Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng fought increasingly numerous and fast-splitting Desirelessness Swordsmen, relying on evasion, healing, and Demon Shadow Blades to survive and take first place on the leaderboard. When the swordsmen split into 512, he activated Echo of the Shelter and killed them all at once with retaliatory Instant Annihilation.

• Qin Feng used Void Lock, Demon Shadow Blade, and Spinning Blade to kill waves of Desirelessness Swordsmen as they split and multiplied.
• Qin Feng survived their escalating attacks through his evasion and defenses, though repeated hits shortened his buffs and slowed his kills.
• Qin Feng wiped out 256 Desirelessness Swordsmen, and they split into 512 with even greater speed and damage reduction.
• Qin Feng activated Echo of the Shelter, whose retaliatory attacks triggered Instant Annihilation and killed all 512 Desirelessness Swordsmen.

Qin Feng and Gray Chicken defeated all 2,048 Desirelessness Swordsmen in the Cycle Challenge, with Qin Feng relying on reflected damage and crowd control to overwhelm them. The Desirelessness Swordsman began announcing Qin Feng’s first-place result, then froze in shock upon seeing that Qin Feng had been in Godforsaken Game for only 127 days.

• Qin Feng used Echo of the Shelter to deter the Desirelessness Swordsmen from attacking, then summoned Gray Chicken to deal damage with Hellfire.
• When the Desirelessness Swordsmen attacked Gray Chicken, Qin Feng reflected their damage and caused them to split into 2,048 copies.
• Qin Feng used Frost Extinction Path and Adhesive Blood Pool to slow and immobilize the fleeing swordsmen while he and Gray Chicken killed them.
• After more than ten minutes, Qin Feng and Gray Chicken eliminated every Desirelessness Swordsman, and the swordsmen reformed into a 220-meter giant.
• The Desirelessness Swordsman congratulated Dark Shadow on placing first, then reacted with disbelief on learning Qin Feng had played for only 127 days.

Qin Feng claimed first place in the Desirelessness Cycle Challenge and gained a powerful Cycle Buff and the Ancient Grade skill Divine Water's Rhythm. He evolved the skill to Old-Day Tier, where it increased a skill's Divinity Influence rather than its Divinity cost.

• The Desirelessness Swordsman saw Qin Feng's score dwarf the other challengers and wondered if Ileinasi had personally chosen him as a successor.
• Qin Feng received the first-place Desirelessness Cycle Buff, which increased the Divinity enemies needed to negate his Self-Owned Order by 900%.
• Qin Feng chose Divine Water's Rhythm from the three Ancient Grade Divinity Special Skills.
• Qin Feng spent over seven hundred thousand Evolution Points to evolve Divine Water's Rhythm to Old-Day Tier, gaining stored charges and an effect that increased Divinity Influence without raising the skill's Divinity cost.

Qin Feng discovered that Divine Water's Rhythm greatly increased skill influence without raising divinity costs, then gained the high minor authority of desirelessness after Bomentian and the other Primordial beings chose him as Ileinasi's successor. He concluded that the Godforsaken Game might be driving a brutal struggle over grand authorities and ended by asking Bomentian about the Divine Water Clan's racial talent.

• Qin Feng realized Divine Water's Rhythm now quadrupled a skill's divinity influence without increasing its divinity cost.
• Qin Feng displayed Ileinasi's White Feathers and Black Feathers, convincing Bomentian that Lady Ileinasi had personally recognized him.
• Bomentian told Qin Feng that the Primordial beings under the authority of desirelessness had unanimously chosen him as Ileinasi's successor and granted him their high minor authority.
• Qin Feng reasoned that the Godforsaken Game might be trying to create a player who held every grand authority, with seized authorities counting as forced acquisitions.
• Qin Feng understood that Ashasiss's twin-tailed personality had attacked him to keep him from entering the Highest Heaven with the Judgment Grand Authority while he was too weak.
• Qin Feng asked Bomentian about the Divine Water Clan's racial talent.

Qin Feng learned about the Desirelessness Swordsman Bomentian’s splitting talent and received a Divine Water Clan criminal sealed in a water sphere. He left the challenge space with Bosheng Weilai, whose curses came from the cage as Qin Feng reappeared near the Jianghai Ruins.

• The Desirelessness Swordsman revealed his racial talent, which let him split into two upon death up to eleven times, and Qin Feng considered its potential.
• Bomentian explained that he could not die because the Godforsaken Game protected him, then gave Qin Feng the imprisoned Divine Water Clan criminal Bosheng Weilai.
• Qin Feng found that opening Bosheng Weilai’s water sphere required ten million total attributes and noted that his own total had already exceeded 5.07 million.
• Qin Feng bid Bomentian farewell and left the challenge space with the sealed criminal.
• Qin Feng reappeared near the Jianghai Ruins as Wang Meng and the others fought a Legendary Tier boss, while Bosheng Weilai cursed from inside the cage.

Qin Feng freed a Divine Water Clan Guard who accused Bomentian of betraying his clan under Ileinasi’s influence, then equipped Wang Meng’s group with ancient-grade Divinity Armaments. While heading off to level up, Qin Feng spotted Yang Xiaoya and Aowu confronting guild members who were leaving with a foreign player named Jeongcheol.

• The Divine Water Clan Guard called Bomentian a traitor who had slaughtered his clan’s warriors after being bewitched by a madwoman, and Qin Feng suspected Ileinasi was responsible.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio to Wang Meng’s group and immobilized the Four-God Believer Sickle Bug so he could sell six ancient-grade Divinity Armaments to the group for ten million years of lifespan apiece.
• Black Plum Big Li thanked Qin Feng, and Osilio’s crude joke prompted her to ask to be invited whenever Qin Feng roasted a whole dragon.
• After finishing the transaction, Qin Feng sent Osilio to the Judgment Grounds and flew off invisibly to hunt monsters and improve his Bloodsource Eldritch God’s Blessing Tablet.
• Qin Feng sensed Yang Xiaoya and Aowu confronting six guild members who wanted to leave with three men led by the blond Jeongcheol, and he wondered why they had been taken in by him.

Qin Feng watched Cui Zhengzhe recruit female players from Great Xia for the Warm Ocean Guild and asked Late Night, Light Rain to investigate the suspicious effort. The recruits left through the Jianghai Ruins Teleportation Array, while Aowu and Yang Xiaoya failed to persuade them to stay.

• Cui Zhengzhe introduced himself as a vice guild leader of Great Cold Country's Warm Ocean Guild and recruited female players in the Jianghai Ruins.
• Aowu and Yang Xiaoya tried to convince the departing players to return, but the women refused and the two guild leaders gave up.
• Qin Feng saw that Yang Xiaoya was safe in Great Xia and reflected on how its public order and access to equipment helped its players develop.
• Cui Zhengzhe promised the recruits that the Warm Ocean Guild divided loot equally, though he privately scorned their complaints and had no intention of sharing fairly.
• Cui Zhengzhe joined two other recruiting teams, and they took their recruits through the public Teleportation Array.
• Qin Feng asked Late Night, Light Rain to investigate the Warm Ocean Guild, and she soon sent him information.

Qin Feng learned that the Warm Ocean Guild was fleeing Great Cold Country aboard a mobile Hideout and warned Verzhini to investigate. The guild lured nearly two hundred female players from Great Xia aboard, drugged them, and used their bodies as bait to detect danger as the ship sailed north.

• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that the Warm Ocean Guild had built a mobile Hideout on a ship and was leaving Jeju Island, so Qin Feng asked Verzhini to investigate.
• Cui Zhengzhe welcomed nearly two hundred female recruits aboard the ship and persuaded them to teleport there in reality.
• After the recruits arrived, Cui Zhengzhe and the other guild members gave them drinks laced with Soul-Wandering Water, knocking them unconscious.
• Bee Guy summoned giant black bees, chained the recruits' bodies to them, and suspended them in the seawater several kilometers around the ship.
• The recruits' souls overheard the guild members explain that the women would serve as danger detectors and protection against the Moon Goddess, and realized they had been deceived.

Verzhini intercepted the Warm Ocean Guild’s stone ship, took Mushroom Engineer · Zhuanzhuan Balulu, and killed all the players aboard. The Great Xia women trapped as souls watched, realizing that the Moon Goddess and Great Cold Country were working for Dark Shadow.

• Cui Zhengzhe ordered the helpless women killed as Mother of Destruction · Keriya descended on the stone ship.
• Verzhini stopped the ship and ordered Cui Zhengzhe to bring out the NPCs, then chose Mushroom Engineer · Zhuanzhuan Balulu.
• Zhuanzhuan Balulu struggled and accused Cui Zhengzhe of lying about Great Xia eating mushrooms, but Verzhini took the mushroom person with her.
• Verzhini destroyed the stone ship and repeatedly killed its tens of thousands of players until their lifespans reached zero.
• The Great Xia women watched as souls and realized that Verzhini was on Dark Shadow’s side.

Qin Feng recruited Mushroom Engineer · Zhuanzhuan Balulu and arranged for it to help build a white jade Sky Fortress. When the second Abyss Child finished gestating, he entered the Abyss World and confronted Front Apostle · Foluodi, who was shocked that the vessel had copied Blade of the Yellow Springs instead of Shadow.

• Qin Feng sent Gui Ling to recruit Mushroom Engineer · Zhuanzhuan Balulu, whose abilities transformed guild defenses into durable, self-repairing Engineering Domes.
• Qin Feng tasked Late Night, Light Rain and the Great Xia Officials with building a mobile white jade Sky Fortress, while he stayed focused on other preparations.
• Over two days, Qin Feng farmed evolution points and rolled a buff-duration attribute on the Bloodsource Eldritch God's Blessing Tablet.
• After Gui Ling reported that the Abyss Apostle had finished gestating, Qin Feng entered the newly unfrozen Abyss World.
• Front Apostle · Foluodi took control of the Abyss Child and was bewildered to find it had copied Blade of the Yellow Springs and had no Abyss skills; Qin Feng and Gray Chicken arrived nearby.

Qin Feng’s Gray Chicken killed Foluodi’s Abyss Child shell despite the Apostle’s anti-stealth defenses, while the Blue Star players quickly triggered a third Abyss Child’s gestation. After collecting and synthesizing loot, Qin Feng learned that an Earthfire Magma Turtle had spawned, exciting Gray Chicken.

• Gray Chicken killed Foluodi’s Abyss Child shell with Hellfire while Qin Feng remained hidden and immune to the shell’s detection effects.
• Foluodi learned that Blue Star players had already triggered the third Abyss Child’s gestation, which would finish in five days.
• Gui Ling controlled Qin Feng’s Paper Person to kill hundreds of thousands of Corpse Demons and meet the third spawn’s requirements within two minutes.
• Qin Feng synthesized the Abyss Child’s loot, learned Nightmare Brain-Erosion, fed it to Spirit Devourer, and obtained two pieces of Assassin equipment.
• Qin Feng received a message that a pillar of fire had appeared near the Magic City Ruins and realized the Earthfire Magma Turtle had spawned.
• Gray Chicken gleefully announced that he was finally turning eighteen.

Qin Feng enhanced two Old-Day Tier special effects, greatly increasing his cooldown speed, skill cast speed, and back attack damage. He reached the Earthfire Magma Turtle and struck its shell hard enough to nearly kill the Ancient Grade boss in one blow.

• Qin Feng replaced the effect on Heart of Thorns · Fudela's Gaze with Acceleration Gear, accepting a small loss to Assassin Skill levels in exchange for doubled cooldown speed and skill cast speed.
• Qin Feng added Night Dance to his Civilization Extinguisher Set and enhanced both effects, raising his back attack damage bonus to 3,704%.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio through the lifespan-flow regions to the magma volcanoes where the Earthfire Magma Turtle had spawned.
• Qin Feng struck the turtle's shell with Annihilation Blade, dealing 11,090.53 trillion weakness attack damage despite its 99.9% damage reduction.

Qin Feng defeated the Earthfire Magma Turtle and gained powerful equipment and its Mount Bell. He used the Molten Heart to bring Gray Chicken to adulthood, where it gained the ability to benefit from Qin Feng’s talent effects.

• Qin Feng collected the Earthfire Magma Turtle’s loot, including the defensive Ancient Grade mount Volcano Oba, and decided to save it for Gui Ling.
• Qin Feng equipped divinity effects that greatly increased his maximum health, recovery, and accuracy.
• Qin Feng reflected that the Ancient Grade boss kills had significantly strengthened him.
• Qin Feng gave Gray Chicken the Molten Heart, and Gray Chicken absorbed its fire energy and grew into a ten-meter Hell Phoenix.
• Gray Chicken reached adulthood and gained the ability to benefit from Qin Feng’s talent effects, prompting Qin Feng to wonder whether he could evolve its skills.

Qin Feng evolved Gray Chicken’s Chaos Power and Child of Chaos to Old-Day Tier, discovering that their new effects also applied to him. The upgrades gave Qin Feng enormous Chaos Affix coverage and the potential to multiply his defenses and elemental resistance.

• Qin Feng inspected Gray Chicken’s skills and found that his normal and Hell skills could be evolved with Evolution Points, but his two advanced skills could not.
• Qin Feng evolved Gray Chicken’s Chaos Power to Old-Day Tier, gaining a 4,800-meter base aura whose range extended to 154 kilometers and granting him 2,640 points of Chaos Affix plus 26,400 more Chaos Affix.
• Gray Chicken panicked when he felt his skill rise three tiers, and Qin Feng explained that he had evolved it.
• Qin Feng evolved Gray Chicken’s Child of Chaos to Old-Day Tier, gaining immunity to Chaos Affix and fire damage and stacking bonuses of up to forty times his physical defense and elemental resistance.

Qin Feng finished evolving Gray Chicken’s Hell Fruit skills, then searched the Deep Blue Civilization for a third Calamity Rune. After learning that a former Sirius Guild logistics member had hidden one, Qin Feng set out to confront him.

• Qin Feng evolved Gray Chicken’s three Hell Fruit skills to Old-Day Tier, greatly increasing its power, though he could not inherit their effects.
• Qin Feng convened the Deep Blue Council and asked its members whether they knew where to find a Calamity Rune.
• Dance of the Moon reported that the Deep Blue Civilization had no known Calamity Runes, so Qin Feng ordered a worldwide search and considered finding one through another cycle civilization.
• Qin Feng farmed monsters with Gray Chicken while the search continued, and Dance of the Moon later reported that a former Sirius Guild logistics member claimed to have hidden a Calamity Rune.
• Qin Feng asked for the man’s coordinates and decided to go there himself.

Qin Feng confronted Hei Bai, a former Silver Sirius Guild support worker who had hidden a Calamity Rune after blaming Qin Feng for his family's deaths. Although Hei Bai had killed the child who hid it and left its location unknown, Qin Feng told him that finding every rune was still likely.

• Qin Feng teleported to Moon Bay Ruins, where Phoenix Order members had captured Hei Bai and guarded him in a lightning cage.
• Hei Bai recognized Qin Feng and laughed that his own death would keep Qin Feng from finding the Calamity Rune.
• Qin Feng used the Minor Authority of Desirelessness to silence Hei Bai and Memory Loss to inspect his memories.
• Qin Feng learned that Hei Bai's family had died to a Mythic-Tier BOSS, and that Hei Bai had blamed Qin Feng for establishing the Deep Blue Council and sent a child to hide a Calamity Rune before killing the child.
• Qin Feng told Hei Bai that the missing rune only made it possible he would not collect every rune, but that failure was very unlikely, bewildering Hei Bai and the Phoenix Order members.

Qin Feng completed his set of Calamity Runes, learned more about Verzhini’s missing children, and killed Hei Bai after exposing the rules his family had ignored. After reaching level 60 and returning to Blue Star to attempt the Calamity challenge, he reassured Lingche about why he had not used her Fusion Divinity skill.

• Qin Feng met Su An at the Judgment Grounds, received a Calamity Rune from the Scorching Sun Civilization, and asked her to find Verzhini’s children, Allen and Anna.
• Qin Feng showed Hei Bai all three Calamity Runes and learned that Hei Bai’s family had entered a Nightmare Zone without meeting the required speed standards.
• Qin Feng offered Hei Bai equipment and a chance to attack him, then killed him with one slash and sent him to the White Jade Maze.
• After farming in the Deep Blue Civilization for three days, Qin Feng reached level 60 and returned to Blue Star with the complete set of Calamity Runes.
• As Qin Feng approached the storm near Coconut Country, Lingche worried that he might replace her, and he explained that he avoided her Fusion Divinity skill to spare her from dormancy.

Qin Feng entered the Great Whirlpool to attempt the Calamity Ancient God’s challenge and learned it would test his ability to control his damage. The rules appeared before him, leaving him to face a scoring challenge where destroying a target erased the points earned from it.

• Qin Feng flew into the Great Whirlpool, endured its cataclysmic energy, and reached the space where the Calamity Spirits gathered.
• Lingche and the spirits welcomed Qin Feng back and warned that his high damage would make the challenge harder.
• The Holy Light Spirit explained that the challenge would test Qin Feng’s fine control over his damage.
• Qin Feng read the rules: he had to strike the Cataclysmic Eye, then attack Cataclysmic Cones without destroying them, since destroying a cone erased its damage from his score.
• Qin Feng recognized that excessive damage could make him destroy cones and ruin his score.

Qin Feng began Uthos's disaster authority challenge, where he had to damage thousands of Disaster Ball Fruits without destroying them. His opening strike created 70,206 fruits, leaving him facing a daunting test of damage control as the Calamity Spirits watched.

• Qin Feng studied the challenge rules and realized he needed at least 90% score completion, with higher authority rewards requiring even greater accuracy.
• Lingche reassured Qin Feng before he approached the enormous Disaster Eye and began the challenge.
• Qin Feng summoned Osilio and Gray Chicken, activated his enhancements, and struck the Disaster Eye with Instant Annihilation for immense damage.
• The strike created 70,206 Disaster Ball Fruits across a range of more than 70 kilometers, each with different health and elemental resistance.
• Qin Feng decided to prioritize accuracy, then used Space-Shattering Shadow Kill to create four shadow clones and began tackling the fruits.
• The nine Calamity Spirits reacted with shock to Qin Feng's damage and the number of fruits, while some doubted he could finish the challenge.

Qin Feng methodically weakened the calamity cones in the damage-control challenge, using carefully controlled basic attacks and Shadow Clones to avoid destroying them too soon. After more than eight hours, he had reached over 99% overall completion and lowered his damage again as he continued toward the challenge’s stricter requirements.

• Qin Feng used Shadow Perception to assess the calamity cones and chose basic attacks, disabling damage-over-time effects to simplify his calculations.
• He attacked the cones with the longest health bars until each could be destroyed by one more strike, then moved on to cones with progressively lower health totals.
• After a little over four hours, Qin Feng had weakened more than twenty thousand cones and extended his buffs to their maximum durations.
• Qin Feng switched off several abilities and sent four Shadow Clones to weaken more cones, reducing every cone in the area below twenty-digit health after more than eight hours.
• Qin Feng noted that the challenge required both overall and average completion rates, then lowered his basic attack damage to order 18 and continued while the observing Calamity Spirits watched in surprise.