Chapter Summaries

On his first wilderness hunt, Luo Feng and the Fire Hammer Squad were ambushed by the rival Tiger Fang Squad, but War God Dongguan intervened and subdued the attackers. Dongguan let Luo Feng choose their fate and challenged him to kill them himself; Luo Feng chose Zhang Zehu for their personal grudge.

• The Fire Hammer Squad rested after hunting monsters, then set out to hunt a Two-Tailed Tiger Cat and its pack.
• The Tiger Fang Squad fired on the Fire Hammer Squad, wounding Zhang Ke, and Luo Feng and Gao Feng went to investigate when the shooting stopped.
• Dongguan effortlessly killed a charging Bloodthirsty Tank and its boar underlings, then caught the Tiger Fang Squad ambushing the Fire Hammer Squad.
• Luo Feng and Gao Feng met Dongguan on the rooftop, where Dongguan revealed what had happened and asked Luo Feng what should be done with the attackers.
• Luo Feng demanded revenge for Zhang Ke’s injury, and Dongguan told him he could kill the Tiger Fang Squad members one at a time himself.
• Luo Feng chose Zhang Zehu as his first opponent.

Luo Feng fought Zhang Zehu on a rooftop and used his psychic power to kill him after overcoming Zhang’s strength and experience. With Zhang dead, Luo Feng turned his attention to Li Xiao, while Pan Ya tried to argue that the two squads had little remaining hostility.

• Zhang Zehu attacked Luo Feng, who endured the stronger man’s blows while searching for an opening.
• Luo Feng used the first stage of the Ninefold Thunder Blade to narrow the strength gap, and the two continued fighting as Luo Feng improved under pressure.
• Zhang Zehu trapped Luo Feng with a feint and attacked his waist, but Luo Feng used psychic power to evade the slash and the follow-up blows.
• Luo Feng concealed his psychic abilities as he launched throwing knives; one changed course and pierced Zhang Zehu’s abdomen, while another cut his neck.
• Luo Feng kicked Zhang Zehu’s corpse off the rooftop, and Dongguan asked who would fight next.
• Luo Feng chose Li Xiao, but Pan Ya spoke up and claimed that the two squads had little bad blood beyond Zhang Zehu.

Luo Feng and the Fire Hammer Squad let the Tiger Fang Squad go in exchange for heavy compensation, then watched Dongguan demonstrate the Ninefold Thunder Blade. Dongguan returned to Jiangnan Base City, accepted Lu Gang’s challenge to spar, and Luo Feng began researching him after returning home.

• Luo Feng consulted Dongguan and his teammates before agreeing to spare the Tiger Fang Squad in exchange for substantial compensation.
• Dongguan killed an injured Silver Moon Direwolf and explained how different combinations of hidden force could produce effects beyond simply increasing power.
• Luo Feng practiced a slash with two layers of hidden force, and Dongguan praised his talent.
• Dongguan returned to Jiangnan Base City, where Lu Gang challenged him to spar; Dongguan accepted and suggested they use the Virtual Space.
• Luo Feng returned to Jiangnan Base City with the Fire Hammer Squad, greeted his family, and searched online for information about Dongguan.

Luo Feng read War God Dongguan’s record and learned of his rise from a Dragon Shadow Squad member to a high-level War God. In the War God Palace, Dongguan agreed to spar with Lu Gang and surprised him by smiling, while Yang Bei learned of the match and decided to visit Dongguan with something to tell him.

• Luo Feng searched the martial artist forum and read Dongguan’s public record, including his solo victories over lord-level monsters.
• Dongguan entered his personal space in the War God Palace, reflected on his former combat skills, and met Lu Gang.
• Lu Gang persuaded Dongguan to enter an arena match, then messaged Yang Bei that Dongguan had smiled.
• Yang Bei recalled his years serving with Dongguan in the Dragon Shadow Squad and decided to visit him and tell him about something unexpected.

Dongguan fought Lu Gang in the War God Palace, where their sparring helped both men make breakthroughs. After the match, Dongguan reunited with Yang Bei and agreed to talk.

• Ilumi mocked Dongguan’s reputation, and Yang Bei challenged him to a real-world duel before Dongguan and Lu Gang began sparring.
• Lu Gang noticed Dongguan’s technique had weakened, while his own saber and movement techniques began to approach the intent level.
• Dongguan adapted to his recovered memories as he and Lu Gang traded increasingly powerful strikes, pushing Lu Gang toward a breakthrough.
• Lu Gang’s wind-guided techniques briefly overwhelmed Dongguan, but Dongguan countered with the ninth fold of the Ninefold Thunder Blade and defeated him.
• Lu Gang thanked Dongguan for helping him glimpse intent, and Dongguan was surprised to see how large Yang Bei looked in virtual space before agreeing to talk.

Dong Guan learned that Zhang Yu had used his genetic sample to conceive a son, Zhang Gui, and that the boy was growing up in North Frontier Base City. After hearing Yang Bei’s account, Dong Guan decided to return and meet him.

• Dong Guan asked Yang Bei how he had become so large, and Yang Bei explained that he had eaten a blood-red spirit flower and eventually reached the War God level.
• Yang Bei told Dong Guan that he had a child with Zhang Yu, Captain Zhang’s daughter.
• Yang Bei explained that Zhang Yu had taken Dong Guan’s genetic sample at his War God banquet and later became pregnant through a discontinued research project.
• Dong Guan learned that Zhang Gui was nearing his college entrance exam and had reached prospective fighter level, while Zhang Yu was still living in North Frontier Base City.
• Dong Guan agreed to return to North Frontier Base City and meet his son.

Dongguan, a High-Level War God and transmigrator with fragmentary memories, investigated a decline in rat monsters near Jiangnan Base City and warned the military of a possible Rat Tide. He joined Lu Gang and two military War Gods in a mission to investigate and eliminate the rat lord.

• Dongguan tested his physical and psychic strength, recalled how he had recovered his transmigrator memories, and set out to deal with the Rat Tide before going to the Northern Frontier.
• At the military supply base, Dongguan praised Luo Feng and asked whether warriors had noticed fewer rat monsters; Luo Feng and the others confirmed that rat monsters had become scarce.
• Dongguan concluded that a rat lord might be gathering monsters for a beast tide, prompting the soldiers to issue a warning and summon him to the base commander.
• Zheng Guo briefed Dongguan, Zhong Yang, Guo Ruinian, and Lu Gang on the suspected Rat Tide in County-Level City 0231 and asked them to investigate and eliminate the rat lord.
• Dongguan and Lu Gang accepted the mission.

Dongguan and his squad ended a rat tide by finding and killing its lord, but Dongguan then discovered a strange red line linking him to the Long-Armed Ape King. The king-level monster attacked the squad, pursued Dongguan after they split up, and left him fleeing for his life.

• A two-tailed tiger cat followed a tempting scent into the sewers, where a rat swarm tore it apart under the gaze of a lord-level monster.
• Dongguan, Lu Gang, Guo Ruinian, and Zhong Yang fought through the rat tide while Dongguan used his spiritual power to locate and kill the rat lord.
• Dongguan noticed that strange red lines converged in the rat lord’s eyes, then saw a dark red line connect him to a gray-furred figure riding an Iron-Feather Goshawk.
• The figure dropped from the goshawk and revealed itself as the nearly hundred-meter-tall Long-Armed Ape King, which smashed a building and attacked the four war gods.
• Dongguan ordered the squad to split up, and the Long-Armed Ape King pursued him as he used spiritual power to dodge its attacks.

Luo Feng and the warriors learned that the Long-Armed Ape King had appeared, while Dongguan fought the monster alone and escaped by revealing himself as a spirit reader. The Ape King fled after a councilor-level expert struck him with a laser, and Dongguan’s whereabouts remained unknown.

• The warriors at the supply base watched footage of the Long-Armed Ape King devastating 0231 County-Level City and prayed for the war god squad’s safety.
• Dongguan used his movement skills to evade the Ape King, then injured him by slipping into a wound in his belly.
• The Ape King shrank with his Water-Like Body and struck Dongguan into the air, but Dongguan flew away as a spirit reader.
• A councilor-level expert fired a laser at the Ape King, who survived and escaped in a smaller form.
• Zheng Guo told the warriors that Dongguan had left before the Ape King was driven off, and the group realized Dongguan was a spirit reader.

After escaping the Long-Armed Ape King, Dongguan developed his movement technique’s artistic conception and discovered strange patterns in the rat eyes with his forehead eye. He returned to human society and unsettled Li Yao by testing Li Wei’s strength, leaving Li Yao concerned that Dongguan might have used psychic powers on his son.

• Dongguan practiced his phantom artistic conception and reasoned that he needed an opportunity or a secret method to reach planetary grade.
• Dongguan studied the two rat eyes with his forehead eye and perceived secret patterns connected to soul and dominion.
• Dongguan checked messages and invitations, then flew to YZ City, arriving five days after the rat tide and in the year 2057.
• Dongguan encountered Li Yao, Li Wei, and their companions at the residential district entrance, tested Li Wei’s strength, and told Li Yao that his son’s fighting skills were poor.
• Li Yao had Li Wei examined and considered sending him to train in Paris in case Dongguan had used psychic powers on him.

Dongguan prepared to return to Northern Frontier Base City, hoping to investigate the worsening noise in his mind, while Li Wei set out to gain experience in City 003. The Fire Hammer Squad also resumed hunting, leaving the chapter with several groups heading into the wilderness.

• At the War God Palace, Dongguan met Yang Bei, Lu Gang, and Guo Ruinian, discussed their mission rewards, and said he would return to Northern Frontier Base City to see his child.
• Dongguan bought Hong’s “World Destruction” manual and found Hong’s account of breaking through to the Planetary Level, but he remained unable to determine how to advance and worried that the noise in his mind was growing worse.
• Dongguan and Lu Gang boarded a plane for Northern Frontier Base City, and the noise in Dongguan’s mind intensified during the flight.
• Li Wei persuaded Li Yao and Venina to let him gain experience in City 003, with Steward Liu, Kalong, and another squad assigned to protect him.
• The Fire Hammer Squad gathered again, and Gao Feng chose City 024 as their next destination.

Dongguan traced the distracting noise in his mind to the Death Desert and, unable to enter the dangerous region safely, offered a massive bounty to draw out information. The bounty and rumors about the Despair Oasis attracted growing attention, while an unexplained flash appeared deep beneath the oasis.

• Dongguan meditated through the night at Yang Bei’s home, temporarily adapting to the noise and revealing to Yang Bei and Lu Gang why he had returned to Northern Frontier Base City.
• Dongguan, Yang Bei, and Lu Gang searched the desert and discovered that the noise came from within the Death Desert, possibly the Despair Oasis.
• After weighing the risks of seeking help, Dongguan decided to offer a 100-billion-Huaxia-Currency bounty and publicize possible spirits of plants and trees and Ancient Civilization Ruins in the Death Desert.
• A flash of light appeared twenty thousand meters beneath the desert oasis as the three War Gods returned to Northern Frontier Base City.
• The bounty spread through three major platforms, and rumors about the oasis and possible ruins drew the interest of War Gods and Councilor Level experts.

Dongguan spoke with Zhang Gui about the life and resolve of a martial artist, and his words prompted the boy to choose his own path despite his mother’s fears. After Dongguan’s aura revealed his overwhelming strength and a mark like his own on Zhang Gui’s forehead, Zhang Gui decided to take the Quasi-Martial Artist test.

• Dongguan watched Zhang Gui practice spear techniques at the Limitless Martial Arts Hall, then explained how independent martial artists hunted monsters and survived in the Wilderness Zone.
• Dongguan learned that Zhang Gui wanted to become a martial artist but feared making his mother sad, and told him that only he could choose his future.
• Dongguan declared that strength allowed people to control their own destiny, briefly glimpsed a vast net, and accidentally released an aura that shook everyone in the hall.
• Zheng Yuqiao recognized Dongguan as an Invincible War God and spirit reader, while Dongguan noticed a vertical mark between Zhang Gui’s brows resembling his own.
• Zhang Gui decided to take the Quasi-Martial Artist test the next day and exchanged names with Dongguan before leaving.

Dong Guan learned that Li Wei had died during a beast tide and rejected Li Yao and Venina’s accusation that he had caused it. He discovered that Luo Feng had escaped the Long-Armed Ape King by burrowing underground and received a mission reward that included guidance from Hong and a recommendation slot for the Elite Training Camp.

• Li Yao and Venina confronted Dong Guan in the War God Palace over Li Wei’s death, but Dong Guan denied involvement and challenged them to come after him if they believed he was guilty.
• Zheng Yuqiao explained that Li Wei had died in the aftermath of a battle between the Long-Armed Ape King and the Blood Moon Azure Wolf King, after Luo Feng’s discovery of the ape king triggered the pursuit.
• Dong Guan learned that Luo Feng had escaped the Long-Armed Ape King by burrowing underground, and realized that the same tactic could have helped him in their earlier encounter.
• Zheng Yuqiao told Dong Guan that his mission reward included a guidance session with Hong and a recommendation slot for the Elite Training Camp.
• Dong Guan learned that Luo Feng had left for Hongning Base City and was expected to have joined the Elite Training Camp.

Dongguan watched Zhang Gui pass the Martial Artist Combat Assessment and prepared to bring him into the Limitless Martial Arts Hall. After the assessment, Zhang Gui left with Dongguan, while other martial artists speculated about Dongguan’s strength and his encounter with a King-level monster.

• Dongguan tested his blade technique, physical strength, and spiritual force before heading to Monster Town for Zhang Gui’s assessment.
• Dongguan watched Zhang Gui kill an Illusion Lizard and collect its tail through the surveillance feeds.
• Zhang Gui survived the night and passed the assessment by submitting dozens of monster tails from all three species.
• Dongguan invited Zhang Gui to celebrate, and the supervisor told Zhang Gui that Dongguan would handle his affairs and instructed staff to activate his access privileges.
• Other martial artists discussed Dongguan’s reputation and the claim that he had nearly defeated a King-level monster.

Dongguan visited Zhang Gui’s home and learned why Zhang Yu had conceived their son, then acknowledged Zhang Gui as his child and gave him money to buy a martial arts manual. Zhang Gui accepted his new father and planned to train before entering the Wilderness Zone, while Dongguan returned home with far less money.

• At a restaurant, Zhang Gui told Dongguan that his mother Zhang Yu treated cooking as part of her experiments for her Fish Gate company.
• Dongguan took Zhang Gui home, where he confronted Zhang Yu; after she broke down and explained she had loved him, they rekindled their relationship.
• Dongguan told Zhang Gui that he was his genetic father, and Zhang Gui struggled with the revelation before returning to his room.
• The next morning, Zhang Gui asked for the "World Destruction" manual, and Dongguan transferred him 100 billion yuan to buy it.
• Zhang Gui accepted Dongguan as his father and decided to train before joining a martial artist squad, while Dongguan lamented how much of his savings he had spent.

Dongguan learned from Hong about the ways to reach the Planetary Level and discussed his mental interference and Ruins No. 9. After training Zhang Gui and urging him toward the Elite Training Camp, Dongguan received word that someone had claimed the bounty and found ruins in the Despair Oasis.

• Hong explained that fighters could reach the Planetary Level through insight, a suitable treasure, or a secret technique, and advised Dongguan to read ancient philosophy about his mental interference.
• Dongguan said he would delay visiting Ruins No. 9 until he resolved his headaches, and Hong reminded him that Planetary Level fighters could not enter the ruins.
• Dongguan encouraged Zhang Gui to join the Elite Training Camp, noting his rapid progress in combat and cultivation, but Zhang Gui asked to wait a few more days.
• Dongguan received Yang Bei's message that someone had claimed the bounty and found ruins in the Despair Oasis, so he hurried to the Limitless Martial Arts Hall.

Wu Feng brought footage of a suspected ruin in Despair Oasis to the Limitless Martial Arts Hall, but the Hall rejected his bounty claim while Dongguan offered him a personal payment. After the footage and images of a gigantic python guarding a tower spread online, Dongguan prepared to investigate, while Hong learned that the python was a Fourth-Order Planetary Level monster and set out to stop it.

• Wu Feng showed Dongguan, Yang Bei, Lu Gang, and Zheng Yuqiao footage of his team finding a wall underground in Despair Oasis, but could not provide its exact location or enough evidence to meet the bounty requirements.
• Dongguan offered Wu Feng one billion, and Wu Feng left angry and posted on the Warrior Forum questioning whether a War God's bounty could be trusted.
• Dongguan decided to release Wu Feng's video for public judgment, and Liu He posted images showing a gigantic black-scaled python coiled around a tower-shaped structure in Despair Oasis.
• Dongguan tested his strength, then prepared to travel to the Death Desert with Yang Bei and Lu Gang.
• Hong learned that the python was a Fourth-Order Planetary Level monster and launched the Blood-Red Triangular Fighter to prevent a new Beast Emperor from emerging.

On March 15, 2057, fighters from across the world explored the Despair Oasis and discovered an enormous Circular Tower guarded by two powerful snakes. After Hong killed the snakes and opened the tower, Dongguan absorbed the drifting green mist and began breaking through to Planetary Level, while a buried spaceship started restarting.

• Warriors and Councilors cleared monsters from the Death Desert and entered the Despair Oasis, where they searched for spirits of plants and trees.
• Catlan recognized Dongguan as a High-level War God Psychic and wondered whether the ruins held the means by which Dongguan had strengthened his Spiritual Force.
• The group found an enormous Circular Tower guarded by a black snake and a speaking blue-green snake, and Hong arrived to confront them.
• Hong killed both snakes with his silver spear and led the others into the tower, where they found a cracked Black Stone Altar releasing green mist.
• Dongguan inhaled the mist, felt his body and consciousness synchronize, and began forming Miniature Planets as everyone watched.
• A form of light appeared inside a buried spaceship, whose system reported a malfunction and began restarting.

Dongguan brought his son Zhang Gui to Hongning Base City’s Training Camp, where Zhang Gui passed his entrance test and met Luo Feng, whom he vowed to surpass. Dongguan tried the Trial Tower and agreed to stay at the camp temporarily as an instructor.

• Dongguan traveled to Hongning Base City with Zhang Gui and Zheng Yuqiao, and Zhang Gui was awed by the Training Camp’s black dragon sculpture.
• Zhang Gui resolved to surpass Luo Feng after Dongguan praised him, and he vowed to pass the next day’s A-rank test.
• Luo Feng met Zhang Gui, who introduced himself as a rival, and learned that the seventeen-year-old was already a low-level War General.
• Zhang Gui passed the A-rank test, and Dongguan tried the Trial Tower, earning a rating of 5.7 after losing on the fifth floor.
• Zheng Yuqiao announced that Dongguan would temporarily serve as an instructor at the Training Camp.