Chapter Summaries

Wu Shaozhen sold more equipment, rescued two captive women, and discovered the Black Wind Stronghold chief’s hidden treasure. He took the gold and a mana-restoring Magic Orb, then agreed to escort the women home through Tiger Roar Forest.

• Wu Shaozhen sold his remaining Bronze equipment to Xue'er for 160,000 each and earned nearly 900,000 from selling unwanted gear.
• Wu Shaozhen entered the chief’s house and freed two women whom the Chief of Black Wind Stronghold had held captive.
• One woman showed Wu Shaozhen a hidden room and revealed the chief’s treasure chest, which Wu Shaozhen opened with a key he had obtained.
• Wu Shaozhen collected 512 gold coins and found a Magic Orb that restored 2% of his Mana per second, deciding to keep it.
• The women asked Wu Shaozhen to escort them to Liu Family Village through Tiger Roar Forest, and he agreed.

Wu Shaozhen escorted two women through Tiger Roar Forest to Liu Family Village, where he learned the village chief needed a warning delivered to Jinling City. After accepting the quest, he discovered he could not use a Town Portal Scroll and had to run back.

• Wu Shaozhen defeated a level 21 Jungle Tiger with a burst of attacks and led the two women through Tiger Roar Forest, killing twenty-four tigers along the way.
• Wu Shaozhen brought the women safely to Liu Family Village, where their parents thanked him for rescuing them.
• The village chief asked Wu Shaozhen to deliver a parchment scroll to the lord of Jinling City and report that the seal was weakening and needed troops to guard it.
• Wu Shaozhen accepted the quest, but his Town Portal Scroll failed because a special quest was in progress, so he set off on foot for Jinling City.

Wu Shaozhen delivered the Black Wind Stronghold Chief’s head and Liu Family Village’s warning to Jinling City’s lord, earning a title and the Dustless Mask. He prepared to hunt the Jungle Tigers in Tiger Roar Forest, where the city lord warned him a dangerous Jungle Tiger King awaited.

• Wu Shaozhen turned in the Black Wind Stronghold Chief’s head, completed his quest, and equipped the Bandit-Slaying Hero title.
• Wu Shaozhen delivered the Liu Family Village chief’s parchment, received the Dustless Mask, and learned the city lord was concerned about the weakened seal.
• The city lord asked Wu Shaozhen to clear Jungle Tigers from Tiger Roar Forest and warned him to flee if he encountered the Jungle Tiger King.
• Wu Shaozhen sold the Brutal Charge Skill Book at the Auction House for 550,000 and bought potions to prepare for the hunt.
• Wu Shaozhen logged off to eat before setting out.

Wu Shaozhen read a forum post detailing the ten great guilds in Oracle and learned that the major guilds had spread across different cities. He then spoke with Wu Ziyin, who revealed she had bought a helmet to try earning money in the game, leaving him to consider her sudden decision to play.

• Wu Shaozhen read Online Game Know-It-All's post about the ten great guilds joining Oracle and their leaders, locations, and histories.
• The post noted that the guilds had spread across the main cities, with Lone Players' Realm and Records of the Three Kingdoms frequently clashing in Yellow Sand City.
• Wu Shaozhen enjoyed the prospect of Oracle becoming more exciting, ate his takeout, and answered a call from Wu Ziyin.
• Wu Ziyin told Wu Shaozhen that she had paid for something she broke belonging to a classmate, then admitted she had used ten thousand yuan of his earlier gift to buy a game helmet.
• Wu Ziyin explained that she hoped to earn money in Oracle and help ease Wu Shaozhen's financial pressure.

Wu Ziyin overcame her guilt about buying a gaming helmet and entered the game, eager to find her brother. Meanwhile, Wu Shaozhen faced down World-Proud Heroes at Jinling City's south gate, where their assault barely scratched him.

• Wu Shaozhen reassured Wu Ziyin that he did not mind her buying the helmet and told her they could meet in the game.
• With Weiwei's help, Wu Ziyin logged in for the first time, while Wu Shaozhen returned to Jinling City and headed toward Tiger Roar Forest.
• World-Proud Under Heaven surrounded Wu Shaozhen with guild members and offered him a vice guild leader position, but Wu Shaozhen refused and challenged the guild's threats.
• Su Muxue heard that Dustseal was confronting World-Proud Heroes and hurried to the south gate with Uncle Liu.
• World-Proud Under Heaven sent several hundred guild members to attack Wu Shaozhen, but their arrows and spells dealt only one damage each.

Wu Shaozhen single-handedly routed World-Proud Heroes, killing its leaders and several hundred members before leaving the battlefield. Videos of the fight spread across the forums, while he earned more money by reselling the equipment dropped by the guild.

• Wu Shaozhen used his speed and damage to kill World-Proud Heroes' ranged fighters, then chased down its fleeing melee members.
• World-Proud Under Heaven ordered a retreat, but Wu Shaozhen pursued him and killed him along with four senior guild members.
• The remaining members fled as spectators praised Wu Shaozhen, and Su Muxue watched him leave.
• World-Proud Under Heaven broadcast a costly threat to fight Wu Shaozhen to the death, which Wu Shaozhen ignored.
• Wu Shaozhen listed the dropped equipment on the Auction House and earned 315,000 yuan when it all sold.
• Players uploaded videos of the battle, and posts about Dustseal's victory flooded the forums.

After losing to Dustseal, World-Proud Heroes targeted Madmen Gang and Su Group to restore its reputation, leaving both guilds struggling to level. As the fighting ended, Uncle Liu decided to log out and ask Su Group’s young lady for help.

• Major guild leaders watched Dustseal’s battle video and judged his strength and gameplay in different ways.
• World-Proud Heroes’ officers counted 236 deaths from their defeat and chose Madmen Gang and Su Group as targets, while keeping watch on Dustseal.
• World-Proud Heroes began a large-scale battle against Madmen Gang and Su Group, disrupting players across Jinling City.
• The fighting lasted until night, when thousands of Madmen Gang and Su Group members had been driven back to Novice Village and the survivors stayed in the city.
• Su Group’s officers discussed their losses, and Uncle Liu decided to log out to speak with the young lady.

Su Muxue asked Wu Shaozhen to help her group deal with World-Proud Heroes, while Wu Shaozhen discovered the fearsome Demonized Jungle Tiger King and barely escaped its pursuit. He agreed to take on World-Proud Heroes for a fee of five hundred thousand.

• Uncle Liu told Su Muxue that World-Proud Heroes was blocking the city gates, and she agreed to ask Dustseal to distract them.
• After grinding in Tiger Roar Forest for hours, Wu Shaozhen found that Jungle Tigers were scarce and sold his lone Black Iron Equipment drop for twenty thousand.
• Wu Shaozhen ventured deeper into the forest and encountered the Demonized Jungle Tiger King, a Gold boss whose level and stats he could not see.
• The Tiger King chased Wu Shaozhen and struck him with a roar that dealt 5703 damage and stunned him, but he escaped using Void and Extreme Speed.
• Su Muxue asked Wu Shaozhen to act against World-Proud Heroes, and he agreed to help for five hundred thousand.

Wu Shaozhen, known as Dustseal, attacked World-Proud Heroes at Jinling City's gates after they tried to control who could enter and leave. Protected by a Damage Immunity Scroll, he routed their force of over ten thousand and left the group fleeing into the city.

• Wu Shaozhen revealed himself as Dustseal at the south gate and killed half of the World-Proud Heroes guards who attacked him.
• Wu Shaozhen fought the guards at the east gate, then headed for the north gate.
• World-Proud Under Heaven assembled over ten thousand ranged fighters at the north gate to stop Wu Shaozhen.
• Wu Shaozhen used a Damage Immunity Scroll, charged into the formation, and slaughtered hundreds of World-Proud Heroes members.
• World-Proud Under Heaven ordered a retreat, and the fleeing force lost several hundred levels as World-Proud Heroes' reputation collapsed online.

Wu Shaozhen ate in disguise at a Jinling City restaurant, where Su Muxue thanked him for forcing World-Proud Heroes to withdraw. He met Leng Yue, the level 15 leader of Cold Moon Pavilion, and added her as a friend.

• Wu Shaozhen dined in the restaurant while players praised Dustseal for defeating World-Proud Heroes at the city gate.
• Su Muxue recognized Wu Shaozhen despite his changed appearance and told him World-Proud Heroes had withdrawn and stopped targeting her group.
• Wu Shaozhen advised Su Muxue's group to grow stronger, and she left to take them leveling.
• Leng Yue sat with Wu Shaozhen, asked how he had become so powerful, and introduced herself as Cold Moon Pavilion's guild leader.
• Wu Shaozhen accepted Leng Yue's friend request and saw that she was a level 15 Archer.

Wu Shaozhen read the forum analysis of his abilities, then returned to the game and headed toward a Silver boss sighting in the Purple Bamboo Grove. As World-Proud Heroes tried to keep other players away from the boss, Leng Yue spotted Wu Shaozhen arriving.

• Wu Shaozhen found that real-world takeout tasted awful after his meal in the game and read a forum post that accurately estimated many of his stats.
• Wu Shaozhen logged back in and set out for the Strange Rock Woods, but changed course after seeing a message about a Silver boss in the Purple Bamboo Grove.
• World-Proud Under Heaven ordered his guild to claim the giant python boss and block other players from entering the grove.
• Players gathered outside the grove and challenged World-Proud Heroes, while Leng Yue, Turbulent Times Hero, and Storm Across the Sky Starlight debated whether to intervene.
• Leng Yue suddenly said that Wu Shaozhen was there.

Wu Shaozhen forced his way through World-Proud Heroes’ blockade in the Purple Bamboo Grove, where the guild was fighting a giant python. Unaffiliated players and rival guilds joined him, breaking the blockade and reaching the boss before World-Proud Heroes’ main force arrived.

• Wu Shaozhen entered the Purple Bamboo Grove, and World-Proud Heroes members recognized him after their attack dealt only one damage.
• World-Proud Under Heaven ordered two hundred players to keep attacking the giant python and gathered the rest to stop Wu Shaozhen.
• Wu Shaozhen challenged World-Proud Under Heaven’s claim that the boss was nearly defeated, but World-Proud Under Heaven refused to let him pass and called for more guild members.
• World-Proud Under Heaven left a crowd of members to block Wu Shaozhen while he returned to the boss, and Wu Shaozhen charged the blockade.
• Leaders of the three major guilds and thousands of unaffiliated players joined Wu Shaozhen’s assault, breaking through World-Proud Heroes’ defensive line.
• Wu Shaozhen and the crowd reached the boss battle, leaving World-Proud Fang Yu stunned that they had gotten through before the main force arrived.

Wu Shaozhen watched as World-Proud Heroes continued its costly assault on the Azure-Scaled Giant Python, while the other guilds waited for a chance to act. Even after World-Proud Heroes gathered thirty thousand players, its reckless strategy only slowly reduced the boss’s health as casualties mounted.

• Wu Shaozhen inspected the Azure-Scaled Giant Python and decided to watch rather than risk its constriction skill or let World-Proud Heroes ambush him.
• Leng Yue asked Wu Shaozhen what he was doing, and after he said he was watching, she led the three major guilds aside to observe.
• World-Proud Under Heaven ordered his members to keep fighting until reinforcements arrived and then surround the boss.
• World-Proud Heroes’ thirty thousand players sealed off the boss, prompting most unaffiliated players to leave while Leng Yue’s group chose to wait.
• World-Proud Under Heaven sent melee fighters into the python’s attacks while keeping Priests on the perimeter, and the guild slowly wore down the boss at heavy cost.

World-Proud Heroes nearly defeated the Azure-Scaled Giant Python, but three rival guilds attacked them as Wu Shaozhen used the chaos to steal and kill the boss. He escaped with all the loot, leaving World-Proud Under Heaven furious and planning to sell the equipment.

• World-Proud Heroes lost its Warriors and Shieldguards while fighting the Azure-Scaled Giant Python, forcing Priests and Assassins to take the front line.
• Turbulent Times Hero, Leng Yue, and Storm Across the Sky Starlight agreed to unite their guilds and attacked World-Proud Heroes.
• As the guilds battled, Wu Shaozhen activated Stealth and followed the players luring the nearly defeated boss away.
• World-Proud Fang Yu realized Dustseal had disappeared, and World-Proud Under Heaven found the dead python and an empty loot area.
• Wu Shaozhen reached LV17, equipped the Azure-Scaled Legguards, inspected his other drops, and prepared to auction off the equipment.

Wu Shaozhen auctioned the Silver equipment he had obtained from the boss, then grinded Stone Apes until midnight and prepared to challenge the War God Secret Realm. The Azure-Scaled Armor sold for 260,000, and Wu Shaozhen safely returned to Jinling City to enter the dungeon.

• World-Proud Under Heaven retreated after learning the boss had been stolen, while Leng Yue and the other guild leaders realized Dustseal had taken it.
• Wu Shaozhen listed his Black Iron, Bronze, and Silver equipment at the Auction House, and World-Proud Under Heaven vowed to take back the Azure-Scaled Armor.
• Wu Shaozhen went to the Strange Rock Woods and slowly grinded level 22 Stone Apes with Silver Big Bad Wolf sharing experience.
• Players competed for the Azure-Scaled Armor, which sold for 260,000, while Wu Shaozhen's Bronze and Black Iron equipment also sold.
• Wu Shaozhen killed 268 Stone Apes, reached level 18, and increased his health to 6,868 before midnight.
• Wu Shaozhen used a Town Portal Scroll to return safely to Jinling City and prepared to challenge the War God Secret Realm.

Wu Shaozhen entered the Silver Grade War God Secret Realm and defeated the War God Phantom, advancing to Silver Grade and claiming the first-player reward. After boosting his attributes and equipping the Silver War God Medal, he logged out to catch up on sleep.

• Wu Shaozhen disguised himself and entered the Silver Grade War God Secret Realm, where he faced a mage War God Phantom.
• Wu Shaozhen silenced the phantom with Crushing Blow, endured its fire attacks, and defeated it after a prolonged fight.
• The system advanced Wu Shaozhen to Silver Grade, upgraded his War God Medal, and awarded him attribute points for being the first player to advance.
• Wu Shaozhen equipped the Silver Grade War God Medal and assigned his remaining attribute points to bone root and agility.
• Wu Shaozhen logged out, set an alarm for eight hours later, and went to sleep.

Wu Shaozhen received a personal quest from the city lord to deal with the Demonized Jungle Tiger King and had two days to find a solution before a citywide quest was issued. He headed to the Abandoned Mining Area to level up, where he encountered a skeleton and continued deeper into the tunnels.

• The city lord explained that demonic energy had empowered the Jungle Tiger King to level 30 and asked Wu Shaozhen to deal with it before he resorted to a citywide quest.
• Wu Shaozhen asked for two days to prepare, and the city lord agreed to wait for his news.
• Wu Shaozhen chose the Abandoned Mining Area as a new place to grind and traveled there from the north gate.
• Wu Shaozhen entered the dark tunnels with Silver Big Bad Wolf and fled when a skeletal hand emerged from the ground.
• Wu Shaozhen used Insight to identify the skeleton as a level 20 monster, struck it twice, and continued onward with Silver Big Bad Wolf.

Wu Shaozhen cleared a vast horde of skeletons in the Mining Area, reaching level 19 and surpassing 8,000 health. After selling his drops and entering a deeper section, he found another enormous group of axe-wielding skeletons.

• Wu Shaozhen recalled Silver Big Bad Wolf and charged into the level 20 skeleton horde, then found himself surrounded and unable to move while he slowly fought his way clear.
• World-Proud Under Heaven distributed equipment from a Bronze boss and strengthened his guild, intending to take out his anger on Dustseal.
• Su Muxue’s group fought a level 16 Bronze boss, and she drove off players who tried to steal it with powerful spells; she privately thought she could not compare to Dustseal.
• Wu Shaozhen spent nearly an hour killing 514 skeletons, reaching level 19 and raising his health to 8,106.
• Wu Shaozhen listed three Black Iron items on the Auction House for 10,000 each, then entered a larger Mining Area filled with skeletons carrying Skeleton Axes.

Wu Shaozhen reached level 20, unlocking the server-wide leaderboards and the Jadeglow Secret Realm, while his younger sister Wu Ziyin struggled to level up in Novice Village. The leaderboards exposed Wu Shaozhen’s overwhelming lead, and players across the server began speculating about his gear, pet, and wealth.

• Wu Shaozhen inspected a level 21 skeleton warrior and decided to lure the monsters out one at a time rather than risk fighting a group.
• Wu Ziyin’s friend Weiwei sent her 14 silver coins for potions after learning she had been repeatedly defeated by rabbits while trying to solo them.
• Wu Ziyin bought 70 Small Red Potions and finally began defeating rabbits, though each fight cost her a potion.
• Wu Shaozhen reached level 20, triggering an announcement that unlocked the server-wide leaderboards and the Jadeglow Secret Realm.
• Wu Shaozhen saw himself leading the level, reputation, and wealth leaderboards and panicked that other players would target him.
• Players across the server discussed Dustseal’s rankings and speculated that he owned the top-ranked dagger and pet.

Wu Shaozhen reached level 20 and prepared to visit Oracle’s newly opened dungeon, but logged out to answer a call from his sister, Wu Ziyin. He revealed that he was Dustseal, sent her ten gold coins, and advised her on using her talent and choosing a class.

• Major guild leaders reacted to Dustseal’s top ranking, while the dungeon’s opening spurred players to level up for its level-20 requirement.
• After reaching level 20, Wu Shaozhen used a return scroll to head toward the dungeon, then logged out to answer Wu Ziyin’s call.
• Wu Ziyin told Wu Shaozhen that she was still level 0 and struggling to fight monsters alone, so he added her in the game.
• Wu Ziyin recognized Dustseal’s friend request and realized that the top-ranked player was her brother, Wu Shaozhen.
• Wu Shaozhen told Wu Ziyin to keep his identity secret and sent her ten gold coins to help her level.
• Wu Shaozhen reviewed Wu Ziyin’s Mana Conversion talent and advised her to choose either mage or priest and invest points in intelligence and spirit.