Chapter Summaries

Lin Qi arranged for Ling Ye and Yifeng to fund and manage an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall branch in Tianhe Domain City, then learned that Smiling Skull, Dixing Pharmaceutical, and the Red Moon Merchant Guild might unite against the players. As he considered how to strengthen the players’ position in the Mountain of the Dead, a hidden quest for Earth Vein Essence appeared.

• Lin Qi explained that Ling Ye and Yifeng could join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as Core Disciples and manage a new branch while paying for its construction and facilities.
• Ling Ye agreed to the terms and ordered ten Intermediate Gravity Chambers, ten Beginner Meditation Rooms, and two Advanced Training Rooms before signing a contract with Lin Qi.
• Ino questioned whether the deal would bring enough benefit, but Lin Qi predicted that other factions would eventually seek their own martial arts halls.
• Ino reported that Smiling Skull and Dixing Pharmaceutical had been invited to a Red Moon Merchant Guild meeting, and Lin Qi considered sending ordinary disciples to help scout the Mountain of the Dead.
• The system announced that Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing had triggered the hidden quest to collect ten thousand units of Earth Vein Essence for Beginner Spirit Spire construction privilege.

Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing drained the Mechari Race guard and discovered an ice-and-fire chamber containing a sleeping, four-armed woman and vast stores of Earth Vein Essence. After returning with the resources and Golden Blood, they received enhanced quest rewards, while Lin Qi opened Beginner Spirit Spire exchanges and Lin Xinyao volunteered to test the blood.

• Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing helped thousands of players exhaust the Mechari Race man's energy, then opened the metal gates and found a sleeping woman inside a crystal amid a realm of lava and ice.
• Lu Fanchen's group accepted the Earth Vein Essence quest, gathered more than 630,000 units of the crystals, and collected twelve drops of Golden Blood from the woman's wound.
• Lu Fanchen's group reported the discovery to Lin Qi, who increased their quest rewards by 50% and announced that Core Disciples could exchange for Beginner Spirit Spires.
• Lin Qi recognized that the Earth Vein Essence could supply twenty-one Beginner Spirit Spires, which would halve resurrection time within their range.
• Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing discussed testing the Golden Blood, and Lin Xinyao drank the first drop.

Lin Xinyao, Lu Fanchen, and Li Tianxing used Golden Blood to strengthen their bodies, and Lu Fanchen broke through to the third layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique. The breakthrough triggered a hidden quest for Lin Qi, who learned he could earn authorization for an Intermediate Cultivation Tower by creating ten complete Pseudo-Transcendent Lifeforms.

• Lin Xinyao drank a drop of Golden Blood, and activating her Extraordinary State caused her body to explode from its overwhelming power.
• Lu Fanchen realized the Golden Blood’s energy could be used to perfect the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, and he and Li Tianxing decided to use it for that purpose.
• Lu Fanchen and Li Tianxing chose to build a Beginner Spirit Spire along a safe route through the Mountain of the Dead, while major teams and independent players built spires and strongholds across the region.
• After three days of training with Golden Blood, Lu Fanchen reached entry in the third layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, though the blood soon caused his body to explode again.
• Lin Qi received the hidden quest to make ten players complete Pseudo-Transcendent Lifeforms and examined the powerful Energy Enhancement function of the Intermediate Cultivation Tower.

Lin Qi prepared Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s new Tianhe Domain City branch while learning that Lu Fanchen had become a complete Pseudo-Transcendent Lifeform. In Tianhe Domain City, a coalition of seven Half-step Heavenly Humans gathered to attack Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and their reaction to Rhine Manster’s intelligence revealed that the hall was far more formidable than they expected.

• Lin Qi was astonished by Lu Fanchen’s complete Pseudo-Transcendent Lifeform and considered how much stronger the players could become if they attained the same state.
• Wu Zhuo Qun told Lin Qi that the Tianhe Domain City branch hall was finished, and Lin Qi sent him to sell a Life Fruit and seek Energy Blood Essence manufacturing equipment.
• Lin Qi issued players a mission to establish a foothold in Tianhe Domain City and went to cultivate the third level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique.
• Residents and university students gathered outside Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, while Lexar learned that the Red Moon Merchant Guild, Smiling Skull, and Dixing Pharmaceutical had joined forces against it.
• A Red Moon Merchant Guild agent escorted Lexar and his butler to a secret gathering where seven Half-step Heavenly Humans assembled to attack Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• After Rhine Manster shared new intelligence about Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Lexar and the other experts were shocked by what they saw.

Rhine Manster organized a massive, coordinated assault on four Obsidian Martial Arts Hall strongholds in the Mountain of the Dead, hiring Half-step Heavenly Humans and gathering thousands of fighters. At the second stronghold, the midnight attack began with overwhelming force, but Ye Qinglu confronted Misha Lu’s meteor-like strike and transformed the battlefield with her Thousand Sword Diagram.

• Rhine Manster confirmed that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had more than five hundred Bone Forging Realm disciples and doubled the hired experts’ compensation.
• Rhine Manster divided the attackers among four strongholds, assigning Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu and Lexar to the second-largest one.
• Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu and Lexar watched the three families gather about 180 Blood Condensation Realm experts and more than 13,000 Bone Forging Realm martial artists at their target.
• At midnight, the gathered forces launched a surprise attack that crushed the stronghold’s players beneath their overwhelming blood vitality.
• Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu summoned a colossal phantom arm that pulled a kilometer-wide mass of energy from the sky toward the stronghold.
• Ye Qinglu used her Thousand Sword Diagram to shatter the descending mass, killing people caught in the devastation and leaving the surrounding terrain carved into a vast rift valley.

Ye Qinglu and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s defenders battled the Red Moon Merchant Guild’s forces at the second stronghold while players followed the assaults on the forums. A recording from the Mythic Paradise stronghold revealed that Lu Fanchen had defeated a Bloodstripe Race elder with his self-created Limitless Transcendent Martial Skill, Starfall Burst.

• Ye Qinglu blocked Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu’s Sky-Scraping Hand and held her own as Lexar attacked the other defenders.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang kept Lexar occupied, while the elder reported that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s fighters were tying down the attackers across the battlefield.
• Players discussed the battles at three strongholds on the forums, while Remnant Blade Like Snow wondered why there was no news from Mythic Paradise.
• Thousand Blade Fiend told Remnant Blade Like Snow that the battle at Mythic Paradise was over and sent her a recording of it.
• The footage showed Lu Fanchen withstand the Bloodstripe Race elder’s attack, then kill him with Starfall Burst, which flattened a mountain five kilometers away.

Lu Fanchen and Fang Zhen finished defending their strongholds and brought reinforcements to Firmament Stronghold, where the players’ Extraordinary States were fading and defeat seemed imminent. Lexar learned that two attacking armies had been routed and their commanders were dead, leaving the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Lu Fanchen killed a Blood Pattern Race elder in one move, while Thousand Blade Fiend and Remnant Blade Like Snow discussed studying his Extraordinary State.
• Lu Fanchen ordered Mythic Paradise’s forces to stop pursuing fleeing enemies and head for the other strongholds.
• At Firmament Stronghold, Lexar recognized that One Leaf Floating Cloud and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang could not maintain their Extraordinary States much longer, and many Bone Forging Realm players soon fell out of theirs.
• Lu Fanchen and Fang Zhen arrived with more than sixty Bone Forging Realm disciples, surprising both sides and giving Firmament Stronghold reinforcements.
• Lexar’s butler reported that two armies had been defeated and that Rhine Manster, Seeker of Light, and Molke were dead.

Lu Fanchen turned back the three factions’ attack on Skyvault Outpost, defeating Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu and driving Lexar and the others to flee. Later, Senior Brother Feilong told Yinghu that news of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s victory had spread throughout the four domains and asked him to confirm it.

• Lexar learned that Rhine Manster, Seeker of Light, Molke and Three-Headed Ulen had died, and heard that an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall Bone Forging Realm disciple had killed them.
• Lu Fanchen attacked Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu with Starfall Burst and held his own through repeated exchanges, leaving her badly weakened.
• Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu fled, prompting Lexar and the three factions’ forces to retreat as Lu Fanchen and the Skyvault Outpost fighters pursued them.
• Lu Fanchen and the others received word that the NPCs at Heavenly Might Outpost were scattering, ending the story campaign.
• Yinghu celebrated mastering a Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill saber technique to the third level Perfection Realm.
• Senior Brother Feilong told Yinghu that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had crushed the three factions’ attack and asked whether Lu Fanchen’s victory over Twilight Shadow, Misha Lu and flight of Lexar were true.

Yinghu and the Four Domains learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had crushed three major factions, while Mist Mountain Domain City rejected the factions’ demands and warned the hall to avoid provoking them further. Lin Qi completed the third layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, and a player’s breakthrough unlocked a new hidden building.

• Feilong told Yinghu that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had killed nearly a third of the attacking Blood Condensation Realm experts and three Half-step Heavenly Humans, and that its gray-robed disciple had defeated Twilight Shadow and Misha Lu and driven Lexar away.
• Yinghu realized his ties to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could help him join future Forbidden Zone expeditions, while factions across the Four Domains warned their members not to provoke the hall.
• Monde told Xie Fina that Mist Mountain Domain City had rejected the three factions’ demand to punish the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and had barred their members from Wushan Region.
• Monde warned Xie Fina that the hall should avoid the Forbidden Zone and further conflict with the three factions; Xie Fina chose to attempt her Blood Condensation Realm breakthrough at the hall.
• Lin Qi completed the third layer of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique and became a complete Pseudo-Transcendent Lifeform.
• A player broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm, and the system unlocked the hidden Advanced Rest Room.

Hou Fei told Lin Qi that First City was hidden in the Forbidden Zone within the Mountain of the Dead, revealing why Smiling Skull had been searching there. The chapter left Lin Qi asking how Hou Fei had learned the secret.

• Isaac mistook Luo Wu Shang’s breakthrough for a Heavenly Human Grandmaster’s attack, but Hou Fei and Li Yuan told him that Smiling Skull, Red Moon Merchant Guild, and Dixing Pharmaceutical had already been defeated by Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Blood Condensation Realm after using three Energy Blood Essences, and Lin Qi extracted her memories of the fourth layer of the Ethereal Training Method.
• Hou Fei asked Lin Qi for two Inner Disciple slots in exchange for a secret about the Mountain of the Dead, Smiling Skull, and the Forbidden Zone.
• Hou Fei revealed that First City was inside the Forbidden Zone in the Mountain of the Dead and that Smiling Skull had been searching for it.
• Lin Qi asked Hou Fei how he knew the secret about First City.

Hou Fei told Lin Qi that his Crystal Race branch and Smiling Skull descended from First Domain City, whose Energy Ore conversion device could transform ore into Energy Crystals and Energy Blood Essence. Lin Qi expanded player capacity to prepare for exploring the Mountain of the Dead, where a New Year event sent Core Disciples searching for a city and offered a Town Building Order as a prize.

• Hou Fei revealed that Smiling Skull possessed First Domain City's Energy Ore conversion device and said his ancestors had escaped the Forbidden Zone around New Year; Lin Qi rewarded him with two Elite Disciple slots and asked him to keep the information secret.
• Lin Qi spent one million Energy Crystals to create one hundred Advanced Rest Rooms and planned to add two thousand players per day as the martial arts hall prepared to seek the conversion devices.
• Lu Fanchen, Li Tianxing, and Lin Xinyao escaped an Earth Dragon King beneath a large Energy Vein and decided to find another route through the Mountain of the Dead.
• A Mist Mountain Domain City team led by Monde spotted Lu Fanchen's group and warned its members about Smiling Skull, aberrations, and the dangers of the Forbidden Zone.
• After receiving a system announcement for the New Year limited-time event, Lu Fanchen and his companions rushed toward the Forbidden Zone to search for a city; the top five players would earn Energy Blood Essence and a Town Building Order.

Players mobilized for the New Year event, which offered a Town Building Order and rewards tied to the Mountain of the Dead Forbidden Zone. Lin Qi planned to establish a town near the Forbidden Zone despite Smiling Skull’s threat, and an enormous Obsidian Martial Arts Hall army arrived as others prepared to enter it.

• Twilight of the Gods received Zhang Qingwei’s order for Heavenly Might’s Core Disciples to assemble for an expedition to the Forbidden Zone.
• After Chen Ya presented her research, Fang Zhen ordered Machine God’s martial artists to join the expedition and planned to establish a stronghold outside the Forbidden Zone.
• Teams across Crimson Moon Town recruited martial artists and bought Energy Ore, while Lin Qi ordered Qin Mu to procure still more ore for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Qi dismissed Qin Mu’s concerns about Smiling Skull and declared that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would fight if its Grandmasters intervened.
• Nearly twenty thousand Obsidian Martial Arts Hall disciples departed Crimson Moon Town in a fleet of Sky Battleships and transport vehicles.
• As Monde and Xie Fina prepared to enter the Forbidden Zone, they saw the Obsidian army approach in force.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall established a stronghold near the Mountain of the Dead Forbidden Zone while Mist Mountain Domain City’s team entered the zone to explore. When two powerful Half-step Heavenly Humans were revealed to be aberrations, Luo Wu Shang crushed Storm Child, Tania with one hand.

• Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s army passed Smiling Skull’s stronghold and began building a stronghold near the Forbidden Zone, searching for Energy Veins and preparing to construct a town.
• Monde led Xie Fina and Mist Mountain Domain City’s experts into the Forbidden Zone, warning them to watch for aberrations.
• Storm Child, Tania and Titan Kong, Fendi approached as aberrations, forcing Monde’s group to flee.
• Storm Child, Tania attacked Luo Wu Shang’s team while Xie Fina shouted a warning, but Luo Wu Shang caught his axe strike and crushed him with a blood-energy phantom hand.

Luo Wu Shang killed Storm Child, Tania, and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples welcomed the prospect of fighting the aberrations she had warned could summon reinforcements. Monde’s Mist Mountain Domain City group joined their formation for protection, but the chapter ended as more than three thousand aberrations arrived, including three Heavenly Human Grandmasters.

• Luo Wu Shang crushed Storm Child, Tania, shocking Monde and the others fleeing with him.
• Monde warned Luo Wu Shang that aberrations could summon nearby allies, but Luo Wu Shang, Zhang Qingwei, and Zhao Hu eagerly anticipated the fight and its potential rewards.
• Monde explained the danger of an aberration army and, after offering Luo Wu Shang two Energy Blood Essences and promising three more, brought his group into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s formation.
• Monde’s companions resented being placed inside the formation for protection, while Xie Fina estimated that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had a fifty percent chance of breaking through.
• Monde spotted more than three thousand approaching aberrations, including three Heavenly Human Grandmasters, and despaired.

Luo Wu Shang and the Gray-robed Disciples of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall defeated an overwhelming aberrant army in the Forbidden Zone, astonishing Monde and the Mist Mountain Domain City team. After returning to Crimson Moon Town, the team arrived alongside Yinghu and other Tianhe Domain City geniuses, who watched Monde treat a silver-gray-clad woman with great respect.

• Monde told the Mist Mountain Domain City team to scatter and flee as three aberrant Heavenly Human Grandmasters approached.
• Luo Wu Shang killed Titan Kong, Fendi with one strike, then battled all three Grandmasters and survived their attacks.
• The Gray-robed Disciples overwhelmed the surrounding aberrants, and after twenty minutes the injured Grandmasters and most of their army fled.
• Monde and the Mist Mountain Domain City team returned to Crimson Moon Town aboard a transport vehicle.
• Yinghu and the Tianhe Domain City geniuses arrived and questioned whether Obsidian Martial Arts Hall was as powerful as its reputation suggested.
• Monde, Imilia, and Xie Fina respectfully escorted a silver-gray-clad woman into Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, leaving Yinghu stunned.

Lin Qi rejected Tianhe Domain City's low offer for Life Fruits and decided to promote them at the next Crimson Moon Auction. Luo Wu Shang brought him a sealed black box bearing First City's emblem, but before he could reward her, Ghost Hand arrived above Crimson Moon Town and unleashed a grandmaster's blood energy.

• Yinghu led Tianhe Domain City's Blood Condensation Realm geniuses to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to investigate the woman Monde had treated with reverence.
• Wu Zhuo Qun reported that Deputy City Lord Aris would only buy Life Fruits with Energy Blood Essence and refused to trade the manufacturing equipment, so Lin Qi ordered invitations sent to the major powers for an auction featuring Life Fruits.
• Monde and Luo Wu Shang waited outside Lin Qi's lounge, and Luo Wu Shang presented a black metal box she had recovered from an aberrant creature in the Forbidden Zone.
• Lin Qi found First City's golden-flame emblem on the box, but realized it could not be opened by force and likely required a password.
• Ghost Hand, a Heavenly Human Grandmaster and one of Smiling Skull's vice commanders, appeared over Crimson Moon Town and suppressed the town with his blood energy.

Ghost Hand of Smiling Skull arrived in Crimson Moon Town and demanded that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall abandon its stronghold in the Mountain of the Dead. Lin Qi rejected him, defeated him effortlessly, and killed him in the sky above the town.

• Ghost Hand unleashed his blood qi, immobilizing most of Crimson Moon Town, then identified himself as Smiling Skull's vice commander and summoned the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall's leaders.
• Yinghu and the others feared Ghost Hand's threat, while Monde calmly introduced Lin Qi as the hall's master and assured Yinghu that the situation would not get out of hand.
• Ghost Hand demanded that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall withdraw from the Mountain of the Dead within three days and demonstrated his power by blasting a distant forest into a crater.
• Lin Qi told Ghost Hand that he was not qualified to make the demand, then broke through Ghost Hand's phantom hand, seized him by the throat, and snapped his neck.

Lin Qi killed Ghost Hand, sold access to a new Forbidden Zone camp, and learned that Smiling Skull was waiting for its leader to grow stronger before seeking revenge. A week later, Ye Qinglu’s team spotted what looked like a starship falling through the sky.

• Lin Qi crushed Ghost Hand to death, took his belongings, and rewarded Luo Wu Shang for turning in an aberrant treasure chest.
• Yinghu’s group left Crimson Moon Town, but Monde and his companions paid Lin Qi for camp spots so they could explore the Forbidden Zone more safely.
• Lin Qi tasked the players with building a temporary camp and sent First City’s Smart Watch and black box to Luo Qi for analysis.
• Smiling Skull’s leader delayed retaliation until he completed his breakthrough, while his followers prepared healing supplies and recovery treasures.
• Ye Qinglu’s team pushed deep into the Forbidden Zone, then saw a huge flaming object that Ye Qinglu identified as a starship.

One Leaf Floating Cloud and his group discovered the crashed Dawn and met its crew, led by Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli, who mistook them for survivors from the Great Transfer. As the group escorted the crew toward the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, three thousand aberrations surrounded them, and Ye Qinglu revealed her power by summoning thousands of swords.

• One Leaf Floating Cloud led his group to the crashed spaceship, where Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli prepared their crew for unknown visitors.
• Fan Yaoguang identified himself as a captain of the Starfire Merchant Guild and asked One Leaf Floating Cloud to take his damaged crew somewhere safe.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud agreed to lead the crew to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, believing the encounter had triggered a new-version quest.
• Ke Xueli detected more than three thousand approaching aberrations, including five Heavenly Human Realm enemies, and One Leaf Floating Cloud insisted his group would fight them.
• When the aberrations surrounded the group, Ye Qinglu rose into the air and summoned three thousand longswords to confront three of the Heavenly Human Realm enemies.

Ye Qinglu and the Sky Garrison routed an alien army, astonishing Fan Yaoguang and the Dawn crew with their strength. After leaving the Forbidden Zone, the crew discovered the vast alien-free lands around the Mountain of the Dead and Wushan Region, and arrived at Crimson Moon Tower to negotiate with Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Ye Qinglu unleashed three thousand longswords, killing most of the surrounding aliens, then survived attacks from three Heavenly Human aliens and severely wounded them with her Sword Lotus technique.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud led the Sky Garrison into battle, and its Bone Forging Realm members slaughtered the Blood Condensation Realm aliens while Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli fought the stronger enemies.
• Ye Qinglu and One Leaf Floating Cloud killed an Initial Stage Heavenly Human alien, prompting the remaining Heavenly Human aliens and their forces to flee.
• Fan Yaoguang and the Dawn crew discovered that aliens could not enter the lands around the Mountain of the Dead and Wushan Region, and Ke Xueli recognized the region as a potential refuge for Sky Dome Sanctuary's younger generation.
• Fan Yaoguang planned to negotiate with Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and exploit its lack of advanced technology and equipment, and the two Flying Transport Vehicles arrived at Crimson Moon Tower.