Recaps

Qin Feng upgraded his equipment and skills after defeating the Golden Ghost Ship, then headed back toward Shell Town to meet Lin Liyu. In Moonlight Town, Qin Xiaoyou learned that Dark Shadow was from River-Sea City and decided to seek him out.

• Qin Feng equipped Platinum Tier twin blades and Gold Tier armor, learned Ghostly Blur, and spent evolution points improving Instant Shadow Slash and Back Attack Enhancement.
• Qin Feng kept the Platinum Tier archer equipment and priest skill book, planned to give Lin Liyu the mage items, and prepared to sell other drops to Wang Meng's team.
• Qin Feng learned Lin Liyu had died and respawned in town, told her to wait for him, and headed toward Shell Town.
• Qin Feng spotted Iron Man leading more than twenty players toward the swamp and attacked them.
• Qin Xiaoyou heard that Shell Town was in River-Sea City and decided to go there to find Dark Shadow once someone in Moonlight Town reached level 5.

Qin Feng killed Iron Man and most of his group, returned to Shell Town, and accepted an Assassin skill book from Leisurely Clouds. He then gave Lin Liyu two gold-tier Mage items, leaving her stunned.

• Qin Feng ambushed Iron Man and his underlings on the way back to Shell Town, killing twenty-two of them while two escaped.
• Qin Feng gained one stack of the Slayer debuff but did not worry about its effects because his Ghostfire Bell protected him from lifespan loss if he died once.
• Qin Feng returned to Shell Town, where Leisurely Clouds offered him a Gouge skill book as an apology, and Qin Feng accepted and learned it.
• Leisurely Clouds secretly planned to find Qin Feng in real life and use a woman to get his information.
• Qin Feng met Lin Liyu and gave her a gold-tier Mage skill book and a gold-tier Mage necklace, leaving her astonished.

Qin Feng equipped Lin Liyu with two Gold Tier items and learned of ruins near Shell Town, where he discovered a Temple of Faith that appeared to belong to the Judgment Ancient God. As he explored it in stealth, players from other towns began teleporting into Shell Town to find the legendary Dark Shadow.

• Lin Liyu thanked Qin Feng for the Gold Tier skill and necklace, and handed him her twelve-slot Spatial Ring.
• Lin Liyu told Qin Feng about a hidden entrance to ruins and marked its location on her map.
• Qin Feng put on the ring, bringing his storage capacity to twenty-seven slots, then left Shell Town to investigate the ruins.
• Qin Feng entered the underground passage and recognized its murals as belonging to a Temple of Faith, likely the Judgment Ancient God's.
• Players across the starting towns reached level 5 and used their free teleports to travel to Shell Town, drawn by Dark Shadow's Gold Tier boss kill.

Wang Meng recruited Qin Xiaoyou, a Life Priest, into his party after checking her identity, while Qin Feng explored the Temple of Faith and discovered the Judged Ones recognized his authority and would not attack him. The chapter left Qin Feng testing the strange submission of the two Silver Tier bosses.

• Wang Meng regrouped with his teammates and learned that Lin Liyu had received a Gold Tier necklace from Dark Shadow.
• Wang Meng sought a priest for the party, and Qin Xiaoyou introduced herself and joined after giving him her real-world identity.
• Qin Xiaoyou noticed Lin Liyu's necklace and suspected it was connected to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng entered a hall in the Temple of Faith and attacked two level 10 Silver Tier Ancient God Devotees called Judged Ones.
• The Judged Ones turned toward Qin Feng while he was invisible, then bowed flat to the ground after he revealed himself instead of attacking.

Qin Feng killed the two Devout Believers in the Temple of Faith and discovered a hidden elevator beneath the hall. It carried him into an Underground Labyrinth, where he sent a summoned Devout Believer ahead to scout while preparing to evolve his skills.

• The Devout Believers killed six players in the passage, including Gray Rose, and Qin Feng collected their lifespan orbs.
• Qin Feng killed the two Devout Believers, reached level 9, and gained evolution points, lifespan, and equipment.
• Qin Feng equipped the Believer Pendant, which reduced his skill cooldowns and let him summon a Silver Grade Devout Believer.
• The hall's floor mechanism activated, carrying Qin Feng down into an Underground Labyrinth.
• Qin Feng summoned a Devout Believer to scout the labyrinth and opened his skill panel to spend his evolution points.

Qin Feng upgraded Ghostly Blur and Instant Shadow Slash to Epic Grade, then continued exploring the deadly Temple of Faith with a Devout Believer summon as his scout. At the entrance, Gray Rose suspected Dark Shadow had some way to confuse bosses, while Wang Meng’s team planned to leave overcrowded Shell Town after waiting to trade with him.

• Qin Feng spent his Evolution Points to raise Ghostly Blur and Instant Shadow Slash to Epic Grade, then improved Shadowmeld to Platinum Tier.
• Qin Feng sent a Devout Believer through the temple maze, where a trap crushed it, and decided to keep using summons to scout ahead.
• Gray Rose returned to the temple with her teammates, found the two Silver Grade bosses dead, and suspected Dark Shadow had confused them.
• Players crowded Shell Town, leaving too few monsters for efficient leveling, and Wang Meng’s team reached only level 5 after three hours.
• Wang Meng proposed teleporting to a less crowded town, while Lin Liyu insisted they wait for Dark Shadow to trade with him; Qin Xiaoyou quietly listened and smiled.

Qin Feng explored the Temple of Faith, encountered a mysterious white-robed woman, and obtained the epic Assassin skill Coup de Grace. After returning to the surface, he contacted Lin Liyu and unexpectedly heard about Qin Xiaoyou.

• Qin Feng reached a starlit hall and opened its ancient bronze gate after his Devout Believer failed to move it.
• A white-robed woman knelt before Qin Feng, murmured with starlight in her hands, and vanished, leaving a bright golden chest on the altar.
• Qin Feng sent his Devout Believer to open the chest and received the epic skill book Coup de Grace, which enhanced weak-point attacks and granted the Throat Slit effect.
• Qin Feng rode a circular stone platform back to the surface, where it turned into blackened earth and disappeared.
• Qin Feng contacted Lin Liyu about selling his inventory and unexpectedly heard about Qin Xiaoyou.

Qin Feng avoided revealing his connection to Qin Xiaoyou and sold valuable gear to Wang Meng's party while excluding her. After ignoring Qin Xiaoyou's friend request, he set out for Firefly Town to hunt down Song Fei.

• Qin Feng realized Qin Xiaoyou had joined Wang Meng's party to approach him, so he decided not to sell her any Priest equipment or reveal that he knew her.
• Qin Feng returned to crowded Shell Town, escaped the players seeking his attention, and met Wang Meng's party in a secluded spot.
• Qin Feng sold Wang Meng gold equipment and skills for 2,200 days of lifespan, allowing him to pay 900 days upfront and the rest later.
• When the party noticed Qin Feng had no Priest items, he vanished in stealth, leaving Qin Xiaoyou without a share.
• Qin Xiaoyou sent Qin Feng a friend request identifying herself as the party's Priest, but he ignored it and headed to Firefly Town to target Song Fei.

Qin Feng traveled invisibly to Firefly Town, hoping to find Song Fei and Gu Yixue. He followed a group of angry players to Mourning Valley and found Song Fei fighting a Silver Grade boss behind a wall of fangirls.

• Qin Feng used his daily free teleport to reach Firefly Town, but he found neither Song Fei nor Gu Yixue there.
• Qin Feng overheard players say Song Fei was fighting a Silver Grade boss with a group of fangirls and followed them out of town.
• Qin Feng entered Mourning Valley, where players were battling Demons and fighting one another.
• Qin Feng spotted Song Fei and five other mages attacking a Two-Headed Flame Burner while Song Fei's fangirls shielded him from other players.

Song Fei believed he was about to defeat the Two-Headed Flame Burner and surpass Dark Shadow, but Qin Feng ambushed and killed him, then wiped out his entourage. After everyone else withdrew, Qin Feng struck the weakened boss with a Deadly Poison Dart and emptied its health bar.

• Song Fei led his entourage in attacking the Two-Headed Flame Burner, confident he would reach level 7 and become the top player.
• Qin Feng appeared beside Song Fei and killed him and several nearby girls with a rapid series of blade strikes.
• Song Fei respawned in Firefly Town and expected his remaining entourage to avenge him, but the girls kept returning after Qin Feng killed them.
• Qin Feng slaughtered Song Fei’s entire entourage in Mourning Valley, while unaffiliated players watched and retreated.
• Qin Feng used Shadowmeld and struck the Two-Headed Flame Burner with a Deadly Poison Dart, instantly emptying its health bar.

Qin Feng killed the Two-Headed Flame Burner, took its rewards, and evolved Coup de Grace and Back Attack Enhancement before leaving Mourning Valley. After respawning, Song Fei gathered players with stealth detection and crowd control and led them back to hunt Qin Feng.

• Qin Feng killed the Two-Headed Flame Burner with a single dart, frightening the unaffiliated players into fleeing Mourning Valley.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the boss’s corpse, collected its rewards, and gained sixteen evolution points.
• Qin Feng evolved Coup de Grace to Legendary Tier and raised Back Attack Enhancement from Gold Tier to Platinum Tier.
• Qin Feng collected lifespan orbs, entered stealth, and left Mourning Valley.
• Song Fei learned that followers could detect stealth and use area crowd control, then led them toward Mourning Valley to hunt Qin Feng.

Song Fei led his fangirls toward Mourning Valley to confront Dark Shadow, confident that his party could defeat the Assassin. Qin Feng ambushed him again, and Song Fei learned that Dark Shadow’s stealth surpassed the party’s detection skills, leaving him terrified of fighting back.

• Song Fei marched toward Mourning Valley with his fangirls while nearby players followed, expecting a fight with Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng approached Song Fei in stealth, tapped his shoulder, and warned him that he was about to die.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill Song Fei and several girls around him, breaking Song Fei’s magic shield and taking his tradable lifespan.
• After respawning, Song Fei questioned the archer girl, who explained that her Eagle Eye could not detect stealth above level 1.
• Song Fei realized Dark Shadow had level 2 stealth and abandoned his plans to fight an opponent he could not detect.

After killing Song Fei again, Qin Feng recruited Gu Yixue to track him in exchange for a Gold Tier priest staff. Gu Yixue located Song Fei’s group, while Song Fei remained unaware that Qin Feng was heading after him.

• Qin Feng killed Song Fei again and found that the lifespan orbs left behind contained only non-tradable lifespan.
• Qin Feng learned that Song Fei had taken his entourage of girls outside town to level up, then encountered Gu Yixue in the Town Square.
• Qin Feng offered Gu Yixue a discounted Gold Tier priest staff in exchange for finding Song Fei, and she traded her five hundred days of lifespan for it.
• Gu Yixue used her White Bird’s perspective to locate Song Fei’s group and gave Qin Feng their coordinates.
• Qin Feng asked Gu Yixue to keep tracking the group, then vanished into stealth and headed toward them.
• Song Fei and the girls traveled along a river, and Song Fei wondered whether Dark Shadow would pursue him.

Qin Feng discovered an Ancient God's Blessing and opened a Jadeite Tier treasure chest, earning the unfamiliar Blooming Curse skill. After learning it, he realized it could drain all of a dead player's tradable lifespan, and he turned his thoughts toward Song Fei.

• Song Fei and his fangirls cleared Demons along the riverbank while Qin Feng hurried toward them.
• Qin Feng followed Gu Yixue's directions to three nearby trees and activated different symbols on their trunks.
• The symbols revealed an emerald treasure chest, which Qin Feng opened to obtain the Jadeite Tier skill book Blooming Curse.
• Qin Feng learned that Blooming Curse drained a dead player's tradable lifespan and immediately learned the skill.
• Qin Feng considered using Blooming Curse against Song Fei.

Qin Feng killed Song Fei and the women accompanying him, using Blooming Curse’s Death Flowers to drain their tradable lifespan. Gu Yixue watched the massacre from above, while Song Fei decided to log out after losing nearly all his lifespan.

• Qin Feng caught up with Song Fei by the river and killed him with a Deadly Poison Dart.
• Song Fei realized his tradable lifespan was steadily falling as the Death Flower on his corpse drained it.
• Qin Feng killed the thirty-odd women around Song Fei, and blood-red flowers bloomed on their corpses.
• Qin Feng observed that the flowers’ HP appeared proportional to the level of the corpse they grew on, and collected roughly a thousand days of lifespan.
• Gu Yixue watched through her White Bird’s vision as Qin Feng wiped out Song Fei’s group.
• Song Fei, nearly out of tradable and non-tradable lifespan, decided to log out.

After Song Fei logged off to buy lifespan, his fans learned that the Godforsaken Game’s lifespan rules were real and regretted their sacrifices. Qin Feng arranged for Gu Yixue to join Wang Meng’s party, while Song Fei’s return to reality left him vulnerable to an unknown danger.

• Song Fei logged off with his fans, planning to buy lifespan and equipment before challenging Dark Shadow again.
• After learning that lifespan loss in the game could kill them in reality, Song Fei’s fans discovered that several had only a year or two left to live.
• Song Fei began spending his assets to buy tradable lifespan, while Qin Feng asked Gu Yixue to notify him when Song Fei logged back in.
• Qin Feng offered Gu Yixue the gold-tier priest skill Sword of Holy Judgment at half price if she joined his friends’ party, and she agreed.
• Qin Feng contacted Wang Meng to offer Gu Yixue, a strong White Bird Priest, as a party member, and Wang Meng replied almost immediately.

Qin Feng arranged for Wang Meng’s team to join him in Firefly Town, where he met An Yu, the Dragon Swordsman who had been one of the world’s top powerhouses in his previous life. After An Yu paid the remaining lifespan debt, she tested whether Qin Feng would target her while she carried the government’s lifespan.

• Wang Meng dismissed Qin Xiaoyou from his team and teleported with his three teammates to Firefly Town.
• Wang Meng gave Qin Feng 800 days of lifespan and said Captain An would pay the remaining 500 days.
• An Yu arrived, greeted Qin Feng with admiration, and introduced herself as a fan of Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng recognized An Yu as the future Dragon Swordsman Justice Execution, who had surpassed him in his previous life.
• An Yu gave Qin Feng the remaining 500 days of lifespan and said the government’s tradable lifespan was in her hands, asking whether he would kill her.

Qin Feng reached level 10 first in the world while grinding demons, preparing to return to reality and begin his assassination plan. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou learned that Dark Shadow had killed Song Fei three times and decided to sell her tradable lifespan to him.

• Qin Feng avoided antagonizing the authorities, left Gu Yixue with another team, and resumed grinding toward level 10.
• Qin Xiaoyou discovered in her VChat group that Dark Shadow had killed Song Fei three times and struggled to choose between her longtime favorite and the powerful Dark Shadow.
• Qin Xiaoyou saw an appeal for women in River-Sea City to sell Song Fei tradable lifespan at Great River Plaza and decided to help him despite the lower rate.
• Qin Feng killed coastal demons, spent 13 Evolution Points to upgrade Back Attack Enhancement to Jade Tier, and reached level 10.
• Qin Feng received world-first level 10 announcements and Reputation, while players across the world reacted to the news.

After reaching level 10, Qin Feng extracted his Dark Shadow class, two levels, Shadowmeld, and Deadly Poison Dart into reality. With his strengthened abilities and Song Fei’s lifespan-buying trades exposing his location, Qin Feng prepared to go after him.

• Players across the world discussed Dark Shadow’s first Gold Tier kill and level 10 achievement, while authorities secretly investigated Qin Feng’s identity.
• Qin Feng checked his stats in Firefly Town and logged out, planning to extract abilities and deal with Song Fei.
• Qin Feng extracted his Dark Shadow class, two levels, Shadowmeld, and Deadly Poison Dart, spending most of his tradable lifespan.
• Qin Feng realized Song Fei’s face-to-face lifespan trades could reveal his location and decided his new abilities would make killing him easy.
• Qin Feng woke in River-Sea City, adjusted to his enhanced body, and prepared to leave before his phone rang.

Qin Feng used an ability from the Godforsaken Game to assassinate Song Fei and Jiang Li at Great River Plaza. He escaped with Song Fei’s dropped lifespan as news of the attacks spread across the world.

• Qin Feng ignored and blocked Hu Qibin, then left for Great River Plaza while invisible.
• Song Fei bought lifespan at Great River Plaza as Jiang Li discussed trapping Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng killed Song Fei with a dart and absorbed the 1,046 days of tradable lifespan he dropped.
• Qin Feng followed Jiang Li outside and killed her with another dart.
• Qin Feng slipped away as news of the assassinations spread across the country and the world.

After killing Song Fei with an invisible attack, Qin Feng returned home while police and authorities suspected that Godforsaken Game abilities could be used in reality. Qin Xiaoyou decided to grow stronger and approach Dark Shadow, while Qin Feng urged Yang Xiaoya to enter the game and build herself up.

• Police investigated Song Fei's death and concluded that an invisible attacker had likely used an ability from the Godforsaken Game.
• Qin Feng ate noodles in River-Sea City, then returned home to prepare to enter the game again and hunt bosses for lifespan.
• Qin Xiaoyou resolved to sell lifespan, move away from Qin Feng, and give Dark Shadow Zhang Wei's assassin skill book.
• Qin Feng told Yang Xiaoya to stop working and put her starting points into agility when she entered the Godforsaken Game.
• Qin Feng learned from Yang Xiaoya that Hu Qibin was threatening to fire him, though Hu Qibin was actually angry because Qin Feng had rejected the company heiress's indecent proposition.

Qin Feng decided to target Qian Shishi and agreed to cut ties with Qin Xiaoyou before returning to the Godforsaken Game. Qin Xiaoyou tried to use a skill book to get close to Dark Shadow, but he refused it.

• Qin Feng recalled Qian Shishi's ties to the Qian Group and Alice's Wonderland, then marked her as a future target to kill before she could leave for North America.
• Qin Xiaoyou called Qin Feng to announce she had bought a place and wanted to cut ties, and Qin Feng agreed coldly before hanging up and turning off his phone.
• Qin Feng returned to the Godforsaken Game as Qin Xiaoyou felt relieved about her newfound freedom and resolved to get close to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Xiaoyou and Chu Yan entered the game and met in Shell Town, where Qin Xiaoyou obtained the Bronze Grade Assassin skill book Sap from Zhang Wei.
• Qin Xiaoyou asked Wang Meng to offer the skill book to Dark Shadow, but Wang Meng replied that Dark Shadow did not need it and told her to sell it.

After returning to the game, Qin Feng encountered a Gold Tier Golden Arthropod attacking players on the shoreline and engaged it despite its ability to detect his stealth. He dealt heavy damage and deftly dodged its assault, leaving Gray Rose and the other players stunned.

• Qin Xiaoyou told Chu Yan and Zhang Wei that Dark Shadow had refused her free skill book, and Chu Yan suggested farming for another one.
• Qin Feng returned to the shoreline and found a level 8 Golden Arthropod killing players, including a Warrior.
• Gray Rose warned Qin Feng that the boss could see through stealth, but Qin Feng used Shadowmeld and attacked it with Instant Shadow Slash.
• Qin Feng struck the Golden Arthropod’s weak points and followed up with Deadly Poison Dart, rapidly reducing its health.
• Qin Feng dodged the boss’s barrage of attacks with precise movements, astonishing Gray Rose and the nearby players.

Qin Feng killed the Golden Arthropod, gained new skills and equipment, and sold Gray Rose a Frost Ricochet skill book. Afterward, he refused Qin Xiaoyou’s offer of a Bronze Tier skill book because he suspected she was treating Dark Shadow differently over Song Fei’s death.

• Qin Feng dodged the Golden Arthropod’s attacks, pursued it when it fled, and killed it before Gray Rose and her teammates arrived.
• Qin Feng collected the boss’s evolution points and lifespan, learned and evolved Blacklight Shield, upgraded Deadly Poison Dart, and equipped two new items.
• Gray Rose bought Qin Feng’s Gold Tier Frost Ricochet skill book for 800 days of lifespan after borrowing from her teammates.
• Qin Feng left to post a notice seeking information about Silver Grade and Gold Tier bosses.
• Qin Feng received Wang Meng’s message about Qin Xiaoyou offering him a Bronze Tier skill book and refused it.

Qin Feng admitted to Wang Meng that he had killed Song Fei, then met Wang Meng’s team in Firefly Town to trade equipment and skill books. An Yu explained that the authorities knew Song Fei and Jiang Li had plotted against him, while Qin Feng’s inventory of Platinum Tier items left the team stunned.

• Qin Feng contacted Wang Meng and asked him to return to town with lifespan ready to buy his items.
• Wang Meng asked whether Qin Feng had killed Song Fei, and Qin Feng admitted it without hesitation.
• Qin Feng and Wang Meng’s team met in the basement of the Abandoned Church in Firefly Town.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that the authorities had reviewed evidence of Song Fei and Jiang Li plotting against him and of Great River Industries unlawfully detaining players.
• Qin Feng displayed his Gold Tier and Platinum Tier equipment and skill books for sale, astonishing Wang Meng, An Yu, Gu Yixue, and the others.