Recaps

Qin Feng solved the Tomb’s pillar puzzle and killed the Bone Bishop, Nibagordon, but the boss’s death triggered 53 stacks of Death Withering that rapidly threatened to kill him. He ordered Osilio to heal him and used Abyss Wither Curse on Osilio and his minions, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qin Feng rotated the twelve bone pillars’ patterns until their skulls faced outward, awakening the Bone Bishop, Nibagordon.
• Qin Feng attacked Nibagordon with Shadow Blades and Endless Nightmare while the boss’s Witch Rings unleashed ghostfire across the room.
• Twelve corpses, including Teshima Ichirō and his team, appeared and began raising Qin Feng’s Chaos Gauge, but Qin Feng disabled the boss’s Greater Affixes and killed Nibagordon without destroying the corpses.
• The exit sealed, and Nibagordon’s death triggered Death Withering from all 53 corpses, rapidly breaking through Qin Feng’s defenses.
• Qin Feng commanded Osilio to heal him and cast Abyss Wither Curse on Osilio and twelve Bone Sword Pterosaur minions, making Osilio protest that Qin Feng had made him impotent again.

Qin Feng survived the Bone Bishop's Death Withering by using Abyss Wither Curse to make Osilio and his Bone Sword Pterosaur underlings heal him. After claiming his second Bone Rune and the boss's loot, he upgraded Meld into Darkness and prepared to feed useless skills to his Spirit Devourer Bloodline.

• Qin Feng endured 53 stacks of Death Withering while Osilio and his twelve underlings repeatedly slapped him and restored his health.
• Qin Feng realized that corpses from the earlier confrontation added to the final Death Withering stacks, making the boss fight harder for teams with more deaths.
• When Death Withering ended, Qin Feng had Osilio send a Bone Sword Pterosaur underling to open the White Bone Chest, which yielded his second Bone Rune.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the Bone Bishop's remains, gaining 1,400 evolution points, nearly 1,600 years of lifespan, and a large haul of loot.
• Qin Feng learned a level 25 Meld into Darkness Skill Book, raising its stealth effects and damage reduction, then opened his Spirit Devourer Bloodline panel.

Qin Feng strengthened his attacks, farmed monsters, and prepared to recruit a strange NPC by gathering insults. As An Yu reported that Teshima Ichirō and other Japanese experts had gone mad and begun killing people, she wondered whether Qin Feng had planned it.

• Qin Feng evolved sixteen Assassin skills to Legendary Tier and used Soul Devourer, more than doubling his Physical and Elemental Attack.
• Qin Feng left the tomb, killed a Jadeite Tier boss, then rode Osilio to farm level-25 monsters while converting an Epic Grade Skill Book.
• Qin Feng spoke with An Yu, Wisp of Smoke, and Late Night, Light Rain to collect insults for his planned visit to the Sichuan-Shu NPC Aristotle.
• An Yu reassured her family that she trusted Dark Shadow after her grandfather worried that he had let Teshima Ichirō go.
• Qin Feng summoned Gui Ling to use the Abyssal Curse Vase as news broke that Teshima Ichirō, Hōjō, Yoshida, and others had gone mad.
• An Yu messaged Qin Feng to ask whether the mass madness and killing spree had been part of his plan.

Teshima Ichirō and his team lost their minds after hearing the Eldritch God’s murmurs and caused a deadly rampage in Tōto, shocking Sakura Country and the world. As people debated Dark Shadow’s role and Great Xia’s older generation celebrated the supposed ally, Qin Feng remained composed until Gui Ling appeared before him.

• An Yu assumed Qin Feng had secretly arranged events with Teshima Ichirō and promised to keep his supposed rebirth secret, so Qin Feng played along.
• Teshima Ichirō’s team, driven mad by the Eldritch God’s murmurs, attacked people across Tōto while Sakura Country’s official guilds mobilized to capture them.
• News of the rampage spread worldwide, and observers concluded that Dark Shadow had no direct connection to the incident while becoming more fearful of his strength.
• People in Great Xia joked that Teshima Ichirō’s team had been allies all along, and An Bolong asked An Yu to deliver his treasured commemorative banner to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng remained calm as others discussed the incident, then Gui Ling appeared before him.

Qin Feng gave Gui Ling an Abyssal Curse Vase, and she drew the Epic Grade skill Abyss Potential Curse, which temporarily boosts a target before severely weakening them. After Gui Ling left to hunt monsters, Qin Feng reflected on his newly increased anti-stealth ability.

• Qin Feng gave Gui Ling the Abyssal Curse Vase and guided her to reach inside for a skill.
• Gui Ling obtained the Epic Grade skill Abyss Potential Curse, which boosts a target's attributes for 20 seconds before reducing them for 300 seconds.
• Qin Feng explained that the curse could affect bosses up to Epic Grade, and Gui Ling considered using it against an Assassin Bloodline boss.
• Qin Feng put away the vase, and Gui Ling entered stealth and departed through the Teleportation Array to farm monsters.
• Qin Feng watched Gui Ling leave and noted that his anti-stealth level had greatly increased because of a Legendary Tier Assassin Skill Book he had synthesized.

Qin Feng evolved Umbral Perception to Ancient Grade so he could expose Thief Saint William Scott and strip away his senses, then offered to deal with the thief in exchange for information about the Eye of Knowledge. Shudao Mountain Guild players prepared to follow him, though some doubted his ability to detect William.

• Qin Feng spent 2,000 Evolution Points to evolve Umbral Perception to Ancient Grade, raising his Anti-Stealth Level to 34 and gaining an effect that strips a detected stealthed target of all five senses.
• Qin Feng recalled that Thief Saint William Scott haunted the Wandering Spirit Dungeon, stealing players' belongings, and that defeating him could unlock Thief Saint Talismans and the Thieving Saint's Hand skill.
• Qin Feng decided to offer Shudao Mountain Guild a deal: he would handle William in exchange for information about the Eye of Knowledge, and he contacted Late Night, Light Rain.
• Shudao Mountain Guild players excitedly discussed Dark Shadow's arrival and planned to watch him confront the thief.
• Some guild members doubted Qin Feng could detect William, recalling that even their boss had been robbed despite using a Diamond-grade torch with Anti-Stealth Level 10.

Qin Feng agreed to help the Shudao Mountain Guild deal with the Thief Saint in exchange for meeting Big Eyes, an NPC who offered double experience. He teleported to the Sichuan-Shu Ruins, while the guild prepared to lead him to the thief’s last known location.

• Players in the Sichuan-Shu region worried that Dark Shadow might lack the anti-stealth skills needed to defeat the Thief Saint, William Scott.
• Gui'er Kan Jian and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi discussed Dark Shadow’s visit and revealed that the Shudao Mountain Guild had agreed to share Big Eyes’s location if Qin Feng dealt with the Thief Saint first.
• Gui'er Kan Jian explained that he had requested three hundred years of lifespan as compensation, while the guild’s members hoped to keep using Big Eyes’s double-experience service.
• Late Night, Light Rain gave Qin Feng the guild’s coordinates and said its members would guide him to the Thief Saint’s last known location.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio to the Magic City Ruins’ Teleportation Array and spent 37.9 years of lifespan to travel to the Sichuan-Shu Ruins.
• Qin Feng considered building a private intercity Teleportation Array in his Hideout after completing challenges at a higher-level Divine Authority Tower.

Qin Feng arrived at the Sichuan-Shu Ruins to help the Shudao Mountain Guild investigate a thief in the Wandering Spirit Dungeon. He entered the vast underground city with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, Gui'er Kan Jian, and the guild members, where the lifespan loss rate was a hundred times higher.

• Qin Feng flew to the Shudao Mountain Guild's coordinates, met Gui'er Kan Jian and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, and added the guild leader as a friend.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi offered Qin Feng a panda mount, cycling through overworked or injured pandas before summoning a lively one for him.
• Qin Feng, Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, Gui'er Kan Jian, and the guild members rode pandas into the Wandering Spirit Dungeon.
• The group reached the sprawling underground city, where Qin Feng learned it was a frenzied zone with a hundredfold lifespan loss rate.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi told Qin Feng that a thief repeatedly visited the guild's favorite leveling spot and called him a good person for coming to help.

Qin Feng followed the Shudao Mountain Guild through the Wandering Spirit Dungeon while hiding from the Thief Saint, William Scott. William attacked the well-equipped group, but Qin Feng saw through his stealth and stripped away his five senses, leaving him shocked and unable to hear his own scream.

• Qin Feng entered stealth after the team reached the Wandering Spirit Dungeon and privately told Gui'er Kan Jian to lead while he followed.
• The Shudao Mountain Guild encountered Exiled Immortal's guild, and Qin Feng learned about Exiled Immortal's rivalry with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi.
• Qin Feng planned to make the subdued Thief Saint serve his guild and sell Thief Saint Talismans, which could let players rob targets outside the dungeon.
• William Scott spotted the advancing team and lunged from the ruins to steal from them.
• Qin Feng saw through William's stealth and triggered his stripped state, taking away his five senses; William thought another NPC had attacked him.

Qin Feng exposed the Thief Saint William Scott’s stealth and trapped him in a cycle of attacks and nightmares. The Shudao Mountain players watched from outside the black mist as William repeatedly rammed a wall while Qin Feng steadily drained his health.

• Qin Feng used the Ghostfire Bell to immobilize William and struck him, discovering that William’s damage limit and hit recovery reduced the effectiveness of his attacks.
• William escaped the immobilization and fled, but his loss of all five senses caused him to repeatedly run into a stone wall.
• Qin Feng caught up and attacked William while the Stripping effect wore off.
• Qin Feng filled his Nightmare Gauge, causing William to fall into another Nightmare and begin ramming the wall again as his health rapidly dropped.
• The elderly Sword Immortal, the panda girl, and the other Shudao Mountain players watched from outside the black mist and marveled at Qin Feng’s Greater Affix.

Qin Feng subdued the Thief Saint and made him an NPC in the Shadow guild, then discovered that the Thieving Saint's Hand skill had a separate cooldown for each arm. He left the Thief Saint alive and prepared to learn the skill while opening the NPC's services to the Shudao Mountain guild.

• The Shudao Mountain guild players watched Qin Feng stop fighting the Thief Saint at half health, and Qin Feng explained that the NPC had been subdued and would return to his Hideout.
• A guild member asked about retrieving a stolen quest whip, and Qin Feng said the Thief Saint had exchanged stolen goods for lifespan but could sell the guild useful items.
• Qin Feng configured the Thief Saint's permissions to sell Thief Saint Talismans while keeping the Thieving Saint's Hand skill restricted.
• After recovering from the Nightmare State, the Thief Saint discovered that the system had bound him to Dark Shadow and the Shadow guild, requiring him to obey Qin Feng and provide guild services.
• The Thief Saint boasted about his Eight-Armed Royal Clan, but Qin Feng dismissed him and opened his service list to learn Thieving Saint's Hand.
• Qin Feng saw that the skill calculated its cooldown independently for each arm, allowing the eight-handed Thief Saint to use it eight times per cooldown.

Qin Feng evolved his two Thieving Saint's Hand skills and taxed the Eight-Armed Thief Saint's sale of Thief Saint Talismans. After leaving the Wandering Spirit Dungeon with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi guiding him toward the Eye of Knowledge, news spread that Dark Shadow had subdued the Thief Saint.

• Qin Feng learned two copies of Thieving Saint's Hand and found that evolving one also upgraded the other, doubling their maximum attribute-stealing returns.
• The Eight-Armed Thief Saint offered Thief Saint Talismans, and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi bought fifty to use against Exiled Immortal.
• Qin Feng imposed a 50% tax on the sale, taking five hundred years of lifespan from the Thief Saint, then set out to find the Eye of Knowledge.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi offered to guide Qin Feng to the Eye of Knowledge and asked to ride his Flying Dragon along the way.
• News that Dark Shadow had subdued the Thief Saint spread through the Sichuan-Shu Ruins, and players celebrated and joked about becoming his sworn little sister.

After Qin Feng captured the Thief Saint, Exiled Immortal’s guild celebrated, believing they were safe from theft and preparing to hunt a boss. Shudao Mountain assassins then used Thief Saint Talismans to strip Exiled Immortal of valuable items, seize his Hideout key and Golden Demon Talisman, and eject his guild from the temple.

• Exiled Immortal and his guild celebrated Dark Shadow’s capture of the Thief Saint and mocked Shudao Mountain, whose dispute with them began when Exiled Immortal stole the Golden Demon Talisman.
• Exiled Immortal led his guild back to their Mid-Mountain Daoist Temple Hideout, planning to store items before returning to farm a gold-tier boss.
• Shudao Mountain players used Thief Saint Talismans to steal Exiled Immortal’s chocobo Mount Bell, Invisibility-Revealing Dust, Element Enhancement Potion, Hideout key, and other stored items.
• Exiled Immortal called for anti-stealth measures, and his guild revealed several Shudao Mountain assassins surrounding them.
• Shudao Mountain’s assassins took the Golden Demon Talisman and Hideout key, entered the temple, and forced more than a hundred guild members outside.
• Exiled Immortal realized that he had lost everything as his bewildered guild looked on.

Qin Feng flew with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi after the Shudao Mountain Guild stole Exiled Immortal’s Mount Bell, Hideout Key, and Golden Demon Talisman. On the way to find Aristotle, Qin Feng spotted a Toad Demon chasing players and watched a young swordsman rescue a woman he recognized as someone he should not save.

• Exiled Immortal cursed the Shudao Mountain Guild after its Assassins used a Thief Saint Talisman to steal his Mount Bell, Hideout Key, and Golden Demon Talisman.
• Indian Old Turtledove refused to return the stolen items, leaving Exiled Immortal furious as his guild members demanded their belongings back.
• Qin Feng and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi rode Osilio through the sky, and she thanked Qin Feng after confirming that her guild had sorted out its affairs.
• Qin Feng headed toward the mountains outside the Sichuan-Shu Ruins to find Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle and considered selling future Thief Saint Talismans to the authorities.
• Qin Feng heard cries from the jungle and saw a Toad Demon pursue players, snare a woman with its tongue, and get its tongue cut by a young swordsman who rescued her.
• Qin Feng recognized the rescued woman and thought that the young swordsman should not have saved her.

Qin Feng intervened when Su Muzhe was attacked by Qingqing and her five companions after rescuing her, then used Judgment to send all six away. He killed the nearby Toad Demon in seconds, leaving Su Muzhe stunned by his strength.

• Su Muzhe rescued Qingqing from the Toad Demon, but she accused him of harassment and called her five companions to confront him.
• Qingqing and the five men attacked Su Muzhe, and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi arrived on Osilio to knock them aside as the Toad Demon was lured nearby.
• Qin Feng let the Toad Demon capture Qingqing and ensnare the five men, then asked Su Muzhe for lifespan to pass Judgment on them.
• Qin Feng killed all six with Shadow Blades and sent them to the Judgment Grounds, while Su Muzhe offered him 130 years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng vanished and killed the Toad Demon within three seconds, leaving Su Muzhe amazed by his damage.

Qin Feng killed the Giant Toad Demon in one blow, then killed Su Muzhe when the swordsman demanded to become his disciple. After taking Su Muzhe’s hidden lifespan and evolving Thieving Saint’s Hand, Qin Feng continued toward the bamboo grove, where the bamboo girl guided him through the Bagua Formation.

• Qin Feng killed the Jadeite Tier Giant Toad Demon with one Shadow Blade, astonishing Su Muzhe.
• Su Muzhe begged Qin Feng to take him as a disciple, but Qin Feng killed him with a Shadow Blade after setting survival as the condition.
• Qin Feng absorbed the 158 years of lifespan Su Muzhe dropped and left, treating the extra years as interest for wasting his time.
• Qin Feng spent Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint’s Hand to Epic Tier, increasing its attribute-stealing cap and reducing its cooldown.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio toward the bamboo grove as the bamboo girl guided them through the Bagua Formation and joked with Osilio.

Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl entered the Bagua Formation to reach the Eye of Knowledge, while she explained its mechanics and told him about the NPC. They defeated Gold Tier bosses on successive platforms, and Qin Feng gained enough Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint's Hand to Legendary Tier.

• Osilio and Bamboo Girl joked about Qin Feng finding a wife and a female dragon as they approached the bamboo valley.
• Bamboo Girl explained that they had to navigate eight platforms in the Bagua Formation and asked Qin Feng to kill the bosses that appeared.
• Qin Feng killed the spawned monsters while Bamboo Girl studied the formation and told him how the elderly Sword Immortal and Bamboo Girl had met the knowledge-hungry NPC.
• Bamboo Girl worked out the first platform's mechanics, and Qin Feng killed the Flame Minotaur with a Shadow Blade and used Greedy Hand.
• Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl traveled through successive platforms, and Qin Feng collected enough Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint's Hand to Legendary Tier.

Qin Feng evolved Thieving Saint's Hand, gaining the ability to use it on any target and temporarily steal 20% of their attributes. He tested it on Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle, who was so astonished by the unprecedented technique that he offered to serve Qin Feng if he revealed his talent.

• Qin Feng discovered that Legendary Tier Thieving Saint's Hand could target anyone and grant him 20% of their attributes for ten minutes.
• Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl completed the Bagua Formation and reached Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle, who had been waiting to ask them questions.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand on Aristotle, permanently stealing one Agility and temporarily gaining a portion of all four core attributes.
• Aristotle recognized the skill as an impossible new version of Thieving Saint's Hand and demanded to know Qin Feng's talent, offering to serve him in exchange.
• Bamboo Girl watched Aristotle's reaction in confusion.

Qin Feng tried to recruit Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle by making him curious, then realized the invitation condition required giving him many unfamiliar pieces of knowledge quickly. After winning ten games and cursing at him for thirty minutes, Qin Feng unlocked Aristotle’s basic, advanced, and high-level functions, leaving the two onlookers stunned.

• Qin Feng found that Aristotle’s curiosity about his talent had not triggered the recruitment condition, so he suspected the key was making Aristotle curious repeatedly.
• Qin Feng proposed playing board games, and Aristotle enthusiastically agreed while Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi followed to watch.
• Aristotle deliberately lost ten games to Qin Feng, giving him two hundred years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng angrily accused Aristotle of throwing the games and launched into a torrent of unfamiliar insults.
• After thirty minutes of cursing, Qin Feng received notifications that he had met the conditions to unlock Aristotle’s basic, advanced, and high-level functions.

Qin Feng unlocked Big Eyes' advanced and high-level functions by rapidly insulting him, then sent the NPC back to the Magic City Ruins. After offering Bamboo Girl discounted access to Big Eyes and the Thief Saint, Qin Feng learned that Gui Ling had encountered a Jadeite Tier boss and set off to join her.

• Qin Feng discovered that Big Eyes could create a Bagua Formation Diagram and Counterattack Barrier, and could spend lifespan to look up information.
• Qin Feng sent Big Eyes back to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout, causing the valley's white mist and Bagua Formation Diagram to disappear.
• Qin Feng offered Bamboo Girl access to Big Eyes and the Thief Saint, along with a ten percent discount on their services.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that Gui Ling was fighting a Jadeite Tier boss while another guild tried to steal it, and Qin Feng chose not to intervene.
• Qin Feng decided to activate double experience and fly with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi toward the Teleportation Array in the Sichuan-Shu Ruins.

Gui Ling slowly weakened the Jade Tier Assassin boss before Cloud Mountain Inn’s sixty-player team arrived and took over the fight. She stayed stealthed nearby, waiting for a chance to strike, while Qin Feng trusted her to handle the situation without government assistance.

• Gui Ling used stealth, poison, and damage-immunity shields to whittle down the Assassin · Son of Death while it regenerated health between attacks.
• Cloud Mountain Inn’s elite team arrived at the ruins and began fighting the boss, believing they could handle it and remaining wary of the nearby Assassin.
• The boss ambushed Water-Sliding Snake with Lightning Five-Strike Combo, leaving him near death and prompting the team to warn one another about its instant-death affix.
• Two government players learned that Qin Feng had declined their help and wondered whether he would let Cloud Mountain Inn claim the boss.
• Gui Ling remained stealthed nearby, watching the team fight and waiting for the right moment to attack.

Gui Ling let Cloud Mountain Inn’s party weaken Assassin of Death while she waited for its second phase, then cursed the boss at 30% health and doubled its attributes. As the empowered boss began slaughtering the remaining players, Gui Ling stayed invisible nearby, ready to finish her plan.

• Cloud Mountain Inn’s guild leader led her party against Assassin of Death, whose second-phase attacks killed players and spread instant-death energy through the Stone Ruins.
• Gui Ling remained hidden while the party kept attacking the boss and moved away from the corpses’ expanding black mist.
• At 30% health, Gui Ling cast Abyss Potential Curse on Assassin of Death, doubling its attributes for twenty seconds.
• Assassin of Death rapidly killed two Cloud Mountain Inn players, while Gui Ling turned invisible again and watched the party’s defeat unfold.

Gui Ling used a curse to slow the Son of Death and killed the boss after wiping out the remaining Cloud Mountain Inn players. After learning she belonged to Shadow, Cloud Mountain Inn's guild members began leaving their guild.

• The Son of Death entered a berserk state and killed most of Cloud Mountain Inn's players, leaving three survivors.
• Gui Ling killed the three survivors with a triple Weakness Attack, then attacked the cursed boss while its attributes and speed were reduced by 90%.
• The Son of Death entered its final phase and cleared other negative effects, but the epic-grade curse remained, allowing Gui Ling to keep attacking it safely.
• Two members of the Official Personnel reported Gui Ling's fight, and Late Night, Light Rain realized how formidable she was.
• Cloud Mountain Inn's beautiful guild leader checked her Kill Record, discovered Gui Ling belonged to Shadow, and apologized to her guild for provoking Dark Shadow's woman.
• Cloud Mountain Inn's members fell silent, and several players left the guild.

Qin Feng set up ways to earn lifespan by offering Thieving Saint's Hand and double EXP services, then headed out to level up and loot a boss corpse. When Gui Ling asked about Cloud Mountain Inn's offer to buy the corpse loot, Qin Feng told her to make them wait until he tried looting it first.

• After Cloud Mountain Inn's membership fell by half, its guild leader sent people to apologize to Gui Ling.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, arranged paid access to his NPCs' services for Sky Dome Guild players, and considered selling three Platinum Tier Hideouts.
• Qin Feng activated three hours of double EXP with Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle and flew south on Osilio to find a leveling spot.
• Gui Ling told Qin Feng that Cloud Mountain Inn offered three hundred years of lifespan to loot the Assassin's corpse and promised further payment if extra loot dropped.
• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to let him loot the corpse first, claiming he had lucky hands.

Gui Ling accepted the Cloud Mountain Inn’s offer to trade fifteen hundred years of lifespan for equipment instead of looting the boss’s corpse, while reflecting on the Assassin bloodline she had gained. Qin Feng arrived with the promised equipment, which Gui Ling realized had terrible attributes.

• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to offer the Cloud Mountain Inn three Jadeite Tier items and ten Platinum Tier items for fifteen hundred years of lifespan, and to keep them away from the boss’s corpse.
• A young Cloud Mountain Inn Assassin apologized to Gui Ling, agreed to the deal, and promised the guild would stop stealing bosses and bullying others.
• Gui Ling studied her new Assassin bloodline, which granted five points of the Instant Death affix, and considered how the boss’s berserk-phase attacks could have killed her.
• Qin Feng arrived and gave Gui Ling the equipment for the trade, and she noticed that all thirteen pieces had terrible attributes.