Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng explored the Abyss world and discovered that many of his abilities and effects were disabled, though his passives and Abyss Curses still worked. After killing and farming humanoid demons that resembled former players, he spotted another creature with the same codename as his first target, this one at level 53.

• Qin Feng tested his abilities in the Abyss world and found that Shadow Perception, some passives, and the Blade of Judgment still worked, while most skills and effects were disabled.
• Qin Feng flew to a level 47 humanoid demon named "I Want to Pick Lots and Lots and Lots of Cotton" and used three Abyss Curses before killing it with repeated attacks.
• Qin Feng received an enhancement stone but no experience or evolution points, and he speculated that Tang Jun might have farmed materials in the Abyss in his previous life.
• Qin Feng discovered that Greedy Space and nearly all his greater affixes were unavailable, then continued killing humanoid demons across the area.
• Qin Feng found another humanoid demon named "I Want to Pick Lots and Lots and Lots of Cotton," this time at level 53.

Qin Feng entered the Abyss World in the Magic City Ruins and confirmed that its Shadow Demons were dead players from previous cycles of the Blue Star Civilization. Surrounded by powerful demons and unable to defeat Chu Nantian’s corpse, he decided to retreat.

• Qin Feng returned to the Game World, brought Gray Chicken and the Merfolk Crystal Ball to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout, then switched to the Abyss World.
• Qin Feng found the ruins crowded with Shadow Demons and recognized the level 62 demon as Chu Nantian, a player from a previous cycle.
• Qin Feng was swarmed by Shadow Demons, used Abyss Wither Curse, and flew toward Chu Nantian while enduring their attacks.
• Qin Feng slowed and silenced Chu Nantian and attacked his shield, but the surrounding Shadow Demons repeatedly restored it while Qin Feng was restricted to basic attacks.
• Qin Feng realized the Shadow Demons included the same players from different cycles at different levels and codenames, then chose to retreat.

Qin Feng was killed by Beidou’s powerful corpse in the Abyss World, then resurrected and escaped before planning to return better prepared. Back on the Godforsaken Continent, he chose to hunt the first World Spine and learned that the polluted river outside River-Sea City Ruins could lead him to it.

• Qin Feng fled the crowded Magic City Ruins but was caught by Beidou’s Fist-Wind Vortex and struck by an attack that ignored multiple defenses.
• Beidou’s punch inflicted a fatal Internal Injury, and Qin Feng calculated that its burst damage reached 888 billion.
• Qin Feng revived through Death Eulogy and used the Abyss Bracelet to leave the Abyss World before Beidou could attack again.
• Qin Feng decided to seek Abyss Shrines and abyssify his skills before returning to farm the ruins’ corpse demons.
• Qin Feng asked Big Eyes about the first World Spine and learned that one route lay beneath the River of Pollution outside River-Sea City Ruins.

Qin Feng planned to bypass the River of Pollution through the Abyss World after learning how its Shadow Demons were formed. Meanwhile, the Blood Source Temple’s master learned that someone had taken first place on the Path of Finality and ordered his Envoys to investigate the Scorching Sun Civilization.

• Qin Feng learned from Big Eyes that the Abyss World’s Shadow Demons were corpses of players from Blue Star’s previous cycles, and that Abyssified skills could make them more powerful.
• Qin Feng decided to kill the first World Spine before farming in the Abyss World, then flew toward the River of Pollution with Osilio.
• Qin Wuyue and the other Blood Source Temple Envoys gathered before their eight-armed temple master after news spread that the Scorching Sun Civilization had killed its first World Spine.
• The temple master told the Envoys that someone had claimed first place in the first stage of the Path of Finality and asked whether that person was connected to the Scorching Sun Civilization.
• Qin Wuyue and other Envoys doubted there was a connection, but the temple master ordered them to question the Scorching Sun Civilization’s players and register anyone who might become prominent.

The Great Xia Officials’ raid team neared its first Epic Grade boss kill, hoping to narrow the gap with Dark Shadow. Meanwhile, Qin Feng entered the Abyss World near the River-Sea City Ruins and headed for the River of Pollution to kill a World Spine.

• The chapter explained that Qin Wuyue had little backing because the Blue Star Civilization was still a cycle civilization, while the Blood Source Temple favored the Starry Sky Thief Clan Civilization.
• Investigations into the unprecedented first-place finish on the Path of Finality pointed toward the Scorching Sun Civilization, while the Blue Star Civilization remained unnoticed.
• The Great Xia Officials’ sixty-person raid team reduced Skyfall Divine Bull · Moo Li Moo Li to 20% health, with Black Plum Big Li leading the damage rankings and Gu Yixue also dealing heavy damage while healing.
• The raid team survived the boss’s final Skyfall with two deaths and prepared to endure its last enrage, drawing officials’ hopes of claiming their first Epic Grade kill apart from Dark Shadow.
• Qin Feng left Osilio waiting above the River of Pollution, entered the Abyss World, and flew into the cave to deal with the first World Spine.

Qin Feng descended through the Abyss World’s dried-up River of Pollution, killed corpse demons including a former version of himself, and used a dropped Rule Stone to add a Divinity Rule to the White Bud Blade. He reached a vast deep sea beyond the River of Pollution, where he discovered that the entire ocean was the first World Spine, a Mythic-tier boss with no visible health bar.

• Qin Feng fought his way down the cavern and killed the level 59 Wang Meng and a level 66 corpse bearing his own codename, which dropped a Rule Stone.
• Qin Feng used the Rule Stone to strip the Giant Blade Mutation rule from the Deep Sea Spirit · Mutant Blade and added it to the White Bud Blade.
• Qin Feng descended more than a thousand kilometers through the River of Pollution and emerged into a vast space filled with Player corpse demons, then withdrew from the Abyss World.
• Qin Feng realized he had reached a deep sea beyond the River of Pollution and received a system notification that he had entered combat.
• Qin Feng attacked the surrounding ocean and discovered that the entire sea was the level 40 Mythic-tier World Spine, but he could not see its health bar.

Qin Feng endured the World Spine · Sea’s relentless water attacks, using Shadow Incarnation to survive while searching for the boss. The Sea then froze the surrounding ocean, dispelled his buffs, and trapped him in a glacier as unavoidable Ice Damage began to rise.

• The World Spine · Sea attacked Qin Feng with hundreds of invisible water impacts per second, but his high evasion and recovery kept him alive.
• Qin Feng activated Shadow Incarnation to avoid the escalating barrage and searched the surrounding seawater for the boss’s body.
• The water impacts climbed to five hundred per second and continued for half a minute without revealing the boss.
• The World Spine · Sea froze the surrounding seawater and forcibly dispelled Qin Feng’s buffs, ending Shadow Incarnation and Invisibility.
• Qin Feng became trapped in the glacier, unable to move or activate skills, as guaranteed-hit Ice Damage began increasing.

Qin Feng died to the World Spine’s escalating glacier damage, then resurrected and faced its Mythic-tier ice crystal incarnations. After he killed one incarnation, the others froze him again, but his shadow clones shattered the glacier.

• Qin Feng endured the World Spine’s glacier, whose increasing environmental ice damage killed him after about fifty seconds.
• Qin Feng resurrected with full health and mana, activated Killing Shadow, and sent five shadow clones outward to break any glacier that trapped him again.
• The World Spine formed more than thirty ice crystal sea-creature incarnations, each with over a billion health.
• Qin Feng teleported to an ice crystal crayfish and killed it with two Instant Annihilation attacks.
• The remaining incarnations attacked together, and a glacier trail froze Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng ordered his shadow clones to use Shadow Blade, and they shattered the glacier around him.

Qin Feng struggled against the Ice Crystal Incarnations until the Core Incarnation of World Spine · Sea appeared, then killed the colossal whale instantly with two attacks. He gathered the loot and teleported home as news of Blue Star Civilization's first World Spine kill spread worldwide and reached the Temples in the Land of Order.

• Qin Feng dodged the Ice Crystal Incarnations' attacks while his Shadow Clone repeatedly freed him from being frozen, until the nine remaining creatures hid their health bars and his unassailable affix ran out.
• Qin Feng used Shadow Incarnation to keep escaping the vortices and ice attacks, then sensed the Core Incarnation of World Spine · Sea emerge beneath him.
• Qin Feng canceled Shadow Incarnation, stole the whale's attributes with Thieving Saint's Hand, and struck twice with the full Like Shadow Following Form damage bonus, killing it instantly.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the whale's remains, collected the loot before the seawater froze, and teleported home.
• The system announced Qin Feng's kill to players worldwide, and news of Blue Star Civilization's first World Spine kill reached the Temples in the Land of Order.

The Blood Source Temple learned that Blue Star Civilization had killed its first World Spine on day 75 of its cycle, stunning Qin Wuyue and the temple envoys. The temple master concluded that an unknown Blue Star powerhouse had achieved the feat and asked Qin Wuyue who it might be, but she had no idea.

• A bell rang in the Blood Source Temple, signaling that a civilization had killed a World Spine, and the temple master asked whether Scorching Sun Civilization had struck again.
• The temple received word that Blue Star Civilization had killed the World Spine, leaving Qin Wuyue and the others astonished.
• Qin Wuyue explained that Blue Star Civilization’s current cycle had begun less than three months earlier and that this was its first World Spine kill.
• The messenger confirmed that Blue Star Civilization had killed the World Spine on day 75, and the temple master swore in shock.
• The temple master assumed the feat belonged to the powerhouse who had placed first on the Path of Finality and asked Qin Wuyue who it was, but she could not identify anyone.

The Eight-Armed Hall Master tasked Qin Wuyue with investigating the unknown Blue Star powerhouse and bringing them into the Blood Source Temple. After Blue Star killed its first World Spine on day 75, the news stunned the Land of Order’s powerful figures, who wondered whether Blue Star had produced a peerless genius.

• Qin Wuyue told the Eight-Armed Hall Master she did not know who the Blue Star powerhouse was, and they discussed past-cycle arrivals and exiles as possible clues.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master asked Qin Wuyue to investigate Blue Star and ideally recruit the powerful individual into the Blood Source Temple.
• Temple envoys privately warned their subordinates not to provoke Blue Star players, while remaining cautious about which faction the unknown powerhouse belonged to.
• Qin Wuyue wondered whether the genius was Qin Feng and planned to act as his dear big sister if he reached the Land of Order, concealing that she had killed him and Qin Xiaoyou in previous cycles.
• News spread across the Land of Order that Blue Star had killed its first World Spine on day 75, leaving Blue Star’s scattered powerful figures stunned.

Blue Star powerhouses debated who had killed a World Spine on day 75, unaware it had been done solo. Ye Jiuzhou suggested Great Xia’s Qin Feng might be responsible, surprising the others.

• Blue Star powerhouses gathered in their long-silent group chat to discuss their civilization’s first World Spine kill, achieved on day 75.
• Members from different countries argued over which nation’s genius had led the supposed team, and Tang Jun mocked the Sakura Country powerhouse’s claim.
• The group identified Ye Jiuzhou, the only person from Blue Star’s previous cycle still in the Land of Order, as their best source of insight.
• Ye Jiuzhou proposed that Great Xia’s Qin Feng, codenamed Wind Chaser, could have been among the candidates.
• A veteran from Great Xia questioned the suggestion, recalling Qin Feng as an ordinary Warrior with no obvious signs of extraordinary talent.

Ye Jiuzhou recalled Qin Feng's extraordinary achievements in a previous lifetime but kept them secret while others debated Qin Feng's potential. Meanwhile, Qin Feng's Mythic Tier boss kill pushed a Great Xia team's Epic Grade first-kill announcement off the system feed after only two seconds.

• A veteran from Great Xia revealed that Qin Feng was Qin Wuyue's younger brother, and the group fell silent at the news.
• Tang Jun recalled that Qin Feng had once reached the global top 100 and obtained an Ancient God Eyeball before his sister poisoned him and took it.
• Ye Jiuzhou remembered Qin Feng claiming first kills across multiple tiers in his previous lifetime, but chose not to reveal this to avoid risking Great Xia's standing.
• Qin Feng collected his extra rewards and noticed that another team had killed the Epic Grade boss Sky-Crushing Divine Bull · Mouli Mouli just before his own kill.
• The Great Xia team's Epic Grade first-kill announcement lasted only two seconds before Qin Feng's Mythic Tier boss-kill notification displaced it.

After Qin Feng killed the first Mythic Tier World Spine, Blue Star received warning that the second Desolation Spread would arrive within seven days. He examined the boss’s abundant loot, evolved Goddess of Death’s Grace to Immortal Tier, and prepared to spend his remaining Evolution Points on Thieving Saint’s Hand.

• Qin Feng’s defeat of World Spine · Sea triggered a system notice that the second Desolation Spread would arrive within seven days.
• Great Xia Officials reassured the public that people were better prepared for the coming Desolation Spread, while Qin Feng learned the second World Spine would not spawn until it ended.
• Qin Feng reviewed his haul of Ancient Grade and Mythic Tier loot and considered how to obtain enough Evolution Points to upgrade Greedy Hand.
• Qin Feng spent 63,245 Evolution Points to evolve Goddess of Death’s Grace from Ancient Grade to Immortal Tier, extending its duration and greatly increasing its damage.
• Qin Feng saw that the upgraded skill dealt poison damage even while inactive and increased damage against poisoned targets, then moved on to inspect Ancient Grade Assassin equipment.

Qin Feng equipped the World Ice Spine Boots, sharply increasing his speed, damage reduction, and unassailable while gaining the ability to strip enemies’ unassailable with every attack. He began upgrading the boots and planned to pass his old boots to Gui Ling.

• Qin Feng equipped the World Ice Spine Boots, raising his movement speed and damage reduction.
• Qin Feng calculated that his bonuses and the boots’ control resistance brought his effective unassailable above 7,200, with recovery reaching 242 points per second while moving.
• Qin Feng realized Frost Spinebreaker could remove nearly 200 unassailable per attack, letting Thousand-Blade Strike strip away even a mythic boss’s defenses before he used his curses.
• Qin Feng transferred the Sting of the Despicable effect from his old boots onto the World Ice Spine Boots.
• Qin Feng planned to give his old boots to level-30 Gui Ling.

Qin Feng enhanced his World Ice Spine Boots and brought World Spine equipment to Fairy Yuan to shatter for equipment points. After enhancing the boots’ special effect, he discovered his Ancient Grade Abyss Gaze Curse still could not see through Fairy Yuan, who teased him about trying.

• Qin Feng enhanced the World Ice Spine Boots’ control resistance to 277%.
• Qin Feng visited Fairy Yuan and learned she knew Gui Ling was in the Hideout but seemed unaware of Aishasiss.
• Qin Feng gave Fairy Yuan the World Spine equipment and used Merciless Shatter, whose Shadow Blade broke through her defenses and dealt 17,000 damage.
• Qin Feng switched to Thousand-Blade Strike so he could shatter the equipment without harming Fairy Yuan, while she repeatedly left combat to equip more pieces.
• Qin Feng spent the equipment points on the boots’ special effect, increasing the unassailable value removed per attack from 9% to 13.2%.
• Qin Feng used Abyss Gaze Curse on Fairy Yuan, but it could not see through her, and she teased him about wanting to see her naked.

Qin Feng upgraded Thieving Saint's Hand to Ancient Grade, gaining the ability to repeatedly steal attributes from the same target. After Late Night, Light Rain reported that Yunjianyue had arranged for Coconut Country players to attack the Two-Headed Phoenix, Qin Feng considered her a test subject for his new skill.

• Qin Feng learned that the second World Spine was near the world's highest mountain and planned to visit after the second Desolation Spread.
• Qin Feng spent lifespan and evolution points to raise Thieving Saint's Hand to level 40 and Ancient Grade.
• Qin Feng discovered the skill could now be used repeatedly on one target, permanently stealing attributes with diminishing effects.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that Yunjianyue had conspired with Coconut Country players to kill the Two-Headed Phoenix and was now imprisoned.
• Qin Feng considered testing his upgraded skill on Yunjianyue as his Abyss Puppet approached Coconut Country with Luti Xier.

Qin Feng sent Luti Xier into Coconut Country and learned that two of its Four Vajras held Calamity Ancient God Runes. He planned to take the runes from them, then entered the Abyss World to put his Abyss Puppet to work farming monsters.

• Qin Feng asked Late Night, Light Rain to arrange a meeting with Yunjianyue and notify Kyoto.
• Qin Feng’s Abyss Puppet led Luti Xier toward Coconut Country while he learned about the country’s Four Vajras from players in Laoag Ruins.
• Qin Feng discovered that two Vajras in Manila Ruins held Calamity Ancient God Runes and were competing for a third in the Calamity Ancient God Ruins.
• Qin Feng decided to wait for the two Vajras to emerge and try to buy their runes, intending to force them if they refused.
• Qin Feng sent the Abyss Puppet to farm monsters in the Abyss World after Luti Xier descended on Coconut Country.

Qin Feng learned that an invisible enemy was attacking the Great Xia Dragon Group’s hideout in Kyoto, where Yunjianyue had been released to help defend it. Suspecting her involvement, he set out with Osilio, whose burst speed could get them there before the Defensive Barrier fell.

• Qin Feng controlled the Abyss Puppet to hunt in the Abyss World while he returned to the Evil Spirit Academy in the Magic City Ruins.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that an unidentified, highly invisible enemy was damaging the Great Xia Dragon Group’s Defensive Barrier in Kyoto.
• Qin Feng learned that Yunjianyue had been released from detention to help defend the hideout and suspected she was connected to the attack.
• Late Night, Light Rain warned that the defenders’ lifespan reserves might last only five minutes, but Qin Feng said he could arrive in time.
• Qin Feng summoned Osilio and had him sacrifice his minions to build up enough speed for the trip to Kyoto.
• Osilio asked whether they should bring the boss’s wife, leaving Qin Feng and Late Night, Light Rain speechless.

Yunjianyue helped an invisible attacker assault the Great Xia Dragon Group’s Soul-Washing Grounds, hoping to escape the Officials’ control by having Luo Xiaoxiao killed. The attacker believed he could break the Hideout’s defenses before Dark Shadow arrived, while Qin Feng was preparing to fly to Kyoto.

• An invisible blond young man on a Dragonhawk attacked the Soul-Washing Grounds’ defensive barrier with fire and lightning while its defenders struggled to locate him.
• Yunjianyue guarded the western side of the Hideout and secretly hoped the attack would breach the barrier and kill Luo Xiaoxiao.
• Yunjianyue recalled that a mysterious Demon NPC had enhanced the attacker’s stealth and other buffs, making him difficult to stop.
• The blond attacker planned to retreat if he could not finish the attack within five minutes, though he doubted Dark Shadow could reach Kyoto in time.