Chapter Summaries

New players arrived at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, where Lu Fanchen planned to help Mythic Paradise’s experts advance and claim a team dungeon’s first kill. Yakro learned that Lin Qi had destroyed the Great Ape Gang and asked to work at the hall, revealing she had developed a powerful Berserk Potion formula.

• Fifty new players appeared in the underground confinement room, and Lu Fanchen told Li Tianxing and Lin Xinyao that he had bought enough points for the six Mythic Paradise members to train before tackling a Unicorn Gold-Eating Rat dungeon.
• Yakro woke to find new members training at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and asked Lin Qi whether the Crimson Moon Mountain conflict had been settled.
• Lin Qi confirmed the Great Ape Gang had been destroyed, and Yakro asked him to let her work at the hall despite her crippled hands.
• Yakro told Lin Qi she was a pharmacist who had developed a Berserk Potion that boosted physique by about twenty percent for five minutes, followed by several hours of weakness.

Lin Qi recruited Yakro to develop the Berserk Potion, promising to arrange treatment for her hands and generous payment under terms that allowed her to leave later. After the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall wiped out most of the Great Ape Gang, the Gorilla Gang’s leader Wright ordered an investigation, and Xia Ling arrived to take Lin Qi to the Martial Artist Association.

• Lin Qi offered Yakro a potion workshop, help producing the Berserk Potion, treatment for her hands, and a share of potion profits, and Yakro accepted.
• News spread that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall had wiped out the Great Ape Gang, shocking wilderness and suburban gangs across City of Light Chasing.
• Bess asked Wright for manpower to attack the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but Wright told him to focus on entering the Martial Artist Genius Camp and promised to supply his training needs.
• Wright ordered his subordinates to investigate the destruction of the Great Ape Gang and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.
• Xia Ling arrived at the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and invited Lin Qi to go with her to the Martial Artist Association.

Lin Qi visited the Martial Artist Association with Xia Ling to have his potential and rank assessed, where he learned about the fierce entry standards for the upcoming Martial Artist Genius Camp. He confronted steward Feng Gelin over their past, then entered the assessment room while Xia Ling was left stunned by his admission that Feng Gelin held a grudge against him.

• Xia Ling explained that young martial artists were getting their potential recertified ahead of the Genius Training Camp, which accepted only one hundred applicants every three years and required superior-grade potential to pass the first round.
• Lin Qi learned how the association ranked martial artist potential by vitality and what privileges each grade received.
• Lin Qi encountered Feng Gelin in the association lobby and calmly told him that he had become a martial artist.
• Feng Gelin belittled Lin Qi, who replied with the saying, “A pawn crossing the river becomes a chariot,” before Feng Gelin left for the assessment room.
• Xia Ling asked whether Lin Qi had a grudge against Feng Gelin, and Lin Qi said Feng Gelin held a grudge against him before entering the assessment room.

Lin Qi took the Martial Artist Assessment after Feng Gelin decided to sabotage his future hunting prospects, while the tests revealed a rare genius from the Barbarian Horn Race. Lin Qi’s ordinary speed and strength results gave way to an astonishing blood qi value of 213.4 units, leaving the hall stunned.

• Tust recorded excellent potential with a blood qi value of 152.3 units, and Fan Linhai also achieved excellent potential.
• Feng Gelin told another steward that Lin Qi was an unregistered drifter and planned to make sure other martial artists would not team with him in the wilderness.
• Raimon, a Barbarian Horn Race youth, recorded a special-grade blood qi value of 171.2 units and drew the attention of all three stewards.
• Lin Qi’s speed and strength results were unremarkable, but he unleashed his blood qi in the sealed chamber and produced Blood Qi Wolf Smoke.
• The assessment chamber displayed Lin Qi’s blood qi value as 213.4 units, leaving everyone present speechless.

Lin Qi shattered the Genius Training Camp’s blood-and-qi record, revealing super-grade potential and forcing Feng Gelin to make amends for their conflict. As Feng Gelin escorted Lin Qi and Xia Ling to handle the competition procedures, Lin Qi told her his potential was super grade.

• The assessment hall was shocked when Lin Qi’s blood-and-qi value reached 213.4 units, surpassing the Genius Training Camp record.
• The Crystal Race deacon warned Feng Gelin to resolve his conflict with Lin Qi, and Feng Gelin realized his earlier hostility could put him in danger.
• Feng Gelin offered Lin Qi ten Energy Crystals as an apology, and Lin Qi accepted them.
• After learning Lin Qi planned to recommend Xia Ling for the Five Cities Grand Competition, Feng Gelin escorted them to handle the procedures.
• Xia Ling asked Lin Qi why Feng Gelin had changed, and Lin Qi revealed that his potential was super grade.

Lin Qi declined Xia Ling’s request to train her personally and discovered how expensive martial artist equipment and supplies were. When Meng Wei of the Iron Heart Gang proposed that the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall help reclaim Nanxing Street, Lin Qi used his certification card to demonstrate his exceptional potential.

• Feng Gelin advised Xia Ling to seek guidance from Lin Qi, but Lin Qi declined to teach her personally and offered the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall’s disciples instead.
• Xia Ling decided to visit the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall for training and returned there with Lin Qi.
• Lin Qi reviewed the Martial Artist Association’s costly supplies and equipment, including B2 Grade Battle Armor that he could not yet afford.
• Luo Qi introduced Meng Wei, deputy leader of the Iron Heart Gang, who proposed joining forces with the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to reclaim Nanxing Street.
• Lin Qi distinguished between hiring his personal help and recruiting the whole martial arts hall, then showed his martial artist certification card when Meng Wei’s companion challenged his value.
• Meng Wei read the card and reacted with shock to Lin Qi’s exceptional potential.

Lin Qi negotiated with Meng Wei for the Iron Heart Gang to give Obsidian Martial Arts Hall sixty percent of the spoils in their fight against the Two-Headed Gang, then invited him to inspect Crimson Moon Mountain. At the mountain, a monster alarm revealed that its residents treated monster attacks as routine, and Fang Zhen's team went out to face two Crocodile Fang Rhinoceroses.

• Lin Qi revealed his Special Grade martial artist certification, and Meng Wei apologized for Han Lan's disrespect.
• Lin Qi demanded a sixty-percent share for Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and invited Meng Wei to inspect its strength at Crimson Moon Mountain.
• Meng Wei and his disciples traveled with Lin Qi to the mountain, where they found thousands of wilderness drifters waiting outside its gate.
• A monster alarm sent newcomers into a panic, while experienced drifters calmly stayed in line.
• Luo Wu Shang, Fang Zhen, and One Leaf Floating Cloud came down to meet two Crocodile Fang Rhinoceroses, and Fang Zhen's team prepared to fight them.

Fang Zhen and the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall players killed two Crocodile Fang Rhinoceroses with volleys of arrows powered by Lightning Palm, stunning Meng Wei and his disciples. Lin Qi saw that Crimson Moon Mountain had grown into a bustling settlement, and Zhang Qingwei told him that Flo wanted to leave the Green Sparrow Gang and join the hall.

• Fang Zhen and his teammates struck B2 Grade Arrows with Lightning Palm, badly wounding two charging Crocodile Fang Rhinoceroses.
• Fang Zhen’s team fired more volleys and killed both beasts, while Meng Wei watched in disbelief.
• Lin Qi told Meng Wei that the technique was a signature martial skill the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall would not teach externally for now.
• Meng Wei and his disciples saw Crimson Moon Mountain’s expanding settlement and feared Lin Qi intended to absorb their Iron Heart Gang.
• Zhang Qingwei told Lin Qi that Flo wanted to leave the Green Sparrow Gang and bring his people to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall.

Lin Qi learned that Flo and the others wanted to join the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and saw the scale of its growing trade on Crimson Moon Mountain. After Meng Wei discovered that the hall sold monster meat freely, he offered to merge the Iron Heart Gang into it.

• Zhang Qingwei told Lin Qi that Flo and the others had applied to join and were managing refugee housing and the crowded trading district.
• Lin Qi accepted Flo and the others into the hall and assigned them to manage the stalls at their previous Green Sparrow Gang pay.
• Lin Qi, Zhang Qingwei, Meng Wei, and the others ate at the Heavenly Might Restaurant, where Qiao Hanlan and the others realized the grilled meat was monster meat.
• Meng Wei was shocked that Obsidian Martial Arts Hall sold monster meat to outsiders, and Lin Qi said trade on Crimson Moon Mountain was open to anyone who could pay.
• Meng Wei agreed to the previous cooperation on behalf of the Iron Heart Gang and asked Lin Qi to let the gang merge into the hall.

Meng Wei offered to bring the Iron Heart Gang into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall in exchange for elder treatment and regular monster meat, while Lin Qi agreed to await his decision within a few days. Later, Lin Qi discovered One Leaf Floating Cloud was experimenting with a handgun inspired by Lightning Palm and asked how the tests had gone.

• Meng Wei asked Lin Qi to accept the Iron Heart Gang into the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall and requested elder treatment and monster meat for himself and his two disciples.
• Lin Qi agreed to Meng Wei's terms, and Meng Wei left to persuade the Iron Heart Gang's leader and elders to join within three or four days.
• Zhang Qingwei hurried to the mine to tell Luo Wu Shang and the others about the Iron Heart Gang's possible merger.
• Lin Qi visited One Leaf Floating Cloud's workshop and saw him polishing a handgun resembling a Desert Eagle.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud explained that he was using Lightning Palm to accelerate bullets and said he had made several guns for testing.
• Lin Qi asked One Leaf Floating Cloud how the test results had gone.

One Leaf Floating Cloud asked Lin Qi for help solving the problems preventing him from producing a Super Electromagnetic Gun, and Lin Qi agreed in exchange for control of the weapon shop. Lin Qi tested the gun in a mine tunnel, demonstrating its immense power before its barrel broke apart, while One Leaf Floating Cloud celebrated its five-Mach shot.

• One Leaf Floating Cloud explained that his Super Electromagnetic Gun experiments failed because firing required precise lightning-force control and the A6 Level Alloy gun body could not withstand repeated shots.
• Lin Qi offered to help with the gun’s firing and provide a medium-sized machine tool in exchange for 51% of One Leaf Floating Cloud’s weapon shop; they signed a contract granting the shop a property discount, reduced taxes, and priority machine-tool access.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud led Lin Qi to a mine testing ground, where Lin Qi fired the Desert Eagle through A6 Grade Armor at twenty meters.
• Lin Qi fired again at fifty meters with seventy percent of his lightning force, piercing the target and producing four Mach rings.
• Lin Qi used all the lightning force he could mobilize to fire at one hundred meters; the shot produced five Mach rings and broke apart the gun’s barrel, thrilling One Leaf Floating Cloud.

Lin Qi demonstrated a Super Electromagnetic Gun that could threaten martial artists and monsters, prompting players to rush to practice Lightning Palm and the Mental Secret Technique before the suspected bug was fixed. After loading ninety tons of Energy Ore for the return to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, Lin Qi was approached by Qin Mu, who had arrived with a search-and-rescue team from the City of Light Chasing.

• Lin Qi demonstrated that his Super Electromagnetic Gun fired accurately at over Mach five, and One Leaf Floating Cloud shared its training requirements and advertised the weapon on the forum.
• Players discussed the gun’s combat potential, its demanding requirements, and the possibility that the game company would fix the Lightning Palm bug, so many logged in to practice.
• Lin Qi’s Lightning Palm and Mental Secret Technique improved as he watched players mine with them, while his Crushing Stone Fist and Leopard Shadow Steps reached Perfection Realm.
• Lin Qi prepared to return to the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall with ninety tons of Energy Ore and planned to use the energy to expand the player count and build Beginner Training Rooms.
• A search-and-rescue team led by familiar figures Hou Fei and Qin Mu arrived at Crimson Moon Mountain and asked to stay overnight, offering sixty thousand bits in lodging fees.
• Qin Mu recognized Lin Qi and walked over to greet him.

Qin Mu told Lin Qi that Mobile City Verdant Sky had been destroyed by a Monster Tide, and invited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to join the expedition seeking its resources. Lin Qi learned that wilderness factions could explore the outskirts of the ruined city and faced a rare opportunity to gain valuable rewards.

• Lin Qi welcomed Qin Mu and the rescue convoy into Crimson Moon Mountain, while Qin Mu thanked him and arranged for the Energy Ore to be unloaded.
• At Heavenly Might Restaurant, Qin Mu told Lin Qi that Verdant Sky had been found in ruins after vanishing from its planned route, with monster carcasses scattered throughout.
• Qin Mu explained that the Martial Artist Association had sent a scouting team because the city’s destruction might threaten nearby cities, including City of Light Chasing.
• Qin Mu told Lin Qi that the ruined mobile city held valuable resources and that wilderness factions could seek gains from its outskirts alongside other powers.
• Qin Mu invited Obsidian Martial Arts Hall to join the expedition, and Lin Qi asked whether his faction was allowed to go.

Lin Qi learned that Emerald Sky’s urban districts were guarded by powerful forces, but he still planned to seek training methods there and prepared to use player resurrection points to break through the expected encirclement. He announced a limited-time exploration event for players, leaving them poised to enter Emerald Sky the next morning.

• Lin Qi asked Qin Mu about powerful martial artist universities and lineages near Emerald Sky, hoping to find training methods beyond martial artists.
• Qin Mu warned Lin Qi that suburban forces had agreed to keep wilderness and ordinary suburban forces out of Emerald Sky’s urban districts, and invited him to join the search-and-rescue team.
• Lin Qi declined Qin Mu’s invitation, received Emerald Sky’s movement map, and realized the city would soon pass within 200 kilometers of Crimson Moon Mountain.
• Lin Qi judged that rival gangs and lineages might overwhelm his forces, so he planned to establish resurrection points near Emerald Sky using Energy Crystals.
• Lin Qi announced the limited-time ‘Mobile City Verdant Sky’ event, inviting eligible players to explore Emerald Sky and offering a Wilderness Exploration Permit to the five players with the highest contributions.

Players reacted with envy to the new High Martial Descent exploration event, while Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing left the underground maze to compete for its five wilderness-exploration slots. The next morning, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall players assembled with handguns and B2 Grade arrows as the rescue team prepared to head to Emerald Sky.

• Players speculated that the five limited exploration slots were a test of future gameplay and envied those who could participate.
• Lu Fanchen, Lin Xinyao, and Li Tianxing discussed their growth in the maze and decided to return to the entrance to train before competing for the slots.
• Li Tianxing said he might soon use explosive air bursts to perform his Heaven-Treading Steps.
• The next morning, Obsidian Martial Arts Hall players gathered at Crimson Moon Mountain with Desert Eagles and B2 Grade arrows as the rescue team prepared to leave for Emerald Sky.
• Lin Qi told the assembled players to board the transport trucks.

Lin Qi brought the players to Verdant Sky but established a temporary respawn point outside the city before letting them explore. Inside, Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang taught Firefly Emperor her strategy of clearing enemy-filled areas while searching for treasure.

• Lin Qi turned away from Verdant Sky with his group, while Hou Fei and the other convoys continued toward the city.
• Moko Ross and his companion dismissed Lin Qi's group as a minor wilderness gang and focused on the Ross Lineage's objectives in Verdant Sky.
• Lin Qi stopped at a ravine and offered players a temporary respawn point for three thousand points each.
• After binding to the respawn point, the teams reorganized into smaller groups and set out to explore Verdant Sky.
• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang told Firefly Emperor to seek out enemy-filled locations, defeat their occupants, and search the areas for treasure.

Ye Qinglu and One Leaf Floating Cloud led the Gray-Clad Demons in attacking the Blood Wolf Gang, and Ye Qinglu killed Vice Leader Dario with her new Lightning Spear technique. They planned to move toward Emerald Sky’s city center as the City of Light Chasing’s rescue team arrived nearby and heard that wilderness gangs were seeking help against the Gray-Clad Demons.

• Dario learned that Gray-Clad Demons had killed gang members across Emerald Sky, but he refused to abandon the exploration and ordered the Blood Wolf Gang to move in groups.
• The Gray-Clad Demons attacked the Blood Wolf Gang’s temporary base, and One Leaf Floating Cloud fought Dario with an arrow.
• Ye Qinglu blocked Dario’s Seven Revolving Slashes with floating arrows and killed him with the first form of her Three Forms of Lightning.
• The Blood Wolf Gang members fled, and Ye Qinglu agreed with One Leaf Floating Cloud to send their finds back before heading to the city center.
• Near the city center, Qin Mu saw wilderness gangs gathering, and Hou Fei explained that they were seeking help against the Gray-Clad Demons.

Qin Mu and Hou Fei learned that silver-gray-clad humans were terrorizing wilderness gangs across Emerald Sky, while the Nine Street Gang’s Bragi dismissed the warnings and attacked those seeking help. As the gangs charged toward the city district to escape the Gray-Clad Demons, a group of players watched the battle and discussed teaming up to break through the elite guards.

• A Sub-demon Race woman told Bragi that silver-gray-clad humans had slaughtered members of several wilderness gangs, but Bragi ordered the gang members to leave and killed a Three-Eyed Race woman who tried to warn him further.
• Hou Fei suspected the Gray-Clad Demons were disciples of the Obsidian Martial Arts Hall, but Qin Mu doubted that around a hundred disciples could defeat so many wilderness gangs.
• Hundreds of wilderness gang members fled toward Emerald Sky’s city district, shouting that the Gray-Clad Demons were coming, and Bragi’s forces attacked them as they tried to break through.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang watched the fight with other players, and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang proposed joining forces to defeat the elite guards and enter the city district.

Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang and One Leaf Floating Cloud joined forces to test their weapons against the city’s elite defenders. Their first volley of Super Electromagnetic Guns killed the ten Nine Street Gang members Bragi sent to intercept them, leaving the larger confrontation unresolved.

• Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang rejected a cautious plan and proposed charging the elite monsters, while Ye Qinglu volunteered to fight Bragi.
• Bragi and the Nine Street Gang defeated the wilderness gang attackers, then stayed behind as others pursued the survivors into the city.
• Bragi ordered a squad of ten Nine Street Gang members to attack the approaching Gray-Clad Demons.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud and Xiao Yuan Ye Feng Kuang realized their group had drawn only ten enemies and prepared a volley of Super Electromagnetic Guns.
• One Leaf Floating Cloud fired with the group, and their beams pierced and killed all ten charging Nine Street Gang members.

The players ambushed the Nine Street Gang with Super Electromagnetic Guns, then fought a costly battle against the gang’s armored fighters. Ye Qinglu died after using Six Wheels against Bragi, but she believed the battle had not been a loss, leaving Bragi puzzled by the players’ smiles.

• One Leaf Floating Cloud and the players killed ten Nine Street Gang members with a surprise volley from their Super Electromagnetic Guns.
• The Nine Street Gang regrouped and fired arrows, but One Leaf Floating Cloud and the others deflected them while Ye Qinglu shielded herself with her controlled arrows.
• Bragi rallied the gang and fought Ye Qinglu as the two sides exchanged attacks, with casualties mounting on both sides.
• Ye Qinglu unleashed Six Wheels at close range, forcing Bragi to use Blazing Light Slash and leaving his armor battered, but Bragi cut her in half.
• Ye Qinglu died saying the round was not a loss, while Bragi surveyed the dead players’ smiles and wondered how they could consider the battle anything but defeat.