Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng improved his mythic boots by transferring and enhancing a back-attack effect, then traveled invisibly to Sun South City to investigate rumors about Dark Shadow. His new sensory ability led him to a demon-training area where he discovered that several wealthy wives were criticizing him and were fans of Birdman.

• Qin Feng transferred the back-attack effect from his legendary boots to his mythic boots, then enhanced its damage bonus to 218% with help from Fairy Yuan.
• Fairy Yuan watched Qin Feng leave and hoped his rapid growth would let him reach the Land of Order and eventually free her civilization.
• Qin Feng teleported invisibly to Sun South City and used his evolved sensory ability to survey the city.
• Qin Feng sensed an underground slaughterhouse where the Shunhuonuan guild gathered demons to help low-level players train.
• Qin Feng discovered that a group of wealthy female players at the slaughterhouse were spreading remarks against Dark Shadow and were fans of Birdman.

Qin Feng overheard Nendie and seven other wealthy wives plotting to poison Dark Shadow, then flew to the Shunhuonuan guild’s underground slaughterhouse. After their attacks hit him harmlessly, he prepared to pass judgment on them, leaving the guild members stunned by his sudden arrival.

• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to listen to eight female players discuss Kalanster and plan to find poison to deal with Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng flew to the underground slaughterhouse, where Shunhuonuan guild guards watched the women prepare to attack controlled demons.
• The eight women unleashed area attacks that killed the demons and struck Qin Feng, who remained unharmed.
• Qin Feng considered sending the women to the Judgment Grounds rather than letting their poisoning plan go unpunished.
• The slaughterhouse residents recognized Qin Feng and realized his sudden appearance after the women attacked him could not bode well.

Qin Feng killed eight Shunhuonuan Guild wives who had discussed poisoning him, then talked with Late Night, Light Rain about granting him the Great Xia Medal of Honor. As he prepared to enter the Judgment Grounds, An Yu reported that Black Plum Big Li seemed to have found the God of Bones' Tomb.

• Qin Feng confronted the eight wives in the Underground Slaughterhouse and got them to blame Nendie for proposing poison, then killed all eight.
• The Shunhuonuan Guild members feared that the wives could not be resurrected and speculated that Dark Shadow could be everywhere.
• Qin Feng returned to Evil Spirit Academy, where Late Night, Light Rain proposed awarding him the Great Xia Medal of Honor and explained that the Rose Guild had been disbanded and Little Wildcat imprisoned.
• Qin Feng prepared to enter the Judgment Grounds to reunite Nendie and the other seven wives with Kalanst.
• An Yu messaged Qin Feng that Black Plum Big Li seemed to have found the God of Bones' Tomb.

Black Plum Big Li and her companions hunted down the Frenzied Foodie that had stolen and eaten their mounts. After defeating it, they uncovered a giant kneeling skull beneath its cave, identifying a likely entrance to the God of Bones' Tomb.

• Black Plum Big Li's White Cloud Goat was abducted by the invisible Frenzied Foodie, and the middle-aged Card Master's rabbit was stolen when he came to help.
• The Frenzied Foodie barbecued both mounts before the Keen-Eyed Archer could reveal its ratman descendants, so the team searched Golden Rooster Mountain for the boss.
• Black Plum Big Li followed the smell of grilled meat to a cave, where An Yu and the others joined her and defeated the Frenzied Foodie and its many rat descendants.
• Black Plum Big Li found her goat's skeleton and blasted the boss's corpse in grief, cracking the cave walls and exposing yellowed bones.
• An Yu led the group in opening the cave walls, and they discovered the cave was inside a giant skull lying in the kneeling posture associated with the God of Bones' Tomb.

Qin Feng learned that Ashasiss could protect his soul from being probed, then used that protection to establish a soul link with White Bud. White Bud was finally able to communicate with him and excitedly announced she had been trapped for five hundred years.

• Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds after learning that Black Plum Big Li had found the God of Bones' tomb, while Big Li and her team waited outside the Jianghai Ruins and shared roast lamb.
• The eight wealthy wives, including Nendie, awakened in the White Jade Maze after Shadow killed them, and Qin Feng showed them recorded memories of Winged Person Kalanster.
• Qin Feng asked Ashasiss what a soul link was, and she warned that White Bud might use her soul authority to probe his thoughts.
• Ashasiss granted Qin Feng invisible soul protection, allowing him to accept White Bud's repeated requests for a soul link.
• Qin Feng connected with White Bud and discovered they could selectively transmit thoughts directly; White Bud told him she had been trapped for five hundred years and was desperate to talk.

Qin Feng questioned White Bud about her past but refused to pay the enormous lifespan she demanded, then judged Nendie and seven other women after exposing Winged Person Kalanster’s contempt for humans. He left the Judgment Grounds and flew toward An Yu and the others, teasing Osilio about the smell of roast goat.

• Qin Feng pressed White Bud for information about the Sea-Sky Star Civilization, and she described her tragic childhood and awakening as a Soul-Piercing Blade before demanding more lifespan to continue.
• Qin Feng put White Bud into the Greedy Space when she explained that talking consumed her lifespan at an extreme rate.
• After watching Winged Person Kalanster’s memories, Nendie and the other seven women denied that he could be cruel, so Qin Feng used Judgment on them and sent them into endless illusions where Kalanster killed and mocked them.
• Qin Feng left the Judgment Grounds and teleported to the River-Sea City Ruins, carrying items to compensate Black Plum Big Li and the others for their lost goat.
• When Osilio smelled roast goat near the cave where An Yu and the others were, Qin Feng teased him about roast dragon, making Osilio cry.

Qin Feng rewarded Black Plum Big Li and a middle-aged Card Master after they helped locate the God of Bones' Tomb, giving them an Ascension Scroll opportunity and Mount Bells. The River-Sea City officials then confirmed the tomb's location, leaving the group ready to explore it.

• Qin Feng met An Yu and the others inside the skull-shaped cave and saw the giant kneeling skeleton surrounding them.
• Qin Feng gave Black Plum Big Li a Source of Mana Order Scroll and a Mount Bell, and explained the lifespan cost of buying or renting an Ascension Scroll.
• Black Plum Big Li summoned a flying big white goose, while Qin Feng gave a Mount Bell to the middle-aged Card Master, who summoned a powder-shedding big white moth and failed to trade mounts with her.
• Director Dai led a River-Sea City officials team to excavate the area, and they confirmed the location of the God of Bones' Tomb half an hour later.

Qin Feng opened the God of Bones' tomb and retrieved a ring from a brazier of instant-death flames by relying on his immunity. The ring was a Divinity Armament with its rule sealed, and Qin Feng remained outside the tomb with his companions.

• Qin Feng showed Gu Yixue a level 30 ring with the Sudden Death rule, and she eagerly left to level up so she could use it.
• Qin Feng considered Ashasiss's hinted level 35 trial and decided to keep leveling before choosing whether to pursue the Land of Order.
• Qin Feng placed the three Bone Runes into the altar slots at the tomb entrance, causing a brazier of black flames and a white ring to rise.
• Qin Feng sent one of Osilio's Bone Sword Pterosaurs to retrieve the ring, but instant-death flames burned it to ashes.
• Qin Feng grabbed the ring himself and survived the flames thanks to his instant-death immunity, discovering that the ring was a Divinity Armament with its rule sealed.

Qin Feng obtained the sealed Bone Authority ring and set out for a Disaster Zone to unseal it by killing skeletal Demons. At the Burial Bone Chasm, Gui Ling was monitoring the KEY Guild when their noisy pursuit of a boss disturbed a buried coffin.

• Qin Feng examined Bone Authority, whose sealed Divinity rule forced nearby beings with bones to kneel, and learned that skeletal undead had to submit before he could unseal it.
• Qin Feng collected the three Bone Runes, stripped the Three-Phase Balance effect from his Three-Phase Ring, and attached it to Bone Authority.
• Qin Feng decided to travel to the Burial Bone Chasm outside the Tōto Ruins, where level 25–30 skeletal Demons could help him level up and unseal the ring.
• Gui Ling continued monitoring the KEY Guild while grinding in the Burial Bone Chasm, and a KEY Guild team chased a wounded dragonfly boss toward the gorge while their Musician, Totsuka, sang and played rock music.
• As the music reached the chasm, a coffin opened and a withered arm reached out from inside.

Qin Feng watched as the KEY Guild encountered Evil Tone Old Ghost, an NPC who could convert items and imbue skills with sound, hoping to learn how to recruit him. The chapter ended with the guild’s musician Totsuka stepping forward to kowtow to the old ghost’s music.

• Evil Tone Old Ghost emerged from his coffin after the rock music awakened him, and Qin Feng recognized him as a valuable NPC.
• Qin Feng brought Gui Ling to watch from a distance while the KEY Guild pursued a dragonfly boss into Burial Bone Chasm.
• The KEY Guild found Evil Tone Old Ghost and all sixty members knelt, asking him to join their guild.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost challenged them to choose someone to kowtow in rhythm to his music before he would join them.
• Totsuka volunteered for the test, insisting that even Dark Shadow would have to follow Evil Tone Old Ghost’s rules.

The KEY Guild tried to recruit Evil Tone Old Ghost by having Totsuka kowtow to the rhythm of a song from his music box. Totsuka impressed the NPC but could not keep up with the song’s accelerating beat, so the guild prepared to practice together for the rest of the day while Qin Feng watched and assessed the NPC.

• Totsuka began the rhythm challenge, but Evil Tone Old Ghost’s music box played an eerie song that left him and the KEY Guild players confused.
• Totsuka found the song’s rhythm and kowtowed along, while Qin Feng deduced that Evil Tone Old Ghost had traveled between civilizations and was an Intermediate NPC.
• Totsuka kept pace as the song sped up, but eventually admitted he could not manage eighteen kowtows per second.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost acknowledged Totsuka’s talent and offered to return with the guild if he could kowtow perfectly by the end of the day.
• The KEY Guild raid leader proposed that everyone kowtow together, and Evil Tone Old Ghost accepted the arrangement.

Qin Feng prepared to attack Old Ghost of Evil Sound and sent Gui Ling and Osilio to guard the entrance of the Burial Bone Chasm. He ambushed the KEY Guild team, but Old Ghost protected the survivors with a golden shield, and the guild realized Dark Shadow was attacking them.

• Qin Feng told Gui Ling to stop reinforcements at the chasm entrance and sent her there with Osilio while he prepared damage-boosting potions.
• Qin Feng ambushed the KEY Guild members with Shadow Blade Bounce, killing thirteen players before Old Ghost of Evil Sound reacted.
• Old Ghost of Evil Sound used Golden Divine Tune to shield the remaining players, making Qin Feng's attacks ineffective against them.
• Haruko reported in the Guild Channel that Dark Shadow had killed her with 240 million damage, alerting the guild to his attack.

Qin Feng secretly wiped out nearly all of the KEY Guild players at Burial Bone Chasm while Evil Tone Old Ghost’s music shield protected the survivors. After only Totsuka remained, Qin Feng attacked the NPC to test his strength, leaving Totsuka and Evil Tone Old Ghost stunned.

• Dark Shadow’s ricocheting Shadow Blade killed many KEY Guild players, while Evil Tone Old Ghost failed to detect Qin Feng’s stealth.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost told the remaining 47 players to squat to the Golden Divine Tune’s rhythm to maintain their Invincibility shields.
• Qin Feng kept attacking from hiding as the players who lost their shields were killed, until only Totsuka remained protected.
• Totsuka continued squatting and prepared to record Dark Shadow kowtowing, while Qin Feng decided not to wait any longer.
• Qin Feng struck Evil Tone Old Ghost with a Shadow Blade, reducing his health by about one percent and raising his Instant Death Meter by about 0.5 percent.

Qin Feng tested Evil Tone Old Ghost’s defenses and discovered that his Thornwave reflected damage and instant-death effects at 6.3 times their strength. Qin Feng prepared to counter it with his shadow clones, and the chapter ended as Shadow Blades struck the NPC from every direction.

• Qin Feng’s Shadow Blade revealed that Evil Tone Old Ghost had 3.3 million health and extreme defenses, so Qin Feng calculated how to build up his instant-death meter without killing him too quickly.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost activated Thornwave, which reflected Qin Feng’s second Shadow Blade and its effects back at him.
• Qin Feng realized his immunity and Cowardly Finisher order made the reflection ineffective against him, and he summoned five Killing Shadow clones.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost boasted that Thornwave could last indefinitely and reveal the location of anyone who attacked him.
• Qin Feng’s shadow clones attacked Evil Tone Old Ghost with Shadow Blades from every direction, leaving the NPC confused.

Qin Feng used Shadow Clones to overwhelm Evil Tone Old Ghost, whose healing and wide-area sonic attacks failed to stop him. As the Instant Death Meter climbed again, Totsuka realized Dark Shadow might kill the powerful NPC.

• Evil Tone Old Ghost recognized Qin Feng’s simultaneous attacks as Shadow Clones and tried to heal through the accumulating Throat Slit damage.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost used a White Vortex to drain his Instant Death Meter, then activated Death Gaze and unleashed a wide-area sonic assault to break Qin Feng’s Cowardly Finisher order.
• Qin Feng endured the sonic attacks with minimal damage and kept striking Evil Tone Old Ghost, relying on his defenses and lifesteal to stay safe.
• After the White Vortex expired, Evil Tone Old Ghost’s Instant Death Meter began rising rapidly again, and his damage-boosting music still failed to stop Qin Feng.
• Totsuka watched the meter climb from 70% to 90% and feared that Dark Shadow could kill the esteemed NPC.

Qin Feng defeated Evil Tone Old Ghost and demanded to know how to bring him into his service. After realizing Qin Feng might lead Blue Star to ascension, Evil Tone Old Ghost eagerly submitted, while Gui Ling prepared to stop the approaching KEY Guild.

• Evil Tone Old Ghost stopped attacking when the instant-death affix reached 98%, and Qin Feng appeared before him.
• Qin Feng asked Evil Tone Old Ghost how to bring him into his service, but Evil Tone Old Ghost questioned Qin Feng about his strength and rapid growth.
• Qin Feng warned that Blue Star might avoid another civilization cycle, causing Evil Tone Old Ghost to kneel and beg to serve him.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost explained that Qin Feng could recruit him by striking an object to music, and Qin Feng agreed to try the simplest piece.
• Gui Ling noticed a large force from the KEY Guild approaching the Burial Bone Chasm and prepared to stop them.

In the Burial Bone Chasm, Totsuka tried to escape with a recording of Qin Feng’s battle, then offered an apology and compensation when Qin Feng caught him. Qin Feng killed Totsuka’s soul, leaving Evil Tone Old Ghost shaken by the assassin’s power and ruthlessness.

• Totsuka hid the Light and Shadow Crystal recording Qin Feng’s battle and prepared to teleport back to the KEY Guild’s Hideout.
• When Qin Feng looked his way, Totsuka knelt, apologized on behalf of the KEY Guild, and offered thirty thousand years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng demanded the Light and Shadow Crystal, but recognized Totsuka’s actions as a trick even after Totsuka handed it over.
• Qin Feng used Soul Harvest to kill Totsuka’s soul, making him unable to resurrect and adding five points to the White Bud Blade’s instant-death affix.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost realized Qin Feng had used an ability capable of damaging souls and regretted Totsuka’s death.
• Qin Feng asked Evil Tone Old Ghost whether he pitied Totsuka.

Qin Feng exposed Totsuka’s hidden recording crystal to Evil Tone Old Ghost, explaining why he had killed the young man despite his surrender. He left White Bud to handle the ghost’s rhythm trial and began farming undead in Burial Bone Chasm, increasing his progress toward unsealing the Bone Authority.

• Qin Feng showed Evil Tone Old Ghost Totsuka’s memory, revealing that Totsuka had secretly recorded the fight with a second Light and Shadow Crystal hidden in his sleeve.
• Evil Tone Old Ghost understood why Qin Feng had killed Totsuka and became more wary of the meticulous Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng ordered White Bud to tap stones to Evil Tone Old Ghost’s music, and after she repeatedly flew back into his hand, he coerced her into agreeing to work on her own.
• Qin Feng asked Evil Tone Old Ghost to play music from the Sea-Sky Star Civilization and left White Bud with him to handle the rhythm trial.
• Qin Feng began farming skeletal undead in Burial Bone Chasm, and his submission progress toward unsealing the Bone Authority started to rise.

Qin Feng kept farming monsters in the Burial Bone Chasm while White Bud completed Evil Tone Old Ghost’s Rhythm Challenge, and the KEY Guild tried to retrieve Totsuka’s corpse. Gui Ling, Gray Chicken, and Osilio stopped the guild members and demanded thirty thousand years of lifespan, while Qin Feng’s group gained a new NPC recruit.

• Qin Feng killed skeletal demons while White Bud struck a rock to the music, advancing Evil Tone Old Ghost’s challenge and Qin Feng’s weapon-unsealing progress.
• KEY Guild elites approached the Burial Bone Chasm to retrieve Totsuka’s corpse and recover the battle footage, but Gui Ling ambushed them and killed two priests.
• Gray Chicken’s invisible black flames stopped the guild members from entering the valley, and Osilio arrived with his Bone Sword Pterosaur underlings to demand thirty thousand years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng continued farming inside the chasm as the KEY Guild struggled to gather the demanded lifespan and Gui Ling went to level up in the Poison Water Swamp.
• White Bud completed the Rhythm Challenge, bringing Evil Tone Old Ghost into the Shadow Guild, and Qin Feng planned to have him add sound effects to his skills.

Qin Feng tested Evil Tone Old Ghost’s temporary sound imbuements while farming in Burial Bone Chasm, and his Shadow Blade skill gained a major upgrade. After seven days of nonstop leveling, Qin Feng reached level 35 and fully unsealed his Bone Authority ring.

• White Bud returned after completing her task in under an hour, and Qin Feng praised her musical talent.
• Qin Feng examined Evil Tone Old Ghost’s sound-imbuement function and paid to imbue Greedy Hand, gaining a 21% chance to double its effects for three hours.
• A doubled loot effect helped Qin Feng obtain a level 29 Shadow Blade Skill Book, which he learned to raise the skill from level 14 to level 29.
• Qin Feng imbued sound into Shadow Blade, then sent Evil Tone Old Ghost back to the Evil Spirit Academy and asked Sister Yuan to watch him.
• Qin Feng settled in Burial Bone Chasm while his Abyss Puppet farmed in an Underground Demon City, and after seven days he reached level 35 and finished unsealing Bone Authority.