Biodata

Feature Details
Name Qin Feng (秦风) 1
Alias(es) Shadow; Dark Shadow — his in-game alias is rendered both ways 4 44.
Species/Race Human; a transmigrator who later returns nine years into his own past 1.
Gender Male 1
Affiliation Founder of the Godslayer guild in his previous life; independent player cooperating with Great Xia’s government after rebirth 11 33 42.
Occupation/Role Assassin-class player; formerly an ordinary Warrior-class player and company employee 3 45.
Class Shadow / Dark Shadow — unique hidden class 3 44.
Talent Infinite Evolution — Primordial tier 3.
Residence River-Sea City, Great Xia 44 45.
Status Alive after rebirth; level 10 in-game and level 3 in reality at the latest documented milestones 43 44 49.
First Appearance Chapter 1 1

Power Progression

Levels and Major Unlocks

Stage / Realm / Level Chapter Notes
Previous-life Warrior 1 11 Reached the world’s top hundred with an ordinary class while protecting Qin Xiaoyou.
Authority of Judgment 1 The Eye of Judgment activated after his rebirth.
Unique Shadow class; Primordial talent 3 Obtained Shadow and Infinite Evolution, allowing him to evolve skills with evolution points.
Level 1 4 5 Entered Shell Town and allocated all five initial free attribute points to agility.
Level 2 7 Killed the Bronze Broodmother; became Shell Town’s first level 2 player and unlocked its rankings.
Level 5 17 The Silver Cursed One’s 1,800 EXP raised him from level 3 to level 5.
Level 6 19 Continued solo grinding; every other player on Shell Town’s rankings remained level 3.
Level 8 27 Confirmed at level 8 after the Golden Ghost Ship hunt.
Level 9 30 Killed the two Silver Devout Believers in the Temple of Faith.
Level 10 43 Killed two Crimson Armored Ones; became the world’s first level 10 player and unlocked Class Advancement.
Real-world Dark Shadow class 44 Spent 1,000 days of tradable lifespan to activate his class passives and class attribute bonuses in reality.
Real-world level 3 44 Extracted two levels for 2,000 days of lifespan. Also extracted Platinum Shadowmeld and Silver Deadly Poison Dart.

Skill Evolution

Stage / Realm / Level Chapter Notes
Shadowmeld: Common 3 Increased base stealth to 12 seconds and stealth-breaking bonus attack to 60.
Shadowmeld: Bronze 3 Reached 16 seconds of base stealth and 90 bonus attack. With his class passive, stealth lasted 32 seconds against a 26-second cooldown.
Back Attack Enhancement: Common 4 Back-attack damage bonus increased from 10% to 15%.
Greedy Hand: Silver 9 Extra-loot chance increased from 20% to 40%.
Greedy Hand: Gold 9 Extra-loot chance increased to 70%.
Greedy Hand: Platinum 10 Extra-loot chance increased to 110%.
Deadly Poison Dart: Bronze 12 Range increased to 13 meters, bonus attack to 80, and poison damage to 40% per second.
Deadly Poison Dart: Silver 12 Range increased to 14 meters, bonus attack to 120, and poison damage to 50% per second.
Greedy Hand: Jadeite 14 Extra-loot chance reached 160%; additional loot gained a 20% chance to rise one tier.
Greedy Hand: Diamond 18 Extra-loot chance reached 220%; tier-upgrade chance increased to 40%.
Instant Shadow Slash: Silver 18 Learned a 15-meter blink attack delivering three slashes and granting stealth.
Instant Shadow Slash: Gold 18 Increased range to 18 meters and slash count to four.
Instant Shadow Slash: Platinum 18 Increased range to 21 meters and slash count to five.
Greedy Hand: Epic 25 Guaranteed three additional reward sets, with additional loot guaranteed to rise one tier.
Instant Shadow Slash: Jade 26 Increased range to 24 meters and slash count to six.
Instant Shadow Slash: Diamond 26 Increased range to 27 meters and slash count to seven.
Back Attack Enhancement: Bronze 26 Back-attack damage bonus increased to 20%.
Back Attack Enhancement: Silver 26 Back-attack damage bonus increased to 25%.
Back Attack Enhancement: Gold 26 Back-attack damage bonus increased to 30%.
Ghostly Blur: Epic 31 Four successive evolutions increased passive evasion from 15% to 75%.
Instant Shadow Slash: Epic 31 Reached 30-meter range, nine slashes, five-meter width, and 500 bonus attack per slash.
Shadowmeld: Gold 31 Base stealth reached 20 seconds; stealth-breaking bonus attack reached 120.
Shadowmeld: Platinum 31 Base stealth reached 24 seconds, bonus attack reached 150, and base cooldown fell to 22 seconds.
Coup de Grace: Epic 32 Obtained from the Temple of Faith chest; doubled weak-point damage multiplier and unlocked Throat Slit.
Coup de Grace: Legendary 36 Weak-point targeting modifier reached +200%; Throat Slit damage rose to 150% per second for three seconds.
Back Attack Enhancement: Platinum 36 Back-attack damage bonus increased to 40%.
Blooming Curse: Jadeite 39 Learned from an Ancient God’s Blessing chest; enabled him to drain a dead player’s tradable lifespan.
Back Attack Enhancement: Jade 43 Back-attack damage bonus increased to 50%.
Blacklight Shield: Platinum 49 Learned an evasion-conversion skill that initially provided three damage-negating layers from his 75% evasion.
Blacklight Shield: Epic 49 Three successive evolutions increased duration to 14 seconds and enabled seven shield layers.
Deadly Poison Dart: Jade 49 Three further evolutions increased range to 17 meters, bonus attack to 240, and poison damage to 80% per second.

Recorded Attributes

Attribute Level 10 in-game Later equipment update
Strength 39 44 —
Constitution 39 44 51 49
Agility 111 44 —
Spirit 41 44 —
Health — 1,517 49
Physical defense — 106 49
Cooldown recovery speed — 55% 49
Reputation 47 44 —
Non-tradable lifespan 1,219 years, 128 days 44 —
Tradable lifespan before extraction 7,455 days 44 —

Background / History

Early Life

Qin Feng secretly transmigrated into this world as an orphan and was adopted by a married couple. Their biological daughter, Qin Xiaoyou, was born when he was five. The couple treated both children equally. After they died in a car accident when Qin Feng was eighteen, he supported the household and raised his sister alone 1.

Previous Timeline

When the Godforsaken Game descended during Qin Xiaoyou’s college years, Qin Feng chose the Warrior class to protect her. Over nine years, he became one of the world’s top hundred powerhouses and founded the Godslayer guild. Wang Meng served as the intermediary for his guild’s equipment and skill-book trades with Great Xia’s government 1 11 20.

After Qin Feng obtained the Ancient God Eyeball, Song Fei approached Qin Xiaoyou. She immobilized her brother with Soul-Wandering Water and gouged out his eyes to give the artifact to Song Fei. Unknown to her, Song Fei had added lethal toxins to the drug; Qin Feng died shortly after she left 1.

Rebirth and Independent Growth

Qin Feng awoke nine years earlier and abandoned his former role as Qin Xiaoyou’s protector. He spared her out of respect for their deceased parents but placed Song Fei on his kill list. The Eye of Judgment then activated, and his subsequent class selection granted him Shadow and Infinite Evolution 1 3.

Starting in Shell Town, he hunted alone, defeated increasingly powerful bosses, and sold unwanted equipment for tradable lifespan. He refused Jiang Li’s ten-million-RMB recruitment offer and instead prioritized resources that could strengthen him in-game and eventually in reality 7 16 17.

Golden Ghost Ship and Temple of Faith

Lin Liyu led Qin Feng to the Golden Ghost Ship. Its half-health attack killed him as he had planned; players attempting to seize the encounter were subsequently wiped out. After the hunt, he killed players trying to claim the loot and evolved Greedy Hand to Epic tier. Two Ghostfire Bells supplied a combined 40% bonus to lifespan gained from slain Demons 22 23 25.

His next major discovery was the Temple of Faith. Its two Devout Believers refused to retaliate against him. After killing them, he descended into a hidden labyrinth and encountered a white-robed woman in a starlit hall. She vanished, leaving a chest containing Coup de Grace 30 31 32.

Revenge on Song Fei

Qin Feng traveled to Firefly Town and repeatedly killed Song Fei and his followers. He enlisted Gu Yixue to track them, acquired Blooming Curse, and used it on Song Fei’s corpse to drain his tradable lifespan 34 35 37 38 39 40.

After becoming the world’s first level 10 player, Qin Feng extracted his class, two levels, Shadowmeld, and Deadly Poison Dart into reality. He located Song Fei through the celebrity’s public lifespan-buying activity and assassinated him while invisible at Great River Plaza 43 44 45 46.

Qin Feng then returned to boss hunting, killed the Golden Arthropod despite its stealth detection, and obtained Blacklight Shield and stronger equipment. When Wang Meng asked whether he had killed Song Fei, Qin Feng admitted it without hesitation to gauge the authorities’ response 48 49 50.

Appearance

  • Ghostfire Leather Armor: Black leather armor patterned with dark red flames; its distinctive appearance draws attention when he enters town 27 33.
  • Assassination clothing: Wears a Gray Mask and black jacket when setting out to kill Song Fei in reality 45.
  • Stealth manifestation: His body becomes hazy, then transparent, before disappearing completely 45.

Personality

Qin Feng’s betrayal transforms his formerly protective attitude toward Qin Xiaoyou into deliberate detachment. He refuses to reconcile, support her progression, or allow her to benefit from his success. His decision not to kill her reflects his remaining respect for their adoptive parents rather than forgiveness 1 33 47 50.

He is pragmatic about growth: he spends evolution points to gain immediate combat strength, prioritizes reward-enhancing skills, and treats tradable lifespan as more valuable than ordinary money. He generally ignores others’ affairs unless they interfere with him 3 10 16.

His reserve does not prevent selective generosity or trust. He gives Lin Liyu valuable rewards for her help and extends credit to Wang Meng because of their previous-life cooperation. Against enemies, he is ruthless; nine years of survival have made him accustomed to killing 26 27 33 44.

Abilities & Skills

Eye of Judgment and Infinite Evolution

The Eye of Judgment grants the authority of judgment. After his class is confirmed, its passive effect provides Infinite Evolution 1 3.

  • Receives five evolution points every 24 hours 3.
  • Solo monster kills can award evolution points; solo boss kills guarantee them 3.
  • Evolves skills beyond their original grades, improving damage, duration, range, or special effects 3 14 49.
  • Evolution costs rise sharply at higher tiers: Epic Greedy Hand requires 210 points for Legendary, while Legendary Coup de Grace requires 200 for Mythic 25 36.

Shadow Class and Stealth

His unique class doubles stealth duration, adds one stealth level, and doubles damage dealt from outside an enemy’s field of vision 3.

  • Shadowmeld: Platinum form grants 24 seconds of base stealth and 150 bonus attack to the strike that breaks it 31.
  • Early stealth suppresses his footsteps, breathing, and heartbeat, although physical collision remains possible 6.
  • Damage-over-time effects can benefit from the class’s damage doubling when he enters stealth after attacking 12.
  • Stealth does not prevent area damage or sufficiently strong detection. The Golden Arthropod can see him despite Shadowmeld 17 23 49.

Weak-Point and Back-Attack Damage

Qin Feng combines positional bonuses with precise weak-point attacks 6 12.

  • Back Attack Enhancement: Latest documented form adds 50% damage to attacks from behind 43.
  • Coup de Grace: Doubles his weak-point damage multiplier and improves targeting correction; Legendary form reaches a +200% targeting modifier 32 36.
  • Throat Slit: Legendary form makes the next attack inflict 150% of that attack’s damage per second for three seconds 36.
  • Coup de Grace’s enlarged targeting areas allow some normally difficult Instant Shadow Slash hits to register as weak-point attacks 48.

Instant Shadow Slash

An area attack that blinks Qin Feng forward and grants stealth 18.

  • Epic form delivers nine slashes along a 30-meter-long, five-meter-wide path, adding 500 attack power per slash 31.
  • Its attacks count as back attacks, supporting his positional damage build 18.
  • With later equipment, its effective cooldown falls to 7.7 seconds 49.
  • Its strike locations are not precisely controlled, making weak-point hits difficult without targeting assistance 29 48.

Deadly Poison Dart

A ranged Assassin skill used for accurate weak-point attacks and sustained poison damage 12 17.

  • Latest documented form has 17-meter range and adds 240 attack on impact 49.
  • Poison deals 80% damage per second for five seconds; it does not stack and receives no weak-point bonus 49.
  • Qin Feng’s previous-life experience supports unusually accurate throws 12 17.
  • Extracted into reality at Silver grade for Song Fei’s assassination 44 45 46.

Defensive Skills

  • Ghostly Blur: Epic form grants 75% passive evasion; a successful evasion negates all damage 31.
  • Blacklight Shield: Epic form temporarily converts evasion into damage-negating layers. His 75% evasion produces seven layers lasting up to 14 seconds; evasion returns when the shield breaks or expires 49.

Lifespan and Loot Manipulation

  • Greedy Hand: Epic form provides three additional reward sets from Demon corpses and upgrades additional loot by one tier. It can yield extra evolution points and lifespan, but does not supply extra EXP 25 36.
  • Blooming Curse: Drains a dead player’s tradable lifespan; manifests as a blood-red flower on the corpse 39 40.
  • Ability extraction: Spends tradable lifespan to bring game abilities and levels into reality. Extracted levels retain their original attribute allocation 44.

Other Combat Skills

  • Gouge: A Common single-target skill adding 20 attack and inflicting a two-second stun, with a 22-second cooldown 27.
  • Manual evasion: Uses movement and attack-pattern knowledge to avoid bosses even when stealth fails 48 49.
  • Real-world speed: After extraction, reaches 32 agility and can sprint 100 meters in just over five seconds 44.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

  • Scrap-Iron Dagger — Starting weapon providing +10 attack; replaced by the Corroded Dagger after the Broodmother hunt 5 9.
  • Sprinter Hide Leggings — Early equipment improving cooldown speed 13.
  • Curse Ring, Gold — Grants +8 to all attributes, +26 dark resistance, and +0.1 weak-point multiplier; later replaced by the Lightweight Ring 17 49.
  • Ghost Ship Twin Blades, Platinum — Provide +136 attack, +22 agility, +24% attack speed, and 17 armor penetration. Each basic attack deals damage twice 26.
  • Ghostfire Leather Armor, Gold — Provides +25 physical defense, +50 fire resistance, 14 damage block, and +419 health 26.
  • Two Ghostfire Bells — Stacking Soul Siphon effects increase Demon lifespan drops by 40%. The bell also protects against lifespan loss on one death; Soulshock immobilizes enemies within 100 meters and forces stealthed targets to reveal themselves 25 27 36.
  • Believer Pendant, Gold — Provides +15 agility and +20% cooldown speed; summons a Silver Devout Believer on a 600-second cooldown. Qin Feng uses the summon to scout and open a chest 30 31 32.
  • Lightweight Ring, Platinum — Provides +20 agility and +20% each to movement speed, attack speed, and cooldown recovery speed 49.
  • Heavy Red Leather Gloves, Gold — Provide +18 physical defense, +15 all-element resistance, +12 constitution, and +588 health 49.
  • Gray Mask — Worn during his real-world assassination operation 45.

Relationships

  • Qin Xiaoyou — Adoptive younger sister and former dependent. Her previous-life betrayal ends his willingness to protect her; she later cuts ties while unknowingly pursuing his Dark Shadow identity 1 33 47 50.
  • Adoptive parents — Raised him without favoring their biological daughter. His respect for them is the reason he spares Qin Xiaoyou 1 50.
  • Song Fei — Enemy responsible for the poisoned Soul-Wandering Water. Qin Feng repeatedly kills him in-game before assassinating him in reality 1 35 37 40 45 46.
  • Wang Meng — Trusted trading partner and government intermediary. Qin Feng remembers his reliability, permits deferred payments, and later admits Song Fei’s assassination to him 11 26 33 50.
  • Lin Liyu / Black Plum Big Li — Informant and ally whose discoveries lead him to the Golden Ghost Ship and Temple of Faith. He rewards her with two Gold Mage items 22 27 28 48.
  • Gu Yixue — Former trusted right hand. In the new timeline, he recruits her bird-assisted tracking against Song Fei and arranges her admission to Wang Meng’s party 34 38 42.
  • An Yu / Justice Execution — Government-affiliated Dragon Swordsman who surpassed him in the previous timeline. In the new timeline, she introduces herself as his fan and settles the remaining equipment debt 42.
  • Jiang Li — Great River Industries heiress whose paid recruitment offer he rejects 16.
  • Leisurely Clouds / Dongfang Xian — Gives him Gouge as an apparent apology while secretly planning to identify and enslave him in reality 27.
  • Gray Rose — Warns him about the Golden Arthropod’s stealth detection and later buys Frost Ricochet for 800 days of lifespan 48 49.
  • Yang Xiaoya — Female coworker whom he advises to enter the game and prioritize agility 46.

Notable Quotes

“If you think my care and protection are shackles, then so be it. In this life... I’ll act as though I never had a sister.” 1

“Just letting you know—you’re about to die.” 37

“Whatever you do has nothing to do with me. Qin Xiaoyou, haven’t you always felt that I was taking away your freedom? Don’t worry. I won’t bother looking after you anymore. Do whatever you want.” 47

Appearances

48,133
Total Mentions
2,304
Chapters Appeared
20.89
Avg. per Chapter