Chapter Summaries

After killing the Platinum Tier boss Faisal, Qin Feng became master of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and evolved Greedy Hand to Legendary Tier. He planned to pursue the Spirit Devourer Bloodline and looked forward to exploiting Dongfang Xian’s family when he returned to reality.

• Qin Feng received rewards for killing Soul Purifier · Faisal, reached level 11, and gained ownership of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds.
• Qin Feng spent 210 Evolution Points to evolve Greedy Hand to Legendary Tier, gaining a 100-slot Greedy Space.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on Faisal’s corpse and obtained five extra sets of loot, including Jadeite Tier Assassin equipment and a skill book.
• Qin Feng summoned Devout Believer to gather loot and planned to obtain the Spirit Devourer Bloodline by devouring evolved skills.
• Milky-White Snow told Qin Feng that Dongfang Xian had logged off to eat with his family, who had bought a lot of lifespan to bring into the game.
• Qin Feng decided he would extract Blooming Curse into reality and take the lifespan of Dongfang Xian’s family.

Qin Feng spent his Evolution Points upgrading several skills, then sold loot to An Yu and her team and told them how to return to the Starting Town. After he left to return to reality, An Yu wondered aloud whether Dark Shadow had come back from a previous life and considered seducing him.

• Qin Feng evolved Shadowmeld and Back Attack Enhancement to Epic Grade, raised Blooming Curse to Legendary Tier, and upgraded Darkest Hour to Epic Tier.
• Qin Feng met Wang Meng, An Yu, and the others at a hidden location and sold them equipment worth 18,000 days of tradable lifespan, along with more low-tier items.
• Qin Feng told the group about the Teleportation Array beneath the statue in the City Ruins and warned that the first trip to the Starting Town cost 500 days of lifespan.
• After Qin Feng left, An Yu suggested in the Party Channel that he might have come from a previous life, then asked what her chances were of seducing him.

After extracting most of his game abilities and equipment into reality, Qin Feng left his home and raced toward Jiangnan Restaurant. There, Dongfang Xian discussed the family’s plans to exploit the Godforsaken Game and capture Dark Shadow, until two guards were suddenly cut down outside the private room.

• Qin Feng spent most of his tradable lifespan synchronizing his level and class advancement and extracting several skills and two pieces of equipment.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand to store everything in his bedroom, then left through a window under stealth and ran toward Jiangnan Restaurant.
• Dongfang Xian told the Dongfang Family’s elders that their younger members should rush to level 10 by buying equipment and skill books.
• Dongfang Xian revealed that a reliable woman had befriended Dark Shadow and that the family planned to uncover his real-world identity and bring him under their control.
• Blades flashed across the two guards outside the private room, and they collapsed as blood sprayed.

Qin Feng ambushed Dongfang Xian and the Dongfang Family gathering at the Jiangnan Restaurant, using a Silver Grade Devout Believer and his own abilities to kill everyone present. He erased the bodies and evidence with Blooming Curse and left with a huge haul of tradable and non-tradable lifespan.

• Qin Feng killed two armed guards outside the private dining room and summoned a Silver Grade Devout Believer to attack the Dongfang Family gathering.
• The Devout Believer broke into the room and slaughtered the family members as they fired their guns.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill the bodyguards who rushed upstairs after hearing the gunshots.
• Qin Feng dismissed the Devout Believer and used Death Flowers to absorb lifespan and erase the corpses and evidence.
• Qin Feng found Dongfang Xian dead in the private room, then left the restaurant with everyone's tradable lifespan and half their non-tradable lifespan.

After wiping out the Dongfang Family, Qin Feng planned to target Qian Shishi and sought a way to travel faster. Back in the game, An Yu told him that Lin Liyu had accidentally discovered a Tomb in the City Ruins, and Qin Feng reached its entrance, a well.

• Qin Feng counted his lifespan gains from killing the Dongfang Family and slipped away as police sirens approached, leaving no evidence behind.
• Qin Feng decided Qian Shishi was his next target but wanted to find a mount rather than travel hundreds of kilometers on foot.
• Qin Feng checked into a guesthouse, paid with lifespan, and logged back into the Godforsaken Game.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that Lin Liyu had fallen into a Tomb entrance while the group traveled through the City Ruins and that a level 12 Gold Tier vengeful ghost guarded it.
• Qin Feng accepted An Yu's coordinates, hurried through the ruins while killing Demons, and found the Tomb entrance in a well.

Qin Feng entered the Tomb of Resentment, defeated its Gold Tier Vengeful Ghost, and looted powerful rewards before opening the tomb gate. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou was left bewildered and despairing back in Shell Town.

• Qin Feng entered the Tomb of Resentment and found a Gold Tier Vengeful Ghost guarding a dilapidated gate.
• Qin Feng used Coup de Grace and Instant Shadow Slash to damage the Vengeful Ghost, then stayed at a distance until its lingering damage killed it.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand to claim extra loot, including the Platinum Tier Dark Night Ring Blade skill and Resentment Leather Armor.
• Qin Feng evolved Dark Night Ring Blade to Epic Tier, learned it, and planned to replace his armor when he reached level 12.
• Qin Feng opened the stone gate to enter the Tomb while Qin Xiaoyou remained bewildered and despairing in Shell Town.

Qin Xiaoyou, nearly out of lifespan and abandoned by her former companions, decided to return to Qin Feng for help. Meanwhile, Qin Feng continued clearing the Tomb of Resentment as An Yu rebuked Ma Nailiang for proposing that the authorities trap Dark Shadow.

• Players in Shell Town struggled against powerful bosses, and Qin Xiaoyou returned after dying with only two and a half years of non-tradable lifespan left.
• Qin Xiaoyou's former admirers refused to help her, while Zhang Wei teamed up elsewhere and Chu Yan planned to relocate after midnight.
• Qin Xiaoyou decided to return to her home in Shanhai Impression and find Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng used Dark Night Ring Blade to kill groups of level 10–12 monsters as he advanced through the Tomb of Resentment and sent a Devout Believer down alternate paths.
• An Yu, Wang Meng, and their teammates killed a level 8 Gold Tier boss, and An Yu wondered how Dark Shadow had defeated a Platinum Tier boss alone.
• Ma Nailiang proposed trapping Dark Shadow and bringing him under government control, but An Yu called him foolish and said they should cooperate with Dark Shadow instead.

An Yu insisted on cooperating with Dark Shadow despite concerns that he might kill more people, while Qin Feng explored the deepest part of the Resentment Tomb and obtained a Ghost Night-Walking Wolf Mount Bell. The chapter ended with Qin Xiaoyou returning home to find Qin Feng and all his belongings gone.

• An Yu picked up the boss's drops and told Wang Meng she would personally clean up after Dark Shadow if necessary.
• Qin Feng reached the golden coffin, killed the Child of Resentment, and used Greedy Hand on its corpse, but found no Platinum Tier Assassin items.
• A deathly pillar of light killed two Devout Believers when they approached the coffin, so Qin Feng activated Blacklight Shield and opened the treasure chest himself.
• Qin Feng obtained a Mount Bell that summoned a level 12 Ghost Night-Walking Wolf, then headed back to gain enough experience to use it.
• Qin Xiaoyou returned to their home and found Qin Feng, his furniture, his clothes, and everything else gone.

Qin Feng cleared the Colosseum Ruins and leveled up while searching for a path to find a Spirit Devourer. As he rode his newly leveled, invisible Ghost Night-Walking Wolf toward the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, a disturbance in the eastern City Ruins suggested someone had unleashed the Iron Maiden.

• Qin Xiaoyou discovered Qin Feng was gone, found his smashed phone, and realized she had lost contact with him.
• Qin Feng left the Resentment Tomb and decided to reach level 15 before searching the Magic City Ruins for a Spirit Devourer.
• Qin Feng slaughtered the Demons throughout the Colosseum Ruins, gaining levels, lifespan, and evolution points while his Ghost Night-Walking Wolf reached level 13.
• A party of six players arrived at the cleared Colosseum Ruins, but none noticed Qin Feng because he and his mount were invisible.
• Qin Feng rode toward the Soul-Cleansing Grounds as the level 13 leader of the River-Sea City rankings, then heard an eruption and felt the ground shake in the eastern City Ruins.
• Qin Feng wondered who had unleashed the Iron Maiden.

Qin Feng rode toward the Steel Saintess after learning that another player had triggered the Platinum Tier boss’s appearance. Along the way, he evolved several skills and equipped a necklace that raised his stealth level, then checked his new helmet.

• Qin Feng recognized the Steel Saintess and decided to claim the boss before other players could take her down.
• While riding to the ruins, Qin Feng evolved Silent Concealment to Epic Grade and Deadly Poison Dart to Epic Grade.
• Qin Feng evolved Coup de Grace to Mythic Tier, greatly expanding weak points and enabling most strikes of Instant Shadow Slash to deal weak-point damage.
• Qin Feng replaced his Believer Pendant with the Trickster Pendant, raising his stealth level to 4 and increasing his attack and strength.
• Qin Feng turned his attention to a helmet he had obtained.

Qin Feng tested his evasion equipment and discovered that Blacklight Shield counted evasion from each source separately. He then found Chen Wuming’s team fighting the Steel Saintess and slaughtered them, leaving Chen Wuming dead as well.

• Qin Feng equipped Shadow Veil and learned that its evasion and Ghostly Blur each granted separate layers of Blacklight Shield.
• Qin Feng rode the invisible Ghost Night-Walking Wolf to the Steel Saintess’s battlefield and spotted Chen Wuming leading the fight.
• Qin Feng recognized Chen Wuming as the leader of Knight’s Sanctuary, a guild that taxed members’ lifespan heavily and barred them from leaving for three years.
• Qin Feng ambushed the group with Dark Night Ring Blade, killing many players in a single attack.
• Qin Feng told Chen Wuming, “I don't eat beef,” then killed him and his leopard with a flurry of blade strikes.

Qin Feng killed Chen Wuming and the Knight's Sanctuary players surrounding the Steel Saintess, then drained their lifespans with Blooming Curse. He began fighting the boss cautiously, planning around its lethal damage reflection, as more players arrived nearby.

• Qin Feng killed Chen Wuming and several Knight's Sanctuary members, then cast Blooming Curse on their corpses to drain their lifespans.
• Chen Wuming resurrected far from the boss and learned that the curse had stripped the survivors of all their Tradable Lifespan and most of their Non-Tradable Lifespan.
• Qin Feng noticed Xiaoyou Ya among the victims but left her fate alone and turned his attention back to the Steel Saintess.
• After dodging the boss's area attack, Qin Feng struck it with Instant Shadow Slash, dealing over sixty thousand damage to its weak points.
• Qin Feng avoided pushing the Steel Saintess below half health, since its second phase reflected all damage, and waited for safe attack openings.
• More players were drawn to the Steel Saintess by the commotion.

Qin Feng drove the Steel Saintess into its second phase, where its damage reflection became persistent while it stood motionless. Safety First arrived to challenge the boss, but its reflected damage killed him instantly.

• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash with Blacklight Shield and survived the Steel Saintess's reflected attacks as it transformed at half health.
• The Steel Saintess stopped moving, and Qin Feng waited in stealth for an opportunity to finish the fight.
• Safety First arrived with Little Rabbit and his teammates, who used stealth detection but failed to find Qin Feng.
• Safety First approached the Steel Saintess and dodged its two iron-wheel attacks with rolls.
• Safety First struck the Steel Saintess with three slashes, but the reflected damage emptied his health bar and killed him.

Qin Feng exploited the Steel Saintess’s attack pattern to defeat the Platinum Tier boss while the surrounding players watched in awe. He kept ownership of the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, received a tradable Church Sanctuary Hideout Key, and secretly looted the boss’s corpse.

• Qin Feng followed the Steel Saintess in stealth after Safety First died from reflected damage, then revealed himself and used Blacklight Shield to bait her attacks while striking her weak-point core.
• Qin Feng killed a player who tried to take Safety First’s lifespan orb, then repeated his attack-and-retreat strategy against the boss as nearby players watched.
• Qin Feng used Blacklight Shield to withstand the Steel Saintess’s flames and finished her with Instant Shadow Slash.
• The system granted Qin Feng ownership of both the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and Church Sanctuary, so he kept the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and received a Church Sanctuary Hideout Key.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand beneath the boss’s corpse to secretly collect its loot.

After defeating the Steel Saintess, Qin Feng equipped her Jadeite Tier armor, evolved Assassin's Intuition and Ghostly Blur, and gathered loot to trade with Wang Meng's party. He met them outside the Church Sanctuary Hideout, where An Yu was astonished that he had reached level 13 overnight.

• Qin Feng replaced his Resentment Leather Armor with Black Flame's Gift · Bone-Piercing Leather Armor and learned Assassin's Intuition.
• Qin Feng evolved Assassin's Intuition to Legendary Tier, gaining level 5 invisibility detection and a 50% weak-point attack modifier.
• Qin Feng evolved Ghostly Blur to Legendary Tier, raising his evasion to 85% and granting immunity to all damage when evasion triggered.
• Qin Feng collected the Steel Saintess's loot, contacted Wang Meng about a trade, and rode invisibly to a secluded spot outside the Church Sanctuary Hideout.
• Qin Feng killed a group of Clusterers and nearby mobs while waiting for Wang Meng, An Yu, and the others to arrive.
• An Yu eagerly greeted Qin Feng and marveled that he had reached level 13 in a single night.

Qin Feng offered the River-Sea City authorities his 800-mu Church Sanctuary Hideout and sold An Yu equipment and supplies. After An Yu told him that seven Gold Tier bosses had gathered in a beginner town, Qin Feng agreed to investigate, suspecting they might be guarding an Ancient God Slate.

• Qin Feng offered An Yu and the River-Sea City authorities the Church Sanctuary Hideout Key, revealing that the hideout covered 800 mu and inviting them to make a bid.
• An Yu bought Qin Feng's equipment and supplies for 45,000 days of lifespan.
• Qin Feng calculated that selling the hideout could give him enough lifespan to extract powerful abilities and the Soul-Cleansing Grounds into reality.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that seven Gold Tier bosses had gathered in a River-Sea City beginner town and offered ten years of lifespan for his help.
• Qin Feng agreed to investigate the bosses, suspecting they were guarding an Ancient God Slate, and asked An Yu which town they were in.

Qin Feng accepted An Yu’s offer of ten years of lifespan and teleported to Darkmoon Town to deal with seven Gold Tier bosses. He raced north toward the coordinates she sent, while Chu Yan and her party searched for Demons near a river.

• An Yu offered Qin Feng ten years of lifespan to go to Darkmoon Town, and he accepted.
• Qin Feng passed the Knight's Sanctuary group at River-Sea City’s respawn point without acknowledging Qin Xiaoyou, then teleported to Darkmoon Town at a cost of 500 days of lifespan.
• Qin Feng saw charity workers demanding payment from an elderly woman they had helped level up, but ignored the dispute and headed north invisibly on the Night-Walking Wolf.
• Chu Yan and three companions searched for Demons beside a river with her parents, while a girl wearing glasses asked whether Qin Xiaoyou had joined the Knight's Sanctuary.
• Chu Yan confirmed that Qin Xiaoyou had joined the guild despite her invitation to join Mengsha River, and a young man in the party scoffed.

Chu Yan and her companions were attacked by robbers, but Qin Feng killed them while passing by without realizing he had saved her. After the robbers were arrested in Darkmoon Town, Qin Feng reached the valley of seven Gold Tier bosses and heard whispers from what seemed to be a Cursed Ancient God Slate.

• Chu Yan's group killed a Manacled One, but a young man in their party was slain by six masked robbers who demanded their lifespan.
• The robbers threatened Chu Yan and her companions, then Qin Feng's shadowy blade killed all six before he continued on without recognizing Chu Yan.
• Chu Yan's group guessed that Dark Shadow had saved them, while Qin Feng reflected that he was nearing five Killer stacks and wanted to avoid attracting a dangerous NPC.
• The six robbers respawned in Darkmoon Town with most of their lifespan gone, and officials recorded their aliases and issued in-game warrants.
• Qin Feng reached the valley where seven Gold Tier bosses were located and heard mysterious whispers from what he suspected was a Cursed Ancient God Slate.

Qin Feng entered the valley to investigate seven cursed Gold Tier bosses that revived after being killed. He killed them all with Instant Shadow Slash, then noticed that their new forms bore Ancient God Language symbols tied to Uthos, suggesting they might need to be killed in a specific order.

• Qin Feng rode past the official players guarding the valley and headed inside after learning that Director Dai's team had killed one boss, only for it to revive and wipe them out.
• Qin Feng found seven cursed Gold Tier bosses by a stagnant lake and suspected the Ancient God Slate was hidden underwater.
• Qin Feng summoned a Silver Grade Devout Believer to test the bosses and confirmed they had no damage reflection before their attacks killed it.
• Qin Feng used Instant Shadow Slash to kill all seven bosses at once, but they dissolved into black mist and reformed without dropping loot.
• Qin Feng noticed that the revived bosses each bore a different Ancient God Language symbol and recognized the symbols as spelling Uthos, leading him to suspect the bosses had to be killed in a particular order.

Qin Feng discovered how to unlock the chained ancient god’s slate beneath the lake and obtained it after defeating seven Gold Tier bosses at matching tablets. He evolved Instant Shadow Slash to Legendary Tier, then prepared to test the slate’s ability to add both beneficial and negative affixes to equipment.

• Qin Feng explored the lakebed and found a chained slate surrounded by seven tablets bearing symbols that matched the bosses.
• Qin Feng lured each Gold Tier boss to the tablet with its matching symbol and killed it there, breaking the seals on the central slate.
• Qin Feng gained enough experience to reach level 14 and spent 210 Evolution Points to evolve Instant Shadow Slash to Legendary Tier, adding powerful stacking shields.
• Qin Feng took the Calamity Ancient God's Cursed Slate and learned that it could repeatedly apply a beneficial and a negative affix to equipment.
• Qin Feng opened his equipment list to test the slate’s effect.