Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng killed nine players and a Silver Grade Flaming Mummy, then absorbed enough lifespan from two players to inflict true kills. As he headed toward the Evil Spirit Academy’s boss room, an unseen girl asked to work with him, and he suspected the Blade of the Yellow Springs was beneath the platform.

• Qin Feng recalled that Great Xia’s authorities had killed the Blade of the Yellow Springs after she slaughtered the Chu and Dongfang Families, and decided not to spare the surviving Dongfang Family members or their hired hands.
• Qin Feng killed eight of the nine players attacking a Silver Grade Flaming Mummy with Dark Night Ring Blade, then killed the lone Archer who had dodged the attack with Gouge.
• Qin Feng used Blooming Curse on the corpses, absorbed their lifespan, and inflicted true kills on Mentougou Big Zihua and Anyone as Handsome as Me Is a Protagonist.
• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand on the Flaming Mummy’s corpse to obtain six loot drops, 24 Evolution Points, and nearly ten years of tradable lifespan.
• An unseen girl asked Qin Feng to work with him, and he suspected the Blade of the Yellow Springs was directly beneath the rock platform.

Qin Feng discovered that the nervous girl proposing an alliance was a Blade of the Yellow Springs hiding beneath a stone platform. After learning that she sought revenge on Dongfang Yue for murdering her parents, he decided to recruit her with minimal involvement and proved he knew where she was hiding.

• Qin Feng used his knowledge of the Blade of the Yellow Springs to locate the girl clinging beneath the rock platform and listened to her offer to share information about Dongfang Yue.
• The girl explained that Dongfang Yue had killed her mother in a staged hit-and-run, arranged for her father’s death, and was now hunting her after she killed Dongfang Yue in the game and took over two hundred years of tradable lifespan.
• Qin Feng considered letting the girl develop on her own while giving her occasional guidance, since her unique assassin class made her a useful potential ally without requiring him to protect her.
• Qin Feng invited the girl to come out and add him as a friend, then threw a Deadly Poison Dart beside her head to show that he had already found her.

Qin Feng defeated the guardian of Evil Spirit Academy and advanced his Shadow class to the second tier, gaining the ability to attack without leaving stealth. Gui Ling left to follow his advice about prioritizing class advancement, while Qin Feng’s new passive left him stunned.

• Gui Ling reached Qin Feng using her chain blade, and he accepted her friend request before advising her to advance her class before leveling up.
• Gui Ling thanked Qin Feng and left Evil Spirit Academy while he continued deeper into the dungeon.
• Qin Feng fought through the academy’s third underground floor, using Shadow Blade to kill physically immune Demons.
• Qin Feng defeated the Platinum Tier Mutated Witch Stana after attacking her active head with dark-element blades.
• Qin Feng spent his saved experience to advance his Shadow class to the second tier and gained a passive that let him attack in stealth without breaking it.

After advancing his Dark Shadow class, Qin Feng claimed Evil Spirit Academy as the Shadow guild’s hideout and activated its magma-powered defenses, giving him a base in Magic City. The change expelled other players, and Gui Ling’s pursuers surrendered when they learned she was connected to Dark Shadow.

• Qin Feng unlocked a Dark Shadow passive that let him attack without losing stealth and gained major attribute boosts from his class advancement.
• Qin Feng used the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout key to make the academy Shadow’s guild hideout.
• Qin Feng explored the academy’s central hall, activated its magma-powered defensive barrier, and claimed the academy as his private territory.
• The guild takeover expelled Gui Ling and several Asura Hall players from the academy grounds.
• Gui Ling moved to attack her pursuers, but they surrendered and said they would never hunt her again because they feared Dark Shadow.

After Qin Feng claimed the Evil Spirit Academy Hideout, Magic City players learned of Dark Shadow’s feat while he examined his loot and upgraded Back Attack Enhancement to Legendary Tier. The chapter ended with Qin Feng gaining a powerful stealth effect that made all his damage count as back attacks.

• Gui Ling ignored the Asura Hall leader’s attempt to apologize and escaped using her chain blade.
• A magical barrier rose around Evil Spirit Academy, and players across Magic City speculated that Dark Shadow had claimed its Platinum Tier Hideout.
• Qin Feng equipped the Witch Mutation Ring and learned the Toxic Trap skill.
• Qin Feng spent 340 evolution points to upgrade Back Attack Enhancement to Legendary Tier, making all his damage count as back attacks while he was stealthed.

Qin Feng traveled to a newly discovered ruin after Lin Liyu found murals like those at the beginner-town temple and asked him to try its mysterious teleportation orb. He reached the hidden entrance below a cliff and followed her into the cleared ruin, where the orb still awaited him.

• Qin Feng received Lin Liyu's message about a ruin with murals similar to those at the beginner-town temple, and she explained that only someone with the right fate could use its teleportation orb.
• Qin Feng agreed to visit the ruin and set out for the coordinates Lin Liyu had sent him.
• Qin Feng found Lin Liyu waiting by a cliff, startled her by appearing suddenly, and learned that the ruin entrance lay below the edge.
• Qin Feng jumped safely onto a ledge and entered the cave, while Lin Liyu explained that she had discovered it after falling from the cliff while fleeing a Silver Tier boss.
• Lin Liyu told Qin Feng that her team had cleared the ruin's monsters and paths but could not activate the teleportation orb.

Lin Liyu led Qin Feng to a temple orb that transported him to Frost Tide Cavern, where he discovered a dangerous defense quest centered on an unstable Frost Tide Crystal. He identified a way to defend the crystal with Toxic Trap and found two concealed passages overhead, preparing for the incoming demons.

• Lin Liyu explained how her team replenished non-tradable lifespan and guided Qin Feng through the temple labyrinth to a white teleportation orb.
• Qin Feng touched the orb and was transported to Frost Tide Cavern, where remote communication was blocked.
• Qin Feng entered stealth and recognized the glowing crystal as an unstable Frost Tide Crystal that would unleash a deadly frost tide if attacked.
• Qin Feng realized demons would emerge from seven passages and planned to use Toxic Trap to stop them from reaching the crystal.
• Qin Feng inspected the ceiling and discovered two more passage openings that could allow demons to ambush him.

Qin Feng evolved Toxic Trap to Epic Grade and used traps and stealth attacks to defend the Frost Tide Crystal from demons. In the Magic City Ruins, Dongfang Yue failed to persuade Asura Hall to hunt Gui Ling and was insulted by its guild leader.

• Qin Feng spent six Evolution Points to evolve Toxic Trap to Epic Grade, then placed traps in all nine passages leading into the cavern.
• Demons triggered the traps, and Qin Feng replenished them while using Dark Night Ring Blade and Shadow Blades to kill waves approaching the Frost Tide Crystal.
• The Calamity Ancient God's Cursed Slate became fully charged, and Qin Feng opened his equipment interface to use it.
• Dongfang Yue confronted Asura Hall's guild leader about abandoning the hunt for Gui Ling because of Dark Shadow.
• Asura Hall's guild leader rejected Dongfang Yue's threat and insulted her, leaving her furious.

Dongfang Yue and her husband planned to lure Qin Feng into a fireworks factory and kill him, unaware that he intended to leave her fate to Gui Ling. After defending Frost Tide Cavern and earning an Epic chest, Qin Feng obtained powerful Assassin leg armor just as a holy white figure appeared before him.

• Dongfang Yue told her husband she planned to bait Dark Shadow into a fireworks factory and detonate it, and he agreed to help keep the scheme secret.
• Qin Feng rejected a curse that would expand his skills' area at the cost of reducing their damage, preserving the curse on his leather armor.
• Qin Feng fought off more than ten waves of Demons in Frost Tide Cavern, completed the defense, and rose from level 15 to level 16.
• Qin Feng opened an Epic treasure chest and obtained Bafiki's Equivalent Exchange Agreement, Assassin leg armor that could convert equipment or skill books into items for his class.
• A holy white figure began to appear in the cavern, and Qin Feng grew wary.

Qin Feng discovered that Ashasiss was a Judgment Divine Messenger who had come to him on her own and received her summoning bell. Ashasiss offered a free skill upgrade, and Qin Feng raised Coup de Grace to level 16.

• Qin Feng identified the white-robed woman as Judgment Divine Messenger Ashasiss and realized she had arrived through her own power.
• Ashasiss gave Qin Feng a summoning bell that let him challenge three increasingly difficult ruins and potentially invite her to his Hideout.
• Ashasiss offered Qin Feng one free chance to raise a skill to his current level.
• Qin Feng chose Coup de Grace and raised its level requirement from 5 to 16, strengthening its damage.

Qin Feng returned from the ruins with a new skill upgrade and a Platinum Tier skill book for Lin Liyu, then settled into his newly furnished Soul-Cleansing Grounds in reality. Meanwhile, Qin Xiaoyou discovered a mysterious staircase in the ruins that might lead to a Hideout.

• Qin Feng received a pale golden bell from Ashasiss, stored it, and left the cavern through a Portal while remaining wary of the Divine Envoy.
• Qin Feng reunited with Lin Liyu outside the labyrinth, gave her a Platinum Tier Magic Shield skill book, and they climbed out of the ruins together.
• Lin Liyu reported to An Yu that Qin Feng had given her the skill book, and An Yu teased her about climbing the cliff with him.
• Qin Feng returned to his Hideout and found that the Mechanical Maids had furnished the Soul-Cleansing Hall and installed its generator module.
• Qin Xiaoyou found a staircase leading into the Soul-Cleansing Grounds while searching for Hideouts with her party, hoping to earn a guild lifespan reward.

Qin Feng returned to find the Soul-Cleansing Grounds under attack by Knight's Sanctuary and intervened to save a group of players. When Chen Wuming arrived to meet him, the guild leader still did not realize the hideout belonged to Dark Shadow.

• Chen Wuming sent Knight's Sanctuary members to seize the Soul-Cleansing Grounds and drive away unaffiliated players.
• Qin Feng received an attack alert but rode back without using his once-daily War Teleportation.
• Qin Feng saw Knight's Sanctuary members attack six ordinary players and killed four marked Killers, then ordered the survivors to call Chen Wuming.
• Yang Xiaoya recognized Qin Feng's eyes and wondered whether Dark Shadow was her former coworker.
• Chen Wuming arrived with over a hundred guild members, welcomed Dark Shadow, and offered to punish anyone who had offended him without knowing the hideout was Qin Feng's.

Qin Feng confronted Chen Wuming and the Knight's Sanctuary for damaging his Hideout, then demanded compensation. He reduced the price to a hundred years of lifespan plus Killer-status heads and ordered the guild to guard the Hideout.

• Qin Feng told Chen Wuming that the stone-door Hideout the Knight's Sanctuary had attacked belonged to him.
• Qin Feng demanded five hundred years of lifespan to settle the damage, and Chen Wuming fainted before quickly recovering.
• Qin Xiaoyou offered to take responsibility, but Qin Feng asked Chen Wuming whether she was worth five hundred years.
• Qin Feng lowered the compensation to a hundred years of lifespan and the heads of guild members with Killer status, with each head counting as one year.
• Qin Feng ordered the Knight's Sanctuary to guard his Hideout, and Chen Wuming agreed to arrange it.

Qin Feng repaired the Soul-Cleansing Grounds, killed more than two hundred Killer-status guild members for their Non-Tradable Lifespan, then used War Teleportation when he learned Evil Spirit Academy was under attack. He arrived in Magic City Ruins, restored the Hideout’s barrier with magma energy, and discovered the attackers belonged to the notorious Magic City Black Dragon Hall.

• Chen Wuming gathered Killer-status guild members and told Qin Xiaoyou to guard the Soul-Cleansing Grounds entrance.
• Qin Feng repaired the Soul-Cleansing Grounds for seven days of lifespan and left without speaking to Qin Xiaoyou.
• Qin Feng killed more than two hundred of Chen Wuming’s guild members, absorbed their Non-Tradable Lifespan, and reduced his Slaughter Value.
• Qin Feng received a notice that Evil Spirit Academy was under attack and used War Teleportation to return to Magic City Ruins.
• Qin Feng activated the academy’s magic array to restore the barrier, then spotted eighteen attackers from Magic City Black Dragon Hall.

Qin Feng killed the players attacking Evil Spirit Academy and learned that Zhang Jinxuan, a Soul Painter from the Sky Dome Guild, wanted to search his Hideout for something tied to her class advancement. He realized that her search had likely led the guild to the Mutated Witch and the Hideout in his previous life.

• Qin Feng watched eighteen players from Black Dragon Hall attack Evil Spirit Academy's defensive barrier and prepared to strike them.
• Zhang Jinxuan and her companions ambushed the attackers with painted skills, then Qin Feng finished off the survivors with Dark Night Ring Blade while remaining invisible.
• Qin Feng recognized Zhang Jinxuan as the Sky Dome Guild leader's granddaughter and a Soul Painter whose painted skills had helped ambush the attackers.
• Zhang Jinxuan asked the hidden Qin Feng for permission to search his Hideout for something related to her class advancement, offering compensation.
• Qin Feng concluded that Zhang Jinxuan's search had led the Sky Dome Guild to defeat the Mutated Witch and occupy Evil Spirit Academy in his previous life.

Qin Feng offered Zhang Jinxuan’s Sky Dome Guild a long-term lease of the Evil Spirit Academy’s aboveground area while negotiating how the guild could search for her class advancement items. Old Zhang accepted Qin Feng’s terms, leaving the guild poised to establish a base and take on the Magic City Black Dragon Hall Guild.

• Qin Feng invited Zhang Jinxuan into the Evil Spirit Academy and used the Ghost Wolf to take her to its ruined library.
• Zhang Jinxuan explained that her class advancement items were hidden somewhere in the academy and asked what it would cost to search for them.
• Qin Feng proposed a three-year lease of the academy’s aboveground area for five hundred years of lifespan, with his taking responsibility for repairing its Magic Defensive Barrier.
• Qin Feng required the Sky Dome Guild to deal with the Magic City Black Dragon Hall Guild and repair the aboveground buildings within three months.
• Zhang Jinxuan consulted Old Zhang, who agreed to Qin Feng’s terms and praised his sincerity.

Qin Feng made a deal with the Sky Dome Guild, gaining lifespan, protection for the Evil Spirit Academy, and help hunting Black Dragon Hall while sending the guild to develop its new base. Meanwhile, Dongfang Yue and her family plotted to lure Qin Feng into a trap, unaware Gui Ling had tracked them to their villa.

• Lao Zhangtou signed a contract with Qin Feng, paid five hundred years of lifespan, and moved the Sky Dome Guild into the Evil Spirit Academy’s Platinum Tier Hideout.
• Qin Feng arranged for the Sky Dome Guild to use the academy’s aboveground area and repair its barrier, while planning to have its members hunt Black Dragon Hall.
• Qin Feng collected Jadeite Tier equipment and skill books, then set out to claim the other Platinum Tier Hideouts in Magic City.
• Dongfang Yue and Chu Kunshan planned to lure Qin Feng to a fireworks factory by directing Black Dragon Hall members there, while Chu Nantian suggested having them log off first.
• Gui Ling tracked the employees transporting lifespan to Dongfang Yue and arrived at the luxury villa complex under cover of night.

Qin Feng defeated three Platinum Tier bosses, reached level 17, and upgraded his equipment and skills while working with the Sky Dome Guild. With 621 evolution points, he prepared to evolve Crimson Blade, while Gui Ling waited outside the villa complex for a chance to advance her class.

• Gui Ling watched Dongfang Yue’s villa complex from hiding and decided she needed to reach the second class tier before attempting an assassination.
• Qin Feng killed Boil, Nigesler, and Thousand-Handed Infant Girl, earning keys to Green Moss Cavern, Fluorescent Underground River, and Prison of Suffering.
• Qin Feng used Bafiki's Equivalent Exchange Agreement to obtain the Jadeite Tier Keen Eye Veil, completing his Jadeite Tier equipment set and improving his accuracy.
• Qin Feng obtained the Jadeite Tier skills Agility Training and Crimson Blade, a finisher that dealt high blood damage and restored health.
• Qin Feng reached level 17 and accumulated 621 evolution points, then decided to evolve.

Qin Feng evolved Agility Training and Crimson Blade to Legendary Tier, then upgraded Darkness Within to Mythic Tier, gaining greater stealth and reduced lifespan loss while stealthed. He headed for another Platinum-tier Hideout in the Magic City Ruins and found Feike Heavy Industry struggling against its guardian boss.

• Qin Feng evolved Agility Training to Legendary Tier, raising his agility to 549 and his burst movement speed to 140 meters per second.
• Qin Feng evolved Crimson Blade to Legendary Tier, increasing its damage and healing while reducing its combo-point cost to 30.
• Qin Feng spent 500 Evolution Points to evolve Darkness Within to Mythic Tier, raising his maximum Stealth Level to 12 and reducing lifespan loss by 90% while stealthed.
• Qin Feng went to the Magic Slanted Tower Hideout and saw Feike Heavy Industry fighting its Platinum-tier guardian boss on the top floor.
• Qin Feng judged that Feike Heavy Industry could not defeat the boss with its current strength and considered helping the guild.

Qin Feng declined to help Feike Heavy Industry fight Demon Blade and left to seek a monster with the Spirit Devourer Bloodline. He rode with Gui Ling toward a leveling area and warned her that animals could expose her planned assassination of Dongfang Yue.

• Feike Heavy Industry players repeatedly attacked Demon Blade, but the Platinum Tier boss barely lost any health and slaughtered them while absorbing lifespan.
• Huang Huifen refused an offer from the authorities to hire Qin Feng for a thousand years of lifespan, and Qin Feng left without helping.
• Qin Feng planned to search for the rain-spawned monster with the Spirit Devourer Bloodline, which could let him devour his excess Assassin skills for attribute boosts.
• Qin Feng met Gui Ling at the East City Gate Ruins and took her toward a suitable leveling area on his Ghost Wolf.
• Qin Feng warned Gui Ling to kill every living thing during her assassination plan because the authorities' Beast Tamer could communicate with animals and examine their memories.