Recaps

Qin Feng sold valuable equipment and skill books to An Yu’s team, then warned her that Great River Industries could soon become harder to oppose once players reached level 10. After leaving, he set up a stall in Firefly Town to buy boss coordinates.

• Qin Feng priced 25 Gold and Platinum Tier items at 16,000 days of lifespan, and An Yu accepted the deal without bargaining.
• An Yu paid off Wang Meng and Gu Yixue’s earlier debts, while Gu Yixue received two Gold Tier Priest items and Qin Feng’s tradable lifespan rose to 60 years.
• An Yu invited Qin Feng to help rescue players imprisoned by Great River Industries, but he refused and warned her to act before players reached level 10 and could extract game abilities into reality.
• An Yu told Wang Meng to split the team up to level faster and have everyone reach level 10.
• Qin Feng left the Abandoned Church, set up a stall in Firefly Town offering lifespan for Silver and Gold Tier boss coordinates, and a familiar player approached him.

Mao Lijun tried to recruit Qin Feng for Jiang Li, then learned that Qin Feng had killed her and Song Fei. In Magic City, Qian Shishi decided to hire Dark Shadow to kill Qin Feng, unaware that they were the same person.

• Mao Lijun offered Qin Feng three hundred million and shares in Great River Industries to help Jiang Li level up, but Qin Feng told him to scram.
• Mao Lijun overheard players say Dark Shadow had killed Jiang Li and Song Fei, then hurried away in fear.
• Qin Feng ignored the nervous players in Firefly Town and planned to farm high-tier equipment before heading to the continent.
• Qian Shishi mocked Great Xia players and decided to contact Dark Shadow to arrange Qin Feng's death.
• Qian Shishi did not know Qin Feng was Dark Shadow, while Qin Xiaoyou sank into a miserable funk after Qin Feng refused her gift.

Qin Feng sold the loot from four Silver Grade bosses, upgraded his equipment, and planned to grow stronger before reaching the mainland. In Firefly Town, he accepted an assassination contract on himself and suspected Qian Shishi was behind it, deciding to target her instead.

• Qin Feng killed four Silver Grade bosses, sold their loot to the authorities, and raised his tradable lifespan to 105 years.
• Qin Feng equipped Gold and Platinum gear that improved his stealth and cooldowns, then planned to advance his class and raise his stealth level before reaching the mainland.
• A triangular-eyed young man offered Dark Shadow 3,000 days of lifespan to kill Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng accepted the contract and took half the payment upfront, then concluded that Qian Shishi was behind the job and decided to kill her instead.

Qin Feng followed Milky-White Snow to a gold-tier boss, where she confessed that Dongfang Xian had arranged an ambush to uncover Qin Feng’s real-world identity. Qin Feng made her continue with the plan and began attacking the Plague Surrounder, leaving it badly wounded after one skill combo.

• Qin Feng accepted Milky-White Snow’s offer to lead him to the Plague Surrounder and paid her 100 days of lifespan.
• Milky-White Snow warned Qin Feng that the boss fight was a trap and admitted Dongfang Xian had ordered her to help expose his real-world information.
• Qin Feng told Milky-White Snow to play along and bring Dongfang Xian’s people to him.
• Qin Feng activated Coup de Grace and struck the Plague Surrounder with Instant Shadow Slash, reducing its health by about two-thirds.
• Milky-White Snow watched Qin Feng’s attack and was stunned by the damage he dealt.

Qin Feng used Milky-White Snow’s shield to trap Iron Man’s group in a narrow passage, killed them, and drained their lifespan before returning to defeat the Plague Surrounder. He collected the boss’s loot and found an Assassin Skill Book.

• Qin Feng waited in stealth while the Plague Surrounder filled the Cave with poison and Dongfang Xian’s people approached.
• Iron Man led more than a dozen companions into the Cave, but Milky-White Snow blocked their advance with her Gold Tier Shield.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill Iron Man and his companions, then cast Blooming Curse on their corpses to drain their tradable lifespan.
• Milky-White Snow added Qin Feng as a friend and agreed to send him Dongfang Xian’s real-world location later.
• Qin Feng returned to the boss room and killed the Plague Surrounder with Coup de Grace and Instant Shadow Slash.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the boss’s loot and found an Assassin Skill Book.

Qin Feng learned Darkest Hour, equipped the Plague Blade, and ground monsters until he advanced his Shadow class to tier one. Several River-Sea City players reached level 10, opening the passage to the Godforsaken Continent.

• Qin Feng learned Darkest Hour and replaced his Ghost Ship Twin Blades with the Plague Blade, saving his evolution points for Greedy Hand.
• Qin Feng stopped hunting bosses and killed level 10 Demons along the coast until he earned fifty thousand EXP.
• Qin Feng spent the EXP to advance his Shadow class to tier one, tripling its attribute bonuses and improving its invisibility and damage passives.
• Qin Feng discovered that several familiar players from River-Sea City had reached level 10 before the North American players he remembered.
• The River-Sea City region reached seven level 10 players, and the system opened the one-way passage to the Godforsaken Continent.

Qin Feng reached level 10 and teleported invisibly to the Godforsaken Continent, arriving in the River-Sea City Ruins. He headed northwest to claim the site of his future guild shelter as other level 10 players arrived behind him.

• Players around the world learned they could extract game levels, skills, and equipment into reality by spending tradable lifespan, sparking global panic.
• Authorities in Great Xia accused Great River Industries and Song Fei of serious crimes and said Qin Feng had killed Song Fei and Jiang Li on their commission.
• Qin Feng learned from Milky-White Snow that Dongfang Xian had reached level 7 and asked her to contact him when Dongfang logged off.
• Qin Feng used the Continent Teleportation Array while invisible and arrived in the River-Sea City Ruins on the Godforsaken Continent.
• Qin Feng ran northwest toward the site of the best shelter, while Gu Yixue, Lin Liyu, and others teleported into the ruins near the Eyeless Stone Man statue.

Qin Feng traveled alone through the River-Sea City Ruins, clearing monsters as he headed for a vast underground Hideout and easily slaughtered its guardians’ lesser monsters. Meanwhile, Wang Meng’s group struggled to survive aboveground and discovered the corpses Qin Feng had left behind, realizing how overwhelmingly strong Dark Shadow was.

• Wang Meng, Gu Yixue, Lin Liyu, and their companions fought off two Earthshakers, while Gu Yixue’s owl scouted the ruins and found monsters everywhere.
• Qin Feng stealthily crossed the ruins, killed ordinary monsters, collected Evolution Points, and learned a level 10 Shadowmeld skill book.
• Qin Feng reached the Soul-Cleansing Grounds Hideout, summoned a Devout Believer to guard the entrance, and entered to challenge its level 15 guardian.
• Qin Feng blinded and swiftly killed fifteen level 12 elemental monsters inside the Hideout, leaving their loot and lifespan orbs behind.
• Gu Yixue led Wang Meng and the others to the cleared area, where they found Demon corpses and marveled at Dark Shadow’s strength.
• An Yu said the group could only hide beneath Dark Shadow’s crotch and tremble, prompting Wang Meng to ask her to mind her wording.

Qin Feng cleared the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and reached its Platinum-tier guardian, Soul Purifier Faysal. He began attacking the boss and left it taking heavy damage as he vanished into stealth again.

• Wang Meng and the others recovered in the area Qin Feng had cleared, and Gu Yixue spotted five pieces of equipment he had left behind.
• Qin Feng agreed to let Wang Meng's group collect the equipment and continued clearing monsters through the Soul-Cleansing Grounds.
• Wang Meng and the others logged off to report the dangers of the Godforsaken Continent as players from other cities reported similar ruined cities and heavy losses.
• Qin Feng cleared more than forty halls and over a thousand rooms, gaining over eighty thousand experience and reaching 205 Evolution Points.
• Qin Feng entered the central chamber and confronted the level 15 Platinum-tier Soul Purifier Faysal.
• Qin Feng struck Faysal with Coup de Grace and Instant Shadow Slash, then vanished into stealth while the boss took successive bursts of damage.

Qin Feng defeated Soul Purifier Faysal alone, earning the world’s first Platinum Tier boss kill. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou’s party kept dying to a Silver Tier boss in Shell Town, leaving her frustrated and wondering why the game was so hard.

• Qin Feng dodged Soul Purifier Faysal’s lightning attacks and destroyed the three lightning orbs that shielded the boss between phases.
• Qin Feng used Blacklight Shield, Coup de Grace, and Instant Shadow Slash to defeat Soul Purifier Faysal and claim the world’s first Platinum Tier boss kill.
• Players worldwide reacted with shock to Dark Shadow’s achievement and argued about his identity and Great Xia.
• A Silver Grade boss killed Qin Xiaoyou, who lost lifespan and argued with her party’s tank before Level Eight Gale left the party.
• Zhang Wei logged off, and the boss killed Chu Yan as well, leaving Qin Xiaoyou and Chu Yan to decide to level up first.
• Qin Xiaoyou felt even more aggrieved after seeing Dark Shadow’s first-kill announcement and blamed her bad luck with teammates.

After killing the Platinum Tier boss Faisal, Qin Feng became master of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and evolved Greedy Hand to Legendary Tier. He planned to pursue the Spirit Devourer Bloodline and looked forward to exploiting Dongfang Xian’s family when he returned to reality.

• Qin Feng received rewards for killing Soul Purifier · Faisal, reached level 11, and gained ownership of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds.
• Qin Feng spent 210 Evolution Points to evolve Greedy Hand to Legendary Tier, gaining a 100-slot Greedy Space.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Faisal’s corpse and obtained five extra sets of loot, including Jadeite Tier Assassin equipment and a skill book.
• Qin Feng summoned Devout Believer to gather loot and planned to obtain the Spirit Devourer Bloodline by devouring evolved skills.
• Milky-White Snow told Qin Feng that Dongfang Xian had logged off to eat with his family, who had bought a lot of lifespan to bring into the game.
• Qin Feng decided he would extract Blooming Curse into reality and take the lifespan of Dongfang Xian’s family.

Qin Feng spent his Evolution Points upgrading several skills, then sold loot to An Yu and her team and told them how to return to the Starting Town. After he left to return to reality, An Yu wondered aloud whether Dark Shadow had come back from a previous life and considered seducing him.

• Qin Feng evolved Shadowmeld and Back Attack Enhancement to Epic Grade, raised Blooming Curse to Legendary Tier, and upgraded Darkest Hour to Epic Tier.
• Qin Feng met Wang Meng, An Yu, and the others at a hidden location and sold them equipment worth 18,000 days of tradable lifespan, along with more low-tier items.
• Qin Feng told the group about the Teleportation Array beneath the statue in the City Ruins and warned that the first trip to the Starting Town cost 500 days of lifespan.
• After Qin Feng left, An Yu suggested in the Party Channel that he might have come from a previous life, then asked what her chances were of seducing him.

After extracting most of his game abilities and equipment into reality, Qin Feng left his home and raced toward Jiangnan Restaurant. There, Dongfang Xian discussed the family’s plans to exploit the Godforsaken Game and capture Dark Shadow, until two guards were suddenly cut down outside the private room.

• Qin Feng spent most of his tradable lifespan synchronizing his level and class advancement and extracting several skills and two pieces of equipment.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand to store everything in his bedroom, then left through a window under stealth and ran toward Jiangnan Restaurant.
• Dongfang Xian told the Dongfang Family’s elders that their younger members should rush to level 10 by buying equipment and skill books.
• Dongfang Xian revealed that a reliable woman had befriended Dark Shadow and that the family planned to uncover his real-world identity and bring him under their control.
• Blades flashed across the two guards outside the private room, and they collapsed as blood sprayed.

Qin Feng ambushed Dongfang Xian and the Dongfang Family gathering at the Jiangnan Restaurant, using a Silver Grade Devout Believer and his own abilities to kill everyone present. He erased the bodies and evidence with Blooming Curse and left with a huge haul of tradable and non-tradable lifespan.

• Qin Feng killed two armed guards outside the private dining room and summoned a Silver Grade Devout Believer to attack the Dongfang Family gathering.
• The Devout Believer broke into the room and slaughtered the family members as they fired their guns.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill the bodyguards who rushed upstairs after hearing the gunshots.
• Qin Feng dismissed the Devout Believer and used Death Flowers to absorb lifespan and erase the corpses and evidence.
• Qin Feng found Dongfang Xian dead in the private room, then left the restaurant with everyone's tradable lifespan and half their non-tradable lifespan.

After wiping out the Dongfang Family, Qin Feng planned to target Qian Shishi and sought a way to travel faster. Back in the game, An Yu told him that Lin Liyu had accidentally discovered a Tomb in the City Ruins, and Qin Feng reached its entrance, a well.

• Qin Feng counted his lifespan gains from killing the Dongfang Family and slipped away as police sirens approached, leaving no evidence behind.
• Qin Feng decided Qian Shishi was his next target but wanted to find a mount rather than travel hundreds of kilometers on foot.
• Qin Feng checked into a guesthouse, paid with lifespan, and logged back into the Godforsaken Game.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that Lin Liyu had fallen into a Tomb entrance while the group traveled through the City Ruins and that a level 12 Gold Tier vengeful ghost guarded it.
• Qin Feng accepted An Yu's coordinates, hurried through the ruins while killing Demons, and found the Tomb entrance in a well.

Qin Feng entered the Tomb of Resentment, defeated its Gold Tier Vengeful Ghost, and looted powerful rewards before opening the tomb gate. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou was left bewildered and despairing back in Shell Town.

• Qin Feng entered the Tomb of Resentment and found a Gold Tier Vengeful Ghost guarding a dilapidated gate.
• Qin Feng used Coup de Grace and Instant Shadow Slash to damage the Vengeful Ghost, then stayed at a distance until its lingering damage killed it.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand to claim extra loot, including the Platinum Tier Dark Night Ring Blade skill and Resentment Leather Armor.
• Qin Feng evolved Dark Night Ring Blade to Epic Tier, learned it, and planned to replace his armor when he reached level 12.
• Qin Feng opened the stone gate to enter the Tomb while Qin Xiaoyou remained bewildered and despairing in Shell Town.

Qin Xiaoyou, nearly out of lifespan and abandoned by her former companions, decided to return to Qin Feng for help. Meanwhile, Qin Feng continued clearing the Tomb of Resentment as An Yu rebuked Ma Nailiang for proposing that the authorities trap Dark Shadow.

• Players in Shell Town struggled against powerful bosses, and Qin Xiaoyou returned after dying with only two and a half years of non-tradable lifespan left.
• Qin Xiaoyou's former admirers refused to help her, while Zhang Wei teamed up elsewhere and Chu Yan planned to relocate after midnight.
• Qin Xiaoyou decided to return to her home in Shanhai Impression and find Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng used Dark Night Ring Blade to kill groups of level 10–12 monsters as he advanced through the Tomb of Resentment and sent a Devout Believer down alternate paths.
• An Yu, Wang Meng, and their teammates killed a level 8 Gold Tier boss, and An Yu wondered how Dark Shadow had defeated a Platinum Tier boss alone.
• Ma Nailiang proposed trapping Dark Shadow and bringing him under government control, but An Yu called him foolish and said they should cooperate with Dark Shadow instead.

An Yu insisted on cooperating with Dark Shadow despite concerns that he might kill more people, while Qin Feng explored the deepest part of the Resentment Tomb and obtained a Ghost Night-Walking Wolf Mount Bell. The chapter ended with Qin Xiaoyou returning home to find Qin Feng and all his belongings gone.

• An Yu picked up the boss's drops and told Wang Meng she would personally clean up after Dark Shadow if necessary.
• Qin Feng reached the golden coffin, killed the Child of Resentment, and used Greedy Hand on its corpse, but found no Platinum Tier Assassin items.
• A deathly pillar of light killed two Devout Believers when they approached the coffin, so Qin Feng activated Blacklight Shield and opened the treasure chest himself.
• Qin Feng obtained a Mount Bell that summoned a level 12 Ghost Night-Walking Wolf, then headed back to gain enough experience to use it.
• Qin Xiaoyou returned to their home and found Qin Feng, his furniture, his clothes, and everything else gone.

Qin Feng cleared the Colosseum Ruins and leveled up while searching for a path to find a Spirit Devourer. As he rode his newly leveled, invisible Ghost Night-Walking Wolf toward the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, a disturbance in the eastern City Ruins suggested someone had unleashed the Iron Maiden.

• Qin Xiaoyou discovered Qin Feng was gone, found his smashed phone, and realized she had lost contact with him.
• Qin Feng left the Resentment Tomb and decided to reach level 15 before searching the Magic City Ruins for a Spirit Devourer.
• Qin Feng slaughtered the Demons throughout the Colosseum Ruins, gaining levels, lifespan, and evolution points while his Ghost Night-Walking Wolf reached level 13.
• A party of six players arrived at the cleared Colosseum Ruins, but none noticed Qin Feng because he and his mount were invisible.
• Qin Feng rode toward the Soul-Cleansing Grounds as the level 13 leader of the River-Sea City rankings, then heard an eruption and felt the ground shake in the eastern City Ruins.
• Qin Feng wondered who had unleashed the Iron Maiden.

Qin Feng rode toward the Steel Saintess after learning that another player had triggered the Platinum Tier boss’s appearance. Along the way, he evolved several skills and equipped a necklace that raised his stealth level, then checked his new helmet.

• Qin Feng recognized the Steel Saintess and decided to claim the boss before other players could take her down.
• While riding to the ruins, Qin Feng evolved Silent Concealment to Epic Grade and Deadly Poison Dart to Epic Grade.
• Qin Feng evolved Coup de Grace to Mythic Tier, greatly expanding weak points and enabling most strikes of Instant Shadow Slash to deal weak-point damage.
• Qin Feng replaced his Believer Pendant with the Trickster Pendant, raising his stealth level to 4 and increasing his attack and strength.
• Qin Feng turned his attention to a helmet he had obtained.

Qin Feng tested his evasion equipment and discovered that Blacklight Shield counted evasion from each source separately. He then found Chen Wuming’s team fighting the Steel Saintess and slaughtered them, leaving Chen Wuming dead as well.

• Qin Feng equipped Shadow Veil and learned that its evasion and Ghostly Blur each granted separate layers of Blacklight Shield.
• Qin Feng rode the invisible Ghost Night-Walking Wolf to the Steel Saintess’s battlefield and spotted Chen Wuming leading the fight.
• Qin Feng recognized Chen Wuming as the leader of Knight’s Sanctuary, a guild that taxed members’ lifespan heavily and barred them from leaving for three years.
• Qin Feng ambushed the group with Dark Night Ring Blade, killing many players in a single attack.
• Qin Feng told Chen Wuming, “I don't eat beef,” then killed him and his leopard with a flurry of blade strikes.

Qin Feng killed Chen Wuming and the Knight's Sanctuary players surrounding the Steel Saintess, then drained their lifespans with Blooming Curse. He began fighting the boss cautiously, planning around its lethal damage reflection, as more players arrived nearby.

• Qin Feng killed Chen Wuming and several Knight's Sanctuary members, then cast Blooming Curse on their corpses to drain their lifespans.
• Chen Wuming resurrected far from the boss and learned that the curse had stripped the survivors of all their Tradable Lifespan and most of their Non-Tradable Lifespan.
• Qin Feng noticed Xiaoyou Ya among the victims but left her fate alone and turned his attention back to the Steel Saintess.
• After dodging the boss's area attack, Qin Feng struck it with Instant Shadow Slash, dealing over sixty thousand damage to its weak points.
• Qin Feng avoided pushing the Steel Saintess below half health, since its second phase reflected all damage, and waited for safe attack openings.
• More players were drawn to the Steel Saintess by the commotion.

Qin Feng drove the Steel Saintess into its second phase, where its damage reflection became persistent while it stood motionless. Safety First arrived to challenge the boss, but its reflected damage killed him instantly.

• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash with Blacklight Shield and survived the Steel Saintess's reflected attacks as it transformed at half health.
• The Steel Saintess stopped moving, and Qin Feng waited in stealth for an opportunity to finish the fight.
• Safety First arrived with Little Rabbit and his teammates, who used stealth detection but failed to find Qin Feng.
• Safety First approached the Steel Saintess and dodged its two iron-wheel attacks with rolls.
• Safety First struck the Steel Saintess with three slashes, but the reflected damage emptied his health bar and killed him.

Qin Feng exploited the Steel Saintess’s attack pattern to defeat the Platinum Tier boss while the surrounding players watched in awe. He kept ownership of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, received a tradable Church Sanctuary Hideout Key, and secretly looted the boss’s corpse.

• Qin Feng followed the Steel Saintess in stealth after Safety First died from reflected damage, then revealed himself and used Blacklight Shield to bait her attacks while striking her weak-point core.
• Qin Feng killed a player who tried to take Safety First’s lifespan orb, then repeated his attack-and-retreat strategy against the boss as nearby players watched.
• Qin Feng used Blacklight Shield to withstand the Steel Saintess’s flames and finished her with Instant Shadow Slash.
• The system granted Qin Feng ownership of both the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and Church Sanctuary, so he kept the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and received a Church Sanctuary Hideout Key.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand beneath the boss’s corpse to secretly collect its loot.

After defeating the Steel Saintess, Qin Feng equipped her Jadeite Tier armor, evolved Assassin's Intuition and Ghostly Blur, and gathered loot to trade with Wang Meng's party. He met them outside the Church Sanctuary Hideout, where An Yu was astonished that he had reached level 13 overnight.

• Qin Feng replaced his Resentment Leather Armor with Black Flame's Gift · Bone-Piercing Leather Armor and learned Assassin's Intuition.
• Qin Feng evolved Assassin's Intuition to Legendary Tier, gaining level 5 invisibility detection and a 50% weak-point attack modifier.
• Qin Feng evolved Ghostly Blur to Legendary Tier, raising his evasion to 85% and granting immunity to all damage when evasion triggered.
• Qin Feng collected the Steel Saintess's loot, contacted Wang Meng about a trade, and rode invisibly to a secluded spot outside the Church Sanctuary Hideout.
• Qin Feng killed a group of Clusterers and nearby mobs while waiting for Wang Meng, An Yu, and the others to arrive.
• An Yu eagerly greeted Qin Feng and marveled that he had reached level 13 in a single night.