Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng upgraded his stealth skills, returned to the Judgment Grounds, and began judging Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly. Vickly’s memories revealed how he rose to power in the Deep Blue Civilization and was betrayed by the girl he loved.

• Qin Feng evolved Darkness Within and Meld into Darkness, greatly strengthening his stealth while invisible and slowing his higher-order gauge buildup.
• Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds, where Vickly spotted him on the White Jade Platform and mistook the sacred figure beside him for an Eldritch God or its servant.
• Qin Feng began judging Vickly and learned that he was born with six fingers on Deep Blue Star and was mocked as an ill omen.
• Vickly gained the hidden Curse Wizard class and a Jadeite Tier talent after the Godforsaken Game arrived, then joined the guild of the girl he loved.
• Vickly overheard the girl mocking him as a fool and workhorse while secretly meeting another guild member.

Qin Feng examined Vickly’s memories and learned that the twisted killer had been defeated by a veiled Mage called Dance of the Moon, then exiled from the Deep Blue Civilization to Blue Star as a Divine Authority Tower NPC. The memories left Qin Feng wondering why Vickly had been exiled rather than killed and convinced him that judging more NPCs might reveal the truth about the world.

• Qin Feng saw that Vickly had secretly tortured and murdered hundreds of women before a female player called Dance of the Moon defeated him.
• Dance of the Moon inspected Vickly’s memories and took him through the Well of Souls, where he was cast into a vortex and sent to Blue Star as an NPC.
• Vickly learned that he had to remain in the Divine Authority Tower until the tenth year after the Godforsaken Game arrived on Blue Star, and later welcomed Wang Meng, Steady as an Old Dog, and Qin Feng into the tower.
• Qin Feng killed Vickly in the present and finished viewing his memories, then questioned why Dance of the Moon had exiled him instead of killing him.
• Qin Feng resolved to judge the Slaughter Executioner next, hoping its memories would provide more clues about the Land of Order and the truth of the world.

Qin Feng judged Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly and then examined Slaughter Executioner Diabad’s memories, uncovering how Godforsaken Game tested civilizations. The chapter ended as Qin Feng learned that a civilization had to survive a year-long Demon siege to ascend, or it would be reset.

• Qin Feng examined Vickly’s memories, noticed his unexplained reaction to Ashasiss, and wondered whether Vickly’s erased memories came from previous lives.
• Qin Feng sentenced Six-Fingered Warlock Vickly to an endless loop in the Darkness Region and gained 57 points of divinity limit.
• Qin Feng began judging Slaughter Executioner Diabad and discovered that Diabad had been born several years after Godforsaken Game arrived in his civilization.
• Qin Feng learned from Diabad’s memories that the game and reality began merging in the ninth year, when Demons launched a siege against the civilization.
• Qin Feng learned that a civilization that survived the year-long siege would ascend, while one that was destroyed would return to the game’s arrival with its players’ memories erased.

Qin Feng examined Diabad's memories and learned how civilizations cycled when the game merged with reality, including why some people from Blue Star had disappeared. He also connected Osilio's destruction of Squim City to an earlier Demon invasion and planned to ask Ashasiss for more answers.

• Qin Feng realized that Blue Star's civilization had restarted after a Demon invasion and that he had retained his memories because of the Authority of Judgment.
• Qin Feng read Osilio's panel and learned that Osilio's Bone Sword Pterosaur Group had destroyed Squim City and killed millions of humans ten thousand years earlier.
• Qin Feng saw in Diabad's memories that fighters who reached the Land of Order in earlier cycles could stay there or return to help their civilization face the Demon tide.
• Qin Feng understood that Tang Jun and Master Tuchal had stayed in the Land of Order, while Stina Mosel and You Are Already Dead had returned to help Blue Star.
• Qin Feng noted that some people's fates seemed similar across cycles and decided to ask Ashasiss why Blue Star had not organized its people in the Land of Order to return together.

Qin Feng watched Diabad’s memories and learned how his father exiled him to Blue Star as its Slaughter Executioner. After judging Diabad and increasing the Blade of Judgment’s power, Qin Feng was left with more questions, and Ashasiss offered to answer them.

• Diabad’s memories revealed that after his mother died, he killed the women his father married, leading his father to imprison him for five years.
• After Diabad pretended to repent and was released, he discovered his father had taken more women and killed them too, so his father used a Pure Sanctuary Stele to exile him as Blue Star’s Slaughter Executioner.
• Qin Feng considered Diabad’s past, judged him, and gained 42 points of divinity limit for the Blade of Judgment.
• Qin Feng noted that judging Diabad and Vickly had consumed 30,000 years of lifespan, leaving him with 150,000 years and a divinity limit of 234.
• Ashasiss approached Qin Feng and offered to answer his questions about intermediate NPCs and ascended civilizations.

Qin Feng questioned Ashasiss about civilization cycles, ascension, and the Judgment Grounds, learning how variables shaped each new cycle and how Judgment affected those erased from the real world. He then planned to send Verzhini for Judgment and returned to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout to retrieve the Abyss Vase.

• Qin Feng asked Ashasiss whether players repeated the same experiences in a new civilization cycle, and she explained that people who stayed in the Land of Order became variables whose absence changed later development.
• Qin Feng questioned why powerful people would support civilization ascension if it prevented the dead from returning, and Ashasiss said individuals had different motives and that ascension's benefits would become clear in the Land of Order.
• Ashasiss told Qin Feng that those who underwent Judgment would remain trapped unless he released them, and that he could control the Judgment Grounds by spending divinity.
• Qin Feng reflected on Diabad's hatred of his father and the conflicting consequences of delaying civilization ascension, then decided to seek more knowledge from a higher-level NPC or the Land of Order.
• Qin Feng planned to send Verzhini to the Judgment Grounds and returned to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout, where he took out the Abyss Vase.

Qin Feng obtained and evolved Abyssal Puppet Curse, planning to use a puppet to farm monsters and gain experience. He asked Outcast Fairy · Yuan to kill him so he could measure her power, and she killed him almost instantly.

• Qin Feng drew Abyssal Puppet Curse from the Abyss Vase and evolved it to Mythic Tier, learning that it could control up to three distinct corpses.
• Qin Feng spent 3,000 Evolution Points to evolve the skill to Ancient Grade and planned to use a puppet with Shadow Blade to farm monsters.
• Qin Feng equipped a chain-reaction dagger and temporarily devoured Vanish Without a Trace so his corpse would remain usable as a puppet.
• Qin Feng asked Outcast Fairy · Yuan to kill him so he could assess her combat power, then attacked her with Shadow Blade.
• Outcast Fairy · Yuan struck Qin Feng with a lightning whip and killed him in less than 0.1 seconds.

Qin Feng tested Fairy Yuan’s power, turned his corpse into an Abyss Puppet, and prepared to pursue more divinity and Judgment. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou’s memories suddenly returned in the Darkness Region of the Judgment Grounds.

• Qin Feng resurrected and returned to Fairy Yuan, who explained that she had sensed him despite his stealth and reminded him that other abilities could counter his methods.
• Qin Feng used Abyssal Puppet Curse on his corpse and created a puppet whose combat power nearly matched his own.
• Qin Feng had Fairy Yuan try on his spare equipment, then destroyed it to convert it into immediate combat power.
• Qin Feng planned to send his puppet to farm monsters and seek Crescent Moon Queen Verzhini so he could raise his divinity limit and judge Qin Xiaoyou.
• Qin Xiaoyou, trapped in the Darkness Region, felt a sharp pain in her mind as clear memories surfaced.

Qin Xiaoyou's memories of two lives merged, reviving her resentment toward Qin Feng and her conviction that she had been right to choose Song Fei. As she feared discovering what happened after she gouged out Qin Feng's eyes, a giant Bone Sword Pterosaur landed outside the Divine Authority Tower in the Magic City Ruins.

• Qin Xiaoyou recalled that Qin Feng had protected her in her previous life, but she blamed him for abandoning her and resented Gui Ling for saving her.
• Qin Xiaoyou revisited her previous life's choices, including her separation from Qin Feng and the deaths of Song Fei, Qian Shishi, and Hu Qibin, while noticing that Qin Feng had changed events in this life.
• Qin Xiaoyou hoped to be reborn with her memories and planned to apologize to Qin Feng, but she grew afraid to learn what happened after she gave Song Fei Qin Feng's eyeballs.
• Players gathered outside the Divine Authority Tower after discovering that a man and a woman could obtain a free Divine Book by calling out "Mom" inside.
• A gigantic Bone Sword Pterosaur descended at the tower entrance, drawing the attention of everyone nearby.

Qin Feng arrived at the Divine Authority Tower and recognized Celestial Pole Star, a young alchemist who had been the leader of the Abyssal Nine in Qin Feng’s previous life. After female players destroyed Celestial Pole Star’s potion stall and threatened him, Qin Feng stepped in to buy his potions, drawing a crowd’s attention.

• Qin Feng found players struggling to recruit suitable partners for the Divine Authority Tower’s Moonless Queen’s Clone challenge, while others offered paid carries.
• Qin Feng spotted Celestial Pole Star selling potions that increased damage against women and recognized him as the future leader of the Abyssal Nine.
• More than a dozen female players accused Celestial Pole Star of discriminating against women, and one destroyed his stall and shattered his potions.
• Qin Feng landed beside Celestial Pole Star on Osilio and asked to buy some potions, causing nearby players to erupt at the sight of Dark Shadow.

Qin Feng bought potions from Celestial Pole Star, then killed fourteen Rose guild players who challenged him and sent them to the Judgment Grounds. Their guild leader, Confident Rose, demanded that Magic City Officialdom punish Dark Shadow.

• Qin Feng arrived at Celestial Pole Star’s stall and ordered ten bottles of each of his twelve potion varieties.
• A female player accused Qin Feng of sexism over the potions, and he killed her with a single slash, sending her to the Judgment Grounds.
• When another female player accused Qin Feng of murder, he killed her as well and asked the remaining women whether they had a problem.
• Qin Feng fired a Shadow Blade that killed the twelve other Rose guild players, then returned to discussing business with Celestial Pole Star.
• Confident Rose demanded that Magic City Officialdom punish Qin Feng after the fourteen Rose guild players failed to resurrect.

Confident Rose sought official help after Dark Shadow threatened the Rose Guild, but an official told her to take responsibility and arrange an apology. After making a deal with Celestial Pole Star, Qin Feng entered the Divine Authority Tower, leaving the people outside afraid he would kill its NPC.

• Confident Rose complained to an official, who scolded the Rose Guild for provoking Dark Shadow and refused to intervene.
• The official told Confident Rose that Dark Shadow had never killed a normal person and urged her to apologize; Confident Rose sent Little Wildcat to find him.
• Qin Feng and Celestial Pole Star agreed on a deal of fifty years of lifespan for 120 bottles across twelve kinds of potions.
• The Divine Authority Tower opened, and Qin Feng told the crowd to disperse before entering to send Crescent Moon Queen Verzhini into the Judgment Grounds.
• The people outside wondered why Qin Feng had come and feared he planned to kill the tower’s NPC.

Players in Magic City discussed why Dark Shadow killed Divine Authority Tower NPCs while Little Wildcat rode to apologize to him and win his favor. Qin Feng killed Verzhini’s clone, confronted the Crescent Moon Queen, and spoke Ancient God Language that startled her.

• Players in Magic City defended Dark Shadow and discussed reports that the Jianghai tower NPC had mistreated female players.
• Little Wildcat rode toward the Divine Authority Tower to apologize to Dark Shadow, hoping to attract his interest and use her strength to advance the Rose Guild’s position.
• Qin Feng entered the Divine Authority Tower and instantly killed Verzhini’s clone with a single slash.
• Verzhini appeared before Qin Feng and offered him Divine Books, but he said he had come to kill her and spoke in Ancient God Language.
• Verzhini recognized the language and recalled hearing it when she had been exiled.

Qin Feng killed Verzhini in the Divine Authority Tower to test and intimidate her before deciding whether to release her as a guard for the Evil Spirit Academy. As he prepared to examine her memories, an invisible North American squad waited offshore near Magic City with a Legendary Tier Boss Cube, ready to act against Dark Shadow.

• Qin Feng provoked Verzhini by telling her that her children were dead, triggering her Moon Blade Storm.
• Qin Feng dodged Verzhini’s attack and killed her with Thousand-Blade Strike and his Shadow Clones, then sent Celestial Pole Star to collect her nine Divine Books.
• Qin Feng teleported home, intending to return to the Judgment Grounds and examine Verzhini’s memories.
• Little Wildcat hurried toward the Divine Authority Tower, unaware that Qin Feng had already left.
• An invisible North American squad off the coast of Magic City confirmed Dark Shadow’s location and prepared a Legendary Tier Boss Cube while awaiting Great Cold Country’s operation.

Florida’s officials prepared to deploy the Level 30 Legendary boss Mechanical Rubik’s Cube Vasinger against Great Xia and Dark Shadow, while six stealthy Florida players watched the nearby coast. Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds, unaware of the plan but familiar with Vasinger’s mechanics from his previous life.

• Six Florida players hid underwater near the beach, where a Lanternfish Demon defecated beside them as they stayed still to preserve their Stealth Levels.
• Florida’s officials spoke with Mechanical Rubik’s Cube Vasinger, a Legendary boss who had killed more than a hundred players after challenging them to damage her.
• The officials persuaded Vasinger to pursue Dark Shadow by telling her he had solo-killed two Legendary bosses.
• Florida’s officials planned to deploy Vasinger near Magic City, conceal their involvement, and distract Great Xia with help from Great Cold Country.
• Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds and recalled how Florida had struggled to defeat Vasinger, though he knew her mechanics inside out.

Qin Feng judged fourteen weak female players, then examined Crescent Moon Queen Verzhini’s memories. He learned how her family fled a slave revolt shortly before the Godforsaken Game descended on her civilization.

• Florida’s authorities sent the Mechanical Rubik’s Cube through a rift, hoping its unusual mechanics would counter Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng judged Little Lady 109 and thirteen other female players, gaining less than one point of divinity limit from them.
• Qin Feng spent 1,355 points of divinity to judge Verzhini and began examining her memories.
• Qin Feng learned that Verzhini came from the Scorching Sun Civilization, which used hexadecimal numbers, and had children named Allen and Anna.
• When Allen and Anna were ten, a slave revolt devastated Verzhini’s aristocratic family, forcing her to flee with them into a mountain forest.
• The Godforsaken Game descended on Verzhini’s civilization while she and her children were hiding.

Qin Feng learned how Verzhini became a powerful Moonlight Mage, lost her children in an orc raid, and took terrible revenge before Ulupopo exiled her. He wondered why Ulupopo had exiled her and whether to tell her about the Civilization Cycle.

• Verzhini fled into the mountain forests with Allen and Anna, awakened as a Moonlight Mage, and grew stronger while surviving in the Godforsaken Game.
• After the orc slaves raided her home and killed Allen, Anna, and thousands of others, Verzhini massacred tens of thousands of orcs in revenge.
• Ulupopo defeated Verzhini and exiled her, knowing the Scorching Sun Civilization would soon merge reality with the game and that failure would reset everything.
• Qin Feng realized that Verzhini might vanish from the civilization’s history if the merger failed, leaving her young children to fend for themselves.
• Qin Feng questioned Ulupopo’s motives and wondered whether he should tell Verzhini about the Civilization Cycle.

Qin Feng weighed the risks and benefits of releasing Verzhini, deciding he would negotiate with her and initially return her only to the Game World. After canceling her punishment and awakening her above the White Jade Maze, he left her to realize that a powerful being controlled her fate.

• Qin Feng considered how Verzhini's strength and Divine Book production could benefit him and Great Xia, while weighing the danger of freeing her.
• He identified the Judgment Grounds' mark, Verzhini's hope of finding her children, and her gentle nature as safeguards against the risks.
• Qin Feng decided that if they cooperated, he would first send Verzhini back to the Game World to produce Divine Books rather than return her to reality.
• Qin Feng declined to observe Verzhini's Illusion and spent 135 Divinity to cancel her punishment.
• Qin Feng moved the unconscious Verzhini from the Darkness Region to above the White Jade Maze and woke her.
• Verzhini awoke and sensed that an exalted being had control over her.

After Qin Feng killed Verzhini, she awoke in the Judgment Grounds, where he declared her innocent and claimed her children remained in the Cycle. Verzhini asked whether she could see them, while Osilio and Gray Chicken mocked Qin Feng for misleading her with grand claims.

• Verzhini recalled how Dark Shadow had killed her and was surprised to awaken in the Judgment Grounds instead of dying.
• Verzhini found herself floating above a White Jade Maze before Qin Feng and a being hidden by sacred golden light.
• Qin Feng spoke Verzhini’s language and told her that the Judgment Grounds was where true judgment took place.
• Qin Feng declared Verzhini innocent and said her enemies, persecutors, and children remained in the Cycle.
• Verzhini asked whether she could see Allen and Anna, while Osilio and Gray Chicken called Qin Feng a charlatan.

Qin Feng played Diabad’s memories to explain the Civilization Cycle to Verzhini, restoring her hope of reuniting with her children. After she agreed to follow him, she worried about what would happen to Allen and Anna when the cycle reset and asked whether the Scorching Sun Civilization had ascended.

• Qin Feng played Diabad’s memories for Verzhini, revealing the truth about the Civilization Cycle.
• Verzhini realized Allen and Anna might still be alive across the cycles and agreed to become Qin Feng’s follower if he could help her return.
• Verzhini feared the cycle would erase her while leaving her underage children stranded in the wilderness, and Qin Feng urged her to stay alive and cooperate with him.
• Verzhini asked Qin Feng whether the Scorching Sun Civilization had successfully ascended, and he silently wondered how to answer without losing his mystique.