Chapter Summaries

After inheriting the Desirelessness Temple, Qin Feng slaughtered an Emberfire Temple raiding party that included its Divine Envoy, World in an Egg. Trapped in a White Jade Maze, World in an Egg offered to reveal a top-secret plan targeting Qin Feng in exchange for mercy.

• Qin Feng discovered that World in an Egg was the Desirelessness Temple’s only other member and was among the Emberfire Temple players who had arrived to kill him.
• Qingcaoshutao bound the raiders with vines, allowing Qin Feng to kill more than thirty of them before he attacked again and killed the survivors.
• The defeated Emberfire Temple players awoke in a White Jade Maze, where Qin Feng confronted World in an Egg.
• World in an Egg begged Qin Feng for mercy and claimed he could reveal the Emberfire Temple’s top-secret plan targeting him.
• The Emberfire Temple leader denied knowing the plan, and Qin Feng’s Bone Sword Pterosaur mocked World in an Egg for withholding what he knew.

Qin Feng learned that the Emberfire Temple had an unknown plan to use something left by the Emberfire Heavenly Emperor against him, and that its members carried talismans that could grant brief invincibility. He headed to the Yellow Sand Wild World to try to bring back Master Kaipu, while the Emberfire Temple's leaders learned their hunting team had been wiped out.

• Osilio claimed Qin Feng inherited six grand authorities, and World in an Egg offered to reveal the Emberfire Temple's secret plan.
• Qin Feng used Judgment to read the group’s memories and discovered that World in an Egg had volunteered to help and knew little about the plan.
• Qin Feng learned the Emberfire Temple had used Divine Talismans to protect its members when they drove Master Kaipu to his death, and that the talismans granted brief invincibility.
• Qin Feng stripped the captured Emberfire Temple members of their desires and set out for the Yellow Sand Wild World to find Master Kaipu.
• The Emberfire Temple's nine central powerhouses learned that Dark Shadow had killed their hunting team, and Yu Yan Jinhuo was identified as the Emberfire Heavenly Emperor's second daughter.

Yu Yan Jinhuo and the Emberfire Temple planned to lure Dark Shadow and Shadow 007 to the Binary Star Civilization’s Time-Space Gate and kill them before the gathered Temple Masters. Meanwhile, Qin Feng reached Master Kaipu’s corpse and used White Bud to begin resurrecting her.

• Yu Yan Jinhuo blamed Dark Shadow for killing the Emberfire Temple’s people and agreed with Huolian Xing to invite Dark Shadow and Shadow 007 to the Time-Space Gate as targets for a trap.
• Yu Yan Jinhuo and Huolian Xing discussed Su An, and Yu Yan Jinhuo privately invited Huolian Xing to her room that night.
• The Emberfire Temple’s nine core powerhouses decided to invite every Temple Master in the Land of Order to witness their planned slaughter.
• Qin Feng arrived at the crater where Master Kaipu had fallen and asked White Bud how much lifespan her resurrection would require.
• White Bud said the resurrection would cost over twelve million years of lifespan, and Master Kaipu soon opened her eyes in confusion.

Qin Feng revived Master Kaipu, revealed his identity and authorities, and transferred the Desirelessness Temple Master position back to him. They returned to the Desirelessness Temple, where Kaipu wondered how Qin Feng had defeated the Emberfire Temple hunters so quickly.

• Master Kaipu awoke in the crater after Qin Feng resurrected him and hurried to save the new Desirelessness Temple Master from the Emberfire Temple.
• Qin Feng appeared before Master Kaipu, revealed his Minor Authority of Desirelessness, and transferred the Temple Master position to him.
• Qin Feng told Master Kaipu that he had killed the Emberfire Temple’s Sixty-Person Team and the Desirelessness Temple’s last Divine Envoy, World in an Egg.
• A Civilization Extinguisher Bone Sword Pterosaur told Master Kaipu that Qin Feng possessed the Illusory Great Authority and the Extreme Love Grand Authority.
• Master Kaipu realized Qin Feng had likely used the Authority of Soul to resurrect him and marveled at how many authorities Qin Feng possessed.
• Qin Feng and Master Kaipu returned to the Desirelessness Temple, where Kaipu found no signs of battle and wondered whether Qin Feng had summoned help.

Qin Feng learned that the Desirelessness Temple needed three days to restore its functions, just in time for the Time-Space Gate to open. Master Kaipu warned him that the Emberfire Temple planned to unleash the Emberfire Heavenly Emperor’s powerful fire dragon, but Qin Feng believed his dragon immunity made him safe.

• Qin Feng gave Master Kaipu a billion years of lifespan and tasked him with restoring the Desirelessness Temple and its five branches so the grand authority challenge could resume.
• Qin Feng learned that the Emberfire Temple had invited Dark Shadow, Shadow 007, and other Temple Masters to enter the Time-Space Gate in three days.
• Master Kaipu revealed that the Emberfire Heavenly Emperor had left a sealed battle pet in the Emberfire Temple, likely to be used in a fight that would consume vast amounts of lifespan.
• Master Kaipu identified the pet as a fire dragon with the Shifang Jiumie template, whose destructive power surpassed Qin Feng’s Civilization Extinguisher template.
• Qin Feng dismissed the threat because his Dragon God · Source of Calamity bloodline granted immunity to draconic damage and increased his damage against dragons tenfold.

Qin Feng prepared Master Kaipu to reopen the temples and released the Divine Water Clan Guard Bosheng Weilai from a water orb. Bosheng Weilai attacked with overwhelming waves, and Qin Feng tested his Annihilation Blade against the guard’s immunity to physical and elemental damage.

• Qin Feng gave Master Kaipu a rib to make him a bones apostle and tasked him with reopening the branch temples.
• Qin Feng released Qingcaoshutao for support, then crushed the water orb containing Bosheng Weilai.
• Bosheng Weilai attacked Qin Feng with two towering waves, and Qingcaoshutao blocked them with a forest wall.
• Qingcaoshutao warned Qin Feng that Bosheng Weilai possessed physical and elemental immunity talents from the ancient Divine Water Clan.
• Qin Feng struck Bosheng Weilai with Annihilation Blade, but the guard resisted instant death and repeatedly cleared part of his buildup.
• Qin Feng realized he could repeatedly cast Annihilation Blade using his enormous supply of combo points.

Qin Feng used the chaos grand authority to overwhelm Bosheng Weilai’s defenses, then struck him with disaster fire while he was unable to act. Bosheng Weilai regained awareness inside a White Jade Maze.

• Qin Feng remained invisible and struck Bosheng Weilai with dozens of Annihilation Blade attacks, driving his instant death meter higher.
• Bosheng Weilai transformed into a water sphere and used an Old-Day Starry-Sky Fish Bone to absorb and prepare to release the accumulated greater affix energy.
• Qin Feng used Return to Chaos to fill Bosheng Weilai’s chaos gauge and disrupt his consciousness.
• Qin Feng’s attempts to apply judgment, illusion, and extreme love failed because Bosheng Weilai’s stats were too high.
• Qin Feng unleashed an Instant Annihilation slash with the disaster grand authority, engulfing Bosheng Weilai in flames as Qingcaoshutao retreated.
• Bosheng Weilai recovered from the chaos inside a sacred White Jade Maze.

Qin Feng killed Bosheng Weilai and examined his memories, uncovering the source of his immunities and his transformation talent. He learned that Bomentian had betrayed the Divine Water Civilization after being bewitched by Ileinasi, though the eldritch gods’ war remained hidden from view.

• Qin Feng’s attacks and grand authorities killed Bosheng Weilai before he could understand what had happened.
• Qin Feng used illusory great authority to hide the damage notifications from Bosheng Weilai in the Judgment Grounds.
• Qin Feng discovered that Bosheng Weilai’s physical immunity came from his divine water body, while his Variant Water Spirit class granted elemental immunity and damage reduction.
• Qin Feng learned that Bosheng Weilai’s individual talent, divine travel of all things, let him transform into different forms with substantial attribute bonuses.
• Qin Feng’s examination of Bosheng Weilai’s memories revealed that Bomentian had betrayed the Divine Water Civilization after being bewitched by Ileinasi.
• Qin Feng found that memories depicting eldritch gods were sealed, leaving him unable to see what their war had been about.

Qin Feng evolved the Eye of Surgery Order to Immortal Tier so it could retain two stolen Talents, preparing to take Bosheng Weilai’s Divine Wandering Through All Things. He left the chapter ready to claim the Talent and test whether it could trigger Thieving Saint’s Hand repeatedly.

• Qin Feng learned that Bosheng Weilai had remained loyal to the Divine Water Clan, while the Desirelessness Swordsman had been the real traitor.
• Qin Feng considered how to gain Divine Wandering Through All Things without giving up his Blood Cry Talent and decided to evolve the Eye of Surgery using Infinite Evolution and Blessing Judgment.
• After Blessing Judgment’s cooldown ended, Qin Feng spent 130,000 Divinity to raise the Eye of Surgery from Mythic Tier to Ancient Grade.
• Qin Feng hunted Demons until Blessing Judgment was ready again, then spent 290,000 Divinity to advance the Eye of Surgery to Immortal Tier.
• Qin Feng confirmed that the Immortal Tier Eye of Surgery could retain two Talents from others and set his sights on Bosheng Weilai’s Divine Wandering Through All Things.

Qin Feng stole Bosheng Weilai’s Old-Day Tier Divine Travel of All Things and tested its liquid transformations, discovering that familiar forms granted attribute boosts. He evolved Fallen Abyss Hand to Old-Day Tier, where each hand doubled its attribute bonus and gained the ability to convert unwanted stolen attributes into desired ones at a two-to-one ratio.

• Qin Feng stole Divine Travel of All Things from Bosheng Weilai, gaining the ability to become liquid and transform into other forms.
• Qin Feng transformed into a water ball and received a greater affix gauge buildup slowdown, then formed Thousand Hands Guanyin and gained a constitution boost.
• Qin Feng decided to keep his abyssified skills for now and calculated that evolving Fallen Abyss Hand to Old-Day Tier would cost 2.33 million evolution points.
• Qin Feng spent 2.33 million evolution points to evolve Fallen Abyss Hand to Old-Day Tier, doubling each hand’s attribute bonus to 30,000 points.
• Qin Feng discovered Fallen Abyss Hand could convert stolen attributes he did not need into attributes he wanted at a two-to-one ratio.

Qin Feng discovered that the Godforsaken Game limited his Thousand Hands Guanyin and Thieving Saint’s Hand combination to 23 effective hands, then began grinding attributes to raise his agility. Meanwhile, 300 young players gathered in Dark Shadow City for talent advancement, where Wang Zhaoyuechuan’s talent unexpectedly fell by two grades.

• Qin Feng found that only 23 copies of Fallen Abyss Hand took effect and estimated that grinding them could raise his final agility beyond 35 million.
• Qin Feng confined Bosheng Weilai in the Judgment Grounds, returned to Blue Star, and began stealing attributes from ocean demons summoned by Didibojī.
• Three hundred newly adult players selected from across Great Xia gathered in Dark Shadow City to have Dark Shadow advance their talents.
• One player announced that their talent had improved, but Wang Zhaoyuechuan received a notification that his talent had dropped by two grades.

Qin Feng upgraded the talents of 257 young people and regressed the talents of 43 whose past conduct or character warranted punishment. When Wang Zhaoyuechuan protested, Qin Feng exposed his bullying of Lin Xiaofeng and challenged him to a duel, leaving Wang stunned.

• Qin Feng examined the young people’s memories and upgraded most of their talents by two tiers, giving greater rewards to a few and regressing the talents of those with harmful histories.
• Qin Feng downgraded 43 talents, including that of a boy who had secretly murdered a classmate, prompting protests from the young people and their elders.
• Late Night, Light Rain called for silence and told the crowd to trust Qin Feng, though she privately wondered why some talents had regressed.
• Qin Feng revealed himself and told those whose talents had regressed to examine their own actions, while some protested that they deserved upgrades.
• Wang Zhaoyuechuan claimed he had done nothing wrong, so Qin Feng brought Lin Xiaofeng to the square, showed footage of Wang bullying him, and challenged Wang to a duel with his punishment at stake.

After Wang Zhaoyuechuan’s bullying of Lin Xiaofeng was exposed, Lin Xiaofeng confronted him under the pretense of reenacting their old fights. The chapter ended as Lin Xiaofeng swung his staff at Wang Zhaoyuechuan, carrying out Qin Feng’s mission to punish him.

• Wang Zhaoyuechuan’s Light and Shadow Crystal showed him and his group bullying Lin Xiaofeng, causing an uproar and alarming the Great Xia officials.
• Wang Zhaoyuechuan’s talent was downgraded by two grades, and he pleaded with Lin Xiaofeng to say they had only been joking.
• Lin Xiaofeng calmly recalled how Wang Zhaoyuechuan had forced him to take the front line against a Platinum Tier big green-haired turtle and mocked him with its helmet.
• Wang Zhaoyuechuan agreed to pretend to be the turtle, hoping Lin Xiaofeng’s forgiveness would win Qin Feng’s pardon.
• Lin Xiaofeng gave Wang Zhaoyuechuan a green-haired helmet and struck his head with a staff as their reenactment began.

Lin Xiaofeng killed Wang Zhaoyuechuan for cheating his way into talent advancement, and the crowd understood the killing as a warning approved by Qin Feng. Lin Xiaofeng asked to serve Qin Feng, who began testing his loyalty with an illusion.

• Lin Xiaofeng killed Wang Zhaoyuechuan with one blow, prompting Wang Zhaoyuechuan's guild elders to angrily accuse him.
• Lin Xiaofeng said Wang Zhaoyuechuan deserved death for using his family's influence to deceive Lord Dark Shadow and obtain a talent advancement place.
• Late Night, Light Rain asked whether anyone still objected to the results, and the forty-two players whose talents had been downgraded stayed silent.
• Officials intercepted the downgraded players in their cities, while Lin Xiaofeng stayed behind and asked Osilio to let him work for Qin Feng.
• Qin Feng decided to test Lin Xiaofeng's loyalty by creating an illusion in which Lin Xiaofeng could use soul seizure to take over Qin Feng's body.

Qin Feng continued building his strength, then gave Gui Ling a high minor authority of extreme love after she offered him three Free Eldritch God Runes. Meanwhile, Lin Xiaofeng reached a critical point in Qin Feng’s illusion, gaining the power to seize control of “Dark Shadow” and preparing to face his next choice.

• Qin Feng spent over seven hours farming stats with Thieving Saint’s Hand, raising his main attributes to 25.47 million.
• Qin Feng learned that Gui Ling had reached level 50 and was preparing for her sixth class advancement.
• Gui Ling offered Qin Feng three Free Eldritch God Runes, but he told her he had already maxed out all five cycle buffs and asked her to keep them.
• Qin Feng gave Gui Ling a high minor authority of extreme love to boost her combat power and help her deal with primordial beings.
• Qin Feng checked on Lin Xiaofeng and found that, after more than four years in the illusion, he had gained a soul seizure high minor authority and could now attempt to take control of “Dark Shadow.”

Qin Feng tested Lin Xiaofeng in an illusion, then sent him to work with Brother Jie after Lin Xiaofeng’s behavior toward the illusion’s Dark Shadow alarmed him. Qin Feng returned to farming attributes, maxed out all twenty-three hands of the Fallen Abyss Hand, and prepared for the Binary Star Civilization’s Time-Space Gate to open.

• Qin Feng created an illusion in which Lin Xiaofeng met Dark Shadow, but shut it down when Lin Xiaofeng began acting suggestively after offering Dark Shadow liquor.
• Qin Feng had Osilio send Lin Xiaofeng to the Guanggang Ruins to join Brother Jie, while keeping the Minor Authority of Berserk for himself.
• Qin Feng returned Osilio to Pterosaur Valley, then continued farming attributes from the Fallen Abyss Hand.
• Qin Feng maxed out the attributes from all twenty-three hands, raising his agility, strength, and mental attribute to 36.75 million by upgrading Three-Phase Balance to Immortal Tier.
• Qin Feng found that Thousand Hands Guanyin still had only twenty-three hands that could use Thieving Saint’s Hand, and suspected the number depended on his level or divinity limit.

Qin Feng entered the reactivated Desirelessness Temple and began the inheritance challenge for Ileinasi’s Desirelessness Grand Authority. The challenge transported him to a black gate, where he encountered its guardian, the Primordial being Heitian.

• Qin Feng considered whether to use the Emberfire Temple followers to increase his divinity limit through Illusion or pursue a new grand authority.
• Master Kaipu finished reactivating every function of the Desirelessness Temple ahead of schedule.
• Qin Feng entered the temple’s central hall and found that the system waived the 1,000 Ileinasi’s Ink Feathers entry fee after Primordial beings approved his inheritance attempt.
• Qin Feng accepted the challenge and was transported to a black gate marked with a black feather.
• The feather transformed into Heitian, a human-headed, bird-bodied demon crow and guardian of the challenge stage.

Qin Feng broke into Ileinasi’s Desirelessness Treasure Vault and passed the first trial by showing little greed for its treasures. He remained wary of another trap as he questioned whether Ileinasi intended to choose an emotionless challenger or someone already powerful enough to feel little desire.

• Heitian told Qin Feng to attack the Desirelessness Treasure Vault’s gate, and Qin Feng shattered it with a single slash.
• Heitian showed Qin Feng the vault’s thousands of treasure chests and explained that their contents included Ancient Grade and Old-Day Tier items.
• Qin Feng asked how to obtain the Desirelessness Grand Authority, and Heitian said he had passed the trial because his greed was low.
• Heitian revealed that Qin Feng’s greed had not risen even after he learned he could inherit the grand authority, confirming that he had truly qualified.
• Qin Feng suspected Ileinasi’s challenge was designed to favor either emotionless players or exceptionally powerful players like himself.

Qin Feng passed Ileinasi’s legacy challenge and obtained the desirelessness grand authority after keeping his greed below the required threshold. He examined its abilities and considered how its power to manipulate desires could strengthen him.

• The system confirmed that Qin Feng had inherited Ileinasi’s desirelessness grand authority.
• Heitian explained that the challenge required Qin Feng to keep his greed toward the treasure chests and the authority at or below 1%, and revealed Qin Feng’s values were below 0.1%.
• Heitian said a player with zero desire would fail because Ileinasi needed a successor capable of understanding and empathizing with desire.
• Qin Feng viewed the authority interface and saw that the desirelessness authority had joined his extreme love authority in his black-and-white wings.
• Qin Feng learned that the authority could strip and store desires, enhance a target’s desires, and suppress their attributes by up to 99%.

Qin Feng inherited the desirelessness grand authority and collected thousands of Ileinasi's Ink Feathers. After obtaining both the extreme love and desirelessness grand authorities, he learned he could enter Ileinasi's Habitation and arranged for Master Kaipu to travel to Highest Heaven with Shadow 007.

• Qin Feng reviewed his desire values and realized his desire for survival was at 100%, while he chose not to inspect his deviant desires.
• Blacksky told Qin Feng that the treasure chests held Ileinasi's Ink Feathers, which Qin Feng gathered by the tens of thousands.
• Qin Feng received a notification that holding both the extreme love and desirelessness grand authorities let him open a portal to Ileinasi's Habitation.
• Qin Feng returned to the Desirelessness Temple, confirmed his success to Master Kaipu, and gave him a hundred Ink Feathers as a reward.
• Qin Feng told Master Kaipu that Shadow 007 could take him through the Binary Star Civilization's Time-Space Gate to Highest Heaven, where he could gather information.