Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng completed the calamity trial in record time and qualified for the Calamity Ancient God's survival challenge, where high rankings could grant extra bloodline slots. As he prepared to open his mythic chest, the Eight-Armed Hall Master feared Qin Feng would enter the challenge and knock him down the rankings.

• Qin Feng sent Gray Chicken through the flaming vortex to scout, then crossed it himself and completed the calamity trial in 59.48 seconds.
• The trial awarded Qin Feng a mythic-tier treasure chest and qualified him for the Calamity Ancient God's survival challenge, which promised a Cycle Buff based on his ranking.
• Qin Feng learned that first place would grant three extra bloodline slots and resolved to survive the challenge as long as possible.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master learned that someone had taken first place in the God of Bones' Cycle Buff and suspected Qin Feng was responsible.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master, ranked tenth in the Calamity Ancient God's challenge, prayed Qin Feng would not participate because another rank drop would seal one of his bloodlines.

Qin Feng opened a Mythic Tier treasure chest and obtained Uthos's Nine-Faced Helm, a Divinity Armament that could block elemental damage. He began the Calamity Ancient God's Survival Challenge, where nine Elemental Sprites explained rules that seemed perfectly suited to him.

• Qin Feng opened the treasure chest and found Calamity Ancient God Uthos's Nine-Faced Helm.
• Qin Feng equipped the helm, which let him choose immunity to one of nine elemental damage types or temporarily resist them all.
• Qin Feng drank potions to reach peak condition and entered the Calamity Ancient God's Survival Challenge.
• Qin Feng arrived in a cratered landscape and encountered nine Elemental Sprites guarding the challenge.
• The Storm Spirit read Qin Feng the challenge rules, which left him convinced he was suited to take first place.

Qin Feng began the Calamity Ancient God's survival challenge, realizing its spawning enemies could let him repeatedly restore resurrection charges and potentially survive indefinitely. The challenge opened with a no-air restriction, while Okamoto Takeo, the Sakura Country veteran whose past flirting had soured the Calamity Spirits on Blue Star, continued to suffer the consequences in the Land of Order.

• Qin Feng recognized that killing Elemental Spirits could restore Death Eulogy resurrection charges, giving him an advantage in the challenge.
• The Calamity Spirits began the challenge and privately mocked Qin Feng, blaming their hostility toward Blue Star on Okamoto Takeo's past behavior.
• Qin Feng reviewed the leaderboard rewards and learned that high placements granted additional bloodline slots or improved bloodline conversion rates.
• Flames, lightning, and storms appeared as Qin Feng's challenge began, and the system imposed a restriction that removed the air and prevented him from breathing.
• Okamoto Takeo sneezed while performing menial labor at the Thousand-Eyed Eldritch God Temple, still regretting that his earlier flirting had made the Calamity Temple target him.

Okamoto Takeo decided to join the Thousand-Eyed Eldritch God Temple’s hunt for an Immortal Tier boss, while Qin Feng began the Calamity Ancient God’s Survival Challenge. Qin Feng used Uthos’s Nine-Faced Helm to nullify successive elemental calamities, but the Calamity Spirits warned that the real challenge would begin after the first half hour.

• Okamoto Takeo worried that his cycle buff would soon fall out of the top thousand and decided to join the Thousand-Eyed Eldritch God Temple’s boss hunt for its rewards.
• Qin Feng entered the Survival Challenge in an airless, cratered environment and judged that his high constitution would let him endure it.
• Qin Feng used Uthos’s Nine-Faced Helm to switch elemental immunities and withstand lightning, fire, and other calamity attacks without moving.
• The Storm Spirit and Death Poison Spirit recognized the Nine-Faced Helm, while the Frost Sprite and Bloodcolor Spirit discussed the coming escalation.
• The Bloodcolor Spirit said that elemental spirit demons would appear after half an hour, when the real challenge would begin.

Qin Feng survived the Calamity Ancient God's challenge by switching Wutos's Nine-Faced Helm to counter elemental attacks and instantly killing the Elemental Spirits that appeared. Twelve hours into the challenge, the calamity attacks' Hit Adjustment began increasing rapidly.

• Qin Feng realized that his time in the game gave him a large weighting multiplier, so surviving half an hour could put him in the top thousand.
• Qin Feng endured the first half hour of elemental calamities by switching the Nine-Faced Helm's immunity to block each attack.
• A Spirit of Extreme Thunder attacked Qin Feng, but Cowardly Finisher blocked its damage and Qin Feng killed it instantly with Instant Annihilation.
• Qin Feng continued killing the Elemental Spirits as they spawned, while the calamity pressure steadily increased over the next several hours.
• After twelve hours, Qin Feng noticed that the Hit Adjustment of the surrounding calamity attacks was rapidly increasing.

Qin Feng endured escalating environmental suppressions and attacks during the survival challenge, repeatedly changing tactics to stay alive. By the fifth day, he relied on the divinity special skill Bone-Splitting Blade to remain invincible while the Calamity Spirits watched in disbelief.

• Qin Feng survived the first day as Elemental Spirits spawned more frequently and environmental damage and airless conditions suppressed his attributes.
• At twenty-four hours, gravity began increasing by a hundredfold each hour, slowing Qin Feng, and at forty-eight hours his order effects began ceasing one by one.
• As his attributes and speed fell and his orders stopped working, Qin Feng used Shadow Incarnation to become completely invincible for 3,600 seconds.
• At ninety-six hours, buff durations were reduced by 99%, so Qin Feng used Bone-Splitting Blade and charged continuously to maintain invincibility, spending seven divinity points every three seconds.
• Qin Feng survived into the fifth day, leaving the Absolute Darkness Spirit astonished that he possessed a familiar divinity special skill from the old bones fellow.

Qin Feng endured the arena’s escalating gravity and suffocation by chaining Dark Shadow Leap’s invincibility with Bone-Splitting Blade, while preparing weaker Elemental Spirits for Death Eulogy stacks. When his attributes neared zero, Shā Míyà’s Hell Boundary Stele prevented his death for a minute, but he died once it expired; Death Eulogy then activated and raised him again.

• The Calamity Spirits debated Qin Feng’s unusual invincibility and speculated about his equipment and civilization’s age.
• Qin Feng used Dark Shadow Leap to maintain invincibility as the arena’s gravity, his attribute suppression, and his inability to breathe worsened.
• Qin Feng preserved weaker Elemental Spirits so he could kill them later to gain Death Eulogy stacks.
• During the 102nd hour, Qin Feng summoned Shā Míyà, whose Hell Boundary Stele gave him the Thin Burial status and prevented his death for sixty seconds.
• Qin Feng died when Thin Burial ended, but Death Eulogy activated and raised him again.

Qin Feng exploited his resurrection ability and repeated kills to survive the Survival Trial after invincibility and healing were disabled on the seventh day. Hours later, the Calamity Spirits were still watching him resurrect and replenish his charges by killing Elemental Spirits.

• Qin Feng resurrected at full strength, used Bone-Splitting Blade and Thousand-Blade Strike to kill an Elemental Spirit, and restored a Death Eulogy charge.
• Qin Feng used Dark Shadow Leap to endure the stacking gravity and continued surviving until the seventh day, while the Calamity Spirits expected invincibility and healing rules to kill him.
• When the seventh-day rules disabled invincibility and healing, Qin Feng died to the calamities but resurrected three seconds later with Death Eulogy.
• Qin Feng killed another Elemental Spirit to restore a resurrection charge and repeated the cycle for seven or eight hours.
• The nine Calamity Spirits realized Qin Feng was replenishing resurrection charges through his kills and were stunned by his damage and Deathwing Angel bloodline.

Qin Feng survived the seventh and eighth days by using bouncing Shadow Blades to kill the ever-tougher Elemental Spirits, but the ninth day began disabling his strongest skills every two hours. Before Shadow Blade could be disabled, he unleashed Deadly Poison Dart and began building poison stacks across the monsters, setting up a new way to survive.

• As Elemental Spirits grew too durable for Instant Annihilation, Qin Feng used Shadow Blade and Killing Shadow to keep killing them and replenishing his Death Eulogy stacks.
• Qin Feng survived the seventh and eighth days despite dying tens of thousands of times, while the nine Calamity Spirits praised his strength and debated whether he could reach the top ten.
• On the ninth day, Blessing of the Lightning Fairy was disabled, reducing Qin Feng's damage, and he realized Shadow Blade would soon be disabled as well.
• Qin Feng released Deadly Poison Dart from his Spirit Devourer Bloodline and used Killing Shadow to spread it among the Elemental Spirits.
• Deadly Poison stacks began accumulating and transmitting between the monsters, while the Calamity Spirits waited for Shadow Blade to be disabled, unaware of the poison storm building around them.

As Qin Feng's skills were disabled and his combat power collapsed under the challenge's gravity, the Deadly Poison he had secretly spread across the Elemental Spirits reached billions of stacks. With the Shadow Blades gone, the poison began killing the spirits and gave Qin Feng another way to keep the challenge going.

• Qin Feng lost all nine of his Immortal Tier skills and then began losing his Ancient Grade skills as the ninth day progressed.
• After Shadow Blade was disabled on the tenth day, the Shadow Blades disappeared and the Calamity Spirits expected Qin Feng's challenge to end.
• The Calamity Spirits discovered that Deadly Poison had accumulated billions of stacks, dealing over a hundred million damage per second.
• Qin Feng explained that poison spread faster than the Poison Element spirits could remove it because of the Elemental Spirits' density.
• Deadly Poison killed several low-health Elemental Spirits within a second after the Shadow Blades vanished.

Qin Feng survived the Calamity Ancient God's ten-day challenge through an endless cycle of death and resurrection, using deadly poison to kill the Elemental Spirits and claim first place. His victory shocked the Calamity Spirits and disrupted the cycle buffs of other contestants, leaving Okamoto Takeo unable to escape an Immortal Tier boss.

• Qin Feng's deadly poison spread among the Elemental Spirits, killing them and restoring his Death Eulogy stacks as he repeatedly died and resurrected.
• The Calamity Spirits recognized that Qin Feng was exploiting a flaw in the challenge and noted that he might surpass the thousand-year-old record.
• Qin Feng kept surviving through the final hours by absorbing Lifespan Orbs, then completed the challenge on its tenth day and won first place, three bloodline slots, and a skill inheritance opportunity.
• The Calamity Spirits learned Qin Feng had started the challenge just seventy-seven days after the Godforsaken Game began and were stunned by his achievement.
• Qin Feng's first-place ranking displaced Okamoto Takeo from 1,000th place, reducing his cycle buff and attributes until the pursuing Immortal Tier boss caught him.

Qin Feng’s first-place finish in the Calamity Ancient God’s challenge caused players with its Cycle Buff to lose ranking and power, killing Okamoto Takeo and crippling the Eight-Armed Hall Master. As the Land of Order investigated the mysterious Blue Star champion, Qin Wuyue suspected Qin Feng but turned her attention to preparing for upheaval in the Blood Source Temple.

• Qin Feng’s rise to first place lowered Okamoto Takeo’s ranking and speed, allowing an Immortal Tier boss to catch and kill him.
• Blue Star Civilization members reacted to Okamoto Takeo’s death, while Drifting wondered whether the powerful Blue Star figure came from Great Xia or a hostile nation.
• Players across the Land of Order linked Okamoto Takeo’s death and the Eight-Armed Hall Master’s fall from tenth to eleventh place to the Calamity Ancient God’s Cycle Buff.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master lost access to his Guqin Master Bloodline, and the Land of Order began investigating the new first-place holder from Blue Star.
• Qin Wuyue considered whether Qin Feng was behind the challenge victories, then decided to prepare for changes in the Blood Source Temple after the Eight-Armed Hall Master’s weakening.

After clearing the Calamity Ancient God's Survival Challenge, Qin Feng was offered a Calamity Spirit as a follower and chose the Divinity Special Skill Hand of Calamity. He gained three new bloodline slots and was left deciding which spirit and bloodlines to choose.

• The nine Calamity Spirits congratulated Qin Feng and thanked him for helping avenge Storm after Okamoto Takeo died.
• The system offered Qin Feng the chance to take one willing Calamity Spirit as a follower.
• Storm presented Qin Feng with nine legacy skill options, and Qin Feng chose Hand of Calamity, which could transfer negative effects from him to an enemy or buffs from an enemy to an ally.
• Qin Feng received Hand of Calamity and considered how it could counter Divinity effects and other harmful statuses.
• Qin Feng discovered three empty bloodline slots and weighed which bloodlines and Calamity Spirit to choose.

Qin Feng learned that each Calamity Spirit could become a follower and grant him an exceptionally powerful Divinity Rule, then ranked his preferred choices but struggled to choose just one. The Holy Light Spirit revealed that he could earn up to two more chances to take a spirit after gaining 20 levels and clearing a special challenge.

• Qin Feng asked the nine Calamity Spirits whether any of them wanted to follow him, and the Holy Light Spirit warned that removing one would make the Survival Challenge easier for future challengers.
• The Holy Light Spirit explained that followers would grant permanent buffs treated as Divinity Rules and would perish if Qin Feng died.
• The Holy Light Spirit described the spirits' abilities, including health recovery, shields, fire damage, speed, control, and poison effects.
• Qin Feng ranked the Storm Spirit first, the Frost Sprite second, and the Death Poison Spirit third, but wished he could take them all.
• The Holy Light Spirit said Qin Feng could gain another chance to take a spirit after reaching level 20 and clearing a special challenge, with up to three opportunities in total.

Qin Feng chose the Frost Sprite as his Calamity follower and gained powerful control attributes and the divinity special skill Disaster of Ice and Sky. The Frost Sprite revealed that she could raise one equipped item’s divinity limit by 100, but was astonished when Qin Feng told her his dagger already had a limit of 1,200.

• The Storm Spirit told Qin Feng that Wutos’s restriction prevented her from being the first follower to leave.
• Qin Feng chose the Frost Sprite, who merged with him and granted 777% final control strength, 777% final control resistance, and Disaster of Ice and Sky.
• Qin Feng learned that Disaster of Ice and Sky consumed all his divinity to freeze nearby units and make them take 200% increased damage.
• Qin Feng discovered that the Frost Sprite’s grade was Primordial and heard her reassure the Storm Spirit that she trusted him.
• The Frost Sprite offered to add 100 divinity limit to Qin Feng’s highest-limit equipment, then froze in surprise when he said his dagger’s limit was 1,200.

After returning from Lord Wutos's Survival Challenge, Qin Feng learned more about the Frost Sprite and gave her the Great Xia name Lingche. Back in the Coconut Country region, he spotted Sarah waiting in the woods with a message asking for his help.

• White Bud was shocked by Qin Feng's Divinity Armament and learned that a Calamity Spirit had become his follower.
• The Frost Sprite recognized Qin Feng's first-place finish in the Path of Finality and promised to assist him before taking him back to the Godforsaken Game.
• Qin Feng spoke Ancient God Language with the Frost Sprite and named her Lingche.
• Qin Feng returned to the Coconut Country region and spotted Sarah, dressed as a schoolgirl, sneaking through the coastal woods with a request for his help.
• Qin Feng recognized Sarah as the guild leader whose Combat Art talent he had taken and flew into the woods to meet her.

Qin Feng met Sarah, who wanted her stolen talent back, and offered to restore her strength if she helped Luti Xier grow into a Mythic Tier boss in Coconut Country. He left Sarah to wait at the Cross-National Teleportation Array for a level-adjusted ring, while she misunderstood his instructions as an invitation to meet privately.

• Sarah met Qin Feng in a schoolgirl outfit and tried to flirt with him while asking to regain her talent.
• Qin Feng told Sarah to secretly lure Luti Xier to Coconut Country’s City Ruins so the Two-Headed Phoenix could advance to Mythic Tier.
• Sarah hesitated because the plan would endanger Coconut Country’s citizens, so Qin Feng warned that he would raise Luti Xier himself if Sarah refused or failed.
• Sarah agreed after Qin Feng offered her a ring that would help restore her combat strength and let Luti Xier use her as a target to overcome movement restrictions.
• Qin Feng told Sarah to wait at the Cross-National Teleportation Array while he adjusted the ring’s level, and Sarah misunderstood his words.

After returning to the Great Xia game region, Qin Feng discovered his Abyss Puppet had been killed by Beidou and prepared to grow stronger. He drew the legendary Abyss Blood Sea Curse and wondered how its permanent bleeding would interact with Instant Annihilation.

• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout and learned that Beidou had killed his uncontrolled Abyss Puppet in three punches.
• Qin Feng reviewed reports that the second Desolation Spread had ended and a second World Spine had appeared, then considered how killing it might trigger another spread.
• Qin Feng had Sister Yuan kill him to create another Abyss Puppet and reached into the Abyss Vase after its cooldown ended.
• Qin Feng chose the legendary Abyss Blood Sea Curse over the epic Abyss Potential Curse.
• Qin Feng learned that the curse inflicted permanent bleeding on himself and his targets and doubled his damage against bleeding targets, then wondered how Instant Annihilation would calculate the lasting damage.

Qin Feng tested whether Instant Annihilation could settle the permanent bleeding inflicted by Abyss Blood Sea Curse, then learned more about the Fairy World and how civilizations ascended. He evolved the curse to Ancient Grade, gaining powerful effects that left bleeding targets permanently slowed and unable to heal.

• Qin Feng tested Instant Annihilation on Yuan after inflicting bleeding, but it failed to settle the damage because the effect had a permanent duration.
• Yuan explained that the Fairy World and the Demon Civilization had both ascended by killing World Spines, and Qin Feng realized their civilizations were exceptionally powerful.
• Qin Feng evolved Abyss Blood Sea Curse from Legendary Tier to Ancient Grade for 2,100 Evolution Points.
• Abyss Blood Sea Curse gained a 90% slow and healing prevention for bleeding targets, while its damage bonus against them rose to 150%.

After killing the first World Spine, Qin Feng learned that a Mythic Tier boss had appeared near Mountain City Ruins and prepared to confront it with Gui Ling. As players evacuated, a sinister young man remained nearby and planned to activate the boss by flaunting affection so everyone would die.

• Qin Feng learned from Late Night, Light Rain that the Ghostly Spirit Painting Scroll had appeared near Mountain City Ruins, and recalled that couples flaunting affection could activate it.
• Qin Feng decided to enter the painting’s inner area and kill the Resentful Painting Spirit while an ally supported him outside.
• Qin Feng warned Late Night, Light Rain to evacuate players and keep couples away from the boss, then summoned Gui Ling to join him.
• Players in Mountain City Ruins began leaving the mine area, though some stayed to watch or keep leveling.
• A gloomy young man remained among the crowd and planned to activate the boss by flaunting affection so the nearby players would die.