Recaps

Qin Feng traded bizarre Jadeite equipment to Gui Ling, then gained powerful Assassin training skills and headed to the Crawling Abyss to level up. Meanwhile, an unknown Summoner began luring the Epic Grade boss Calamity Hades toward Qin Feng’s hideout, unaware that the boss was intelligent and watching him.

• Gui Ling examined Qin Feng’s equipment and recognized that its damage boosts came with debilitating drawbacks, making it a bargain for the fifteen hundred years he received in trade.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Assassin of Death’s corpse, gained 360 Evolution Points and numerous drops, then evolved Assassin Spirit Training and Constitution Training to Legendary Tier.
• Qin Feng traveled to the Crawling Abyss to take advantage of double experience while leaving six people trapped in the Judgment Grounds.
• A hooded Summoner in a Frenzied Zone began using summoned creatures to lure Calamity Hades toward Qin Feng’s hideout.
• The Summoner planned to kill or test Dark Shadow for the Sky Serpent Organization, unaware that Qin Feng already intended to destroy it and that Calamity Hades was watching him.

A young summoner lured Calamity Hades · Hals away from the Calamity Sea, unaware that Hals was using him to escape his territory and reach the Magic City Ruins. Meanwhile, Qin Feng continued leveling in the Crawling Abyss, heard the results of the Hideout auction, and headed home after clearing the area.

• A young summoner drew Calamity Hades · Hals out of the sea and began leading him toward the Evil Spirit Academy in the Magic City Ruins, while Hals secretly exploited the summoner to expand his movement range.
• Qin Feng rapidly leveled in the Crawling Abyss, gained Nightmare Resistance and Evolution Points, and collected Skill Books while killing monsters and minor bosses.
• Zhang Jinxuan informed Qin Feng that official guilds had won the three Platinum Tier Hideout keys, with Magic City Jiao Tong University paying 5,965 years of lifespan for the Fluorescent Underground River key.
• Qin Feng noted that players had reached levels 16–17 and could now use some of his stored Platinum Tier and Jade Tier equipment.
• After clearing the Demons in the Crawling Abyss, Qin Feng mounted Osilio and headed home.

Qin Feng spent lifespan to raise Thieving Saint’s Hand to level 20, then gained enough experience to advance his Shadow class to its fourth stage. The new class passives made his stealth stronger and concealed the effects of his attacks, leaving him nearly undetectable while fighting.

• Qin Feng visited the Eight-Armed Thief Saint and used 20,900 years of lifespan to upgrade Thieving Saint’s Hand to level 20.
• The upgrade returned 10,450 years of lifespan to Qin Feng through the guild lifespan pool, and he planned to save evolution points for Abyss Wither Curse.
• After Gui Ling’s new Assassin bloodline improved her combat ability, Qin Feng planned to seek a Deathwing Angel bloodline monster once he reached level 30.
• The next morning, Qin Feng killed a Gold Tier Demon Swamp Frog in a poisonous swamp and accumulated enough experience for his fourth class advancement.
• Qin Feng advanced his Shadow class, doubling its attribute bonuses and stealth level while making his attacks’ effects invisible when he attacked from stealth.

Qin Feng prepared for the coming Desolation Spread and headed back to the Evil Spirit Academy after learning about a strange Diamond Tier boss near Guanggang. Meanwhile, Calamity Hades approached the Magic City Ruins, planning to grow stronger by killing players, and Qin Feng wondered if someone was coming to bring him gifts.

• Qin Feng reviewed how the first Desolation Spread would create Frenzied and Turbulent Zones, devastate habitable land, and disrupt communications.
• Qin Feng planned to strengthen the Evil Spirit Academy with Divine Books and visited the Guanggang area to seek a Divine Authority Tower and Life Source Array resources.
• Qin Feng asked Wisp of Smoke about powerful bosses, and she told him of a female Diamond Tier boss who had charmed more than a hundred male players in Guanggang.
• Qin Feng accepted Wisp of Smoke's offer of the boss's coordinates and returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, hoping to earn enough evolution points to upgrade Abyss Wither Curse.
• Calamity Hades followed a young summoner toward the Magic City Ruins, intending to kill players and rise to a higher tier so he could survive.
• Qin Feng sneezed upon returning to the Evil Spirit Academy and wondered whether someone was coming to bring him gifts.

Qin Feng consulted Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle about a Diamond Tier boss and learned she was likely controlled by the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, which he planned to counter with his Blade of Judgment. He also learned how to summon a Deathwing Angel and began searching for the Goddess of Death's Temple of Faith to obtain the needed feather.

• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy and found Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle playing mahjong with Lao Zhangtou and the others.
• Qin Feng paid for a consultation and learned that the Diamond Tier boss's charm power likely came from the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, which could drop if the boss was killed.
• Qin Feng decided to fill the Blade of Judgment with divinity so he could resist the Cursed Slate's order power during the raid.
• Qin Feng consulted Aristotle about the Deathwing Angel and learned that summoning one required a Deadwing Feather, a dark space more than 9,999 meters underground, and a sacrifice.
• Qin Feng paid to ask Aristotle where the Goddess of Death's Temple of Faith could be found.

Qin Feng learned that he could enter the Death Goddess's Temple of Faith after a mass-casualty event in Sakura Country, then traveled to Guanggang to confront a Diamond Tier boss that charmed men. Guanggang's authorities debated whether Dark Shadow could resist the boss, and Wisp of Smoke began to suspect something about him before he entered the fight.

• Qin Feng learned the temple's entry requirements and planned to travel to Sakura Country when the first Desolation Spread caused a large death toll.
• Qin Feng left for Guanggang while the Eye of Knowledge worried that the charming boss might control him.
• Wisp of Smoke told Guanggang's authorities that the boss had charmed more than a hundred players into serving her.
• Loser A Guang suggested keeping Dark Shadow away, but Brother Jie argued that Dark Shadow might share his Man on Man nature.
• Wisp of Smoke noted rumors that Dark Shadow and Gui Ling were a couple, leaving the authorities unsure what to believe about him.
• Qin Feng met Wisp of Smoke and said he had a way to resist the boss's charm, but she stopped herself before revealing what she had been about to say.

Qin Feng reached the Gloomy Valley to kill its Diamond Tier boss while Wisp of Smoke prepared to draw away the charmed players. He found the boss, Worm Queen Shavalandha, and discovered that the alluring goddess controlling the men was actually a giant worm.

• Qin Feng explained that Wisp of Smoke should lure the charmed players away so he could attack the boss without harming them or exposing them to his Nightmare ability.
• Qin Feng, Wisp of Smoke, and Osilio flew to the Gloomy Valley, where Wisp of Smoke drew the boss's charmed male players toward her.
• Qin Feng entered the valley under concealment, endured its divinity-draining negative order, and raced toward the source of the insect cry.
• Qin Feng reached a cave and identified the Diamond Tier boss as Worm Queen Shavalandha, a huge worm that projected the appearance of a beautiful woman.

Qin Feng killed the Worm Queen in under seven seconds using invisible attacks, freed the charmed players, and retrieved the Ancient God Slate. He synthesized the boss’s loot with his saved skill books and obtained a Legendary Tier Thousand-Blade Strike skill book.

• Qin Feng ambushed the Worm Queen with invisible attacks and rapidly filled her Nightmare Gauge.
• The Worm Queen entered a nightmare and Qin Feng killed her with his Finishing Move in under seven seconds.
• The Worm Queen’s death broke the Ancient God Slate’s Charm Order, freeing the male players nearby.
• Qin Feng looted the boss and used a Devout Believer to retrieve the pink Ancient God Slate.
• Qin Feng synthesized ten Epic Grade Assassin Skill Books and obtained the Legendary Tier Thousand-Blade Strike Skill Book.

Qin Feng learned and evolved Thousand-Blade Strike, then tested a curse that would have crippled his other Greater Affixes and rejected it. He left the Cave as players rushed in to find the goddess, and their horrified reactions followed him out.

• Qin Feng learned Thousand-Blade Strike and realized its rapid hits could build Combo Points and break Damage Immunity Shields quickly.
• Qin Feng spent 100 Evolution Points to evolve Thousand-Blade Strike to Mythic Tier, increasing its damage and adding a Weakness Attack bonus when every slash hit a weak point.
• Qin Feng cursed his Star-Killer Blade with the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, saw that its beneficial Stripping affix would disable his other Greater Affixes, and rejected the curse.
• Qin Feng entered stealth and left the Cave as male players hurried inside, still fixated on the goddess.
• The players who entered the Cave cursed and vomited after seeing the goddess's true face.

After Qin Feng helped free the charmed players from the Worm Queen’s influence, he warned the authorities about the Phoenix Egg in the Sea City Ruins and evolved his Abyss Wither Curse. The chapter ended with him summoning the Abyssal Curse Vase after its dangerous side effect had been removed.

• Wisp of Smoke and Osilio returned to the valley, where the freed male players confronted the consequences of their actions under the Worm Queen’s charm.
• Wisp of Smoke explained the mysterious influence to the players and their families, who struggled to decide whether to forgive their loved ones.
• Qin Feng privately told Wisp of Smoke that the power was called Order and warned her that the Phoenix Egg held by the Sea City authorities could bring disaster.
• Qin Feng used his Evolution Points to evolve the Abyss Wither Curse and discovered its new Ancient Grade effect prevented the Abyssal Curse Vase from drawing him into the Abyss.
• Qin Feng summoned the Abyssal Curse Vase, delighted that its negative effect had been removed.

Qin Feng obtained and evolved Abyssal Slow Curse while traveling toward a High-Tier Divine Authority Tower, and the Sea City authorities debated whether to heed his warning about their Phoenix Egg. At the tower, Guanggang players doubted Qin Feng could pass its solo survival challenge because it disabled Invisibility.

• Qin Feng reached into the Abyssal Curse Vase and obtained the Epic Grade Abyssal Slow Curse, then evolved it to Legendary Tier, increasing its duration and control strength.
• Qin Feng continued east toward a High-Tier Divine Authority Tower, aiming to unlock the purchase of Advanced Divine Books.
• The Sea City authorities brought a Phoenix Egg to the Blazing Fountain, and a young female Mage argued that hatching it would make Sea City rise despite Dark Shadow's warning.
• Guanggang players outside the tower discussed their failed attempts at its solo survival challenge and doubted Dark Shadow could succeed without Invisibility.

Qin Feng headed for Guanggang’s High-Tier Divine Authority Tower after learning that repeated daily attempts increased its difficulty. He entered invisibly, while the players outside debated whether an assassin without invisibility could survive the challenge and waited to see how long he lasted.

• Guanggang’s official players learned that each attempt that day had increased the tower’s difficulty, and they warned Qin Feng through Wisp of Smoke.
• Qin Feng flew to the tower in the crimson mountains, intending to attempt the challenge and buy high-tier Divine Books.
• Qin Feng and Osilio landed invisibly, and Qin Feng entered the tower as its lightning-covered door shut behind him.
• Little Pineapple expected Qin Feng to succeed, while a young assassin and other players doubted he could withstand the attacks without invisibility.
• The players stopped farming monsters and watched the tower, planning to judge Qin Feng’s survival time from the black lightning outside.

Qin Feng easily survived the High-Tier Divine Authority Tower’s one-minute challenge by repeatedly using Instant Shadow Slash to maintain an enormous shield. Afterward, the tower master, Outcast Fairy · Yuan, appeared and urged him to attempt the highest difficulty, offering to go with him.

• Qin Feng entered the tower’s challenge, where invisibility was disabled and lightning hazards were intensified according to his level.
• The tower master noticed Qin Feng’s unusually high level and became curious about him.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash on Lightning Element Envoys to build shields, then endured the lightning attacks without dodging until the minute ended.
• Outside, Xiao Fengli, the Ponytail Girl, and their teammates celebrated Qin Feng’s apparent success and hoped he would provide a guide.
• Outcast Fairy · Yuan appeared before Qin Feng and offered him a discount for a higher-difficulty challenge or to accompany him if he chose the highest difficulty.
• Qin Feng decided to accept the unexpected opportunity, while the players outside continued waiting for a guide.

Qin Feng cleared all five difficulties of the High-Tier Divine Authority Tower and recruited its tower master, Outcast Fairy · Yuan, into the Shadow guild. The tower closed after its master pledged allegiance to him, leaving Xiao Fengli and the others outside stunned.

• Qin Feng cleared difficulties two and three with Instant Shadow Slash, his shields, and his Unassailable affix.
• Qin Feng survived difficulty four by refreshing his Damage Immunity Shield stacks with Blacklight Shield.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand on Outcast Fairy · Yuan, then endured the highest difficulty by building shields and devouring lightning with Big Mouth.
• Qin Feng completed the highest-difficulty challenge, bought five Advanced Divine Books at a 90% discount, and recruited Outcast Fairy · Yuan into the Shadow guild.
• Qin Feng discovered that Outcast Fairy · Yuan offered basic and personal functions.
• The tower's black lightning vanished, and Xiao Fengli and the others learned that Dark Shadow had recruited its master, temporarily closing the challenge.

Qin Feng secretly left the Divine Authority Tower with the Outcast Fairy Yuan and learned about the powerful lightning-related services she could provide. He planned to bring her to Evil Spirit Academy and use her Lightning Fairy’s Baptism, while also considering the high costs of her abilities and Divine Books.

• Qin Feng departed the Divine Authority Tower with Yuan on Osilio, keeping them hidden from others.
• Qin Feng asked Yuan about her eye, but she rebuked him for prying and did not explain what had happened.
• Qin Feng learned that Yuan could teach Blessing of the Lightning Fairy, grant temporary lightning resistance, and provide a daily Lightning Fairy’s Baptism in exchange for lifespan.
• Qin Feng discovered that Blessing of the Lightning Fairy was a Mythic Tier passive skill that granted immunity to lightning crowd control, slowed Greater Affix gauge accumulation, and added 50% lightning damage to his attacks.
• Qin Feng planned to take Yuan to Evil Spirit Academy to try her baptism and noted that his discount made five Divine Books cost about five hundred years of lifespan.

Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, received a Lightning Fairy's Baptism, and prepared to build Teleportation Arrays and upgrade its defensive barrier. News then spread of an apparently weak Epic Grade boss near the Magic City Ruins, and Qin Feng realized it was likely bait designed to lure players into a trap.

• Qin Feng used a Teleportation Stone to return to the Magic City Ruins, then brought Outcast Fairy · Yuan to the Evil Spirit Academy and received her Lightning Fairy's Baptism.
• Qin Feng planned Teleportation Arrays for the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and the Evil Spirit Academy and began gathering materials to upgrade the academy's defensive barrier.
• Players across the Magic City Ruins heard that Calamity Hades · Hals, a level 30 Epic Grade boss, was using a slow, single-target attack and rushed to fight it.
• Zhang Jinxuan asked Qin Feng whether he would challenge the boss, and Qin Feng recognized Calamity Hades · Hals as a Calamity Sea boss likely luring players into an ambush.

Qin Feng investigated Calamity Hades Hals after realizing the Epic Grade boss was baiting players into attacking, then warned the authorities and scouted the boss before retreating. Many players ignored the warnings, and Calamity Hades unleashed a massive attack as the crowd began to flee.

• Qin Feng warned Zhang Jinxuan that Calamity Hades Hals was luring players into a trap, and Zhang ordered Sky Dome Guild members to withdraw.
• Qin Feng flew toward the boss and warned Late Night, Light Rain, prompting official teams to retreat, though many other players continued toward the coordinates.
• Qin Feng revealed Osilio to discourage the players, but they misread his arrival and later departure, with some deciding to keep attacking the boss.
• Qin Feng recorded Calamity Hades's appearance and movements with a Light and Shadow Crystal, then left to have the Eye of Knowledge analyze the recording.
• Fuxi ordered his Sky Dome Guild team to retreat after seeing Qin Feng leave, but Calamity Hades swept his deathly black sword across an area several kilometers wide.

Calamity Hades turned more than a thousand slain players into skeleton puppets and sent them to hunt down others as he advanced toward the Magic City Ruins. Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy with a recording of the boss and learned that a Sky Dome Guild officer had ignored orders and been killed.

• Calamity Hades killed over a thousand players, then revived them on the spot as conscious, uncontrollable skeleton puppets with powerful temporary buffs.
• Calamity Hades ordered the puppets to spread out and hunt players, turning those they killed into more skeleton puppets as he absorbed the dropped Lifespan Orbs.
• The controlled players regretted ignoring Dark Shadow’s warning, but their puppets continued hunting while they remained unable to control their bodies or communicate.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy with the Light and Shadow Crystal recording Calamity Hades’s appearance.
• Lao Zhangtou learned that a Sky Dome Guild officer had led a team to fight the boss against orders and demanded that the officer be kicked out of the guild.

Qin Feng learned Calamity Hades’s abilities and realized the boss could not be defeated by relying on Greater Affixes, while undead players discovered that dying would not free them from the boss’s control. As Calamity Hades’s skeletons pursued a fleeing Summoner, Qin Feng headed out to confront the boss.

• Lao Zhangtou expelled Fuxi for leading players against the boss and ordered the guild to take shelter in the Hideout.
• Qin Feng asked Big Eyes to examine the Light and Shadow Crystal and learned about the Undead Royal Family and its ability to turn corpses into controlled undead.
• Big Eyes identified Calamity Hades’s Instant Death, nightmare, and Evil Tooth abilities, and explained that the tooth cleared Greater Affixes every three to five seconds while the boss had no surrounding affix energy.
• Qin Feng decided he could use Invisibility against Calamity Hades, then flew toward the boss on Osilio.
• Calamity Hades’s undead players saw the boss kill and resurrect a skeleton, realizing that they would remain undead and lose lifespan with each death.
• A gray-robed Summoner fleeing the boss was pursued by ten player skeletons, unaware that Calamity Hades had already targeted him.

Calamity Hades killed the young Summoner, absorbed the lifespan he dropped, and learned from his memories that he had been lured there to fight the Assassin Dark Shadow. Confident that his level 18 Anti-Stealth could counter the Assassin, Calamity Hades continued toward the City Ruins while the undead players feared they were doomed.

• The young Summoner failed to escape the player skeletons, was killed, and became an undead servant of Calamity Hades.
• Calamity Hades trapped the young Summoner in a nightmare, repeatedly crushed him as he revived, and killed him after draining nearly all his lifespan.
• Calamity Hades absorbed the lifespan and searched the young Summoner's recent memories, learning that he had been lured there to deal with Dark Shadow.
• Calamity Hades dismissed Dark Shadow as a threat because his Anti-Stealth was level 18 and set out to expand his undead forces in the City Ruins.
• The surrounding undead players panicked and feared that even Dark Shadow could not defeat Calamity Hades.

Qin Feng returned to confront Calamity Hades Hals while Magic City's authorities evacuated players from the battlefield. He began testing the Epic Grade boss with invisible Shadow Blades, leaving Hals confused about who was attacking him.

• More than two thousand player skeletons became undead as Calamity Hades Hals advanced toward the Magic City Ruins, while other players fled.
• Late Night, Light Rain asked Qin Feng what to do, and he told her he would handle the boss and ordered the authorities to evacuate nearby players.
• Magic City's authorities gathered forces and evacuated players from the northeastern edge of the ruins after receiving Qin Feng's message.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio back toward Hals, ignored the undead skeletons, and used stealth as they approached the boss.
• Qin Feng struck Hals with invisible Shadow Blades while changing positions to test his abilities, and Hals wondered who was hitting him.

Qin Feng attacked Calamity Hades while remaining invisible, then used Endless Nightmare to incapacitate its undead player minions and stop their suicide blasts. Calamity Hades found Osilio instead of Qin Feng and tried to crush him, but Qin Feng drained the boss and Osilio healed from the attack.

• Qin Feng repeatedly struck Calamity Hades's weak points from behind while the boss failed to locate him.
• Calamity Hades ordered undead player skeletons to explode, forcing Qin Feng to retreat from their lethal mist.
• Qin Feng used Endless Nightmare to incapacitate the undead players, preventing them from following the boss's orders.
• Calamity Hades sensed Qin Feng's Nightmare energy and grabbed Osilio instead.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand, Abyss Wither Curse, and Gimme That on Calamity Hades as it squeezed Osilio, who healed from the damage.

Qin Feng dodged Calamity Hades’s instant-death attack and pursued the boss through his second phase, gradually wearing down his health. When Calamity Hades tried to begin his third phase, he discovered that the Abyss Wither Curse had sealed three of his highest-tier skills.

• Calamity Hades failed to harm Osilio, and Qin Feng used a burst of attacks to reduce the boss’s health and trigger his second phase.
• Qin Feng retreated several kilometers to escape Calamity Hades’s expanding instant-death ripples, then resumed attacking from a distance.
• Calamity Hades fled while Qin Feng chased him and chipped away at his health, though the boss’s increased agility limited Qin Feng’s damage.
• After Calamity Hades’s health fell to one-third, he tried to activate his third-phase skill but found that the Abyss Wither Curse had sealed three of his highest-tier skills.

Qin Feng repeatedly sealed Calamity Hades’s skills and ignored the boss’s threat that killing him would permanently trap the transformed players. A female player misread Qin Feng’s decision as callousness, spread the accusation online, and the Great Xia Officials issued a rebuttal.

• Qin Feng used Abyss Wither Curse again before its seal wore off, repeatedly preventing Calamity Hades from using his strongest skills.
• Calamity Hades offered to withdraw and restore the transformed players if Qin Feng let him go, but Qin Feng continued the pursuit, trusting that killing the boss would free them.
• A female player on a gray eagle mount watched the fight and decided Dark Shadow was sacrificing more than two thousand transformed players for the boss’s loot.
• The female player contacted a foreign media contact and spread a story accusing Dark Shadow of disregarding the transformed players’ lives.
• The Great Xia Officials swiftly denied the rumor, saying the transformed players would recover once Calamity Hades was killed.

Qin Feng continued wearing down Calamity Hades, who tried to escape by feinting his dangerous skill and then offered no trust when Qin Feng promised to spare him for the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang. Calamity Hades finally hurled the fang into the distant sky, leaving Qin Feng to pursue it.

• Great Xia players argued over whether to believe reports about Dark Shadow, while the female player who spread the news grew angry at his defenders.
• Osilio spotted the eagle-riding female player and teased Qin Feng about catching her as a wife, but Qin Feng told him to stop talking.
• Calamity Hades repeatedly feinted his black spherical ripple skill to make Qin Feng retreat, until Qin Feng learned to distinguish the feints from real activations.
• As Calamity Hades's health fell below one fifth, Qin Feng offered to spare him in exchange for the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang, but Calamity Hades refused to trust him.
• Calamity Hades ripped the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang from his waist and hurled it dozens of kilometers away.