Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng sent Verzhini back to Blue Star’s Game World and continued his training before learning that an Epic Grade boss was attacking Ice City. As Qin Feng logged out to deal with it, hidden Florida players prepared to spring a Mechanical Rubik’s Cube trap on him.

• Qin Feng sent Verzhini to the Evil Spirit Academy, restored her NPC Function, and gave her fifty thousand years of lifespan to make Divine Books.
• Qin Feng joked with Osilio and Gray Chicken, then practiced Ancient God Language with Ashasiss.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that a hat-wearing Epic Grade boss was fishing for and devouring people in Ice City, so Qin Feng ordered an evacuation and prepared to fly there.
• Qin Feng suspected Great Cold Country had brought the boss to lure him into logging out and warned Late Night, Light Rain to watch for its people.
• Six invisible Florida players detected Qin Feng logging out and prepared to deploy a Mechanical Rubik’s Cube at his location.

Qin Feng sent a bluffing warning to Ice City, then discovered that the Evil Spirit Academy's defensive barrier had been breached. At the gate, Little Wildcat was trying to apologize to Dark Shadow when a blue light and a black cube crashed down outside.

• Qin Feng recorded a warning in the Ancient God Language and asked Late Night, Light Rain to deliver it to Ice City's Official Personnel.
• A Corruption Affix effect dragged nearby people into combat, and Qin Feng saw that the Evil Spirit Academy's Jadeite Tier Defensive Barrier had been breached.
• Haidian Dadaolang and his teammates guarded the Evil Spirit Academy as Little Wildcat arrived on a black leopard and asked to enter to apologize to Dark Shadow.
• Haidian Dadaolang refused to let Little Wildcat in, and she stayed outside arguing with the guards for over ten minutes.
• A violent tremor shook the area, and star-blue light and a pitch-black cube surrounded by electricity crashed down outside the main gate.

A Legendary boss named Helga Vasinger descended outside Evil Spirit Academy, revealed that North American players had sent her to Great Xia, and broke through the Defensive Barrier after Little Wildcat forced her way inside. Helga asked to fight Dark Shadow, and Qin Feng arrived as Little Wildcat pointed her toward him.

• Helga Vasinger arrived at Evil Spirit Academy and exposed the North American players who had arranged her arrival.
• Haidian Dadaolang alerted the guild and prepared for the Legendary boss while Little Wildcat begged to enter the barrier.
• Little Wildcat used a single-use scroll to tear open the Jadeite Tier Defensive Barrier and slipped inside.
• Helga shrank to pass through the same opening, then explained she wanted to have fun with the powerful Assassin known as Dark Shadow.
• Little Wildcat identified Dark Shadow as the Assassin, and Qin Feng arrived from the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, surprised that she had breached the barrier.

Qin Feng confronted the Mechanical Rubik's Cube at the Evil Spirit Academy and persuaded it to disable its aura so nearby players could log in safely. Meanwhile, six North American players underwater wondered whether Dark Shadow had already been killed.

• Qin Feng arrived as the World-Breaking Scroll's tear in the Evil Spirit Academy's Defensive Barrier began to heal, and the Sky Dome Guild members were relieved to see him.
• The Mechanical Rubik's Cube examined Qin Feng, and Qin Feng promised to fight without invisibility before revealing his Wings of Death.
• Qin Feng asked the boss to turn off its greater affix aura so nearby players could enter the game, and the Mechanical Rubik's Cube agreed.
• The six Florida players underwater questioned why the fight had not begun and speculated that the Mechanical Rubik's Cube might have killed Dark Shadow already.

Qin Feng prepared to fight the Mechanical Rubik's Cube in reality while his allies logged into the game for safety. He broke through her coordinate-based invulnerability with his first attack, then used Killing Shadow and Dark Shadow Leap to target her again.

• Qin Feng told everyone, including Zhang Jinxuan, to log into Godforsaken Game until they received the system notification that he had killed the boss.
• Qin Feng recorded the encounter, learned the aliases of the North American players from the Mechanical Rubik's Cube, and sent his Abyss Puppet toward the northeast.
• Qin Feng released Osilio and Gray Chicken, who mocked the Mechanical Rubik's Cube as she looked forward to fighting him.
• Qin Feng decided to wear down the Mechanical Rubik's Cube with instant-death affixes, since each hit could deal only 666 damage and she could rapidly reduce her greater affix meters.
• The Mechanical Rubik's Cube offered Qin Feng one minute to damage her, but he struck a vulnerable coordinate with a Shadow Blade and scratched her immediately.
• After the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's vulnerable coordinates changed, Qin Feng used Killing Shadow and sent his five Shadow Clones and real body to a specific coordinate with Dark Shadow Leap.

Qin Feng deciphered the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's coordinates and used Shadow Blades to build up her instant-death meter. Realizing he could kill her, Helga Vasinger broke her promise and unleashed a lightning attack, leaving Qin Feng facing a storm of purple-black serpents.

• Qin Feng calculated the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's six possible damage coordinates from the number above her head.
• Qin Feng used Killing Shadow and five Shadow Clones to reach the coordinates and strike her with Shadow Blades.
• The Mechanical Rubik's Cube recognized Qin Feng's attacks as deliberate and grew excited by his apparent skill with numbers.
• Qin Feng's Shadow Blades rapidly filled the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's instant-death meter to about thirty percent.
• Helga Vasinger broke her promise to give Qin Feng a head start and sent a hundred purple-black lightning serpents surging toward him.

Qin Feng baited the Mechanical Rubik's Cube into choosing offensive attacks during Mechanical Frenzy, then stole its attributes and rapidly filled its Instant Death Meter. He endured the boss's lightning while transferring most of its damage to Osilio and Gray Chicken, bringing the fight to the brink of a killing blow.

• Qin Feng used Big Mouth while turning to swallow every lightning serpent, preventing the Mechanical Rubik's Cube from corrupting him.
• The Mechanical Rubik's Cube entered Mechanical Frenzy and chose to reduce its offensive skill cooldowns, as Qin Feng had hoped.
• Qin Feng flew to the boss and used Thieving Saint's Hand, stealing 20% of its attributes and increasing his Shadow Blade throwing speed.
• Qin Feng and his Shadow Clones used Dark Shadow Leap to reach calculated positions, then hurled Shadow Blades that rapidly filled the boss's Instant Death Meter.
• The Mechanical Rubik's Cube cleared 35% of its meter, but Qin Feng rebuilt it to 60% in three seconds while enduring the boss's lightning.
• Qin Feng transferred the lightning damage to Osilio and Gray Chicken, who survived because Qin Feng had obtained 99% Lightning Element damage reduction.

Qin Feng defeated the Mechanical Rubik's Cube Vasinger by enduring its attacks and filling its Instant Death Meter, then used his Divinity Armament to stop the cube from repairing itself. After the kill was announced worldwide, Great Xia players captured the six Florida players involved in the failed plan.

• Qin Feng and his Shadow Clones continued attacking the Mechanical Rubik's Cube while his resistances and corruption resistance kept him safe from its attacks.
• Qin Feng matched the cube's S-shaped ascent during its final phase, and their attacks filled its Instant Death Meter until it shattered.
• Qin Feng used his Divinity Armament to suppress the cube's self-repair order effect, and the Mechanical Rubik's Cube Vasinger broke apart completely.
• The worldwide system announced that Dark Shadow had killed the Legendary Tier boss and gained 200 reputation.
• The six Florida players tried to use Teleportation Stones, but Great Xia players surrounded them and put them into combat.

After Qin Feng killed the Mechanical Rubik's Cube, Ice City's authorities learned that he had saved them from the Fishing Guy and planned to send a puppet to help them fight the boss. Qin Feng examined his Mythic Tier rewards and equipped the Ascension Machine, which could resurrect him after death.

• Ice City's officials celebrated the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's death and realized Qin Feng's Ancient God Language recording had driven the Fishing Guy away and led it to capture six Great Cold Country players.
• Ice City's authorities learned that Qin Feng would send a puppet subordinate to help kill the Fishing Guy, though they worried it might provoke the boss.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the Mechanical Rubik's Cube's remains and gained nearly 24,000 evolution points, over 30,000 years of tradable lifespan, Mythic Tier armor, and a Mythic Tier Assassin Skill Book.
• Qin Feng inspected the Ascension Machine and found that it granted powerful defenses and attributes, reduced Greater Affix gauge buildup, and automatically resurrected him once per hour.
• Qin Feng equipped the Ascension Machine and decided to seek stones in the Abyssal Path so he could transfer the Rostislav Contract's protection from negative effects onto it.
• Qin Feng took out the Mythic Tier Skill Book to inspect it.

Qin Feng evolved Fatal Gambit and Blessing of the Lightning Fairy, greatly increasing his damage and combat speed. He offered the powerful Source of Mana Ascension Scroll as an incentive for the authorities to find the God of Bones' tomb.

• Qin Feng learned Fatal Gambit, raising his weakness damage multiplier and speeding up greater affix buildup, then evolved it to Ancient Grade for 90% weakness damage reduction.
• Qin Feng spent 20,000 Evolution Points to evolve Blessing of the Lightning Fairy to Immortal Tier, gaining Overloaded Thunder and stronger lightning, protection, and immunity effects.
• Qin Feng examined two Ascension Scrolls: Source of Mana, which he could not use himself, and Sniping Nullification, which he decided to store for later.
• Qin Feng asked Late Night, Light Rain to have the authorities search for the God of Bones' tomb and offered to sell or rent Source of Mana to whoever found it.
• Late Night, Light Rain warned Qin Feng that the reward might draw people away from leveling to search for the tomb.

Qin Feng arranged a reward to help find the God of Bones' tomb and promised to deal with the escaped fishing boss and Great Cold Country. Verzhini began carrying out his order to dominate Great Cold Country by killing twelve plotters inside their protected Hideout.

• Qin Feng enlisted official players to search for the buried ruins of the God of Bones' tomb and planned to obtain stripping stones from the Abyssal Path.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that the Epic Grade fishing boss had escaped into Godforsaken Game near the Busan Ruins, and Qin Feng promised to kill it and make Great Cold Country and North America pay.
• Qin Feng logged in, waited for Celestial Pole Star to finish making potions, and sent his Abyss Puppet to the rift outside Ice City.
• Twelve ALK Group members and officials in Great Cold Country discussed their role in sending the boss to Ice City and feared retaliation from Qin Feng and Great Xia.
• Verzhini used Moonlight Traversal to enter the Hideout and killed all twelve plotters, beginning her mission to dominate Great Cold Country.

Angler Fish Elder Alimuda returned to the Busan Ruins and killed a Great Cold Country party member, spreading panic across the region. Crescent Moon Queen Verzhini attacked him and drove him into flight, while the dead priest unexpectedly resurrected after Alimuda abandoned her corpse.

• Angler Fish Elder Alimuda returned to the Deadwood Forest and killed a Great Cold Country Female Priest, turning player corpses and tradable lifespan into Fish Bait.
• News of Alimuda's return spread, making the area around the Busan Ruins a forbidden zone for players afraid of losing their remaining lifespan.
• Crescent Moon Queen Verzhini ambushed Alimuda and pierced his water-wall defenses with Moonlight Blades.
• Alimuda fled from Verzhini as she pursued him and continued damaging him, while a Griffin Knight spotted the fight from the sky.
• Bobo resurrected at her Hideout after Alimuda left her corpse behind, despite believing she had no non-tradable lifespan remaining.

Verzhini earned the Great Cold Country players’ trust by driving the Angler Fish Elder Alimuda from the Fushan Ruins, while Qin Feng planned to use her hidden identity to gain control of the region and harvest lifespan. When Alimuda returned to reality, Qin Feng’s puppet killed him instantly, and Qin Feng took the corpse’s loot for himself while leaving the boss’s drops for the families of the Ice City victims.

• Qin Feng renamed Verzhini “Moon” and sent her to win over Great Cold Country players by defeating Angler Fish Elder Alimuda.
• Alimuda fled through a rift into reality, where Qin Feng’s invisible puppet plunged him into a nightmare and killed him almost instantly.
• Ice City Official Players learned that Qin Feng had left Alimuda’s equipment and Skill Books for the families of the people the boss had killed, and they saluted him.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Alimuda’s corpse and collected Legendary Tier and Epic Grade equipment, planning to give Sister Yuan another change of clothes.

Qin Feng completed his equipment enhancements, collected Celestial Pole Star’s potions, and reached the Abyssal Gate, where he discovered two higher-difficulty challenge paths. In the Judgment Grounds, Qin Xiaoyou relived the memories of betraying Qin Feng and giving his eyes to Song Fei, then broke down as she remembered Song Fei’s people humiliating and robbing her.

• Qin Feng enhanced his ring’s casting speed and his boots’ ability to reduce Greater Affix gauges, then collected 120 potions from Celestial Pole Star.
• Qin Feng reached the Abyssal Gate and learned he could choose the Path of Despair or the far more dangerous Path of Finality.
• Qin Xiaoyou’s memories revealed that she had gouged out Qin Feng’s eyes and left him, after which the guild received a notification that he had died.
• Gu Yixue became Godslayer Guild leader, rushed to Qin Feng’s room, and learned from Cat Head that Qin Xiaoyou had been there.
• Qin Xiaoyou brought Qin Feng’s eyes to Song Fei’s Hideout, where a woman kicked her out, cut off her wrist, and took her Swan Mount bell.
• Qin Xiaoyou completely broke down as the memories showed her that Song Fei had not loved her.

After Song Fei severed Qin Xiaoyou’s wrist, she realized Qin Feng’s protection had been the only thing keeping her safe. Song Fei revealed he had used her to steal Qin Feng’s eyes for Sister Li, and Gu Yixue arrived with the Godslayer Guild, targeting Qin Xiaoyou.

• Qin Xiaoyou mourned Qin Feng and understood that the Godslayer Guild had protected her only because of him.
• Song Fei ignored Qin Xiaoyou and presented the Ancient God Eyeballs to Sister Li, who revealed she had taken them.
• When Qin Xiaoyou challenged her, Song Fei slapped her and told her to shut up in front of Sister Li.
• Sister Li told Song Fei to hand Qin Xiaoyou over to the Godslayer Guild to save himself, then teleported away.
• Gu Yixue led thousands of Godslayer Guild members to Elysian Paradise and used her Ice and Snow Order to freeze its defenders as her forces attacked the Defensive Barrier.

After Qin Feng’s death, Qin Xiaoyou became Chen Wuming’s prisoner while the Godslayer Guild pursued the Sichuan Poison Lady. As Blue Star began its final merger with the game, a mysterious woman broke into the Knight’s Sanctuary and reached Qin Xiaoyou’s cell.

• Chen Wuming took Qin Xiaoyou away, while Gu Yixue ordered Song Fei killed and led the Godslayer Guild to pursue the Sichuan Poison Lady, Fate Li.
• Qin Xiaoyou awoke imprisoned in the Knight’s Sanctuary basement, where the players neglected and humiliated her.
• Qin Xiaoyou learned that Blue Star’s civilization faced a year-long trial and regretted ignoring Qin Feng’s warnings about Song Fei.
• Two Knight’s Sanctuary players announced that their leaders and thousands of guild members had been killed by a woman who had entered their hideout.
• The woman killed two players with blood-red nails, then approached Qin Xiaoyou and asked why she kept getting worse with every lifetime.

Qin Feng entered the Path of Finality to test his strength against Demons with thousandfold stats and learn where he ranked across all civilizations and time. After stealing a huge amount of stats from the first wave, he prepared to slaughter the ordinary Demons.

• During Memory Fusion, Qin Xiaoyou relived a memory in which a woman claimed to have killed her more than twenty times and threatened to make her suffer for Qin Feng's death.
• Qin Feng chose the Path of Finality after learning that its leaderboard spanned all civilizations and all time and space.
• Qin Feng entered the challenge with Osilio, Gray Chicken, Shā Míyà, and his Abyss Puppet, finding his initial ranking below 10,000.
• The first wave of level 30 Long-Tongued Old Men emerged from the mirror gates and pinpointed Qin Feng despite his stealth.
• Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand on a Long-Tongued Old Man, gained over 30,000 points in each primary stat, and prepared to attack the wave.

Qin Feng used Shā Míyà and Osilio’s crowd control to gather and slaughter waves of Demons in the Path of Finality, rapidly increasing his score. As Eldritch God statues made the Demons immune to crowd control and then negative status effects, the challenge grew dangerous, leaving Qin Feng to rely on Dark Shadow Arc for defense.

• Shā Míyà pulled the Long-Tongued Old Men together, and Qin Feng and his Abyss Puppet killed them with Killing Shadow.
• Shā Míyà and Osilio alternated crowd-control skills while Qin Feng slaughtered spawning Demons and raised his score.
• At the one-minute mark, a purple mirror became an Eldritch God statue that made the Demons immune to crowd control and doubled their score value.
• Qin Feng cast Abyss Wither Curse to weaken the newly uncontrollable Demons, then killed them as their attacks healed his group.
• At the two-minute mark, another statue made the Demons immune to negative status effects and tripled their score value, forcing Qin Feng to face their powerful attacks without his curse.

Qin Feng survived escalating waves of Demons in the Path of Finality challenge and climbed into the top 600 by adapting his attacks to increasingly powerful enemies. When the Demons gained Platinum boss templates and extreme regeneration, he realized their numbers would make his ricocheting Shadow Blades multiply faster and kill them more efficiently.

• Qin Feng sent Osilio, Gray Chicken, and Shā Míyà back to the Mount Bell and pet space before fighting the powerful Demons alone.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash and ricocheting Shadow Blades to kill waves of stone golems, reaching the top ten thousand in the rankings.
• The third statue made all new Demons elites and increased the points awarded, so Qin Feng flew with Deathwing to boost his damage and kept climbing the rankings.
• Later statues gave the Demons boss templates, higher point multipliers, and increasingly powerful regeneration, while Qin Feng's score reached 159,000 and his ranking rose to around the top 600.
• Qin Feng used Coup de Grace's damage over time and multiplying ricochets to overcome the Demons' defenses, then realized that more Demons would create more Shadow Blades and speed up their deaths.

Qin Feng survived the escalating Path of Finality challenge by using Dark Shadow Leap to avoid lethal damage while his ricocheting Shadow Blades killed Demons. A time-based score bonus pushed him from 11th to first place, and he ended the chapter examining a Pale White Dagger that seemed to move inside his Storage Backpack.

• Qin Feng used four Potions and kept throwing Shadow Blades as continuously spawning Demons filled the arena, steadily raising his score.
• At the eight-minute mark, the eighth Purple Statue formed, making every Demon deal ten times the damage, move ten times as fast, and inflict stronger crowd control.
• Qin Feng cycled between taking brief bursts of damage and using Dark Shadow Leap's invincibility while his Shadow Blades and Abyss Puppet attacked the Demons.
• As the ten-minute challenge ended, Qin Feng's score reached 269,000 and his displayed ranking was 11th, but a time-based adjustment raised his final score to 2,479,200 and his ranking to first.
• Qin Feng received a golden treasure chest and a core reward in his Storage Backpack, where he found a Pale White Dagger that seemed to be bouncing as if alive.