Recaps

Qin Feng evolved Dual-Blade Mastery and Shadow Blade to Mythic Tier, then returned to the Tōto ruins after Gray Chicken spotted Teshima Ichirō worshipping the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol. Teshima Ichirō experienced an unexpected change as he prayed to it.

• Qin Feng spent 300 Evolution Points to evolve Dual-Blade Mastery to Mythic Tier, gaining an 88% evasion effect and stronger dual-blade attributes.
• Qin Feng spent 800 Evolution Points to evolve Shadow Blade to Mythic Tier, allowing it to transfer removed buffs to him when it hit a weak point.
• Gray Chicken told Qin Feng that Teshima Ichirō had arrived in the Tōto ruins and was worshipping the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol.
• Qin Feng used a Teleportation Stone to return to the Tōto ruins.
• Teshima Ichirō knelt before the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol, and his expression changed with excitement after something unexpected happened.

Qin Feng watched Teshima Ichirō worship the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol and suspected its apparent attribute rewards came from a deceptive order that manipulated worshippers’ perceptions. He saw Teshima and his followers carry the idol into a rift to the real world, then realized the future Legendary Tier Long-Tailed Snake Demoness was setting a trap that Qin Feng planned to exploit.

• Qin Feng watched Teshima Ichirō worship the idol and gain apparent attribute increases and a hidden reward for recruiting more worshippers.
• Qin Feng suspected the idol used an order of deception to alter worshippers’ senses and cognition, but continued observing to confirm his theory.
• Teshima Ichirō’s subordinates, including Yoshida and Hōjō, worshipped the idol and then lifted it together.
• Hōjō made the group invisible, and the followers carried the idol to a black rift connecting the Ruins to the real world.
• Teshima Ichirō and the others threw the idol through the rift and logged off, while Qin Feng concluded the Long-Tailed Snake Demoness aimed to lure over a hundred thousand people to their deaths.
• Qin Feng decided he could kill the Demoness after she gained enough lifespan to become a Legendary Tier boss and claim the spoils.

Qin Feng collected the Trembling Hut’s weekly lifespan payment in the Los Angeles Ruins and then went to hunt Demons around the ruins. There, he spotted Fuxiao being pestered by JC.Flame, a former enemy who was asking to join her guild.

• Qin Feng decided to delay his trip to Sakura Country and collect the Trembling Hut’s weekly payment first.
• The Trembling Hut handed Qin Feng 35,000 years of Tradable Lifespan, while four players who recognized him hurried away and pretended they had seen nothing.
• Qin Feng planned to clear the Demon leveling spots around the Los Angeles Ruins and checked his high Nightmare Resistance.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio beyond the ruins, where he spotted Fuxiao leveling with her team and JC.Flame pestering her to let him join the guild.

Qin Feng killed Zhang Jingchen after catching him pestering Fuxiao, then sent him into the Judgment Grounds to suffer an endless cycle of freezing and burning. Two days later, Qin Feng had cleared most nearby leveling areas but was still only halfway through level 31.

• Zhang Jingchen tried to join Fuxiao's guild, but she rejected him because he had helped attack Great Xia guild members.
• Qin Feng secretly killed Zhang Jingchen with a Shadow Blade and sent him to the Judgment Grounds, where Fuxiao and her teammates watched him vanish.
• Fuxiao received a message from Dark Shadow explaining that he had dealt with Zhang Jingchen, and she realized he had acted nearby without being seen.
• Qin Feng learned that Zhang Jingchen had repeatedly switched sides for personal gain and judged him to endure repeated deaths in an area of ice and fire.
• Two days later, Qin Feng had cleared nearly all nearby level 25–30 leveling areas but had reached only about halfway through level 31.

Qin Feng learned that a Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol in Tōto was luring players with an apparent attribute reward, and he warned Great Xia’s embassy staff to evacuate before flying there. As Ma Fei and his girlfriend approached the crowded tower, the idol split open and unleashed instant-death energy across the area.

• Qin Feng learned from Late Night, Light Rain that the idol promised worshippers ten points in all attributes in exchange for 100 days of lifespan, and he advised Great Xia’s embassy staff to leave the area.
• Qin Feng set off for Tōto on Osilio, suspecting the idol’s power might be connected to an Ancient God Slate.
• At the Roppongi Radio Tower, crowds of Sakura Country players packed the rooftop and stairwells to worship the idol, despite the Turbulent Zone and mounting chaos.
• After receiving a warning from the embassy, Ma Yi retreated with his girlfriend, while Ma Fei continued toward the tower with his twin-tailed girlfriend.
• The Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol split open and released instant-death energy across a three-kilometer radius, sending the rooftop crowd into panic and flight.

The Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol released lethal black mist that engulfed the radio station building and spread across the surrounding area, trapping thousands of players. Ma Fei escaped the mist, but then realized his girlfriend was missing.

• A middle-aged man’s Gargoyle mount was overwhelmed by fleeing players as the black mist spread, and it plummeted toward the ground.
• Players inside the radio station building fled through stairwells and shattered windows, while those caught in the mist developed instant death meters that rose by 5% each second.
• Ma Fei and his twin-ponytailed girlfriend ran from the spreading mist after seeing the idol’s chest split open and receiving a warning from Ma Yi.
• Ma Fei escaped the mist when his instant death meter reached 55%, then kept running in fear.
• Ma Fei looked back and realized his girlfriend was gone.

The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon emerged from the idol and used Void Pull to drag fleeing people back into the Instant Death mist, killing Risa and tens of thousands. As Ma Fei mourned her, Ma Yi spotted a Bone Sword Pterosaur diving toward the demon.

• The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon emerged from the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol and began casting Void Pull.
• The demon's Void Pull dragged Risa and thousands of others back toward the rooftop, where Risa died as her Instant Death Meter rose.
• Ma Fei met Ma Yi outside and learned that Risa had not escaped the black mist.
• Ma Yi told Ma Fei that Dark Shadow had warned the Great Xia embassy to evacuate, and urged him to leave Tōto before the demon continued killing.
• Ma Yi spotted a Bone Sword Pterosaur diving toward the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon.

Qin Feng arrived in Tōto on Osilio and attacked the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon, claiming she had killed his cousin. He badly wounded her but held back, intending to drive her into the game and make Sakura Country’s officials pay him for dealing with her.

• Ma Yi recognized Osilio as Dark Shadow’s bone-winged Dragon and felt hopeful that the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon might be stopped.
• Qin Feng arrived and pretended to seek revenge for his cousin, confusing the demon and the watching people of Sakura Country.
• Qin Feng attacked the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon with a rapid combo, while his Unassailable affix blocked her crowd-control and weakening skills.
• The demon used Serpent Traverses the World to flee, but Qin Feng’s attacks followed her and left her severely injured.
• The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon entered a void state and assumed Qin Feng could not hurt her, unaware that he had switched his Greater Resistance to Instant Death.
• Qin Feng planned to force the demon back into the game before killing her, while seeking lifespan from Sakura Country’s officials.

Qin Feng pursued the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon through Tōto while she tried to escape his attacks and reach a rift back to the game world. She slipped through just before he could appear to catch her, leaving nearby witnesses to think she had outsmarted him.

• The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon’s black mist killed 130,000 people, and survivors filmed the corpse-covered orb while waiting to see whether Dark Shadow could stop her.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio after the fleeing demon, who maintained Void Walk and headed toward the nearest rift as a fallback escape.
• The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon fired Instant Death rays at Qin Feng, but he evaded them while Osilio taunted her.
• With Void Walk nearly over, the demon rushed through a rift and returned to the Tōto Ruins in the game world.
• Qin Feng appeared at the rift after she had escaped and pretended to lament that the cunning serpent woman had gotten away.

Qin Feng returned to the Radio Tower, evolved Blooming Curse, and harvested the lifespan from the dead while grieving residents watched. After Tōto's officials sought negotiations, the chapter shifted to the Tōto Ruins, where the top players learned that the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon had massacred the city and fled back into the game.

• Qin Feng returned to the Radio Tower on Osilio and stopped onlookers from taking the Lifespan Orbs.
• Qin Feng spent 500 evolution points to raise Blooming Curse to mythic tier, gaining the ability to absorb lifespan from Demon corpses.
• Qin Feng used Blooming Curse on the bodies, absorbing their lifespan as scarlet flowers bloomed and residents mourned their dead.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that Tōto's Official Personnel wanted to negotiate with him.
• Teshima Ichirō and the other top Tōto players received word that the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon had killed more than a hundred thousand people and were left dumbfounded.

Teshima Ichirō’s group debated how to keep the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon alive and exploit her, while Teshima doubted his supposed hidden reward and ordered everyone not to interfere with Dark Shadow. Qin Feng negotiated with the Sakura Country Government as he absorbed lifespan, unaware Yanagi Mina planned to act against Teshima’s orders.

• Teshima Ichirō’s group learned that the idol had become a boss and killed over a hundred thousand people, and Teshima worried about losing potential attribute gains.
• Yanagi Mina proposed blaming Dark Shadow for the disaster, hiding the boss, and sending the idol to Feiguo to attract more worshippers.
• Teshima Ichirō rejected Yanagi Mina’s plan, noted that the boss would benefit more from cooperating with Dark Shadow, and ordered the group to stay out of the matter.
• Qin Feng absorbed Lifespan Orbs while negotiating payment with a representative of the Sakura Country Government for killing the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon.
• Yanagi Mina secretly resolved to keep the boss alive despite Teshima Ichirō’s order.

Qin Feng let a sixty-person guild ambush him during negotiations with Sakura Country, hoping to use the attack to pressure its officials for more lifespan. The ambush failed to faze him, and he dismissed his attackers as mosquitoes.

• Gray Chicken warned Qin Feng that a team was plotting to assassinate him, but Qin Feng told him to leave them alone.
• Members of the Yamato Heavenly God guild blamed Dark Shadow for the disaster in Tōto and planned to kill him with coordinated crowd control and gunfire.
• The guild's Teleporter brought all sixty attackers to Qin Feng's location as they unleashed their spells, blades, and submachine guns.
• Qin Feng leisurely absorbed lifespan through the barrage and asked why there were so many mosquitoes in Tōto.

Qin Feng endured the Yamato Heavenly God guild’s ambush, revealing that his evasion and Dark Shadow Arc made their attacks nearly useless. When a Priest made the attackers invincible, Qin Feng killed their raid leader and stole the buffs, leaving himself protected by the same invincibility effect.

• The sixty attackers from the Yamato Heavenly God guild exhausted Qin Feng’s Damage Immunity Shield and Unassailable stacks, but his high evasion caused most attacks to miss.
• Attacks that hit Qin Feng had their damage and negative effects delayed by his Dark Shadow Arc, leaving the attackers convinced he was invincible.
• A Priest cast group invincibility, and the raid leader urged the group to keep attacking Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng killed the raid leader with Shadow Blades and stole his buffs, gaining the group’s invincibility effect and other enhancements.

Qin Feng defeated the Yamato Heavenly God ambush and demanded thirty thousand years of lifespan from Tōto’s officials in exchange for killing the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon. While he absorbed Lifespan Orbs, the boss vanished, and news of the failed assassination left Tōto’s players afraid to challenge him.

• Qin Feng used Mythic Tier Shadow Blade to steal buffs and disable the ambushers, then sent Osilio and Gray Chicken after those who fled.
• Qin Feng demanded thirty thousand years of lifespan from the Sakura Country officials, who agreed to pay after he killed the boss.
• Qin Feng asked for the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon’s location, but the officials reported that she had disappeared after her watchers were killed.
• Qin Feng continued absorbing Lifespan Orbs and considered bringing Gui Ling to track the boss if the officials could not find her.
• News of the Yamato Heavenly God guild’s failed assassination spread through Tōto, silencing players who had planned to oppose Qin Feng.

Qin Feng survived the Yamato Heavenly God guild's ambush in Tōto and discovered that Sakura Country officials were trying to send him away without producing the boss. Before leaving, he showed the gathered crowd footage exposing Teshima Ichirō's team for moving and worshipping the idol.

• Qin Feng's immunity to the attacks of sixty Yamato Heavenly God guild members became widely known, and Gray Chicken secretly killed the team's fleeing survivors.
• Gray Chicken learned that a rumor blamed Qin Feng for bringing the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol to Tōto and causing its deaths.
• Sakura Country officials told Qin Feng they could not locate the boss and offered to deliver the promised thirty thousand years of lifespan to Great Xia's embassy.
• Qin Feng suspected the officials were helping the boss escape, then took out a Light and Shadow Crystal and said he would show them a gift before leaving.
• Qin Feng played footage of Teshima Ichirō's team worshipping and carrying away the idol, and told the crowd that victims' families deserved to know the truth.

After exposing Teshima Ichirō’s crimes in Sakura Country, Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy and set out with Gui Ling to hunt a killer she tracked to reality. Before they could reach the target, Gui Ling showed him a third Bone Rune she had found in a ruin.

• Qin Feng released the Light and Shadow Crystal recording Teshima Ichirō’s crimes, then used a Teleportation Stone to return to the Evil Spirit Academy with two black ponytails as remains.
• Qin Feng summoned Gui Ling and asked her to use her ability to track the killer connected to the remains.
• Gui Ling tracked the killer to a location over a thousand kilometers away, in the direction of Sakura Country, and confirmed the target was in reality.
• Qin Feng took Gui Ling aboard Osilio and flew toward the killer’s location in Sakura Country.
• Gui Ling gave Qin Feng a white bone rune, which he recognized as his third Bone Rune.

Qin Feng and Gui Ling flew to Sakura Country after Gui Ling gave him a Bone Rune, while unrest erupted over Teshima Ichirō’s plan to exploit the idol’s attribute rewards. They found the idol aboard a freighter bound for North Korea, where Qin Feng recorded the officials’ secret conversation before deciding to expose their scheme.

• Qin Feng praised Gui Ling’s combat talent, accepted her Bone Rune, and gave her five thousand years of lifespan.
• Footage released by Qin Feng revealed Teshima Ichirō’s idol-worship reward, provoking outrage in Tōto and exposing Yanagi Mina’s role in spreading the rumor.
• Yanagi Mina said officials planned to ship the idol to Great Xia, but Hōjō reported they had instead chosen North Korea as its first destination.
• Qin Feng and Gui Ling followed the killer’s trail to a freighter leaving Tōto and located the Long-Tailed Snake Goddess Idol among its containers.
• Qin Feng secretly recorded Sakura Country officials discussing the shipment to North Korea, despite the freighter’s anti-stealth wards.

Qin Feng dispelled the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon's idol shell and killed her before she could escape, then looted her corpse and gained thousands of years of lifespan. His global announcement shocked Sakura Country officials, who realized Dark Shadow had found and killed the boss they had hidden.

• Qin Feng killed mutated bighead fish near the cargo ship to max out his combo points, then entered the container while invisible.
• Qin Feng spent 24 divinity to turn the serpent woman's idol shell back into an Ancient God Slate, exposing her vulnerable body.
• Qin Feng killed the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon, Shā Míyà, with a rapid sequence of attacks before she could flee.
• Qin Feng looted Shā Míyà with Greedy Hand and used Blooming Curse on her corpse, gaining more than three thousand years of lifespan.
• Osilio lamented that Qin Feng had not saved Shā Míyà for him, and Qin Feng misunderstood his comment.
• Sakura Country officials and Teshima Ichirō's team were stunned that Dark Shadow had killed the boss they had hidden in her invincible idol form.

Qin Feng killed the Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon, exposing Teshima Ichirō’s idol scheme and causing public outrage in Sakura Country. After giving North Korea evidence against Sakura Country, Qin Feng found a Mount Bell, while Qin Xiaoyou searched for Boundary Steles to confirm that Dark Shadow was Qin Feng and planned to apologize to him.

• The Long-Tailed Serpent Woman Demon died, removing the idol’s attribute boosts and revealing that worshippers had been under an illusion from the Illusory Dream God.
• Players in Sakura Country blamed Teshima Ichirō for deceiving them, while he demanded an internal investigation into a suspected mole.
• Qin Feng gave Late Night, Light Rain a Light and Shadow Crystal recording Sakura Country officials’ conversation so she could pass it to North Korea.
• Qin Feng examined the demon’s drops and found a Mount Bell that could let him summon her as a mount.
• Qin Xiaoyou searched the River-Sea City Ruins for Boundary Steles, hoping to activate an Epic Grade boss and confirm that Dark Shadow was Qin Feng.

Qin Xiaoyou activated the Nine Realms Stone Overseer by uncovering its boundary steles, convinced the event proved her memories were real and that Dark Shadow was Qin Feng. The epic-grade boss appeared, and Wang Meng called for Dark Shadow as players fled the area.

• Chen Wuming tried to have his subordinates take Qin Xiaoyou away, but Wang Meng intervened and let her stay by the Eyeless Stone Man Statue.
• Qin Xiaoyou uncovered the ninth boundary stele and activated its markings, causing the earth to shake.
• The Eyeless Stone Man Statue awakened as the level 30 epic-grade Nine Realms Stone Overseer, and nine Portals formed from the boundary steles.
• Qin Xiaoyou celebrated, believing Dark Shadow would help her, while Chen Wuming's subordinate accused her of causing the danger.
• Players fled as Wang Meng ordered an evacuation and called for Dark Shadow to come quickly.

Qin Feng summoned Shā Míyà, an Epic-tier serpent woman who had become his amphibious mount, and examined her abilities. He considered using her speed and Void Walk to travel long distances, while Osilio teased him about how he would ride her.

• Qin Feng returned to the Sky Dome Guild’s base with Gui Ling and logged into the game to inspect the loot from his real-world boss kill.
• Qin Feng summoned Shā Míyà with the Mount Bell and learned that she had once led the Long-Tailed Snakefolk before betraying the Illusory Dream God.
• Qin Feng checked Shā Míyà’s stats and discovered that she could travel quickly on land and water, fly through Void Walk, and protect her rider with the same ability.
• Shā Míyà realized she had survived as a mount, while Osilio joked about where Qin Feng would sit when riding her.
• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to try riding Shā Míyà.

Qin Feng assigned Shā Míyà to rest until he needed a sea-crossing mount, then examined his loot and equipped the Legendary Elemental Burst Power ring. Its effects boosted his attack speed, skill range, and cooldown speed, freeing up another Ancient God Slate slot as he discovered the Illusory Dream God's Blessing Tablet.

• Qin Feng told Shā Míyà to rest in the park and call on him when he needed her, while Gui Ling sat on her shoulder.
• Qin Feng learned a level 30 Killing Shadow skill, reducing its cooldown but leaving its Shadow Clone damage unchanged.
• Qin Feng examined Elemental Burst Power and realized its elemental attack bonuses would greatly increase his speed and range because of his lightning damage.
• Qin Feng replaced the Witch Mutation Ring with Elemental Burst Power, raising his cooldown speed and freeing up an Ancient God Slate.
• Qin Feng inspected the Illusory Dream God's Blessing Tablet, which could randomly add a beneficial affix to equipment.

Qin Feng used Lutas’s Blessing to strengthen the Star-Killer Blade, then learned that someone had activated the epic-grade Nine Realms Stone Overseer, Hartman, in the Jianghai Ruins. He set out with Gui Ling to deal with the boss, whose mechanics required a coordinated team to defeat its stone golems simultaneously.

• Qin Feng applied Lutas’s Blessing to the Star-Killer Blade, raising its stripping affix from 33.6 to 50.064 and his total stripping value to 79.564.
• Qin Feng gave Gui Ling diamond-tier gloves and a ring, then received An Yu’s message that an epic-grade boss had appeared in the Jianghai Ruins.
• Qin Feng identified the boss as the Nine Realms Stone Overseer, Hartman, and explained that its nine Portals held twenty-seven golems that had to die within one second of one another.
• Qin Feng decided to gather help and teleported to the Jianghai Ruins with Gui Ling, planning for her, Gray Chicken, Osilio, and Shā Míyà to each handle a Portal.

Qin Xiaoyou activated an Epic Grade boss in the River-Sea City Ruins, causing widespread danger, and An Yu arranged for her arrest and removal from Knight's Sanctuary. Qin Feng denied knowing her, leaving Qin Xiaoyou facing imprisonment without the chance to appeal to him.

• Qin Xiaoyou activated Nine Realms Stone Overseer Hartman, then was killed by the boss and later restrained by female players at the Noble Garden Hideout.
• An Yu arrived, slapped Qin Xiaoyou, and ordered Knight's Sanctuary to arrange for her guild membership to be revoked and for officials to take her into custody.
• An Yu warned that Qin Xiaoyou would face severe punishment and told Cake-Hand Daddy to make her log out, using repeated deaths if necessary.
• Qin Xiaoyou claimed Dark Shadow had told her to activate the boss, but An Yu said Dark Shadow had denied it and Qin Xiaoyou would not get to see him.
• An Yu privately asked Qin Feng about Qin Xiaoyou, and Qin Feng said he did not know her and told An Yu to handle her as she should.

Qin Feng arrived in the River-Sea City Ruins and used his stripping ability to disable the Epic Grade Nine Realms Stone Overseer, stopping its chaos attacks and saving the official players. Gu Yixue arrived with support to reduce their chaos gauges, while Osilio urged Gray Chicken to help Qin Feng get closer to her.

• Qin Feng took Gui Ling to the River-Sea City Ruins, where the Nine Realms Stone Overseer was attacking civilians and official players.
• Wang Meng tried to tank the boss, but its attacks drove the nearby players' chaos gauges close to full.
• Qin Feng struck the boss with Thousand-Blade Strike, rapidly filling its stripping gauge and disabling its greater affixes.
• The boss's stripped state stopped the nearby players' chaos gauges from increasing, and Bionic Electronic Little Fox realized Dark Shadow had saved them.
• Gu Yixue arrived and used a skill to reduce the official players' chaos gauges, while Osilio encouraged Gray Chicken to help bring Qin Feng and Gu Yixue together.