Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng discovered that Hand of God’s fanatical players were empowered by a mysterious NPC whose fragmented soul possessed tens of thousands of them. He waited for the third World Spine to appear, and its metal weapons erupted inside the Hideout, bypassing the Defensive Barrier and killing players.

• Alading explained that Hand of God’s players had powerful buffs and that he had planned to besiege their Hideout rather than attack it directly.
• Qin Feng and Osilio tried to persuade Hand of God’s players to leave, but they refused and shouted that their guild and its NPC, the Hand of God, were supreme.
• White Bud sensed tens of thousands of unusually powerful, incomplete souls confined within the Hideout, and Qin Feng suspected the mysterious NPC had split its soul among the players.
• Qin Feng withdrew with Osilio and added Alading to his party so Alading could qualify for a share of the coming boss’s rewards.
• When the ten-minute countdown ended, the third World Spine’s blood-red sword burst from underground, cut through a church and players, and drained their Lifespan.
• More metal weapons erupted from the ground, terrifying Hand of God’s players as they discovered their Defensive Barrier could not stop them.

Qin Feng watched the third World Spine, a swarm of three thousand elemental metal weapons, emerge and learned how its attacks permanently drained the lifespan of those it killed. He discovered that Great Xia players faced 96% damage reduction, while the weapons slaughtered everyone in the Hideout, and he wondered where their souls had gone.

• Qin Feng recorded the third World Spine’s emergence and checked that it had gained no buffs from killing the Hand of God players.
• Frost Sprite Lingche explained that the weapons imposed increasingly severe, permanent lifespan-draining penalties depending on how many hits killed a player.
• Qin Feng examined the boss and found that its three thousand weapons had about a hundred billion health each and that his damage as a Great Xia player was reduced by 96%.
• The metal weapons destroyed the Hideout and killed every player inside, absorbing their lifespans and turning them into bloody mist.
• Qin Feng watched the weapons fill the sky and wondered where the dead players’ souls had gone.

Qin Feng killed the soul NPC protecting the Hand of God guild leaders, then turned his attention to the World Spine’s three thousand regenerating weapons. After Alading buffed him, Qin Feng attacked the boss while Alading struggled to stay safe and contribute.

• Qin Feng discovered that the soul NPC’s lamp was protected by five Hand of God guild leaders, then killed the NPC with Soul Harvest and took it into the Judgment Grounds.
• Qin Feng killed the five guild leaders, escaped the frenzied weapons, and returned to Alading to request his attribute-boosting song.
• Alading sang until Qin Feng gained a 12% final increase to all attributes, and Qin Feng flew toward the World Spine.
• Qin Feng used Killing Shadow to attack the weapons, which shattered but soon reformed in flames and launched a powerful assault.
• Qin Feng survived the weapons’ attacks using his delayed-damage effect and considered testing how to stop their regeneration.
• Alading released his eagle to attack the boss, but a falling fire-element spiked club smashed it and left Alading holding a cooked wing.

Alading used a Thunderstorm Orb against the World Spine, but its attacks barely hurt the Mythic-Tier Boss, leaving him stunned by Dark Shadow’s strength. Qin Feng investigated why the metal weapons kept respawning and decided to destroy them in sequence.

• Alading activated a Thunderstorm Orb, which struck a poison spear but dealt only 56 damage after the boss evaded most of its lightning strikes and blocked much of the remaining damage.
• Alading realized he had vastly underestimated the Mythic-Tier Boss’s defenses and marveled at Dark Shadow’s immense damage.
• Qin Feng saw Alading’s damage on the list and kicked him out of the party before beginning the boss fight.
• Qin Feng found that the metal weapons kept using Reforge in Flames even when he killed them individually with Annihilation Blade and Instant Annihilation.
• Qin Feng noticed that each weapon had distinct details and decided to try killing the weapons in sequence.

Qin Feng tested how to stop World Spine’s weapons from reforging and discovered that the kill order he had used against Transcendent Weapon determined which weapons stayed destroyed. After an attempt to destroy the remaining weapons in sequence failed, he kept experimenting and eventually figured out the pattern.

• Qin Feng used a recording to find the first blood-element longsword and destroyed it, but it reforged almost immediately.
• He destroyed the twenty-five light-element halberds in the order they had emerged, and they remained shattered.
• Qin Feng destroyed the twenty-five small blood-element darts in their emergence order, preventing them from reforging as well.
• When Qin Feng destroyed a wind-element longsword at random, flames ignited across the battlefield and all the weapons he had just destroyed reforged.
• Qin Feng repeatedly tested the weapons’ kill order while enduring World Spine’s area attacks, and after half an hour he figured out the pattern.

Qin Feng destroyed all three thousand weapons of the third World Spine, triggering a global announcement and opening the portal to Deep Blue Civilization. After reaching level 50, he unlocked the ability to summon his Witness from the Illusory Dream Temple, and considered what that Witness might bring him.

• As the metal weapons gained powerful buffs, Qin Feng used the Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Scale to absorb their Greater Affix energy and keep fighting.
• When the final hundred weapons gained additional damage reduction, Qin Feng activated World Shadow and the Goddess of Death's Mercy to boost his damage.
• Qin Feng shattered the weapons in the required order and destroyed the final Water Element Spear, defeating the third World Spine and triggering news across Blue Star and the Land of Order.
• Shaowei learned that Blue Star had slain its third World Spine and Qin Feng had taken first place in the Path of Finality Second Stage, and she grew excited and uneasy about meeting him.
• Qin Feng gained enough experience to rise from level 45 to level 50, unlocked the Cross-Civilization Portal to Deep Blue Civilization, and received the privilege to summon a Witness from the Illusory Dream Temple.

After defeating the World Spine, Qin Feng synthesized five Ancient Grade Assassin Skill Books into the Immortal Tier skill Void Lock, which could control a target and generate combo points without a cap. He planned to test whether he could endlessly stack those points and use them to make Instant Annihilation deal unlimited damage.

• Qin Feng saw that he had earned 4,000 World Spine reputation while Alading had gained 722.
• Qin Feng used the rewards in his Greedy Space to synthesize five Ancient Grade Assassin Skill Books into the Immortal Tier skill book Void Lock.
• Qin Feng learned that Void Lock incapacitated one target for 12 seconds and granted him 100 combo points each second, ignoring the combo point cap.
• Qin Feng realized that Instant Annihilation gained 1% damage per combo point consumed and considered stacking points indefinitely, since they did not decay outside combat.
• Qin Feng kept the World Spine loot in his Greedy Space and went to find nearby Demons to test Void Lock and Instant Annihilation.

Qin Feng evolved Void Lock and used it to build up 60,000 Combo Points, then tested the resulting Instant Annihilation on a Diamond Tier boss outside the Magic City Ruins. He struck the Sorrowful Whisperer for 351.7 trillion damage.

• Qin Feng told Alading to collect protection fees in secret and report Epic Grade or Legendary Tier bosses, then returned to the Evil Spirit Academy.
• Alading gathered his guild’s powerful members to clean up the surviving Hand of God guild remnants and resolve the matter with New Jerusalem.
• Qin Feng evolved Void Lock, gaining an effect that removed a target’s Unassailable affix and prevented it from regenerating for 600 seconds.
• Qin Feng repeatedly bound Yuan with Void Lock and accumulated 60,000 Combo Points over more than an hour.
• Qin Feng went to the Magic City Ruins and hit the Sorrowful Whisperer with Instant Annihilation for 351.7 trillion damage.

Qin Feng tested how much damage he could stack onto Instant Annihilation and prepared to travel to the Deep Blue Civilization. Before leaving, he went to the Judgment Grounds, where the Hand of God’s soul NPC worshipped him and asked what had happened.

• Qin Feng killed the Diamond Tier boss with Instant Annihilation and calculated that detonating its damage over time could unleash 131.88 quadrillion damage, though the strike could also kill him.
• Qin Feng reviewed the Old-Day Tier necklace and lightning travel skill he had obtained from Fairy Yuan, deciding to keep the skill for a future escape or use in the game.
• Qin Feng tested Void Lock, confirmed it could stack damage onto Instant Annihilation, and returned to Evil Spirit Academy, where the Portal to the Deep Blue Civilization had fully activated.
• Qin Feng decided to find Aishasiss to raise his skills to level 50, visit the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well, and pass judgment on the souls in the Judgment Grounds before leaving.
• Qin Feng arrived at the Judgment Grounds and saw the Hand of God’s senior members bewildered as their oil-lamp soul NPC kowtowed toward him and asked, “God, what happened to you, God?!”

Qin Feng judged the Hand of God executives and learned the soul NPC’s abilities and past before condemning him to the Blade of Judgment. He then returned to Evil Spirit Academy and demonstrated that his skills could reach level 60 thanks to the World Divine Weapon’s Blessing.

• Qin Feng reviewed the memories of five Hand of God executives, found that they had abused and killed children, and sent them into the painful cycle of punishment.
• Qin Feng learned that the soul NPC could grant guild members immortality or powerful healing and mental boosts, but that he had once abused the weak and was unfit to serve.
• Qin Feng completed his judgment, raising the Blade of Judgment’s divinity limit from 723 to 744, and left the empty spot where Ashasiss had stayed on the White Jade Platform.
• Qin Feng returned to Aishasiss’s room and asked her to raise all his skills to level 60; she mocked him for trying while he was only level 50.
• Qin Feng raised Back Attack Enhancement from level 45 to level 60, surprising Aishasiss, and revealed the effect of his World Divine Weapon’s Blessing.

After receiving the World Spine Divine Weapon’s blessing, Qin Feng raised his useful skills to level 60 and grew much stronger. He summoned the Illusory Dream Temple’s Witness, a fairy named Shaowei, who was surprised that he could speak Ancient God Language.

• Qin Feng used the World Spine Divine Weapon’s blessing to raise his useful skills to level 60, boosting his stats, evasion, and damage.
• Qin Feng said goodbye to Aishasiss, complimented her twin tails, and was met with a slammed door.
• Qin Feng used Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent to return to the Illusory Dream Well’s twentieth floor and built a white jade palace for his audience.
• Qin Feng summoned the Witness, and Shaowei, a fairy from the Fairy World, appeared before him.
• Qin Feng introduced himself as Dark Shadow and asked Shaowei what she knew about the Land of Order, surprising her by speaking Ancient God Language.

Qin Feng learned about Shaowei’s family and the history behind Yuan’s exile, then told Shaowei he would reunite her with Yuan. He asked her to retrieve the Illusory Dream God’s vast treasury of failed challenge rewards.

• Shaowei explained the Land of Order and asked whether Qin Feng had killed all three World Spines; he confirmed it and questioned whether killing one required a team.
• Qin Feng learned that Shaowei was the Purple Fairy Clan leader’s daughter and that Yuan was her aunt, exiled before Shaowei was born.
• Shaowei recounted how Yuan killed the Light Temple leader after he targeted her, and how the Judgment Temple subsequently ruled that Yuan be exiled.
• Qin Feng promised Shaowei that she would reunite with Yuan before long.
• Qin Feng asked Shaowei to retrieve the Illusory Dream God’s treasury, containing rewards and valuable items from failed attempts at the 20th Floor of Illusory Dream Well.

Qin Feng sent Shaowei to retrieve rare Assassin Skill Books from the Illusory Dream God's treasury, then returned to the Illusory Dream Well to collect 225 Diamond Tier Skill Books. Shaowei offered to bring the Epic Grade and Legendary Tier books the following night, while Qin Feng prepared to grow stronger before crossing into the Deep Blue Civilization.

• Qin Feng asked Shaowei to use the Illusory Bracelet · Divinity Inherent to open the treasury and retrieve rare Assassin Skill Books within three hours.
• After Shaowei left, Qin Feng went to level up while she searched the treasury.
• Qin Feng returned to the twentieth floor of the Illusory Dream Well and summoned Shaowei for an audience.
• Shaowei delivered 225 Diamond Tier Skill Books and said she could retrieve the Epic Grade and Legendary Tier books the next night.
• Qin Feng stored all the Skill Books at once, startling Shaowei with the size of his storage capacity.

Qin Feng evolved and devoured more than a hundred Diamond Tier Skill Books, greatly increasing his combat attributes while learning about Cycle Buffs and the Land of Order. Before leaving, he revealed that he was from Great Xia, and Shaowei’s report sent the Temples into a stir as Qin Wuyue grew more certain that the genius was Qin Feng.

• Qin Feng spent around sixty thousand Evolution Points evolving more than a hundred Diamond Tier skills to Mythic Tier, then devoured them to gain combat attributes.
• Shaowei explained that players could obtain up to five Cycle Buffs before facing Ascended Civilization players or beings from the Land of Order for Ascension Buffs.
• Qin Feng’s physical and elemental attacks, health, defenses, resistance, speed, and stealth increased dramatically after he devoured the skills.
• Shaowei asked which country Qin Feng belonged to, and Qin Feng told her he was from Great Xia.
• Shaowei returned to the Land of Order and spread the news that the genius with the Illusory Great Authority was from Blue Star and Great Xia.
• Qin Wuyue heard Shaowei’s report and became more convinced that the genius was Qin Feng.

The Illusory Dream Temple protected Great Xia players after Shaowei spread word that Qin Feng came from Great Xia, stirring tensions across the Land of Order. Qin Feng told Yuan that the Purple Fairy Clan ranked among the Fairy World’s top three and that her niece had become his Witness, then promised to reveal more after a week of equipment training.

• The Illusory Dream Temple protected Great Xia players and supplied them with equipment and Skill Books, prompting other temples to protect them as well.
• Powerful figures from Blue Star who opposed Great Xia realized that the shifting alliances could threaten them.
• Qin Feng explained that he had spread the news of his Great Xia origins to protect his predecessors and gauge the factions’ attitudes toward him.
• Qin Feng told Yuan that her clan ranked among the Fairy World’s top three and that her niece had become his Witness after he obtained the Illusory Great Authority.
• Qin Feng promised to bring Yuan 450 Legendary Tier equipment pieces daily for seven days before answering her questions, then left to prepare for learning more Assassin Skill Books.

Qin Feng traveled through the portal to the Deep Blue Civilization and became an NPC, hoping to provoke a player into attacking him so he could take their identity. Back in Great Xia, his codename turned gray, alarming officials and others who feared he was in danger.

• Qin Feng activated Ashasiss's portal and confirmed his passage to the Deep Blue Civilization, where his codename turned gray on Blue Star.
• Great Xia players and officials noticed Dark Shadow's gray codename, and Late Night, Light Rain asked Big Eyes for answers, but Big Eyes could only warn that Qin Feng might be in danger.
• Qin Feng arrived in a besieged Deep Blue city and learned his NPC Template prevented him from attacking players and reduced his damage against demons.
• Qin Feng set a system-approved NPC function, materialized in the city, and chose a lone player to test whether it would provoke an attack.

Qin Feng tricked a white-haired player out of 2,000 years of lifespan with a rigged game of Rock Paper Scissors, then explored the city and discovered it was Eastern Moon’s Hideout. He recognized its leader, Dance of the Moon, as a powerful figure from several cycles, while demons flooded the merged Deep Blue reality.

• Qin Feng appeared in front of a white-haired player and offered to gamble 2,000 years of lifespan on Rock Paper Scissors.
• The player accepted the wager, but Qin Feng added a rule forbidding him from revealing the game’s rules and told him to go first.
• The player threw scissors, Qin Feng threw rock, and Qin Feng won the player’s 2,000 years of lifespan.
• The player accepted his loss and ran off without attacking Qin Feng, who set out to find another target.
• Qin Feng discovered the city was Eastern Moon’s Hideout and recognized Dance of the Moon as its guild leader and a formidable figure across the cycles he knew.
• Qin Feng realized that the Deep Blue Game World had enveloped reality, bringing hordes of demons into the Real World.

Qin Feng tried to provoke Eastern Moon Guild players into attacking him so he could shed his NPC identity, but their Order Effect made their attacks pass through him. Dance of the Moon then trapped him in his NPC function and realized she could recruit him by repeatedly playing rock, paper, scissors, leaving Qin Feng worried he could not escape.

• Qin Feng swindled several Eastern Moon City players out of more than ten thousand years of lifespan, but none of them attacked him.
• Qin Feng flew into the battlefield at the city's edge, where the guild's Order Effect caused players' attacks to pass through him.
• Dance of the Moon appeared in black smoke and used Qin Feng's NPC function to keep him from leaving.
• Dance of the Moon figured out the rock, paper, scissors game's trap and proposed playing it enough times to recruit Qin Feng into her guild.
• Qin Feng realized that one hundred consecutive games would make him join the guild and feared Dance of the Moon would force him to play.

Qin Feng calculated that Avatar of Lightning could let him escape Dance of the Moon’s repeated NPC interactions, but he stayed to gain lifespan from their rock-paper-scissors game. Dance of the Moon continued choosing scissors, while Qin Feng considered when to flee and maximize his winnings.

• Qin Feng used formulas for interaction range and command timing to estimate that Avatar of Lightning could carry him beyond Dance of the Moon’s reach between interactions.
• Qin Feng stopped worrying about escape and invited Dance of the Moon to keep playing rock-paper-scissors for lifespan.
• Dance of the Moon revealed herself and said she would choose scissors every time in exchange for Qin Feng joining her guild and helping it.
• Qin Feng beat Dance of the Moon for forty to fifty thousand years of lifespan over twenty rounds without detecting any change in her choices.
• Qin Feng timed Dance of the Moon’s interaction intervals and weighed escaping on the 80th round against waiting until the 99th.

Qin Feng kept taking lifespan from Dance of the Moon while Kimura Seimei plotted to isolate him and insulted Great Xia. A force calling itself Sirius business arrived to arrest Dance of the Moon, and Qin Feng welcomed the chance to fight whoever came for him.

• Dance of the Moon repeatedly gave Qin Feng 2,000 years of lifespan, and he amassed over a hundred thousand years as players and NPCs watched.
• Kimura Seimei recognized Qin Feng’s name, assumed he would join the guild, and planned to bully him as a fellow NPC.
• Kimura Seimei told other NPCs that Qin Feng came from Great Xia and spread false claims about its people.
• Qin Feng noticed Kimura Seimei’s slander but continued interacting with Dance of the Moon while planning his escape.
• A surge of order power enveloped Eastern Moon City, and Sirius business appeared, announcing that it would arrest Dance of the Moon and threatening Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng was pleased that Sirius business had come to him and looked forward to fighting its members.