Chapter Summaries

Ling Yi awakened as an F-rank blacksmith after the Goddess of Luck secretly stripped away his SSS-rank talent. Despite the crowd mocking him, he discovered a possible second cheat in his status panel and left the stage eager to challenge his classmates.

• Wu Ming awakened with a B-rank fire elemental mage talent and was unsettled to see Ling Yi alive and unharmed.
• Meng Yue awakened with an S-rank holy healer talent, drawing astonishment and gossip from the crowd.
• The Goddess of Luck made Ling Yi awaken with an F-rank blacksmith talent, and No. 1 Middle School's students celebrated and mocked him.
• Ling Yi checked his status panel, saw enormous level-one stats and “Infinite Stacking” listed for his equipment, then thanked the bewildered Goddess of Luck.
• Ling Yi traded challenges with his classmates and proposed duels with money at stake.

After accepting Meng Yue’s lucrative offer to run dungeons together, Ling Yi learned that she had uncovered his extraordinary stats and suspected his hidden talent. Meng Yue rejected the factions pursuing her and left with Ling Yi, who agreed to their partnership despite growing wary of her probing ability.

• Ling Yi accepted a duel with First High students scheduled for ten days later, then learned that Meng Yue wanted him to help her run dungeons.
• Meng Yue revealed she could probe Ling Yi’s basic stats and offered him ten million gold coins and dungeon reset cards for each level he helped her gain.
• Meng Yue paid Ling Yi one million gold coins upfront and offered to rent a room at his place, saying she wanted to get close to his future influence.
• After the awakening ceremony, Meng Yue rejected the reporters and faction representatives pursuing her, then escaped with Ling Yi.
• On the bus, Meng Yue explained that Ling Yi’s stats made him unbeatable in Dafeng City and admitted she had been watching his unusual growth; Ling Yi told her not to probe him without permission.

Ling Yi learned about dungeon first-clear rewards and confirmed that his equipment slots could stack identical gear, then used the shop to build enormous stats. He bought Sun Lei’s collection of splash equipment and prepared to exploit it while planning dungeon runs with Meng Yue.

• Meng Yue explained dungeon difficulty rewards and the level restriction, so she and Ling Yi planned to pursue Abyss first clears in dungeons up to around level 30.
• Ling Yi stacked beginner swords, bows, shields, and other equipment, raising his attack, critical damage, critical chance, defenses, and movement speed.
• Ling Yi found a level 1 epic Splash necklace and searched the auction house for more equipment with the same affix.
• Ling Yi offered Sun Lei 100,000 gold coins for all his listed splash equipment, and Sun Lei accepted immediately.

Ling Yi sent evidence against Wu Ming to the law enforcers, but Wu Ming still appeared at the dungeon hall and continued provoking him. Ling Yi and Meng Yue entered the Nightmare Grade Nether Forest, where Ling Yi learned about the Nether Wolf King's percentage-based HP skill and prepared to fire his first arrow.

• Ling Yi teased Meng Yue, then sent a video implicating Wu Ming to the law enforcers and backed it up across multiple cloud accounts.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue met Wu Ming and his lackeys at the dungeon hall, where Meng Yue threatened them and Wu Ming mocked their plans to enter a Nightmare dungeon.
• After Wu Ming challenged Ling Yi to attack him at the hall and reminded him of their duel in ten days, Ling Yi used his phone and entered the Nightmare Grade Nether Forest with Meng Yue.
• Meng Yue explained that the dungeon's level-twenty-to-thirty Nether Wolves and Nether Wolf King had dangerous skills, including an attack that removed ten percent of maximum HP.
• Ling Yi learned the Nether Wolf King could drop the universal HP-reduction skill and drew a Beginner Shortbow to shoot an arrow despite there being no monsters nearby.

Ling Yi discovered he could finely control his attacks and modifiers, then used a full-strength splash punch in the Nether Forest to kill many monsters and raise his and Meng Yue’s levels to seven. As they headed toward the dungeon boss, Ling Yi tested his strength on a Nether Wolf, repeatedly knocking it down until it gave up.

• Ling Yi realized he could control his attack force and modifier effects, and Meng Yue explained how class skills could be used below their listed maximums.
• A Nether Wolf ambushed Meng Yue, and Ling Yi killed it with a splash punch that wiped out many monsters and raised both their levels from one to seven.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue headed toward the dungeon boss, collecting equipment from the monsters Ling Yi’s punch had killed.
• Ling Yi inspected a lv20 Nether Wolf and learned its stats, then repeatedly slapped it to the ground as it tried to flee.

Ling Yi forced the Nether Wolf to submit as his pet, while Meng Yue witnessed abilities that overturned her understanding of monsters and skills. Their nightmare-grade Nether Forest clear triggered a historic announcement and a permanent experience bonus for Dafeng City, and the chapter ended with city leaders gathering as Wu Ming emerged from an easy run.

• Ling Yi accepted the Nether Wolf as his pet and rode it away, leaving Meng Yue to wonder how he had managed to tame it and master precise skill control.
• Meng Yue reached level 8, and the system announced that Ling Yi and Meng Yue had cleared the level 1 Nether Forest on nightmare difficulty, earning an epic-grade chest and a level.
• The Voice of the Firmament announced the first nightmare clear and granted all Dafeng City class holders a 5% experience bonus in Nether Forest; Meng Yue hid her name.
• Zhao Hu, Yan Meier, Wang Jun, and City Lord Peng Bahai arrived at the dungeon hall, where Peng Bahai celebrated the benefit for Dafeng City and urged new class holders to run the dungeon.
• Wu Ming and his teammates came out of an easy dungeon, and Wu Ming greeted Peng Bahai and the guild masters, who treated him coldly because a viral video had changed their view of him.

After clearing the Nightmare dungeon, Ling Yi and Meng Yue divided their rewards and discussed how to use them. Ling Yi learned Army Breaker but could not cast it without a magic stat, then decided to leave Little Hei in the dungeon to farm monsters after a reset.

• Ling Yi and Meng Yue divided the Nightmare dungeon loot, including epic armor, rare equipment, and a Mage skill scroll, while Ling Yi lamented that the Nether Wolf Wolf King had not dropped Army Breaker.
• Meng Yue opened her epic treasure chest and learned Conversion, which let her temporarily rearrange her stats.
• Ling Yi opened his chest, learned Army Breaker, and discovered that its 40,000 magic cost made it unusable because his blacksmith class had no magic stat.
• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that a level 40 dungeon boss might drop a class-change scroll and explained that powerful belts could collect loot automatically; she also warned him that taking Little Hei out of the dungeon would cause trouble.
• Ling Yi chose to leave Little Hei in the dungeon and wondered whether he could gain experience from its kills, then asked it to hunt Nether Wolves after Meng Yue used a reset card to restart the dungeon.
• Little Hei nodded with unusual intelligence, making Meng Yue realize that it was no ordinary Nether Wolf.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue cleared the Hell Grade Nether Forest dungeon while discovering that Ling Yi could make monsters become pets for other people and that his pets could gain experience from dungeon monsters. After learning about Limit Reincarnation and the secret Source Realm, they entered the Abyss difficulty dungeon, unaware that powerful figures were gathering in Dafeng City.

• After Ling Yi left, Little Hei killed a Nether Wolf in the refreshed dungeon, gained experience, and leveled up; Ling Yi received experience from the kill.
• Ling Yi subdued a commander Nether Wolf, while Meng Yue failed to tame an elite Nether Wolf herself; Ling Yi then made the wolf accept Meng Yue as its master.
• Meng Yue realized Ling Yi could break rules governing class holders, while Ling Yi continued farming monsters and used his Nether Wolf pets to collect equipment.
• Meng Yue explained Limit Reincarnation, the Source Realm, and the Source Realm Blessing to Ling Yi, who decided to increase his farming pace.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue cleared the Hell Grade dungeon, collected a large haul of equipment and materials, and reached level 15 with the first-clear reward.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue entered the Abyss difficulty dungeon as countless powerhouses headed toward Dafeng City.

After Ling Yi’s leaked video sparked a scandal, the governor arrested Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming and punished dozens of Dafeng City officials. A Voice of the Firmament announcement revealed that Ling Yi and Meng Yue had cleared Abyss difficulty, leaving them to plan how to conceal their achievement.

• The governor arrived in Dafeng City, arrested Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming, and ordered an investigation into the leaked video and the local officials who had ignored Ling Yi’s report.
• The governor sentenced Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming to public execution in three days, while more than thirty Dafeng City officials faced dismissal or imprisonment.
• The Voice of the Firmament announced that two hidden class holders had cleared the Nether Forest’s Abyss difficulty, granting rewards and lifting dungeon level restrictions.
• The governor rushed to the dungeon hall to identify the clearers but learned that nobody had left the hall.
• Ling Yi told Meng Yue that he had exposed Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming because the law enforcers had failed to act, and said they needed to hide their Abyss clear.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue prepared to conceal their Abyss first clear, then emerged from the dungeon to face the governor and Dafeng City’s leaders. Ling Yi antagonized the officials as Peng Bahai announced that Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming had been sentenced to death row.

• Meng Yue warned Ling Yi that the Abyss first clear would draw powerful people’s attention and gave him a Concealment Medal to falsify his class holder data panel.
• Ling Yi altered his panel, showed Meng Yue the dungeon’s Epic, Mythic, and legendary rewards, and kept four legendary pieces of equipment.
• Ling Yi asked Meng Yue about class-change scrolls, and she promised to take him farming after they finished the dungeons in Dafeng City.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue exited the dungeon and found the governor of North Leaf Province, Peng Bahai, and the three major guild leaders waiting for them.
• Ling Yi mocked the governor and challenged Peng Bahai, who said Wu Zhiping and Wu Ming had been put on death row and urged Ling Yi to let the matter end.

Ling Yi forced Peng Bahai to pay him for posting a statement that protected Dafeng City’s reputation, while hiding his connection to the Nether Forest Abyss first clear. Back home, he settled accounts with Meng Yue, who asked him to wait until she reached level 50 for payment.

• Peng Bahai demanded that Ling Yi post a statement, but Ling Yi insisted on ten million gold coins, and the provincial lord ordered Peng Bahai to pay.
• Ling Yi showed his modified class holder panel and explained that he had posted the video to survive after Wu Ming threatened him; Meng Yue revealed her panel and Holy Fire Technique.
• Ling Yi recorded and posted a statement portraying the officials favorably, collected one million gold coins, and left the dungeon hall with Meng Yue.
• The provincial lord warned Peng Bahai not to harm Ling Yi while officials searched for the two people who cleared the Abyss.
• At home, Ling Yi calculated that Meng Yue still owed him 120 million gold coins and 220 reset cards, but Meng Yue asked to settle after reaching level 50.

Ling Yi learned that smiths could advance into divine smiths, a class that used mana and upgraded equipment affixes, and planned to reach level 40 with Meng Yue so he could obtain it. As foreign class holders mocked Ling Yi in world chat, the Nether Forest dungeon’s proceeds arrived and raised him to level 25, and he bought Mage equipment to increase his mana and reduce mana costs.

• Meng Yue explained that class advancement scrolls dropped in dungeons and that smiths could advance into divine smiths, who used equipment essence to improve gear and affixes.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue planned to run the Undead Dark Hall dungeon, level up through wilderness dungeons, and enter the Goblin Underground Palace to obtain the divine smith class.
• Meng Yue warned that their two-person dungeon clears could expose their identities, and Ling Yi proposed using upgraded Shadow Clone skills to disguise their party size.
• Ling Yi saw foreign class holders mocking him in world chat and saw faction chat buzzing about the Abyss-clear Nether Forest dungeon and its 35% experience bonus.
• At midnight, Ling Yi received the Nether Forest dungeon’s daily proceeds, gained 2.2 million experience and 22,500 gold coins, and reached level 25.
• Ling Yi spent 200,000 gold coins on low-level Mage equipment, gaining 1.6 million mana and an affix that reduced mana consumption by 90%.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue traveled to a level 20 outdoor dungeon, where Meng Yue explained the growing threat posed by Source Power and the dangers of outdoor dungeons. After seeing Ling Yi’s powerful modifiers, she agreed to open the Land of Zombies on Abyss difficulty in tower defense mode; the chapter ended as the dungeon portal formed.

• Ling Yi and Meng Yue got off the armored bus outside Dafeng City, and Meng Yue explained how Source Power fueled class holders, monsters, and the looming threat of monster tides.
• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that outdoor dungeons disappeared when cleared but could unleash monster tides if their monsters escaped, and she warned that the Land of Zombies could threaten the region on Abyss difficulty.
• Ling Yi showed Meng Yue his powerful status modifiers, and she inferred that he could accumulate equipment modifiers.
• Meng Yue explained the Land of Zombies’ monster-farming and tower defense modes, noting that its defense towers would inherit Ling Yi’s modifiers and its drops could go straight into his inventory.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue chose Abyss difficulty and tower defense mode, then Ling Yi broke the dungeon stele and opened a black vortex.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue entered the Abyss tower-defense mode of the Land of Zombies, where Ling Yi’s status modifiers made their chosen towers mow down the first waves. As stage two began, Ling Yi leveled up and gained equipment and modifiers from the zombie drops, while Meng Yue warned him that the zombies’ levels would not rise as simply as he assumed.

• Ling Yi chose Abyss difficulty and tower-defense mode for the Land of Zombies dungeon.
• Ling Yi arranged two ice towers and three cannon towers, whose synced modifiers let them clear stage one before he and Meng Yue saw any zombies.
• During the stage break, Meng Yue urged Ling Yi to improve his elemental resistance modifiers and noted that becoming a Divine Smith would help.
• The towers began clearing stage two, earning Ling Yi levels, gold, equipment, and additional damage reflection and defense.
• Ling Yi asked whether the zombies would reach level 900 by the final stage, and Meng Yue told him that was not how it worked.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue advanced through the Land of Zombies, choosing new tower paths and reaching the stage fifty boss battle. Meanwhile, Peng Bahai struggled to find the Abyss clearers, and Gao Cheng suggested there was a way to locate them.

• Meng Yue traded Ling Yi equipment with powerful affixes, greatly boosting his defense towers’ attack speed.
• Ling Yi chose the Deadly Poison and Ice Mist advancement paths, then continued clearing stages as the towers evolved and the pair gained levels.
• After stage forty-nine, the dungeon warned that stage fifty was a boss stage where every zombie would be a level 50 boss.
• Peng Bahai berated his subordinates for failing to identify the Nether Forest clearers, while pressure from the army lords threatened his position and safety.
• Gao Cheng reported that their search had found no Abyss clearers and suggested that finding them would not be difficult.

Peng Bahai ordered a lucrative competition to identify the Abyss dungeon clearers while Gao Cheng grew suspicious of Ling Yi and Meng Yue after they vanished for three hours. As Ling Yi and Meng Yue traveled toward a valuable repeatable field dungeon, Meng Yue summoned three powerful Locust Demons to deal with their pursuers.

• Gao Cheng proposed a competition for recent awakeners below level 25, and Peng Bahai approved generous prizes and a live broadcast to lure out the Abyss clearers.
• Peng Bahai learned that Ling Yi and Meng Yue had disappeared in Monster Zone 1101, then ordered his people to find and protect them after they reappeared.
• Gao Cheng suspected Ling Yi and Meng Yue had entered and cleared a field dungeon during their three-hour disappearance, but decided to investigate them himself without telling Peng Bahai.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue crossed into Monster Zone 1102 while discussing how to keep their pursuers from discovering the repeatable confrontation dungeon.
• Meng Yue summoned three Locust Demons whose fighting strength matched ninth-advancement melee class holders, and Ling Yi recognized them as resembling Saibamen.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue traveled to Glory Canyon, a special outdoor dungeon where players could farm merit for powerful equipment and level-up pills. After reviewing Ling Yi’s massive gains from the Land of Zombies, they entered the dungeon on Abyss difficulty and joined the red faction, arriving in a stone city.

• Meng Yue explained Glory Canyon’s faction battle, merit shop, dungeon rules, level restrictions, and how it could help Ling Yi complete one limit reincarnation each month.
• Ling Yi checked his level 75 stats and reviewed his haul from clearing the 900-stage Land of Zombies, including hundreds of thousands of equipment pieces and new affixes.
• Ling Yi noted that his attributes were approaching the world’s limits and expected to get closer to their caps after Glory Canyon.
• When mist appeared at four in the afternoon, Ling Yi and Meng Yue entered Glory Canyon, selected Abyss difficulty, and chose the red faction.
• Ling Yi and Meng Yue appeared inside a stone city.

Ling Yi and Meng Yue entered the red-side canyon base, where Ling Yi used defensive towers and his overwhelming strength to hold off the level 90 enemy forces. After wiping out the enemy generals and minions, he practiced controlling his strength against the surviving waves.

• Ling Yi and Meng Yue appeared at the red-side base, where Lü Bu, Zhao Yun, and Guan Yu joined them as level 1 generals.
• Ling Yi installed defensive towers at the three base exits, then raced to the canyon's clash point and placed more towers in the top and bottom lanes.
• Ling Yi killed Ma Chao and Xu Chu in a collision, then threw a spear to kill Huang Zhong as the defensive towers eliminated Jia Xu and Xu Huang.
• Ling Yi held the middle lane and killed groups of level 90 minions with his bow, earning experience, gold, and merit points.
• Ling Yi reduced his power and fought the blue-side minions at close range to practice controlling his strength.

Ling Yi learned that traitor guilds had caused devastating disasters and decided he would deal with them when he had time. He spent merit on a class advancement scroll and became a Divine Smith, gaining a new Dismantle skill.

• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that Dafeng City would hold a youth class-holder tournament, and Ling Yi decided to enter and reveal that he had cleared the Nether Forest Abyss dungeon.
• Meng Yue explained that Kami's Lookout, the Undead Hall, the Demon Dragon Hall, and the Dark Hall served races from the Source Realm and had deliberately caused disasters, including Baihai City's destruction.
• Ling Yi said he would wipe out the traitor guilds, then sent Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and Lü Bu to the front lines after they reached level 90.
• Ling Yi inspected the merit shop, redeemed a class advancement scroll, and advanced from Smith to Divine Smith, gaining a magic stat and the Dismantle skill.

Ling Yi tested his equipment skills, used a clone to spawn-camp the blue side’s commanders, and explored how equipment essence could improve gear. After spending legendary essence to strengthen his Shadow Clone skill, he learned that the merit shop offered a general Clone Technique that could summon unlimited clones.

• Ling Yi flew to Xu Chu, used Blink, Immobilization, and Guided Arrow to kill him, then sent a transformed Shadow Clone to spawn-camp the blue side’s commanders for merit points.
• Ling Yi returned to Stone City and used Disassembly to turn lower-grade equipment into equipment essence.
• Ling Yi upgraded the Shadow Clone affix on Wolf King's Claw, increasing its clone count and strength until he could summon six clones.
• Meng Yue told Ling Yi that the merit shop sold Clone Technique, and Ling Yi found it cost 500 million merit points and summoned clones with 30% of his attributes.