Chapter Summaries

Wu Shaozhen defeated Dream Chaser Studio and learned Su Zhengfeng planned to overwhelm him with numbers. After Leng Yue found Brother Tao’s group, Wu Shaozhen repeatedly hunted them down until Brother Tao gave up leaving the city.

• Wu Shaozhen defeated Dream in My Heart, warned Su Zhengfeng to hold on to what he had taken, and collected the fallen equipment while the watching players stayed back.
• Su Zhengfeng rejected Uncle Liu’s advice and ordered him to overwhelm Wu Shaozhen with numbers, while Su Muxue warned that the plan would ruin the Su Group.
• Leng Yue told Wu Shaozhen she had found the group that first attacked his sister.
• Wu Shaozhen had Zi You secretly mark Brother Tao, then killed Brother Tao and his ten underlings and their equipment dropped.
• Wu Shaozhen repeatedly found and killed Brother Tao’s group after they respawned, until Brother Tao broke down and no longer dared leave the city.

The Su Group marched out of Jinling City to confront Wu Shaozhen, but Dream in My Heart’s formation trapped him until he used a Fog Scroll to attack unseen. As he struggled to defeat the twenty thousand players before the fog cleared, Zi You offered him a gold Skill Book in exchange for daily netherworld power.

• Wu Shaozhen learned from Leng Yue that the Su Group was moving out and prepared to face its twenty thousand members.
• Uncle Liu tried to speak with Wu Shaozhen, but Xiao Qi provoked him, so Wu Shaozhen marked her and killed her with two strikes.
• Dream in My Heart took command and ordered the Su Group to surround Wu Shaozhen, forcing him to use a Fog Scroll when their formation boxed him in.
• Dream in My Heart calmed the Su Group and told them to hold their positions while Wu Shaozhen and his Shadow Clone attacked through the fog.
• Zi You offered Wu Shaozhen a gold Skill Book if he gathered one thousand points of netherworld power for her each day until her injuries healed.

Wu Shaozhen traded with Zi You for the Gold skill Thunderclap Form and used it to slaughter the Su Group’s forces, killing more than ten thousand members in minutes. His public offer to share the drops sparked panic and defections, while the Su Group’s gathered executives blamed Xiao Qi for their ruin.

• Wu Shaozhen accepted Zi You’s offer of Thunderclap Form in exchange for killing a little over two thousand monsters each day and immediately learned the skill.
• Wu Shaozhen activated Thunderclap Form and, with his Shadow Clone, cut through the Su Group’s crowded ranks as Dream in My Heart underestimated how quickly he could kill them.
• The mist cleared to reveal only a few hundred Su Group survivors, while more than ten thousand members had respawned and spectators feared Dustseal’s power.
• Wu Shaozhen invited the spectators to take the dropped equipment, killed Dream in My Heart again, and warned Su Zhengfeng that their fight had only just begun.
• Wu Shaozhen announced that players could report Su Group members’ locations for a chance to collect their equipment, prompting widespread defections and pleas for mercy.
• At a private gathering of Su Group executives, Su Muxue blamed Xiao Qi for destroying the group and broke down in tears.

After the Su Group’s losses drove it to the brink of collapse, Su Zhengfeng tried to negotiate with Wu Shaozhen, but Wu rejected his apology and demands for leniency. Wu killed the executives who came to meet him and left the Su Group under the watch of Jinling City’s players.

• Su Zhengfeng learned that the Su Group had shrunk to fewer than eight thousand members and that other guilds would not help it confront Dustseal.
• Su Muxue blamed her father for destroying the guild she had built, and Su Zhengfeng decided to contact Dustseal.
• After Leng Yue reported that Su Group executives had left the city, Wu Shaozhen teleported to meet Su Zhengfeng and the others.
• Su Zhengfeng apologized and offered to return the Radiant Staff and compensate Wu’s companion, but Wu demanded public apologies, the attackers’ deaths, and ten million in compensation.
• When Su Zhengfeng refused Wu’s terms, Wu killed the executives and gave their equipment to the watching players, who promised to report any Su Group members leaving the city.

Su Zhengfeng rejected Dustseal’s demands and tried to rally the Su Group against him, but the guild continued to lose members and allies. When Su Zhengfeng sent members outside in batches, Wu Shaozhen teleported to their reported location and killed them.

• Su Muxue urged Su Zhengfeng to accept Dustseal’s demands, but he refused and ordered Uncle Liu to seek World-Proud Under Heaven’s help.
• World-Proud Under Heaven rejected the Su Group’s offer, while Dream in My Heart suggested recruiting more people or buying a powerful damage scroll.
• As news of Dustseal’s attack spread, the Su Group’s hired members began leaving, and its remaining four or five thousand players feared going outside.
• Su Zhengfeng ordered the remaining members to leave through the city gates in batches and tasked Dream in My Heart with using a scroll that dealt fifty thousand damage.
• After Leng Yue sent Wu Shaozhen the latest coordinates, he teleported to the Su Group members and killed more than a dozen, leaving their equipment for nearby players.

Wu Shaozhen survived the Su Group’s attempt to kill him with a powerful scroll and continued wiping out its teams, leaving the group unable to stop him. Su Zhengfeng agreed to let Su Muxue control the Su Group’s affairs in Oracle, and she accepted Wu Shaozhen’s renewed terms, including increased compensation.

• Dream Chaser Studio used a lethal scroll to kill Wu Shaozhen, but he revived with the Netherworld Pearl and wiped out the team.
• Wu Shaozhen kept killing Su Group teams until its members retreated into the city, and Dream in My Heart told Su Zhengfeng they had no way to defeat him.
• Su Zhengfeng agreed to let Su Muxue make all decisions for the Su Group in Oracle and provide her with full funding.
• Su Muxue met Wu Shaozhen outside the city and accepted his conditions, including raising compensation from ten million to fifty million.
• Wu Shaozhen ordered Su Muxue to gather everyone who had attacked her so he could kill them back to the Novice Village.

Su Muxue handed over Xiao Qi, Ahui, and the other attackers, paid Dustseal fifty million and returned the Radiant Staff, ending his hunt after the Su Group’s public apologies. At HN University of Economics, Wu Ziyin learned that the story had spread and accidentally revealed that she had dropped the staff, prompting a young man to make a call.

• Su Muxue told Xiao Qi and the others they would face Dustseal’s punishment, and Xiao Qi gave in after Su Muxue threatened to cut off her family’s support.
• Su Muxue brought the attackers to Wu Shaozhen, transferred him the Radiant Staff and fifty million, and led the Su Group in publicly apologizing to Dustseal and Feng Yiner.
• Su Zhengfeng issued an apology under the in-game name Unrelenting Self-Improvement, and Wu Shaozhen announced that the hunt for the Su Group was over.
• Wu Shaozhen continued killing Xiao Qi, Ahui, and the other attackers until they were sent back to the Novice Village, while Su Muxue organized the remaining Su Group members to level up.
• At HN University of Economics, Wu Ziyin overheard students discussing Dustseal’s retaliation and began crying when they mentioned Feng Yiner.
• Weiwei found a forum post about Wu Ziyin’s death, and Wu Ziyin accidentally revealed that she had dropped her Radiant Staff; a young man overheard and called someone.

Wu Shaozhen sold a large haul of equipment to Turbulent Times Hero, then reunited with Wu Ziyin and returned to leveling with her. Meanwhile, Young Master Wang learned Wu Shaozhen’s real identity and arranged for men to abduct him in SZ City.

• Wu Shaozhen reached level 32 after killing 800 Iron-Armed Apes, invested his free attribute points in agility, and calculated the growing strength of his poison damage.
• Wu Shaozhen gave Leng Yue equipment to thank her and asked for a wealthy guild leader’s contact; she recommended Turbulent Times Hero.
• Wu Shaozhen sold Turbulent Times Hero hundreds of Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Black Iron pieces for 7.8 million without transaction fees.
• Wu Shaozhen returned home, gave Wu Ziyin her Radiant Staff, and took her along to level after she chose to stay with him.
• Young Master Wang confirmed Wu Shaozhen’s real identity and ordered reliable men to go to SZ City and bring him back without leaving traces.

Wu Shaozhen continued leveling in the game until intruders broke into his villa and tried to take him away. Zi You appeared in the real world, killed the attackers, and left Wu Shaozhen wondering how she had crossed into it.

• Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin killed 932 Demon-Eyed Apes, raising Wu Ziyin to level 24 before she logged off and Wu Shaozhen continued grinding alone.
• Four men in black arrived at SZ Airport, then broke into Wu Shaozhen's villa while he was logged into the game.
• Wu Shaozhen logged off and found the men inside; they demanded that he come with them and said they were taking him to SH.
• Zi You emerged from Wu Shaozhen's room, destroyed Number Four when he threatened her, and blocked the other three men's bullets and escape.
• Wu Shaozhen questioned the captured men, then Zi You made them disappear along with the barrier.

After Zi You appeared in reality, Wu Shaozhen discovered that he could access items in the Heaven and Earth Ring and learned that the game’s artifacts and abilities could cross into the real world. He traced the attackers’ discovery of his identity to Wu Ziyin and arranged protection for her through Zi You.

• Wu Shaozhen realized the Heaven and Earth Ring’s mark let him retrieve a scroll into reality, and he suspected the Netherworld Pearl had healed his cut.
• Wu Shaozhen called Wu Ziyin and learned that Weiwei had loudly revealed his identity as Dustseal in a cafeteria.
• Wu Shaozhen returned to the game and asked Zi You about abilities, bound equipment, and whether the world was real, but she answered only some of his questions.
• Wu Shaozhen warned Zi You that the attackers might target Wu Ziyin, and Zi You agreed to let Silver Big Bad Wolf briefly cross into reality to protect her.

Wu Shaozhen had Zi You inscribe Silver Big Bad Wolf and protect his house after learning that game strength could affect reality. When Wang’s men tried to break into the villa, Zi You’s barrier violently repelled them.

• Young Master Wang gave the middle-aged man two days to capture Wu Shaozhen, so the man sent the Blade Squad to SZ.
• Wu Shaozhen reached the summit, killed macaques for two hours, then logged out to call Wu Ziyin.
• Zi You inscribed Silver Big Bad Wolf with a Traversal Inscription and told Wu Shaozhen to gather more netherworld power.
• Zi You fortified Wu Shaozhen’s villa so only he could enter or leave, then vanished, weakened.
• The Blade Squad tried to enter through the door and a second-floor window, but the barrier hurled them back and injured two men.

Wu Shaozhen cleared the macaques in the ruins, reached level 33, and defeated the level 40 Heaven-Piercing Demon Ape, whose drops included a token. Zi You eliminated the Blade Squad when they came looking for trouble, leaving their superior in SH City unable to contact them.

• Zi You ambushed and killed all eight members of the Blade Squad, then disappeared while hoping no one else would interfere before Wu Shaozhen was ready.
• Wu Shaozhen finished clearing the ruins’ macaques, reached level 33, and put his free attribute points into agility.
• A middle-aged man in SH City failed to contact the Blade Squad, found no reports of trouble in SZ, and sent an Investigation Team to look from a distance.
• Jinling City settled into a tense calm as players and guilds improved their equipment and built up their strength.
• Wu Shaozhen fought and defeated the Heaven-Piercing Demon Ape using poison and defensive skills.
• Wu Shaozhen collected the boss’s equipment, scroll, Strength Fruit, and token, and realized the token could earn him another fortune.

Wu Shaozhen stored a Guild Establishment Token, equipped new Dark Gold gear, and explored a cave guarded by a defeated monkey. He fled from a swarm of Bloodthirsty Bats, while Zi You urged him to try again because the cave might hold something valuable.

• Wu Shaozhen decided to keep the Guild Establishment Token until the main-city Teleportation Arrays opened or he reached level 40, then considered selling it.
• Wu Shaozhen equipped the Cloud-Riding Boots and Cloud-Riding Ring, ate a Strength Fruit, and increased his stats.
• Wu Shaozhen found a cave behind the monkey's position, and Zi You gave him a luminous pearl to light the way.
• Bloodthirsty Bats attacked Wu Shaozhen in the cave, and he escaped after using Blink to reach the entrance.
• Zi You told Wu Shaozhen not to give up because there might be good loot inside, though she said she was only guessing.

Wu Shaozhen returned to the cave with Wu Ziyin’s help and attacked the level 45 Bloodthirsty Bats. His poison and speed gave him a way to overcome the powerful monsters, leaving the fight underway.

• Wu Shaozhen left the cave after deciding he needed more levels, then sold his accumulated equipment to Turbulent Times Hero and hunted respawned monkeys.
• A middle-aged man told Young Master Wang that the Blade Squad and the other men sent after Wu Shaozhen had vanished, so Young Master Wang ordered him to capture Wu Shaozhen’s little sister instead.
• Wu Shaozhen killed 5,687 monkeys, reached level 35, and put his attribute points into agility before deciding to return to the cave.
• Wu Ziyin joined Wu Shaozhen at the cave and cast Holy Light Shield on him while Silver Big Bad Wolf stayed behind to protect her.
• Wu Shaozhen and his Shadow Clone attacked the Bloodthirsty Bats, using their speed and poison to apply six stacks to each bat.

Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin fought through six waves of bats before Wu Shaozhen defeated the level 45 Bloodthirsty Bat King with her healing support. He collected the boss’s loot and learned the Lifesteal passive skill.

• Wu Shaozhen and his Shadow Clone poisoned and killed fifty bats, then collected their equipment.
• Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin cleared five more waves, gaining experience and levels as they moved deeper into the cavern.
• Wu Shaozhen identified the Bloodthirsty Bat King as a level 45 Dark Gold boss and prepared to fight it with Wu Ziyin’s healing support.
• Wu Shaozhen used his skills, Shadow Clone, and Silver Big Bad Wolf’s Inspire while Wu Ziyin healed him, and they killed the boss after a fierce battle.
• Wu Shaozhen collected the boss’s equipment and skill drops, then learned the Lifesteal passive.

Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin cleared the Lava Cavern’s Lava Behemoths, gaining experience and loot, before a Platinum boss emerged from the magma. Wu Shaozhen saw the Lava Beast King destroy his Shadow Clone in two hits, but resolved to poison it if he could survive its attacks.

• Wu Shaozhen equipped the Bloodthirsty Bracelet, upgraded Shadow Clone, and continued into the cavern with Wu Ziyin.
• Wu Shaozhen tested the Lava Behemoths with his Shadow Clone, then fought them with Wu Ziyin’s Holy Light Shield protecting him.
• Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin cleared roughly five hundred Lava Behemoths, earning twenty million experience and raising Wu Ziyin to level 30 and second place in the rankings.
• Wu Shaozhen counted three Gold and sixteen Silver equipment drops from the Lava Behemoths.
• The Lava Beast King emerged from the magma and smashed Wu Shaozhen’s Shadow Clone in two attacks.
• Wu Shaozhen declared that he could poison the boss to death as long as it could not outrun him or kill him in one hit.

Wu Shaozhen and Wu Ziyin defeated the Platinum boss Lava Beast King by repeatedly applying poison and evading its attacks, earning the server’s first Platinum boss kill. Wu Shaozhen collected powerful loot, equipped two Platinum armor pieces, and extracted a healing skill from his old belt.

• Wu Shaozhen used Wu Ziyin’s shield and his mobility skills to evade the Lava Beast King while repeatedly applying poison until it died.
• The system awarded Wu Shaozhen experience, reputation, and an extra poison stack, then announced his first Platinum boss kill and granted him gold and free attribute points.
• Divine King and God's Left Hand discussed the widening gap between Dustseal and other players, while Divine King urged his guild to avoid making an enemy of him.
• Wu Shaozhen picked up the boss’s loot and equipped the Lava Legguards and Lava Belt, raising his health above fifty thousand.
• Wu Shaozhen used a Skill Extraction Scroll on the Blood Bull Belt and learned its Health Restoration skill.

Wu Shaozhen sorted the Lava Beast King’s drops, sold most of his equipment, and decided to keep valuable gear rather than prioritize real-world money. He left the newly revealed passage unexplored after Zi You warned that a Blood Demon inside was too powerful for him.

• Wu Shaozhen gave the Dark Gold boots to Wu Ziyin, kept the Hellfire scroll and Lava Heart, and put all 60 system-awarded attribute points into Agility.
• When the Lava Beast King’s death revealed a passage beneath the solidified lava, Zi You warned Wu Shaozhen that a Blood Demon inside could defeat him, so he left the cave with Wu Ziyin.
• Wu Shaozhen sold Gold Equipment and lower-tier gear to Turbulent Times Hero for five million, then auctioned the Blood Bull Belt for 200,000.
• Wu Shaozhen auctioned the Lava Battleblade and Lava Armor for 2.28 million and 1.86 million, earning over eight million from the trip.
• Wu Shaozhen considered the uncertainty of money’s future value and decided to keep good equipment or sell it for Gold Coins instead.

Wu Shaozhen’s sister was targeted by Young Master Wang’s men, but Silver Big Bad Wolf made the intruders disappear, terrifying the men who sent them. After grinding through the night to clear his crime points and strengthen himself, Wu Shaozhen returned to his Jinling City home and fell asleep.

• Wu Shaozhen told Wu Ziyin to stay on campus and warned Silver Big Bad Wolf to protect her before continuing to kill monkeys.
• Four black-clad men entered Wu Ziyin’s dorm room, but Silver Big Bad Wolf swallowed them; the men who waited outside and later searched the dorm found no trace of them.
• The leader fled and refused to take any more jobs involving Wu Ziyin, while Young Master Wang learned the same thing had happened to men sent after Wu Shaozhen and began to panic.
• Wu Shaozhen killed 8,720 monkeys overnight, reached LV38, raised his health to 63,136, and cleared his crime points.
• Wu Shaozhen teleported home to Jinling City, lay down on his bed, and fell asleep from exhaustion.

Wu Shaozhen challenged the Platinum War God Secret Realm and defeated the Shadow Flash War God Phantom, earning its signature skill, Eightfold Unity. He advanced to Platinum rank as the first player to reach it and put his bonus attribute points into agility.

• Wu Shaozhen entered the Platinum War God Secret Realm and faced an assassin phantom whose speed, Dodge, and Eightfold Unity threatened to overwhelm him.
• Wu Shaozhen survived Eightfold Unity with Void and Netherworld Power, then used Thunderclap Form and lifesteal to defeat the phantom after a prolonged fight.
• Wu Shaozhen accepted the Shadow Flash War God's offer and learned Eightfold Unity after witnessing the technique's display.
• Wu Shaozhen advanced to Platinum rank, received 120 free attribute points and an upgraded War God Medal, and assigned all his points to agility.