Chapter Summaries

After the Zerg army was crushed at Frost Shelter, its City Lord introduced the leaders of Apocalypse Shelter and Glory Shelter to Obsidian Martial Arts Hall. Lin Qi counted the cost of the players’ mission and anticipated their progress, while the injured Baroque returned to Prison Dragon Star and Shax asked Frost Wolf to investigate the silver-gray-clad humans.

• War Mad and the Half-Scale Race elder arrived at Frost Shelter, saw the Zerg corpses, and learned from Hank that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had defeated the army.
• War Mad and the Half-Scale Race elder asked to meet Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Hank offered to introduce them to Ino.
• Lin Qi calculated that the unexpectedly large number of players on the mission would cost more Energy Blood Essence than Frost Shelter’s contract covered, then considered how the rewards could help players advance.
• Players celebrated the mission on the official forum and discussed demigod martial skills, future battles, and the people captured by the Zerg.
• Baroque returned to Prison Dragon Star severely wounded after losing much of his force at Frost Shelter, and Shax asked Frost Wolf to investigate the silver-gray-clad humans.

Shax and Frost Wolf identified the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall as the force that had wounded Baroque and plotted to seize it, with Frost Wolf planning to mobilize Mist Mountain Domain City. In Chiyue City, Xie Fina and Presia were summoned away as Monde warned that the City Lord planned to destroy the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

• Shax recognized the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s transformed Gray-robed Disciples as the fighters who had wounded him and Baroque’s legion.
• Shax persuaded Frost Wolf to join him in capturing the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Frost Wolf agreed to take seventy percent and mobilize Mist Mountain Domain City.
• Two masked men delivered a Domain City Order and a secret message to Di Luoya, who urgently summoned the city garrison commanders.
• Xie Fina broke through to the Mid-level Blood Condensation Realm, then learned that she and Presia had to return to Mist Mountain Domain City within six hours.
• Monde warned Xie Fina that Chiyue City might be destroyed because the City Lord intended to destroy the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Lin Qi refused to evacuate Chiyue City after Mist Mountain Domain City issued a Domain City Order against the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and he revealed three Grandmaster allies to reassure the surrounding city lords. He prepared to fight the approaching Zerg forces, but the chapter ended as a massive Zerg army descended over Chiyue City.

• Xie Fina and Presia learned from Monde that Mist Mountain Domain City had ordered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall destroyed and hurried to warn Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi told the assembled city lords and other visitors that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would defend Chiyue City, then revealed Vanessa and two other Grandmasters as allies.
• The visitors chose to remain in Chiyue City after witnessing the Grandmasters' power, and War Mad, City Lord of Apocalypse Shelter, agreed to cooperate with Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi began the version event, offering players contribution rewards and the Warrior title for defending Chiyue City, and explained why he had chosen to face the attack rather than flee.
• A Space Battleship descended above Chiyue City, releasing a vast Zerg army that left Xie Fina and the surrounding forces stunned.

Domain City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall deployed overwhelming forces against the Zerg army, while Lin Qi sent the players into battle to wear down the enemy. Twilight of the Gods’s team used a borrowed weapon and demigod techniques to repeatedly strike Frost Wolf, killing him as the battle continued.

• Domain City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall revealed their vast armies, including more than a thousand Grandmaster-level Gray-robed Disciples, shocking Chiyue City's residents.
• Frost Wolf and Shax learned that War Mad and other city lords were in Chiyue City, assigned Shax to deal with them, and ordered their forces to capture Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s people.
• Lin Qi sent the players to attack first, relying on the Intermediate Cultivation Tower’s enhancement to wear down the Zerg; the players inflicted heavy casualties while suffering many losses themselves.
• Twilight of the Gods borrowed One Leaf Floating Cloud’s staff and led his team to attack Frost Wolf with demigod Arrogant’s techniques.
• Number One struck Frost Wolf with Sky Piercer, and Numbers Two through Four followed with further attacks until Frost Wolf died, leaving the Zerg and Chiyue City's residents stunned.

Twilight of the Gods and his team killed Frost Wolf, but Shax swiftly wiped them out and threatened the remaining fighters. Lin Qi then confronted Shax, overwhelmed him, and destroyed him and the retreating Zerg army with Shadow World and Thunderous Mountain Charge.

• Twilight of the Gods and three teammates used Arrogant's profundity to kill Frost Wolf, shocking Shax and the onlookers across Chiyue City.
• Twilight of the Gods led his team toward Shax, who killed them with a barrage of Sequence Transcendent Martial Skills and demanded that Luo Wu Shang and the others surrender.
• Lin Qi appeared before Shax and struck him with his Great Club, sending him flying and revealing that Lin Qi could overpower him in a direct clash.
• As Lin Qi suppressed Shax, Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, and other fighters turned the battle against the Zerg army, killing a Vice Legion Commander and a Vice Watch Captain.
• Shax ordered the Zerg army to retreat, but Lin Qi used Shadow World and Thunderous Mountain Charge to destroy Shax and the retreating Zerg army.

Lin Qi annihilated Mist Mountain Domain City’s army, and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall took control of the Wushan Region. As news spread to Tianhe Domain City, its leaders learned that Frost Wolf was dead and demanded an explanation.

• Farin and War Mad discussed whether the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall could develop in their shelters after Lin Qi destroyed the invading army.
• Ino, Xia Ling, and Estina began taking over Mist Mountain Domain City with Xie Fina and Presia’s help.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei chose to pursue the Heavenly Human Realm instead of entering Eternal Immortal Path’s tournament, while Chu Qingtian decided to lead the tournament team himself.
• War Heaven Half-Step agreed to prepare for the tournament after Gui Hou relayed the Guild Leader’s request.
• News of Mist Mountain Domain City’s defeat and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s rise spread across the regions, prompting Ling Ye and Yifeng to seek their teacher in Tianhe Domain City.
• An elderly Three-Eyed Race man confronted three vice city lords after learning that Frost Wolf had died.

Hujin ordered an investigation into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and considered hiring Huang Jiu, while visitors from across the four domains arrived in Chiyue City and witnessed the Hall’s overwhelming strength. The chapter ended with Lin Qi receiving the option to advance to Level 4 Administrator privileges.

• Hujin questioned three deputy city lords about Frost Wolf’s death, ordered them to investigate Chiyue City and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and contacted Huang Jiu for help capturing Grandmasters.
• Huang Jiu demanded thirty thousand tons of fourth-tier Blood Food to take the job, and Hujin asked for time to consider while she warned she would soon leave the star system.
• On the third day after the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall replaced Mist Mountain Domain City, factions from the four domains arrived in Chiyue City and marveled at the enormous Zerg Space Battleship.
• Tianhe Domain City’s Third Elder, Ling Ye, Yifeng, Lexar, and Yinghu were stunned by the Hall’s many Blood Condensation Realm disciples and more than a hundred Heavenly Human Grandmasters in its Intermediate Cultivation Tower.
• Xie Fina brought more than a hundred young Heavenly Human Grandmasters to tour the Cultivation Tower as newly recruited formal disciples, leaving the Tianhe Domain City visitors speechless.
• Lin Qi received a system notification that he had met the conditions to advance to Level 4 Administrator privileges.

Lin Qi upgraded to fourth-level administrator authority, unlocking a hundred million player slots, time acceleration, and powerful new facilities and apparel functions. As High Martial Descent’s version 3.0 update drew players’ attention and promised a surge in popularity, Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm.

• Lin Qi confirmed the fourth-level authority upgrade and discovered its hundred-million-player limit, time conversion, upgraded monitoring, training facilities, and resurrection apparel function.
• Lin Qi announced a version 3.0 update that raised the online-player cap, activated double time acceleration, added town gameplay and new martial arts hall buildings, and ended the Outer Domain City event.
• Players reacted to the forced thirty-six-hour logout and update, while Ye Qinglu and One Leaf Floating Cloud celebrated High Martial Descent’s time acceleration and its potential to extend real-world lifespans.
• Luo Wu Shang absorbed large amounts of Energy Blood Essence in the Intermediate Cultivation Tower and broke through into the Heavenly Human Realm, sending a pillar of blood and qi over Chiyue City.

Luo Wu Shang became a Heavenly Human Grandmaster in High Martial Descent, discovered that the breakthrough had transformed her real-world body, and helped drive a surge of interest in the game. The chapter left her and Zhang Qingwei reeling from news that President Chu Qingtian’s tournament defeat had pushed Heavenly Might Guild toward bankruptcy, just as he called Luo Wu Shang.

• Luo Wu Shang broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm, and Lin Qi saw her extraordinary status and immense power through player monitoring.
• After logging out, Luo Wu Shang suffered intense hunger, ate a huge supply of food, and discovered that her senses, bodily control, strength, and expected lifespan had improved.
• High Martial Descent’s double game-time feature sparked heated forum discussions, and reservations surged from fewer than twenty million to one hundred million.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei learned that Chu Qingtian had been eliminated in the third round of Eternal Immortal Path’s tournament and that investors and shareholders were abandoning Heavenly Might Guild.
• Luo Wu Shang and Zhang Qingwei stared at the news as Luo Wu Shang’s phone rang with a call from the president.

Luo Wu Shang accepted the presidency of Heavenly Might after the guild learned that even the powerful Chu Qingtian had been eliminated by an unknown contestant who himself failed to reach the main tournament. She ordered the guild to abandon its existing game businesses for High Martial Descent, then revealed that in-game levels could increase real-world lifespan.

• Chu Qingtian announced that Heavenly Might’s investors had withdrawn and appointed Luo Wu Shang as the new guild president.
• Luo Wu Shang asked to see footage of Chu Qingtian’s defeat and watched an unknown young man overwhelm him in a few seconds.
• Chu Qingtian revealed that the young man was eliminated in the fourth round because the contestants who reached the main tournament were even stronger.
• Luo Wu Shang accepted the presidency, backed by Zhang Qingwei, Zhao Hu, and Elder Yu Tian, who said she could contend with the new experts.
• Luo Wu Shang ordered Heavenly Might to abandon its other game businesses and devote itself to High Martial Descent, citing its paid reservations, game acceleration technology, and her Town Building Order.
• When Elder Lu questioned whether players would pay for in-game residences, Luo Wu Shang revealed that raising one’s level in High Martial Descent could increase lifespan in reality.

Luo Wu Shang revealed that High Martial Descent could improve players’ real-world strength and lifespan, then outlined how Heavenly Might would profit from a town in the game. As the game’s influence spread, corporations and powerful players prepared to secure access, while Azure Sky’s forces obtained thousands of slots.

• Luo Wu Shang demonstrated superhuman strength to the elders and explained that her in-game advancement had improved her body and could extend her lifespan.
• Luo Wu Shang described her plan to build a town over an Energy Vein and earn revenue from mining rights and housing, and Chu Qingtian agreed to negotiate with corporations.
• Major corporations began searching for High Martial Descent’s creators and offering vast sums for access to its Game Acceleration Technology.
• Razor offered to cooperate with Azure Sky using two Cosmic Pioneer slots, but Azure Sky said they could discuss it after Razor’s experts qualified for the Global Competition.
• Mad Star told Azure Sky that his slot had been secured and more than five thousand members of his corps had been selected.
• After the thirty-six-hour update ended, five million players logged into High Martial Descent at once.

Millions of new players flooded Chiyue City, prompting major guilds to recruit them and the other domain cities to fear the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s growing strength. Lin Qi prepared to accelerate Energy Blood Essence production, while Luo Wu Shang challenged the Hell Snake King in the Mountain of the Dead, and the monster struck at her.

• Five million new players appeared in Chiyue City, where Heavenly Might and other major teams began recruiting and organizing them.
• Ling Ye and the Third Elder saw the millions of Gray-robed Disciples and decided to report Chiyue City’s strength alongside representatives from the other domain cities.
• Lin Qi used his new level-four authority to extract martial techniques, then told Xie Fina to ignore the cities’ report and increase Energy Blood Essence production across forty-one cities.
• Lin Qi noticed Luo Wu Shang leading players through the Mountain of the Dead and saw her approach the mountain hiding a super-large Energy Vein.
• Luo Wu Shang charged toward the Hell Snake King as Zerg captains watched, and the awakened monster erupted from underground and swung its enormous tail at her.

Luo Wu Shang killed the Hell Snake King with a single martial skill and ordered Heavenly Might to establish a town atop a super-large Energy Vein. The Zerg Watch Captains arranged to hire Huang Jiu to eliminate the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, and Hujin accepted her price.

• Luo Wu Shang survived the Hell Snake King's crushing tail strike, then unleashed Energy Eruption and Gloomlight Fist to kill it.
• Luo Wu Shang ordered Heavenly Might to process the monster and build a town at the super-large Energy Vein.
• Zerg captains reported the Hell Snake King's death, and Hujin assessed Luo Wu Shang as comparable to Prison Dragon Star's top three Legion Commanders.
• Hujin and the other Watch Captains agreed to pay Huang Jiu forty-five thousand tons of Fourth-tier Blood Food to attack the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Huang Jiu received Hujin's communication, and he told her he accepted the deal.

Huang Jiu agreed to capture an Obsidian Martial Arts Hall expert for Hujin in exchange for a share of the proceeds, while Soul Shatter warned Lin Qi that Huang Jiu was on her way. Lin Qi welcomed the chance to test his players against her and issued an emergency mission to capture her.

• Hujin offered Huang Jiu ownership of the Half-step Spirit Merging expert in place of payment, and they signed a contract giving her thirty percent if she captured the target within one day.
• Huang Jiu agreed to transport Soul Shatter's six disciples to Sacred Wood Star after finishing Hujin's commission.
• Soul Shatter learned that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall discussed by Huang Jiu was the one Tang Yuanchen's father had mentioned, and contacted Lin Qi with a warning about Huang Jiu.
• Lin Qi thanked Soul Shatter but showed interest in fighting Huang Jiu, then issued an emergency mission for players to capture her and bring her to the martial arts hall.

Several players broke through to the Heavenly Human Realm as Lin Qi drew the purple heavy sword Wufeng, while the garrisons prepared to face the three domain cities’ forces. Huang Jiu reached the Mountain of the Dead to confront the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but the battleship detected two more super-dangerous lifeforms approaching.

• Lu Fanchen used Golden Blood to break through to the Heavenly Human Realm and cultivate the fourth level of the Body Strengthening Secret Technique, then ordered Lin Xinyao to gather the garrison experts for the mission.
• Lin Qi drew the purple heavy sword Wufeng from the roulette and learned that forces from the three domain cities were gathering in the Mountain of the Dead.
• Lin Qi told Vanessa to inform the garrisons about the approaching forces, and Vanessa also warned the Holy Temple.
• Huang Jiu arrived with Hujin and over a thousand Grandmasters to attack the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, insisting that she could handle the fight alone.
• The battleship detected one super-dangerous lifeform approaching, then sounded a second alarm reporting two more.

Huang Jiu and Hujin’s forces confronted Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and Lu Fanchen, only to discover that all three Obsidian Martial Arts Hall experts could match Half-step Spirit Merging Realm fighters. The battle ended with Luo Wu Shang capturing Huang Jiu and fleeing, while Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen took Hujin’s group back to Chiyue City; news of the fight spread across Azure Star.

• Huang Jiu and Hujin’s group met Luo Wu Shang, Ye Qinglu, and Lu Fanchen around the Sky Battleship, and Hujin misrepresented what the three were saying.
• Huang Jiu attacked Luo Wu Shang and Ye Qinglu, but their Energy Burst punches shattered the Sky Battleship and gravely injured the nearby Grandmasters.
• Lu Fanchen launched Double Burst at Huang Jiu, who countered with Flame Wave; the clash devastated the area and seriously wounded both fighters.
• Ye Qinglu attacked Huang Jiu with Three Thousand Worlds, but Huang Jiu killed her with Flame Wave before Luo Wu Shang cut Huang Jiu apart and took her head.
• Luo Wu Shang escaped with Huang Jiu, while Ye Qinglu and Lu Fanchen captured Hujin and the surviving watch captains and returned to Chiyue City.
• News of Huang Jiu’s capture and the battle spread across Azure Star in less than a day.

Obsidian Martial Arts Hall captured the city lords of the three major domain cities and the Zerg's Watch Captains, prompting forces across Azure Star to rally behind it and the Holy Hall to prepare an evacuation. Lin Qi questioned Huang Jiu about the powers beyond Azure Star while weighing whether the martial arts hall should leave before Prison Dragon Star's forces arrived.

• Yinghu and Ling Ye told the Third Elder that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had defeated a Grandmaster army and captured the three domain city lords, then he saw the captives brought into the hall.
• Major forces across the four regions learned that the domain city lords had been captured and rushed to invest in Chiyue City and Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Soul Shatter learned that Huang Jiu and the other Watch Captains had been captured, then ordered the Holy Hall's shelters to gather their geniuses and Grandmasters and evacuate to Sacred Wood Star.
• Vanessa brought the Holy Hall's evacuation invitation to Lin Qi, who distributed Crazy Chocolate to the martial arts hall's guard corps and summoned Huang Jiu.
• Lin Qi asked Huang Jiu to explain the power structure beyond Azure Star, offering to release her if her information proved useful.

Lin Qi revealed overwhelming strength to Huang Jiu and learned about the universe’s major powers and the Zerg threat facing Azure Star. He arranged for Huang Jiu and Vanessa to seek one year of protection from the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce, while preparing to hold off Prison Dragon Star’s attack; two days after they departed, Prison Dragon Star learned its four Watch Captains had gone silent.

• Lin Qi suppressed Huang Jiu with his vitality, convincing her that he possessed Spirit Merging Realm combat power, and asked her to explain the universe’s major forces and Prison Dragon Star.
• Huang Jiu described the universe’s peak powers, the Insect Emperor Divine Kingdom’s control over Azure Star, and the strength of Prison Dragon Star’s Star Lord.
• Lin Qi asked whether the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce could protect Azure Star, and Huang Jiu said her father could likely arrange one year of protection if Lin Qi joined.
• Lin Qi agreed to join the Starry Sky Chamber of Commerce and said he could hold off Prison Dragon Star long enough for negotiations to take place.
• Lin Qi sent Vanessa and Luo Wu Shang’s garrison regiment with Huang Jiu to Crimson Demon Star to negotiate, and the players accepted a mission to establish a branch dojo there.
• Two days after Huang Jiu and the others left, Prison Dragon Star learned that it had received no word from Azure Star’s four Watch Captains.

Prison Dragon Star prepared a massive punitive expedition against Azure Star after the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall captured its Watch Captains and a Half-step Spirit Merging Star Bandit. As Bocas’s fleet arrived to attack, its instruments detected more than five thousand approaching targets.

• Baroque agreed to join forces with Dicky to target the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and pursue the Soul Resonance Crystal.
• Star Lord Bocas revealed that Gusang had become a Half-step Spirit Merging expert and appointed him first adjutant before announcing an invasion of Azure Star.
• Soul Shatter brought Azure Star’s shelter residents to Sacred Wood Star, where they marveled at its cultivation environment and learned Bocas would personally lead the expedition.
• Bocas arrived at Azure Star with more than a hundred Space Battleships and ordered the army to prepare to attack.
• Azure Star’s life-detection instruments registered more than five thousand approaching targets, stunning everyone aboard the fleet.

Shelter leaders arrived at Chiyue City and learned that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples and newly empowered allies were far stronger than they appeared. When Prison Dragon Star’s Zerg fleet reached Azure Star, its detectors identified twenty-two ultra-dangerous lifeforms and one Spirit Merging expert among the defenders, leaving the invaders stunned.

• Tens of thousands of shelter experts arrived in Chiyue City, and Hank explained that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s Gray-robed Disciples could fight above their realms.
• Hank revealed that Tang Yilong had advanced to Half-step Spirit Merging and demonstrated a transformation that raised his own strength enough to contend with a Spirit Merging expert.
• Chiyue City’s alarm announced the approaching Zerg fleet, and Hank, the shelter experts, and more than ten thousand qualified players assembled in Azure Star’s atmosphere to meet it.
• Prison Dragon Star’s fleet detected twenty-two ultra-dangerous lifeforms among the defenders, then registered one extremely dangerous lifeform and realized Azure Star had a Spirit Merging expert.