Chapter Summaries

Chen Wuming’s team mourned the deaths caused by the Bone Witch Doctor, while Qin Xiaoyou began to suspect that Qin Feng and Dark Shadow were the same person. After killing the boss, Qin Feng entered the Portal to the Bone Bishop’s Tomb alone, where he expected to face a rival team from Sakura Country.

• Chen Wuming learned that Dark Shadow had killed the Bone Witch Doctor with one strike after his team had suffered heavy losses.
• Qin Xiaoyou wondered whether her dreams held memories of a past life and began to suspect Qin Feng was Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng arrived with An Yu and the others, killed the Bone Witch Doctor, and saw a Portal appear over its corpse.
• Qin Feng told the others he would enter the Portal alone to explore the Bone Bishop’s Tomb.
• Qin Feng expected to face Teshima Ichirō’s team from Sakura Country and hoped to find another Bone Rune.

Qin Feng entered the Bone Bishop's Tomb alone after asking An Yu to collect insults for him. Inside, he found a Sakura Country team preparing for a series of duels, and their confident Swordmaster Teshima Ichirō learned that Dark Shadow had arrived—though Qin Feng remained invisible.

• An Yu assigned the Poison Doctor Bloodline to Gu Yixue, who celebrated her new damage-dealing abilities.
• Qin Feng received over three hundred years of lifespan from An Yu, asked her to collect insults, and entered the Portal alone.
• Qin Feng arrived in the Bone Bishop's Tomb, where surviving teams had to fight one-on-one before challenging the boss.
• A fifty-two-member Sakura Country team boasted that Teshima Ichirō would defeat any opponents, while Teshima built up his Damage Immunity Shield by running.
• The system announced Dark Shadow's arrival, and the Sakura Country players froze when they saw no one; Teshima admitted he had made the unlucky boast himself.

Qin Feng entered the Tomb and faced Teshima Ichirō’s team in an unrestricted series of duels, while planning to keep Teshima alive so Sakura Country’s past disasters would still unfold. The first fighter, Yoshida, was sent onto the White Bone Platform and struck down by Qin Feng’s Shadow Blade before he could act.

• Teshima Ichirō and his subordinates panicked when Qin Feng entered the Tomb, then discovered they could not leave without fighting or surviving the Tomb.
• Qin Feng recalled that he had fought Teshima Ichirō to a five-hour draw in his previous life and considered how Teshima’s team later caused chaos in Tōto after losing their sanity.
• Qin Feng decided to avoid siphoning his opponents’ lifespans and to wait until the end of the five-hour limit before killing them, while keeping Teshima alive.
• Teshima Ichirō ordered Yoshida, a Priest with a three-second invincibility skill, to take the first round despite Yoshida’s protests.
• Qin Feng’s Shadow Blade hit the half-bowed Yoshida for 1.495 million damage, leaving Teshima Ichirō and the others stunned.

Qin Feng effortlessly eliminated Teshima Ichirō’s team one by one, leaving Teshima to sprint around the platform for hours while Qin Feng waited. With five minutes remaining in the match, Qin Feng finally prepared to attack.

• Qin Feng killed Yoshida and Hōjō with single attacks, while Yoshida remained in Soul State to watch the match.
• Qin Feng defeated the rest of Teshima Ichirō’s team, leaving fifty-one players in Soul State and Teshima as the final opponent.
• Teshima Ichirō used his Damage Immunity Shield and extreme speed to evade Qin Feng and try to force a draw.
• Qin Feng stayed invisible, occasionally stripping away Teshima’s shields while Teshima ran for more than four hours.
• With five minutes left in the match, Qin Feng finally made his move.

Qin Feng defeated Teshima Ichirō by using Toxic Traps to drain his Damage Immunity Shield, then advanced to face Bone Bishop Nibagordon. Meanwhile, Teshima’s team publicized their deaths to turn opinion against Dark Shadow, but many Great Xia players defended him as Qin Feng continued deeper into the tomb.

• Qin Feng used hidden Toxic Traps and Shadow Blades to make Teshima Ichirō run until his Damage Immunity Shield ran out and he died.
• Qin Feng won the confrontation and faced Bone Bishop Nibagordon, a diamond-tier boss, at the bone tomb’s deepest chamber.
• Teshima Ichirō and his fifty-one teammates were sent out of the tomb and realized Dark Shadow had neither absorbed their lifespan nor imprisoned them.
• Teshima Ichirō’s team spread news in Sakura Country claiming Dark Shadow had treated them kindly, prompting international criticism and speculation that he favored Sakura Country.
• Many Great Xia players defended Dark Shadow online, while Qin Feng continued exploring the tomb and reached Bone Bishop Nibagordon.

Qin Feng solved the Tomb’s pillar puzzle and killed the Bone Bishop, Nibagordon, but the boss’s death triggered 53 stacks of Death Withering that rapidly threatened to kill him. He ordered Osilio to heal him and used Abyss Wither Curse on Osilio and his minions, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Qin Feng rotated the twelve bone pillars’ patterns until their skulls faced outward, awakening the Bone Bishop, Nibagordon.
• Qin Feng attacked Nibagordon with Shadow Blades and Endless Nightmare while the boss’s Witch Rings unleashed ghostfire across the room.
• Twelve corpses, including Teshima Ichirō and his team, appeared and began raising Qin Feng’s Chaos Gauge, but Qin Feng disabled the boss’s Greater Affixes and killed Nibagordon without destroying the corpses.
• The exit sealed, and Nibagordon’s death triggered Death Withering from all 53 corpses, rapidly breaking through Qin Feng’s defenses.
• Qin Feng commanded Osilio to heal him and cast Abyss Wither Curse on Osilio and twelve Bone Sword Pterosaur minions, making Osilio protest that Qin Feng had made him impotent again.

Qin Feng survived the Bone Bishop's Death Withering by using Abyss Wither Curse to make Osilio and his Bone Sword Pterosaur underlings heal him. After claiming his second Bone Rune and the boss's loot, he upgraded Meld into Darkness and prepared to feed useless skills to his Spirit Devourer Bloodline.

• Qin Feng endured 53 stacks of Death Withering while Osilio and his twelve underlings repeatedly slapped him and restored his health.
• Qin Feng realized that corpses from the earlier confrontation added to the final Death Withering stacks, making the boss fight harder for teams with more deaths.
• When Death Withering ended, Qin Feng had Osilio send a Bone Sword Pterosaur underling to open the White Bone Chest, which yielded his second Bone Rune.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the Bone Bishop's remains, gaining 1,400 evolution points, nearly 1,600 years of lifespan, and a large haul of loot.
• Qin Feng learned a level 25 Meld into Darkness Skill Book, raising its stealth effects and damage reduction, then opened his Spirit Devourer Bloodline panel.

Qin Feng strengthened his attacks, farmed monsters, and prepared to recruit a strange NPC by gathering insults. As An Yu reported that Teshima Ichirō and other Japanese experts had gone mad and begun killing people, she wondered whether Qin Feng had planned it.

• Qin Feng evolved sixteen Assassin skills to Legendary Tier and used Soul Devourer, more than doubling his Physical and Elemental Attack.
• Qin Feng left the tomb, killed a Jadeite Tier boss, then rode Osilio to farm level-25 monsters while converting an Epic Grade Skill Book.
• Qin Feng spoke with An Yu, Wisp of Smoke, and Late Night, Light Rain to collect insults for his planned visit to the Sichuan-Shu NPC Aristotle.
• An Yu reassured her family that she trusted Dark Shadow after her grandfather worried that he had let Teshima Ichirō go.
• Qin Feng summoned Gui Ling to use the Abyssal Curse Vase as news broke that Teshima Ichirō, Hōjō, Yoshida, and others had gone mad.
• An Yu messaged Qin Feng to ask whether the mass madness and killing spree had been part of his plan.

Teshima Ichirō and his team lost their minds after hearing the Eldritch God’s murmurs and caused a deadly rampage in Tōto, shocking Sakura Country and the world. As people debated Dark Shadow’s role and Great Xia’s older generation celebrated the supposed ally, Qin Feng remained composed until Gui Ling appeared before him.

• An Yu assumed Qin Feng had secretly arranged events with Teshima Ichirō and promised to keep his supposed rebirth secret, so Qin Feng played along.
• Teshima Ichirō’s team, driven mad by the Eldritch God’s murmurs, attacked people across Tōto while Sakura Country’s official guilds mobilized to capture them.
• News of the rampage spread worldwide, and observers concluded that Dark Shadow had no direct connection to the incident while becoming more fearful of his strength.
• People in Great Xia joked that Teshima Ichirō’s team had been allies all along, and An Bolong asked An Yu to deliver his treasured commemorative banner to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng remained calm as others discussed the incident, then Gui Ling appeared before him.

Qin Feng gave Gui Ling an Abyssal Curse Vase, and she drew the Epic Grade skill Abyss Potential Curse, which temporarily boosts a target before severely weakening them. After Gui Ling left to hunt monsters, Qin Feng reflected on his newly increased anti-stealth ability.

• Qin Feng gave Gui Ling the Abyssal Curse Vase and guided her to reach inside for a skill.
• Gui Ling obtained the Epic Grade skill Abyss Potential Curse, which boosts a target's attributes for 20 seconds before reducing them for 300 seconds.
• Qin Feng explained that the curse could affect bosses up to Epic Grade, and Gui Ling considered using it against an Assassin Bloodline boss.
• Qin Feng put away the vase, and Gui Ling entered stealth and departed through the Teleportation Array to farm monsters.
• Qin Feng watched Gui Ling leave and noted that his anti-stealth level had greatly increased because of a Legendary Tier Assassin Skill Book he had synthesized.

Qin Feng evolved Umbral Perception to Ancient Grade so he could expose Thief Saint William Scott and strip away his senses, then offered to deal with the thief in exchange for information about the Eye of Knowledge. Shudao Mountain Guild players prepared to follow him, though some doubted his ability to detect William.

• Qin Feng spent 2,000 Evolution Points to evolve Umbral Perception to Ancient Grade, raising his Anti-Stealth Level to 34 and gaining an effect that strips a detected stealthed target of all five senses.
• Qin Feng recalled that Thief Saint William Scott haunted the Wandering Spirit Dungeon, stealing players' belongings, and that defeating him could unlock Thief Saint Talismans and the Thieving Saint's Hand skill.
• Qin Feng decided to offer Shudao Mountain Guild a deal: he would handle William in exchange for information about the Eye of Knowledge, and he contacted Late Night, Light Rain.
• Shudao Mountain Guild players excitedly discussed Dark Shadow's arrival and planned to watch him confront the thief.
• Some guild members doubted Qin Feng could detect William, recalling that even their boss had been robbed despite using a Diamond-grade torch with Anti-Stealth Level 10.

Qin Feng agreed to help the Shudao Mountain Guild deal with the Thief Saint in exchange for meeting Big Eyes, an NPC who offered double experience. He teleported to the Sichuan-Shu Ruins, while the guild prepared to lead him to the thief’s last known location.

• Players in the Sichuan-Shu region worried that Dark Shadow might lack the anti-stealth skills needed to defeat the Thief Saint, William Scott.
• Gui'er Kan Jian and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi discussed Dark Shadow’s visit and revealed that the Shudao Mountain Guild had agreed to share Big Eyes’s location if Qin Feng dealt with the Thief Saint first.
• Gui'er Kan Jian explained that he had requested three hundred years of lifespan as compensation, while the guild’s members hoped to keep using Big Eyes’s double-experience service.
• Late Night, Light Rain gave Qin Feng the guild’s coordinates and said its members would guide him to the Thief Saint’s last known location.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio to the Magic City Ruins’ Teleportation Array and spent 37.9 years of lifespan to travel to the Sichuan-Shu Ruins.
• Qin Feng considered building a private intercity Teleportation Array in his Hideout after completing challenges at a higher-level Divine Authority Tower.

Qin Feng arrived at the Sichuan-Shu Ruins to help the Shudao Mountain Guild investigate a thief in the Wandering Spirit Dungeon. He entered the vast underground city with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, Gui'er Kan Jian, and the guild members, where the lifespan loss rate was a hundred times higher.

• Qin Feng flew to the Shudao Mountain Guild's coordinates, met Gui'er Kan Jian and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, and added the guild leader as a friend.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi offered Qin Feng a panda mount, cycling through overworked or injured pandas before summoning a lively one for him.
• Qin Feng, Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi, Gui'er Kan Jian, and the guild members rode pandas into the Wandering Spirit Dungeon.
• The group reached the sprawling underground city, where Qin Feng learned it was a frenzied zone with a hundredfold lifespan loss rate.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi told Qin Feng that a thief repeatedly visited the guild's favorite leveling spot and called him a good person for coming to help.

Qin Feng followed the Shudao Mountain Guild through the Wandering Spirit Dungeon while hiding from the Thief Saint, William Scott. William attacked the well-equipped group, but Qin Feng saw through his stealth and stripped away his five senses, leaving him shocked and unable to hear his own scream.

• Qin Feng entered stealth after the team reached the Wandering Spirit Dungeon and privately told Gui'er Kan Jian to lead while he followed.
• The Shudao Mountain Guild encountered Exiled Immortal's guild, and Qin Feng learned about Exiled Immortal's rivalry with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi.
• Qin Feng planned to make the subdued Thief Saint serve his guild and sell Thief Saint Talismans, which could let players rob targets outside the dungeon.
• William Scott spotted the advancing team and lunged from the ruins to steal from them.
• Qin Feng saw through William's stealth and triggered his stripped state, taking away his five senses; William thought another NPC had attacked him.

Qin Feng exposed the Thief Saint William Scott’s stealth and trapped him in a cycle of attacks and nightmares. The Shudao Mountain players watched from outside the black mist as William repeatedly rammed a wall while Qin Feng steadily drained his health.

• Qin Feng used the Ghostfire Bell to immobilize William and struck him, discovering that William’s damage limit and hit recovery reduced the effectiveness of his attacks.
• William escaped the immobilization and fled, but his loss of all five senses caused him to repeatedly run into a stone wall.
• Qin Feng caught up and attacked William while the Stripping effect wore off.
• Qin Feng filled his Nightmare Gauge, causing William to fall into another Nightmare and begin ramming the wall again as his health rapidly dropped.
• The elderly Sword Immortal, the panda girl, and the other Shudao Mountain players watched from outside the black mist and marveled at Qin Feng’s Greater Affix.

Qin Feng subdued the Thief Saint and made him an NPC in the Shadow guild, then discovered that the Thieving Saint's Hand skill had a separate cooldown for each arm. He left the Thief Saint alive and prepared to learn the skill while opening the NPC's services to the Shudao Mountain guild.

• The Shudao Mountain guild players watched Qin Feng stop fighting the Thief Saint at half health, and Qin Feng explained that the NPC had been subdued and would return to his Hideout.
• A guild member asked about retrieving a stolen quest whip, and Qin Feng said the Thief Saint had exchanged stolen goods for lifespan but could sell the guild useful items.
• Qin Feng configured the Thief Saint's permissions to sell Thief Saint Talismans while keeping the Thieving Saint's Hand skill restricted.
• After recovering from the Nightmare State, the Thief Saint discovered that the system had bound him to Dark Shadow and the Shadow guild, requiring him to obey Qin Feng and provide guild services.
• The Thief Saint boasted about his Eight-Armed Royal Clan, but Qin Feng dismissed him and opened his service list to learn Thieving Saint's Hand.
• Qin Feng saw that the skill calculated its cooldown independently for each arm, allowing the eight-handed Thief Saint to use it eight times per cooldown.

Qin Feng evolved his two Thieving Saint's Hand skills and taxed the Eight-Armed Thief Saint's sale of Thief Saint Talismans. After leaving the Wandering Spirit Dungeon with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi guiding him toward the Eye of Knowledge, news spread that Dark Shadow had subdued the Thief Saint.

• Qin Feng learned two copies of Thieving Saint's Hand and found that evolving one also upgraded the other, doubling their maximum attribute-stealing returns.
• The Eight-Armed Thief Saint offered Thief Saint Talismans, and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi bought fifty to use against Exiled Immortal.
• Qin Feng imposed a 50% tax on the sale, taking five hundred years of lifespan from the Thief Saint, then set out to find the Eye of Knowledge.
• Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi offered to guide Qin Feng to the Eye of Knowledge and asked to ride his Flying Dragon along the way.
• News that Dark Shadow had subdued the Thief Saint spread through the Sichuan-Shu Ruins, and players celebrated and joked about becoming his sworn little sister.

After Qin Feng captured the Thief Saint, Exiled Immortal’s guild celebrated, believing they were safe from theft and preparing to hunt a boss. Shudao Mountain assassins then used Thief Saint Talismans to strip Exiled Immortal of valuable items, seize his Hideout key and Golden Demon Talisman, and eject his guild from the temple.

• Exiled Immortal and his guild celebrated Dark Shadow’s capture of the Thief Saint and mocked Shudao Mountain, whose dispute with them began when Exiled Immortal stole the Golden Demon Talisman.
• Exiled Immortal led his guild back to their Mid-Mountain Daoist Temple Hideout, planning to store items before returning to farm a gold-tier boss.
• Shudao Mountain players used Thief Saint Talismans to steal Exiled Immortal’s chocobo Mount Bell, Invisibility-Revealing Dust, Element Enhancement Potion, Hideout key, and other stored items.
• Exiled Immortal called for anti-stealth measures, and his guild revealed several Shudao Mountain assassins surrounding them.
• Shudao Mountain’s assassins took the Golden Demon Talisman and Hideout key, entered the temple, and forced more than a hundred guild members outside.
• Exiled Immortal realized that he had lost everything as his bewildered guild looked on.

Qin Feng flew with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi after the Shudao Mountain Guild stole Exiled Immortal’s Mount Bell, Hideout Key, and Golden Demon Talisman. On the way to find Aristotle, Qin Feng spotted a Toad Demon chasing players and watched a young swordsman rescue a woman he recognized as someone he should not save.

• Exiled Immortal cursed the Shudao Mountain Guild after its Assassins used a Thief Saint Talisman to steal his Mount Bell, Hideout Key, and Golden Demon Talisman.
• Indian Old Turtledove refused to return the stolen items, leaving Exiled Immortal furious as his guild members demanded their belongings back.
• Qin Feng and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi rode Osilio through the sky, and she thanked Qin Feng after confirming that her guild had sorted out its affairs.
• Qin Feng headed toward the mountains outside the Sichuan-Shu Ruins to find Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle and considered selling future Thief Saint Talismans to the authorities.
• Qin Feng heard cries from the jungle and saw a Toad Demon pursue players, snare a woman with its tongue, and get its tongue cut by a young swordsman who rescued her.
• Qin Feng recognized the rescued woman and thought that the young swordsman should not have saved her.

Qin Feng intervened when Su Muzhe was attacked by Qingqing and her five companions after rescuing her, then used Judgment to send all six away. He killed the nearby Toad Demon in seconds, leaving Su Muzhe stunned by his strength.

• Su Muzhe rescued Qingqing from the Toad Demon, but she accused him of harassment and called her five companions to confront him.
• Qingqing and the five men attacked Su Muzhe, and Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi arrived on Osilio to knock them aside as the Toad Demon was lured nearby.
• Qin Feng let the Toad Demon capture Qingqing and ensnare the five men, then asked Su Muzhe for lifespan to pass Judgment on them.
• Qin Feng killed all six with Shadow Blades and sent them to the Judgment Grounds, while Su Muzhe offered him 130 years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng vanished and killed the Toad Demon within three seconds, leaving Su Muzhe amazed by his damage.