Recaps

Qin Feng arranged for Shiluohua’s Desert Sand Clan to cooperate with Dance of the Moon after Scorpion King’s death, then left the Deep Blue Civilization. He headed for the Golden Portal back to Blue Star with upgraded loot and plans to pursue his next objectives.

• Qin Feng introduced Shiluohua to Dance of the Moon and arranged for the Desert Sand Clan to seek refuge in Eastern Moon City if danger arose.
• Shiluohua led her people back to their hideout while Qin Feng secretly cleared nearby demons to protect them on the way.
• Qin Feng reflected on Scorpion King’s sacrifice and left the Desert Sand Clan to mourn him and rebuild.
• Qin Feng departed the desert and traveled toward the Golden Portal, intending to return to Blue Star after the third World Spine’s death.
• Qin Feng inspected his loot and found that synthesis had produced Immortal Tier Divinity Armament leggings and an Ancient Grade Assassin Skill Book.

Qin Feng evolved Hidden Killing Intent to Old-Day Tier and obtained the Immortal Tier leg armor Endless Collapse · World Shelter, which he could not yet equip. Meanwhile, Death Soul Song realized that someone had killed the World Spine twice and sent two players back to the Deep Blue Civilization to investigate.

• Qin Feng set Instant Annihilation as Hidden Killing Intent’s trigger skill, allowing normal attacks to activate it without consuming combo points.
• Qin Feng spent 210,000 evolution points to evolve Hidden Killing Intent to Old-Day Tier, removing the triggered finisher’s damage penalty and making its trigger chance rise after failures.
• Qin Feng examined Endless Collapse · World Shelter and noted its counterattack effect would work especially well with Hidden Killing Intent, but its level requirement prevented him from wearing it.
• At the Undead Temple, Death Soul Song was buried beneath metal fragments again and concluded that a third World Spine had been killed soon after respawning.
• Death Soul Song sent two Deep Blue Civilization players who had not used a Heart of Order back with Undead Familiar Talismans to investigate.

After the Deep Blue Civilization killed its third World Spine, the Land of Order began paying attention to its sudden rise. Death Soul Song sent Terminator and Wan Siqing back to kill Dance of the Moon and turn her into his familiar, leaving them to prepare for the mission with powerful Divinity Armaments.

• The Land of Order learned that the Deep Blue Civilization had killed its third World Spine and might soon ascend.
• Death Soul Song summoned Terminator and Wan Siqing, two Deep Blue Civilization powerhouses who had not used a Heart of Order.
• Death Soul Song ordered them to return and bring Dance of the Moon to him as a familiar, offering each three Hearts of Order for success.
• Death Soul Song warned them to gather information, cooperate with Asura Sirius if he was alive, and have one of them die and return to report if the mission went badly.
• Wan Siqing asked for powerful Divinity Armaments, and Death Soul Song promised them ten costly armaments each to use and keep if they succeeded.

Terminator and Wan Siqing received powerful Divinity Armament from Death Soul Song and prepared to return to the Deep Blue Civilization. Qin Feng learned the forms and mechanics of the final two World Spines, then began preparing Blue Star players for the fourth.

• Terminator and Wan Siqing received five pieces of Divinity Armament each and planned to return to the Deep Blue Civilization a day later.
• Qin Feng flew toward the Teleportation Array near Eastern Moon City after arranging legendary equipment for Blue Star's powerful players.
• Qin Feng learned from Asura Sirius's memories that the fourth World Spine was a giant plant with five connected trees that had to be killed within a few seconds.
• Qin Feng prepared to raise Blue Star players' combat power so they could land finishing blows on the five trees almost simultaneously.
• Qin Feng learned that the fifth World Spine was called World Spine · Sun and Moon, and that only the Angel Civilization, Demon Civilization, and Fairy World had defeated it.

Qin Feng considered the unknown fifth World Spine, Sun and Moon, before returning to Blue Star after two days away. While his absence sparked rumors and panic, Great Xia’s elite team killed a legendary boss, prompting foreign countries to demand help and compensation.

• Qin Feng realized that no information existed about World Spine: Sun and Moon and decided he would need to seek it from high-ranking members of the civilizations that had ascended.
• Qin Feng crossed several thousand kilometers and reached the Golden Portal that led back to Blue Star.
• As Dark Shadow remained gray on the rankings for two days, players worldwide spread rumors that Qin Feng had suffered a permanent misfortune, and hostile countries mocked Great Xia.
• On the third day of Qin Feng’s absence, the Great Xia Officials, the Sky Dome Guild’s leading squad, and Gui Ling defeated a legendary tier boss.
• Countries facing dangerous bosses denounced Dark Shadow and demanded compensation and help from Great Xia, while Great Xia prioritized its friendly countries.
• Players from certain countries decided to stir up trouble over Great Xia’s response.

After Qin Feng disappeared, the Cooperation Association threatened Great Xia by taking over a million Great Xia players abroad hostage with the help of five Legendary Tier bosses. As Great Xia's officials struggled to find a solution, Dark Shadow returned.

• The Cooperation Association formed from Sakura Country, Great Cold Country, Tianzhu Country, Great Australia, and North America's New Gold Mountain region partnered with five Legendary Tier bosses and used Great Xia players abroad as hostages.
• The Cooperation Association demanded that Great Xia help defeat other powerful bosses and give it the loot, while Dark Shadow would have to surrender half the loot from every boss above Legendary Tier he killed.
• Great Xia's officials realized they could not defeat all five bosses at once without risking the hostages, and considered taking foreign players in Great Xia hostage in response.
• Great Xia players and officials saw Dark Shadow's name light up on their friend lists and the level leaderboard, confirming that he had returned.

Qin Feng returned from the Deep Blue Civilization and learned that five countries had formed a Cooperation Association to pressure Great Xia while his Codename was gray. He summoned Great Xia’s strongest fighters to Evil Spirit Academy, intending to strengthen them for future battles, and left Gui Ling preparing to join them.

• Qin Feng returned through the Golden Portal and discovered he could still enter the game on Blue Star, then learned his absence had prompted five countries to recruit Legendary Tier bosses and threaten Great Xia.
• Late Night, Light Rain reported the Cooperation Association’s actions, and Qin Feng told the Great Xia fighters to come to Evil Spirit Academy.
• Qin Feng messaged Gui Ling about her experience and told her to level up before returning, planning to give her an Ancient Grade Assassin dagger adjusted for her level.
• One hundred of Great Xia’s strongest fighters gathered at Evil Spirit Academy within five minutes and waited for Qin Feng in the Sky Dome Guild’s meeting hall.
• Qin Feng left Gui Ling to put on her pants and headed to meet the assembled fighters.

Qin Feng gave Great Xia's strongest players prolonged invincibility and Legendary Tier equipment so they could defeat five enemy bosses. He left them to lead the operation and teleported to Dunhuang to check on Gray Chicken and Strange Bro.

• Qin Feng lowered the level requirements of his dagger and Immortal Tier leggings, then met Great Xia's strongest players at Evil Spirit Academy.
• Qin Feng demonstrated that Holy Angel's Protection could grant the group nearly 49 hours of invincibility, stunning everyone present.
• Qin Feng offered to sell the experts ten pieces of Legendary Tier equipment each, and the Great Xia Officials arranged an installment loan to pay for a thousand pieces.
• After receiving 60 million years of lifespan and distributing the equipment, Qin Feng sent the experts to attack the five Legendary Tier bosses while he left them to gain experience.
• Qin Feng teleported to Dunhuang to check on Gray Chicken and Strange Bro and prepare to farm more Hell Fruits.

The Tata Group lured the Legendary Tier Four-Faced Bronze Buddha into Myanmar to attack the Great Xia United Association, trapping players from three guilds. With the boss’s affixes disabled, Brother Jie charged into its mouth to attack.

• The Tata Group led the Four-Faced Bronze Buddha into territory controlled by the Great Xia United Association, with Myanmar’s military and civilian forces cooperating.
• The Four-Faced Bronze Buddha trapped players from three guilds in Kachin State with its Instant Death Affix, forcing the Great Xia United Association to seek help.
• The trapped players feared Dark Shadow might not come because Legendary Tier bosses were also holding hostages elsewhere.
• Wither Woman, Wisp of Smoke, Brother Jie, and their companions arrived above the lake, and five of them attacked the boss.
• Their attacks filled the Four-Faced Bronze Buddha’s stripping gauge to 100%, disabling its greater affixes, and Brother Jie leaped into the mouth of its Joyful-Faced Bronze Buddha to strike it.

Great Xia’s powerhouses overwhelmed the Four-Faced Bronze Buddha and the other legendary bosses, shattering the Five-Country Cooperation Association’s plan. With the bosses dead, Qin Feng was poised to make the countries responsible pay.

• Wisp of Smoke weakened the Four-Faced Bronze Buddha while Brother Jie and more than twenty Great Xia fighters forced it into its second phase within seconds.
• The Four-Faced Bronze Buddha’s attacks failed against their immortal-tier invincibility, and representatives from Tianzhu Country and Myanmar realized the plan was collapsing.
• Representatives from Sakura Country, Great Cold Country, Great Australia, and New Gold Mountain reported that Great Xia’s teams were defeating their legendary bosses.
• System notifications announced the deaths of five legendary tier bosses, slain by familiar Great Xia players rather than Dark Shadow.
• The Five-Country Cooperation Association’s plan failed, and Qin Feng prepared to make its members pay.

After returning, Qin Feng ordered Gui Ling and Luti Xier to eliminate the Five-Country Cooperation Association’s leaders, resolving the threat with little effort. He then reunited with Gray Chicken and Strange Bro outside the Dunhuang Ruins and prepared to evolve Gray Chicken to Mythic Tier.

• Gui Ling assassinated Tata Group Guild Leader Sanjay and his son Firoz, then killed the guild’s senior members under Qin Feng’s orders.
• Luti Xier attacked Blue Whale’s Hideout in Great Australia, killing decision-makers who logged in to escape and beheading those who managed to log out.
• Gui Ling used intelligence gathered by the Great Xia Officials to hunt down the Five-Country Cooperation Association’s leaders worldwide and collect their lifespan.
• Qin Feng found Gray Chicken and Strange Bro playing an idiom chain game outside the Dunhuang Ruins, and agreed to stay beside Strange Bro for a day so Gray Chicken could join the guild.
• Qin Feng revealed that he had enough Legendary Tier and Mythic Tier Blood Souls to evolve Gray Chicken, then brought out the Blood Devouring Book.

Qin Feng sent his Abyss Puppet to support Matsushita Xingyue as she prepared to fight a Legendary Tier boss in Nankaidō, hoping to bolster Sakura Country players’ faith in her supposed secret weapon. The chapter ended as Matsushita and several hundred local players set out to face the boss, uncertain how they could win without revealing Qin Feng’s involvement.

• Wang Meng’s team defeated the Legendary Tier boss Three-Eyed Child, and An Yu left six members of Great Xia’s legendary squad to protect the Dragon Sparrow Guild.
• Great Xia’s legendary squad spread across the world, strengthening Great Xia’s influence and protecting local players from powerful bosses.
• Qin Feng sent his Abyss Puppet to assist Matsushita Xingyue and reinforce Sakura Country players’ confidence in her secret weapon.
• Outside the Nankaidō Ruins, the Legendary Tier boss Evil Eye Demon · Dragon-Slaying Blade slaughtered over a hundred Sakura Country players and grew stronger by absorbing their attributes.
• Matsushita Xingyue gathered several hundred powerful players and prepared to fight the boss, while worrying that using invincibility would expose her connection to Dark Shadow.

Matsushita Xingyue led Sakura Country players to a legendary boss immobilized by Qin Feng, letting them kill it while believing she controlled a secret weapon. The kill inspired donations of lifespan to Matsushita Xingyue, and Qin Feng learned they had already exceeded a hundred thousand years.

• Qin Feng told Matsushita Xingyue to gather every local player with the stripping affix and bring them to the boss.
• Matsushita Xingyue and the Sakura Country players found the boss immobilized by Qin Feng’s Void Lock and Death Disaster, then attacked it.
• Qin Feng reflected that his attempt to use Small Eyes of Death to extend Void Lock indefinitely had failed because the skill itself still lasted only twelve seconds.
• After half an hour, the Sakura Country players killed the legendary boss, and the global announcement shocked players around the world.
• Matsushita Xingyue told Qin Feng that Sakura Country players had donated over a hundred thousand years of lifespan in five minutes, and he asked if she was reluctant to give it up.

Qin Feng profited from Sakura Country’s protection-fee donations while his allies expanded their control across Blue Star. In Dunhuang, Gray Chicken evolved into a mythic-tier Hell Phoenix with powerful new skills, though he still needed rare materials to grow larger.

• Qin Feng warned Matsushita Xingyue to refuse any future requests for help, then secretly took the legendary boss’s loot after its corpse exploded.
• Sakura Country’s citizens donated a million years of lifespan in five hours, while Qin Feng considered raising protection fees elsewhere.
• Verzhini, Shulakimir, and mythic-tier Shuddering Joker dealt with regional bosses and demanded protection fees, as Shuddering Joker’s influence spread across North America.
• Qin Feng estimated that Blue Star could provide him with five to eight million years of lifespan daily and told Dance of the Moon, Ye Sina, Wu Dile, and others not to farm monsters in the Deep Blue Civilization.
• Qin Feng used the Blood Devouring Book to raise Gray Chicken first to legendary tier and then to mythic tier.
• Gray Chicken gained skills that converted his health into Qin Feng’s health and empowered his attacks, becoming a formidable Hell Phoenix.

Qin Feng celebrated Gray Chicken’s powerful new abilities and gathered Eldritch God Runes while waiting for Strange Bro to join his guild. Strange Bro became a lucrative NPC shopkeeper, and Qin Feng prepared to use a Hell Fruit to improve Gray Chicken before returning to the Path of Finality.

• Gray Chicken’s evolutions gave it extreme survivability and attacks strengthened by Qin Feng’s damage bonuses, while its health bonus raised Qin Feng’s maximum health to 570 million.
• Gray Chicken asked whether an Ancient Grade evolution might let it fuse with Qin Feng, who rejected the idea as Strange Bro teased it about looking like a crow.
• Qin Feng sent the Abyss Puppet around the world to collect lifespan and four Eldritch God Runes, then offered an Ascension Scroll to anyone who found the Goddess of Love’s Tomb.
• After Gray Chicken spent seven days with Strange Bro and Qin Feng passed the test, Strange Bro joined Shadow as an NPC with the highest permissions.
• Qin Feng learned that Strange Bro’s shops could earn him thirty million years of lifespan in taxes over seven days, but Strange Bro had to remain at a seaside cliff near Magic City.
• Qin Feng planned to improve Gray Chicken with a Hell Fruit before heading to the Path of Finality.

Qin Feng helped Gray Chicken reroll its Hell skills until it learned the Ancient Grade Annihilation Blackflame, then went to the Path of Finality and considered why the Great Xia players were not progressing as quickly as expected. The chapter left him overhearing An Yu and Gu Yixue wonder why Dark Shadow was absent from the Abyssal Path leaderboard.

• Qin Feng had the Abyss Puppet collect Hell Fruits bought by Queen K and gave Gray Chicken Hell Fruits to learn a third skill.
• Gray Chicken rerolled its skills and learned Ancient Grade Annihilation Blackflame, which greatly increased the fire damage its target took.
• Qin Feng sent Strange Bro back to Magic City and told Late Night, Light Rain to arrange buyers for Strange Bro's goods.
• Qin Feng visited the Path of Finality and saw that Black Plum Big Li, An Yu, and Gu Yixue were on the Abyssal Path leaderboard.
• Qin Feng learned from Lingche that eligibility for the Path of Despair and Path of Finality was partly affected by whether players had obtained their equipment and skill books themselves.
• An Yu and Gu Yixue discussed why Dark Shadow's name was missing from the Abyssal Path leaderboard as Qin Feng passed by.

Qin Feng entered the third stage of the Path of Finality, where he had to defeat ten avatars of Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated while accepting a negative effect before each fight. The Demon King increased the severity of Qin Feng’s chosen effects in exchange for greater rewards, and Qin Feng began the challenge by accepting an 85% reduction to his defense and elemental resistance.

• Qin Feng copied Sister Yuan’s attributes, Endless Lightning Chain Whip skill, and Perfect Vortex equipment effect before entering the third stage.
• Qin Feng appeared in a dark chamber with a blood-red Demon Well and a dormant red demon whose wings were broken.
• The system announced that Qin Feng had to defeat ten Demon King avatars, choosing a negative effect before each fight.
• Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated recognized the angel’s ring on Qin Feng’s hand and raised each negative effect by one tier, increasing the potential rewards.
• Lingche warned Qin Feng that the Demon King was a primordial demon whose destructive fighting style demanded high stats.
• Qin Feng chose the third negative effect, reducing his base defense and elemental resistance by 85% for the challenge.

Qin Feng fought the level 50 Bloodcolor Demon Bear · Demon King's Avatar and killed it in less than half a second despite its immense defenses and sonic attacks. Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated was left stunned by Qin Feng's overwhelming damage.

• Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated summoned the Bloodcolor Demon Bear · Demon King's Avatar, a level 50 creature with 150 billion HP.
• Qin Feng turned invisible and struck the Bloodcolor Demon Bear with Annihilation Blade, dealing over 10 billion damage as it sprinted away.
• The Bloodcolor Demon Bear attacked with rapid sonic waves that stripped away Qin Feng's unassailable affix, while his Small Eyes of Death increased the bear's damage taken.
• Qin Feng enlarged the White Bud Blade and triggered Instant Annihilation, dealing over 744 billion damage and killing the Bloodcolor Demon Bear.
• Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated was shocked by the damage Qin Feng had dealt to his avatar.

Qin Feng rejected Demon King Shifang Jiumie's offer to enter the Demon Well and chose an 85% reduction to his physical attack for the second challenge. He defeated the Three-Headed Hellhound King's Avatar with Death Venom after its Blood Shield stopped his Demon Shadow Blades.

• Demon King Shifang Jiumie praised Qin Feng and offered to make the remaining challenges easier if he jumped into the Demon Well, but Qin Feng refused.
• Qin Feng selected an 85% reduction to his physical attack as the final penalty for the second round.
• Demon King Shifang Jiumie summoned the Three-Headed Hellhound King's Avatar, and Qin Feng attacked it with Demon Shadow Blades while dodging its blood attacks unseen.
• The Hellhound's Blood Shield blocked Qin Feng's projectiles, but Death Venom drained all three of its health bars.

Qin Feng endured a series of increasingly severe penalties while defeating five Demon King avatars with powerful attacks and lifesteal. He chose an 85% reduction to all attributes for the sixth challenge, leaving his stats drastically weakened as the next battle approached.

• Qin Feng took an 85% hit adjustment reduction, then used Eye of Destiny and Echo of the Shelter to kill the fast Muscle Giant Bird with Instant Annihilation.
• Qin Feng overcame an 85% reduction to total damage dealt by activating Blood Cry and instantly killed the Hellfire Giant.
• Qin Feng faced disabled damage reduction effects as the Airburst Tumor’s blasts nearly depleted his health and shortened his buffs.
• Qin Feng entered Hunting State and killed the Airburst Tumor with Annihilation Blade, restoring his health through lifesteal.
• Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated expected an 85% all-attribute reduction to cripple Qin Feng, who selected that penalty and prepared to face the sixth challenge.

Qin Feng defeated the Bloodcolor Three-Tailed Wolf by immobilizing it with Bone Authority and overwhelming it with Demon Shadow Blade and Instant Annihilation. For the seventh round, he chose an 85% reduction to buff duration, then had Gray Chicken burn him so he could build Dark Shadow Veil stacks and extend Dark Shadow Arc before the next Demon King avatar appeared.

• Demon King · Ten Directions Annihilated summoned a fast Bloodcolor Three-Tailed Wolf that left lingering trails of damaging blood-colored flames.
• Qin Feng used Bone Authority and Death Disaster to immobilize the Three-Tailed Wolf, then attacked it with Demon Shadow Blades despite its adaptation reducing repeated damage.
• Qin Feng and his Shadow Clones finished the weakened wolf with basic attacks and two activations of Instant Annihilation.
• Qin Feng entered the seventh round and chose to reduce his buff duration by 85%, leaving Dark Shadow Arc as his main defense with only 100 HP.
• Qin Feng summoned Gray Chicken, whose Hellfire repeatedly hit or missed him and built Dark Shadow Veil to 100 stacks, extending Dark Shadow Arc to 1,326 seconds.

Qin Feng faced the Demon King's seventh avatar, the Bloodcolor Twin-Blade Mantis, whose speed, buff-shortening attacks, and defenses made his usual tactics fail. After surviving its assaults and testing several counters, he switched to Crimson Blade to exploit its stronger damage against healthy targets.

• The Bloodcolor Twin-Blade Mantis spotted Qin Feng and attacked, dealing lethal damage and shortening his buff durations with each hit.
• Qin Feng used Darkness Burst and Small Eyes of Death to blind the mantis, but it cleared the status effects and resumed its attacks.
• Qin Feng tried Echo of the Shelter and returned basic attacks, but the mantis blocked them and prevented Hidden Killing Intent from triggering.
• Qin Feng timed his attacks against the mantis, but its bloody light repeatedly cleared the stacking instant-death effect.
• Qin Feng switched Hidden Killing Intent's finishing move to Crimson Blade, whose blood damage and health-based bonuses were less affected by his weakened physical damage.

Qin Feng defeated the Bloodcolor Twin-Blade Mantis and the Dark Stone Stele, with Gray Chicken delivering the final blow to the stele. He chose another punishing negative effect and faced the terrifying Seven-Kill Demon, whose stacked damage reduction and execution ability threatened him.

• Qin Feng used basic attacks, evasion, and repeated Kneel, Great Emperor! to control and defeat the Bloodcolor Twin-Blade Mantis.
• Qin Feng selected a negative effect that increased greater affix gauge buildup speed by 1,500%, then the Dark Stone Stele bound him and dealt massive damage.
• Qin Feng ordered Gray Chicken to destroy the stele, and Gray Chicken's Hellfire burned through its 800 billion health in one blast.
• Qin Feng chose an 85% movement speed reduction as his next negative effect and summoned the ninth-round avatar.
• Qin Feng identified the Seven-Kill Demon’s 900 billion health, execution ability, and damage reduction that increased with its greater affix gauges.

Qin Feng survived the Seven-Kill Demon’s lethal attacks by using Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale and Ultimate Darkness · Hand of Calamity, then returned the Demon’s accumulated debuffs. The Seven-Kill Demon cleansed the debuffs and gained seven layers of damage reduction, leaving Qin Feng unable to defeat him with his current attacks as he prepared to try another approach.

• Qin Feng used Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale to absorb the Seven-Kill Demon’s greater affix buildup and survive his rapid attacks.
• The Seven-Kill Demon’s strikes shortened Qin Feng’s buff duration until Ultimate Darkness · Hand of Calamity cleared the negative effects and restored Dark Shadow Arc.
• Qin Feng reflected the removed debuffs onto the Seven-Kill Demon, reducing his evasion to zero and drastically shortening his buff duration.
• The Seven-Kill Demon became invincible inside a blood-mist shield, cleansed the debuffs, and gained seven layers of 80% damage reduction.
• Qin Feng realized he could not damage the Seven-Kill Demon enough and decided to use a different approach.

Qin Feng discovered that dying would free him from the Path of Finality Challenge’s 85% suppression, then used his Deathwing Angel Bloodline and Abyss Puppet to defeat the Seven-Kill Demon. The Demon King avatar fell, leaving the final avatar as Qin Feng’s remaining opponent.

• Qin Feng realized Death Is No Suffering could let him fight after death and remove the challenge’s suppression.
• The Seven-Kill Demon reduced Qin Feng’s Dark Shadow Arc to half a second and killed him, triggering Death Is No Suffering and restoring his strength.
• Qin Feng charged Bone-Splitting Blade while the Seven-Kill Demon dismissed the threat, and Qin Feng’s Abyss Puppet appeared behind him.
• The puppet used Kneel, Great Emperor! to immobilize the Seven-Kill Demon as Qin Feng’s Bone-Splitting Blade removed two damage reduction effects.
• Qin Feng, his Abyss Puppet, and his Shadow Clones attacked together, triggering Instant Annihilation and killing the Seven-Kill Demon.