Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng killed the Giant Toad Demon in one blow, then killed Su Muzhe when the swordsman demanded to become his disciple. After taking Su Muzhe’s hidden lifespan and evolving Thieving Saint’s Hand, Qin Feng continued toward the bamboo grove, where the bamboo girl guided him through the Bagua Formation.

• Qin Feng killed the Jadeite Tier Giant Toad Demon with one Shadow Blade, astonishing Su Muzhe.
• Su Muzhe begged Qin Feng to take him as a disciple, but Qin Feng killed him with a Shadow Blade after setting survival as the condition.
• Qin Feng absorbed the 158 years of lifespan Su Muzhe dropped and left, treating the extra years as interest for wasting his time.
• Qin Feng spent Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint’s Hand to Epic Tier, increasing its attribute-stealing cap and reducing its cooldown.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio toward the bamboo grove as the bamboo girl guided them through the Bagua Formation and joked with Osilio.

Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl entered the Bagua Formation to reach the Eye of Knowledge, while she explained its mechanics and told him about the NPC. They defeated Gold Tier bosses on successive platforms, and Qin Feng gained enough Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint's Hand to Legendary Tier.

• Osilio and Bamboo Girl joked about Qin Feng finding a wife and a female dragon as they approached the bamboo valley.
• Bamboo Girl explained that they had to navigate eight platforms in the Bagua Formation and asked Qin Feng to kill the bosses that appeared.
• Qin Feng killed the spawned monsters while Bamboo Girl studied the formation and told him how the elderly Sword Immortal and Bamboo Girl had met the knowledge-hungry NPC.
• Bamboo Girl worked out the first platform's mechanics, and Qin Feng killed the Flame Minotaur with a Shadow Blade and used Greedy Hand.
• Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl traveled through successive platforms, and Qin Feng collected enough Evolution Points to evolve Thieving Saint's Hand to Legendary Tier.

Qin Feng evolved Thieving Saint's Hand, gaining the ability to use it on any target and temporarily steal 20% of their attributes. He tested it on Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle, who was so astonished by the unprecedented technique that he offered to serve Qin Feng if he revealed his talent.

• Qin Feng discovered that Legendary Tier Thieving Saint's Hand could target anyone and grant him 20% of their attributes for ten minutes.
• Qin Feng and Bamboo Girl completed the Bagua Formation and reached Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle, who had been waiting to ask them questions.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand on Aristotle, permanently stealing one Agility and temporarily gaining a portion of all four core attributes.
• Aristotle recognized the skill as an impossible new version of Thieving Saint's Hand and demanded to know Qin Feng's talent, offering to serve him in exchange.
• Bamboo Girl watched Aristotle's reaction in confusion.

Qin Feng tried to recruit Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle by making him curious, then realized the invitation condition required giving him many unfamiliar pieces of knowledge quickly. After winning ten games and cursing at him for thirty minutes, Qin Feng unlocked Aristotle’s basic, advanced, and high-level functions, leaving the two onlookers stunned.

• Qin Feng found that Aristotle’s curiosity about his talent had not triggered the recruitment condition, so he suspected the key was making Aristotle curious repeatedly.
• Qin Feng proposed playing board games, and Aristotle enthusiastically agreed while Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi followed to watch.
• Aristotle deliberately lost ten games to Qin Feng, giving him two hundred years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng angrily accused Aristotle of throwing the games and launched into a torrent of unfamiliar insults.
• After thirty minutes of cursing, Qin Feng received notifications that he had met the conditions to unlock Aristotle’s basic, advanced, and high-level functions.

Qin Feng unlocked Big Eyes' advanced and high-level functions by rapidly insulting him, then sent the NPC back to the Magic City Ruins. After offering Bamboo Girl discounted access to Big Eyes and the Thief Saint, Qin Feng learned that Gui Ling had encountered a Jadeite Tier boss and set off to join her.

• Qin Feng discovered that Big Eyes could create a Bagua Formation Diagram and Counterattack Barrier, and could spend lifespan to look up information.
• Qin Feng sent Big Eyes back to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout, causing the valley's white mist and Bagua Formation Diagram to disappear.
• Qin Feng offered Bamboo Girl access to Big Eyes and the Thief Saint, along with a ten percent discount on their services.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that Gui Ling was fighting a Jadeite Tier boss while another guild tried to steal it, and Qin Feng chose not to intervene.
• Qin Feng decided to activate double experience and fly with Wo Bu Chi Zhuzi toward the Teleportation Array in the Sichuan-Shu Ruins.

Gui Ling slowly weakened the Jade Tier Assassin boss before Cloud Mountain Inn’s sixty-player team arrived and took over the fight. She stayed stealthed nearby, waiting for a chance to strike, while Qin Feng trusted her to handle the situation without government assistance.

• Gui Ling used stealth, poison, and damage-immunity shields to whittle down the Assassin · Son of Death while it regenerated health between attacks.
• Cloud Mountain Inn’s elite team arrived at the ruins and began fighting the boss, believing they could handle it and remaining wary of the nearby Assassin.
• The boss ambushed Water-Sliding Snake with Lightning Five-Strike Combo, leaving him near death and prompting the team to warn one another about its instant-death affix.
• Two government players learned that Qin Feng had declined their help and wondered whether he would let Cloud Mountain Inn claim the boss.
• Gui Ling remained stealthed nearby, watching the team fight and waiting for the right moment to attack.

Gui Ling let Cloud Mountain Inn’s party weaken Assassin of Death while she waited for its second phase, then cursed the boss at 30% health and doubled its attributes. As the empowered boss began slaughtering the remaining players, Gui Ling stayed invisible nearby, ready to finish her plan.

• Cloud Mountain Inn’s guild leader led her party against Assassin of Death, whose second-phase attacks killed players and spread instant-death energy through the Stone Ruins.
• Gui Ling remained hidden while the party kept attacking the boss and moved away from the corpses’ expanding black mist.
• At 30% health, Gui Ling cast Abyss Potential Curse on Assassin of Death, doubling its attributes for twenty seconds.
• Assassin of Death rapidly killed two Cloud Mountain Inn players, while Gui Ling turned invisible again and watched the party’s defeat unfold.

Gui Ling used a curse to slow the Son of Death and killed the boss after wiping out the remaining Cloud Mountain Inn players. After learning she belonged to Shadow, Cloud Mountain Inn's guild members began leaving their guild.

• The Son of Death entered a berserk state and killed most of Cloud Mountain Inn's players, leaving three survivors.
• Gui Ling killed the three survivors with a triple Weakness Attack, then attacked the cursed boss while its attributes and speed were reduced by 90%.
• The Son of Death entered its final phase and cleared other negative effects, but the epic-grade curse remained, allowing Gui Ling to keep attacking it safely.
• Two members of the Official Personnel reported Gui Ling's fight, and Late Night, Light Rain realized how formidable she was.
• Cloud Mountain Inn's beautiful guild leader checked her Kill Record, discovered Gui Ling belonged to Shadow, and apologized to her guild for provoking Dark Shadow's woman.
• Cloud Mountain Inn's members fell silent, and several players left the guild.

Qin Feng set up ways to earn lifespan by offering Thieving Saint's Hand and double EXP services, then headed out to level up and loot a boss corpse. When Gui Ling asked about Cloud Mountain Inn's offer to buy the corpse loot, Qin Feng told her to make them wait until he tried looting it first.

• After Cloud Mountain Inn's membership fell by half, its guild leader sent people to apologize to Gui Ling.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, arranged paid access to his NPCs' services for Sky Dome Guild players, and considered selling three Platinum Tier Hideouts.
• Qin Feng activated three hours of double EXP with Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle and flew south on Osilio to find a leveling spot.
• Gui Ling told Qin Feng that Cloud Mountain Inn offered three hundred years of lifespan to loot the Assassin's corpse and promised further payment if extra loot dropped.
• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to let him loot the corpse first, claiming he had lucky hands.

Gui Ling accepted the Cloud Mountain Inn’s offer to trade fifteen hundred years of lifespan for equipment instead of looting the boss’s corpse, while reflecting on the Assassin bloodline she had gained. Qin Feng arrived with the promised equipment, which Gui Ling realized had terrible attributes.

• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to offer the Cloud Mountain Inn three Jadeite Tier items and ten Platinum Tier items for fifteen hundred years of lifespan, and to keep them away from the boss’s corpse.
• A young Cloud Mountain Inn Assassin apologized to Gui Ling, agreed to the deal, and promised the guild would stop stealing bosses and bullying others.
• Gui Ling studied her new Assassin bloodline, which granted five points of the Instant Death affix, and considered how the boss’s berserk-phase attacks could have killed her.
• Qin Feng arrived and gave Gui Ling the equipment for the trade, and she noticed that all thirteen pieces had terrible attributes.

Qin Feng traded bizarre Jadeite equipment to Gui Ling, then gained powerful Assassin training skills and headed to the Crawling Abyss to level up. Meanwhile, an unknown Summoner began luring the Epic Grade boss Calamity Hades toward Qin Feng’s hideout, unaware that the boss was intelligent and watching him.

• Gui Ling examined Qin Feng’s equipment and recognized that its damage boosts came with debilitating drawbacks, making it a bargain for the fifteen hundred years he received in trade.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Assassin of Death’s corpse, gained 360 Evolution Points and numerous drops, then evolved Assassin Spirit Training and Constitution Training to Legendary Tier.
• Qin Feng traveled to the Crawling Abyss to take advantage of double experience while leaving six people trapped in the Judgment Grounds.
• A hooded Summoner in a Frenzied Zone began using summoned creatures to lure Calamity Hades toward Qin Feng’s hideout.
• The Summoner planned to kill or test Dark Shadow for the Sky Serpent Organization, unaware that Qin Feng already intended to destroy it and that Calamity Hades was watching him.

A young summoner lured Calamity Hades · Hals away from the Calamity Sea, unaware that Hals was using him to escape his territory and reach the Magic City Ruins. Meanwhile, Qin Feng continued leveling in the Crawling Abyss, heard the results of the Hideout auction, and headed home after clearing the area.

• A young summoner drew Calamity Hades · Hals out of the sea and began leading him toward the Evil Spirit Academy in the Magic City Ruins, while Hals secretly exploited the summoner to expand his movement range.
• Qin Feng rapidly leveled in the Crawling Abyss, gained Nightmare Resistance and Evolution Points, and collected Skill Books while killing monsters and minor bosses.
• Zhang Jinxuan informed Qin Feng that official guilds had won the three Platinum Tier Hideout keys, with Magic City Jiao Tong University paying 5,965 years of lifespan for the Fluorescent Underground River key.
• Qin Feng noted that players had reached levels 16–17 and could now use some of his stored Platinum Tier and Jade Tier equipment.
• After clearing the Demons in the Crawling Abyss, Qin Feng mounted Osilio and headed home.

Qin Feng spent lifespan to raise Thieving Saint’s Hand to level 20, then gained enough experience to advance his Shadow class to its fourth stage. The new class passives made his stealth stronger and concealed the effects of his attacks, leaving him nearly undetectable while fighting.

• Qin Feng visited the Eight-Armed Thief Saint and used 20,900 years of lifespan to upgrade Thieving Saint’s Hand to level 20.
• The upgrade returned 10,450 years of lifespan to Qin Feng through the guild lifespan pool, and he planned to save evolution points for Abyss Wither Curse.
• After Gui Ling’s new Assassin bloodline improved her combat ability, Qin Feng planned to seek a Deathwing Angel bloodline monster once he reached level 30.
• The next morning, Qin Feng killed a Gold Tier Demon Swamp Frog in a poisonous swamp and accumulated enough experience for his fourth class advancement.
• Qin Feng advanced his Shadow class, doubling its attribute bonuses and stealth level while making his attacks’ effects invisible when he attacked from stealth.

Qin Feng prepared for the coming Desolation Spread and headed back to the Evil Spirit Academy after learning about a strange Diamond Tier boss near Guanggang. Meanwhile, Calamity Hades approached the Magic City Ruins, planning to grow stronger by killing players, and Qin Feng wondered if someone was coming to bring him gifts.

• Qin Feng reviewed how the first Desolation Spread would create Frenzied and Turbulent Zones, devastate habitable land, and disrupt communications.
• Qin Feng planned to strengthen the Evil Spirit Academy with Divine Books and visited the Guanggang area to seek a Divine Authority Tower and Life Source Array resources.
• Qin Feng asked Wisp of Smoke about powerful bosses, and she told him of a female Diamond Tier boss who had charmed more than a hundred male players in Guanggang.
• Qin Feng accepted Wisp of Smoke's offer of the boss's coordinates and returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, hoping to earn enough evolution points to upgrade Abyss Wither Curse.
• Calamity Hades followed a young summoner toward the Magic City Ruins, intending to kill players and rise to a higher tier so he could survive.
• Qin Feng sneezed upon returning to the Evil Spirit Academy and wondered whether someone was coming to bring him gifts.

Qin Feng consulted Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle about a Diamond Tier boss and learned she was likely controlled by the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, which he planned to counter with his Blade of Judgment. He also learned how to summon a Deathwing Angel and began searching for the Goddess of Death's Temple of Faith to obtain the needed feather.

• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy and found Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle playing mahjong with Lao Zhangtou and the others.
• Qin Feng paid for a consultation and learned that the Diamond Tier boss's charm power likely came from the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, which could drop if the boss was killed.
• Qin Feng decided to fill the Blade of Judgment with divinity so he could resist the Cursed Slate's order power during the raid.
• Qin Feng consulted Aristotle about the Deathwing Angel and learned that summoning one required a Deadwing Feather, a dark space more than 9,999 meters underground, and a sacrifice.
• Qin Feng paid to ask Aristotle where the Goddess of Death's Temple of Faith could be found.

Qin Feng learned that he could enter the Death Goddess's Temple of Faith after a mass-casualty event in Sakura Country, then traveled to Guanggang to confront a Diamond Tier boss that charmed men. Guanggang's authorities debated whether Dark Shadow could resist the boss, and Wisp of Smoke began to suspect something about him before he entered the fight.

• Qin Feng learned the temple's entry requirements and planned to travel to Sakura Country when the first Desolation Spread caused a large death toll.
• Qin Feng left for Guanggang while the Eye of Knowledge worried that the charming boss might control him.
• Wisp of Smoke told Guanggang's authorities that the boss had charmed more than a hundred players into serving her.
• Loser A Guang suggested keeping Dark Shadow away, but Brother Jie argued that Dark Shadow might share his Man on Man nature.
• Wisp of Smoke noted rumors that Dark Shadow and Gui Ling were a couple, leaving the authorities unsure what to believe about him.
• Qin Feng met Wisp of Smoke and said he had a way to resist the boss's charm, but she stopped herself before revealing what she had been about to say.

Qin Feng reached the Gloomy Valley to kill its Diamond Tier boss while Wisp of Smoke prepared to draw away the charmed players. He found the boss, Worm Queen Shavalandha, and discovered that the alluring goddess controlling the men was actually a giant worm.

• Qin Feng explained that Wisp of Smoke should lure the charmed players away so he could attack the boss without harming them or exposing them to his Nightmare ability.
• Qin Feng, Wisp of Smoke, and Osilio flew to the Gloomy Valley, where Wisp of Smoke drew the boss's charmed male players toward her.
• Qin Feng entered the valley under concealment, endured its divinity-draining negative order, and raced toward the source of the insect cry.
• Qin Feng reached a cave and identified the Diamond Tier boss as Worm Queen Shavalandha, a huge worm that projected the appearance of a beautiful woman.

Qin Feng killed the Worm Queen in under seven seconds using invisible attacks, freed the charmed players, and retrieved the Ancient God Slate. He synthesized the boss’s loot with his saved skill books and obtained a Legendary Tier Thousand-Blade Strike skill book.

• Qin Feng ambushed the Worm Queen with invisible attacks and rapidly filled her Nightmare Gauge.
• The Worm Queen entered a nightmare and Qin Feng killed her with his Finishing Move in under seven seconds.
• The Worm Queen’s death broke the Ancient God Slate’s Charm Order, freeing the male players nearby.
• Qin Feng looted the boss and used a Devout Believer to retrieve the pink Ancient God Slate.
• Qin Feng synthesized ten Epic Grade Assassin Skill Books and obtained the Legendary Tier Thousand-Blade Strike Skill Book.

Qin Feng learned and evolved Thousand-Blade Strike, then tested a curse that would have crippled his other Greater Affixes and rejected it. He left the Cave as players rushed in to find the goddess, and their horrified reactions followed him out.

• Qin Feng learned Thousand-Blade Strike and realized its rapid hits could build Combo Points and break Damage Immunity Shields quickly.
• Qin Feng spent 100 Evolution Points to evolve Thousand-Blade Strike to Mythic Tier, increasing its damage and adding a Weakness Attack bonus when every slash hit a weak point.
• Qin Feng cursed his Star-Killer Blade with the Goddess of Love's Cursed Slate, saw that its beneficial Stripping affix would disable his other Greater Affixes, and rejected the curse.
• Qin Feng entered stealth and left the Cave as male players hurried inside, still fixated on the goddess.
• The players who entered the Cave cursed and vomited after seeing the goddess's true face.

After Qin Feng helped free the charmed players from the Worm Queen’s influence, he warned the authorities about the Phoenix Egg in the Sea City Ruins and evolved his Abyss Wither Curse. The chapter ended with him summoning the Abyssal Curse Vase after its dangerous side effect had been removed.

• Wisp of Smoke and Osilio returned to the valley, where the freed male players confronted the consequences of their actions under the Worm Queen’s charm.
• Wisp of Smoke explained the mysterious influence to the players and their families, who struggled to decide whether to forgive their loved ones.
• Qin Feng privately told Wisp of Smoke that the power was called Order and warned her that the Phoenix Egg held by the Sea City authorities could bring disaster.
• Qin Feng used his Evolution Points to evolve the Abyss Wither Curse and discovered its new Ancient Grade effect prevented the Abyssal Curse Vase from drawing him into the Abyss.
• Qin Feng summoned the Abyssal Curse Vase, delighted that its negative effect had been removed.