Chapter Summaries

After clearing the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor, Qin Feng obtained the Illusory Dream God’s inactive Primordial Authority, which began activating automatically through his Eye of Judgment. He learned the challenge’s reward tiers and discovered that no one before him had completed its highest tier.

• Lingche sensed the Primordial power Qin Feng had obtained and realized the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor had awarded a Primordial authority.
• Qin Feng touched the sacred eyeball, and it merged into his right eye as the inactive Eye of Illusion.
• The Eye of Judgment released power into the Eye of Illusion, starting a 30-day countdown to the first stage of Illusory Authority activation.
• Qin Feng read the challenge’s explanations and learned that the first two completion tiers granted the Illusory Dream Minor Authority, while his unprecedented third-tier clear awarded an inactive Primordial authority.
• Qin Feng learned that only nineteen of more than forty-seven million challengers had reached the first tier, and only three had reached the second.

Qin Feng claimed the rewards for completing the twentieth-floor challenge, including the Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent, and gained exclusive access to the White Jade Maze. At the Illusory Dream Temple, Shaowei became a Witness to the Authority of Illusion’s inheritance and was ordered to obey its inheritor.

• Qin Feng reviewed his challenge rewards and learned he would have to reach the Land of Order to collect the reclaimed rewards from earlier challengers.
• Qin Feng received an uncharged God-Chosen Slate and equipped the Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent, which doubled and consolidated the divinity limit of his equipment.
• Qin Feng found that the bracelet let his equipment draw on its divinity, stopped the White Bud Blade’s divinity drain, and gave him access to the twentieth-floor space.
• Qin Feng learned that the White Jade Maze had become his exclusive space, then exited the Illusory Dream Well and considered asking Lingche about the difference between the Authority of Illusion and the Illusory Dream Minor Authority.
• Shaowei witnessed the mirror turn white as Qin Feng completed the challenge, then received the role of Witness to the inheritance and orders to obey the inheritor without learning his identity.

Fairy Shaowei discovered that becoming the Illusory Dream Temple’s Witness gave her authority surpassing the current master’s, and she used it to cancel a mission and announce that the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor had been cleared. Meanwhile, Qin Feng learned from Lingche that authorities originated from the universe itself, while Eldritch Gods were beings who acquired them.

• Fairy Shaowei examined her new access and realized she could expel Temple members, appoint Divine Envoys, and impeach the current master.
• Tanhua Grandma ordered Fairy Shaowei to join an Immortal Tier boss hunt, but Shaowei canceled the assignment and announced that someone had cleared the twentieth-floor challenge and inherited the right to the Authority of Illusion.
• Fairy Shaowei informed an elder of the Purple Fairy Clan that she had become a Witness, and Fairy Jie regretted missing the chance by going to look at handsome men.
• Qin Feng asked Lingche about the difference between the Illusory Dream Minor Authority and the Authority of Illusion, and Lingche explained that authorities were primordial while Eldritch Gods were beings who obtained them.
• Qin Feng understood that developing his Authority of Judgment and Authority of Illusion could make him the next Judgment Ancient God and Illusion Eldritch God.

Qin Feng learned how Primordial authorities activated, then left the Illusory Dream Well with the Eye of Illusion and permanent Skill Books. After repairing Little Monster by the South River’s mirror, he warned him that A Lian might betray him, but the young man accused Qin Feng of jealousy and refused to listen.

• Lingche explained the two ways to activate Primordial authorities, and Qin Feng wondered whether he could obtain more before Blue Star ascended.
• Qin Feng emerged from the Illusory Dream Well and found the Star Guild celebrating his acquisition of the Eye of Illusion; he promised them a hundred slots to learn Thieving Saint's Hand.
• Qin Feng met Little Monster by the South River and used the Pink Handkerchief to repair his mirror.
• Qin Feng discovered the Blue Pill would halve mental attributes and the Red Pill would kill whoever took it, then stored both in the Greedy Space.
• Qin Feng warned Little Monster that A Lian might devour his soul and consciousness, but the young man called him jealous and refused to give up the mirror.
• Qin Feng found three endlessly reusable Skill Books in his Storage Backpack, including Illusory Favor, and decided he no longer needed the mirror.

Qin Feng learned the Ancient Grade skills Memory Loss and Phantasmal Deception, discovering that he could disguise himself as beings from memories he had viewed. He arranged to lend the reusable Illusory Favor Skill Book to the officials in exchange for lifespan or Eldritch God Runes, then prepared to pursue the second World Spine.

• Qin Feng examined three Skill Books and learned that Memory Loss could view and delete memories but required an exceptionally high Mental Attribute.
• Qin Feng learned Memory Loss and Phantasmal Deception, then confirmed he could use Phantasmal Deception to take the appearance of beings from NPC memories he had viewed.
• Qin Feng considered evolving Phantasmal Deception but decided to wait until he had more Evolution Points.
• Qin Feng offered Late Night, Light Rain the reusable Illusory Favor Skill Book, and he agreed to let the officials borrow it for 3,000 years of lifespan per learner or 100 slots per Eldritch God Rune.
• Qin Feng prepared to take down the second World Spine and head for the World's Highest Point.

After clearing the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well, Qin Feng prepared to challenge Blue Star’s second World Spine and learned that it had ten layers of buffs and extraordinary durability. Meanwhile, powerhouses in the Land of Order discussed his recent achievements and speculated about when he would defeat the next World Spine.

• Qin Feng stored the Illusory Favor Skill Book, then asked Fairy Yuan, Aishasiss, and Eye of Knowledge · Aristotle about the second World Spine’s buffs, but none could provide useful information.
• Qin Feng questioned White Bud, who explained that the second World Spine was extremely tanky and had defeated her civilization’s forces.
• Qin Feng learned that World Spines differed between civilizations but that the second one always received ten layers of buffs, and he headed toward the Himalaya Game Region with White Bud.
• Powerhouses in the Land of Order reacted to news that someone had cleared the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well and debated how soon Qin Feng would kill the second World Spine.

As Land of Order’s old-timers investigated the mysterious Blue Star genius, Qin Feng traveled to the Himalayas to confront the second World Spine. White Bud explained the mountain’s lack of weak points and its endless revival, but Qin Feng believed he still had ways to defeat it.

• Powerful players across Land of Order emerged and debated the Blue Star genius who had gained the Authority of Illusion.
• The old-timers speculated about the genius’s identity, faction, and reasons for not coming to Land of Order, unaware that Qin Feng had been reborn with his memories and was developing under Ashasiss’s guidance.
• Qin Feng traveled to the Himalayas’ game region, where players had begun settling despite the absence of City Ruins and public Teleportation Arrays.
• White Bud told Qin Feng that the second World Spine was an enormous mountain with no weak points, making his Weakness Attack ineffective.
• White Bud explained that the mountain split into countless pieces after its first defeat and revived at full health unless every piece was destroyed.

Qin Feng arrived at the Himalayan Game Zone to activate the second World Spine by killing three Legendary Tier stone golems. He warned nearby players to evacuate, and while many left, Tianzhu Country players dismissed the news and stayed behind.

• Qin Feng flew toward the World Spine, a colossal snowy mountain, and found players grinding monsters across its slopes.
• Qin Feng appeared before a group of Great Xia players, whose Priest girl apologized after firing a warning shot near him.
• Qin Feng told the group to warn everyone on and around the mountain to leave before he fought a boss, then searched for the three stone golems needed to activate the World Spine.
• Word of Qin Feng's arrival spread to players from Great Xia, Tianzhu, Batan, and other countries, prompting many to evacuate.
• Tianzhu Country players mocked the report as a Great Xia trick and refused to leave their grinding spot.

Qin Feng quickly killed two Legendary Tier Stone Man bosses while searching the mountain, ignoring Tianzhu Country players who refused to evacuate. After he killed the third prerequisite boss, the entire mountain began to move, revealing the second World Spine before a crowd of players.

• Qin Feng killed the first Stone Man boss with Instant Annihilation and collected its loot, including Ascension Scrolls whose orders he could not use.
• Qin Feng found that most players had evacuated, but several Tianzhu Country parties remained in the area despite his warning.
• Qin Feng located the second Stone Man boss in a cave and killed it instantly while six Tianzhu Country players watched from over ten kilometers away.
• The Tianzhu Country players resumed farming, believing Qin Feng had left, but the ground suddenly began to shake and players across the area fell.
• The mountain shook off its snow as players fled, and the third boss's death caused the second World Spine to appear before a multitude of players.

Players witnessed Dark Shadow face the Mythic-Tier World Spine · Mountain, whose enormous health pool and class-based damage reductions made it difficult to kill. The boss wiped out nearby Tianzhu Country players and permanently consumed half their attributes, while Qin Feng remained unharmed by its opening attack.

• Players saw the World Spine · Mountain appear as a Mythic-Tier boss with 119.8 billion HP and ten enhancement stacks that reduced damage from several classes.
• Qin Feng learned that the boss's buffs reduced assassin damage by 66.6%, while its invincibility-rule shield prevented him from attacking it.
• The World Spine · Mountain unleashed a massive shockwave that struck Qin Feng, but his damage block reduced the hit to zero.
• The shockwave killed the Tianzhu Country players still on the mountain, and they discovered after resurrecting that the boss had permanently taken 50% of their all attributes as nutrients.
• The players speculated that Dark Shadow would lose half his attributes if the boss killed him, unaware that its opening attack had not broken through Qin Feng's defenses.

Qin Feng tested World Spine: Mountain’s invincible shield while its escalating shock waves killed players and threatened to eventually overwhelm even strong defenses. His Shadow Blade changed the shield’s color, revealing that it reacted to three of his damage types, but the shield remained intact.

• The shock wave killed the players still on the mountain, and Qin Feng used Thieving Saint's Hand to steal 10,000 points in each core attribute from World Spine: Mountain.
• A second, faster shock wave struck three seconds later with 40 million base damage, and Qin Feng recognized the boss’s escalating attacks as a soft enrage mechanic.
• Qin Feng searched the mountain with Shadow Perception but found no mechanism that explained how to remove the invincible shield.
• Players fled as the shock waves spread, while Qin Feng sent a Shadow Blade into the boss’s shield to test it.
• The shield changed from white to pale purple, ice blue, and black, matching three of Qin Feng’s damage types, but it remained invincible.

Qin Feng endured World Spine · Mountain’s attacks and discovered that repeated Shadow Blade strikes could break its invincible shield. The shield’s elemental immunities left the boss with a damage limit, but Qin Feng prepared to use Instant Annihilation and the Goddess of Death’s Mercy.

• Qin Feng used Gray Chicken’s Chaos Spring to gain Chaos Immunity and allocated resistance to the other greater affixes.
• Qin Feng realized his Shadow Blades made the shield’s elemental colors seep deeper, then attacked it relentlessly alongside his five clones.
• After the colors penetrated the shield, it vanished and revealed World Spine · Mountain’s 119.8 billion HP health bar.
• A system notification revealed that the boss would be immune to lightning, ice, and dark damage for 60 seconds before its shield reset.
• Qin Feng noticed the boss’s damage limit and prepared to use Instant Annihilation and the Goddess of Death’s Mercy.

Qin Feng broke World Spine · Mountain’s invincibility shield and endured its damage phase while unleashing new skills that made his Shadow Blades deal vastly more damage. He continued attacking from a distance as White Bud watched in astonishment.

• Qin Feng broke World Spine · Mountain’s shield, triggering a storm of ice shards and rocks that dealt damage based on maximum health.
• Qin Feng remained still through the storm, relying on his evasion and health recovery, while White Bud wondered how he survived.
• Qin Feng activated Goddess of Death’s Mercy, raising his poison damage and exploiting the boss’s lack of poison immunity.
• Qin Feng used Bone-Splitting Blade to remove the boss’s two strongest damage-reduction affixes.
• Qin Feng avoided the storm’s strongest control effects by staying at range and repeatedly throwing Shadow Blades with his clones.
• White Bud saw each Shadow Blade’s damage rise from just over a hundred thousand to more than a hundred million.

Qin Feng killed the first life of the World Spine in less than three seconds with death venom, stunning White Bud and the surrounding players. When the boss split into 9,999 damage-reflecting rocks, Qin Feng summoned Shā Míyà and used Hell Boundary Stele to keep himself alive while he began destroying them.

• Qin Feng's stacking damage-over-time from Shadow Blades drained the World Spine's health bar and killed it in two and a half seconds.
• White Bud and the nearby players stared in disbelief at Qin Feng's damage.
• The defeated World Spine exploded into 9,999 rocks, each with a five-minute countdown and severe damage reflection.
• White Bud warned Qin Feng about the rocks, while he determined he had to destroy them all to stop the boss from resurrecting.
• Qin Feng summoned Shā Míyà and activated Hell Boundary Stele, locking his health at one and preventing his death for sixty seconds.
• Qin Feng unleashed Killing Shadow and sent his true form and five Shadow Clones to attack the rocks.

Qin Feng used bouncing Shadow Blades to destroy the rubble left by the World Spine while Hell Boundary Stele kept him alive at 1 HP. As he continued attacking, Shā Míyà told him that he seemed to carry His aura.

• Qin Feng's Shadow Blades shattered the World Spine's rubble while Hell Boundary Stele fixed his HP at 1.
• Nearby players watched the rubble break apart and learned that attacking it caused lethal reflected damage.
• Qin Feng destroyed more than half of the 9,999 rubble chunks in just over ten seconds, while the Mythic-Tier boss could not overcome Hell Boundary Stele.
• Qin Feng asked Shā Míyà why she was looking at him strangely, and she said he seemed to carry His aura.

Qin Feng defeated the second World Spine and obtained an Ancient Grade assassin Divinity Armament, while Blue Star’s players faced the imminent third Desolation Spread. In the Land of Order, the Blood Source Temple feared the rise of a Blue Star genius, and Qin Wuyue hoped that genius was Qin Feng.

• Qin Feng told Shā Míyà that she had sensed his Authority of Illusion, not the Illusory Dream God, and sent Osilio back into the mount space.
• Qin Feng’s Shadow Blades shattered all 9,999 pieces of rubble, completing the fight against World Spine · Mountain.
• The system announced that Dark Shadow had slain the level 45 Mythic-Tier boss and that the third Desolation Spread would arrive within seven days.
• Qin Feng flew into the crater, broke the World Spine’s core, and collected its loot, including an Ancient Grade assassin Divinity Armament.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master learned that Blue Star’s second World Spine had fallen and warned Qin Wuyue that the Blood Source Temple might not protect her from the unknown genius.
• Qin Wuyue prayed that the Blue Star genius was Qin Feng.

Qin Wuyue and the Blood Source Temple prepared for the arrival of Blue Star’s mysterious genius, while Ye Jiuzhou learned that the Judgment Temple wanted to meet him about the same matter. The chapter ended with Qin Feng inspecting the plentiful rewards from killing the second World Spine.

• Qin Wuyue considered how she would deal with Qin Feng if he proved to be Blue Star’s genius, and planned to gain benefits from him before he could visit the Cycle Shrine.
• The Eight-Armed Hall Master and the Divine Envoys discussed how to respond to the genius depending on their identity and faction, while Qin Wuyue promised to prepare for their arrival.
• Ye Jiuzhou learned that the Judgment Temple’s hall master wanted to discuss Blue Star’s genius and was surprised by the feats attributed to them.
• Ye Jiuzhou used a Teleportation Stone to return to the city, wary of meeting the Judgment Temple’s hall master.
• Qin Feng inspected his equipment after killing the second World Spine and saw that it had yielded 4,800 base Evolution Points.

Qin Feng counted his enormous evolution-point haul and inspected, enhanced, and celebrated the ancient-grade Immemorial Mountains · World Shadow Armor. He also found an ancient-grade Assassin Skill Book among the loot, while he remained just over 20,000 evolution points short of evolving Blessing of the Lightning Fairy beyond immortal tier.

• Qin Feng calculated that the World Spine and three legendary-tier bosses had earned him more than 250,000 evolution points, leaving him just over 20,000 short of evolving Blessing of the Lightning Fairy.
• Qin Feng examined the ancient-grade Immemorial Mountains · World Shadow Armor and noted its powerful defensive attributes, buff-duration increase, and World Shadow rule effect.
• Qin Feng enhanced the armor's damage reduction to 79.9% and considered giving it to Gui Ling and later obtaining equipment points through Sister Yuan.
• Qin Feng spotted an ancient-grade Assassin Skill Book among the boss loot.

Qin Feng discovered that Annihilation Blade was a devastating Ancient Grade Finishing Move, then spent 210,000 Evolution Points to evolve it into an Old-Day skill. Its effects expanded dramatically, and Qin Feng was left stunned by the new system mechanics of Old-Day skills and their accumulation age.

• Qin Feng examined Annihilation Blade and worked out how its Instant Death Meter buildup scaled with his Instant Death Affix.
• Qin Feng realized that the move required 500 Combo Points, a costly requirement that he could meet by evolving Finishing Mark or finding other ways to raise his Combo Point cap.
• Qin Feng chose to spend 210,000 Evolution Points evolving Annihilation Blade through Immortal Tier to Old-Day · Year 0.
• Qin Feng saw that the evolved skill had greater range and damage, halved its Combo Point cost, and reduced how much Instant Death Meter struck targets could clear.
• Qin Feng froze when the notifications introduced Old-Day skills and explained their accumulation age, growing power, Divinity costs, and ability to counter Divinity abilities.

Qin Feng learned that Old-Day Skills and equipment grew stronger with years of maturation, and he realized his evolved Annihilation Blade could suppress defenses through divinity. Lingche warned him that Land of Order powerhouses competed through accumulated orders, leaving Qin Feng eager to test his strength and plan his next growth.

• Qin Feng learned that Old-Day Skills and equipment gained power with maturation and could suppress Divinity Special Skills and Divinity Rules.
• Qin Feng saw that raising Annihilation Blade’s maturation required enormous Evolution Points, but he considered hunting bosses in the Deep Blue Civilization to earn more.
• Qin Feng examined Annihilation Blade’s improved range, damage, Instant Death Meter buildup, and resistance to meter removal.
• Lingche warned Qin Feng that Land of Order powerhouses relied on dozens or hundreds of orders, and that Sister Yuan could drain his divinity in a fight.
• Qin Feng prepared to teleport home with his equipment haul and planned to seek Bloodline Monsters, roll God-Chosen Attributes, and reach level 45.