Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng examined three masks from Ge Angke, then traveled to Delhi to deal with Tianzhu Country’s Magic Mirror. There, he heard locals doubt that someone from Great Xia could handle the threat, leaving him to face their skepticism.

• Shā Míyà and Ge Angke recognized Qin Feng’s strength and potential, while Gray Chicken and Ge Angke bickered.
• Qin Feng examined the Life Reaper, Ransom, and Executioner masks and learned how their effects worked.
• Qin Feng teleported to Evil Spirit Academy and told Late Night, Light Rain about the Abyss of the Wrongfully Dead and the masks.
• Qin Feng traveled to the Delhi Ruins in Tianzhu Country to deal with the Magic Mirror.
• Tianzhu locals discussed the reward paid to Dark Shadow and questioned whether someone from Great Xia could defeat the Magic Mirror.

Qin Feng arrived at the Delhi Ruins and flew toward the Keshm Magic Mirror while Tianzhu players watched and boasted that they could destroy it themselves. He concealed himself near the valley to study the site, where Chaluba and his companions arrived claiming they had a way to defeat the mirror’s shadows.

• Qin Feng revealed himself above the Delhi Ruins, warned Late Night, Light Rain to tell Tianzhu Country he had arrived, and flew north toward the Magic Mirror.
• On the way, Qin Feng passed more than twenty Tianzhu players riding a desert lizard and heard them vow to become Delhi’s heroes by destroying the Magic Mirror.
• Qin Feng used Meld into Darkness and settled on a nearby peak to observe the valley and its guards.
• Qin Feng spotted Bazaar the Penitent and Qian Du'er among the officials guarding the entrance, and noted that Qian Du'er was a Life Priest.
• Chaluba and the other riders reached the guards and demanded entry, claiming Chaluba could boost their damage against summons by 200% so they could destroy the Magic Mirror's shadows.

Qin Feng watched the Keshm Magic Mirror's shadows slaughter the twenty-odd players who tried to fight them, then prepared equipment and skills to counter the mirror's powers. He arrived before Master Bazaar and Qian Du'er, demanded the remaining payment, and heard Bazaar's warning to attack the mirror quickly before its shadows trapped him.

• Master Bazaar and Qian Du'er allowed the twenty-odd players to enter the valley and challenge the Magic Mirror.
• The mirror produced more than sixty shadows, and the players' bonus damage against summons failed to work; the shadows killed them and absorbed their corpses.
• Qin Feng realized an Order effect was negating the players' damage bonus, and prepared to use Divinity and equipment that increased damage against summons.
• Qin Feng kept Rostislav's Contract because its Cowardly Finisher Order would prevent his copied shadows from damaging him from behind.
• Qin Feng flew down before the Tianzhu officials, demanded the remaining payment through Babi, and heard Master Bazaar advise him to attack the mirror quickly.

Qin Feng entered the valley to face the Keshm Magic Mirror, which created three imperfect shadows of him. His attacks from behind nullified their assault, and he quickly destroyed all three.

• Qin Feng rejected Bazaar's suggestion to attack the invincible Keshm Magic Mirror directly and flew into the valley.
• Qin Feng activated Meld into Darkness, but the Keshm Magic Mirror detected him and created three shadows.
• The shadows appeared without Qin Feng's wings or Mythic Tier Death Shroud and wielded only one dagger each.
• The shadows attacked Qin Feng, but Cowardly Finisher's Order nullified their attacks from behind.
• Qin Feng and his Killing Shadows unleashed Shadow Blades and tore apart all three shadows in less than a second.

Qin Feng entered the Keshim Magic Mirror’s inner arena and confronted its true Mirror Spirit, while players in Tianzhu mistakenly celebrated his apparent defeat. The Mirror Spirit trapped Qin Feng and summoned the Shadow of Keshim-Hand Mystery, whose adaptation began reducing the damage from Qin Feng’s attacks.

• Qin Feng killed the three shadows that copied Dark Shadow, exploiting their inability to copy his Greater skill and their low Instant Death Resistance.
• The Keshim Magic Mirror absorbed Qin Feng, and Tianzhu players wrongly assumed the mirror had killed him as they spread the news of his defeat.
• Qin Feng arrived in the mirror’s mist-filled inner realm and met the Keshim Mirror Spirit, which demanded to know why he had come to kill it.
• The Mirror Spirit trapped Qin Feng with shadow arms and summoned the Shadow of Keshim-Hand Mystery while its true body remained invincible.
• Qin Feng raised his Greater Resistance against the Nightmare and Corruption meters, then sent five shadows to attack the summoned boss with Thousand-Blade Strike.
• The Shadow of Keshim-Hand Mystery adapted to the repeated strikes, halving the damage from each successive hit.

Qin Feng overcame the Keshm Mirror Spirit’s adaptive defenses and killed its two shadow amalgamations before defeating the Legendary Tier boss itself. The Mirror Spirit’s plea for mercy ended as Throat Slit damage erupted and Qin Feng claimed the kill.

• Qin Feng discovered the Shadow of Keshm could shed parts of its shadow amalgamations to transfer away Throat Slit damage, foiling his planned Instant Annihilation.
• The Thousand Hands Enigma attacked with hundreds of elemental skills, but Qin Feng blocked them and used Dark Shadow Leap and Shadow Blades to destroy it.
• Mountain of the Death Prison trapped Qin Feng in a crushing embrace, but he escaped and killed it with attacks from himself and his Shadow Clones.
• The Keshm Mirror Spirit tried to beg for mercy, but Qin Feng struck it with Thousand-Blade Strike and Instant Annihilation.
• Throat Slit damage dealt the Keshm Mirror Spirit 2.306 billion damage, and Qin Feng received 200 Reputation for slaying the Legendary Tier boss Keshm Magic Mirror.

Qin Feng killed the Keshm Magic Mirror and returned to the valley, where Master Bazaar tried to use the failed rescue as an excuse not to pay the remaining lifespan. Qin Feng killed Bazaar and found an enormous Lifespan Orb, while Babi revealed that Bazaar had carried a Ghostfire Bell.

• Qin Feng killed the Mirror Spirit with Instant Annihilation, destroying the Keshm Magic Mirror and teleporting back to the valley.
• Qin Feng approached the Tianzhu Country officials to collect the remaining twenty-five thousand years of lifespan.
• Master Bazaar claimed that the officials did not owe Qin Feng the balance because the devoured players had not been rescued.
• Qin Feng activated Life Reaper and Life-Buying Money, then killed Master Bazaar with two attacks that filled his Instant Death Meter.
• Qin Feng found a huge Lifespan Orb on Bazaar, and Babi exclaimed that Bazaar's Ghostfire Bell should have prevented him from dropping lifespan.

After Qin Feng killed Master Bazaar, the Slaughter Executioner appeared to hunt him, but Qin Feng’s Order nullified the Executioner’s opening attack. The two raced into the sky, leaving the watching Tianzhu Country players unable to follow them.

• Master Bazaar’s Ghostfire Bell failed against Qin Feng’s Life Reaper mask, and Life-Buying Money kept Bazaar’s corpse from exploding before his lifespan debt was paid.
• Master Bazaar’s death transferred hundreds of thousands of Slaughter Value to Qin Feng, causing the Slaughter Executioner to appear.
• The Tianzhu Country players watched from the woods and expected the Executioner to kill Qin Feng and send him to prison.
• The Slaughter Executioner attacked Qin Feng from behind, but Cowardly Finisher’s Order nullified the strikes.
• Qin Feng flew upward on his Deathwing, and the Slaughter Executioner chased him with blood-red wings.

Qin Feng fought the level 50 Slaughter Executioner Diabad, surviving his instant-death attacks and ultimate knife barrage before turning the tables. He killed Diabad and landed before the stunned Tianzhu players with the executioner’s head falling at their feet.

• Tianzhu players were shocked by Dark Shadow’s apparent agility, while Qin Feng pursued a counterattack against the faster Diabad.
• Diabad’s attacks shattered Qin Feng’s shields, but Qin Feng dodged the killing blow and revealed his immunity to the Instant Death Affix.
• Qin Feng struck Diabad with Thousand-Blade Strike, breaking his shield and dealing heavy damage before Diabad turned into an invincible pool of blood.
• Diabad used a Divinity Armament to counter Qin Feng’s Orders and sent thousands of homing knives after him, but Qin Feng escaped with repeated Dark Shadow Leaps.
• Qin Feng’s Shadow Clone stole Diabad’s blood-pool state, leaving him vulnerable, and Qin Feng finished him.
• Diabad’s head fell into the woods before Qian Du’er and the Tianzhu players as Qin Feng descended and appeared before them.

Qin Feng killed the Tianzhu Slaughter Executioner Diabad and the players around him, then learned that Qian Du'er had escaped by logging out. When Babi relayed Qian Du'er's demand that Qin Feng stop after receiving Bazaar's lifespan, Qin Feng rejected it and asked Babi to name arrogant people in Delhi Ruins.

• Qin Feng killed Diabad and sent him into the Judgment Grounds, then used 350 divinity to judge the fleeing Tianzhu players.
• Qin Feng discovered that Qian Du'er had logged out just before he could be killed.
• Babi told Qin Feng that Qian Du'er claimed Bazaar's gift of over seventy thousand years of lifespan covered the final payment.
• Qin Feng said Bazaar's lifespan did not count as payment and asked Babi to identify arrogant people in Delhi Ruins for him to target.
• Babi realized Qin Feng was inviting him to name people for a death list, as he recalled the oppression of commoners and their guilds by the authorities and Penitent Guild.

Qin Feng hunted powerful officials and Penitent Guild members in Delhi while Babi helped him locate targets and exposed Master Bazaar’s corpse. In Jianghai Second Prison, Qin Xiaoyou had less than ten minutes left and regretted cutting ties with Qin Feng.

• Babi gathered coordinates for powerful official players and Penitent Guild members, and Qin Feng set out with the resurrected Osilio.
• Qin Feng silently killed more than a hundred powerful players and sent them into the Judgment Grounds, preventing them from reporting their deaths.
• Babi dumped Master Bazaar’s corpse outside a Penitent Guild hideout, where believers learned that resurrecting him would cost over ten thousand years of lifespan.
• Qian Du'er realized that Dark Shadow was killing powerful officials as well as Penitent Guild members and panicked.
• In Jianghai Second Prison, Qin Xiaoyou watched her lifespan drain at a hundred times the normal rate and regretted cutting ties with Qin Feng.

Qin Xiaoyou waited in prison for Qin Feng to rescue her while her lifespan dwindled, but Chu Yan came instead and revealed that Qin Xiaoyou’s actions had left Chu Yan’s parents unconscious. Qin Xiaoyou offered to explain why she activated the Epic Grade boss in exchange for fifty days of lifespan, and Chu Yan refused.

• Qin Xiaoyou regretted cutting ties with Qin Feng and kept hoping he would come to the prison before her remaining lifespan ran out.
• Chu Yan visited Qin Xiaoyou, but Qin Xiaoyou’s hopes rose only because she expected Chu Yan to give her lifespan.
• Chu Yan said her parents had been driven into confusion by the Nine Realms Stone Overseer after Qin Xiaoyou released the Epic Grade boss.
• Chu Yan asked why Qin Xiaoyou had activated the boss, and Qin Xiaoyou demanded fifty days of lifespan in exchange for an explanation.
• Chu Yan refused Qin Xiaoyou’s demand.

Chu Yan told Qin Xiaoyou she could not help her, and Qin Xiaoyou died alone in her prison cell as her lifespan ran out. Her body vanished and she entered the Judgment Grounds, where Qin Feng noticed the system notification while eating with Gui Ling.

• Chu Yan confronted Qin Xiaoyou about her hope that Dark Shadow was Qin Feng and decided to seek Dark Shadow’s help to save her parents.
• Chu Yan left without giving Qin Xiaoyou any lifespan, and Qin Xiaoyou begged her before despairing alone in her cell.
• Qin Xiaoyou asked the prison staff for food, but they told her she had to pay for it with lifespan.
• Qin Xiaoyou fell to the cell floor and died when her lifespan ran out, then transformed into white light and disappeared.
• Qin Feng received a notification that player Xiaoyou Ya had entered the Judgment Grounds and chose to finish eating before dealing with it.

Qin Feng sent Gui Ling to the Tōto Ruins with Shā Míyà to watch the KEY Guild, then prepared to judge Qin Xiaoyou and the experts he had captured in Tianzhu Country. After Master Bazaar’s failed resurrection, word spread worldwide that Dark Shadow had killed a Slaughter Executioner.

• Gui Ling agreed to travel to the Tōto Ruins and monitor the KEY Guild, so Qin Feng assigned Shā Míyà to take her there and keep her company.
• Qin Feng reflected on his huge lifespan reserve from the Tianzhu Country operation and prepared to judge Qin Xiaoyou, who had entered the Judgment Grounds.
• In the Delhi Ruins, members of Master Bazaar’s Penitent Guild donated over ten thousand years of lifespan to revive him.
• Master Bazaar’s corpse exploded, killing several thousand believers, then vanished after Qin Feng’s Judgment Grounds took him in.
• Qin Feng entered the Judgment Grounds to pass judgment, while a rumor that he had killed a Slaughter Executioner spread across the world.

Qin Feng judged 212 powerful Tianzhu Country experts at once, raising the Blade of Judgment’s Divinity Limit and attributes. As the judgments unfolded, he discovered that some of the experts enjoyed punishments that should have horrified them, while Qin Xiaoyou’s memories were still merging in the Dark Space.

• Qin Feng found Qin Xiaoyou’s corpse in the distant Dark Space and learned from Ashasiss that her memories would take about a day to merge and judging her would require a Divinity Limit of 300.
• Qin Feng imprisoned the Slaughter Executioner Diabad and prepared to judge the 212 Tianzhu Country experts gathered in the White Jade Maze.
• Qin Feng started the mass judgment, rapidly spending Lifespan to replenish the Blade of Judgment’s Divinity as it judged all 212 experts.
• Qin Feng saw the experts undergo varied punishments and noticed that some, including a man forced to drink Ganges water and a former judge made to drink cow holy water, enjoyed them.
• Qin Feng watched the Blade of Judgment’s Divinity Limit and base attributes soar as the experts entered repeating judgment scenes.

Qin Feng judged powerful Tianzhu Country players, raising the Blade of Judgment’s divinity limit to 135, then discussed Ancient God Language with Ashasiss. He returned to River-Sea City to pursue the Six-Fingered Warlock and found that local players had come to regard Dark Shadow as a hero.

• Qin Feng’s judgments of Tianzhu Country powerhouses raised the Blade of Judgment’s divinity limit from 73 to 135 and its base attribute bonus from 63% to 125%.
• Qin Feng realized he still needed more divinity to judge Slaughter Executioner Diabad and planned to kill the Six-Fingered Warlock to strengthen the Blade of Judgment further.
• Qin Feng discussed the Ancient God Language with Ashasiss for half an hour before leaving the Judgment Grounds.
• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to focus on leveling in Sakura Country and to report any KEY Guild news about NPCs.
• Qin Feng rode invisibly through River-Sea City’s rebuilt plaza, where players praised Dark Shadow and Gray Rose haggled over Gray Fog Bracers advertised as his.

Qin Feng arrived at the Divine Authority Tower to challenge Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly, preparing ways to bypass the NPC’s mana-based invulnerability. He asked Aowu’s party if he could cut in line, leaving them thrilled at his politeness.

• Players traded rumors about Dark Shadow’s exploits in other countries, though many doubted the stories.
• Qin Feng reached the Divine Authority Tower and learned that female players faced harder challenges and higher prices from Vickly.
• Qin Feng planned to counter Vickly’s defenses by destroying his Divinity Armament or draining his mana, and equipped Soul-Mana Bane.
• Aowu prepared five guild members to challenge the tower when Qin Feng arrived and asked to cut in line.
• Aowu and the five women recognized Dark Shadow and excitedly praised his politeness.

Qin Feng entered the Divine Authority Tower to confront Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly, whose attacks barely affected him. After baiting Vickly into combat, Qin Feng flew through the warlock’s attack and launched a counterattack, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Qin Feng arrived at the Divine Authority Tower and refused Aowu’s request to bring her guild members into the challenge.
• Qin Feng entered the tower and insulted Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly, provoking him to attack.
• Vickly’s black mist barely affected Qin Feng, so Vickly took to the air and prepared a Mythic Tier attack.
• Vickly disabled movement skills and unleashed Nightmare Dread Dragon Charge, but Qin Feng used his Death Six Wings to fly through it and suffered only two hits.
• Qin Feng appeared behind Vickly, struck with Killing Shadow and Thousand-Blade Strike, and activated Yelian Curse Seal Crusher’s Merciless Shatter.

Qin Feng destroyed Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly’s equipment and killed him in a matter of seconds inside the Divine Authority Tower. He left the fallen Divine Books behind as the stunned crowd realized Vickly could no longer sell them Divine Books.

• Qin Feng discovered that Vickly’s ring protected him from damage, but first had to destroy the black Wizard Robe covering it.
• Vickly used Withering Domain, but Qin Feng’s Dark Shadow Arc and Death Shroud kept the attack from hurting him.
• Qin Feng and his Shadow Clones destroyed Vickly’s robe, then shattered the Divinity Armament ring with a rapid barrage of attacks.
• Qin Feng killed Vickly with Crimson Blade and took his corpse into the Judgment Grounds.
• Qin Feng left nine Divine Books inside the tower and told Aowu and the others to collect them.
• The crowd outside marveled that Vickly had died in under five seconds, then wondered where they would buy Divine Books.

After killing Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly, Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout and used his gains to improve his equipment and skills. He upgraded the Death Shroud and evolved Shadow Blade and Darkness Within to Ancient Grade.

• Qin Feng told Aowu that a replacement NPC would arrive at the Divine Authority Tower in a few days, and she sent her subordinates inside to collect the Divine Book.
• Players discussed Vickly’s treatment of female players and learned from the River-Sea City authorities’ announcement that Dark Shadow had killed the tower’s NPC.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout with equipment dropped by the Keshm Magic Mirror and used over a hundred thousand equipment points to upgrade both Death Shroud effects.
• Qin Feng spent 13,000 evolution points to evolve Shadow Blade to Ancient Grade, gaining an effect that let it ricochet between nearby enemies.
• Qin Feng spent another 8,000 evolution points to evolve Darkness Within to Ancient Grade.