Arc 29Chapters 701–725
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Ye Fei, Jun Mo, and the Queen entered the Faction Conquest Battle to face 137,000 players from Lie Feng Mountain. As the enemy prepared to surround them, Ye Fei revealed his Wind-Thunder Divine Bow, leaving the opposing mountain master alarmed.
Ye Fei and Jun Mo led Free and Unrestrained Mountain against Lie Feng Mountain, using Ye Fei’s Divine Artifact and the beasts to overwhelm the enemy. After testing the shield’s energy absorption and deadly counterattack, Ye Fei charged into the fleeing players, leaving Queen as a target.
Ye Fei and his allies crushed Lie Feng Mountain’s conquest attempt, then looted its territory with the Queen’s expanding Life Tree. After checking on Huahua, who had overeaten while defending their home, Ye Fei learned that Xu Ming’s growing influence and strange aura were becoming a danger.
Lu Heng escaped Xu Ming’s attempt to draw him into Human Heart City, while Ye Fei recognized that the Human Race’s infighting was driven by leaders competing for faith. Long Heng and the Thunder God agreed to disrupt the contest by openly returning all faith they received, and Long Heng left Ye Fei anticipating that they would recruit others.
Ye Fei hosted the Water God, Fire God, Thunder God, God of Light, and Dark God at his home, where they discussed their domains and exchanged gifts. The gods learned that Ye Fei had reached the immortal realm, while he privately wondered whether the Light and Dark Gods shared a deeper origin.
Ye Fei received Divine-grade gifts from the Dark God while Long Heng revealed that he was bound to Ye Fei as a guardian. As rumors spread that Free and Unrestrained Mountain belonged to the Human Race Faction, Ye Fei made his first World Channel post nearly five hundred days after entering the world.
Ye Fei spent 1,000 battle points on ten special effect draws and enhanced Free and Unrestrained Mountain’s faction bonuses. As the gods opened their faith systems and players began switching allegiances, Long Heng kept his believers with the Thunder God for now while Lu Heng chose faith in the Wind God as a potential escape from danger.
Ye Fei learned that Free and Unrestrained Mountain had received no conquest challenges because few members were eligible and its enemies had been eliminated. The Heavenly Court then declared a Faction Conquest Battle, which Ye Fei accepted after learning the Heavenly Emperor intended to send players and resources rather than start a real fight.
The Heavenly Emperor brought the Thunder God and a force of players into a Conquest Battle against Free and Unrestrained Mountain, intending to turn defeat into a profitable scheme. The Queen began gathering materials on the battlefield while the Heavenly Emperor anticipated using the loss to attract more battles, and the Thunder God planned to seek help from the Underworld next.
The Heavenly Emperor conceded and left, and Free and Unrestrained Mountain reached faction level 8 after the Queen supplied the remaining prosperity. Ye Fei and Feng An tested whether they could expand the faction’s territory themselves, discovered the added area had thinner energy, and planned to reach level 9 before investigating the level 10 restriction.
Ye Fei confronted Xu Ming over using human lives to build his own power, and Xu Ming unfriended him after defending his push for human unity. Ye Fei and the others chose to stay out of the human infighting and wait for the Race Melee to unfold.
After Underworld’s failed conquest, Ye Fei learned that the Nether Lord’s parting words hinted the ongoing free-for-all would soon end as the races consolidated and paused their fighting. At home, Lingbo brought a feast cooked by the Dragon God, while the Queen reflected on Fan taking his sister into battle without asking her first.
After the leaderboards exposed Xu Ming and another Human Race city lord for hoarding faith power, Human Race players turned against them, and the faction soon collapsed under attacks from other races. Lu Heng returned to Free and Unrestrained Mountain after fighting to the end and detonating a formation that could cripple the enemy Race Gods.
Ye Fei explained to Lu Heng how the Race War and coming God War would cull players, while Lu Heng struggled with the injustice of their situation. He declared that he would oppose anyone trying to destroy the world because he was on the World Rules' side.
As the God War approached, Lingbo worried about the gods planning to defy heaven and asked whether Free and Unrestrained Mountain could withstand an attack. Ye Fei reassured her that Spirit’s presence made the mountain safe, while he and Lingbo prepared allies and checked on Huahua’s coming ascension.
Ye Fei visited Huahua at the Free and Unrestrained Mountain, where the young Wood God was staying to protect her during the coming God War. The Wood God revealed that Ye Fei had become part of the world rather than merely a player, and they discussed why Human Race players blamed Ye Fei for refusing to protect them.
As the God War approached, Lin Mu and Lin Xian chose to teach cultivation in the Worker Area rather than join a battle beyond their strength. Ye Fei gathered with the Thunder God, the Gold God, and the others, reassuring them that they would survive as Feng An brought food and warned that the war would begin soon.
As the Final Survival Battle War countdown began, Ye Fei and the gods at Free and Unrestrained Mountain made their final choices and discussed whether players could survive by merging with the world and avoiding combat. The chapter ended with them discovering that Xu Ming had returned as a powerful Demon General and was trying to unite the Human Race's gods.
The God War began, and Ye Fei’s Free and Unrestrained Mountain quickly drew attacks from players hoping to eliminate rivals before the God King Contest. Ye Fei went out to face the attackers as Long Heng watched him prepare to fight with a Longbow.
Ye Fei exposed the gods surrounding Free and Unrestrained Mountain and killed a Dark God who tried to possess him, but the gods sealed the Evil Spirit in a prepared formation. Ye Fei concealed his satisfaction as the gods of Free and Unrestrained Mountain gathered to protect him, leaving the enemy confused by the mountain’s strange defenders and wondering where its Fierce Beasts were.
Ye Fei and the others targeted thirteen qilin and their materials to gather enough prosperity to upgrade Free and Unrestrained Mountain. After bringing their companions back to the Mountain Peak, Ye Fei began raising the faction’s level.
Free and Unrestrained Mountain met the requirements for its level 10 advancement trial, and Ye Fei started it beneath Jianmu. As the trial began, multicolored light spread from Jianmu and the faction’s terrain and environment started changing.
Free and Unrestrained Mountain reached level 10, and Jianmu’s transformation turned the advancement trial into a series of stages for invading players to clear. With the territory stable and its defenders heading out to fight, Ye Fei stayed on the Mountain Peak with the creatures gathered around him.
Ye Fei welcomed Mumu into his family after the Wood God merged with Jianmu and gained it as his true body. As the battle continued elsewhere, Feng An took Mumu and Huahua out to play and train.
As the battle for Free and Unrestrained Mountain continued, Ye Fei ignored Xu Ming’s attempts to contact him while Feng An prepared a new home and the little Phoenixes went out to watch the fighting. After Phoenix Perch seemed to disapprove of his hair, Ye Fei gave himself a makeover beneath Jianmu, and Feimeng suggested he update his understated clothes too.