Chapter Summaries

After Xia Wen rejected Chen Nian, the game Calamity merged with reality, and Chen Nian inherited his unique Word Spirit Sage talent. He awakened the powerful Golden Sword of Judgment and rushed to rescue his neighbor from demonic hounds.

• Chen Nian invited Xia Wen to dinner, but she accidentally sent him a screenshot mocking him before calling him an unambitious shut-in loser, so he blocked her.
• Chen Nian reflected on his fame and wealth from Calamity, where he was the strongest player known as Buyu and had many devoted admirers.
• A blood moon appeared as golden messages announced that Calamity had merged with the real world and that a Blood Moon Calamity would arrive in 30 days.
• Chen Nian checked his status panel, confirmed his Word Spirit Sage talent, and drew the high-risk Word Spirit Golden Sword of Judgment.
• After hearing a woman scream, Chen Nian jumped from his second-floor window and found demonic hounds attacking his neighbor's yard.

Chen Nian used his word spirit to kill monsters attacking Liu Si as the game began merging with reality. After learning that a devastating Blood Moon Calamity would arrive in a month, he resolved to grow stronger and keep his identity secret, but Xia Wen called and begged him to protect her.

• Liu Si was cornered by a pack of demonic dogs after they broke through her gate, and Chen Nian rushed to defend her.
• Chen Nian used Sequence 121-Word Spirit: Golden Sword of Judgment to instantly destroy the dogs and gained enough genetic energy to reach level 3.
• Chen Nian helped Liu Si to her feet and explained that the world might be changing as game monsters appeared in reality.
• Chen Nian read reports of monster attacks and talent awakenings, then recalled that the Blood Moon Calamity would arrive in a month and resolved to prepare while hiding his identity.
• Xia Wen called Chen Nian, admitted she believed he had awakened an ability, and begged him to protect her in exchange for a chance to be her boyfriend.

As monsters poured into the city through teleportation arrays, Chen Nian headed for one to enter the monster areas and grow stronger. He killed a level-50 Black Lin Tiger with his Word Spirit and disappeared into the array.

• Xia Wen called Chen Nian for help, but after he agreed and hung up, she realized he had blocked her; he later chatted with their class group instead of coming to rescue her.
• Dragon Country's authorities warned residents to shelter, report supernatural powers, and avoid teleportation arrays as monsters emerged into the city.
• Chen Nian went to the array in his villa community, where law enforcement officers were fighting monsters, and decided to cross the cordon despite their warnings.
• A level-50 Black Lin Tiger emerged unharmed from a howitzer strike and overwhelmed the officers, while Zhou Ya reported that the evacuation was complete.
• Chen Nian leaped onto the Black Lin Tiger's head and used the Golden Sword of Judgment to cut it apart before rushing into the teleportation array.

After killing the Black-Scaled Tiger, Chen Nian reached level 10, learned Word Spirit-Flash Lightning, and went outside Linhai City to hunt monsters and gain equipment. He reached level 14 and checked his classmates’ messages, keeping his strength secret.

• Zhou Ya and the officers realized Chen Nian had killed the monster in one blow, and the captain said transcendents would be essential to fighting future threats.
• Chen Nian reached the outskirts of Linhai City, gained 100 gene energy from the Black-Scaled Tiger, and learned Word Spirit-Flash Lightning at level 10.
• Chen Nian drew a pack of tier-one monsters together and used Word Spirit-Flash Lightning to kill them, gaining gene energy and equipment drops.
• Chen Nian equipped common Refined Iron Bracers and fine Adamantine Greaves, raising his defense and constitution as he reached level 14.
• Chen Nian read his classmates’ chat messages about leveling and monster drops but kept quiet about his own level.

Chen Nian reached level 35 while hunting alone and refused to join a three-person party. After the group attacked a level 70 Calamity Treant and were badly wounded, Chen Nian appeared before them, leaving his next move uncertain.

• Chen Nian leveled up to 35, gained new Word Spirits, and equipped fine-grade gear while hunting monsters alone.
• Chen Nian rejected a three-person team's invitation to party up and split experience.
• The team entered the forest to challenge a level 70 Calamity Treant, hoping to claim its rewards.
• Xu Meng and his companions struggled against the treant, and its attacks wounded two of them and disarmed Xu Meng.
• Chen Nian leaped down in front of the injured group and told them not to challenge monsters beyond their strength.

Chen Nian deliberately mutated a level 70 Calamity Treant into a level 80 Flame Calamity Treant, then defeated it with his Word Spirits and claimed its rare drops. The three people trapped with him learned that he was far more powerful than they had assumed, while Chen Nian focused on the advanced skill scroll he had obtained.

• Chen Nian repeatedly used Flame Explosion on the Calamity Treant, causing it to mutate into a Flame Calamity Treant and trap everyone in a ring of fire.
• Xu Meng and his two companions blamed Chen Nian and tried to flee, but the flames sealed off the area.
• Chen Nian cut through the monster's flaming branches with Wind Demon Slash and approached it without fear.
• Chen Nian used Golden Sword of Judgment to nullify the heat and flames, then destroyed the Flame Calamity Treant.
• Chen Nian received epic equipment, an advanced skill scroll, a Demon Hunter talent card, genetic energy, and enough experience to rise from level 35 to 43.

Chen Nian equipped the epic Flame Tree Garment, opening the Trading Space and drawing attention to the first epic item. Meanwhile, Xu Meng plotted to rob him, and Ye Hongling used clues from the battle to identify Chen Nian’s location and tease him over WeChat.

• Xu Meng praised Chen Nian after he killed the mutated Calamity Treant, then secretly called Brother Tian to gather people and pursue him for the boss’s drops.
• Chen Nian inspected the Flame Tree Garment, equipped it, and saw his stats rise to a combat power assessment of 32 stars.
• The system opened the Trading Space after Chen Nian equipped the first epic item, and players began speculating about who had obtained it.
• Ye Hongling, known in the game as Chiling, recognized that Chen Nian likely had the epic equipment and deduced he was in Linhai City from reports of a battle.
• Chen Nian denied obtaining the equipment, but Ye Hongling teased him about finding him and offered to show him her legs.

Chen Nian sold a Demon Hunter talent card for 10,000 gold and awakened the powerful Death God Word Spirit. After leading the people pursuing him into a remote cave, he unexpectedly found the singer Qin Yu, who admired his old game identity, Buyu.

• Chen Nian sold his Demon Hunter talent card to Huang Long for 10,000 gold.
• Chen Nian used a high-tier skill scroll and awakened the Death God Word Spirit.
• Chen Nian spotted at least five people following him and fled to a remote mountain area, while Xu Meng gathered fifty Transcendents to hunt him.
• Chen Nian entered a cave and discovered the injured Qin Yu hiding inside.
• Chen Nian recognized Qin Yu as a singer and learned she was a fan of his former game identity, Buyu.

Chen Nian warned Qin Yu that a hostile crowd had surrounded the cave, but she became trapped inside with him. Brother Dao’s group attacked with a Flame Dragon Scroll, leaving Chen Nian holding the unconscious Qin Yu as the cave erupted in flames and flying rubble.

• Chen Nian told Qin Yu that about fifty people outside were trying to kill him, and she discovered the hostile crowd when she went to the cave entrance.
• The men outside refused to let Qin Yu leave, so she returned to Chen Nian and explained that she had been injured in a cave dungeon.
• Qin Yu called her friends and warned them to stay away, while Brother Dao’s group prepared to destroy the cave with a Flame Dragon Scroll.
• Qin Yu’s friends watched from hiding as ten people activated the scroll and summoned a massive flame dragon.
• Chen Nian told Qin Yu to come to him, but falling rock knocked her unconscious, so he gathered her into his arms as the flame dragon struck and the cave exploded.

Chen Nian used the Word Spirit Death God to kill the group that had attacked Qin Yu, then collected their drops and warned Qin Yu’s friends to keep his identity secret. After burning the bodies, he heard Qin Yu cough awake.

• Chen Nian emerged from the rubble carrying Qin Yu unharmed, terrifying Brother Dao’s group and the three friends watching nearby.
• Xu Meng urged the group to attack, but Chen Nian activated Death God, plunged the area into darkness, and killed everyone during the thirty-second possession.
• Chen Nian recovered his emotions, noted that Death God’s attack bonus would grow stronger, and collected the group’s dropped equipment and items.
• One of Qin Yu’s friends recognized Chen Nian as Buyu, the world’s strongest player, and the three begged him not to punish them.
• Chen Nian ordered the three to keep his identity secret and gather the bodies, then used Flame Explosion to burn them.
• Qin Yu coughed awake behind Chen Nian as the cleanup neared completion.

Qin Yu led Chen Nian and her friends into the newly discovered Fire Abyss dungeon, where the group fought through fire monsters while Chen Nian secretly synthesized skill scrolls. His final synthesis produced the rare Word Spirit, Void-Escaping Spirit Snake.

• Qin Yu woke unharmed, and her friends claimed they had chased off the attackers while hiding that Buyu had killed them.
• Qin Yu agreed to let Chen Nian join the group in the dungeon, provided he followed her orders.
• The group entered the previously unknown Fire Abyss dungeon and began clearing its fire monsters together.
• Chen Nian combined nine skill scrolls in stages, first producing ordinary skills and then synthesizing them into Void-Escaping Spirit Snake.
• Chen Nian recognized the result as Sequence 53, a rare Word Spirit.

Chen Nian secretly used his Void-Escaping Spirit Snake to help Qin Yu and the others defeat the Fire Rock Giant and clear the Fire Abyss dungeon. The boss dropped several rewards, including an epic Flame Bow, which Chen Nian showed Qin Yu, leaving her thrilled.

• Qin Yu complained that Chen Nian was slacking, while the others defended him and urged the party deeper into the dungeon.
• The five reached a lava pool, where the Fire Rock Giant awakened and attacked them.
• Qin Yu fired arrows as Chen Nian secretly struck the boss with his Void-Escaping Spirit Snake, leading Qin Yu to believe her own attacks were doing the damage.
• The Fire Rock Giant collapsed, and Chen Nian received gene energy, levels, a Flame Bow, a skill scroll, and a talent card as dungeon-clear rewards.
• Qin Yu asked what Chen Nian had obtained, and he showed her the Flame Bow, which caught her eye immediately.

Chen Nian offered Qin Yu the epic Flame Bow in exchange for her being his girlfriend in name, using her as a shield to protect his identity from Ye Hongling. Qin Yu resisted but agreed after her friends urged her on, and Chen Nian handed over the bow.

• Chen Nian revealed that the dungeon boss had dropped an epic Flame Bow, and Qin Yu tried to buy it from him.
• After rejecting Qin Yu's offers of up to ten million, Chen Nian asked her to be his girlfriend in name so he could conceal his identity and avoid Ye Hongling.
• Qin Yu refused at first, but her friends urged her to accept the deal for the equipment and their own benefit.
• Chen Nian said he was not interested in Qin Yu, provoking her, and she agreed to the arrangement.
• Chen Nian gave Qin Yu the Flame Bow, and she checked its powerful epic stats while resolving to make him regret the deal.

After returning to the city, Chen Nian shared a meal with his neighbor Liu Si and received a call from his half-brother Liu Xingchen, who mocked him and offered him a job. Chen Nian decided to use his elite gaming guild to disrupt Liu Xingchen’s billion-yuan deal, and the guild gathered eagerly when he appeared in its chat.

• Chen Nian returned to the villa district, where Liu Si invited him to eat beef noodles and learned about his family circumstances.
• Liu Xingchen called Chen Nian, bragged about becoming CEO of Growth Ring Real Estate Company, and offered him a monthly salary of one hundred thousand yuan.
• Liu Xingchen claimed he had secured a billion-yuan deal and invited Chen Nian to work as an extraordinary security guard, but Chen Nian questioned whether the contract would go through.
• Chen Nian opened the Mountains and Rivers in Lasting Peace group chat, where members flooded him with messages until administrator Su Jinyu muted them.
• Su Jinyu welcomed Chen Nian and invited him to speak.

Chen Nian used his brothers’ business connections to sabotage Liu Xingchen’s billion-yuan real estate deal. Liu Xingchen realized Chen Nian might be behind the rival offer, but his attempt to confirm it was abruptly dismissed.

• Chen Nian distributed looted equipment to his brothers and asked the group for real estate connections.
• Chen Nian chose Big Goose and asked him to make Growth Ring Real Estate Company’s billion-yuan deal with Liu Xingchen fall through.
• Big Goose arranged a rival offer of one and a half billion yuan, and Growth Ring’s representative canceled the deal with Liu Xingchen.
• Liu Xingchen panicked over the failed deal, which threatened his position as CEO under his performance wager with his father.
• After receiving Chen Nian’s message asking whether negotiations were going well, Liu Xingchen suspected Chen Nian had intervened and called the rival company.
• The person Liu Xingchen called cut him off with a curt “Busy,” leaving him shaken.

Chen Nian agreed to accompany Qin Yu to Linhai City University as it opened its martial arts division, but on the way he witnessed a monster drag a little girl into a sewer. He leaped in after her to rescue her.

• Big Goose told Chen Nian he had seized Liu Xingchen's project, and Chen Nian thanked him and offered to look for Knight-related opportunities for him.
• Chen Nian read the school's notice that students would return and that Linhai City University was opening a martial arts division for supernatural beings.
• Qin Yu asked Chen Nian to accompany her to register at Linhai City University, and he agreed to meet her at the entrance.
• Chen Nian took a taxi to the university, where the driver warned him about the dangers of fighting monsters.
• A monster burst from a manhole, grabbed a girl named Xiaoke, and dragged her into the sewer; Chen Nian leaped in after her.

Chen Nian rescued Xiaoke from a sewer monster but left before the crowd and reporters could identify him. Meanwhile, Qin Yu waited for him at Linhai University, where she was recognized by fans and angrily decided he had broken his promise.

• Chen Nian pursued a giant octopus through the sewer, killed it with his Void-Escaping Spirit Snake, and carried Xiaoke back toward the exit.
• Chen Nian sent Xiaoke out alone and slipped away to avoid being recognized by the crowd and reporters.
• Law enforcement officers reunited Xiaoke with her mother, and Xiaoke said her rescuer had already left.
• The driver told reporters that Chen Nian was headed to Linhai City University, prompting reporters to take Xiaoke and her mother there to find him.
• Qin Yu waited at Linhai University's entrance, was recognized by the crowd, and called Chen Nian but could not reach him.
• Campus security dispersed the crowd and escorted Qin Yu onto campus as she complained that Chen Nian had broken his promise.

As Chen Nian arrived late to Martial Class One, instructor Jiang Lie prepared to punish him, but a school-wide announcement revealed that Chen Nian had rescued a girl from a monster and publicly commended him. The chapter ended as the principal and media representatives approached the classroom to find Chen Nian.

• Xia Wen worried that Qin Yu’s arrival would eclipse her, while Sun Jing tried and failed to impress Qin Yu with his Beast Tamer talent.
• Instructor Jiang Lie introduced himself as a tier-one, level-35 Qigong Master and began roll call, then ordered Chen Nian to stay away for arriving late.
• Chen Nian entered and apologized to Qin Yu for standing her up, but Jiang Lie roared at him to leave.
• A school-wide announcement praised Chen Nian for rescuing a girl from a monster, and Qin Yu realized that was why he had been late.
• The principal arrived with media representatives and praised Chen Nian as someone who was always happy to help others.

Chen Nian received public praise and a 50,000-yuan award for rescuing a mother and daughter, then named Qin Yu as his girlfriend to conceal his identity as Buyu. The reporters left after discovering Qin Yu, and the university president reprimanded the instructor while Chen Nian prepared for an upcoming test.

• The university president brought reporters, the rescued mother and daughter, and the taxi driver to find Chen Nian, whom the driver recognized outside the classroom.
• The president praised Chen Nian’s rescue and awarded him 50,000 yuan, while Xia Wen regretted misjudging him and Qin Yu felt proud of her boyfriend in name.
• Chen Nian told reporters that his girlfriend had taught him to do good deeds without seeking rewards, then identified Qin Yu as his girlfriend.
• Qin Yu joined Chen Nian as reporters questioned her about their relationship, and university security escorted the reporters away.
• The president scolded the instructor for keeping Chen Nian outside and encouraged Chen Nian to focus on the upcoming test.

Chen Nian joined Linhai University’s martial arts ability test and decided to perform conspicuously after a reporter filmed him. As Jiang Lie began the team combat assessment, Sun Jing and Liu Xingchen both arranged to target Chen Nian, while Xia Wen was rejected and left isolated.

• Chen Nian decided to show off his abilities rather than keep a low profile after being filmed by a reporter.
• Sun Jing called Instructor Jiang Lie and asked him to injure Chen Nian during the test.
• Liu Xingchen recognized Chen Nian at the field and secretly paid a million yuan to have Jiang Lie give him harsh treatment.
• Jiang Lie announced that students would form teams of three and fight him for grades that could affect their training opportunities.
• Students crowded around Chen Nian to team up, and Qin Yu turned down other suitors by saying she was his girlfriend.
• Xia Wen asked Sun Jing to team up, but he rejected her and mocked the promises he had made to her.