Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng obtained and evolved Abyssal Slow Curse while traveling toward a High-Tier Divine Authority Tower, and the Sea City authorities debated whether to heed his warning about their Phoenix Egg. At the tower, Guanggang players doubted Qin Feng could pass its solo survival challenge because it disabled Invisibility.

• Qin Feng reached into the Abyssal Curse Vase and obtained the Epic Grade Abyssal Slow Curse, then evolved it to Legendary Tier, increasing its duration and control strength.
• Qin Feng continued east toward a High-Tier Divine Authority Tower, aiming to unlock the purchase of Advanced Divine Books.
• The Sea City authorities brought a Phoenix Egg to the Blazing Fountain, and a young female Mage argued that hatching it would make Sea City rise despite Dark Shadow's warning.
• Guanggang players outside the tower discussed their failed attempts at its solo survival challenge and doubted Dark Shadow could succeed without Invisibility.

Qin Feng headed for Guanggang’s High-Tier Divine Authority Tower after learning that repeated daily attempts increased its difficulty. He entered invisibly, while the players outside debated whether an assassin without invisibility could survive the challenge and waited to see how long he lasted.

• Guanggang’s official players learned that each attempt that day had increased the tower’s difficulty, and they warned Qin Feng through Wisp of Smoke.
• Qin Feng flew to the tower in the crimson mountains, intending to attempt the challenge and buy high-tier Divine Books.
• Qin Feng and Osilio landed invisibly, and Qin Feng entered the tower as its lightning-covered door shut behind him.
• Little Pineapple expected Qin Feng to succeed, while a young assassin and other players doubted he could withstand the attacks without invisibility.
• The players stopped farming monsters and watched the tower, planning to judge Qin Feng’s survival time from the black lightning outside.

Qin Feng easily survived the High-Tier Divine Authority Tower’s one-minute challenge by repeatedly using Instant Shadow Slash to maintain an enormous shield. Afterward, the tower master, Outcast Fairy · Yuan, appeared and urged him to attempt the highest difficulty, offering to go with him.

• Qin Feng entered the tower’s challenge, where invisibility was disabled and lightning hazards were intensified according to his level.
• The tower master noticed Qin Feng’s unusually high level and became curious about him.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash on Lightning Element Envoys to build shields, then endured the lightning attacks without dodging until the minute ended.
• Outside, Xiao Fengli, the Ponytail Girl, and their teammates celebrated Qin Feng’s apparent success and hoped he would provide a guide.
• Outcast Fairy · Yuan appeared before Qin Feng and offered him a discount for a higher-difficulty challenge or to accompany him if he chose the highest difficulty.
• Qin Feng decided to accept the unexpected opportunity, while the players outside continued waiting for a guide.

Qin Feng cleared all five difficulties of the High-Tier Divine Authority Tower and recruited its tower master, Outcast Fairy · Yuan, into the Shadow guild. The tower closed after its master pledged allegiance to him, leaving Xiao Fengli and the others outside stunned.

• Qin Feng cleared difficulties two and three with Instant Shadow Slash, his shields, and his Unassailable affix.
• Qin Feng survived difficulty four by refreshing his Damage Immunity Shield stacks with Blacklight Shield.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand on Outcast Fairy · Yuan, then endured the highest difficulty by building shields and devouring lightning with Big Mouth.
• Qin Feng completed the highest-difficulty challenge, bought five Advanced Divine Books at a 90% discount, and recruited Outcast Fairy · Yuan into the Shadow guild.
• Qin Feng discovered that Outcast Fairy · Yuan offered basic and personal functions.
• The tower's black lightning vanished, and Xiao Fengli and the others learned that Dark Shadow had recruited its master, temporarily closing the challenge.

Qin Feng secretly left the Divine Authority Tower with the Outcast Fairy Yuan and learned about the powerful lightning-related services she could provide. He planned to bring her to Evil Spirit Academy and use her Lightning Fairy’s Baptism, while also considering the high costs of her abilities and Divine Books.

• Qin Feng departed the Divine Authority Tower with Yuan on Osilio, keeping them hidden from others.
• Qin Feng asked Yuan about her eye, but she rebuked him for prying and did not explain what had happened.
• Qin Feng learned that Yuan could teach Blessing of the Lightning Fairy, grant temporary lightning resistance, and provide a daily Lightning Fairy’s Baptism in exchange for lifespan.
• Qin Feng discovered that Blessing of the Lightning Fairy was a Mythic Tier passive skill that granted immunity to lightning crowd control, slowed Greater Affix gauge accumulation, and added 50% lightning damage to his attacks.
• Qin Feng planned to take Yuan to Evil Spirit Academy to try her baptism and noted that his discount made five Divine Books cost about five hundred years of lifespan.

Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy, received a Lightning Fairy's Baptism, and prepared to build Teleportation Arrays and upgrade its defensive barrier. News then spread of an apparently weak Epic Grade boss near the Magic City Ruins, and Qin Feng realized it was likely bait designed to lure players into a trap.

• Qin Feng used a Teleportation Stone to return to the Magic City Ruins, then brought Outcast Fairy · Yuan to the Evil Spirit Academy and received her Lightning Fairy's Baptism.
• Qin Feng planned Teleportation Arrays for the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and the Evil Spirit Academy and began gathering materials to upgrade the academy's defensive barrier.
• Players across the Magic City Ruins heard that Calamity Hades · Hals, a level 30 Epic Grade boss, was using a slow, single-target attack and rushed to fight it.
• Zhang Jinxuan asked Qin Feng whether he would challenge the boss, and Qin Feng recognized Calamity Hades · Hals as a Calamity Sea boss likely luring players into an ambush.

Qin Feng investigated Calamity Hades Hals after realizing the Epic Grade boss was baiting players into attacking, then warned the authorities and scouted the boss before retreating. Many players ignored the warnings, and Calamity Hades unleashed a massive attack as the crowd began to flee.

• Qin Feng warned Zhang Jinxuan that Calamity Hades Hals was luring players into a trap, and Zhang ordered Sky Dome Guild members to withdraw.
• Qin Feng flew toward the boss and warned Late Night, Light Rain, prompting official teams to retreat, though many other players continued toward the coordinates.
• Qin Feng revealed Osilio to discourage the players, but they misread his arrival and later departure, with some deciding to keep attacking the boss.
• Qin Feng recorded Calamity Hades's appearance and movements with a Light and Shadow Crystal, then left to have the Eye of Knowledge analyze the recording.
• Fuxi ordered his Sky Dome Guild team to retreat after seeing Qin Feng leave, but Calamity Hades swept his deathly black sword across an area several kilometers wide.

Calamity Hades turned more than a thousand slain players into skeleton puppets and sent them to hunt down others as he advanced toward the Magic City Ruins. Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy with a recording of the boss and learned that a Sky Dome Guild officer had ignored orders and been killed.

• Calamity Hades killed over a thousand players, then revived them on the spot as conscious, uncontrollable skeleton puppets with powerful temporary buffs.
• Calamity Hades ordered the puppets to spread out and hunt players, turning those they killed into more skeleton puppets as he absorbed the dropped Lifespan Orbs.
• The controlled players regretted ignoring Dark Shadow’s warning, but their puppets continued hunting while they remained unable to control their bodies or communicate.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy with the Light and Shadow Crystal recording Calamity Hades’s appearance.
• Lao Zhangtou learned that a Sky Dome Guild officer had led a team to fight the boss against orders and demanded that the officer be kicked out of the guild.

Qin Feng learned Calamity Hades’s abilities and realized the boss could not be defeated by relying on Greater Affixes, while undead players discovered that dying would not free them from the boss’s control. As Calamity Hades’s skeletons pursued a fleeing Summoner, Qin Feng headed out to confront the boss.

• Lao Zhangtou expelled Fuxi for leading players against the boss and ordered the guild to take shelter in the Hideout.
• Qin Feng asked Big Eyes to examine the Light and Shadow Crystal and learned about the Undead Royal Family and its ability to turn corpses into controlled undead.
• Big Eyes identified Calamity Hades’s Instant Death, nightmare, and Evil Tooth abilities, and explained that the tooth cleared Greater Affixes every three to five seconds while the boss had no surrounding affix energy.
• Qin Feng decided he could use Invisibility against Calamity Hades, then flew toward the boss on Osilio.
• Calamity Hades’s undead players saw the boss kill and resurrect a skeleton, realizing that they would remain undead and lose lifespan with each death.
• A gray-robed Summoner fleeing the boss was pursued by ten player skeletons, unaware that Calamity Hades had already targeted him.

Calamity Hades killed the young Summoner, absorbed the lifespan he dropped, and learned from his memories that he had been lured there to fight the Assassin Dark Shadow. Confident that his level 18 Anti-Stealth could counter the Assassin, Calamity Hades continued toward the City Ruins while the undead players feared they were doomed.

• The young Summoner failed to escape the player skeletons, was killed, and became an undead servant of Calamity Hades.
• Calamity Hades trapped the young Summoner in a nightmare, repeatedly crushed him as he revived, and killed him after draining nearly all his lifespan.
• Calamity Hades absorbed the lifespan and searched the young Summoner's recent memories, learning that he had been lured there to deal with Dark Shadow.
• Calamity Hades dismissed Dark Shadow as a threat because his Anti-Stealth was level 18 and set out to expand his undead forces in the City Ruins.
• The surrounding undead players panicked and feared that even Dark Shadow could not defeat Calamity Hades.

Qin Feng returned to confront Calamity Hades Hals while Magic City's authorities evacuated players from the battlefield. He began testing the Epic Grade boss with invisible Shadow Blades, leaving Hals confused about who was attacking him.

• More than two thousand player skeletons became undead as Calamity Hades Hals advanced toward the Magic City Ruins, while other players fled.
• Late Night, Light Rain asked Qin Feng what to do, and he told her he would handle the boss and ordered the authorities to evacuate nearby players.
• Magic City's authorities gathered forces and evacuated players from the northeastern edge of the ruins after receiving Qin Feng's message.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio back toward Hals, ignored the undead skeletons, and used stealth as they approached the boss.
• Qin Feng struck Hals with invisible Shadow Blades while changing positions to test his abilities, and Hals wondered who was hitting him.

Qin Feng attacked Calamity Hades while remaining invisible, then used Endless Nightmare to incapacitate its undead player minions and stop their suicide blasts. Calamity Hades found Osilio instead of Qin Feng and tried to crush him, but Qin Feng drained the boss and Osilio healed from the attack.

• Qin Feng repeatedly struck Calamity Hades's weak points from behind while the boss failed to locate him.
• Calamity Hades ordered undead player skeletons to explode, forcing Qin Feng to retreat from their lethal mist.
• Qin Feng used Endless Nightmare to incapacitate the undead players, preventing them from following the boss's orders.
• Calamity Hades sensed Qin Feng's Nightmare energy and grabbed Osilio instead.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand, Abyss Wither Curse, and Gimme That on Calamity Hades as it squeezed Osilio, who healed from the damage.

Qin Feng dodged Calamity Hades’s instant-death attack and pursued the boss through his second phase, gradually wearing down his health. When Calamity Hades tried to begin his third phase, he discovered that the Abyss Wither Curse had sealed three of his highest-tier skills.

• Calamity Hades failed to harm Osilio, and Qin Feng used a burst of attacks to reduce the boss’s health and trigger his second phase.
• Qin Feng retreated several kilometers to escape Calamity Hades’s expanding instant-death ripples, then resumed attacking from a distance.
• Calamity Hades fled while Qin Feng chased him and chipped away at his health, though the boss’s increased agility limited Qin Feng’s damage.
• After Calamity Hades’s health fell to one-third, he tried to activate his third-phase skill but found that the Abyss Wither Curse had sealed three of his highest-tier skills.

Qin Feng repeatedly sealed Calamity Hades’s skills and ignored the boss’s threat that killing him would permanently trap the transformed players. A female player misread Qin Feng’s decision as callousness, spread the accusation online, and the Great Xia Officials issued a rebuttal.

• Qin Feng used Abyss Wither Curse again before its seal wore off, repeatedly preventing Calamity Hades from using his strongest skills.
• Calamity Hades offered to withdraw and restore the transformed players if Qin Feng let him go, but Qin Feng continued the pursuit, trusting that killing the boss would free them.
• A female player on a gray eagle mount watched the fight and decided Dark Shadow was sacrificing more than two thousand transformed players for the boss’s loot.
• The female player contacted a foreign media contact and spread a story accusing Dark Shadow of disregarding the transformed players’ lives.
• The Great Xia Officials swiftly denied the rumor, saying the transformed players would recover once Calamity Hades was killed.

Qin Feng continued wearing down Calamity Hades, who tried to escape by feinting his dangerous skill and then offered no trust when Qin Feng promised to spare him for the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang. Calamity Hades finally hurled the fang into the distant sky, leaving Qin Feng to pursue it.

• Great Xia players argued over whether to believe reports about Dark Shadow, while the female player who spread the news grew angry at his defenders.
• Osilio spotted the eagle-riding female player and teased Qin Feng about catching her as a wife, but Qin Feng told him to stop talking.
• Calamity Hades repeatedly feinted his black spherical ripple skill to make Qin Feng retreat, until Qin Feng learned to distinguish the feints from real activations.
• As Calamity Hades's health fell below one fifth, Qin Feng offered to spare him in exchange for the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang, but Calamity Hades refused to trust him.
• Calamity Hades ripped the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang from his waist and hurled it dozens of kilometers away.

Qin Feng defeated the Epic Grade boss Calamity Hades by using Thousand-Blade Strike to strip away his greater affixes before killing him. He earned the worldwide first-kill reward, while grieving players in Magic City blamed him for their loved ones’ deaths.

• Calamity Hades hurled the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang away, and Qin Feng sent Osilio to retrieve it as Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today flew after it.
• After losing the fang, Calamity Hades restored his greater affix aura and tried to escape while forcing Qin Feng to retreat.
• Qin Feng repeatedly used Thousand-Blade Strike, stripping Calamity Hades’s affixes while attacking him with other skills.
• Qin Feng killed Calamity Hades, who dropped Diamond Tier and Epic Grade loot.
• The system announced Qin Feng’s world-first Epic Grade boss kill and awarded him 200 reputation, along with 100 reputation for defeating Calamity Hades.
• Players in Magic City mourned their dead loved ones and cursed Dark Shadow.

After Qin Feng killed Calamity Hades alone, players around the world reacted to Dark Shadow’s first Epic Grade boss kill, while the restored undead survivors in Great Xia celebrated their survival. Peach Rabbit tried to sell more information to people seeking to smear Qin Feng, unaware that the authorities were investigating her as Qin Feng began sorting through the boss’s loot.

• Players worldwide discussed Dark Shadow’s solo first Epic Grade boss kill, and many reconsidered rumors about his strength.
• The more than two thousand players converted by Calamity Hades died when the boss fell and then respawned; nearly a thousand who had avoided Qin Feng’s nightmares celebrated their survival.
• Fuxi rejoiced at surviving and felt grateful to Dark Shadow, while reports of the restored players undermined claims that Qin Feng had ignored their lives.
• Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today argued with a buyer who refused to pay for her report, then offered more information about players trapped in nightmares.
• The authorities investigated the source of reports slandering Dark Shadow as Qin Feng sorted through Calamity Hades’s loot and collected the lifespan the boss had absorbed.

After defeating Calamity Hades, Qin Feng collected its rewards and gained the powerful Legendary Tier skill Instant Annihilation. He upgraded Blessing of the Lightning Fairy, assessed his new equipment and plans to sell lower-tier loot to the Magic City Officialdom, as Osilio returned with the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang.

• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Calamity Hades's rewards, gaining extra lifespan, Evolution Points, and a large haul of loot.
• Qin Feng obtained the Legendary Tier Assassin Finishing Move Instant Annihilation and calculated how its damage could combine with his other skills, though he needed level 30 to learn it.
• Qin Feng spent 1,000 Evolution Points to evolve Blessing of the Lightning Fairy to Ancient Grade, strengthening its effects and gaining Thunder of Holiness.
• Qin Feng equipped the Legendary Tier Assassination Hood and decided to sell Diamond Tier gear and Skill Books to the Magic City Officialdom.
• Osilio returned to Qin Feng with the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang.

Qin Feng learned that the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang could be converted by a rare NPC associated with the Sakura Country guild KEY, then returned it to Osilio. After accepting the authorities’ reward and request to handle a suspected enemy collaborator, he killed Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today and sent her to the Judgment Grounds.

• Qin Feng checked the Old-Day Calamity Serpent Fang, learned its effects were disabled in this world, and recalled that KEY had once recruited an NPC who could convert foreign items.
• Qin Feng returned the fang to Osilio and agreed to visit the Great Xia Navy’s Prison of Suffering after Late Night, Light Rain reported a player suspected of selling information about him.
• Late Night, Light Rain brought Qin Feng to Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today, who denied the accusations and claimed she had only criticized him online.
• Qin Feng killed Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today and sent her to the Judgment Grounds, then considered passing judgment on her and several people he had imprisoned earlier.

Qin Feng negotiated with Late Night, Light Rain over his merit medal and Diamond Tier equipment, then entered the Judgment Grounds to judge seven players at once. As he examined their punishments, he began to suspect that the harshest trials were tied not only to betrayal or repaying kindness with malice, but also to conspiring against him.

• Qin Feng agreed that Late Night, Light Rain would arrange buyers for his Diamond Tier equipment because the authorities could not yet afford all of it.
• Qin Feng visited Ashasiss, exchanged Ancient God Language books, and examined seven players frozen inside the White Jade Maze.
• Qin Feng initiated Judgment on all seven players at once, spending 32 points of Divinity and confirming that Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today had colluded with foreign players to smear him.
• Qin Feng watched Peach Rabbit Eats Hot Pot Today undergo Knife Mountain Punishment and Qingqing face repeated monster attacks, while the other players received their own punishments.
• Qin Feng noticed that the players sent to the Oil Cauldron or Knife Mountain had all conspired against him and wondered whether Judgment used a twofold assessment.