Chapter Summaries

Lin Mo, reborn on the day Oracle launched, secured Great Xia’s hidden SSS-rank talent code from a scratch card and prepared to claim the Soulfire talent. As the lottery-shop crowd learned what he had found, the countdown to Oracle’s launch continued.

• Lin Mo scratched lottery tickets at a shop in Tianyi Plaza until he found a code on a Happy Reunion ticket.
• Lin Mo entered the code into Oracle and learned he had obtained the unique SSS-rank talent Soulfire, which he could claim after the servers launched.
• Lin Mo remembered his previous life, when Oracle swallowed the real world and he died after years of hardship and mistreatment.
• Lin Mo resolved to become powerful in this life and make those who had bullied him pay.
• The crowd at the lottery shop saw a news report confirming that Lin Mo had activated Great Xia’s only SSS-rank talent code.

Lin Mo claimed the unique SSS-rank talent Soulfire, which let him turn equipment into evolution points and upgrade gear. He bought and incinerated beginner equipment to evolve his sword to golden quality, then hid his identity when the system announced his achievement across Cloudside Town.

• Lin Mo entered Oracle World, chose the Human race and the name Mo Shou Cheng Gui, and replaced his E-rank Guard talent with the unique SSS-rank talent Soulfire.
• Lin Mo incinerated his Beginner Shirt for one evolution point and upgraded his Beginner Sword from white to green quality.
• Lin Mo offered to buy beginner equipment for 100 bucks apiece and collected 82 pieces, spending the remaining money in his account.
• Lin Mo burned the 82 pieces for evolution points and used them to evolve his Beginner Sword to its highest, golden quality.
• Lin Mo hid his identity before a regional announcement awarded him the Golden Legend achievement, gold coins, reputation, and the title Golden Gear War God.

Lin Mo claimed powerful achievement rewards, equipped gold and orange gear, and set his sights on earning fifty million yuan before Oracle consumed the real world. He acquired Auntie Li’s egg-recovery quest and planned to repeat it until he unlocked Cloudside Town’s hidden quest.

• Lin Mo received the World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword and upgraded his beginner pants to orange quality with his remaining evolution points.
• Lin Mo equipped the Golden Gear War God title and inspected his boosted stats, then recalled the upcoming leveling contest and Oracle’s limited-time top-up rewards.
• Lin Mo decided to earn fifty million yuan within three months and aimed to win the leveling event’s hundred-thousand-yuan first-place prize.
• Lin Mo used a stick smeared with dog shit to clear a path through the crowd around Auntie Li and accepted her quest to recover ten eggs.
• Lin Mo recognized that completing Auntie Li’s quest ten times would trigger Cloudside Town’s only hidden quest.

Lin Mo repeatedly completed Auntie Li’s egg quest to raise her affection and trigger Cloudside Town’s unique hidden quest, then accepted the mission to kill the Howling Moon Wolf King. He headed north to prepare for the level 8–10 challenge while Wind Soughs Sadly and his companions suspected Lin Mo had taken the quest and threatened to make him pay.

• Lin Mo one-shot level 1 weasels, collected one hundred eggs, and repeatedly turned them in to Auntie Li for experience, coins, reputation, and affection.
• Lin Mo raised Auntie Li’s affection to level 1 and triggered the E-rank hidden quest to kill thirty wild wolves and the Howling Moon Wolf King at Wild Wolf Ridge.
• Lin Mo accepted the quest, noted that the level 8–10 area was beyond his current level, and left town heading north to prepare.
• Skinny Monkey, Wind Soughs Sadly, and Pang Dahai arrived with eggs, and Skinny Monkey suspected Lin Mo had taken Auntie Li’s hidden quest.
• Wind Soughs Sadly insisted only their group knew how to trigger the quest and vowed to make Lin Mo pay if he had taken it.

Lin Mo went to Medicine Valley to farm medicinal ingredients, using his golden sword to kill level 5 man-eating flowers and collect a hundred flower cores. As he prepared to return to Cloudside Town, a boss appeared and several players died.

• Lin Mo decided to earn equipment by completing Jasmine's ingredient-gathering quest and set out for Medicine Valley after buying health potions.
• Lin Mo entered the level 5 zone alone and killed man-eating flowers with his golden weapon, leveling up to level 4 and investing his new attribute points in Endurance.
• Lin Mo killed a hundred man-eating flowers and collected their flower cores while other players began arriving to farm the area.
• Lin Mo turned toward screams and saw several players die in beams of white light as someone shouted that a boss had spawned.

Lin Mo killed the level 5 Man-Eating Flower Boss while players watched, then claimed its loot without anyone daring to interfere. He obtained an E-rank Poisoning skill book and a blue-quality Venomous Ring.

• Players rushed the Man-Eating Flower Boss, but its attacks killed them in one hit and drove the survivors back.
• Lin Mo approached the boss despite the crowd's mockery and used Reconnaissance to check its stats and Liquid Corrosion skill.
• Lin Mo dodged the boss's ranged attacks, then struck it repeatedly with his Flowing Light Sword, dealing heavy damage.
• The boss bit Lin Mo once before he finished it off and received 800 EXP and 3 reputation.
• Lin Mo planted his sword in the ground to deter anyone from stealing the loot, then collected silver coins, an E-rank Poisoning skill book, and a blue-quality Venomous Ring.

After defeating the Man-Eating Flower boss, Lin Mo kept its valuable loot rather than incinerating it for evolution points. When Wind Soughs Sadly’s group demanded the drops, the girls attacked Lin Mo, and he retaliated by killing Calm and Unruffled.

• Lin Mo appraised the Venomous Ring, learned it could yield twenty evolution points, and decided to keep it and the Poisoning skill book for sale.
• Wind Soughs Sadly and his companions confronted Lin Mo and demanded the boss’s loot.
• The girls in Wind Soughs Sadly’s group insulted Lin Mo and then charged at him with their beginner swords.
• Their attacks dealt only minimum damage, and Lin Mo received notifications that they had attacked him maliciously.
• Lin Mo raised his World-Shattering · Flowing Light Sword and slashed Calm and Unruffled across the neck.

Lin Mo killed Glasses Girl and the other college girls before Wind Soughs Sadly used his A-rank Mutual Destruction talent to kill them both. Wind Soughs Sadly’s companions lost the Venomous Ring to the [Troubled Times] guild, while Lin Mo left the Resurrection Spring vowing to remember him.

• Lin Mo killed Glasses Girl with one strike, then slaughtered the rest of the college girls who had attacked him.
• Lin Mo confronted Wind Soughs Sadly over the Man-Eating Flower boss’s loot and refused to hand it over.
• Wind Soughs Sadly used his Mutual Destruction talent to deal 160 damage to himself and Lin Mo, killing them both.
• Lin Mo learned that Wind Soughs Sadly’s A-rank talent sacrificed its user to inflict true damage equal to their maximum health, and discovered he had dropped the Venomous Ring.
• Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai respawned and told Wind Soughs Sadly that members of [Troubled Times] had killed them and taken the ring.
• Wind Soughs Sadly vowed to become the first person in Cloudside Town to reach level 10, while Lin Mo left after warning him.

Lin Mo raised Jasmine’s affection to level 1 and unlocked a limited-time potion discount, which he used to make a quick profit reselling potions at the auction house. After selling his first stock, he returned to buy more before the discount expired.

• Lin Mo turned in 100 medicinal flower cores to Jasmine across ten quests, earning rewards and raising her affection to level 1.
• Jasmine gave Lin Mo an E-rank Limited-Time Discount Coupon that let him buy potions at 90% off for half an hour.
• Lin Mo spent 3.8 silver coins on 380 health potions, listed them for 50 copper coins per stack, and advertised the deal anonymously in regional chat.
• Players quickly bought every stack, and Lin Mo earned 1,843 copper coins, netting a profit of 1,463 copper coins.
• Lin Mo rushed back to the potion shop to buy another bulk load at the discounted price.

Lin Mo exploited discounted potions to amass gold, then spent it on equipment card draws to collect gear and evolution points. He left Card Master Carl with enough points to evolve three pieces of equipment to gold quality.

• Lin Mo made dozens of trips between the potion shop and auction house, turning one gold coin into 13 gold, 12 silver, and 25 copper before the discount expired.
• Lin Mo found Card Master Carl and tested a five-silver-coin draw, receiving level-five white Magic Boots.
• Lin Mo spent five gold coins on one hundred draws, incinerated the 87 white pieces, and gained 435 Equipment Evolution Points.
• Lin Mo spent another five gold coins on one hundred more draws, incinerated 89 white pieces, and gained 445 more points.
• Lin Mo used his remaining three gold coins for sixty draws, then left Carl with 1,150 Equipment Evolution Points and enough to evolve three pieces into gold equipment.

Lin Mo sold surplus equipment and evolved his robe, ring, boots, and pants into powerful gold gear, dramatically increasing his combat stats. After listing more items and a skill book for sale, he headed to Wild Wolf Ridge to complete the hidden quest [Slay the Wolf King].

• Lin Mo kept three white base items, sold spare green and blue equipment through the auction house, and began evolving his gear.
• Lin Mo evolved the Magic Cloth Robe, Magic Ring, and Magic Boots into level 5 gold-quality Demonized equipment, then upgraded his Novice Pants into the gold-quality World Shatterer · Overlord.
• Lin Mo checked his status panel and saw that his five gold items had raised his health to 950 and his attack to 180.
• Lin Mo sold his green equipment for 34,920 yuan after fees, then listed his blue and purple items and the E-rank Poisoning skill book at high prices.
• Lin Mo calculated that sales could leave his new gold equipment costing him only about 40,000 yuan and headed for Wild Wolf Ridge to pursue [Slay the Wolf King].

Lin Mo rejected Wind Soughs Sadly’s offer to help him claim the leveling-event rewards and killed him instead, becoming a red-name player. He then headed to Wild Wolf Ridge to complete his hidden quest, while welcoming the chance to confront the Troubled Times Guild again.

• Lin Mo saw that he still held first place in Cloudside Town’s rankings and learned that the leveling event offered cash prizes and prize draws.
• Wind Soughs Sadly recognized Lin Mo as Mo Shou Cheng Gui and proposed that Lin Mo help him reach level 10, threatening to expose Lin Mo’s hidden quest if he refused.
• Lin Mo lured Wind Soughs Sadly outside the safe zone and killed him with one sword strike, turning his name red.
• Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai stayed inside the safe zone and cursed at Lin Mo, who taunted them before leaving.
• Lin Mo recalled how the Troubled Times Guild and Hero of Troubled Times had tormented him in his previous life and vowed to take revenge.
• Lin Mo reached Wild Wolf Ridge, where his quest required him to kill thirty wild wolves and the Howling Moon Wolf King, and drew his sword to begin.

Lin Mo hunted wolves at Wild Wolf Ridge to clear his sin points and complete his quest, while earning money from auction sales and reaching level 6. He defeated the Howling Moon Wolf King, leaving the quest ready to turn in.

• Lin Mo killed Frenzied Wild Wolves to reduce his sin points and gained experience, then received over 120,000 yuan after Hero of Troubled Times bought all ten of his auction listings.
• Lin Mo reached level 6, found his first equipment drop, and killed thirty wolves to complete the first part of his quest.
• Lin Mo followed the Howling Moon Wolf King's howl deeper into Wild Wolf Ridge and attacked the level 10 boss despite being unable to inspect its stats.
• Lin Mo used his boots' Acceleration skill, endured the wolf king's Blood Slaughter attack, and killed it with repeated sword strikes.

After defeating the Howling Moon Wolf King and collecting valuable loot, Lin Mo was ambushed at Wild Wolf Ridge’s exit by the Troubled Times Guild, led by his former-life enemy Hero of Troubled Times. Lin Mo refused to hand over his hidden quest and challenged the guild to take it by force.

• Lin Mo cleared his sin points by killing the Howling Moon Wolf King, leveled up, and collected coins, an E-rank skill book, and purple and blue equipment.
• Two archers attacked Lin Mo as he approached the exit from Wild Wolf Ridge, where a crowd from the Troubled Times Guild blocked his path.
• Hero of Troubled Times asked Lin Mo for the Cloudside Town hidden quest and demanded that he stop competing for first place in the level rankings.
• Lin Mo offered to transfer the quest for ten million, then raised the price to twenty million when Hero of Troubled Times insulted him.
• Hero of Troubled Times killed a lackey who corrected his mangled sayings and threatened to make Lin Mo’s account get banned.
• Lin Mo revealed the World Shatterer · Flowing Light Sword and dared Hero of Troubled Times to take the quest.

Lin Mo effortlessly defeated the Troubled Times Guild players who attacked him for his gold sword, then humiliated and killed Wang Junjie. Wang Junjie dropped a skill book, a ring, and silver coins.

• Wang Junjie ordered the Troubled Times players to kill Lin Mo and promised a car to whoever made him drop his gold sword.
• The players' attacks dealt only forced damage to Lin Mo, and his counterattacks killed them with single blows.
• Lin Mo fought through the crowd without losing health while Wang Junjie's arrow barely hurt him.
• Wang Junjie offered Lin Mo five million for the sword, but Lin Mo knocked him down and used [Health Lock] to keep him alive while humiliating him.
• Lin Mo told Wang Junjie he would beat him every time they met, deactivated [Health Lock], and killed him, leaving a skill book, a ring, and silver coins behind.

Lin Mo killed Wang Junjie, took his valuable equipment, and reported his abusive chat messages, leaving Wang Junjie furious and muted. Lin Mo then completed the hidden Wolf King quest, reached level 8, and earned a unique achievement and title.

• Lin Mo looted Wang Junjie's Poisoning skill book and Venomous Ring after killing him, while the surviving Troubled Times Guild players fled.
• Wang Junjie respawned, discovered his dropped items were gone, and posted threats against Lin Mo in regional chat.
• Lin Mo reported Wang Junjie's messages, and the system muted Wang Junjie for three hours.
• Ling Xiao's party saw the chat, and Ling Xiao hoped Wang Junjie would stay occupied while he tried to reach level 10 first.
• Lin Mo turned in the Wolf King quest to Auntie Li and received rewards including the Brave Golden Bow and Double Shot skill book.
• Lin Mo leveled up to 8 and received the Hidden Player achievement and title through a Cloudside Town announcement.

After completing the hidden quest, Lin Mo claimed tier 2 orange gear, a D-rank skill book, and a title, then prepared to advance his Soulfire talent. He needed three more reputation points to test whether its next stage could incinerate skills.

• Lin Mo received the Brave Golden Bow, the Double Shot skill book, and the Hidden Player title as hidden-quest rewards.
• After reaching level 8, Lin Mo equipped the Brave Golden Bow, raising his attack from 193 to 382, and incinerated his bound Flowing Light Sword for 32 Equipment Evolution Points.
• Lin Mo considered evolving Soulfire to incinerate skills and discovered he needed 100 reputation to unlock its second stage, while he currently had 97.
• Lin Mo kept the Hidden Player title's reward bonus active but displayed his Golden Gear War God title.
• With the hidden quest complete, Lin Mo turned to the final crucial step of his beginner-village journey.

Lin Mo headed for the Shadow Nest to hunt Cloudside Town’s Spider Queen, confident his equipment would let him defeat the boss. He died instantly when an Exploding Spider latched onto his face and detonated.

• Lin Mo decided to kill the level 15 Spider Queen and collect a Shadow Heart, then chose the level 10 Shadow Nest as her likely location.
• Lin Mo checked the rankings and noted that Troubled Times players dominated the top ten, while Wind Soughs Sadly was leveling quickly with his Mutual Destruction talent.
• Lin Mo wondered why Wang Junjie and Wind Soughs Sadly were so eager to reach level 10 first, suspecting there might be a hidden reward.
• Lin Mo reached the Shadow Nest and drew his Brave Golden Bow as he approached the cave.
• A swarm of Exploding Spiders rushed Lin Mo, and one clung to his face and detonated, killing him instantly.

After dying to an Exploding Spider, Lin Mo inferred the Spider Queen’s immense stats and decided to craft a tier 2 Flame Ring to raise his attack before challenging the boss. He set out for the Flame Forest to gather materials and gain the experience needed to reach level 10.

• Lin Mo respawned in Cloudside Town and discovered that an Exploding Spider had killed him with its self-destruct skill.
• Lin Mo used the spider’s stats to calculate the Spider Queen’s strength and realized he needed at least 600 attack to damage the boss effectively.
• Lin Mo chose to improve his ring by forging a level 10, tier 2 Flame Ring and recorded its reputation, coin, and material requirements.
• Lin Mo checked the gathering sites, relisted Wang Junjie’s dropped items on the auction house, and headed toward the Flame Forest.
• Lin Mo planned to gather materials and reach level 10 so he could change class, learn skills, and prepare to defeat Cloudside Town’s boss.

Lin Mo gathered the materials needed to craft equipment for a boss fight and neared level 10, then encountered Wang Junjie tormenting Ling Xiao and his companions. Wang Junjie turned pale when Lin Mo stepped out of the crowd.

• Lin Mo killed Fire Demons and Fire Monkeys, collecting 30 flame souls and 30 flame gems while reaching level 9.
• Lin Mo gathered 30 pieces of silver iron from Stone Lions and planned to reach level 10 before returning to town to advance his class.
• Lin Mo recalled how the Troubled Times Guild had bullied him in his previous life and hoped to bully Wang Junjie before players gained class skills.
• Wang Junjie and his guild killed Skinny Monkey and Pang Dahai, forced Calm and Unruffled and Sweet Sweet Sweetie to kneel, and beat Ling Xiao while threatening Xia Wanwan.
• Wang Junjie aimed his bow at Ling Xiao, but Lin Mo called out to him and stepped forward, turning Wang Junjie's face ashen.