Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi upgraded to Level 3 Administrator Privilege, gaining a player limit of two hundred thousand and new training and apparel features, but the expansion strained his energy and housing resources. He announced a thirty-two-hour update that would raise the closed-beta limit to eight thousand and unlock maps for three more regions.

• Lin Qi confirmed the Level 3 Administrator Privilege upgrade, forcing all players to log out for thirty-two hours.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud worried about the forced logout, while Fang Zhen planned to practice the Astonishing God Meditation Technique during the downtime.
• Lin Qi discovered the new privilege’s two-hundred-thousand-player limit, Beginner Martial Arts Room, and upgraded apparel, along with demanding Level 4 requirements.
• Lin Qi realized Crimson Moon Town’s Energy Vein and player rest areas could not support the expansion and decided to launch new gameplay.
• Lin Qi posted an announcement for High Martial Descent Closed Beta Version 2.0, raising the player limit to eight thousand and unlocking three regional maps.

The Version 2.0 update expanded High Martial Descent and left players eagerly awaiting its reopening while One Leaf Floating Cloud joined Ye Qinglu and Sky Travelers in Eternal Immortal Path. When War God Alliance attacked Sky Travelers over a demon, One Leaf Floating Cloud revealed his unusual combat awareness by effortlessly dodging five experts.

• High Martial Descent announced its 2.0 update, raising the player limit, opening new regions, and adding outfits, NPC hiring, caravans, and outposts.
• Ye Qinglu told One Leaf Floating Cloud to join Sky Travelers in Eternal Immortal Path's open beta and said she hoped to recruit some members for High Martial Descent.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud met Ye Qinglu and Thousand Blade Fiend in Baiye Village, and they headed to Thousand Needles Forest to hunt a great demon and seek entry to the Shenxiao Sect.
• The group found War God Alliance fighting Sky Travelers over the demon, and Thousand Blade Fiend rushed in to help.
• War God Alliance's experts surrounded One Leaf Floating Cloud, but he dodged their attacks with ease and asked why they were not using mental perception.

One Leaf Floating Cloud adapted to Eternal Immortal Path and killed the War God Alliance fighters surrounding him with powerful martial arts. As the battle turned against the alliance, Ye Qinglu gathered spiritual energy and unleashed a sword technique that wiped out its forces in Thousand Needles Forest.

• Thousand Blade Fiend fought Gui Hou while One Leaf Floating Cloud evaded attacks from five War God Alliance experts, then adapted to his game body and killed them with his fists and Lightning Palm.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud declined to help Thousand Blade Fiend and joked that Ye Qinglu would chop him up if he joined her fight.
• Ye Qinglu gathered spiritual energy through her Dragon Spring Sword, shocking Thousand Blade Fiend and Gui Hou, and the War God Alliance targeted her to stop her advancement.
• Ye Qinglu summoned a towering sword phantom and three hundred spiritual energy swords, carving a kilometer-long canyon through Thousand Needles Forest and wiping out the War God Alliance.

Ye Qinglu demonstrated her overwhelming spiritual-energy control, prompting Sky Travelers to debate whether to investigate High Martial Descent. Azure Sky ordered a thorough investigation, including sending the entire Starry Sky Mecha Corps into the game, as Crimson Moon Town welcomed its first newcomers after the update.

• Ye Qinglu explained that her Sword Qi attack required spiritual-energy control and high mental strength, then recommended that Sky Travelers develop in High Martial Descent.
• Azure Sky chose to investigate High Martial Descent before committing, while advising Ye Qinglu to keep leveling in Eternal Immortal Path.
• War Heaven Half-Step ordered the War God Alliance to investigate Ye Qinglu and One Leaf Floating Cloud after their defeat.
• Azure Sky summoned two subordinates and tasked one with investigating High Martial Descent while Star Mad led the one-hundred-thousand-member Mecha Corps into the game.
• The thirty-two-hour update ended, and Crimson Moon Town's branch hall received its first several thousand newcomers.

Thousands of new players entered High Martial Descent, and veteran players recruited them into garrisons and taught them how to progress. Star Mad’s elite corps suffered a crushing defeat against a Crocodile Fang Rhinoceros, while five ordinary players defeated it with martial techniques, leaving Star Mad stunned.

• Lin Qi welcomed the thousands of newcomers, gave them the first layer of the Astonishing Spirit Training Method, and left the veterans to recruit them into garrisons.
• Star Mad led 336 elite soldiers straight into the wilderness to hunt monsters, while One Leaf Floating Cloud advised Thousand Blade Fiend and Remnant Blade Like Snow to cultivate before venturing out.
• Remnant Blade Like Snow injured her lungs while practicing, so One Leaf Floating Cloud killed her and then killed Thousand Blade Fiend, explaining that starting over was the quickest way to recover.
• Star Mad’s corps was nearly wiped out by a Crocodile Fang Rhinoceros, until Cold Bear pulled Star Mad clear of its charge.
• Cold Bear’s four companions used punches, footwork, and slashes to kill the rhinoceros in under a minute, and Cold Bear asked Star Mad whether he had learned Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps.

Star Mad recruited Cold Bear’s squad and funded his team’s training, while Xiong Yuedie joined the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s guard regiment and learned powerful secret techniques. Lin Qi won a Life Seed from the roulette, and Wu Zhuo Qun faced a steep price to buy a secret-technique metal plate from the Red Moon Merchant Guild.

• Star Mad hired Cold Bear and his five companions to protect people in the wilderness, then bought points so his team could learn basic martial skills and the Star Explosion Meditation Technique.
• Xiong Yuedie toured the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with Qin Mu, learned its secret techniques and a Super Tier training method, and set her sights on winning the guard regiment’s monthly competition.
• Lin Qi started fusing forty-two training methods, then used his accumulated disciples for roulette draws and won a four-star Life Seed that could grow into a Life Tree.
• Wu Zhuo Qun offered the Red Moon Merchant Guild fifty thousand Energy Crystals for the metal plate, but the Blood Pattern Race elder demanded one hundred guardian robots and a complete Limitless Tier Martial Skill instead.

Lin Qi discovered that monster blood could rapidly grow the Life Seed into a Life Tree, but its Life Fruits consumed enormous quantities of blood essence. After Wu Zhuo Qun reported the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s steep price for the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and Smiling Skull’s planned purge, Lin Qi decided to sell Super Electromagnetic Guns to the major city lords.

• Elder Kui Lang dismissed the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s concerns and ordered every Red Moon Merchant Guild branch to blacklist it.
• Lin Qi watered the Life Seed with monster blood until it grew into a Life Tree and produced ten Life Fruits, then considered using Lord Monster blood to increase production.
• Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that the Red Moon Merchant Guild demanded one hundred guard Mechanical Persons and a complete Limitless Tier Martial Skill for the Inheritance Metal Plate.
• Wu Zhuo Qun reported that four of Smiling Skull’s Seven Guardians were preparing to lead a purge against the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in the Mountain of the Dead.
• Lin Qi told Wu Zhuo Qun to contact the major city lords and offer them Super Electromagnetic Guns.

Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan began selling Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Super Electromagnetic Guns to the major cities, while Lin Qi received three newly optimized High Tier Heavenly Human Secret Techniques. In the City of Light Chasing, Di Luoya saw a Super Electromagnetic Gun’s power firsthand and eagerly asked what Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wanted in return.

• Wu Zhuo Qun explained to Lin Yan that selling Super Electromagnetic Guns would draw talented martial artists from other factions toward Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s advanced Lightning Palm skills.
• Lin Qi completed the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and received three optimized High Tier Heavenly Human Secret Techniques from the system.
• Lin Qi decided to organize the new secret techniques so he could test them on promising disciples of the guard corps.
• Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan met City Lord Di Luoya and offered to sell Super Electromagnetic Guns to the City of Light Chasing.
• Wu Zhuo Qun fired three shots at Vako’s C4 Grade Alloy armor, denting it and convincing Di Luoya of the weapon’s power.
• Di Luoya asked Wu Zhuo Qun what Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wanted in exchange for the guns.

Wu Zhuo Qun and Lin Yan introduced the Super Electromagnetic Guns in City of Light Chasing, exchanging weapons and access to Lightning Palm for potion herbs and the city’s help selling them. As the guns spread and buyers flocked to them, City Lord Di Luoya recognized the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s growing influence, while the Red Moon Merchant Guild learned that the new weapons threatened its armor business.

• Lin Yan explained the four Super Electromagnetic Gun models to City Lord Di Luoya, and Wu Zhuo Qun offered buyers the first volume of Lightning Palm with each purchase.
• Di Luoya ordered one thousand advanced models and one hundred flagship models, paying with medicinal herbs, while Wu Zhuo Qun left staff and guns in the city before departing with Lin Yan.
• Di Luoya told Vako to cooperate with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and warned that the Wushan Region would divide between its members and those outside it.
• The Martial Artist Association and local shops began selling the guns, prompting Martial Artists, gangs, and even Quasi-Martial Artists to buy them and learn Lightning Palm.
• The White Masked Youth discovered that gangs were selling their B-class Battle Armor to buy the new weapons, then learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was behind them.

Lin Qi perfected the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, while the Red Moon Merchant Guild sent the Dragon Slaying Corps toward Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. The chapter ended with the corps killing players who had discovered a large Energy Vein in the Mountain of the Dead, prompting them to call for backup.

• The White Masked Youth told Kui Lang that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s weapon sales were cutting the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s profits, so Kui Lang ordered him to summon the Dragon Slaying Corps to pressure the hall.
• Lin Qi perfected the second level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, tested his strength at 75.8 tons, and ordered Qin Mu to train the visiting trainees while sharing most matching martial skills with them.
• Alec and Wild Wolf learned that the Dragon Slaying Corps was headed for Mist Mountain Domain City and might target Obsidian Martial Arts Hall over its competition with the Red Moon Merchant Guild.
• Cold Bear and his team found a likely medium-sized or larger Energy Vein in the Mountain of the Dead, but a Bloodline Race man aboard one of three Sky Battleships killed them with marbles.
• After respawning, Cold Bear and the others decided to report the attackers as a world BOSS and call for backup.

Rhine Manster’s Dragon Slaying Corps continued clearing the Mountain of the Dead, while players rallied to seize the corps’s Sky Battleships and transport vehicles. The corps’s advance then halted when its radar detected thousands of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters surrounding them.

• Silent Hunter reported that he had eliminated the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples, and Rhine Manster ordered the Dragon Slaying Corps to search the area before advancing.
• Rhine Manster gave the White Masked Youth a blood-red pendant and told him to tell Kui Lang that their debt was settled.
• A video of the Sky Battleships sparked an uproar on the High Martial Descent forum, and Fang Zhen began gathering players to pursue the supposed world BOSS.
• Luo Wu Shang told Zhang Qingwei that her second-level Body Strengthening Secret Technique had reached 100% proficiency, and Heavenly Might prepared to head for the Mountain of the Dead.
• The Dragon Slaying Corps pushed toward the Wushan Region as Rhine Manster learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall fighters were resisting in growing numbers.
• The Sky Battleship stopped after its radar detected 6,186 ordinary individuals and 262 high-threat individuals surrounding the corps.

The Dragon Slaying Corps attacked the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s gathered players in the Mountain of the Dead, but Half-step Heavenly Human Rhine Manster and his forces were overwhelmed by powerful garrison commanders and player reinforcements. The corps retreated with heavy losses, while news of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s victory spread across the Wushan Region.

• Rhine Manster summoned Teams One and Four after learning that thousands of martial artists and hundreds of Bone Forging Realm experts had gathered against the Dragon Slaying Corps.
• Rhine Manster attacked the players with a gigantic vajra phantom, killing many martial artists, but Luo Wu Shang blocked his blow and revealed herself as a commander under the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Rhine Manster sent Jena and the other captains and vice-captains against the players, but Ye Qinglu repelled their eighteen combined phantom attacks with her spear and sword phantoms.
• Luo Wu Shang held Rhine Manster off while Fang Zhen, Chen Ya, Li Ranxing, and other players attacked him from afar, and the players defeated the Dragon Slaying Corps’ remaining forces.
• Rhine Manster ordered a retreat toward Smiling Skull’s territory after 636 members died and two captains, five vice-captains, and sixteen squad leaders were killed.
• News of the Dragon Slaying Corps’ defeat and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s victory reached the Red Moon Merchant Guild headquarters and major powers across the Wushan Region.

After the Dragon Slaying Corps suffered devastating losses, Elder Kui Lang tried to salvage the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s position by offering a revised trade, but Lin Qi refused and planned to seize the metal plate instead. Lin Qi then heard from Hong Lao that the Forbidden Zone was steadily consuming the Four Domains, and asked what dangers lay within it.

• Elder Kui Lang and the White Masked Youth learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had routed the Dragon Slaying Corps and decided to offer Lin Qi a reduced price for the metal plate.
• Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Gray-robed Disciples brought two Sky Battleships and many Flying Transport Vehicles to Crimson Moon Town, astonishing the town’s trainees.
• Lin Qi rejected the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s offer, countered with five thousand Energy Crystals, and ordered Qin Mu to monitor the guild.
• Lin Qi agreed to meet Hong Lao, a vice commander from Cangyi City, who proposed cooperation in Forbidden Zone business.
• Hong Lao told Lin Qi that the Four Domains had lost ten percent of their safe area in five years and could eventually be swallowed by the Forbidden Zone; Lin Qi asked what dangers it held.

Lin Qi learned that the Forbidden Zone was encroaching on the Four Domains and agreed to cooperate with Cangyi City in exploring it, while using Life Fruit to secure a path toward replacing the Red Moon Merchant Guild as Tianhe Domain City's agent. Determined to strengthen Obsidian Martial Arts Hall quickly and obtain the Body Strengthening Secret Technique from Kui Lang, he prepared for a major confrontation and launched the Golden Road expansion.

• Hong Lao told Lin Qi that the Forbidden Zone teemed with lethal creatures and human-possessing aberrations, and invited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to explore it with Cangyi City.
• Lin Qi learned the Red Moon Merchant Guild could block Obsidian Martial Arts Hall from obtaining Energy Blood Essence synthesis equipment, then offered a Life Fruit to help Cangyi City pass a message to Tianhe Domain City about replacing the Guild as its agent.
• Lin Qi and Hong Lao agreed to cooperate and traded a Life Fruit for B-grade and C Grade Flying Transport Vehicle production lines, with Cangyi City also agreeing to deliver Lin Qi's message.
• Lin Qi ordered Wu Zhuo Qun to prepare ten thousand B2-class Super Electromagnetic Guns and five hundred thousand B4-class bullets, then declared he would use 1,423 renovated rest areas against Kui Lang to secure the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
• Lin Qi opened the Golden Road expansion, added ten thousand game slots, and launched the Night of Light Chasing event for players below the martial artist level.

Players prepared for the Night of Light Chasing event while Kui Lang arranged to auction the Inheritance Metal Plate and draw powerful factions against Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Lin Qi released the event mission, and more than ten thousand Gray-robed Disciples surrounded the Red Moon Merchant Guild.

• Players and major teams planned how to earn the event’s generous rewards, while Luo Wu Shang’s team focused on her breakthrough and Star Mad’s corps stocked potions and trained.
• Kui Lang learned he would be sent to the Forbidden Zone Exploration Corps, then announced that the Inheritance Metal Plate would be auctioned to attract the Mist Mountain and Tianhe Domain Cities.
• Lin Qi survived a dangerous Astonishing God Meditation Technique session with a Life Fruit and found that his spiritual range had doubled.
• Xie Fina warned Lin Qi that powerful figures planned to buy the Inheritance Metal Plate, and Lin Qi told her he would not participate.
• Lin Qi announced the mission to destroy the Red Moon Merchant Guild, kill everyone there, and recover the Inheritance Metal Plate.
• More than ten thousand Gray-robed Disciples surrounded the Red Moon Merchant Guild, and a player knocked on its door, announcing their arrival.

Kui Lang and the Red Moon Merchant Guild tried to repel an assault by Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Gray-robed Disciples, but the disciples repeatedly sacrificed themselves to exhaust his blood and qi. The players finally killed Kui Lang and the branch’s defenders with coordinated gunfire, and the news of the branch’s destruction spread through City of Light Chasing.

• Kui Lang learned that Smiling Skull and Dixing Pharmaceutical would attend his auction, while Obsidian Martial Arts Hall showed no apparent interest in the Inheritance Metal Plate.
• More than ten thousand Gray-robed Disciples armed with Super Electromagnetic Guns attacked the Red Moon Merchant Guild, and Kui Lang suppressed and killed the players who entered the building.
• Star Mad ordered players to attack in continuous batches and wear down Kui Lang’s blood and qi, while the defenders fought for hours against the seemingly endless waves.
• After Kui Lang’s strength dwindled, he and the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s survivors fled into the street, where thousands of players fired together and killed them.
• Players looted the Red Moon Merchant Guild as news of the branch’s destruction shocked the city’s factions.

After the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall destroyed the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s City of Light Chasing branch using disciples armed with Super Electromagnetic Guns, powers across the Wushan Region reacted with alarm. Lin Qi refused to sell the Body Strengthening Secret Technique’s Inheritance Metal Plate, leaving the Hall prepared to face pressure from powerful factions.

• City Lord Di Luoya watched footage showing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples killing Elder Kui Lang and ordered the City Guard Corps to wait until dawn before going to the scene.
• News of the branch’s destruction spread across the Wushan Region, while Jena told Commander Rhine Manster that Kui Lang had died and Rhine Manster ordered her to report the attack to headquarters.
• Presia suggested that Xie Fina ask her master to invest in Crimson Moon Town, but Xie Fina decided to wait until the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was under greater pressure.
• The rookie players celebrated their rewards from the Red Moon Merchant Guild, and Wu Zhuo Qun gave Lin Qi the cracked Smart Watches of the guild’s elder and branch manager.
• Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that an elder’s son from Tianhe Domain City wanted to buy the Body Strengthening Secret Technique’s Inheritance Metal Plate, but Lin Qi refused to sell it.

After Lexar Zornk blocked the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall from obtaining Energy Blood Essence production equipment, Yinghu investigated the hall’s request for help. Meanwhile, Lin Qi showed Luo Qi blueprints for Tier 4 Guardian Armor and asked if she could build it.

• Hong Lao told Wu Zhuo Qun that Lexar Zornk was unlikely to cause trouble in the Wushan Region, but his refusal to sell the Inheritance Metal Plate made cooperation with Tianhe Domain City harder.
• Lexar ordered his connections to prevent the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall from obtaining Energy Blood Essence production equipment after it refused to sell him the plate.
• Yinghu stopped Ling Ye from rejecting Cangyi City’s request and sent her to investigate the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall before deciding whether to help.
• Lin Qi examined the loot from the Red Moon Merchant Guild and found a decrypted file among Kui Lang’s materials containing Tier 4 Guardian Armor blueprints.
• Lin Qi summoned Luo Qi and showed her the blueprints, then asked whether she could make the armor.

Lin Qi recruited players to refine alloys above C Grade while promising Luo Qi a chance to regenerate her severed arm. As players prepared to explore the depths beneath the martial arts hall, Ling Ye and Yifeng arrived in Crimson Moon Town to investigate the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and were stunned by its disciples and Xie Fina’s deference to a young mentor.

• Lin Qi told Luo Qi he could provide alloys above C Grade and regenerate her severed arm, then gave her refining documents and Great Sausages to study.
• Lin Qi announced an epic quest asking players to refine one ton of alloy above C Grade in exchange for a blue-quality staff.
• Lin Xinyao and Lu Fanchen suspected the quest was connected to the space beneath the martial arts hall, and Lu Fanchen led players toward the City of Light Chasing to explore it again.
• Ling Ye and Yifeng arrived in Crimson Moon Town in a C6 Grade Alloy Flying Car and headed to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to investigate it.
• Ling Ye and Yifeng were astonished by the many powerful young disciples and recognized Xie Fina, who respectfully asked a young woman in silver-gray clothing for martial-skill guidance.

Ling Ye and Yifeng discovered that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall taught Limitless Tier Martial Skills and offered extraordinary cultivation facilities. Lin Qi refused to sell the hall’s core technologies but proposed opening a branch in Tianhe Domain City instead.

• Xie Fina hurried upstairs to receive a private lesson from an Obsidian instructor, and Yunjie explained that trainees could learn Limitless Tier Martial Skills after obtaining auctioned slots.
• Yunjie showed Ling Ye and Yifeng an Intermediate Gravity Chamber capable of three hundred times gravity and described a Beginner Meditation Room that improved comprehension.
• After experiencing the facilities, Ling Ye and Yifeng requested a meeting with Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s decision-maker and met Dojo Master Lin Qi.
• Ling Ye offered Energy Blood Essence for Intermediate Gravity Chambers and Beginner Meditation Rooms, but Lin Qi refused to sell the proprietary technologies.
• Lin Qi offered instead to discuss opening an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall branch in Tianhe Domain City.