Recaps

After Gray Chicken killed the Ancient Grade boss, Qin Feng consolidated the surviving Deep Blue players under his command and established the Deep Blue Council. The chapter ended with the council building its headquarters beside the golden Teleportation Array to Blue Star.

• Gray Chicken instantly killed the Ancient Grade Mystic Trick Box, impressing the gathered players and raising their affection toward him.
• Qin Feng tallied the attribute boosts he had gained and ordered Wan Siqing and Terminator to gather and defend their clans’ survivors.
• Qin Feng put Gray Chicken in charge of uniting the remaining Deep Blue players, and the Deep Blue Council was established with Qin Feng as guild leader and seven councilors representing the major clans.
• The Northern Ice Clan sent Bloodied Giant Bear to join the council, while Sodes temporarily represented the Great Mountain Clan in place of his dead brother Som.
• The council built its headquarters beside the golden Teleportation Array connecting Deep Blue to Blue Star.

Qin Feng helped unite the Deep Blue Civilization and became known as its “Shadow Emperor” while preparing it to ascend. As the fourth World Spine’s spawn approached, Dance of the Moon told him her clan had found the Paper Craftsman he needed to deal with the Abyss World.

• Gray Chicken protected the construction of the Deep Blue Council headquarters, while Qin Feng cleared Demons around the site and the builders completed the tower in four days.
• The Deep Blue Council rallied the civilization toward ascension, and the clans opened their Teleportation Arrays to help players support one another and summon Qin Feng’s aid.
• Qin Feng used the network to kill three Mythic-Tier BOSSes, earning the title “Shadow Emperor” as the remaining population united behind him.
• Ye Sina managed the ascension tax, which brought Qin Feng more than seven million years of lifespan each day, while Death Soul Song and others awaited the fourth World Spine.
• Qin Feng discovered that he could not inspect Dance of the Moon’s Affection level and suspected she had another Minor Authority, though Lingche refused to reveal it.
• Dance of the Moon told Qin Feng that her clan had found a level 22 Paper Craftsman whose family had relocated to Eastern Moon City.

Dance of the Moon arranged for Youlian, a level 22 Paper Craftsman, to receive the Phoenix Order’s support and spend vast amounts of lifespan leveling up. Qin Feng expected that training her to level 45 would take 10–12 days, after which she could make living paper effigies that copied his skills.

• Dance of the Moon told Youlian and her parents that Mr. Shadow had assigned the Phoenix Order to help develop her class and cover its lifespan costs.
• Dance of the Moon explained that Youlian would make a thousand level 27 effigies, use them to farm monsters, and change models every five levels until she reached level 45.
• Ye Sina and Bishop Jubi arrived, and Ye Sina took Youlian away under her protection to begin training.
• Qin Feng received Ye Sina’s message that Youlian had been picked up and estimated that leveling her from 22 to 45 would take 10–12 days because crafting time would slow her progress.

Qin Feng learned that the Deep Blue Civilization’s fourth World Spine had spawned as five giant trees across the planet, drawing demons toward nearby settlements. He arrived at one tree and planned to weaken it so Terminator and Wan Siqing’s teams could help kill all five within the 1.7-second resurrection window.

• The Deep Blue Civilization’s fourth World Spine emerged as five colossal trees, and Qin Feng received their locations.
• A Heavenfire Clan branch tribe that had refused to join the Deep Blue Council was trapped in its Hideout as demons besieged it, and its players called for Qin Feng’s help.
• The Divine Wood Clan requested aid after one of its elite squads was trapped near a World Spine, and Qin Feng teleported to Divine Wood Village before flying toward the tree.
• Qin Feng examined the Ancient Grade World Spine and learned that all five trees had to die within 1.7 seconds to prevent resurrection.
• Qin Feng planned to kill two trees himself and weaken two others for Terminator and Wan Siqing’s groups to finish.

A team from Divine Wood Village was trapped beneath the World Spine · Giant Tree, whose vines overwhelmed their defenses. As the team struggled to survive, a priest announced that Shadow Emperor was coming, though the defenders feared he might not arrive in time.

• The World Spine · Giant Tree trapped a sixty-person team in a cage of vines and battered their Defensive Barrier.
• Eye of Knowledge · Zhendeshiduo welcomed the chance to collect information about the rare fourth World Spine, despite the danger.
• The black-clad young man spent hundreds of years of lifespan each second to maintain his Quantum Barrier against the vines.
• The team learned that Shadow Emperor was on his way, but the young man doubted he could reach them before the vines overwhelmed them.

Qin Feng arrived as the Divine Wood Clan players faced World Spine · Giant Tree, destroyed its vines, and pushed it into its next phase. He protected Wan Siqing’s reinforcements and the survivors with nearly an hour of invincibility, leaving them ready to charge through the boss’s mechanics.

• The Divine Wood Clan’s young man in black doubted the claims about Shadow 007 while he and the others struggled against World Spine · Giant Tree’s vines.
• Qin Feng’s Demon Shadow Blade created more than a thousand spinning blades that destroyed all 36 vines in less than 0.1 seconds.
• Qin Feng dodged the boss’s blood-red fruits as his attacks reduced its health to 75% and triggered its invincible phase, astonishing the young man in black and Zhen De Shiduo.
• Qin Feng recognized that the group needed to use the blood-red cone fruits to destroy the boss’s descending vines and waited for Wan Siqing’s reinforcements.
• Wan Siqing arrived with 300 Heavenfire Clan powerhouses, and Qin Feng’s Holy Angel’s Protection granted them, the Divine Wood Clan players, and Zhen De Shiduo nearly an hour of invincibility.
• Wan Siqing’s reinforcements charged for Shadow Emperor after discovering their protection, while Zhen De Shiduo marveled at the effect.

Qin Feng gave the Heavenfire and Divine Wood Clan players an hour of invincibility so they could destroy World Spine · Giant Tree’s vines. After they exposed its true form, Qin Feng dealt enough damage to force it back into its invincibility phase, leaving the gathered experts stunned by the gap between his strength and theirs.

• Qin Feng used the Queen Angel’s Holy Seal to grant the Heavenfire Clan and Divine Wood Clan players an hour of invincibility.
• Wan Siqing’s Heavenfire Clan experts lured the blood-red cones toward the green vines and destroyed them, while the Divine Wood Clan players joined the attack.
• The black-clad Divine Wood Clan player who had doubted Qin Feng became awestruck, and Zhen De Shiduo turned its attention from the fourth World Spine to Qin Feng.
• After the players destroyed the hanging vines, Qin Feng unleashed thousands of Demon Shadow Blades and removed 25% of World Spine · Giant Tree’s health in one second.
• The players marveled at the ten-million-fold damage gap, and Wan Siqing told them Qin Feng was only doing casual damage while preparing to fight the other four giant trees.

Qin Feng defeated World Spine · Giant Tree by overpowering its mechanics and carefully managing its regeneration, then traveled to Icecrack Grand Canyon to challenge another giant tree. Meanwhile, Wan Siqing warned others that a super genius from Blue Star might surpass Shadow Emperor, as Qin Feng set out with five hundred fighters.

• Qin Feng's Invincibility let the players ignore the woven vines' instant-kill mechanic while they destroyed the flowers covering them.
• Qin Feng's Demon Shadow Blades accidentally killed World Spine · Giant Tree during its regeneration phase, so he repeated the fight and controlled his damage to leave the boss with only a sliver of health for the others.
• Eye of Knowledge · Zhendeshiduo praised Qin Feng, but Wan Siqing said a super genius from Blue Star had taken top records in several challenges and might be stronger than Shadow Emperor.
• Qin Feng teleported to Icecrack Grand Canyon, where Terminator had gathered five hundred fighters from the Steelforging Clan and Northern Ice Clan.
• Qin Feng flew toward the enormous tree, sneezed, and wondered who was talking about him.

Qin Feng and his allies destroyed all five World Spine giant trees across the Deep Blue Civilization and entered the portals to their hearts. They began attacking the fourth tree’s true form, a 188-trillion-health Giant Tree Heart.

• Qin Feng granted invincibility to Terminator and his subordinates, then helped them reduce the Icecrack Grand Canyon tree’s health while his Abyss Puppet and Gray Chicken attacked trees elsewhere.
• Qin Feng ignored a besieged Guild Hideout whose players had refused to join the Deep Blue Council, while its defenders begged him for help.
• Qin Feng, his Abyss Puppet, and Gray Chicken struck alongside Wan Siqing and Terminator, reducing all five World Spine trees to zero health almost simultaneously.
• The surviving players watched the trees wither and regretted rejecting the Deep Blue Council, as Demons continued overrunning their Hideout.
• Qin Feng and the other players entered the portals opened by the dead trees and reached the underground Giant Tree Hearts.
• Wan Siqing and Terminator began attacking the fourth tree’s 188-trillion-health heart as Qin Feng joined them.

Qin Feng killed the fourth World Spine in the Deep Blue Civilization and turned it into an undead familiar before killing it again, sending its enormous remains to Death Soul Song. The victory removed another seal from Bone Authority, leaving Qin Feng with only one layer to break and a vast trove of high-grade loot.

• Qin Feng entered the World Spine’s inner space and killed its giant heart with one Annihilation Blade strike.
• Qin Feng used an Undead Familiar Talisman on the giant tree heart, then killed it again and summoned its remains to Death Soul Song.
• Death Soul Song was crushed by the World Spine’s remains and decided to rely on a Blue Star genius to defeat the Deep Blue Civilization’s emerging genius.
• Qin Feng’s Bone Authority lost its eighth seal, leaving one seal remaining.
• Qin Feng checked the loot and found more than four hundred Ancient Grade items, over a hundred Immortal Tier items, and several Ascension Scrolls.

Qin Feng used the Immortal Tier Easy to Use order on Bone Authority, lowering equipment and Skill Book requirements while preparing to put his loot to use. He considered giving Gui Ling a resurrection order and the Immortal Tier World Belt before leveling up to use his newly acquired equipment and skills.

• Qin Feng examined the Immortal Tier Easy to Use order and applied it to Bone Authority, removing eight levels of requirements from equipment and Skill Books.
• Qin Feng considered selling the other Ancient Grade Ascension Scrolls to the Great Xia Officials and giving Gui Ling the resurrection order to help her challenge the tenth floor of the Path of Despair.
• Qin Feng considered giving Gui Ling the Immortal Tier World Belt, which gathered the divinity of equipped items and increased the divinity limit by 40%.
• Qin Feng realized Easy to Use, together with the Supreme Simplicity Pendant and Divine Weapon's Blessing, would let him use level 68 equipment at level 60 and learn level 68 skills at level 52.
• Qin Feng decided to level up using his available experience points.

Qin Feng synthesized an Old-Day Tier Assassin skill and discovered that his Infinite Evolution talent could potentially evolve skills beyond Old-Day Tier. After consuming two unwanted skills for Spirit Devourer and joking with White Bud, he synthesized two pieces of Old-Day Tier equipment.

• Qin Feng combined five Immortal Tier Assassin skill books into Space-Shattering Shadow Kill, which let him travel through space and create four freely controlled shadow clones.
• Qin Feng asked Lingche whether an Old-Day Tier skill could advance by gaining accumulation years, and learned that only his Infinite Evolution talent could evolve a skill to a higher tier.
• Qin Feng learned the two remaining Assassin skills, evolved one, and fed both to Spirit Devourer for combat attributes.
• Qin Feng teased White Bud about replacing it, then used ten Immortal Tier Assassin equipment pieces to synthesize two initial Old-Day Tier items.

Qin Feng transferred two useful effects from newly synthesized leggings onto his current equipment, gaining stealth and an area skill that rapidly shortened nearby enemies’ buff durations. He then considered the rewards awaiting the Deep Blue Civilization after it defeated the final World Spine, Sun and Moon, which was due to emerge in one month.

• Qin Feng found that his synthesized leggings were less useful as equipment, but Shadow Stealth's Wrath had effects he could transfer to his current leggings.
• Qin Feng gained 32 stealth levels and Shadow Wrath, which reduced nearby enemies’ buff durations and had an effective range of 9.5 kilometers.
• Qin Feng decided to give the Blood-Red Bleeding Leggings to Sister Yuan so she could put them on and blow them up.
• Qin Feng recalled that the fifth World Spine, Sun and Moon, would emerge in one month and that killing it could let the Deep Blue Civilization ascend in the strongest possible fashion.
• Qin Feng reviewed Shaowei’s information that ascension rewards included individual prizes, civilization moons, and improved odds of awakening high-tier talents.

After Qin Feng defeated the fourth World Spine, he learned that all nine Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments had been located and set out to collect them. News of the Deep Blue Civilization's instant victory spread across the Land of Order, drawing attention to the mysterious power behind it.

• Qin Feng considered how Civilization Ascension rewards, including Talent Seeds and Moon Orbits, could strengthen the Deep Blue Civilization and its players.
• The Deep Blue Civilization celebrated Qin Feng's defeat of the World Spine · Giant Tree, and four other teams received experience and reputation rewards.
• Qin Feng returned to the Stars Council headquarters, where the Star Church reported that the coordinates of all nine Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments had been found.
• Qin Feng decided to collect the seven fragments scattered across the Deep Blue Civilization, in addition to the two he already held.
• News of the Deep Blue Civilization's fourth World Spine victory spread throughout the Land of Order, while observers speculated about Death Soul Song's role in the instant kill.

After Deep Blue Civilization killed the fourth World Spine, factions across the Land of Order scrambled to choose sides, unaware that its rising powerhouse and Blue Star’s genius were both Qin Feng. Qin Feng dismissed Shaowei’s concerns and decided to use his new equipment to strengthen himself.

• News of Deep Blue Civilization killing the fourth World Spine spread, and players speculated that its rise was due to a super support-class genius who would clash with Blue Star.
• North American and Tianzhu players, hostile Temple factions, and Qin Wuyue sought contact with Deep Blue Civilization, while its Dark Temple Divine Envoy distanced himself from Death Soul Song.
• Little Fairy Shaowei warned Qin Feng that Deep Blue Civilization seemed formidable and offered to investigate its powerhouse, but Qin Feng told her it was no threat.
• Qin Feng considered selling his newly acquired equipment but chose to use it to strengthen his effects, while Shaowei had already earned him three hundred million years of lifespan from earlier sales.

Qin Feng received three hundred million years of lifespan from Shaowei and planned to collect the Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments before judging Advanced NPCs in the Deep Blue Civilization. He learned that the Mistfolk fragment was held by Elk Younger Sister, a woman tied to Vickly's past, who wanted to meet him in person.

• Shaowei told Qin Feng that selling his equipment had earned over three hundred million years of lifespan, which he accepted despite suspecting the Purple Fairy Clan might be using the sale to approach him.
• Qin Feng planned to use the Minor Authority of Love or the Minor Authority of Desirelessness to assess NPC strength before judging them, after collecting the remaining Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments.
• Qin Feng asked Shashaya to find the mask fragment among the Mistfolk, who were a small clan under her administration in the Deep Blue Civilization.
• Shashaya reported that the fragment belonged to someone codenamed Elk Younger Sister, who wanted to trade with Qin Feng in person and meet him.
• Qin Feng recognized Elk Younger Sister as the woman whose rejection had driven Vickly to become cruel in a past cycle, and realized she had survived and obtained a fragment.

Qin Feng traveled to the Mistfolk’s floating guild Hideout to collect Elk Younger Sister’s Judgment Ancient God’s Mask Fragment. She offered to get him an Ancient God Slate from her boyfriend if he added her as a friend, leaving Qin Feng confused.

• Qin Feng decided to visit Elk Younger Sister while planning to search for another mask fragment in nearby ruins.
• Qin Feng and Shashaya teleported to the Mist God's Blessing guild Hideout, where Mistfolk leaders and a Snow Clan team awaited them.
• Elk Younger Sister greeted Qin Feng and tried to add him as a friend, but Shashaya refused on security grounds.
• Elk Younger Sister told Shashaya she could obtain an Ancient God Slate from her boyfriend for Qin Feng if he added her as a friend.
• Shashaya relayed the offer to Qin Feng, who found it unbelievable.

Qin Feng rejected Elk Younger Sister’s attempt to trade an Ancient God Slate for a place on his friend list after discovering she had been cheating on Wu Tianxing and helping his older brother exploit her for political favors. He gave Wu Tianxing a Light and Shadow Crystal containing proof, and Wu Tianxing learned the truth after Qin Feng left.

• Qin Feng explained that he already had enough Ancient God Slates and refused to accept one from Elk Younger Sister in exchange for adding her as a friend.
• Wu Tianxing stepped forward as Elk Younger Sister’s boyfriend and offered to give Qin Feng an Ancient God Slate if it would earn her a chance.
• Qin Feng refused Elk Younger Sister, took the mask fragment, and used Memory Loss to view her memories.
• Qin Feng discovered that Elk Younger Sister was having an affair with Wu Tianxing’s older brother, who had also sent her to entertain powerful people for resources.
• Qin Feng gave Wu Tianxing a Light and Shadow Crystal containing Elk Younger Sister’s memories and left with Shashaya and the others.
• Wu Tianxing viewed the crystal’s memories and turned ashen after learning the truth.

Qin Feng retrieved another Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragment before learning that Shashaya and Wu Tianxing had purged Mist God's Blessing Guild's corrupt leaders. The Guild's former leaders and administrators were arrested for stealing resources and falsifying Lifespan tax accounts.

• Qin Feng traveled to a Nightmare Zone, solved the puzzles beyond a stone door, and obtained his fourth Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragment.
• Qin Feng returned to Mist God's Blessing Guild's Hideout and saw that more than a hundred people, including the former Guild Leader and Elk Younger Sister, had been confined in Lightning Cages.
• Shashaya reported that Wu Tianxing had led a rebellion after discovering his older brother's corruption, and Shashaya had supervised the purge.
• Shashaya and Wu Tianxing uncovered abuses including the theft of Guild equipment, the trafficking of missing women, and the leaders' falsification of Lifespan tax accounts.
• The Guild's members erupted in anger when they learned the withheld Lifespan had benefited only the corrupt leaders, who were arrested along with the administrators involved.

After the Mistfolk punished corrupt officials who had shorted Qin Feng’s protection fee, Qin Feng relied on the Deep Blue Council rather than accepting more direct subordinates. He then found the last two Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments in an abandoned Azure Merfolk city beneath the sea.

• Shashaya told Qin Feng that Wu Tianxing had executed the Mistfolk troublemakers, and Qin Feng refused Wu Tianxing’s offer to serve him directly.
• Qin Feng reflected that the Deep Blue Council and the Phoenix Order could enforce his interests without his personal intervention.
• Qin Feng reached a deep-sea Depleted Zone and discovered a vast, deserted city built by the extinct Azure Merfolk.
• Qin Feng recalled how powerful figures had enslaved Azure Merfolk and wondered whether they should return to their city after the Blue Star Civilization ascended.
• Qin Feng killed nearby Demons, solved the puzzle on two enormous seashells, and collected the final two Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments.

Qin Feng assembled the Judgment Ancient God's Mask and began its special challenge, facing the Ancient Grade bloodline boss Lost Gift · Five-Colored Withered Leaf. He discovered that its main body was invulnerable and its five butterflies could take only one point of damage, leaving him to search for the fight's mechanics while under relentless attack.

• Qin Feng obtained the final three Judgment Ancient God's Mask Fragments from Ye Sina, assembled the mask, and flew to a cleared Nightmare Zone to begin the challenge.
• The mask summoned Lost Gift · Five-Colored Withered Leaf, a level 52 Ancient Grade bloodline boss with a twelve-hour existence limit, and inflicted the Fragile status on Qin Feng.
• Five colored butterflies attacked Qin Feng with homing beams and different affix energies, while the boss's main body remained invulnerable.
• Qin Feng sent Demon Shadow Blade against the butterflies but found that each could take only one point of damage, so he began observing their mechanics.
• The butterflies' nightmare attacks suppressed the order effect from Qin Feng's leggings, though his instant-death immunity protected him from the black butterfly's instant-death affix.

Qin Feng discovered that the Five-Colored Withered Leaf’s Companion Butterflies became vulnerable if held inside matching pillars of light, then killed them all. Their powers transferred to the boss’s true form, which revealed its health bar, and Qin Feng prepared to attack it.

• The Companion Butterflies’ attacks threatened Qin Feng because Fragile disabled his defenses and reduced healing, but his stacked Dark Shadow Veil let him survive through evasion.
• Qin Feng used Void Lock and Death Disaster to keep the black butterfly inside its matching pillar until its Damage Limit buff disappeared, then killed it with Annihilation Blade.
• Qin Feng repeated the method on the red, yellow, blue, and white butterflies, killing all five and transferring their abilities to the boss.
• The Five-Colored Withered Leaf gained the butterflies’ amplified powers, but its true form became vulnerable and revealed its health bar.
• Qin Feng used Space-Shattering Shadow Kill to create four Shadow Clones and attack the withered leaf.

Qin Feng defeated the Ancient Grade Five-Colored Withered Leaf and gained its stat-heavy bloodline, then discovered that the Judgment Grounds lay inside a vast, droplet-shaped leaf. After the shattered Judgment Ancient God's mask flowed into his left eye, he found a path leading toward the leaf's far end and flew to investigate.

• Qin Feng killed the Five-Colored Withered Leaf, collected its loot, and activated its bloodline, gaining powerful attribute bonuses and Five-Colored Divine Power.
• Qin Feng noted the boss's extreme difficulty and filled five of his six bloodline slots.
• The Judgment Ancient God's mask shattered after the boss died, and five colored streams of light converged on Qin Feng's left eye.
• Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds without using the Blade of Judgment and saw gray-white roots and stems throughout the surrounding space.
• Qin Feng realized the Judgment Grounds were inside an enormous droplet-shaped leaf and spotted a path to its far end.
• Qin Feng spread his wings and flew toward the end of the leaf.

Qin Feng learned how transcendent damage was measured and broke through a vine gate in the Judgment Grounds by dealing damage exceeding the required threshold. He continued onward, planning to gather another Calamity Rune and visit Lingche’s sisters after reaching level 60.

• Qin Feng flew through the Judgment Grounds and reached a vine gate that required transcendent damage to pass.
• Lingche explained that transcendent damage was twentieth-order damage, enough to destroy a standard asteroid thirty to forty kilometers wide.
• Qin Feng combined his damage-enhancing abilities and Annihilation Blade attacks to deal 4.774 twentieth-order damage and break the gate.
• Qin Feng asked how much damage it would take to destroy an island, and Lingche estimated twenty-fourth- to twenty-fifth-order damage.
• Qin Feng concluded that his current maximum damage fell short and told Lingche he would visit her sisters after reaching level 60 and obtaining a third Calamity Rune.

Qin Feng explored the vast Branch Passage connected to the Judgment Grounds and discovered numerous empty Judgment Spaces along its length. At the branch’s tip, he crossed a strange vortex into a ruined Flower Bud that seemed to span time and space, where he found a sealed White Jade Hall.

• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to map the Branch Passage, finding its smooth, aging boundaries and many connected leaf-shaped spaces.
• Qin Feng explored a neighboring droplet and realized it was an unused Judgment Space, with many more spaces connected to the branch.
• Qin Feng flew toward the branch’s base for over a million kilometers before a powerful Vine Barrier blocked his way.
• Qin Feng returned through the Branch Passage and reached its far tip, where a Reversing Vortex opened to let him pass.
• Qin Feng crossed the colorful mist into a ruined Flower Bud and found a sealed White Jade Hall at the center of its core.