Chapter Summaries

Lu Xiu explored how to wrest control of her rigid skills or reproduce their effects through her own body, but discovered the process was difficult and dangerous without training. Meanwhile, Rosalind and Ulysses prepared for negotiations with Nine Provinces, which were interrupted by a global announcement that Ah Yi had changed professions to Pioneer Hunter.

• Lu Xiu tried to seize control of Lightning Infusion and suffered painful, increasingly severe backlash, while Ellen explained that repeated attempts would become harder.
• Lu Xiu failed to produce lightning through her own blood and qi, realized she lacked basic training, and asked Ellen and Viola to examine her Witch dungeon headbands; Ellen found she could strengthen the power on them.
• Rosalind learned that Nine Provinces had subdued its guilds and wanted her negotiators to focus on dungeon resource trade, while she sought a private meeting with Lu Xiu.
• Ulysses ordered Red Tide to approach the formal negotiations humbly and began considering how to meet Lu Xiu.
• A global announcement revealed that Ah Yi of Nine Provinces had changed professions to Pioneer Hunter, increasing other Nine Provinces players’ chances of obtaining its first-advancement proof.

After Ellen, Viola, and the Black Cat enhanced Lu Xiu’s headbands and [Effect and Cause Severance], Lu Xiu learned that the Pioneer Hunter profession helped its users perform dungeon weapon moves through their own strength. Ah Yi demonstrated the profession’s abilities, prompting Lu Xiu to decide she needed to build a dungeon to practice releasing skills.

• Ulysses and Rosalind ordered their people to investigate Ah Yi and sought information about the Monster Hunter instance and Lu Xiu.
• Ellen and Viola infused their origins into Lu Xiu’s headbands, giving one the ability to steal skills permanently and the other immunity to theft, control, imitation, and alteration.
• The Black Cat helped enhance [Effect and Cause Severance], which gained the ability to sever connections, guaranteed-hit targeting, and domains.
• Lu Xiu asked Viola to teach her about qi and blood, then went to the Coordination Bureau after Yan Fushou told her Ah Yi would demonstrate the Pioneer Hunter profession.
• Ah Yi explained that Pioneer Hunter boosted her attributes when facing the unknown and let her perform weapon moves such as Charged Slash without skill assistance.
• After watching Ah Yi’s demonstration, Lu Xiu concluded that she needed to build a dungeon where she could practice releasing skills.

Lu Xiu demonstrated that she could perform True Charged Slash more powerfully than Ah Yi and discussed the spread of the Pioneer Hunter profession. On the way back, she explained her theory about Liberation Skills and began designing a Berserker to help her practice manipulating vitality and blood.

• Lu Xiu questioned Ah Yi about the profession instance and predicted that many players in Nine Provinces would become Pioneer Hunters, potentially creating competition to reach the fifth profession change.
• Lu Xiu borrowed Ah Yi’s greatsword and performed a devastating True Charged Slash, then explained how to improve the move’s transitions and rhythm.
• Wei Yidong felt discouraged after seeing Lu Xiu surpass Ah Yi’s profession skill, but Yan Fushou reminded him that Lu Xiu was an Architect.
• Lu Xiu told Shen Nian and Jian Li that she was trying to turn skills into Liberation Skills and needed to solve the problem of manipulating vitality and blood.
• Shen Nian and Jian Li told Lu Xiu about Franca’s Blood Frenzy Art, and Lu Xiu decided to contact the Francan delegation after returning to the Witch Forest.
• Lu Xiu entered the Construction Space and began creating a Berserker enemy whose power relied on consuming and absorbing vitality and blood.

Lu Xiu trained against a blood-wielding Hunter and discovered that she could activate a skill without system assistance, potentially allowing liberated skills to bypass restrictions. The chapter left her continuing her experiments while Rosalind returned from talks with the Nine Provinces, puzzled by their interest in Franca's Blood Frenzy Art.

• Lu Xiu designed a blood-wielding Hunter, fought him, and studied his technique before copying him and entering roleplay mode to practice without system assistance.
• Lu Xiu endured the Hunter's attacks for nearly two hours, learned to release blood energy in a crude Cross Slash, and produced brief lightning arcs by activating [Extraordinary · Remnant] herself.
• Lu Xiu realized that mastering a skill independently might let players use it inside roleplay instances and other skill-restricting environments, then resumed training and switched to facing Maria.
• Rosalind returned to her hotel after the three-nation talks, where the Nine Provinces had refused to sell Astera weapons or commit to a deeper alliance.
• Rosalind recalled that the Nine Provinces had asked about Franca's Blood Frenzy Art and wondered why they were interested in an ability tied to the Orc Race.

Rosalind sent Lu Xiu detailed notes on the Frans’ Blood Frenzy Art, hoping to meet her and demonstrate it in person. Lu Xiu found the technique familiar, considered adapting it into a Berserker’s Rampage, and left the chapter poised to experiment with it.

• Rosalind reasoned that Nine Provinces had requested information on Blood Frenzy Art for Lu Xiu, so she wrote down its methods, risks, and limitations and sent the notes as a gift.
• Lu Xiu practiced blood-qi attacks in the Construction Space, triggered an unexplained system-completion prompt, and then successfully produced small arcs of electricity using vital energy.
• Shen Nian told Lu Xiu that former Architects could not casually regain access to the Construction Space, then delivered the Blood Frenzy Art notes from Rosalind.
• Lu Xiu recognized the technique’s operating logic from her own training and considered modifying it into a safer Berserker’s Rampage.
• Rosalind learned that the notes had been delivered and said that if Lu Xiu independently mastered Blood Frenzy Art, she would become the Frans’ ancestor.

Lu Xiu adapted Franca's Blood Frenzy Art into Rampage by training against the Orphan of Kos in Construction Space, then tested the technique in reality and found she could sustain it safely for only sixty seconds. She decided she needed to meet the Francan princess to learn how the Ancestral Bloodline affected the original art.

• Rosalind insisted she would demonstrate Blood Frenzy Art herself to meet Lu Xiu, while her attendant overheard the King of Franca warning her about the Nine Provinces delegation.
• Lu Xiu discovered that Jian Li and Shen Nian could not independently cast skills because their mental power attributes were far below hers, then postponed their planned shopping trip to practice in Construction Space.
• Lu Xiu created the Orphan of Kos as a high-pressure opponent and spent two days learning to control Blood Frenzy Art, improving it into Rampage and raising her system completion to 85%.
• Lu Xiu returned to the Witch Forest and successfully recreated her elemental skills through manual control of her blood and qi.
• Lu Xiu tested Rampage in reality and found she could maintain it for only sixty seconds before her blood and qi grew dangerously hot.
• Lu Xiu decided to meet the Francan princess to investigate how the Ancestral Bloodline affected Blood Frenzy Art.

Lu Xiu invited Rosalind to Witch Forest to discuss Blood Frenzy Art, while Shen Nian and Jian Li greeted the Franca delegation in maid outfits. Rosalind’s demonstration went out of control, but Lu Xiu stabilized her blood energy and left the delegation stunned by her intervention.

• Lu Xiu arranged for Rosalind to visit Witch Forest, then dressed Shen Nian and Jian Li in maid outfits to receive her.
• Rosalind traveled to Witch Forest with Lucy and attendants, where Lu Xiu welcomed them along a flower path.
• Lu Xiu asked Rosalind to demonstrate Blood Frenzy Art, and Rosalind began despite her lingering injuries.
• Rosalind lost control of her blood energy, and Lu Xiu rushed over to suppress it with her spiritual power.
• Lu Xiu stabilized Rosalind’s Blood Frenzy Art and scolded her for demonstrating while still recovering.

Lu Xiu revealed that she had mastered a stable, improved Blood Frenzy Art by using spiritual power to control blood and qi, then used it to guide Rosalind and the Franca delegation. Rosalind offered Franca’s people as guards in exchange for Lu Xiu helping them experience the technique, leaving Lu Xiu surprised by the offer.

• Rosalind lost control while demonstrating Blood Frenzy Art, and Lu Xiu calmed her blood and qi with spiritual power.
• Lu Xiu demonstrated her flawless Blood Frenzy Art and explained how her spiritual power let her bypass the Ancestral Bloodline’s usual limits.
• Rosalind explained that Francans relied on their Ancestral Bloodline and physical toughness to withstand Blood Frenzy Art’s dangerous backlash.
• After learning Lu Xiu could sustain the technique for sixty seconds, Rosalind asked her to teach Franca the improved version, but Lu Xiu said their mental power was insufficient.
• Lu Xiu used her spiritual power to guide Rosalind, Lucy, and the other Francans into a controlled Blood Frenzy Art state, letting them experience it without pain.
• Rosalind offered to provide Francan guards and attendants in exchange for Lu Xiu occasionally guiding them, while Lucy added that Rosalind herself could serve as a maid.

Lu Xiu agreed to discuss Franca’s proposal to send warriors as her guards, then discovered she could use spilled enemy blood energy to power her techniques. Rosalind and the King of Franca planned to secure a close alliance with Lu Xiu, while Lu Xiu’s new experiment triggered an unknown system recording.

• Lu Xiu agreed to discuss Franca’s offer with the Nine Provinces authorities and asked Rosalind whether the Frans knew how to absorb another person’s blood energy.
• Lu Xiu realized she could control blood energy spilled by wounded enemies and use it as a medium for her techniques, then left to test the idea.
• Rosalind told the King of Franca about Lu Xiu’s Flawless Blood Frenzy, and he agreed to send elite warriors to the Nine Provinces and urged Rosalind to go as well.
• Lu Xiu used the Orphan of Kos’s blood to power Mountain Collapse Strike and discovered that the attack’s strength changed with the amount of blood energy used.
• The system detected an unknown system in Lu Xiu’s experiment and began recording it.

The King of Franca sent Rosalind to serve as Lu Xiu’s guard, while Lu Xiu rejected most of Franca’s proposed ten thousand warriors and went shopping with Shen Nian and Jian Li. After Chu Huai and Li Zhong changed professions, a Profession Contest War began, and a mysterious visitor approached Li Zhong to propose cooperation against the Nine Provinces government.

• The King of Franca decided that Rosalind had to go to Nine Provinces to protect the royal family’s interests, and Nine Provinces officials learned that Franca and Red Tide were seeking meetings with Lu Xiu.
• Lu Xiu left her Construction Space, limited Franca’s proposed guard force to one thousand elites, and went shopping in Wuyi Lane with Shen Nian and Jian Li.
• Lu Xiu learned that Chu Huai had entered a profession-change dungeon, then received announcements that Chu Huai had become a Hundred-Battle Soldier and Li Zhong had become a Pioneer Hunter.
• The system launched the Profession Contest War, offering profession certificates through qualifying Versus Instances built by Nine Provinces Architects.
• A hooded stranger told Li Zhong that the Coordination Bureau was preparing to suppress the major guilds and offered to cooperate with him.

After the system announced that the first three Versus Instances would guarantee Profession Certificates to their winners, Lu Xiu began designing a high-pressure PVPVE instance inspired by Dungeon Fighter Online. As she worked in the Construction Space, Shen Nian and Jian Li agreed to train together, while Red Tide considered how to enter the upcoming contest and Ulysses rejected a mysterious intruder.

• Players in Wuyi Lane erupted with excitement over the guaranteed Profession Certificates, and Lu Xiu told Shen Nian and Jian Li she would probably create a Versus Instance.
• Lu Xiu took Shen Nian and Jian Li shopping, then returned to Witch Forest and entered the Construction Space to plan the instance.
• Lu Xiu designed a PVPVE instance with Dungeon Fighter Online class scrolls, Colorless Crystals, a shrinking hazardous zone, NPC allies, and Abyss encounters.
• Shen Nian and Jian Li agreed to train together for the Versus Instance, and Jian Li eagerly considered asking Lu Xiu to wear the dinosaur pajamas.
• Yan Fushou learned that Lu Xiu had entered the Construction Space, while Red Tide’s strategist suggested that the delegation might qualify to enter the Versus Instance from Chen Capital.
• A black-robed figure appeared in Ulysses’s hotel suite, but Ulysses blasted it with a skill and refused to get involved.

Lu Xiu completed and tested a large-scale Versus Instance, while players speculated about its format and prepared for its release. The system finished simulating the instance and asked Lu Xiu to confirm deployment, warning that she would lose her memories and compete in it herself.

• Lu Xiu built Hendon Myre and a series of dungeons, testing their monsters and difficulty through the Ancient Dungeon maps.
• Lu Xiu summoned King of Megablacks Luger beneath the fireflies for Shen Nian and Jian Li to test, then read forum discussions predicting that her Versus Instance would use role-play mode.
• Jiang Qiu ordered the Longsword Guild to double its training and told members in Chen Capital to avoid going out while they prepared for the Versus Instance.
• Three days later, Lu Xiu packaged her completed instance, and the system simulated it successfully with a Rule Stabilization Cost of 550000 Survival Points.
• The system asked Lu Xiu to put the instance online, warning that she would enter without her memories and receive none of its benefits if she failed to become the final victor.

Lu Xiu’s SSS-rated Versus Instance, Dungeon Fighter Online, opened as a ten-thousand-player free-for-all, with the system naming her the strongest player. After entering the instance and accepting a quest in Hendon Myre, Lu Xiu headed for Sky Tower while Ulysses, Rosalind, and Gong Yu agreed to cooperate and investigate the Dungeons before the Dimensional Storm forced a final confrontation.

• Lu Xiu confirmed the release of Dungeon Fighter Online, and the system announced the instance’s rewards, dynamic power matching, and opening countdown across the Nine Provinces.
• Jiang Qiu warned Longsword Guild members not to enter with equipment or stat-lowering effects, but the system said their combat ratings had already been recorded; Ulysses, Rosalind, and other foreign delegates also realized the strongest players could become targets.
• Lu Xiu entered Architect Verification Mode, and the system repeatedly added players until her match reached its ten-thousand-player limit.
• The players entered the instance, where the system identified Lu Xiu as its Architect and strongest player, announced safe zones and the approaching Dimensional Storm, and explained that players could grow stronger in Dungeons.
• Lu Xiu accepted Grentis’s quest to obtain soul orbs from Dungeon lords and hurried toward Sky Tower, while Ulysses, Rosalind, and Gong Yu agreed to investigate separate Dungeon areas and reunite for the later battle.

In a separate two-thousand-player instance, Lu Jing investigated Hendon Myre’s NPCs and suspected their stories and requests offered weaker players a way to gain advantages. Meanwhile, Lu Xiu obtained the Light Flame Sword from an Abyss boss, and Gong Yu discovered that dungeons could grant temporary professions and skills as the Dimensional Storm approached.

• Xiao Chi rejected Zhao Qingdai’s proposed alliance, while Lu Jing concluded that the instance’s NPCs and their requests might help low-sequence players compete.
• Lu Jing spoke with NPCs who introduced professions and dungeons, then found a silver-haired woman in a cabin inside a giant tree.
• Lu Xiu defeated Richter in the White Ruins Abyss and obtained the epic Light Flame Sword, then went to help Richter get revenge on Righarven.
• Gong Yu defeated the Flame Grakkar boss, obtained a Martial God Job Change Certificate, and received temporary profession skills from Feng Zhen.
• Gong Yu realized that dungeon professions could help decide the match and prepared to challenge Lu Xiu as the Dimensional Storm drew near.

Lu Jing found a God of Guns class-change certificate in an Elvengard dungeon, but Zhao Qingdai cornered players there just as the Dimensional Storm made the area unsafe. In the ten-thousand-player instance, Lu Xiu easily defeated a squad that challenged her, then entered the dungeon and left the players to enjoy the match before she eventually defeated them all.

• Lu Jing cleared the beginner dungeon, obtained a God of Guns class-change certificate, and headed back through Elvengard to find Kiri.
• Zhao Qingdai confronted the gathered players and demanded information in exchange for help, then targeted a player who had shouted about classes when the Dimensional Storm made Elvengard unsafe.
• Lu Xiu arrived in the ten-thousand-player instance, met Seria, and drew an open path through the crowd as players shouted greetings and requests at her.
• After the system removed Elvengard's safe-zone protection, Xingheluo challenged Lu Xiu, who defeated him and his companions with lightning without using her blade.
• Lu Xiu declined to kill Xingheluo, urged him to enjoy the instance, and entered the dungeon while the other players watched in awe.

Lu Jing obtained the God of Guns class after escaping Zhao Qingdai’s rampage, while Lu Xiu returned to Elvengard and effortlessly defeated Rosalind, Gong Yu, and Ulysses when they ambushed her. The three attackers fled under their invincibility skills as Lu Xiu pursued them.

• Lu Xiu left the ten-thousand-player match, while the two-thousand-player Elvengard match erupted into a battle over a dropped Class Scroll.
• Zhao Qingdai slaughtered the players who challenged her, took the scroll, and offered to lead the survivors into the Final Circle.
• Qinghan stunned Zhao Qingdai with a series of kicks, breaking her domain and giving Lu Jing and the other players a chance to escape to Hendon Myre.
• Lu Jing gave his Class Scroll to Kiri and received the temporary God of Guns class, with the Deadly and Crazy Slaughter skills.
• After clearing Screaming Cave, Lu Xiu returned to Elvengard and dodged Rosalind’s blind ambush, neutralized Gong Yu’s kick, and suppressed Ulysses’s blood-energy attack.
• Lu Xiu dispelled Rosalind’s Dark Sky Wave Eye and pursued Rosalind, Gong Yu, and Ulysses as they fled using invincibility skills.

Lu Xiu chased down the three players who had ambushed her, killed Gong Yu with a devastating slash, and caught Rosalind, who surrendered and asked to stay in the dungeon to learn from her. Back in the real world, Gong Yu returned from the instance shaken and ordered the Canaan delegation to accept the Nine Provinces’ terms in their negotiations.

• Gong Yu and Ulysses abandoned Rosalind and fled when Lu Xiu continued pursuing them.
• After Gong Yu’s invincibility barrier expired, Lu Xiu used Rampage, Power Accumulation, and Truth to kill him with a long-range slash.
• Ulysses and Rosalind fled in terror, but Lu Xiu caught up to Rosalind after her invincibility barrier shattered.
• Rosalind surrendered and offered her dungeon loot, then agreed to team up with Lu Xiu and explained that she wanted to study Lu Xiu’s fighting and dungeon.
• Gong Yu returned to the Canaan delegation’s hotel, still shaken by Lu Xiu’s attack, and ordered his delegation to accept the Nine Provinces’ negotiation terms unless they demanded Canaan’s land.

Li Zhaocheng seized on Gong Yu’s defeat by Lu Xiu to bolster the Foreign Affairs Department’s confidence and influence. Meanwhile, Lu Xiu startled Rosalind with Francan ear-touching customs, explained some of her abilities, and then overwhelmed a powerful Ancient Dungeon boss while Rosalind watched.

• Li Zhaocheng learned that Lu Xiu had defeated Gong Yu in a Versus Instance and ordered the story spread to strengthen Foreign Affairs Department staff.
• Lu Xiu asked to touch Rosalind’s Fox Ears, and Rosalind mistook the request for a loyalty ritual and knelt before her.
• Rosalind asked how Lu Xiu had countered her and Ulysses’s abilities, and Lu Xiu explained some of her skills.
• Rosalind realized Lu Xiu had fought without using her dungeon class skills and was stunned by the extent of her abilities.
• In UnderSpire’s King’s Ruin, Lu Xiu repeatedly parried Suu the Wind Vortex’s attacks and steadily depleted his health while Rosalind watched in shock.

Lu Xiu repeatedly cleared King's Ruin to collect the Guardian of the King titles, eventually earning King of Immortality as the Dimensional Storm neared the core towns. Meanwhile, Ulysses and Lu Jing discovered ways to recruit NPC allies and strengthen themselves for the Final Circle.

• Lu Xiu defeated King Borodin the Hammer, learned from Seria that King's Ruin materials could be exchanged for titles, and began speed-running the Dungeon with Rosalind.
• Lu Xiu collected the Guardian of the King titles, gaining growing attribute bonuses as her clears became faster.
• Ulysses maxed out G.S.D's affection and secured the blind swordsman's promise to fight alongside him in the Final Circle.
• Lu Jing completed a chain quest for Ophelia, earning her aid in the Final Circle and the Holy Guardian title.
• Lu Xiu collected the required titles and Borodin's Seals, exchanged them for King of Immortality, and prepared to fight as the Dimensional Storm approached the core towns.

Lu Xiu and Rosalind entered Hendon Myre as the Dimensional Storm removed its safe-zone status and a monster invasion threw the city into chaos. As players prepared to fight Lu Xiu, she unleashed a powerful sword wave that killed nearly a hundred players and monsters, leaving the survivors stunned.

• Lu Xiu and Rosalind approached Hendon Myre, where Lu Xiu’s appearance and [King of Immortality] title sent the fighting players fleeing into the city.
• Ulysses recognized Lu Xiu and tried to rally the gathered players against her, but Lu Xiu said she accepted their desire to win and would not blame them for trying to kill her.
• The system announced that Hendon Myre was no longer safe and that monsters from Noire Ferra, including the Sixth Apostle Dirge, were invading the city.
• Mutant Giant Rats, Dogmen, thieves, and other monsters attacked the players, disrupting Ulysses’s attempt to turn them against Lu Xiu.
• Lu Xiu used Draw Sword to sweep a wave of sword energy through the crowded street, killing nearly a hundred players and monsters and leaving the survivors speechless.