Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng sorted the second World Spine’s loot, then shattered dozens of ancient-grade items with Fairy Yuan to gain equipment points. After three days of monster farming, he reached level 45 and rolled three promising stats on the God-Chosen Slate.

• Qin Feng fused mythic equipment and skill books, then kept the Supreme Simplicity Pendant because it let him learn skills up to eight levels early.
• Qin Feng returned to the Evil Spirit Academy and asked Fairy Yuan to wear and shatter his ancient-grade equipment.
• Qin Feng used Merciless Shatter on Fairy Yuan until he had broken more than fifty pieces, gaining enough equipment points to enhance equipment effects.
• Qin Feng chose to farm monsters before attempting the Path of Finality and other difficult tasks, and went to the Pacific Ocean Game Zone with Didibojī to summon ocean demons.
• Qin Feng reached level 45 after three days and rolled three good stats on the God-Chosen Slate.

Qin Feng equipped a newly blessed World Shadow Armor and prepared to challenge the second stage of the Path of Finality, then learned from Verzhini that an Abyss Lone Wolf bloodline monster had appeared near the Busan ruins. In Great Cold Country, Quan Yaofeng faced the furious guilds he had charged for supposedly exclusive information, and they hesitated when they saw moonlight surrounding him.

• Qin Feng rerolled the God-Chosen Slate until it granted the World Shadow Armor unassailable, extended buff duration, and instant death attributes.
• Qin Feng equipped the armor, transferred Rostislav's Contract's special effect onto it, and judged himself ready to challenge the second stage of the Path of Finality.
• Verzhini told Qin Feng that an Abyss Lone Wolf bloodline monster had appeared outside the Busan ruins, so Qin Feng decided to travel there and claim its bloodline.
• More than a thousand players from thirteen Busan guilds gathered in the Geumjeongsan Region and cursed Quan Yaofeng for selling each guild the same supposedly exclusive information.
• Quan Yaofeng emerged from the woods enveloped in moonlight, and the guild players wondered whether Verzhini, the Moon Goddess, was protecting him.

Qin Feng hurried toward the Ax Mountain Ruins as Verzhini trapped nearly a thousand members of thirteen hostile guilds and repeatedly killed them with her orders and Moonlight Blades. The SUN Guild leader Kim Si-woo waited for enough deaths to summon a powerful Self-Defense NPC, believing it could defeat Verzhini.

• Qin Feng learned that Verzhini had lured the thirteen guilds to the Ax Mountain Ruins and flew toward the gathering.
• Quan Yaofeng appeared before the guild members, and Verzhini silenced them and sealed them inside a Moonlight Cage.
• Verzhini killed the trapped players repeatedly and revived them on the spot, while some Soul Reaper-protected members survived with no lifespan.
• Verzhini noticed that several players remained alive after reaching zero lifespan and continued attacking as the guild members watched Kim Si-woo.
• Kim Si-woo withheld the SUN Guild’s trump card until enough corpses accumulated, planning to summon a Self-Defense NPC powerful enough to kill Verzhini.

Qin Feng watched Verzhini slaughter the trapped players while Kim Si-woo prepared a hidden countermeasure. Kim Si-woo summoned the level 50 Corpse-Sewing Artist Shulakimir, who faced Verzhini as her Moonlight Blades struck.

• Verzhini continued killing the players trapped in the moonlight cage, while Quan Yaofeng feared she might eventually dispose of him.
• Kim Si-woo repeatedly resurrected and used Corpse-Preserving Powder to keep the players' corpses from disappearing.
• Qin Feng sensed that the protected players had a hidden ally and considered the chance to judge an NPC for Divinity Limit.
• Blood-red beams gathered around Kim Si-woo and formed the Corpse-Sewing Artist Shulakimir, who drew tethers from the preserved corpses.
• Shulakimir mocked Kim Si-woo's guild, then admired Verzhini as her Moonlight Blades swept toward him.

Verzhini struggled to defeat Shulakimir, whose connection to over eight thousand corpses made him effectively invincible. Qin Feng arrived, transferred Shulakimir’s corpse buffs to Verzhini, and killed him with Annihilation Blade, while Quan Yaofeng fled.

• Shulakimir used Blood Protection to redirect damage from the corpses to himself and shattered Verzhini’s moonlight cage with his empowered Blood Element Arrow Rain.
• Shulakimir offered to spare Verzhini if she revealed her secret, while Verzhini waited for Qin Feng to arrive.
• Quan Yaofeng ran from Verzhini and claimed she had forced him to fight, leaving everyone stunned.
• Qin Feng used Hand of Calamity to transfer Shulakimir’s corpse connections and buffs to Verzhini.
• Qin Feng struck Shulakimir with Annihilation Blade, filled his instant death meter, and killed him.

Qin Feng, known as Dark Shadow, secretly killed Shulakimir, leaving Verzhini and the Great Cold Country players stunned. As Quan Yaofeng offered to negotiate with the survivors, Dark Shadow killed the gathered players and appeared in their death notices.

• Shulakimir's instant death meter filled, and he fell dead while the players mistakenly credited Verzhini with the unseen attack.
• Kim Si-woo and the other Soul Reaper-protected guild members believed they could survive until reinforcements arrived and considered asking Dark Shadow to kill Verzhini.
• Quan Yaofeng offered to negotiate with the guild members and warned Verzhini that the authorities might invite Dark Shadow to assassinate her.
• Dark Shadow killed Kim Si-woo, Quan Yaofeng, and more than a dozen others, and their screens announced that he had killed them.

Qin Feng killed the Great Cold Country players as Dark Shadow, collected their dropped lifespan with Verzhini, and flew to hunt the Abyss Lone Wolf Bloodline Monster. Great Cold Country learned that Dark Shadow was responsible, while the dead players and Shulakimir arrived in the Judgment Grounds and faced a mysterious robber.

• Qin Feng killed the remaining Great Cold Country players openly as Dark Shadow and asked Verzhini to gather their Lifespan Orbs.
• Verzhini gave Qin Feng the Abyss Lone Wolf’s coordinates and used a moon-white sphere to collect the lifespan while Qin Feng flew to the monster.
• Great Cold Country’s authorities received reports of mass deaths and discovered that Dark Shadow had killed the players protected by their Soul Reapers.
• The officials learned that Quan Yaofeng was also dead and feared Dark Shadow, while Qin Feng and Verzhini had already left the scene.
• Kim Si-woo, Quan Yaofeng, and the other dead players arrived in the Judgment Grounds, where they found Shulakimir.
• An unseen speaker announced a robbery and demanded everyone’s possessions, especially those belonging to Shulakimir.

Gray Chicken and Osilio demanded that the captives in the White Jade Maze surrender their valuables, while Shulakimir refused and tried to bargain by offering Qin Feng a powerful position in the Blood Tide Empire. The pets rejected his pitch, leaving the Blood Tide Empire Crown Prince still insisting that helping him return would be far more profitable.

• Quan Yaofeng recognized Gray Chicken as Dark Shadow's pet and immediately surrendered his equipment, then warned the Great Cold Country players that they were in Dark Shadow's territory.
• Gray Chicken demanded Shulakimir's valuables, while the Great Cold Country players followed Quan Yaofeng's example and dropped their belongings.
• Osilio mocked the players and joined Gray Chicken in pressuring Shulakimir to hand over his valuables.
• Shulakimir revealed that he was the Blood Tide Empire Crown Prince, exiled to Blue Star, and offered to appoint Dark Shadow Grand General if he helped him return.
• Gray Chicken and Osilio dismissed Shulakimir's offer and warned that Qin Feng could take his belongings by force, but Shulakimir argued that returning him to his civilization would be worth far more.

Qin Feng killed the Abyss Lone Wolf and gained its bloodline, whose speed and lifesteal abilities strengthened him. He returned to the Judgment Grounds, where Shulakimir remained defiant and clutched an ancient creature’s scale, leaving Qin Feng curious about its power.

• Gray Chicken and Osilio relayed Shulakimir’s claims about the Vampire Civilization and the Blood Tide Empire Crown Prince to Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng considered Shulakimir’s memories potentially useful, while Abyss Lone Wolf killed the Great Cold Country leveling party below him.
• Qin Feng killed Abyss Lone Wolf with a Shadow Blade and obtained its Diamond Tier bloodline.
• Qin Feng inspected the bloodline’s attributes and skills, then gained increased speed and a long-lasting lifesteal effect.
• Qin Feng returned to the Judgment Grounds and saw Shulakimir clutching an ancient scale as if preparing to resist.

Qin Feng judged the fourteen Great Cold Country players, then faced Shulakimir, who offered his Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale to avoid being killed. Shulakimir’s last claim of pride was challenged when a black-mist figure appeared and took the scale.

• Qin Feng used the Blade of Judgment to send all fourteen Great Cold Country players into the White Jade Maze’s Dark Space for punishment.
• Qin Feng waited for the protective mist from Shulakimir’s Old-Day Creature scale to fade, then prepared to make Shulakimir drop his equipment.
• Shulakimir knelt before the White Jade Platform and pledged allegiance to the Dark Shadow Emperor, offering the Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale.
• Gray Chicken took the scale while Shulakimir praised its value and offered to convert it into an item Qin Feng could use.
• A figure shrouded in sinister black mist appeared atop the White Jade Platform and reached for the scale.

Qin Feng discovered that Shulakimir had used an Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale to counter his Greater Affixes, then forced him to hand over the Old-Day Containment Card hidden behind it. Qin Feng prepared to examine Shulakimir’s memories for information and loot, including clues about the Vampire Civilization.

• Qin Feng inspected the Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale and learned it could absorb Greater Affix buildup, with its duration greatly extended by his stats.
• Qin Feng realized Shulakimir had likely intended to use the scale against his Instant Death Affix and deduced that Shulakimir must also possess an Old-Day Containment Card.
• Osilio threatened Shulakimir, who surrendered the Containment Card and claimed it was worth 350,000 to 400,000 years of tradable lifespan.
• Shulakimir explained that the Space Temple had monopolized Containment Cards and driven up their price, surprising Qin Feng with the potential value of buying them from Fairy Yuan.
• Qin Feng considered preparing his pets and mounts for the second stage of the Path of Finality, then activated Judgment to enter Shulakimir’s memories.

Qin Feng examined Shulakimir's memories and learned about the Land of Order, the Vampire Civilization, and the Blood Tide Empire. The memories ended with Shulakimir silencing doubts about his succession by awakening the Unique Hidden Class Corpse-Sewing Artist and an Epic Grade combat talent.

• Qin Feng reviewed Shulakimir's upbringing and learned that the Vampire Civilization had risen to become one of the Land of Order's thirty-six strongest civilizations.
• Qin Feng learned that the Land of Order was a colossal star divided into a Surface Layer for ordinary players and an Inner Layer containing hundreds of temples.
• Qin Feng discovered that ascended civilizations orbited the Land of Order, with the Vampire Civilization ranking thirty-first in proximity and receiving resources according to its position.
• Qin Feng studied the Blood Tide Empire's extensive research into classes, combat, skills, equipment, history, and government.
• Shulakimir awakened his talent and class at sixteen, changing to the Unique Hidden Class Corpse-Sewing Artist and gaining an Epic Grade combat talent, which quieted doubts about his qualifications to rule.

Qin Feng learned Shulakimir’s past and the power of his Epic Grade talent, Blood Cry, after discovering that Shulakimir had been exiled from the collapsing Blood Tide Empire to Blue Star. Qin Feng claimed the talent while Shulakimir watched him handle the Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale, unaware of what had happened.

• Shulakimir recalled how the nine other Vampire Civilization empires invaded the Blood Tide Empire after a permanent spacetime gate appeared within its borders.
• When Shulakimir was eighteen, his imperial uncle restrained him and exiled him through a Well of Souls to Blue Star.
• Qin Feng concluded that Shulakimir’s uncle had likely exiled him to save him from the Blood Tide Empire’s defeat.
• Qin Feng learned that Shulakimir had advanced his Corpse-Sewing Artist class to the sixth tier and possessed the Epic Grade combat talent Blood Cry.
• Qin Feng calculated that Blood Cry would increase his damage by 340.9% with his current health and claimed the talent as Shulakimir watched.

Qin Feng learned how Shulakimir’s health-focused build and Damage Limit equipment made “Blood Cry” so powerful, then killed him with Annihilation Blade. After resurrecting and discovering Qin Feng had seized his talent, Shulakimir swore allegiance to the Dark Shadow Emperor and offered him his Divinity Armament.

• Qin Feng realized Shulakimir had built up 90 million maximum health, allowing “Blood Cry” to grant a 616% independent damage bonus when activated.
• Qin Feng understood that Shulakimir’s Damage Limit equipment, shields, invincibility effects, and Mage skills had made him especially dangerous against groups of enemies.
• Qin Feng used Annihilation Blade to kill Shulakimir in the White Jade Maze before he could react.
• Shulakimir received a system notification that Dark Shadow had seized “Blood Cry” and that he could reclaim it after 24 hours by spending divinity.
• Shulakimir resurrected in the White Jade Maze, knelt before Qin Feng, pledged allegiance, and offered him his Divinity Armament.

Qin Feng judged Shulakimir after the Vampire crown prince surrendered his Divinity Armaments and lifespan, then offered to free him from the Godforsaken Game in exchange for complete obedience. Shulakimir accepted, and Qin Feng prepared to assign him work while considering where to send him.

• Shulakimir handed Qin Feng all his Divinity Armaments and more than sixty-two thousand years of tradable lifespan to prove his allegiance.
• Qin Feng offered to free Shulakimir from the Godforsaken Game and let him travel between Blue Star and the Game World if he obeyed completely.
• Shulakimir was stunned by Qin Feng's power and realized Verzhini, whom he had once opposed, was also working for Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng judged Shulakimir, increasing the Blade of Judgment's base attributes by 27% and its divinity limit by 27 points.
• Qin Feng canceled Shulakimir's judgment punishment after seeing that he had committed no sins, then wondered where to send his new subordinate.

Qin Feng sent Shulakimir to South America to seize the Amazon region’s largest temperate zone and collect rent from its players. After dispatching the Blood Tide Empire Crown Prince, Qin Feng returned to the Fushan Ruins to claim his rewards.

• Qin Feng reviewed the protection fees and services his NPCs and partners provided across the world, and considered how his allies were managing their assigned regions.
• Qin Feng decided to send Shulakimir to claim the large temperate zone northeast of Manaus and collect land rent from players who settled there.
• Shulakimir pledged to occupy the area in his own name and give all collected rent to Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng spent 1,724 divinity points to send Shulakimir out of the Judgment Grounds and gave him directions to Manaus.
• Shulakimir flew toward South America, while Qin Feng returned to the outskirts of the Fushan Ruins to collect his rewards.

Qin Feng traveled the world collecting lifespan from his regional allies and rewarding them with equipment. After buying Hell Fruit in New York, he summoned Osilio and Gray Chicken to reroll their skills as he prepared to challenge the Path of Finality.

• Qin Feng collected lifespan in Great Cold Country and Sakura Country, then ordered the remaining Great Cold Country lifespan converted into Divine Book sets for sale.
• Qin Feng collected 350,000 years of lifespan from the Dark Wolf Emperor in Feiguo and rewarded him with Epic Grade and Diamond Tier equipment.
• Qin Feng took his agreed share of lifespan from Luti Xier in Coconut Country and inspected Sculptor Dominic's growing influence in Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand.
• Qin Feng collected 520,000 years of lifespan from Shuddering Joker and Stina Mosel in the Los Angeles Ruins, then rewarded them with equipment.
• Qin Feng bought Hell Fruit from the Demon Beast Tamer in New York and summoned Osilio and Gray Chicken to reroll their skills for the coming Path of Finality challenge.

Qin Feng used Hell Fruit to reroll skills for Osilio and Gray Chicken, and Gray Chicken gained an ancient-grade support skill that could strengthen Qin Feng and nearby allies. The chapter left Osilio shocked and jealous of Gray Chicken’s much rarer result.

• Qin Feng returned to Evil Spirit Academy with fifteen Hell Fruits after collecting protection money from guilds in New York City and the surrounding area.
• Osilio chose to reroll his legendary-tier Hellish Shudder skill, but received the legendary-tier Hell Whistle, which boosted his summons, mounts, and pets instead of himself.
• Gray Chicken asked to keep his mythic-tier Hellish Torture skill, and Qin Feng agreed before Gray Chicken used two Hell Fruits to unlock another skill.
• Gray Chicken gained the ancient-grade Hellfire skill, which increased nearby friendly units’ greater affixes while slowing their greater affix gauge accumulation.
• Osilio learned that Gray Chicken’s support skill was ancient grade and that it also worked on Gray Chicken, then reacted with shock.

Shā Míyà unlocked the Ancient Grade divinity skill Demonic Energy Burst, which cut skill costs and waived other costs for an ally, and Qin Feng tested its powerful effects on himself. Osilio and Gray Chicken then rerolled their skills and gained underwhelming abilities, while Qin Feng gave Shā Míyà more Hell Fruits to try.

• Shā Míyà used two Hell Fruits and unlocked the Ancient Grade divinity skill Demonic Energy Burst.
• Qin Feng had Shā Míyà cast the skill on him, then tested it and found that it reduced the divinity cost of adjusting a minigame rule by 20%.
• Qin Feng realized Demonic Energy Burst could also waive other resource costs and extend its effect on him to 62.1 seconds.
• Osilio rerolled Whistling into the Legendary Tier skill Hellfire, which increased his damage against weaker targets.
• Gray Chicken used three Hell Fruits to unlock a Legendary Tier self-destruct skill and complained about the result.
• Qin Feng gave Shā Míyà three more Hell Fruits and asked her to try unlocking another skill.

Qin Feng prepared to enter the second stage of the Path of Finality after Shā Míyà gained a disappointing skill, while Qin Wuyue and the powerful figures of the Land of Order speculated about Blue Star’s super genius. The chapter ended with an old-timer insisting that the genius could not surpass the legendary first-place holder from over four hundred years ago.

• Shā Míyà used three Hell Fruits to unlock Blackflame Shield, disappointing Qin Feng, while Osilio and Gray Chicken were relieved.
• Qin Feng decided that his strengthened damage and survivability were enough for the second stage of the Path of Finality, and Lingche told him its challenges were secret.
• Qin Wuyue worried that Blue Star’s super genius might not be Qin Feng and considered killing the genius to protect her own plans and prevent Blue Star’s ascension.
• Powerful figures across the Land of Order debated whether Blue Star’s genius could beat the Grand Authority holder who had topped the second stage over four hundred years earlier.
• An old-timer dismissed the possibility and warned the younger generation that they did not understand how powerful that past champion had been.