Recaps

Qin Feng instantly destroyed the Resentful Painting Spirit’s first life, but the Mythic boss revived in the form of a player’s loved one and threatened those trapped in the Inner Field. Qin Feng exposed the hidden revival mechanic by having Gui Ling strike the boss’s Outer Field avatar, then Gui Ling escaped its counterattack.

• Qin Feng dealt enough damage to kill the Resentful Painting Spirit’s first life, but the boss revived and revealed that each new life would take the form of a loved one.
• The boss appeared as Meow Meow, the Braided Young Man’s loved one, and frightened the players by threatening to kill their loved ones outside the Inner Field.
• Qin Feng told the panicking players that several people outside had already died, while the boss claimed its hidden main body could not be found.
• The boss’s Outer Field avatar attacked Gui Ling, but the Abyss Puppet made her invisible and Qin Feng’s prepared plan let her locate and pierce its weak point with the Yellow Springs Chain Blade.
• The wound forced the Resentful Painting Spirit’s Inner Field body to bleed and reveal itself, while Gui Ling escaped the avatar’s area attack by flying away on Osilio.

Qin Feng and Gui Ling defeated the Mythic Tier Ghostly Spirit Painting Scroll by coordinating attacks between its Inner Field and Outer Field, then Qin Feng recovered the Illusory Dream Stone. Back at the abandoned mine, Qin Feng and Gui Ling approached the players confronting Little Monster by the South River.

• The Resentful Painting Spirit’s avatar failed to kill Gui Ling, allowing Qin Feng to strike its true form and take another life.
• Qin Feng and Gui Ling repeatedly coordinated attacks to defeat the boss’s lives while the Inner Field players watched.
• Qin Feng killed the boss’s final life, earning a global Mythic boss-slaying notification and teleporting the other Inner Field players back to the abandoned mine.
• Qin Feng collected the boss’s loot and found an Illusory Dream Stone inside a tower before the Inner Field collapsed.
• Qin Feng returned to the mine, where players angrily surrounded Little Monster by the South River over the deaths of their loved ones.
• Qin Feng revealed himself with Gui Ling and walked toward the crowd.

Qin Feng negotiated with Little Monster by the South River to learn a skill from the White-Clad Woman in exchange for repairing her broken mirror. After Little Monster agreed and enabled the skill, Qin Feng and Gui Ling opened the skill-learning interface.

• The Stars Guild leader thanked Qin Feng for saving his younger brother and offered his help in return.
• Qin Feng approached Little Monster by the South River and offered to restore the broken mirror in exchange for a skill lesson from the White-Clad Woman.
• Little Monster agreed to let Qin Feng and Gui Ling learn the skill before Qin Feng repaired the mirror.
• Little Monster summoned the shattered White-Clad Woman from the mirror and enabled Qin Feng and Gui Ling to learn her skill.

Qin Feng evolved Illusory Favor to Ancient Grade and improved his Agility and Constitution training skills, then accepted a Legendary Ring Ascension Scroll from Gui Ling. He sent Little Monster by the South River back to the city and planned to ask the Star Guild to help locate the shifting ruin where he could repair a mirror and possibly find another Ancient God Slate.

• Qin Feng learned Illusory Favor and evolved it to Ancient Grade, gaining powerful mental-skill resistance and temporary immunity.
• Qin Feng evolved Agility Training and Constitution Training to Ancient Grade, raising his Constitution, Health, Agility, and flight speed.
• Gui Ling gave Qin Feng a Ring Ascension Scroll she had earned twice from a ruin, and Qin Feng planned to apply it to Ulrich's Ring of Extreme Cold.
• Qin Feng accepted Gui Ling's reward and sent Little Monster by the South River back to the city, honoring his promise to help repair the mirror.
• Qin Feng decided to ask the Star Guild to search the Mountain City Ruins for the shifting location where the mirror could be repaired and another slate of the Illusory Dream God Lutas might be found.

Qin Feng prepared to explore the Illusory Dream Well by arranging a search in Mountain City and gathering equipment and resources. After farming demons near New York City, he received news that Stars had found the well.

• Qin Feng told Stars' bearded guild leader how to find the moving Illusory Dream Well and explained its rewards.
• Qin Feng had One-Armed Dwarf · Big Hammer lower the level requirement of a Mythic-Tier ring, then delivered it to Sarah in Coconut Country.
• Qin Feng bought Hell Fruit from Demon Beast Tamer · Madman Nuke and saved it for future skill rerolls.
• Qin Feng used Queen K to activate the Lone Wolf Operation Order's speed effect and flew to a cemetery near New York City to farm undead skeleton demons.
• After Qin Feng farmed for an hour and a half, Stars' bearded guild leader reported that they had found the Illusory Dream Well.

Qin Feng prepared for the Illusory Dream Well by stealing Fairy Yuan’s attributes and boosting his Spirit, then entered the well and passed its illusion-filled floors. On the tenth floor, he encountered six Demons guarding an Ancient God Slate.

• Qin Feng obtained a fivefold buff-duration effect, then stole 10,000 points from each of Fairy Yuan’s attributes for 50 minutes.
• Qin Feng raised his Spirit to 34,898 with support players and potions before traveling to Mountain City Ruins.
• Qin Feng jumped into the Illusory Dream Well, passed its visual and auditory illusion trials, and collected equipment, Illusory Dream Fragments, and other items along the way.
• Qin Feng reached the tenth floor, where six Demons guarded an Ancient God Slate.

Qin Feng defeated the Illusory Dream Well’s fused Demon boss and obtained the Illusory Dream God's Cursed Slate. He began choosing which equipment to curse while still in the challenge.

• Qin Feng resisted an illusion that made six Diamond Tier Demon bosses appear to be Platinum Tier bosses and killed them with his Shadow Clones.
• Qin Feng noticed Greedy Eye could not examine the Demon corpses and waited as they fused into a single humanoid boss.
• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to overcome the fused boss’s light-refraction trick and killed it with another volley of Shadow Blades.
• Qin Feng gained over thirty-six thousand Evolution Points from the six Diamond Tier bosses.
• Qin Feng obtained the Illusory Dream God's Cursed Slate and opened his equipment window to choose an item to curse.

Qin Feng kept a curse on Uthos's Nine-Faced Helm, massively boosting its base attributes and his skill range while disabling its elemental-immunity effects. He entered the Illusory Dream Well's eleventh floor, where ten gates offered one-way choices of deeper floors, up to the twentieth.

• Qin Feng examined the Ancient God Slate effects on his equipment and attached Lutas's Curse to Uthos's Nine-Faced Helm.
• Qin Feng kept the curse despite losing the helm's special effects, gaining greatly increased attributes, hit adjustment, and skill range.
• Qin Feng passed through the gate to the Illusory Dream Well's eleventh floor and found himself in a vast, empty expanse of space.
• Qin Feng saw ten enormous starry gates marked for floors eleven through twenty and learned he could choose only one, with deeper floors offering greater difficulty and rewards.

Qin Feng learned about the twentieth-floor challenge’s restrictions and prepared to meet its mental-attribute threshold. He flew toward the gate determined to attempt the challenge, despite the risk of losing his Illusory Dream Well rewards.

• Qin Feng decided the consequences of failure were acceptable and flew toward the twentieth-floor gate.
• Lingche appeared and explained that the twentieth floor was restricted to civilizations in their first year and required a high mental attribute.
• Lingche calculated that a level 40 challenger needed 80,000 mental attribute points, and Qin Feng realized his mental resistance could help him meet the threshold.
• Qin Feng changed into agility-focused equipment, raising his effective mental attribute through his abilities and resistance to 182,100 points.
• Qin Feng asked about the level 100 requirement, and Lingche said it was 500,000 mental attribute points.

Qin Feng learned that clearing the Illusory Dream Well’s challenges from the sixteenth floor onward granted a Minor Authority of the Illusory Dream God, which he could absorb without its restrictions because he already held the Authority of Judgment. He reached the twentieth-floor gate and discovered that more than forty million challengers had failed its challenge, leaving their reclaimed rewards for whoever finally succeeded.

• Lingche explained that Qin Feng could absorb an Eldritch God’s Servant Imprint while retaining its effects and removing its restrictions.
• Qin Feng chose to attempt the twentieth-floor challenge despite Lingche warning that a lower floor would offer a better chance of success.
• Qin Feng flew for over three hours through the vast starry space and reached the twentieth-floor gate.
• Qin Feng read the gate’s records and learned that over forty million challengers had attempted the challenge and none had passed.
• Qin Feng discovered that whoever passed would receive all the rewards reclaimed from the failed challengers.

Qin Feng learned the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth-floor challenge rules and entered the challenge to memorize the Illusory Dream God Afterimage’s patterns. He faced a butterfly-winged afterimage and saw its complex three-dimensional patterns.

• Qin Feng read that clearing the challenge would grant access to a vast prize pool and a God-Chosen Slate, while failure would temporarily reduce his Mental Attribute.
• Lingche explained that Qin Feng had to memorize the afterimage’s patterns, find its identical counterpart in a changing labyrinth, and destroy it with an item found there before time ran out.
• Qin Feng entered the starry gate and appeared before a ten-meter-tall, butterfly-winged Illusory Dream God Afterimage.
• Qin Feng saw complex three-dimensional patterns outlining the afterimage’s body.

Qin Feng entered a vast White Jade Maze on the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well, where memory interference threatened to erase the 160 patterns he needed to match. He began searching for the correct afterimage and used the Blade of Judgment to recover his fading memories, but the maze’s scale and strict time limit left the challenge’s completion uncertain.

• Qin Feng memorized the 160 flowing three-dimensional patterns on the Illusory Dream God's afterimage using structures he had learned from the Ancient God Language.
• The afterimage vanished, revealing a vast White Jade Maze filled with hundreds of thousands of similar Illusory Dream God afterimages, and a mental skill began interfering with Qin Feng's memory.
• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to search the maze, found a Barrier-Breaking Blade in a room, and confirmed that the maze walls blocked passage through them.
• When his memories of the patterns began fading, Qin Feng revealed that he had copied all 160 patterns into the Judgment Grounds at a cost of over 1,200 divinity.
• Qin Feng used the Blade of Judgment to compare the maze's afterimages with his stored patterns, while worrying that the challenge's limited time would not be enough.

Qin Feng explored the White Jade Maze, resisting its hallucinations and memory interference while collecting Barrier-Breaking Blades and extending his challenge time. After spotting a third blade spawn at an exact interval, he realized something about the maze’s timing had changed.

• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to search the maze for the Illusory Dream God’s matching afterimage, then summoned Osilio and confirmed that the maze’s mental influence caused hallucinations.
• Qin Feng mapped the maze and discovered five pink Magic Arrays, then collected a second Barrier-Breaking Blade and had Gray Chicken touch a pink orb to extend the challenge time.
• Qin Feng found another pink orb and used Gray Chicken to activate it, extending the challenge again.
• Qin Feng recognized the maze’s memory interference as another mental test and relied on the patterns he had copied in the Judgment Grounds.
• After more than twenty minutes, Qin Feng detected a third Barrier-Breaking Blade spawning exactly 21 minutes and 57 seconds into the challenge and realized the timing was significant.

Qin Feng deduced the hidden rules of the White Jade Maze challenge and prepared to use its six Barrier-Breaking Blades to reveal and destroy the real Illusory Dream God target. He began the final stage with limited time remaining and increasing mental pressure.

• Qin Feng tested an Illusory Dream God Afterimage, learned it was immune to ordinary attacks, and discovered he could lure it by attacking and then hiding.
• Qin Feng stopped touching pink orbs and tracked the Barrier-Breaking Blades as they appeared at ten-minute intervals.
• After the sixth blade appeared and no seventh followed, Qin Feng deduced that five afterimages had to be killed on the five magic circles to assemble and reveal the real target.
• Qin Feng planned to lure five selected afterimages onto the circles, using the blades only after all six had appeared and extending the challenge with pink orbs as he traveled.
• As the maze's mental pressure increased, Qin Feng committed to carrying out his plan despite uncertainty about whether his deductions were correct.

Shaowei watched the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth-floor challenge, suspecting that Qin Feng of the Blue Star Civilization was the challenger and hoping his success would help her exiled Aunt Yuan return. Qin Feng completed the White Jade Maze and defeated its final guardian, discovering a strange insect compound eye that might be an Ancient God’s Authority as Lingche sensed him surrounded by power from the Universe’s Primordial Origin.

• Shaowei stayed in the Illusory Dream Temple to watch the challenge, believing the Blue Star genius might be able to pass and help the Blue Star Civilization ascend.
• Qin Feng lured five Illusory Dream God Afterimages to the maze’s Magic Arrays and used the Barrier-Breaking Blade to lock their patterns in place.
• The patterns converged into a gigantic humanoid butterfly, whose mental attack briefly disoriented Qin Feng before Illusory Favor protected him.
• Qin Feng reached the maze’s center and destroyed the butterfly with the Barrier-Breaking Blade, causing a white jade table and basin to appear.
• Qin Feng found a beautiful insect compound eye in the basin and wondered whether it was an Ancient God’s Authority like the Eye of Judgment.
• Lingche sensed Qin Feng being surrounded by an irresistible power from the Primordial Origin of the Universe.

After clearing the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor, Qin Feng obtained the Illusory Dream God’s inactive Primordial Authority, which began activating automatically through his Eye of Judgment. He learned the challenge’s reward tiers and discovered that no one before him had completed its highest tier.

• Lingche sensed the Primordial power Qin Feng had obtained and realized the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor had awarded a Primordial authority.
• Qin Feng touched the sacred eyeball, and it merged into his right eye as the inactive Eye of Illusion.
• The Eye of Judgment released power into the Eye of Illusion, starting a 30-day countdown to the first stage of Illusory Authority activation.
• Qin Feng read the challenge’s explanations and learned that the first two completion tiers granted the Illusory Dream Minor Authority, while his unprecedented third-tier clear awarded an inactive Primordial authority.
• Qin Feng learned that only nineteen of more than forty-seven million challengers had reached the first tier, and only three had reached the second.

Qin Feng claimed the rewards for completing the twentieth-floor challenge, including the Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent, and gained exclusive access to the White Jade Maze. At the Illusory Dream Temple, Shaowei became a Witness to the Authority of Illusion’s inheritance and was ordered to obey its inheritor.

• Qin Feng reviewed his challenge rewards and learned he would have to reach the Land of Order to collect the reclaimed rewards from earlier challengers.
• Qin Feng received an uncharged God-Chosen Slate and equipped the Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent, which doubled and consolidated the divinity limit of his equipment.
• Qin Feng found that the bracelet let his equipment draw on its divinity, stopped the White Bud Blade’s divinity drain, and gave him access to the twentieth-floor space.
• Qin Feng learned that the White Jade Maze had become his exclusive space, then exited the Illusory Dream Well and considered asking Lingche about the difference between the Authority of Illusion and the Illusory Dream Minor Authority.
• Shaowei witnessed the mirror turn white as Qin Feng completed the challenge, then received the role of Witness to the inheritance and orders to obey the inheritor without learning his identity.

Fairy Shaowei discovered that becoming the Illusory Dream Temple’s Witness gave her authority surpassing the current master’s, and she used it to cancel a mission and announce that the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor had been cleared. Meanwhile, Qin Feng learned from Lingche that authorities originated from the universe itself, while Eldritch Gods were beings who acquired them.

• Fairy Shaowei examined her new access and realized she could expel Temple members, appoint Divine Envoys, and impeach the current master.
• Tanhua Grandma ordered Fairy Shaowei to join an Immortal Tier boss hunt, but Shaowei canceled the assignment and announced that someone had cleared the twentieth-floor challenge and inherited the right to the Authority of Illusion.
• Fairy Shaowei informed an elder of the Purple Fairy Clan that she had become a Witness, and Fairy Jie regretted missing the chance by going to look at handsome men.
• Qin Feng asked Lingche about the difference between the Illusory Dream Minor Authority and the Authority of Illusion, and Lingche explained that authorities were primordial while Eldritch Gods were beings who obtained them.
• Qin Feng understood that developing his Authority of Judgment and Authority of Illusion could make him the next Judgment Ancient God and Illusion Eldritch God.

Qin Feng learned how Primordial authorities activated, then left the Illusory Dream Well with the Eye of Illusion and permanent Skill Books. After repairing Little Monster by the South River’s mirror, he warned him that A Lian might betray him, but the young man accused Qin Feng of jealousy and refused to listen.

• Lingche explained the two ways to activate Primordial authorities, and Qin Feng wondered whether he could obtain more before Blue Star ascended.
• Qin Feng emerged from the Illusory Dream Well and found the Star Guild celebrating his acquisition of the Eye of Illusion; he promised them a hundred slots to learn Thieving Saint's Hand.
• Qin Feng met Little Monster by the South River and used the Pink Handkerchief to repair his mirror.
• Qin Feng discovered the Blue Pill would halve mental attributes and the Red Pill would kill whoever took it, then stored both in the Greedy Space.
• Qin Feng warned Little Monster that A Lian might devour his soul and consciousness, but the young man called him jealous and refused to give up the mirror.
• Qin Feng found three endlessly reusable Skill Books in his Storage Backpack, including Illusory Favor, and decided he no longer needed the mirror.

Qin Feng learned the Ancient Grade skills Memory Loss and Phantasmal Deception, discovering that he could disguise himself as beings from memories he had viewed. He arranged to lend the reusable Illusory Favor Skill Book to the officials in exchange for lifespan or Eldritch God Runes, then prepared to pursue the second World Spine.

• Qin Feng examined three Skill Books and learned that Memory Loss could view and delete memories but required an exceptionally high Mental Attribute.
• Qin Feng learned Memory Loss and Phantasmal Deception, then confirmed he could use Phantasmal Deception to take the appearance of beings from NPC memories he had viewed.
• Qin Feng considered evolving Phantasmal Deception but decided to wait until he had more Evolution Points.
• Qin Feng offered Late Night, Light Rain the reusable Illusory Favor Skill Book, and he agreed to let the officials borrow it for 3,000 years of lifespan per learner or 100 slots per Eldritch God Rune.
• Qin Feng prepared to take down the second World Spine and head for the World's Highest Point.

After clearing the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well, Qin Feng prepared to challenge Blue Star’s second World Spine and learned that it had ten layers of buffs and extraordinary durability. Meanwhile, powerhouses in the Land of Order discussed his recent achievements and speculated about when he would defeat the next World Spine.

• Qin Feng stored the Illusory Favor Skill Book, then asked Fairy Yuan, Aishasiss, and Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle about the second World Spine’s buffs, but none could provide useful information.
• Qin Feng questioned White Bud, who explained that the second World Spine was extremely tanky and had defeated her civilization’s forces.
• Qin Feng learned that World Spines differed between civilizations but that the second one always received ten layers of buffs, and he headed toward the Himalaya Game Region with White Bud.
• Powerhouses in the Land of Order reacted to news that someone had cleared the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well and debated how soon Qin Feng would kill the second World Spine.

As Land of Order’s old-timers investigated the mysterious Blue Star genius, Qin Feng traveled to the Himalayas to confront the second World Spine. White Bud explained the mountain’s lack of weak points and its endless revival, but Qin Feng believed he still had ways to defeat it.

• Powerful players across Land of Order emerged and debated the Blue Star genius who had gained the Authority of Illusion.
• The old-timers speculated about the genius’s identity, faction, and reasons for not coming to Land of Order, unaware that Qin Feng had been reborn with his memories and was developing under Ashasiss’s guidance.
• Qin Feng traveled to the Himalayas’ game region, where players had begun settling despite the absence of City Ruins and public Teleportation Arrays.
• White Bud told Qin Feng that the second World Spine was an enormous mountain with no weak points, making his Weakness Attack ineffective.
• White Bud explained that the mountain split into countless pieces after its first defeat and revived at full health unless every piece was destroyed.

Qin Feng arrived at the Himalayan Game Zone to activate the second World Spine by killing three Legendary Tier stone golems. He warned nearby players to evacuate, and while many left, Tianzhu Country players dismissed the news and stayed behind.

• Qin Feng flew toward the World Spine, a colossal snowy mountain, and found players grinding monsters across its slopes.
• Qin Feng appeared before a group of Great Xia players, whose Priest girl apologized after firing a warning shot near him.
• Qin Feng told the group to warn everyone on and around the mountain to leave before he fought a boss, then searched for the three stone golems needed to activate the World Spine.
• Word of Qin Feng's arrival spread to players from Great Xia, Tianzhu, Batan, and other countries, prompting many to evacuate.
• Tianzhu Country players mocked the report as a Great Xia trick and refused to leave their grinding spot.

Qin Feng quickly killed two Legendary Tier Stone Man bosses while searching the mountain, ignoring Tianzhu Country players who refused to evacuate. After he killed the third prerequisite boss, the entire mountain began to move, revealing the second World Spine before a crowd of players.

• Qin Feng killed the first Stone Man boss with Instant Annihilation and collected its loot, including Ascension Scrolls whose orders he could not use.
• Qin Feng found that most players had evacuated, but several Tianzhu Country parties remained in the area despite his warning.
• Qin Feng located the second Stone Man boss in a cave and killed it instantly while six Tianzhu Country players watched from over ten kilometers away.
• The Tianzhu Country players resumed farming, believing Qin Feng had left, but the ground suddenly began to shake and players across the area fell.
• The mountain shook off its snow as players fled, and the third boss's death caused the second World Spine to appear before a multitude of players.

Players witnessed Dark Shadow face the Mythic-Tier World Spine · Mountain, whose enormous health pool and class-based damage reductions made it difficult to kill. The boss wiped out nearby Tianzhu Country players and permanently consumed half their attributes, while Qin Feng remained unharmed by its opening attack.

• Players saw the World Spine · Mountain appear as a Mythic-Tier boss with 119.8 billion HP and ten enhancement stacks that reduced damage from several classes.
• Qin Feng learned that the boss's buffs reduced assassin damage by 66.6%, while its invincibility-rule shield prevented him from attacking it.
• The World Spine · Mountain unleashed a massive shockwave that struck Qin Feng, but his damage block reduced the hit to zero.
• The shockwave killed the Tianzhu Country players still on the mountain, and they discovered after resurrecting that the boss had permanently taken 50% of their all attributes as nutrients.
• The players speculated that Dark Shadow would lose half his attributes if the boss killed him, unaware that its opening attack had not broken through Qin Feng's defenses.