realm experts, and Presia and Xie Fina judged that attacking the hall would be dangerous.
• Isaac and Mo Xiao of Smiling Skull were startled by the hall’s forces, while Lin Qi ordered the guests to line up and enter the auction.
• A Sky Battleship bearing Dixing Pharmaceutical’s emblem arrived above Crimson Moon Town with more than three thousand people aboard, most seemingly at least at the Bone Forging Realm.

Dixing Pharmaceutical’s Beast Karad demanded that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disband and surrender Lin Qi and its Guardian Mechanical People, while offering its disciples a place in the company. The Gray-robed Disciples instead proved their loyalty through explosive attacks, and Fang Zhen’s immense blood-and-qi phantom fired a spear that split the Sky Battleship in two.

• Xie Fina and the other powers saw that Karad had brought thousands of Bone Forging experts and formidable Blood Condensation experts, including the Bloodstained General, the Sky Eye Tyrant, and the Twelve Fiends of the Forbidden Forest.
• Karad gave Obsidian Martial Arts Hall one minute to disband, surrender Lin Qi and its Guardian Mechanical People, and let its remaining members join Dixing Pharmaceutical.
• Wu Zhuo Qun, Ino, Mo Xiao, and Isaac feared the offer would turn Lin Qi’s disciples against him, but One Leaf Floating Cloud and Twilight of the Gods rallied the Gray-robed Disciples to defend their Dojo Master.
• More than a dozen Gray-robed Disciples self-destructed on the Sky Battleship, killing hundreds of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s Bone Forging experts, and the remaining disciples surged into the air around the ship.
• Fang Zhen manifested a blood-and-qi phantom over three hundred meters tall and used the Electromagnetic Cannon Type 2 Modified to pierce and split the Sky Battleship in two.

Fang Zhen destroyed Dixing Pharmaceutical’s Sky Battleship, but its surviving Blood Condensation Realm experts attacked Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with overwhelming force. Lu Fanchen held back Sky Eye Tyrant’s storm with Starfall Burst, then compressed his vital-blood phantom and prepared to detonate it.

• Fang Zhen split the Sky Battleship with his Electromagnetic Cannon, astonishing the auction attendees and making Dona and other young martial artists consider joining Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Beast Karad ordered the surviving forces to kill everyone from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Blood-Soaked General Meria’s Scorching Dragon Spear burned nearby martial artists to death.
• Sky Eye Tyrant unleashed Heaven’s Wrath, lifting buildings and martial artists into a massive storm that threatened the players.
• Lu Fanchen used Starfall Burst to meet Sky Eye Tyrant’s attack, but the storm gradually overwhelmed his vital-blood phantom.
• Lu Fanchen compressed the phantom to less than ten meters, declared that he would die for the Dojo Master, and shouted for it to explode.

Lu Fanchen’s sacrifice failed to kill the Sky Eye Tyrant, but Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s players slew him with a coordinated attack, shocking the gathered factions. As the factions prepared to turn on the hall, Lin Qi left the auction hall to test his strength against Mo Xiao.

• Lu Fanchen detonated his phantom in an attempt to take the Sky Eye Tyrant down with him, but the wounded Tyrant survived the blast.
• Fang Zhen and One Leaf Floating Cloud led the players in attacking the Sky Eye Tyrant, and more than twenty members of the Sky Garrison killed him with Spiral Demon Spear Cannons.
• Beast Karad urged Blood-Soaked General Meria and the Twelve Fiends of the Forbidden Forest to attack Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Mo Xiao failed to secure Iron Twilight’s help.
• Iron Twilight chose to watch the battle and assess Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s remaining strength before deciding whether to intervene.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Ino urged caution as the factions turned hostile, but Lin Qi left the auction hall and confronted Mo Xiao.
• Lin Qi activated Three Cultivation Extraordinary State as he prepared to test his strength against Mo Xiao.

Lin Qi confronted Mo Xiao and fought him to a standstill despite Mo Xiao’s overwhelming speed and strength. When Mo Xiao unleashed Blood Fiend Starfall, Lin Qi used his trump card, Thunderous Mountain Charge, to destroy the attack and kill him.

• Lin Qi dodged Mo Xiao’s punches and Rainstorm Barrage, then exchanged attacks with him without falling behind.
• Mo Xiao brought out six shortswords and fought Lin Qi in a fierce aerial battle, astonishing the watching factions.
• Mo Xiao unleashed Blood Fiend Starfall, summoning one hundred and eight blood-colored stars that threatened Crimson Moon Town.
• Lin Qi used a blood-colored pearl to strengthen himself and summoned the enormous gate of Thunderous Mountain Charge.
• Lin Qi sent a thousand lightning-wreathed sword phantoms through Mo Xiao’s stars and killed Mo Xiao, reducing him to blood mist.

Lin Qi killed Mo Xiao with a devastating martial skill, but the Forbidden Forest’s fighters and Beast Karad moved to besiege him while he was weakened. Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang intervened, killing Mang Fu and sending the remaining attackers flying, though the battle’s outcome remained uncertain.

• Lin Qi killed Mo Xiao with a thousand thunder-wreathed swords, stunning the factions, players, and livestream viewers.
• Mang Fu persuaded Beast Karad and the other Blood Condensation Realm fighters to attack Lin Qi while their forces held back Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples.
• Ye Qinglu used the Zhou Tian Sword Array and a lightning-wreathed strike to kill Mang Fu, then collapsed from the effort.
• Luo Wu Shang transformed into a giant and unleashed One Sword Opens the Sky, blasting Beast Karad and the remaining Twelve Fiends of the Forbidden Forest across the lake and leaving them gravely wounded.

Ye Qinglu and Luo Wu Shang’s powerful martial skills helped the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall defeat Dixing Pharmaceutical and Smiling Skull in Crimson Moon Town, establishing it as a major power. Lin Qi then opened the auction and offered advanced-study places that included access to the hall’s martial skills, drawing an excited reaction from the factions present.

• Luo Wu Shang’s sword strike severely wounded the Forbidden Forest Twelve Beasts and other Blood Condensation Realm opponents, while Ye Qinglu and Lin Qi also demonstrated the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s strength.
• The Obsidian Martial Arts Hall pursued Dixing Pharmaceutical’s scattered forces and killed more than half of its Bone Forging Realm experts, along with a Mid-level Blood Condensation Realm member of Smiling Skull.
• The factions accepted the auction’s hundred-Energy-Crystal entry fee, hoping to trade their Blood Condensation Realm training methods for knowledge gained from the guard Mechanical People.
• Lin Qi announced that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would auction advanced-study places, starting at five thousand Energy Crystals, with Core Disciple treatment and access to its available martial skills.
• Xie Fina asked whether advanced-study students could learn the martial skills used by the Gray-robed Disciples, and Lin Qi confirmed that they could, astonishing the auction’s attendees.

Lin Qi auctioned Guardian Mechanical Persons and advanced-study slots for Limitless Tier Martial Skills, earning major resources while deliberately drawing factions and geniuses toward Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. After the auction, he rejected Ino’s proposed restrictions and welcomed the challenge of other factions learning the skills, as news of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s defeat and Mo Xiao’s death spread across the Wushan Region.

• Major factions and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s upper ranks questioned Lin Qi’s decision to auction advanced-study slots that allowed outsiders to learn Limitless Tier Martial Skills.
• Xie Fina, Tie Mu, Hu Lei, Zhuo Gu, and others bid fiercely for the fifty slots, while all twelve Guardian Mechanical Persons were exchanged for cultivation methods.
• The auction earned Lin Qi nearly 5.7 million Energy Crystals from the slots, and he directed disciples to process the Sky Battleship wreckage for the branch hall and future sales.
• Ino urged Lin Qi to restrict the trainees and use the proceeds to acquire Energy Blood Essence synthesis equipment, but Lin Qi insisted that every trainee receive normal treatment.
• Lin Qi explained that he wanted more people to learn the skills, raise Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s reputation, and attract recruits; Ino accepted his reasoning.
• After the Crimson Moon Auction, news of Dixing Pharmaceutical’s wiped-out team and Mo Xiao’s death spread throughout the Wushan Region.

Lin Qi considered how to fuse the training methods he had collected, then learned that Isaac knew where the complete Body Strengthening Secret Technique metal plates were. After Isaac revealed they were with the Red Moon Merchant Guild, Lin Qi ordered an investigation and an attempt to buy them back, and the system offered to upgrade his administrator privileges.

• The Elegant Winged Woman and the golden-furred ape-man agreed to send their clans' geniuses to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in hopes of learning a Limitless Tier Martial Skill.
• Lin Qi reviewed forty-two training methods and postponed fusing them after the system warned that higher administrator privileges improved the results.
• Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that the martial arts hall had captured Isaac, and Lin Yan brought the injured White Feather Gang leader before him.
• Isaac offered the location of the complete Body Strengthening Secret Technique metal plates in exchange for his life, and Lin Qi agreed to imprison him instead of killing him.
• Isaac told Lin Qi that he had traded the metal plates to the Red Moon Merchant Guild, and Lin Qi sent Wu Zhuo Qun to investigate and try to buy them back.
• The system informed Lin Qi that he met the requirements to increase his administrator privileges and asked whether he wanted to proceed.