Chapter Summaries

Ye Xiu awakened the divine-grade Freelancer class and joined Yi Tian’s team, receiving a Mythic weapon talent and the ability to learn enhanced low-tier skills from every class. Yi Tian assigned him to lead their team through Qingcheng’s medium-sized secret realm, and Ye Xiu declared that he could make up for the team’s weaknesses himself.

• Ye Xiu awakened the divine-grade Freelancer class, and Wei Yuan concealed its iridescent class-change pillar behind barriers.
• Yi Tian recruited Ye Xiu and gained his attributes and talents, while Wei Yuan gave Yi Tian Concealment Rings and promised Ye Xiu equipment.
• Yi Tian asked Ye Xiu to lead the team through Qingcheng’s medium-sized secret realm, opening the next day, alongside Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, and Jiang Che.
• Ye Xiu learned that his teammates all had legendary classes and judged their levels could be raised enough to handle the secret realm.
• Ye Xiu pointed out that the team lacked healing, a tank, area attacks, and anti-air abilities, then claimed he could solve every problem himself.

Yi Tian took Ye Xiu to Wei Yuan to obtain skillbooks and received a Legendary Heavenly Wolf Set. After Ye Xiu learned a basic healing skill, his All-Class Enhancement transformed it into a powerful party-wide ability, leaving them eager to try more skillbooks.

• Wei Yuan gave Yi Tian a complete Legendary Heavenly Wolf Set and asked whether Bai Qiu Li and Wan Jiang would join other teams entering the medium-sized secret realm.
• Yi Tian said he was forming his own team with Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, and Jiang Che, and Wei Yuan agreed to turn down the other teams' requests.
• Yi Tian asked Wei Yuan for low-tier skillbooks, and Wei Yuan took Yi Tian and Ye Xiu to the Logistics Department's Skillbook Repository.
• Ye Xiu learned a basic healing spell, which All-Class Enhancement transformed into Holy Healing Awakening, a powerful ability that healed nearby allies, removed negative effects, and granted shields and buffs.

Ye Xiu assembled a team-focused skill set, and Yi Tian held a Strategic Meeting that gave the team a powerful experience boost and protective shields before their planned secret-realm challenge. Bai Qiu Li skipped her school’s team dungeon to prepare for the challenge, reaffirming her goal of taking first place in the regional college entrance exam.

• Ye Xiu learned and enhanced eight teamwork skills, shared them with Yi Tian, and proposed leveling the team to at least level 17 before entering the medium-sized secret realm.
• Yi Tian appointed Ye Xiu as the team’s commander during a Strategic Meeting and used employee benefits to give the employees three-day shields and a 120% experience boost.
• Bai Qiu Li’s three Hell-difficulty dungeon runs earned the funds Yi Tian needed to provide insurance coverage for the team.
• Ye Xiu was stunned by the experience buff, then promised Yi Tian he would make the most of it and lead the team successfully.
• Bai Qiu Li declined Principal Ji Changlin’s invitation to join the school’s team dungeon, and Ji approved her absence after she declared her intention to take first place in the East China Region.

Ye Xiu showed Bai Qiu Li and Jiang Che how to clear the level 25 Withered Wind Canyon in minutes by using clones to gather every monster for a concentrated AOE attack. Wan Jiang joined the team, and the group farmed dungeons until exhaustion; Yi Tian sent them to rest as a new Management Log began.

• At the Qingcheng Dungeon Center, Ye Xiu met Bai Qiu Li and Jiang Che while Ma Xiang and Sega Guild members mocked him for forming a team with newly classed players.
• Yi Tian asked Wei Yuan to bring Wan Jiang back from Dingcheng, and Wei Yuan arranged a dedicated car while warning Yi Tian not to risk his low-level teammates in secret realms.
• Ye Xiu used [Multi-Shadow Clone] and [Three-Stage Flash Step] to draw every monster in Withered Wind Canyon into a confined area, where Bai Qiu Li, Jiang Che, and Ye Xiu wiped them out with powerful area attacks.
• Wan Jiang arrived and joined Ye Xiu, Bai Qiu Li, and Jiang Che; the team ran dungeons repeatedly, ignoring Ye Xiu's warning about the tedious work.
• After [Extreme Fatigue] appeared, Yi Tian sent the four exhausted teammates to rest at Green Mountain Apartments, and his new Management Log began processing.

Yi Tian and his team continued grinding Withered Wind Canyon before the medium secret realm opened near Qingcheng, leaving their opponents surprised by how close the team had come to level 20. As the gathered teams prepared to compete, the Yagu Dynasty's Crimson Emperor arrived with five Half-Dragons to claim the secret realm.

• Yi Tian's team cleared Withered Wind Canyon repeatedly, raising Yi Tian to level 24 and restoring his funds to 14.3.
• Wei Yuan and competing guilds gathered at the eastern outskirts of Qingcheng as the medium secret realm's entrance began to form.
• Ma Xiang grew uneasy at the strength of the rival teams, while Zhao Qi told Wei Yuan that Ling Luo demanded five pieces of legendary equipment for the Earthshaker Team's help.
• Yi Tian's teammates completed another dungeon run, reaching level 20 on average while Yi Tian's experience bar neared level 25.
• The Earthshaker Team, military forces, and guild teams prepared to compete as the Yagu Dynasty's Crimson Emperor arrived with five Half-Dragons.

Yi Tian’s team entered the Sky Isle Realm and cleared its first stage with Ye Xiu’s coordinated monster-pulling strategy. The second stage revealed five separate miniboss islands, a setup that appeared to favor the Yagu Dynasty’s powerful Half-Dragons.

• The Crimson Emperor demanded that the Yagu Dynasty be allowed to compete for the secret realm, and Wei Yuan reluctantly accepted after the Emperor offered to return the small realm in Dingcheng.
• Yi Tian’s team entered the secret realm alongside the Earthshaker Team and the Yagu Dynasty’s five Half-Dragons.
• After entering the Sky Isle Realm, Ye Xiu directed Bai Qiu Li and Wan Jiang to draw the monsters together while Jiang Che stayed behind with Yi Tian.
• Ye Xiu, Bai Qiu Li, and Wan Jiang quickly wiped out the first stage, sending Yi Tian’s team’s progress bar from zero to complete in seconds.
• The second stage revealed five minibosses on separate floating islands, and spectators believed the arrangement gave the Half-Dragons a major advantage.

Yi Tian's team reached the final stage of the Sky Isle Realm, but he broke off to chase the Black-Robed Man, a monster with Special Potential who escaped through a Void Gate. After fleeing into another subspace, she ambushed a Half-Dragon and the weakened Storm Weaver, gaining enough experience to evolve into an Elite Monster.

• Ye Xiu quickly defeated his miniboss, while Yi Tian revealed his strength by already having killed the miniboss on his island; all five minibosses fell and opened the route to the final stage.
• Yi Tian's team reached the third stage ahead of the other teams, where Yi Tian recognized the Black-Robed Man and received a notice that she had Special Potential.
• The Black-Robed Man fled from Yi Tian through a Void Gate, and Yi Tian asked Wei Yuan whether any abilities could counter spatial teleportation.
• The Black-Robed Man emerged in another Sky Isle Realm subspace and attacked a Half-Dragon who was fighting the Storm Weaver.
• The Black-Robed Man killed the wounded Half-Dragon and the weakened Storm Weaver, gaining enough experience to become an Elite Monster.

Yi Tian’s team cleared the Sky Isle Realm, earning a huge windfall and ownership of the secret realm’s output. His second-tier advancement quest remained one step from completion, and he planned to recruit talent during the East China college entrance exam in two days.

• The Crimson Emperor realized a Half-Dragon had died and saw that Yi Tian’s team had reached 95% progress while the Yagu Dynasty’s survivors were only finishing the second stage.
• Bai Qiu Li froze the Firmament Sovereign’s final attack, allowing Ye Xiu, Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, and Jiang Che to defeat the boss as Yi Tian returned.
• Yi Tian’s team cleared the Sky Isle Realm, reached level 25, earned 80 funds and four Legendary Equipment Blind Boxes, and gained full ownership of the realm’s output.
• Yi Tian gave the four employees a Legendary Equipment Blind Box each as a bonus, earning their gratitude and Ye Xiu’s approval as their boss.
• Yi Tian checked his second-tier advancement quest and found that he still needed an employee to earn a regional-level honor; he hoped Bai Qiu Li would earn one at the East China college entrance exam in two days.

Yi Tian's team won the medium-sized secret realm, prompting Wei Yuan to reward their cooperation with a Legendary item that could prevent spatial escape. The Crimson Emperor returned to the Yagu Dynasty furious and threatened Great Xia before ordering an attack on its border.

• Ma Xiang and the Sega Guild members saw Ye Xiu among the challengers who cleared the secret realm, while Zhao Qi's Earthshaker Team returned to Hidden Dragon Base after coming in second.
• The Crimson Emperor blamed Yedela and the other Half-Dragons for their defeat, then left after Wei Yuan dismissed his demand to wager a medium-sized secret realm.
• Yi Tian agreed to hand the realm's resource output to East China, and Wei Yuan gave him a portion of its resources and a Legendary Deathmatch Prison.
• The Crimson Emperor heard that Great Xia planned to take over a small Yagu secret realm, then ordered his adviser to stir up evil demons' source energy along Great Xia's border.

Wan Jiang achieved perfect thousand-jun body tempering, and Yi Tian shared its effects. When Wan Jiang returned to the border army, he learned that a medium demon tide was approaching, but Wei Yuan had already prepared the defenses, and Wan Jiang was assigned to a guerrilla squad.

• Wan Jiang visited his mother after the secret realm, then challenged the Demon-Sealing Tower again and completed perfect thousand-jun body tempering.
• Wan Jiang learned that killing demon monster-class Evil Demons would unlock the tower's second floor.
• Yi Tian received the benefits of Wan Jiang's talent, and the Management Log reported a fund balance of 97.1.
• Wan Jiang returned to Dingcheng and learned that the Yagu Dynasty had triggered a medium demon tide using Evil Demons origin energy.
• Chang Wei told Wan Jiang that Wei Yuan had ordered the border forces to prepare in advance, and Wan Jiang was assigned to the guerrilla squad.

Wan Jiang unlocked the Demon-Sealing Tower’s second and third floors during a medium demon tide, earning Spirit Shaping and defeating Plague Roars after being surrounded by evil demons. He reached the reward stage for a transcendent physique and had to choose among three options, rejecting the Phoenix form because it would transform him into a woman.

• Wan Jiang killed a Blood Demon, unlocked the second-floor trial, defeated ten Blood Demons, and obtained Spirit Shaping, which completed the prerequisites for a transcendent physique.
• Wan Jiang appeared in the middle of the evil demon horde, used Peerless to gain power from nearby enemies, and killed the demon spirit Plague Roar to unlock the third-floor trial.
• Wan Jiang challenged ten Plague Roars in the trial, wounded himself to boost his attributes, and killed the remaining three at 5% health, clearing the floor and reaching level 23.
• Wan Jiang received a choice of three transcendent physiques, considered the Black-iron overlord physique, and rejected the S-rank Phoenix form because it would turn him into a woman.
• Yi Tian, searching dungeon hubs for the Black-Robed Man, suddenly wondered why he felt as if he had dodged a bullet.

Wan Jiang gained the Thunderclap battle physique and used its thunder attacks to disrupt the demon tide at Dingcheng. After the troops won, Wei Yuan invited Yi Tian to serve as an East China special recruitment officer and establish a base commanding multiple special teams.

• Wan Jiang chose the Thunderclap battle physique, tested its powerful thunder attacks, and learned that the fourth-floor trial required killing a demon lord-level Evil Demon.
• Wan Jiang fought through the demon tide’s rear ranks and used Spear Shadow Formation to throw them into chaos, helping the border troops counterattack.
• Yi Tian shared Wan Jiang’s new physique, then left the dungeon center after failing to find the Black-Robed Man.
• Yi Tian learned that the border troops had repelled the demon tide, and Wei Yuan told him Wan Jiang had performed strongly.
• Wei Yuan asked Yi Tian to serve as an East China special recruitment officer and establish a base for multiple special teams, and Yi Tian agreed to the recruitment role before hearing the proposal.

Yi Tian accepted Wei Yuan’s proposal to organize his people as a mercenary Special Squad base that would cooperate with Great Xia. At Qingcheng’s college entrance exam, Yi Tian met Hidden Dragon Base’s head Ling Luo and detected someone with gold-potential talent as the Written Exam began.

• Wei Yuan explained that Yi Tian could establish a mercenary outfit working with Great Xia rather than a government department, and Yi Tian accepted the proposal.
• Yi Tian’s Management Log showed new funds from Wan Jiang’s tower trials, Ye Xiu and Jiang Che’s dungeon clear, and Jiang Che’s new martial academy.
• Yi Tian arrived at Green Mountain No. 1 Middle School as a Special Admissions Officer for the college entrance exam.
• Wei Yuan introduced Yi Tian to Ling Luo, the head of Hidden Dragon Base, who recognized him as the captain who cleared the medium-sized secret realm.
• As the Written Exam began, Yi Tian detected a person with gold-potential talent.

Yi Tian discovered Ning Jing, an elite Dual-blade Warrior with Legendary Scholar potential, and learned from Wei Yuan how valuable Scholars were to exploring ruins and researching other civilizations. Ning Jing accepted Yi Tian’s special recruitment after hearing the salary offer, and golden light appeared as she signed the contract.

• Yi Tian spotted Ning Jing during the written exam and read her résumé, which revealed her Ancient Civilization Explorer potential and a Legendary Scholar investment opportunity.
• Wei Yuan explained that Scholars explored Ancient Ruins, deciphered lost texts, and conducted research that supported Great Xia.
• After the exam, Wei Yuan’s secretary brought Ning Jing to meet Yi Tian, who offered her a place on his staff.
• Ning Jing asked about her salary and began signing the contract after Wei Yuan promised her a monthly salary of two hundred thousand, with bonuses separate.
• Wei Yuan unfurled the Starlight Barrier as Ning Jing signed, and golden light blazed.

Yi Tian watched the Combat Exam begin and saw Bai Qiu Li draw the attention of top universities and Ling Luo, though she chose to join his planned Special Squad. Armed with his Legendary Ice Soul Sword and boosted by her high level, Bai Qiu Li raced through the opening trials and emerged as the leading candidate for top scorer.

• Yi Tian arranged a place for Ning Jing after her Legendary Scholar class awakened, then learned the Combat Exam was starting.
• At the exam venue, admissions officers pursued Sun Yi and Bai Qiu Li, but Bai Qiu Li ignored their offers and went to speak with Yi Tian.
• Bai Qiu Li showed Yi Tian the Legendary Ice Soul Sword he had given her and agreed to join his Special Squad.
• Wei Yuan declared the Combat Exam underway, and Bai Qiu Li destroyed the first combat robot in under ten seconds.
• Bai Qiu Li cleared the dungeon stage in three minutes, stunning the admissions officers with her level and speed.

Bai Qiu Li defeated a Demon Monster-class Evil Demon and took first place in East China’s college entrance exam, while Yi Tian established his Special Squad’s new office. The office was named the Make It Big and Strong Office, and its roster remained one member short of a full squad.

• Bai Qiu Li killed the simulated Dark Giant, completing the Combat Exam, and Sun Yi passed several minutes later.
• Wei Yuan took Yi Tian to the City Lord's Mansion and gave him an office to serve as his Special Squad base.
• Yi Tian named the office the Make It Big and Strong Office and added Bai Qiu Li, Wan Jiang, Jiang Che, and Ye Xiu to its membership list.
• The college entrance exam rankings were released that evening, and Bai Qiu Li placed first in East China.

Yi Tian completed his tier 2 class quest and used his new Promotion skill to advance Bai Qiu Li, transforming her class into a God-Tier one. The spectacular advancement stunned Jiang Yuan Shuang and revealed why Bai Qiu Li chose to work for Yi Tian.

• Bai Qiu Li placed first in East China’s college entrance examination, completing Yi Tian’s tier 2 advancement quest and earning him a Legendary Star-Dipper Essence Guard Formation.
• Yi Tian unlocked the Promotion skill, reviewed its employee benefits and investment options, and chose Bai Qiu Li for one of his promotion slots.
• At the City Lord’s Mansion, Jiang Yuan Shuang invited Bai Qiu Li to become her disciple and attend Huaxing University, while Bai Qiu Li said she needed to inform her boss first.
• Wei Yuan arrived and placed three starry barriers around Bai Qiu Li before telling her that Yi Tian wanted to promote her.
• Bai Qiu Li’s class advanced to the God-Tier Frostmoon Sword Venerable and her ultimate class became the Frostmoon Sword God, astonishing Jiang Yuan Shuang.

Ning Jing joined East China's Ancient Civilization Research Institute and rapidly deciphered passages from a Ruins Stone Tablet linked to the Yagu Dynasty. Yi Tian learned that the Black-Robed Man had appeared in a level 35 dungeon, tracked him to Wildwood, and activated Deathmatch Prison after detecting special talent nearby.

• Ning Jing left her grandparents under secret protection and traveled with Wei Yuan's secretary to the Ancient Civilization Research Institute.
• Ning Jing examined a Ruins Stone Tablet and deciphered passages about the Dragon Ancestor's Secret Realm, a betrayed dragon, and Nid... hogg.
• Yi Tian reviewed his funds and planned to keep searching dungeons for the Black-Robed Man.
• Wei Yuan told Yi Tian that the Qingcheng Garrison Army had spotted the Black-Robed Man in the level 35 Wildwood, so Yi Tian went there.
• Yi Tian found a freshly killed monster, received an alert about nearby talent with special potential, and activated Deathmatch Prison.

Yi Tian encountered Alice, a half-human, half-demon dungeon monster trapped in the Wildwood dungeon, and defeated her after she attacked him. Learning of her desire for revenge and her resistance to accepting other powers, he offered her a contract to help her grow stronger; Alice signed it, and the contract began to shine.

• Alice hunted monsters in the Wildwood dungeon and worried that she would remain trapped there.
• Yi Tian sealed the area with Deathmatch Prison, stopping Alice from escaping, and she attacked him before he subdued her.
• Yi Tian examined Alice’s résumé and learned about her origin, abyssal corruption, and hidden Blade Queen class.
• Alice revealed that she wanted revenge on the people who had abandoned her and others in the Abyssal Wormhole.
• Yi Tian offered Alice a contract to help her become stronger, and she signed it despite fearing that she could not accept power beyond the abyss’s corruption.

Yi Tian recruited Alice, whose Blade Queen class and Void Walker template gave her extraordinary power and the ability to travel between dungeon spaces. Alice pledged loyalty to Yi Tian, then explained that raising her monster rank could strengthen Void Traversal, prompting him to send her after the Other Races and Dragonkin in Yagu Dynasty dungeons.

• Alice changed class into the hidden Blade Queen and gained the Void Walker monster template, while Yi Tian recruited her and received her shared abilities and stats.
• Alice pledged loyalty to Yi Tian, who told her to call him Boss and said he was an ordinary human from Great Xia.
• Alice explained the ranks of dungeon monsters and said she hoped to reach World Boss rank to improve Void Traversal and escape the dungeon.
• Alice told Yi Tian that killing any living creature could raise her monster rank, though she would not hunt humans.
• Yi Tian suggested that Alice enter Yagu Dynasty dungeons to hunt the Other Races and Dragonkin.