Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng ordered the Dark Wolf Emperor to burn three ancient forests, while he, Osilio, and Gray Chicken began clearing another forest and farming monsters near Harare Ruins. The local players and guilds submitted to the Dark Wolf Emperor’s demands after learning that Dark Shadow was backing him.

• Qin Feng gave the Dark Wolf Emperor coordinates for two ancient forests to burn and told him to recruit local players without paying them.
• The Dark Wolf Emperor denied harming Great Xia women, and Qin Feng left to continue his plans.
• The Wolf Pack Guild sent more than thirty thousand local players to burn two forests near Harare Ruins.
• Qin Feng took Osilio and Gray Chicken to a third forest, where they began burning it while he farmed monsters and gained experience.
• A scouting squad confirmed that Dark Shadow’s pet and mount were burning the forest, and the other two major guilds yielded to the Dark Wolf Emperor’s pressure.

After the ancient forests nearly finished burning, Qin Feng evolved his Deathwing Angel bloodline and gained the powerful Death Eulogy skill, which increased his constitution and granted resurrection charges. He tested the new ability, then prepared to evolve Bone-Splitting Blade with the evolution points he had gathered.

• The Dark Wolf Emperor extorted protection fees from local guilds and killed their members to harvest lifespan while Qin Feng remained unaware.
• Qin Feng spent more than four days farming monsters as the ancient forests burned and gathered the experience needed to evolve his bloodline.
• Qin Feng evolved Deathwing Angel to stage two, improving its existing skills and awakening Death Eulogy, which granted up to three constitution boosts and resurrection charges.
• Qin Feng killed three monsters to gain three Death Eulogy stacks, raising his constitution to 11,945 and his maximum health to 1.79 million.
• The Dark Wolf Emperor told Qin Feng the forests would finish burning within half a day, and Qin Feng decided to evolve Bone-Splitting Blade using his accumulated evolution points.

Qin Feng upgraded Bone-Splitting Blade and Thousand-Blade Strike, then ordered the remaining Ancient Forests burned. The fires awakened the legendary Dusk Watcher · Faded Vine, trapping Dark Wolf Emperor and the other players as the chapter ended with a vine bursting beneath him.

• Qin Feng evolved Bone-Splitting Blade to immortal tier, gaining invincibility while charging, and considered its cooldown and Divinity cost.
• Qin Feng evolved Thousand-Blade Strike to ancient grade, increasing its damage and Weakness Attack multiplier despite finding its new defense-reduction effect redundant.
• Dark Wolf Emperor reported that two Ancient Forests had been burned down, and Qin Feng ordered Gray Chicken and Osilio to burn the last giant trees.
• Dusk Watcher · Faded Vine erupted from the scorched ground, attacking the tens of thousands of players and killing many with its poison needles.
• Dark Wolf Emperor helped his team return to town, but discovered that combat prevented him from using his Teleportation Stone.
• A huge vine burst through the scorched earth beneath Dark Wolf Emperor.

Dark Shadow rescued Dark Wolf Emperor from a Legendary Tier Faded Vine and revealed that he could destroy its 120-million-HP offshoots in one hit. As more offshoots appeared across the scorched jungle, Qin Feng continued killing them instantly while Dark Wolf Emperor watched in disbelief.

• The Faded Vine’s offshoot attacked Dark Wolf Emperor with swarms of venomous needles, killing many of his Demon Metal Wolves and forcing him to flee in Werewolf Form.
• The offshoot focused its next volley on Dark Wolf Emperor, but Dark Shadow kicked him out of danger and severed the vine with a single attack.
• Dark Wolf Emperor realized Dark Shadow had instantly killed the 120-million-HP Legendary Tier offshoot and saved him.
• Qin Feng explained that the Faded Vine spawned twelve offshoots in random locations before revealing its main body, with later phases triggered by lost health or elapsed time.
• More offshoots erupted across the scorched jungle, and Qin Feng flew between them and killed each one instantly as Dark Wolf Emperor watched.

Qin Feng killed Dusk Watcher · Faded Vine instantly, leaving Dark Wolf Emperor stunned by the gulf in their strength. He collected the boss’s rewards, improved his power, and used some Ascension Scrolls, while the chapter ended as he examined a final mythic tier scroll.

• Qin Feng kicked Dark Wolf Emperor out of danger as Dusk Watcher · Faded Vine’s main body emerged, then killed the legendary boss with two uses of Instant Annihilation.
• Dark Wolf Emperor landed painfully and reflected that he still had not been humble enough compared with Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng looted the boss, gained lifespan, evolution points, equipment, and four Ascension Scrolls, and sent Osilio’s Bone Sword Pterosaur underlings to gather Lifespan Orbs.
• Qin Feng fed a legendary Blood Runs Like a River Skill Book to Spirit Devourer, raising the physical attack gained per strength point from 48 to 50.
• Qin Feng used the never miss Ascension Scroll on his Bone Authority ring and noted that the slippery order would speed up his unassailable affix recovery while moving.
• Qin Feng reached the final reward, a mythic tier Ascension Scroll.

Qin Feng gained immunity to nightmare affixes, strengthened Bone Authority, and went to the Harare Ruins to assess the damage caused by Faded Vine. After killing Dark Wolf Emperor to inspect his memories, he revived him and decided to keep him alive to help control the region.

• Qin Feng applied the Mythic Tier Ancestor of Nightmares order to his Death Shroud, gaining immunity to nightmare affixes and reflecting them completely.
• Qin Feng broke one of Bone Authority’s seals and enhanced the ring, raising its all-attribute bonus to 768.
• Qin Feng flew to the Harare Ruins and saw that Faded Vine had driven hundreds of local players into a state of madness.
• Yang Xiaobao, the Dark Wolf Emperor, thanked Qin Feng and promised to devote himself to him, so Qin Feng told him to die and killed him to inspect his memories.
• Qin Feng learned that Yang Xiaobao had bought women from across the world but none from Great Xia, and that he had collected protection money from local guilds.
• Qin Feng revived Yang Xiaobao and decided to keep him in charge of the Harare Ruins, while Yang Xiaobao struggled to understand what had happened.

Qin Feng restored Dark Wolf Emperor after secretly killing him, collected 125,600 years of protection money, and rewarded him with diamond-tier equipment. After returning to the Evil Spirit Academy with 433,000 years of tradable lifespan, Qin Feng turned his attention to Sakura Country, where his Flesh Mountain Puppet had caused more than a thousand disappearances in Tōto; an investigation team arrived, including Matsushita Xingyue, who wondered where her loser brother had gone.

• Qin Feng revealed that he could restore people he had killed and sent into the Judgment Grounds, then confronted Dark Wolf Emperor about the protection money.
• Dark Wolf Emperor handed over all 125,600 years he had collected and chose three pieces of diamond-tier equipment so he could share them with his subordinates.
• Qin Feng advised Dark Wolf Emperor to handle local conflicts himself and not oppress the local players, then returned to the Evil Spirit Academy.
• Qin Feng counted 433,000 years of tradable lifespan and decided it was time to act in Sakura Country, where his Flesh Mountain Puppet had caused more than a thousand people to disappear in Tōto.
• The Sakura Country Government sent an investigation team of top-tier powerhouses to Tōto, and Matsushita Xingyue wondered whether her missing loser brother was dead.

Matsushita Xingyue joined Kameyama Sasuke’s investigation team as they tracked an invisible ghost toward Adachi Ward, where seven local guilds had surrounded Great Xia Dragon Sparrow. The team headed there invisibly, unaware that Qin Feng had sent the Flesh Mountain Puppet to deal with the besieging Sakura Country players.

• Kameyama Sasuke summoned his Two-Headed Great Serpent and led the investigation team toward the ghost’s reported location in Adachi Ward.
• A team member reported that seven Tōto guilds had surrounded Great Xia Dragon Sparrow with around forty thousand players over a stolen Jadeite Tier boss.
• Kameyama Sasuke ordered his people to withdraw after learning that the ghost’s trail was heading toward Great Xia Dragon Sparrow’s Hideout.
• Kameyama Sasuke had Tatsuya turn the team invisible and asked Matsushita Xingyue to examine the ghost.
• Qin Feng sent the Flesh Mountain Puppet to help Great Xia Dragon Sparrow deal with the Sakura Country players besieging its Hideout.

As the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild faced a tense standoff with Sakura Country players over a stolen boss, Inoue Natsuki warned Ma Yi that the Tōto Ghost was approaching their hideout. Ma Yi alerted Guild Leader Kong as the surrounding players began to flee.

• Great Xia Dragon Sparrow players defended their Pyramid Cluster hideout from more than forty thousand Sakura Country players after Ma Yi, Ma Fei, and their team took a Jadeite Tier boss.
• Inoue Natsuki stood by Ma Yi despite her family opposing their relationship and demanding that she leave the guild.
• Inoue Natsuki's sister accused her of betraying Sakura Country and warned that the Tōto Ghost was heading for the hideout.
• Inoue Natsuki saw the Sakura Country players outside scattering and urged Ma Yi to tell everyone to log in.
• Ma Yi warned Guild Leader Kong that the Tōto Ghost was coming, and Kong reacted with alarm.

Guild Leader Kong and the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow prepared to defend their Hideout as Qin Feng’s Flesh Mountain Puppet approached. The puppet found thousands of Sakura Country players scattered nearby and began killing them.

• Guild Leader Kong ordered most of the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow to shelter while the Azure Dragon and Black Tortoise Teams guarded the Pyramid.
• Mr. Hanoi’s Weakness Aura trapped the Great Xia players in combat, and the Vermilion Bird leader’s Heating talent likewise prevented the Sakura Country players from logging out.
• Inoue Natsuki refused her family’s pleas to flee and remained beside Ma Yi as the Tōto Ghost drew near.
• The guild scout spotted a trail of blood approaching the Hideout, while the Great Xia players formed a defensive line and the Sakura Country players fled nearby.
• Qin Feng sent the invisible Flesh Mountain Puppet after the scattered Sakura Country players, and it killed one with a Flesh Hook before he ordered it to attack.

Qin Feng controlled the Flesh Mountain Puppet, known as the Tōto Ghost, and slaughtered fleeing Sakura Country players around the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild's Hideout. The guild members logged into the game after the danger passed, then learned the Tōto Ghost was Dark Shadow's subordinate and had come to help them.

• The Tōto Ghost changed course and hunted down fleeing Sakura Country players, killing more than a thousand, including the master poisoner Kawachi.
• Guild Leader Kong and the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild members watched the slaughter from behind their Defensive Barrier and remained wary of the Tōto Ghost.
• After the guild members left combat, Guild Leader Kong told them to log into the game, and they did so while keeping watch.
• Guild Leader Kong received a private message revealing that the Tōto Ghost was Dark Shadow's subordinate and had come to rescue the guild.
• Guild Leader Kong canceled his terracotta warrior transformation and told the guild to relax, astonishing everyone in the Guild Channel.

The Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild learned that the Tōto Ghost served Dark Shadow and watched as it massacred Sakura Country players nearby. Matsushita Xingyue recognized the ghost’s mass of fused souls as resembling her brother’s talent, but concealed her suspicions as the Chief Investigation Team questioned her.

• The Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild celebrated after learning the Tōto Ghost was Dark Shadow’s subordinate and gathered to watch the slaughter.
• Kameyama Sasuke and the Chief Investigation Team arrived invisibly on the Two-Headed Great Serpent and saw that more than two thousand Sakura Country players had been killed.
• Kameyama Sasuke asked Matsushita Xingyue to locate the ghost, and she spotted a huge amalgamation of tortured souls.
• Matsushita Xingyue suspected the ghost’s power came from her brother Matsushita Rìquǎn’s Flesh Mountain Puppet but hid her thoughts from the team.
• A tattooed woman in the Chief Investigation Team used Speech Control on Matsushita Xingyue.

Matsushita Xingyue was forced to reveal that she had seen souls merging like her brother Matsushita Rìquǎn’s Flesh Mountain Puppet, while Kameyama Sasuke accused her of shielding a traitor. Qin Feng suddenly killed the group, executed Kameyama Sasuke after he begged to serve him, and turned his attention to Matsushita Xingyue.

• A tattooed Speech Controller forced Matsushita Xingyue to describe the merging souls she had witnessed and compare them to Matsushita Rìquǎn’s talent.
• Kameyama Sasuke accused Matsushita Xingyue of shielding her brother, claimed the government had linked her life to the nineteen Life Souls she held, and called for Great Xia to be condemned.
• An invisible attack shattered the Two-Headed Great Serpent’s shields and killed the fifty-eight people around Matsushita Xingyue and Kameyama Sasuke, as well as their mount.
• Qin Feng appeared and confronted Kameyama Sasuke about his declaration that he would rather die than submit, but Kameyama Sasuke begged to serve him and offered government secrets.
• Qin Feng killed Kameyama Sasuke with Soul Harvest and then looked toward the surviving Matsushita Xingyue.

Qin Feng learned from Kameyama Sasuke’s memories that Matsushita Xingyue controlled nineteen Sakura Country powerhouses but was bound to them by a symbiotic curse. He considered using her to gain control of Sakura Country and waited to hear how she felt about her older brother, Matsushita Rìquǎn, before deciding what to do with her.

• Qin Feng killed Kameyama Sasuke, and Matsushita Xingyue nervously asked what had happened to her older brother, Matsushita Rìquǎn.
• Qin Feng examined Kameyama Sasuke’s soul and memories and learned that Matsushita Xingyue held the Life Souls of nineteen Sakura Country powerhouses.
• Qin Feng discovered that a symbiotic curse linked Matsushita Xingyue’s life to the nineteen people she controlled.
• Qin Feng considered using Matsushita Xingyue to control influential people in Sakura Country and make the country serve his interests.
• Qin Feng weighed Matsushita Xingyue’s attitude toward her older brother as he considered whether to keep her alive.

Qin Feng used Soul Control to read Matsushita Xingyue’s memories and thoughts, then questioned her about her brother and Sakura Country’s role in sending him to Great Xia. When Xingyue refused to cooperate, Qin Feng threatened to destroy her family and all of Sakura Country, leaving her shocked.

• Qin Feng spent lifespan to recharge the White Bud Blade and used Soul Control to read Matsushita Xingyue’s memories and thoughts.
• Qin Feng told Xingyue that her brother, Matsushita Rìquǎn, was dead after attacking his subordinates, and she concluded that Dark Shadow had killed him.
• Qin Feng revealed that the Tōto authorities had encouraged Rìquǎn to go to Great Xia despite judging his chance of killing Qin Feng at no more than one percent.
• Xingyue rejected Qin Feng’s attempt to turn her against Sakura Country and insisted that he kill her.
• Qin Feng threatened to kill Xingyue’s family and wipe out all of Tōto and Sakura Country if she refused to cooperate, leaving her stunned.

Qin Feng forced Matsushita Xingyue to cooperate, promising to spare her family in exchange for helping him collect reparations from Sakura Country. He took her to a Tōto Hideout to draw out the Curse Wizard who had bound her life to her subordinates, leaving them waiting for the wizard to log out so Qin Feng could kill him.

• Qin Feng threatened Matsushita Xingyue and persuaded her to kneel and cooperate by promising her family’s safety and power over Sakura Country in exchange for collecting protection money.
• At the Great Xia Dragon Sparrow Guild Hideout, Guild Leader Kong ordered players to gather the Lifespan Orbs from the fallen Sakura Country fighters and give most of them to Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng took Matsushita Xingyue into stealth and flew with her on Osilio toward a Tōto official Hideout, explaining that he would kill the wizard responsible for her Symbiotic Curse and demand 150,000 years of lifespan in reparations.
• Osilio’s Flesh Mountain Puppet splashed blood across the Hideout’s barrier, alarming its occupants and prompting the guild managers to order players to log out and attack the invisible Tōto Ghost.
• Qin Feng waited outside the Hideout for the Curse Wizard to log out, planning to kill him and use Kameyama Sasuke’s memories to identify Tōto’s leaders for Matsushita Xingyue to collect their Life Souls.

Qin Feng broke into the government Hideout, killed another target, and forced Sakura Country to agree to pay an indemnity of 150,000 years of lifespan. He then equipped Matsushita Xingyue to collect the Life Souls of powerful officials and fighters, leaving her to carry out the operation under the Flesh Mountain Puppet’s protection.

• Qin Feng shattered the government Hideout’s barrier, killed a target, and left with Matsushita Xingyue as the Flesh Mountain Puppet attacked the Hideout.
• Matsushita Xingyue told her superior that Dark Shadow would stop his retaliation if Sakura Country paid 150,000 years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng gave Matsushita Xingyue spirit-boosting equipment and a Skill Book, raising her spirit stat above 400 so she could collect more Life Souls.
• Qin Feng ordered Matsushita Xingyue to secure the Life Souls of more than fifty officials and powerful fighters, with the Flesh Mountain Puppet guarding her.

Qin Feng forced Matsushita Xingyue to cooperate by marking her family for tracking, and she used his Flesh Mountain Puppet to seize control of Tōto’s leaders. The chapter left Matsushita planning to win public support for the puppet as a secret weapon against Dark Shadow, while Qin Feng was astonished by her ingenuity.

• Qin Feng marked Matsushita Xingyue’s family with the Blade of Judgment so he could track them, then warned her that he was doing it to protect them.
• Matsushita Xingyue used the Flesh Mountain Puppet to kill two guards and force her superior to surrender his life soul.
• Matsushita Xingyue gathered influential officials and guild leaders under her superior’s name, taking the life souls of thirty-eight people and killing those who refused.
• Matsushita Xingyue announced that the government was cultivating a secret weapon against Dark Shadow and called on citizens to donate lifespan.
• Matsushita Xingyue explained how the puppet could help kill powerful bosses to prove the weapon’s strength, and Qin Feng was left speechless by her plan.

Qin Feng headed for the Arctic after learning that the Extreme Cold Ice Scorpion had appeared. As the boss erupted beneath Teshima Ichirō’s Ice Cave, the trapped players were forced into a deadly cycle of resurrection and death.

• Qin Feng flew north toward the Arctic, expecting Teshima Ichirō and the others to have finished hatching the Extreme Cold Ice Scorpion.
• Shooting Through the Firmament kept Dragon King Hall stationed outside the Ice Cave and warned Teshima Ichirō to take his people offline, but Teshima Ichirō dismissed the advice.
• The glacier shook and cracked as the Extreme Cold Ice Scorpion burst upward beneath the Ice Cave, filling the area with Murmurs.
• Teshima Ichirō fled toward the exit, while other players fell into crevasses or were killed by flying ice and resurrected inside their Hideout.
• The trapped players realized they could no longer log off and had to escape the Ice Cave’s range before the boss fully emerged.

A Legendary Tier Extreme Cold Ice Scorpion trapped Teshima Ichirō and his guild inside a crystalline ice flower, while nearby players failed to break through its rapidly regenerating ice. As Teshima Ichirō’s Whisper Meter filled and he lost his reason, Dragon King Hall waited for Dark Shadow to arrive and face the boss.

• Ulrich, the Level 30 Legendary Tier Extreme Cold Ice Scorpion, emerged at the Ice Cave and froze the area into a massive crystalline ice flower while absorbing players’ Lifespan Orbs.
• Arctic War Bear led his people in attacking the ice, but their blows barely scratched it, and the damage quickly regenerated.
• Shooting Through the Firmament fired a powerful arrow at the ice, but it dealt only minor damage before the ice healed.
• Teshima Ichirō’s subordinates repeatedly died and resurrected, and over two hundred died permanently as their lifespan dwindled.
• Dragon King Hall players waited for Dark Shadow, while Teshima Ichirō’s Whisper Meter filled and he lost his reason.