Chapter Summaries

Ye Fei met an exhausted Human Race Player from the Underground Region on the Hillside, then continued gathering materials with his animals. After the man woke and caught up with Ye Fei by the river, he asked to join him because he was lost and unsure what to do in the challenge.

• Ye Fei found a fatigued Human Race Player on the Hillside and told Eclipse Moon not to worry.
• The man argued that humans should protect their own race, then fell asleep while Ye Fei left to gather materials.
• Ye Fei and his animals descended the mountain, collecting materials and sharing roasted meat along the way.
• At the river, Eclipse Moon spotted the man running down the mountain toward them.
• The man washed in the river, explained that he had gotten lost after causing a mountain collapse, and offered to help Ye Fei gather things.

Ye Fei rejected Xu Ming’s offer to team up but let him follow at a distance as they explored the mountains. At night, Ye Fei identified the mountain that had buried Xu Ming as a living Mountain-Hiding Monster, which had noticed them but could not move while digesting its prey.

• Ye Fei refused Xu Ming’s offer to travel together and explained that he could not add friends in the challenge mode.
• Xu Ming followed Ye Fei from a distance, copying his efforts to gather plants and branches despite being unable to use or store them.
• Xu Ming warned Ye Fei away from the mountain where he had been buried, but Ye Fei identified it as a Mountain-Hiding Monster that had swallowed him.
• Ye Fei explained that the monster had noticed them but could not move while digesting, then prepared a meal while Xu Ming struggled to believe him.

Ye Fei shared food with his pets while Xu Ming tried to persuade him to care more about the Human Race. Ye Fei rejected Xu Ming’s assumptions, and Qingxue and Feimeng stayed close to their human as Xu Ming reconsidered his approach.

• Ye Fei fed his pets and praised Eclipse Moon while Xu Ming watched their close-knit family with envy.
• Ye Fei said his pets had protected and supported him, and that he cared about friends regardless of their race.
• Xu Ming interpreted Ye Fei’s words as a sign that he lacked racial identity and began preparing to explain the importance of the Human Race.
• Ye Fei warned Xu Ming that some of his pets understood human speech and might react badly to his words, leaving Xu Ming confused and wary.
• Qingxue sought Ye Fei’s attention, and Feimeng reassured her that Ye Fei would not be swayed by Xu Ming; Qingxue then returned to eating while considering how to deal with anyone who upset him.

Ye Fei challenged Xu Ming’s belief that becoming a half-demon was a betrayal, explaining how unequal racial starting abilities and personal circumstances shaped such choices. Xu Ming was left considering what he would do if he were forcibly transformed.

• Xu Ming watched Ye Fei relax with his companions and wrestled with whether to recruit him as a leader for the human race.
• Ye Fei asked Xu Ming about racial conflict, and Xu Ming described other races organizing factions and his fear that humans would be vulnerable without unity.
• Ye Fei warned that human-only solidarity could turn against half-demons, while Xu Ming insisted that changing races was betrayal.
• Ye Fei explained that rabbit players began with over twenty combat power because weaker rabbits were not recognized as players, unlike humans who could begin with one point.
• Ye Fei asked what Xu Ming would do if he were forcibly turned into a half-demon and described how strength could let half-demons rebuild human bodies.

Xu Ming decided he would grow stronger as a half-demon while still seeking ways to protect the Human Race, but the Mountain-Hiding Monster swallowed him and Ye Fei underground. Ye Fei and his pets remained protected at the bottom, where he waited for the monster to appear.

• Xu Ming accepted that becoming a half-demon could let him survive and help the Human Race, while Ye Fei argued that different races did not have to be enemies.
• Xu Ming thanked Ye Fei and reflected on how to protect humans, while Ye Fei fell asleep with the little fluffballs.
• The Mountain-Hiding Monster emerged and sank Xu Ming into the earth, but Ye Fei and the pets descended safely inside a Golden Light Shield.
• Xu Ming urged Ye Fei to escape, but Ye Fei said they were trapped underground and waited for the Mountain-Hiding Monster to appear.

Trapped inside the mountain, Ye Fei and Xu Ming faced a mental attack from the Mountain-Hiding Monster while Xu Ming tried to blast a way out. Ye Fei revealed that he had already spread his Lightning Domain through the surrounding earth and rocks, drawing the monster and Xu Ming’s Magic Ball into its net as he began refining everything it contained.

• Xu Ming worried that he had dragged Ye Fei and his pets into danger, while Ye Fei tried to calm him and sensed an unclear presence around them.
• A shifting voice called them despicable humans, and its overlapping sounds attacked their minds and disrupted Xu Ming’s nearly completed spell.
• Xu Ming lost control of his Magic Ball, dropped his Magic Shield, and pushed the orb upward to open a way out, exposing himself to the mountain’s spikes.
• Feimeng moved forward and protected Ye Fei, who released his pets, sat down, and began cultivating; Xu Ming rested after exhausting his Magic Power.
• Feimeng dragged a misty chain around Ye Fei as Feng Bai and Eclipse Moon guarded him, while Phantom Spirit’s illusions of Qingxue and Fire Dance faded.
• Ye Fei rapidly refined the energy and matter caught in his Lightning Domain, including the Mountain-Hiding Monster and Xu Ming’s Magic Ball.

Ye Fei finished refining the Mountain-Hiding Monster underground and led Xu Ming and their pets toward the surface. They emerged into a torrential downpour, where Ye Fei realized that landslides threatened them.

• Ye Fei completed his cultivation, strengthening his Dantian twice, while Xu Ming recovered nearby.
• Ye Fei asked if Xu Ming could climb out, and Xu Ming said he could move but could not make a passage.
• Ye Fei showed Xu Ming the passage above them, and Eclipse Moon dragged the exhausted man along.
• Ye Fei shaped his Golden Light Shield into a tower and spun it through the soil to reach the surface.
• Ye Fei and Xu Ming emerged in heavy rain, and Ye Fei warned that landslides could be imminent.

Ye Fei escaped the shifting mountains with Xu Ming and the companions, then made a temporary Golden Light Shield shelter while collecting unusual plants and ores. Xu Ming began cultivating to recover, still embarrassed that his repeated blunders had likely ruined Ye Fei’s impression of him.

• Ye Fei had Feng Bai carry him, the unconscious Phantom Spirit, and Xu Ming away from the unstable mountains.
• Ye Fei built a simple Golden Light Shield shelter and soothed Eclipse Moon after Xu Ming apologized for clinging to its neck.
• Ye Fei gathered plants and ores while Xu Ming asked what they were and discovered he could not store his own finds in Inventory.
• Xu Ming set the plants down and began Meditation, hoping to recover while worrying that he had made a terrible impression on Ye Fei.

After the mountains collapsed, Ye Fei spotted a glittering golden name, [Spirit], but sensed it was dangerous and kept his companions away while they searched the area. The next morning, Xu Ming recovered enough to talk with Ye Fei and asked whether a powerful cultivator in the Snow Mountain Region was restricted from attacking the Human Race.

• Ye Fei watched the mountains collapse into hills and saw the golden name [Spirit], which he judged too dangerous to investigate.
• Xu Ming sensed something promising near the hills, but agreed to keep meditating and avoid it while Ye Fei searched the surroundings with his companions.
• Ye Fei returned to the Golden Light Shield house at midnight, and Xu Ming meditated outside through the night as the rain continued.
• In the morning, Ye Fei fed his tired companions and offered Xu Ming meat broth and bread after the rain eased.
• Xu Ming introduced himself as a second-tier Magic User from the Underground Region, and Ye Fei agreed to add him as a friend after they returned.
• Xu Ming asked Ye Fei about a rumor that a powerful cultivator in the Snow Mountain Region was restricted from attacking the Human Race.

Ye Fei watched a dangerous Golden Light Pillar appear and warned Xu Ming and Jun Mo to stay out of the coming commotion. Jun Mo reunited with Ye Fei and fed his hungry companions, while Ye Fei left them expecting that they might soon have to leave.

• Ye Fei saw the Golden Light Pillar and told Xu Ming not to cause trouble when other players arrived.
• Eclipse Moon and Feng Bai went to fetch Jun Mo after Qingxue signaled that he was nearby.
• Jun Mo arrived riding Lingxiao and brought Lingxiao and Lingxu into Ye Fei's shelter, where they ate.
• Ye Fei explained that the Golden Light Pillar was dangerous and told Jun Mo not to join the commotion.

Ye Fei, Jun Mo, Xu Ming, and Lin Xian gathered near the Golden Light Pillar and learned that its challenge stage seemed to be divided by combat power. Their wait was interrupted when seven Heavenly Imperial Sect members arrived and demanded entry, food, and submission.

• Jun Mo asked about Xu Ming, and Ye Fei explained that Xu Ming had been chased by the Mountain-Hiding Monster, which caused the mountains to collapse.
• Xu Ming described the creature to Jun Mo while Ye Fei watched the Golden Light Pillar and the players gathering around it.
• Lin Xian arrived and said approaching the pillar made him feel weak, leading Ye Fei to suspect that its challenge stages were sorted by players’ combat power.
• Seven cultivation practitioners from the Heavenly Imperial Sect landed outside the house and ordered Ye Fei’s group to let them in and serve them food.

Jun Mo and the others faced down Heavenly Imperial Sect players who had gathered outside their house, while Long Heng declared that his faction, Free and Unrestrained Mountain, ranked third in average Combat Power. The crowd doubted him after learning the group’s Combat Power was only a little over a hundred, and Long Heng went inside, abandoning his attempt to warn them.

• Jun Mo mocked the Heavenly Imperial Sect’s poor average ranking, angering the players gathered outside his house.
• Long Heng struck a Heavenly Imperial Sect player, badly injuring him, and then mocked Feng and the others.
• Long Heng announced that he belonged to Free and Unrestrained Mountain, third in the average rankings, but Feng questioned whether the group could really be members.
• A Heavenly Imperial Sect player revealed that Ye Fei and the others had Combat Power of only a little over a hundred, prompting the watching players to laugh at Long Heng.
• Long Heng angrily carried the three little furballs inside and took their spot, giving up on warning the surrounding players.

Xu Ming watched as the Heavenly Imperial Sect players prepared to attack the golden house, while Ye Fei and the others calmly waited for them to make a move. When one attacker entered and was immobilized, Fire Dance burned and consumed him, leaving the group ready to deal with anyone else who came in.

• Xu Ming warned Ye Fei and the others that the Heavenly Imperial Sect players outside might attack, but Lu Heng said they could use the attackers to test the Golden Light Pillar.
• Long Heng questioned Xu Ming's place among them, but Xu Ming insisted on staying because he owed a debt to the person who had saved his life.
• The man surnamed Feng ordered the Heavenly Imperial Sect players to smash the golden house's door, and one player charged through it and became immobilized.
• Ye Fei controlled the doorway, Jun Mo's Immobilization Formation trapped the intruder, and Fire Dance burned him and consumed the little energy left.
• Long Heng mocked the attackers' weakness while Xu Ming watched in shock, and Long Heng reflected on his and Fire Dance's strength.

Lu Heng provoked the Heavenly Imperial Sect players into insulting the Demon Race, triggering a confrontation that escalated into a fight. Ye Fei recognized a butterfly demon among the onlookers, while Lu Heng wondered about the true form and combat power of the Demon Race fighter.

• Eclipse Moon reacted angrily when the Heavenly Imperial Sect players called it and the others demonic monsters, and Ye Fei warned Lu Heng that the term offended the Demon Race.
• Lu Heng questioned the players outside, and one of Senior Brother Feng's companions loudly called the Demon Race demonic monsters, drawing the surrounding Demon Race members' killing intent.
• A Demon Race member called Black Lao Qi confronted Senior Brother Feng, while a Jade-Phosphor Butterfly girl urged him to attack.
• Black Lao Qi struck down two Heavenly Imperial Sect players, and the surrounding Demon Race members joined the battle.
• Ye Fei identified the butterfly demon, and Lu Heng wondered what Black Lao Qi's true form was and why his combat power remained below five hundred.

Ye Fei and his companions met Die Wu of the Wood Demon Pavilion after its members helped fight the Heavenly Imperial Sect. Die Wu proposed an alliance with Free and Unrestrained Mountain, and Ye Fei asked what benefits the alliance would bring and whether Die Wu could speak for her faction.

• Ye Fei explained that Hei Mo was a bear demon who could not transform, while Lu Heng wondered whether the butterfly demon was interested in Ye Fei.
• Die Wu asked Ye Fei and the others to come out and talk, explaining that the demons expected compensation for fighting on their behalf.
• Die Wu confirmed that Ye Fei’s group officially belonged to Free and Unrestrained Mountain.
• Die Wu introduced herself and Hei Mo as members of the thirteen-person Wood Demon Pavilion and proposed an alliance with Free and Unrestrained Mountain.
• Ye Fei asked what the alliance would offer and whether Die Wu had the authority to represent her faction.
• Die Wu said her older sister, the pavilion master, wanted an alliance with a faction in the top ten of the average rankings that had more than a handful of members.

Ye Fei declined to rush toward the expanding Golden Light Pillar, sensing that the treasure within was dangerous and unwilling to submit to a player. As players entered and died, he recognized that the treasure had developed Spiritual Awareness, while its identity remained unclear.

• Ye Fei postponed discussing an alliance with Die Wu, who revealed she had bought his Windbreaking Blades and asked him to upgrade them later.
• Jun Mo warned Ye Fei that the pillar was dangerous, and Ye Fei chose not to approach it.
• Xu Ming decided to enter the pillar in search of strength and treasure, while Ye Fei returned to the house with Jun Mo.
• Long Heng watched players suffer random deaths inside the pillar, and Lu Heng asked Ye Fei whether he could reach its center.
• Ye Fei explained that he could likely reach the center but believed the vengeful-soul-tainted treasure would not obey a player; as more players died, faint tags appeared beside its golden name.

Ye Fei and the others discussed how the world’s rules were limiting an evil spirit’s slaughter as its player count fell, then considered other ways players could survive. The group decided to keep Free and Unrestrained Mountain small and focus on their own cultivation.

• Ye Fei estimated that the evil spirit had devoured more than 114,000 players and suspected the world’s rules had slowed it to prevent the player population from dropping too far.
• Long Heng asked whether the slaughter had been restricted, and Ye Fei said the world might reset if too few players remained to sustain its development.
• Lin Xian wondered if the world might make weaker players reproduce, and Feimeng said player reproduction was already permitted after arrival in this world.
• Ye Fei explained that faction territory could shelter low-Combat-Power players if a household head met the 100-point requirement, and Lu Heng realized this offered another way to survive.
• Long Heng and Ye Fei argued against expanding their group, and Ye Fei reaffirmed that Free and Unrestrained Mountain would remain at nine players.
• Lu Heng denied wanting to manage more people and said he preferred their current small group.

Ye Fei and his companions watched players fight over a powerful Broad Sword whose wielder gained strength but quickly exhausted it. Die Wu traded a depleted Jiaozhu for a private room to shelter the badly injured Black Lao Qi, while Ye Fei realized the Elf Queen’s defenses explained Feng An’s frustration with the Life Tree.

• Players fought over the Broad Sword, and each wielder unleashed great power before exhausting their strength and losing the weapon.
• Die Wu returned with the half-crippled Black Lao Qi and asked Ye Fei’s group for a private room, offering a depleted Jiaozhu in exchange.
• Ye Fei took Little Jiaoren from Jun Mo so Jun Mo could create the room and earn the Jiaozhu for him.
• Jun Mo formed a small isolated room beside Ye Fei’s, and Die Wu fed Black Lao Qi medicine by the handful.
• Lu Heng and Jun Mo discussed the Queen and Wind God, and Long Heng said the Queen was safe at home because Feng An could not break through her defenses.
• Ye Fei connected the Queen’s defenses and regenerative power to Feng An’s interest in the Life Tree.

As the challenge countdown ended, Ye Fei and his companions faced the Heavenly Imperial Sect, whose members tried to strike them with a broad sword. The group returned safely, but Ye Fei’s delayed underground attack killed Feng and left the Heavenly Imperial Sect threatening revenge.

• Ye Fei and his companions prepared to confront Feng and the Heavenly Imperial Sect, while Jun Mo reminded them that Ye Fei had said they would soon return.
• With seconds remaining, Long Heng transformed into a little dragon and blocked the descending sword energy as Ye Fei’s arrow struck Feng’s defensive artifacts.
• Ye Fei’s arrow fragments turned into fiery Phoenix Birds that attacked the Heavenly Imperial Sect’s magical artifacts as the return countdown reached zero.
• Feng threatened Ye Fei before flames erupted inside him, killing him and reducing him to ashes.
• Ye Fei explained that he had hidden a Lightning-Fire Fusion dragon underground to numb Feng and delay the attack until after the challenge ended.
• The return process began, preventing further attacks, and Ye Fei noted that Long Heng had used one protective Serpent Scale despite having spares.

After the challenge event ended, Ye Fei returned to his homestead with valuable seeds and ores and reviewed the gains from his cultivation. Feng An questioned whether Free and Unrestrained Mountain should ally with the Wood Demon Pavilion, leaving Ye Fei to decide how to handle the faction’s future.

• All players returned to their homesteads after half the challenge rewards were deducted as a storage fee, and the Elf Queen invited them to chat.
• Lu Heng complained that the Heavenly Imperial Sect had bullied them, while the Elf Queen pointed out that Free and Unrestrained Mountain had helped cause the sect’s casualties.
• Long Heng revealed that he had used a Serpent Scale to stop an annihilating attack, prompting the Elf Queen to ask the Wind God to seek compensation from the Heavenly Imperial Sect.
• Ye Fei reviewed his increased spiritual energy and attributes, then redeemed medicinal herb seeds and scarce ores for Free and Unrestrained Mountain.
• Feng An questioned Ye Fei about allying with the Wood Demon Pavilion, noting that the faction had powerful healing abilities but offered Free and Unrestrained Mountain few benefits.