Chapter Summaries

Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli brought the Dawn to Crimson Moon Town, where they met Hall Master Lin Qi and began negotiating a trade between the Starfire Merchant Guild and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Lin Qi asked Fan Yaoguang about First City, but his explanation that the sanctuary races had destroyed it left Lin Qi confused.

• Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli were astonished by Crimson Moon Town’s population and the scale of the Wushan Region as One Leaf Floating Cloud led the Dawn to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Ling Ye and Yifeng watched the Dawn arrive and suspected that the powerful visitors were backing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli tested the Beginner Meditation Room, then met Lin Qi, who offered the Dawn unused houses in Crimson Moon Town.
• Fan Yaoguang offered Sky Dome Battle Armor in exchange for land and access to the Beginner Meditation Room, and Lin Qi proposed visiting-student slots instead.
• Lin Qi asked about First City, and Fan Yaoguang said the sanctuary races had joined forces to destroy it after the Great Transfer, confusing Lin Qi.

Lin Qi learned from Fan Yaoguang that parasitic extraterrestrials might secretly control the Four Domains, traded Life Fruits for advanced detectors, and obtained First City's location. Meanwhile, Lawson became a Grandmaster, but Frost Wolf effortlessly defeated him and seized him for an unknown purpose.

• Fan Yaoguang described a history in which extraterrestrial parasites had invaded the planet, and revealed that the sky was sealed after the Dawn was struck while leaving the atmosphere.
• Fan Yaoguang explained that precise Life Detectors could identify parasites, and he traded seven Sky Dome Type 3 Life Detectors to Lin Qi for seven Life Fruits.
• Lin Qi secured a map marking First City's location in East Sector Seven, then ordered Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to screen its members for Zerg parasites.
• Lawson broke through to the High-stage Heavenly Human limit, but Frost Wolf arrived and claimed Lawson belonged to his Lineage.
• Lawson attacked Frost Wolf, who blocked his strike, battered him, severed his limbs, and captured him with a blood-energy hand.

Frost Wolf revealed that he had been controlled by an outside force and seized Smiling Skull’s Grandmasters, sparking fear across the Four Domains. Meanwhile, Lin Qi gained new technology and learned a player had forged a Profound Tier Martial Skill, while Presia’s breakthrough was interrupted by a demand from Mist Mountain Domain City to return for trial.

• Frost Wolf defeated Lawson, captured him, and ordered the two deputy commanders of Smiling Skull seized and distributed as rewards to soldiers.
• The destruction of Smiling Skull’s fortress and disappearance of its three Grandmasters alarmed the Four Domains, whose major forces suspected Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Qi approved granting First Domain City’s crew authorization to use the Beginner Martial Arts Room in exchange for repairing Energy Ore conversion equipment.
• The system informed Lin Qi that a player had created a Profound Tier Martial Skill and unlocked the Gate of Laws quest.
• Chi Sha explained that his Double Burst had vaporized ore and damaged a ruin storage room, and One Leaf Floating Cloud later submitted a New Alloy stronger than C6 Grade Alloy.
• Presia advanced to the Blood Condensation Realm, then learned that Mist Mountain Domain City had sent an elder to strip her status and take her back for trial.

Mist Mountain Domain City elders arrived in Crimson Moon Town to take Presia back after she refused a training mission, but her breakthrough into the Blood Condensation Realm changed the dispute. When Nuk and others challenged her standing, Presia agreed to fight Bruce and revealed that she had perfected her Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill at the third level.

• Mist Mountain Domain City's Sky Battleship arrived over Crimson Moon Town, and its elders and Blood Condensation Realm experts flew to the Cultivation Tower.
• Presia's teacher Xig explained that the city lord had personally selected her for training and offered to let her atone through a mission instead of returning for punishment.
• Xig discovered that Presia had reached the Blood Condensation Realm and argued that her blood vitality qualified her as a peerless genius.
• Nuk disputed Presia's claim to special status, and Bruce offered to fight her to prove whether she was at least a prospective peerless genius.
• Presia accepted the match and told Xig that she had perfected her Sequence Transcendent Martial Skill at the third level.

Presia prepared to spar with Bruce while Elder Nuk tried to force Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to break its rules. Lin Qi revealed overwhelming strength by severely injuring Nuk, and Presia was given Lin Qi’s Great Club and Memory Bananas for the coming match.

• Presia insisted that her recent training had perfected the third layer of her martial skill, and Xig agreed to let her face Bruce.
• Nuk pressured Ino to provide an advanced training room, then suppressed Ling Ye when she defended the hall’s rules.
• Lin Qi struck Nuk with a gust that pierced his armor and left him badly wounded, revealing strength comparable to a High-stage Heavenly Human Grandmaster.
• Lin Qi returned to his meditation room, explained that his increased strength and Great Club had let him defeat Nuk, and ordered Wu Zhuo Qun to give Presia the club and six Memory Bananas.
• Wu Zhuo Qun delivered the items to Presia in an advanced training room, and she questioned why she was expected to spar with a Great Club instead of her sword.

Presia killed Bruce with a newly fused martial skill, and Vice City Lord Mo Ye arrived to take her away for investigation. Lin Qi intervened, claiming Mist Mountain Domain City had no right to interfere with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s core disciple.

• Presia wielded Wu Zhuo Qun’s Great Club and faced Bruce, who revealed High-level Blood Condensation Realm power and attacked with his perfected Night Blade.
• Presia fused Sky Shadow Step with Raging Dragon and destroyed Bruce with a single strike, killing him despite his battle armor.
• Nuk and another elder moved to seize Presia, but Xig blocked them and insisted that the City Lord decide her punishment.
• Vice City Lord Mo Ye arrived, overwhelmed Presia with his blood and qi, and ordered his martial artists to take her away for investigation.
• Lin Qi entered the training room and declared that Presia was an advanced student and core disciple of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, challenging Mo Ye’s authority to take her.

Lin Qi defended Presia from Vice City Lord Mo Ye of Mist Mountain Domain City and revealed his mastery of the Realm of All Things, forcing Mo Ye and his followers to retreat. Presia stayed in Crimson Moon Town under the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s protection as news of the confrontation spread across the four domains.

• Lin Qi refused to let Mo Ye take Presia, prompting Mo Ye to attack him and unleash his blood and vitality across the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Lin Qi blocked Mo Ye’s Transcendent Tier Martial Skill and revealed more than a hundred phantom swords formed through the Realm of All Things.
• Mo Ye ordered his followers to leave, and Nuk and the other visitors departed after Mo Ye vanished from the hall.
• Xig asked Lin Qi to let Presia remain in Crimson Moon Town until he could explain her situation to the city lord, and Lin Qi agreed to protect her.
• Xig left aboard the Sky Battleship, while people and players in Crimson Moon Town celebrated and speculated that the town would become a fifth domain city.
• News of Mo Ye’s retreat spread through the major cities of the Wushan Region and reached powers across the four domains.

After Lin Qi’s defeat of Mo Ye, the major forces reconsidered their ties with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and their plans for exploring the Forbidden Zone. The chapter ended as Lin Qi received notice that the Intermediate Cultivation Tower renovation was complete.

• At Red Moon City, Gussen ordered the Red Moon Merchant Guild to stop provoking the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and announced plans to search the Icefield Forbidden Zone for signs of human life.
• In Black Steel City, the Great Elder tasked Tie Mu with pursuing cooperation with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and sending half of Black Steel’s top young geniuses there.
• Wu Zhuo Qun reported that Mist Mountain Domain City had made no unusual moves, and Lin Qi decided to focus resources on helping Luo Qi finish the new battle armor rather than recall disciples.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that the Intermediate Cultivation Tower renovation had been completed and could be activated.

Black Steel Heavy Industry’s geniuses arrived in Chiyue City to join Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and discovered that its disciples faced fierce arena tests and enjoyed extraordinary cultivation resources. Meanwhile, Ye Qinglu and the Sky Garrison witnessed a Zerg assault shatter Sky Dome Sanctuary’s barrier, and Ye Qinglu flew toward the powerful attacker to test it.

• Iron Twilight brought Black Steel Heavy Industry’s Serpentfolk geniuses to Chiyue City, where they lined up to challenge the Bone Forging Realm Inner Disciple arena.
• Hong Lao told Iron Twilight that Cangyi City had sent its City Lord Personal Guard to join Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and explained that even its Inner Disciple arena defenders were formidable.
• Iron Twilight watched a Mid-stage Bone Forging Realm defender defeat a High-level Bone Forging Realm challenger in fewer than three moves and learned about the hall’s powerful cultivation rooms.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud, Fan Yaoguang, Ye Qinglu, and the Sky Garrison arrived near Sky Dome Sanctuary as Zerg forces attacked it with a cosmic warship and spacecraft.
• A gigantic spear shattered the sanctuary’s Energy Barrier, and dozens of Heavenly Human Grandmasters led thousands of Blood Condensation Realm experts in an assault.
• Ye Qinglu rode her sword toward the attacker, telling One Leaf Floating Cloud she wanted to test the powerful BOSS.

Ye Qinglu and the Sky Garrison joined Sky Dome Sanctuary’s defense as Fan Yaoguang revealed his Realm of All Things and battled the Zerg Grandmasters. When the sanctuary’s Grandmasters struggled against the powerful Zerg Legion Commander, Ye Qinglu arrived and struck him with her new ultimate art.

• One Leaf Floating Cloud led the Sky Garrison into Sky Dome Sanctuary to fight the invading Zerg.
• Fan Yaoguang rescued Elder Xingguang, revealed he had reached the threshold of the Realm of All Things, and fought the Zerg Grandmasters attacking the energy tower.
• Ke Xueli went to defend the refinery while Fan Yaoguang’s allies battled the Zerg forces, which sent reinforcements to keep him occupied.
• The Zerg Legion Commander overwhelmed Sky Dome Sanctuary’s Grandmasters, and Ye Qinglu flew into their battle with three thousand swords.
• Ye Qinglu merged her swords into one blade and unleashed Three Thousand Worlds, carving away half the Zerg Legion Commander’s body.

Ye Qinglu helped Sky Dome Sanctuary repel a Zerg assault, and Tang Yilong learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could provide powerful fighters and systematic training. With Frost Shelter close to falling, Fan Yaoguang offered the Hall’s garrison three thousand Energy Blood Essences to help rescue it, and the players negotiated an advance payment.

• Ye Qinglu wounded the Zerg Legion Commander with Three Thousand Worlds, and Tang Yilong and Sky Dome Sanctuary’s Grandmasters forced the Zerg commanders to retreat.
• Tang Yilong returned to Sky Dome Sanctuary and learned that the attack had caused heavy casualties and that several nearby sanctuaries were under assault.
• Elder Xingguang told Tang Yilong that Fan Yaoguang and Ke Xueli had grown stronger through training at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and that Frost Shelter urgently needed help.
• Tang Yilong decided to seek the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s aid in rescuing Frost Shelter, and Fan Yaoguang offered the Hall’s garrison three thousand Energy Blood Essences for the mission.
• Encountering Azure Sky asked Fan Yaoguang for a twenty-percent advance, promising repayment with an additional ten percent if the mission failed, and Fan Yaoguang agreed.

Tang Yilong prepared to support Frost Shelter while the Sky Garrison used its mission deposit to recruit players and subcontract the dangerous commission. As the deadline arrived, more than thirty thousand players gathered outside Sky Dome Sanctuary, far exceeding the ten thousand the Sky Garrison had hired.

• Tang Yilong refused Fan Yaoguang's request to join the expedition and decided to lead the first group to Frost Shelter, with Elder Xingguang to follow later.
• The Sky Garrison received six hundred Energy Blood Essences as a deposit, and Encountering Azure Sky proposed using them to recruit players and subcontract the support mission.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud appointed Encountering Azure Sky a second Vice Commander, and the Sky Garrison posted contracts offering advances to teams of Bone Forging Realm players.
• War Heaven Half-Step organized War God Alliance members to hire qualified teams and provide additional support in exchange for a share of the rewards.
• As Elder Xingguang waited for the Sky Garrison's preparations to finish, Tang Yilong remained out of contact and Frost Shelter continued broadcasting its distress signal.
• A crowd of more than thirty thousand players in silver-gray clothing arrived outside Sky Dome Sanctuary, surprising One Leaf Floating Cloud and the others.

Frost Shelter faced destruction as its Energy Blood Essence reserves dwindled and a Zerg army besieged its barriers, until reinforcements from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall arrived. The players’ extraordinary durability and devastating point-blank gunfire stunned both sides and left the battle’s outcome uncertain.

• Hank and Tang Yilong prepared to confront the Zerg Legion Commander as Frost Shelter ran low on Energy Blood Essence, while Tang Yilong urged them to wait for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s reinforcements.
• Vanessa identified the approaching force as tens of thousands of genuine humans, and Tang Yilong recognized them as Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s army.
• Hank ordered Frost Shelter’s Blood Condensation Realm fighters to join the battle as the Zerg divided their forces to meet the reinforcements.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and the other commanders set up resurrection devices, then split the Bone Forging Realm players into groups armed with Super Electromagnetic Guns.
• The Zerg evaded the players’ first volley and struck them, but the players caught the blows with their hands and suffered only muscle wounds.
• The players fired at point-blank range, killing more than ten thousand Zerg Blood Condensation Realm fighters and leaving both armies and Frost Shelter’s defenders stunned.

The players from Obsidian Martial Arts Hall overwhelmed the Zerg army with their reckless fighting style, then sent a group to fight Legion Commander Gusang. Their sacrifice shattered his defenses and left him gravely wounded, while the source of the final, devastating blast remained unseen.

• Twenty thousand players arrived at Frost Shelter and countered the Zerg army’s ranged attacks with powerful martial skills, astonishing Hank and Tang Yilong.
• Hank and Tang Yilong engaged Gusang to stop him from using the Zerg army’s combined martial skill against the shelter’s Energy Barrier.
• More than a hundred players approached Gusang, and One Leaf Floating Cloud proposed testing their attacks against him.
• Li Ranxing, Chen Ya, and Lu Fanchen attacked Gusang in turn, breaking his blood and qi barrier and sending him flying.
• The players charged Gusang and traded their lives for wounds, leaving most of them dead and Gusang badly injured.
• A dazzling blast rose from below, pierced Gusang’s shattered defenses, and tore through his chest.

Hank and Tang Yilong failed to kill Gusang, who used their assault to break through toward the False God realm before retreating with captives from Frost Shelter. Aboard the Zerg ship, Twilight of the Gods and the other captured players discovered a vast interplanetary world and met Huiyang, an elder who warned them about their situation on a second-class Zerg planet.

• Tang Yilong and Hank attacked the gravely wounded Gusang, but his three blood-energy barriers protected him from their combined strike.
• Gusang replaced his destroyed organs with blood-energy constructs, revealed he had achieved Condensing Qi to Create Matter, and carved a breach in Frost Shelter's barrier before leaving with his forces and captives.
• Luo Wu Shang wanted to test how blood energy could be used, but Zhang Qingwei told her that Twilight of the Gods and his group had been captured after trying to follow the Zerg ship into space.
• Twilight of the Gods and the other captives watched the Space Battleship travel through a star gate to a bustling planet, confirming that the game world extended beyond their home planet.
• Huiyang, an elder of Glimmer Shelter, introduced himself to the captives and explained that they had been brought to a second-class Zerg planet because they were considered valuable.

Luo Qi and the mechanics completed the Guardian Heavy Armor, which gave Ino the strength of a Heavenly Human High-Stage Grandmaster. Lin Qi discovered that players had reached a Zerg ship and chose to observe them, while Twilight of the Gods learned that captured prisoners could study Zerg-held inheritances to improve their evaluations and delay parasitism.

• Luo Qi completed the Guardian Heavy Armor, and Ino tested it, gaining a measured strength of 3,112 tons.
• Lin Qi sensed players traveling far into space, then saw forum posts showing they had reached a Zerg ship and been captured; he decided not to cut their connection.
• A Titan man told the Zerg Legion Commanders that the top contributor in the coming harvest would receive a Soul Resonance Crystal.
• Baroque offered Gusang a month in the Place of Life in exchange for permission to raid Gusang's shelters, and Gusang agreed.
• Huiyang explained to Twilight of the Gods that prisoners could study the spire's inheritances to raise their evaluations and earn more time before the Zerg parasitized them.

Huiyang explained that captives kept improving to pursue the spire’s Demigod inheritances, and Twilight of the Gods organized Heavenly Might to learn one together before the players killed themselves to escape their collars. Lin Qi gained the players’ methods and inheritance, while Baroque’s fleet approached Frost Shelter for an assault.

• Huiyang told the captives that the spire held powerful training methods and six Demigod inheritances, and warned them to choose forms suited to their abilities.
• Twilight of the Gods proposed that Heavenly Might’s players each master a different form, then combine their knowledge into a complete inheritance.
• Twilight of the Gods selected Arrogant’s life-burning Star Law inheritance, and the twenty-three players learned its forms and received Zerg training methods.
• Twilight of the Gods and the other players used the Astonishing God Meditation Technique to destroy their minds, leaving their bodies outside the spire and prompting the Zerg to inspect its teachings.
• Lin Qi obtained more than twenty Spirit Merging Realm training methods and a complete Demigod inheritance from the Zerg.
• Baroque ordered his Space Battleship and army to enter the Forbidden Zone and head for Frost Shelter.

Frost Shelter prepared to send its young people to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but a Zerg fleet arrived before they could depart. Lin Qi opened an emergency player mission to defend the shelter, while Baroque’s legion discovered far more valuable captives than expected and faced a rapidly rising count.

• Vanessa welcomed Ino and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall teams at Frost Spaceport as Frost Shelter’s first group of children prepared to travel to Chiyue City for training.
• A citywide alarm announced an approaching Zerg attack, and players at Frost Shelter excitedly recognized the arrival of a Space Battleship.
• Lin Qi opened the Frost Garrison Battle emergency mission, offering Energy Blood Essence, contribution points, and merit points for defeating the invasion.
• Baroque arrived with two hundred thousand Zerg warriors and more than four hundred Grandmasters, then asked Yelo how many valuable people Frost Shelter contained.
• Yelo reported 65,964 second-grade goods, 948 superior goods, and 11 of the very best, with all three counts continuing to increase.

Baroque’s Zerg army attacked Frost Shelter after confirming its extraordinary stock of goods, and his first strike shattered the shelter’s three-layer Energy Barrier. With reinforcements still on the way, the players of Obsidian Martial Arts Hall mobilized to hold off the invasion, leaving more than forty top experts facing Baroque.

• Yelo confirmed Frost Shelter had 71,056 second-rate goods, 1,107 high-grade goods, and twenty-two top-grade goods, prompting Baroque to order his army to charge once the Energy Barrier fell.
• Hank learned that reinforcements from three shelters were coming, but Frost Shelter had only a little over forty thousand Energy Blood Essences in reserve.
• Baroque’s nine-headed serpent martial skill pierced Frost Shelter’s three-layer Energy Barrier, and he ordered the Zerg army to attack.
• Fang Zhen and One Leaf Floating Cloud organized the players to fight the Zerg forces, with over forty top experts assigned to delay Baroque and his two deputy legion commanders.
• More than sixty thousand Bone Forging Realm players held off the Zerg warriors while nearly a thousand Blood Condensation Realm players fought the captains and battalion commanders, astonishing Hank, Yelo, and Baroque.
• Baroque punched toward the forty-plus silver-gray-clad experts who confronted him, intending to show them a Grandmaster’s power.

Frost Shelter and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall repelled the Zerg army after more than forty experts risked their lives to badly injure Baroque, who escaped aboard his Space Battleship. As nearby sanctuaries rushed to help, they learned Frost Shelter had already won and credited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Hank ordered the elders to aid Obsidian Martial Arts Hall while he and Vanessa went to confront Baroque.
• Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu attacked Baroque, but he countered their strikes with overwhelming force.
• Fang Zhen led more than forty experts in a full-force assault with Double Burst, severely injuring Baroque but failing to kill him.
• Hank attacked the wounded Baroque, but Baroque's deputy Legion Commanders held Hank back while Baroque escaped aboard the Space Battleship.
• The Zerg army retreated toward Prison Dragon Star as the players and Frost Shelter members pursued them, killing most of the invaders.
• War Mad and the reinforcements heading for Frost Shelter received word that the Zerg had been driven back, thanks to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.