Chapter Summaries

Qin Feng upgraded Greedy Hand to Mythic Tier and synthesized an Epic Grade weapon, which he exchanged for Witch Apostle Livia’s Tear and equipped. After learning of a Nightmare Hellflower boss, he recognized it as a deadly threat from his previous life and decided to act.

• Qin Feng used Greedy Hand to synthesize ten Diamond Tier items into Jericho’s Berserker Greatsword, then exchanged it for Witch Apostle Livia’s Tear.
• Qin Feng equipped the necklace, raising his Assassin skill levels and improving his damage and cooldowns.
• Qin Feng noted that he had enough experience to reach level 24 and that newly discovered higher-level bosses would let him continue gaining Evolution Points.
• Late Night, Light Rain told Qin Feng that someone had discovered the Diamond Tier Nightmare Hellflower.
• Qin Feng recalled the boss’s deadly nightmare zone and decided to confront the threat.

Theodore’s squad planned to trap Qin Feng and the Magic City team inside the Nightmare Hellflower’s nightmare zone and kill them, while Qin Feng prepared to face the boss with official support. The chapter ended as Qin Feng arrived at the team’s gathering point and heard their adviser praise Theodore’s group as magnanimous, unaware of their plot.

• Theodore told his squad that Amos would seal the volcano passage after they lured the Great Xia team inside, leaving them to the Nightmare Hellflower’s nightmare zone.
• Theodore’s squad members celebrated their plan to kill Dark Shadow, while Fury secretly considered murdering Theodore’s wife.
• Qin Feng explained the Nightmare Hellflower’s mechanics to Late Night, Light Rain and planned to rely on the official team to share the burden of its nightmare effects.
• Qin Feng reviewed his upgraded skills and discovered that items obtained through Equivalent Exchange could still be used in Greedy Hand’s ten-into-one synthesis.
• Qin Feng and Late Night, Light Rain arrived at the gathering point, where adviser Sun praised Theodore’s group for sharing the boss’s location and proposed sharing the loot with them.

Qin Feng joined Late Night, Light Rain’s raid to confront the Nightmare Hellflower in the Purgatory Volcano, while Theodore’s group secretly planned to trap the Great Xia players. The chapter ended with Late Night, Light Rain silencing Zuma and knocking him off the platform toward the lava and the boss.

• Late Night, Light Rain introduced Sun Xing as the operation’s adviser and invited the raid members, including Qin Feng, to join.
• Late Night, Light Rain led the group toward the volcano, and Sun Xing reluctantly rode a summoned wild boar.
• At the volcano, Theodore greeted Qin Feng and claimed his group bore no ill will; Qin Feng agreed to proceed to the boss.
• The raid entered the nightmare zone and found the Nightmare Hellflower in a vast chamber above lava rivers.
• Iron Fist · Amos told Theodore that he had built stone walls to trap the raid, and Theodore prepared to leave with Zuma.
• Late Night, Light Rain silenced Zuma, then used Knockback Arrow to send him falling from the platform toward the lava.

Late Night, Light Rain tried to stop Theodore’s group from escaping in soul form, but Sun Xing freed them and was expelled from her party. With the Nightmare Hellflower’s lethal affix threatening everyone and the escape passage blocked, the group turned to Dark Shadow, who had already taken a third of the boss’s health.

• Late Night, Light Rain silenced and knocked back Zuma, but Sun Xing purified him, allowing Zuma and Theodore’s group to enter soul form and escape after Fury awakened the Nightmare Hellflower.
• Late Night, Light Rain kicked Sun Xing from the party, while he accused her of attacking their allies in the local channel.
• Late Night, Light Rain warned that the Nightmare Gauge would trap them in a nightmare and drain their tradable lifespan, then revealed Theodore’s group had blocked the passage out.
• The group realized Sun Xing had helped Theodore’s people and rallied around Dark Shadow as the Nightmare Gauge began filling.
• Everyone saw that Dark Shadow had already reduced the Nightmare Hellflower’s health by a third.

Qin Feng attacked the Nightmare Hellflower and guided the raid through its Nightmare Wisp mechanic by passing a Nightmare Fruit around. Late Night, Light Rain sent the fruit toward Sun Xing, who was overwhelmed by the wisps and died in the lava; the boss’s invincibility ended, and Qin Feng prepared to finish it before pursuing Theodore and the others.

• Qin Feng ambushed the Nightmare Hellflower, dealing massive damage until it entered its invincible second phase and released hundreds of Nightmare Wisps.
• Qin Feng marked the spawned Nightmare Tree and explained how the raid could use its Nightmare Fruit to draw and kite the wisps.
• The raid passed the Nightmare Fruit around to keep the wisps from hitting them, while Late Night, Light Rain received the fruit.
• Sun Xing returned to the arena, and Late Night, Light Rain threw the fruit past him into the passage, causing the wisps to overwhelm him and trigger a nightmare state.
• Sun Xing fell into the lava, where a branch killed him and drained his tradable lifespan; the Nightmare Hellflower’s invincibility ended.
• Qin Feng prepared to use a Finishing Move to burst down the boss and then pursue Theodore and the others.

Qin Feng calculated how to bypass the Nightmare Hellflower’s health-locked phase and kill it before the team succumbed to their rising Nightmare Gauges. With Late Night, Light Rain’s Demon Hunting Mark boosting his damage, he executed the boss and secured the world’s first Diamond Tier boss kill.

• Qin Feng stopped the team’s attacks and calculated how to defeat the Nightmare Hellflower without triggering its next invincible phase.
• Qin Feng worked out that Crimson Blade and Coup de Grace’s Throat Slit would need Late Night, Light Rain’s Demon Hunting Mark to deal enough damage.
• Qin Feng waited until the boss had 14.3 million HP and built up 100 Combo Points while dodging its attacks.
• Late Night, Light Rain applied Demon Hunting Mark when Qin Feng gave the signal.
• Qin Feng struck with Killing Shadow, Silent Concealment, Coup de Grace, and repeated Crimson Blades, killing the Nightmare Hellflower during its skill cast.
• The system announced that Dark Shadow, Late Night, Light Rain, Wuchang, and their teammates had achieved the world’s first Diamond Tier boss kill.

Qin Feng killed the first Diamond Tier boss, stunning players around the world and foiling Theodore and his companions’ trap. After collecting the loot, he told Late Night, Light Rain he would pursue the six conspirators and urged her to involve the authorities.

• The system announced Qin Feng’s first Diamond Tier boss kill, shocking players worldwide and revealing that he had dealt over 99.9% of the damage despite having teammates.
• Aboard a flight to Washington, Theodore, Zuma, Fury, Amos, and their companions realized their plan to trap Dark Shadow had failed when the kill announcement reached them.
• Qin Feng collected more than ten pieces of Epic Grade loot and over thirty pieces of Diamond Tier loot after telling Late Night, Light Rain to retrieve the drops carefully.
• Qin Feng asked Late Night, Light Rain to log out with him and get the authorities to provide Theodore’s flight path so he could deal with the six conspirators.
• Late Night, Light Rain warned Qin Feng that attacking the flight could endanger diplomats and provoke a war, and Qin Feng said he would target only the six while leaving the rest to the authorities.

Qin Feng extracted powerful equipment and skills, then rode Osilio to intercept the plane carrying Theodore and his companions. He slipped into the passenger cabin and confronted Theodore with an offer to buy cheats.

• Late Night, Light Rain sent Qin Feng the plane’s flight route through the Communication Crystal Ring.
• Qin Feng synchronized his abilities to reality, extracted Witch Apostle Livia’s Tear and Osilio’s Mount Bell, and summoned Osilio on the coast near Magic City.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio at supersonic speed toward the plane carrying Theodore and his companions.
• Qin Feng used his Invisible Footwear to pass through the plane’s roof and enter the passenger cabin.
• Qin Feng asked Theodore, “Bro, want to buy cheats?”

Qin Feng killed Theodore and five others aboard a plane after they had trapped him and Great Xia personnel with a dangerous Diamond Tier boss, then escaped unseen. Great Xia publicly explained the incident and defended Dark Shadow, shifting global opinion as the world learned about the boss’s deadly nightmare affix.

• Qin Feng silently killed Zuma, Amos, and two others with Shadow Blades, while Fury shot Theodore after he used her as a shield.
• Qin Feng killed Fury, absorbed the six victims’ lifespan orbs, and escaped the plane unseen on Osilio.
• News of the killings spread, and North America accused Dark Shadow and Great Xia of provoking its nation.
• Great Xia revealed that Theodore, Fury, Amos, Zuma, and the others had trapped sixty people with a Diamond Tier boss, and released details and footage of Sun Xing’s nightmare.
• Great Xia declared that it supported Dark Shadow and would treat any action against him as a provocation, changing public opinion about the killings.

Qin Feng learned that Great Xia had publicly backed Dark Shadow while North America argued over whether to destroy his plane, then returned to Purgatory Volcano to farm and fuse equipment. He obtained the Legendary Tier Star-Killer Blade and examined its powerful effects, including the mysterious Stripping affix.

• Qin Feng learned that Great Xia had taken responsibility for Dark Shadow’s actions and that officials were mobilizing against the families of Theodore and the other five.
• North American officials debated attacking Qin Feng’s plane but dropped the proposal, then prepared forces to stop him from landing in Washington.
• Qin Feng logged into Purgatory Volcano, reviewed his Nightmare Hellflower loot, learned Assassin skills, and decided to save Evolution Points to raise Coup de Grace to Ancient Grade.
• Qin Feng farmed monsters in the volcano for seven or eight hours, then fused ten pieces of Assassin equipment into a Legendary Tier weapon.
• Qin Feng inspected the Star-Killer Blade, noted its powerful back-attack, player-killing, and shield-breaking effects, and noticed its Stripping special affix.

Qin Feng reached level 25 and returned to Evil Spirit Academy to help Zhang Jinxuan with her class advancement. After learning that Quitir had threatened the Sky Dome Guild over its campaign against the Magic City Black Dragon Hall, Qin Feng saw a chance to reach the Abyss of the Wrongfully Dead and obtain a mask.

• Qin Feng equipped his new weapon, leveled to 24, and put his free attribute points into spirit before grinding to level 25.
• Qin Feng returned to Evil Spirit Academy, where the Sky Dome Guild had grown to nearly ten thousand members, and joined Zhang Jinxuan in searching underground for what she needed to advance her class.
• Zhang Jinxuan told Qin Feng that Quitir, leader of the Non-Country War God Guild, had threatened to bring trouble to Guanggang unless the Sky Dome Guild stopped targeting the Magic City Black Dragon Hall.
• Qin Feng recalled that Quitir would eventually become a major threat and realized that the many Feiguo players in Guanggang could help him reach the thousand kills needed to obtain a mask.
• Qin Feng smiled as he considered making Quitir his next target.

Qin Feng helped Zhang Jinxuan find an ancient paintbrush, cleared his slaughter value, and discovered that his Star-Killer Blade let him secretly track players he killed. He then went to the Magic Slanted Tower to collect Feike Heavy Industry’s debt, where he learned the guild had a new leader.

• Zhang Jinxuan’s soul chicks found the ancient paintbrush, and Qin Feng escorted her back aboveground.
• Fifty female players from the Sky Dome Guild volunteered to die, and Qin Feng killed them to reduce his slaughter value to zero.
• Qin Feng discovered that his Star-Killer Blade applied Talon III Marks, allowing him to track players he killed.
• Qin Feng flew to the Magic Slanted Tower to collect the thousand years of tradable lifespan owed by Feike Heavy Industry.
• A Feike Heavy Industry team recognized Qin Feng and told him the guild had a new leader.

Qin Feng collected five hundred years of lifespan from the Magic Slanted Tower and learned that the Guanggang authorities had found the Shadow Dance Shield Skill Book. He agreed to travel to Guanggang and help them target Quitir, while Huang Ziqing secretly plotted against him.

• Qin Feng accepted five hundred years of the debt from the Magic Slanted Tower and learned that Huang Ziqing had become its guild leader.
• Huang Ziqing led Feike Heavy Industry members to farm demons and privately vowed to punish Qin Feng, while black skill icons and an ominous vase remained hidden from view.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that the Guanggang authorities had secured the Shadow Dance Shield Skill Book, and Qin Feng decided to go there and help locate Quitir in the real world.
• Qin Feng explained how his Star-Killer Blade could track Quitir's real-world location, and An Yu arranged for an official representative named Loser A Guang to meet him.
• Qin Feng spent 33.2 years of lifespan to teleport to the Guanggang Ruins, where players and guilds crowded around the public respawn point.

Qin Feng met Loser A Guang, collected the Shadow Dance Shield skill book, and learned Quitir’s location. He reached Quitir’s battle and killed him with a single strike, leaving both teams stunned.

• Qin Feng flew to Loser A Guang and traded ten years of Tradable Lifespan for the Gold Tier Shadow Dance Shield, but Loser A Guang refused payment.
• Loser A Guang explained that teammates who partied with him suffered misfortune and gave Qin Feng Quitir’s coordinates.
• Qin Feng headed out, joking that he would claim Quitir had killed his distant cousin.
• Quitir’s team fought the Pouty Fish Alliance while both sides tried to defeat a Two-Headed Bull boss.
• Qin Feng called out to Quitir while stealthed, then struck off Quitir’s head with a pitch-black blade.

Qin Feng killed Quitir, prompting the War God and his allies to mistake him for a cousin of Dark Shadow and apologize before Osilio wiped them out. Qin Feng tracked Quitir’s real-world location and discovered he was hiding inside Baiyun Mountain.

• Qin Feng killed Quitir in one strike and applied the Talon III Mark.
• Quitir respawned in the Bloody Slaughterhouse, learned Dark Shadow had killed him, and ordered his allies to stop attacking the Pouty Fish Alliance and apologize.
• Quitir’s remaining teammates apologized to Dark Shadow, believing he had avenged a cousin.
• Qin Feng ordered Osilio to attack, and Osilio’s Perpetual Vortex killed the remaining Feiguo players.
• Qin Feng used the Talon III Mark to track Quitir and discovered his real-world location was inside Baiyun Mountain.

Qin Feng killed Quitir and his team, then watched the Bloody Slaughterhouse hideout while preparing to break its defenses and force Quitir offline. After An Yu relayed the officials’ suggestion that he apologize, Qin Feng said he could make Quitir log off within three minutes.

• Qin Feng told An Yu where Quitir was in the real world, then killed Quitir and fifty Non-Country players, earning hundreds of years of lifespan.
• Qin Feng killed a Gold Tier Two-Headed Bull and left the area on Osilio as news of Quitir’s death spread through Guanggang.
• Qin Feng surveyed the Bloody Slaughterhouse hideout from a clock tower and evolved Shadow Dance Shield to Epic Grade.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that Quitir had threatened to scatter his guild and attack people unless Qin Feng apologized, and relayed the officials’ suggestion that he pretend to apologize.
• Qin Feng told An Yu he could force Quitir offline within three minutes, leaving An Yu stunned.

Qin Feng attacked Quitir’s Platinum Tier Hideout, using rapid, invisible shadow blades to drain its barrier while the defenders’ attacks failed to reveal or stop him. As Guanggang spectators gathered, Quitir and his guild watched their barrier’s durability plunge and realized they could not hit Qin Feng.

• An Yu told Qin Feng that Guanggang authorities had found Quitir’s real-world hiding place and stationed an elite squad nearby.
• Qin Feng rode Osilio to the Bloody Slaughterhouse and began attacking the Non-Country War God Guild’s barrier with shadow blades.
• Quitir ordered his guild members to use area attacks and repair the barrier, but Qin Feng remained invisible and continued damaging it.
• Nearby Guanggang players witnessed the barrier lose a large portion of its durability and gathered to cheer Qin Feng on.
• Quitir and the Feiguo players inside the Hideout grew terrified as Qin Feng’s assault continued.

Qin Feng shattered the Bloody Slaughterhouse’s magical barrier and unleashed a devastating attack on the Feiguo players inside. Quitir’s invincibility failed to protect him from Qin Feng’s Shadow Blades, leaving the slaughterhouse in chaos.

• Quitir urged the guild to repair the barrier, but many players fled or logged out while his loyal core team gathered around him.
• Qin Feng broke the barrier with Shadow Blade, catching the remaining Feiguo players scrambling to retrieve their valuables.
• Qin Feng used Killing Shadow to create three invincible Shadow Clones that hurled blades at players across the slaughterhouse.
• Quitir activated Boiling Blood Pact to make himself and his fifty-nine elites invincible, but Qin Feng’s blades dispelled his buffs.
• Qin Feng’s Shadow Blades killed Quitir, stunning the surrounding players.

Qin Feng slaughtered Quitir’s Feiguo War God Guild inside the Bloody Slaughterhouse, killing more than two thousand players while controlling his Killer stacks and absorbing the lifespan from their corpses. Quitir logged off to plan revenge against Great Xia, but a rocket struck him as he materialized in his hiding cave.

• Qin Feng used his Shadow Clones and Dark Night Ring Blade to repeatedly kill Quitir and his guild members at the Bloody Slaughterhouse respawn point.
• Qin Feng kept his Killer stacks below five while killing players with and without Slaughter Value, and the guild’s members began logging off or were killed while searching for their equipment.
• Qin Feng killed more than two thousand players in a few minutes, and his Death Flowers drained lifespan from the corpses as onlookers watched.
• After losing nearly all his lifespan, Quitir logged off and vowed to build strength before taking revenge on Great Xia.
• A rocket flew into Quitir’s hiding cave and blasted him as his translucent body solidified.

Quitir was killed by the Guanggang officials after Qin Feng’s Death Flowers drained the lives of Feiguo players, leaving the Platinum Tier Hideout unclaimed. Qin Feng accepted the officials’ invitation to hunt bosses, while the Sky Dome Guild faced a dispute over two Great Xia players fighting alongside Black Dragon Hall.

• Quitir activated Boiling Blood Pact and charged the officials, but Brother Jie pinned him until a curse weakened him and the team killed him.
• Qin Feng absorbed over 1,400 years of tradable lifespan and over 1,300 years of non-tradable lifespan, permanently killing more than four hundred Feiguo players while keeping his Killer stacks at one.
• The system announced Quitir’s true death and that his Hideout had become unclaimed, while Qin Feng counted 1,298 innocent players killed and left the area on Osilio.
• An Yu told Qin Feng that the Guanggang officials had killed Quitir and invited him to hunt bosses, including a Jadeite Tier boss, and Qin Feng agreed.
• The officials expected the leaderless Feiguo War God Guild to be easy to handle, while the Sky Dome Guild resumed its campaign against Black Dragon Hall.
• A Sky Dome Guild member told Lao Zhangtou that two Great Xia players, a married couple, had joined four Black Dragon Hall members and asked whether the guild should kill them.