Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng reopened his stall in Shell Town, where players eagerly bought his high-grade items. Black Plum Big Li offered him a Spatial Ring in exchange for help defeating a Gold-grade boss, and the chapter ended with Qin Feng insisting he could kill it alone.

• Qin Feng activated the Portal beneath the square, then opened his stall and sold items to the players gathered around him.
• Black Plum Big Li showed Qin Feng a Spatial Ring with 12 storage slots and asked him to help defeat a Gold-grade boss.
• Black Plum Big Li explained that she had found the boss aboard a battered ship in a swamp while farming monsters.
• Qin Feng agreed to help, claiming the boss's drops except for equipment and skill books Black Plum Big Li's team could use, and accepted her request for a discount on their items.
• When Black Plum Big Li suggested waiting for Wang Meng and the others, Qin Feng said he could kill the boss alone.

Qin Feng led Lin Liyu to the Golden Ghost Ship, killing five players who had followed them and racing through the Dark Forest to reach its swamp. He entered the berserk zone alone and approached the level 5 gold-tier boss as its timer counted down.

• Qin Feng identified the nearby gold-tier boss as a Golden Ghost Ship and left Shell Town with Lin Liyu to hunt it.
• Qin Feng spotted five players following them, vanished into the woods, and killed all five.
• Qin Feng grabbed Lin Liyu and sprinted through the Dark Forest, killing normal monsters along the way.
• Qin Feng and Lin Liyu reached a cliff overlooking the misty swamp, where Qin Feng told her to wait while he went after the boss.
• Qin Feng entered the swamp’s 100-times lifespan depletion zone in stealth and found the level 5 Golden Ghost Ship with 45 minutes remaining.

Qin Feng fought the Golden Ghost Ship, whose half-health attack killed him as he had planned. Iron Man arrived hoping to seize the boss and Qin Feng’s dropped lifespan, but the ship and its summoned water ghosts wiped out his entire group.

• Qin Feng attacked the Golden Ghost Ship’s Golden Bell weak point, then dodged its water columns and the twelve Rotting Water Ghosts it summoned.
• Qin Feng told Lin Liyu not to approach the boss while he was away, and she questioned his nickname for her.
• Iron Man led twenty-four players toward the swamp after learning that Qin Feng was fighting a boss there.
• Qin Feng reduced the Golden Ghost Ship to half health, whereupon its soul wave immobilized him and a water column killed him.
• Iron Man and his men tried to reach the boss and Qin Feng’s dropped lifespan, but the Rotting Water Ghosts and water columns killed all twenty-four of them.

Qin Feng defeated the Golden Ghost Ship, claiming the server’s first Gold Grade boss kill and stunning players around the world. As he prepared to collect the loot, a group of players entered the swamp to steal it, but their attempt to reveal the invisible Dark Shadow failed.

• Iron Man and his men returned to the swamp, while Lin Liyu ambushed them with a lightning attack to keep them from disturbing Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng dodged the Golden Ghost Ship’s area attacks and reduced its health to almost nothing.
• Qin Feng killed the Golden Ghost Ship, reached level 8, and triggered a server-wide announcement for the first Gold Grade boss kill.
• Players worldwide reacted with shock, and Wang Meng questioned how far Qin Feng surpassed his own squad.
• A group of players rushed into the swamp to steal the loot and used a Ghostly Horned Eagle to search for Dark Shadow, but it did not reveal him.

Qin Feng killed the players who tried to steal his boss loot, evolved Greedy Hand to Epic Tier, and gained two Ghostfire Bells that increased his lifespan rewards from kills by 40%. He finished examining the Golden Ghost Ship’s loot, including several Gold and Platinum Tier items.

• Qin Feng ambushed and killed the twelve players who had gathered to claim the Golden Ghost Ship’s loot.
• Qin Feng spent his evolution points to raise Greedy Hand from Diamond Tier to Epic Tier, making its extra loot rewards guaranteed to rise by one tier.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the Golden Ghost Ship and gained 21 evolution points and 648 days of tradable lifespan, then found he needed 210 evolution points for its next evolution.
• Qin Feng collected the swamp’s tradable lifespan and obtained the Ghostfire Bell, whose Soul Siphon passive increased lifespan dropped by slain Demons.
• Qin Feng discovered that he had obtained two Ghostfire Bells and confirmed their Soul Siphon effects stacked, giving him a 40% lifespan bonus from kills.
• Qin Feng inspected the rest of the boss loot and found eleven Gold Tier items, two Platinum Tier equipment pieces, and one Platinum Tier skill book.

Qin Feng upgraded his equipment and skills after defeating the Golden Ghost Ship, then headed back toward Shell Town to meet Lin Liyu. In Moonlight Town, Qin Xiaoyou learned that Dark Shadow was from River-Sea City and decided to seek him out.

• Qin Feng equipped Platinum Tier twin blades and Gold Tier armor, learned Ghostly Blur, and spent evolution points improving Instant Shadow Slash and Back Attack Enhancement.
• Qin Feng kept the Platinum Tier archer equipment and priest skill book, planned to give Lin Liyu the mage items, and prepared to sell other drops to Wang Meng's team.
• Qin Feng learned Lin Liyu had died and respawned in town, told her to wait for him, and headed toward Shell Town.
• Qin Feng spotted Iron Man leading more than twenty players toward the swamp and attacked them.
• Qin Xiaoyou heard that Shell Town was in River-Sea City and decided to go there to find Dark Shadow once someone in Moonlight Town reached level 5.

Qin Feng killed Iron Man and most of his group, returned to Shell Town, and accepted an Assassin skill book from Leisurely Clouds. He then gave Lin Liyu two gold-tier Mage items, leaving her stunned.

• Qin Feng ambushed Iron Man and his underlings on the way back to Shell Town, killing twenty-two of them while two escaped.
• Qin Feng gained one stack of the Slayer debuff but did not worry about its effects because his Ghostfire Bell protected him from lifespan loss if he died once.
• Qin Feng returned to Shell Town, where Leisurely Clouds offered him a Gouge skill book as an apology, and Qin Feng accepted and learned it.
• Leisurely Clouds secretly planned to find Qin Feng in real life and use a woman to get his information.
• Qin Feng met Lin Liyu and gave her a gold-tier Mage skill book and a gold-tier Mage necklace, leaving her astonished.

Qin Feng equipped Lin Liyu with two Gold Tier items and learned of ruins near Shell Town, where he discovered a Temple of Faith that appeared to belong to the Judgment Ancient God. As he explored it in stealth, players from other towns began teleporting into Shell Town to find the legendary Dark Shadow.

• Lin Liyu thanked Qin Feng for the Gold Tier skill and necklace, and handed him her twelve-slot Spatial Ring.
• Lin Liyu told Qin Feng about a hidden entrance to ruins and marked its location on her map.
• Qin Feng put on the ring, bringing his storage capacity to twenty-seven slots, then left Shell Town to investigate the ruins.
• Qin Feng entered the underground passage and recognized its murals as belonging to a Temple of Faith, likely the Judgment Ancient God's.
• Players across the starting towns reached level 5 and used their free teleports to travel to Shell Town, drawn by Dark Shadow's Gold Tier boss kill.

Wang Meng recruited Qin Xiaoyou, a Life Priest, into his party after checking her identity, while Qin Feng explored the Temple of Faith and discovered the Judged Ones recognized his authority and would not attack him. The chapter left Qin Feng testing the strange submission of the two Silver Tier bosses.

• Wang Meng regrouped with his teammates and learned that Lin Liyu had received a Gold Tier necklace from Dark Shadow.
• Wang Meng sought a priest for the party, and Qin Xiaoyou introduced herself and joined after giving him her real-world identity.
• Qin Xiaoyou noticed Lin Liyu's necklace and suspected it was connected to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng entered a hall in the Temple of Faith and attacked two level 10 Silver Tier Ancient God Devotees called Judged Ones.
• The Judged Ones turned toward Qin Feng while he was invisible, then bowed flat to the ground after he revealed himself instead of attacking.

Qin Feng killed the two Devout Believers in the Temple of Faith and discovered a hidden elevator beneath the hall. It carried him into an Underground Labyrinth, where he sent a summoned Devout Believer ahead to scout while preparing to evolve his skills.

• The Devout Believers killed six players in the passage, including Gray Rose, and Qin Feng collected their lifespan orbs.
• Qin Feng killed the two Devout Believers, reached level 9, and gained evolution points, lifespan, and equipment.
• Qin Feng equipped the Believer Pendant, which reduced his skill cooldowns and let him summon a Silver Grade Devout Believer.
• The hall's floor mechanism activated, carrying Qin Feng down into an Underground Labyrinth.
• Qin Feng summoned a Devout Believer to scout the labyrinth and opened his skill panel to spend his evolution points.

Qin Feng upgraded Ghostly Blur and Instant Shadow Slash to Epic Grade, then continued exploring the deadly Temple of Faith with a Devout Believer summon as his scout. At the entrance, Gray Rose suspected Dark Shadow had some way to confuse bosses, while Wang Meng’s team planned to leave overcrowded Shell Town after waiting to trade with him.

• Qin Feng spent his Evolution Points to raise Ghostly Blur and Instant Shadow Slash to Epic Grade, then improved Shadowmeld to Platinum Tier.
• Qin Feng sent a Devout Believer through the temple maze, where a trap crushed it, and decided to keep using summons to scout ahead.
• Gray Rose returned to the temple with her teammates, found the two Silver Grade bosses dead, and suspected Dark Shadow had confused them.
• Players crowded Shell Town, leaving too few monsters for efficient leveling, and Wang Meng’s team reached only level 5 after three hours.
• Wang Meng proposed teleporting to a less crowded town, while Lin Liyu insisted they wait for Dark Shadow to trade with him; Qin Xiaoyou quietly listened and smiled.

Qin Feng explored the Temple of Faith, encountered a mysterious white-robed woman, and obtained the epic Assassin skill Coup de Grace. After returning to the surface, he contacted Lin Liyu and unexpectedly heard about Qin Xiaoyou.

• Qin Feng reached a starlit hall and opened its ancient bronze gate after his Devout Believer failed to move it.
• A white-robed woman knelt before Qin Feng, murmured with starlight in her hands, and vanished, leaving a bright golden chest on the altar.
• Qin Feng sent his Devout Believer to open the chest and received the epic skill book Coup de Grace, which enhanced weak-point attacks and granted the Throat Slit effect.
• Qin Feng rode a circular stone platform back to the surface, where it turned into blackened earth and disappeared.
• Qin Feng contacted Lin Liyu about selling his inventory and unexpectedly heard about Qin Xiaoyou.

Qin Feng avoided revealing his connection to Qin Xiaoyou and sold valuable gear to Wang Meng's party while excluding her. After ignoring Qin Xiaoyou's friend request, he set out for Firefly Town to hunt down Song Fei.

• Qin Feng realized Qin Xiaoyou had joined Wang Meng's party to approach him, so he decided not to sell her any Priest equipment or reveal that he knew her.
• Qin Feng returned to crowded Shell Town, escaped the players seeking his attention, and met Wang Meng's party in a secluded spot.
• Qin Feng sold Wang Meng gold equipment and skills for 2,200 days of lifespan, allowing him to pay 900 days upfront and the rest later.
• When the party noticed Qin Feng had no Priest items, he vanished in stealth, leaving Qin Xiaoyou without a share.
• Qin Xiaoyou sent Qin Feng a friend request identifying herself as the party's Priest, but he ignored it and headed to Firefly Town to target Song Fei.

Qin Feng traveled invisibly to Firefly Town, hoping to find Song Fei and Gu Yixue. He followed a group of angry players to Mourning Valley and found Song Fei fighting a Silver Grade boss behind a wall of fangirls.

• Qin Feng used his daily free teleport to reach Firefly Town, but he found neither Song Fei nor Gu Yixue there.
• Qin Feng overheard players say Song Fei was fighting a Silver Grade boss with a group of fangirls and followed them out of town.
• Qin Feng entered Mourning Valley, where players were battling Demons and fighting one another.
• Qin Feng spotted Song Fei and five other mages attacking a Two-Headed Flame Burner while Song Fei's fangirls shielded him from other players.

Song Fei believed he was about to defeat the Two-Headed Flame Burner and surpass Dark Shadow, but Qin Feng ambushed and killed him, then wiped out his entourage. After everyone else withdrew, Qin Feng struck the weakened boss with a Deadly Poison Dart and emptied its health bar.

• Song Fei led his entourage in attacking the Two-Headed Flame Burner, confident he would reach level 7 and become the top player.
• Qin Feng appeared beside Song Fei and killed him and several nearby girls with a rapid series of blade strikes.
• Song Fei respawned in Firefly Town and expected his remaining entourage to avenge him, but the girls kept returning after Qin Feng killed them.
• Qin Feng slaughtered Song Fei’s entire entourage in Mourning Valley, while unaffiliated players watched and retreated.
• Qin Feng used Shadowmeld and struck the Two-Headed Flame Burner with a Deadly Poison Dart, instantly emptying its health bar.

Qin Feng killed the Two-Headed Flame Burner, took its rewards, and evolved Coup de Grace and Back Attack Enhancement before leaving Mourning Valley. After respawning, Song Fei gathered players with stealth detection and crowd control and led them back to hunt Qin Feng.

• Qin Feng killed the Two-Headed Flame Burner with a single dart, frightening the unaffiliated players into fleeing Mourning Valley.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the boss’s corpse, collected its rewards, and gained sixteen evolution points.
• Qin Feng evolved Coup de Grace to Legendary Tier and raised Back Attack Enhancement from Gold Tier to Platinum Tier.
• Qin Feng collected lifespan orbs, entered stealth, and left Mourning Valley.
• Song Fei learned that followers could detect stealth and use area crowd control, then led them toward Mourning Valley to hunt Qin Feng.

Song Fei led his fangirls toward Mourning Valley to confront Dark Shadow, confident that his party could defeat the Assassin. Qin Feng ambushed him again, and Song Fei learned that Dark Shadow’s stealth surpassed the party’s detection skills, leaving him terrified of fighting back.

• Song Fei marched toward Mourning Valley with his fangirls while nearby players followed, expecting a fight with Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng approached Song Fei in stealth, tapped his shoulder, and warned him that he was about to die.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill Song Fei and several girls around him, breaking Song Fei’s magic shield and taking his tradable lifespan.
• After respawning, Song Fei questioned the archer girl, who explained that her Eagle Eye could not detect stealth above level 1.
• Song Fei realized Dark Shadow had level 2 stealth and abandoned his plans to fight an opponent he could not detect.

After killing Song Fei again, Qin Feng recruited Gu Yixue to track him in exchange for a Gold Tier priest staff. Gu Yixue located Song Fei’s group, while Song Fei remained unaware that Qin Feng was heading after him.

• Qin Feng killed Song Fei again and found that the lifespan orbs left behind contained only non-tradable lifespan.
• Qin Feng learned that Song Fei had taken his entourage of girls outside town to level up, then encountered Gu Yixue in the Town Square.
• Qin Feng offered Gu Yixue a discounted Gold Tier priest staff in exchange for finding Song Fei, and she traded her five hundred days of lifespan for it.
• Gu Yixue used her White Bird’s perspective to locate Song Fei’s group and gave Qin Feng their coordinates.
• Qin Feng asked Gu Yixue to keep tracking the group, then vanished into stealth and headed toward them.
• Song Fei and the girls traveled along a river, and Song Fei wondered whether Dark Shadow would pursue him.

Qin Feng discovered an Ancient God's Blessing and opened a Jadeite Tier treasure chest, earning the unfamiliar Blooming Curse skill. After learning it, he realized it could drain all of a dead player's tradable lifespan, and he turned his thoughts toward Song Fei.

• Song Fei and his fangirls cleared Demons along the riverbank while Qin Feng hurried toward them.
• Qin Feng followed Gu Yixue's directions to three nearby trees and activated different symbols on their trunks.
• The symbols revealed an emerald treasure chest, which Qin Feng opened to obtain the Jadeite Tier skill book Blooming Curse.
• Qin Feng learned that Blooming Curse drained a dead player's tradable lifespan and immediately learned the skill.
• Qin Feng considered using Blooming Curse against Song Fei.

Qin Feng killed Song Fei and the women accompanying him, using Blooming Curse’s Death Flowers to drain their tradable lifespan. Gu Yixue watched the massacre from above, while Song Fei decided to log out after losing nearly all his lifespan.

• Qin Feng caught up with Song Fei by the river and killed him with a Deadly Poison Dart.
• Song Fei realized his tradable lifespan was steadily falling as the Death Flower on his corpse drained it.
• Qin Feng killed the thirty-odd women around Song Fei, and blood-red flowers bloomed on their corpses.
• Qin Feng observed that the flowers’ HP appeared proportional to the level of the corpse they grew on, and collected roughly a thousand days of lifespan.
• Gu Yixue watched through her White Bird’s vision as Qin Feng wiped out Song Fei’s group.
• Song Fei, nearly out of tradable and non-tradable lifespan, decided to log out.