Chapter Summaries

After Sun Fei defeated the Bloody Knight, the Chambord Army celebrated his apparent victory while Angela prayed and prepared to welcome him home. Disguised and walking alone through the camp, Sun Fei sensed a far stronger enemy following him with murderous intent.

• Sun Fei left the dueling grounds after cowing his opponents and disappearing into the crowd.
• Angela prayed for Sun Fei's safe return while the Chambord Army waited in camp, trusting in his strength.
• Cheers from the dueling grounds reached camp, and Čech and Torres told Angela that Sun Fei had won.
• Angela ordered the soldiers to prepare a welcome and celebration, then returned to pray in thanks.
• Sun Fei reflected on the insights he had gained from fighting the Judgment Knights and suspected his [Learning] skill had improved his comprehension.
• Sun Fei sensed a super expert following him, whose aura was much stronger than his and carried killing intent.

Sun Fei was nearly killed by a mysterious attacker, but he summoned Duriel to interrupt the assault and escaped through a portal. The attacker killed Duriel and searched for Sun Fei, then fled toward the Moro Mountains when a still stronger presence approached.

• Sun Fei switched to Assassin Mode to evade the mysterious enemy, but the enemy’s aura imprint let him track and overpower Sun Fei.
• A cloaked figure sensed the attack and vanished from the encampment, while Angela felt sudden pain and feared something had happened to Alexander.
• Sun Fei used his Summon skill to bring Duriel into the fight, and the demon intercepted the attacker’s sword strike.
• Duriel attacked with Holy Freeze, but the mysterious enemy severed one of his forelimbs as Sun Fei opened a portal and escaped.
• The mysterious enemy killed Duriel, discovered that Sun Fei’s aura imprint had vanished, and fled toward the Moro Mountains as a stronger presence pursued him.

Sun Fei returned to the Diablo World to recover the experience he had spent summoning Duriel and refined his combat techniques while leveling up. He realized that the divine skills Grant and Learn had likely given him an unparalleled talent for comprehension and creation, then prepared to return to the Azeroth Continent.

• Sun Fei sent Elena to the real world to tell the Chambord camp he was safe, then returned to the Canyon of the Magi to gain experience.
• Sun Fei perfected Stun’s integration into Heavenly Frost Fist and named the new third form “Baby, Go to Sleep.”
• Sun Fei killed monsters until his Barbarian character reached level 40 again.
• Sun Fei recognized that his cultivation comprehension and creativity had become extraordinary after his transmigration.
• Sun Fei concluded that the divine skills Grant and Learn had caused his new talent, and he decided it was time to return to the real world.

Sun Fei learned that a powerful expert had branded his spiritual sea and received a purple skill book that could conceal the brand while he sought a way to remove it. After returning to camp, he reunited with Angela and learned that assassins had killed nearly all the major imperial figures who had watched the duel.

• Akara detected a hidden brand in Sun Fei’s spiritual sea and explained that he needed 300 units of spiritual power before she and Cain could dispel it.
• Akara gave Sun Fei an ancient purple skill book that could help expand his spiritual sea and block the brand from detection.
• Sun Fei used a Giant-Winged Raven to check that the mysterious expert had left, then cautiously returned to the Chambord Army’s camp.
• Sun Fei found Angela waiting anxiously at the gate and embraced her.
• Old Zola and Modrić reported that assassins had killed nearly all the major figures who attended the duel, including the old patriarch of the Big Family, while Big Beyoncé escaped.

Sun Fei learned that the imperial investigation into the assassinations had plunged the twenty-mile encampment into a tense crackdown while Emperor Yassin set Princes Andrei Arshavin and Dominguez against each other. He kept Chambord neutral and asked about Byzantium, then waited for Lampard’s delayed party as a guard rushed into the tent.

• Old Zola and Modrić reported that Emperor Yassin had assigned Andrei Arshavin and Dominguez to investigate the assassinations independently, prompting a succession struggle among the nobles and affiliated kingdoms.
• Sun Fei said Chambord would wait for the contest’s outcome instead of choosing a side early.
• Old Zola described the arrests, curfews, and searches across the encampment, noting that imperial soldiers treated Chambord with deference.
• Sun Fei learned that the King of Byzantium and Isabella had visited in his absence and been received by Angela.
• Sun Fei asked why Lampard’s party had not arrived, and Čech reassured him that the group was powerful enough to travel safely.
• A personal guard rushed into the tent.

Sun Fei learned that Lampard, Drogba, and Pierce had reached the twenty-li encampment, but imperial soldiers mistook their party for assassins and tried to seize their weapons, mounts, and armor. The officer recognized the name King of Chambord Alexander and froze in fear.

• Sun Fei welcomed news that Lampard, Drogba, and Pierce were approaching the main camp with Chambord’s troops.
• Lampard’s party arrived late after heavy snow delayed their crossing of the Moro Mountains, and Drogba praised Sun Fei as the only one worthy of ruling Saint Petersburg.
• Imperial soldiers surrounded Lampard’s group, and their corrupt officer ordered them arrested and their gear confiscated.
• Lampard ordered his people to surrender their weapons to avoid causing trouble for Sun Fei and Chambord’s participation in the competition.
• The officer slapped Drogba and ordered the soldiers to strip off the group’s armor, but he stopped when he heard it had been bestowed by King of Chambord Alexander.

The author recounted a Beijing trip to celebrate editor Shazi’s birthday, meet fellow webnovel writers, and discuss writing techniques. Exhausted after the visit, the author ended by recommending Shamo’s historical novel Powerful Minister.

• The author stayed up late finishing chapters, then traveled to Zongheng’s editorial office to celebrate Shazi’s birthday with Banbu Cangsang and Jimo.
• The author, Banbu Cangsang, and Jimo drank with the editorial staff, where Banbu Cangsang and Jimo threw up and Shitang Baozi had urged the editor to keep the author drinking.
• The group cut Shazi’s birthday cake, sang karaoke, and later Banbu Cangsang and the author discussed writing until after two in the morning.
• The next day, the author met Zongheng boss Xieyue for a meal, then had snacks and drinks with Shazi and others before finally giving Shazi a hug.
• After seeing Shazi off, the author talked with Banbu Cangsang for more than two hours, then left Beijing early in the morning, tired but having gained writing experience.
• The author recommended Shamo’s historical novel Powerful Minister.

Lampard and the Chambord reinforcements reached the twenty-li camp after intimidating imperial soldiers who had extorted them, then reunited with Sun Fei. Their arrival revealed Chambord’s growing strength and stirred alarm across the camp and imperial capital.

• The imperial officer recognized Lampard’s group as subjects of the King of Chambord and ordered his soldiers to free them, then begged forgiveness and offered his valuables.
• Drogba, Pierce, and the others taunted the soldiers and took their money and valuables, but Lampard ended the confrontation so they could report to Sun Fei.
• Lampard and the others snapped their demonic-sinew restraints, accepted a pass token, and rode on to the twenty-li camp.
• Sun Fei welcomed the arriving group and noticed that Lampard, Pierce, Drogba, the Heng and Ha Generals, and the other soldiers had grown stronger.
• Observers spread news of Chambord’s powerful reinforcements, and the kingdom’s reputation shifted as onlookers wondered who would face its emerging strength.

At Chambord’s victory feast, old Zola told Sun Fei that a mysterious battle had devastated the Moro Mountains shortly after his duel. Sun Fei secretly investigated the battlefield, where a powerful magic array attacked him, and the chapter ended with him narrowly escaping its flames.

• Sun Fei hosted a victory feast attended by Constantine, Isabella, and representatives hoping to befriend the Kingdom of Chambord.
• Old Zola told Sun Fei that thunder, immense power, and collapsing mountains had been reported in the Moro Mountains after the duel.
• After the feast, Sun Fei left camp secretly and found a vast crater marked by damage he judged to have come from two Moon Class masters.
• Sun Fei suspected that one of the fighters was the mysterious master who had pursued him earlier and moved closer to investigate.
• A hidden magic array unleashed flames that turned nearby stones into magma, and Sun Fei narrowly retreated from its attack.

Sun Fei studied the magic arrays sealing the giant crater battlefield and carefully slipped through one of them without triggering it. After discovering that cultivating his mental energy after exhausting it greatly accelerated its growth, he entered the battlefield and found traces of the mysterious expert who had attacked him earlier.

• In Sorceress Mode, Sun Fei sensed at least fifteen magic arrays protecting the giant crater battlefield and identified a relatively weak one he could bypass.
• Sun Fei spent an hour evading every circuit in the Six-Star Class ice-element array, [Wrath of Ice], and emerged exhausted without triggering it.
• After using potions and cultivating with Akara's purple skill book, Sun Fei found that his mental energy had risen from roughly 200 weights to 210.
• Sun Fei realized that exhausting his mental energy before cultivating accelerated its growth, giving him hope of spending more time in the Diablo World.
• In Barbarian Mode, Sun Fei examined the battlefield's traces of Dou Qi and recognized one as belonging to the mysterious expert who had attacked him at camp.

Sun Fei investigated the battlefield where two powerful fighters had clashed, then used its lingering danger to strengthen his spiritual power. As assassinations and purges spread through the empire, he and Chambord's people continued training, and Sun Fei increased his daily game time to four hours and ten minutes.

• Sun Fei reconstructed the battle from its traces and concluded that the mysterious fighter who had hunted him was badly injured after losing to an unknown opponent.
• Sun Fei escaped the magic array, forged his spiritual power to 220 weights, and left the Moro Mountains before daybreak.
• Arshavin and Dominguez's investigations identified six affiliated kingdoms as collaborators with the Spartak Empire, and everyone from those kingdoms was executed.
• Assassinations spread through Saint Petersburg, targeting imperial nobles and officials, while Tanasha narrowly escaped and Dominguez was ambushed.
• Emperor Yassin postponed the Martial Combat Competition, ordered the remaining affiliated kingdoms to stay in camp, and sent the Imperial Knights' Hall to hunt the assassins.
• Sun Fei and Chambord's people continued training, and six days later Sun Fei raised his daily game-time limit from four hours to four hours and ten minutes.

Sun Fei met with Paris, who arranged for him to enter the imperial capital and attack the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps. After reaching the capital under cover of a Public Security Office patrol, Sun Fei learned the target’s layout and agreed to let Chambord take thirty percent of the spoils.

• Paris visited Sun Fei and explained that he could enter the imperial capital with up to ten people and would have two hours to deal with the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps.
• Jima and Angela interrupted the meeting, but Paris won them over with gifts and a personal account of her past.
• Paris’s soldiers disguised themselves as Public Security Office troops and escorted Sun Fei’s group through the capital’s guarded southern gate.
• At a tavern controlled by Dominguez, a Public Security Office officer showed Sun Fei the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps’ headquarters and described its gathered forces.
• Sun Fei agreed that Chambord would receive thirty percent of the spoils if he destroyed the mercenary corps.

Sun Fei learned that Blood Blade had captured Chambordians as slaves and prepared to destroy the mercenary corps, while Blood Blade’s leaders dismissed him as a foolish young king. The chapter ended with Sun Fei ordering his forces to seal the headquarters’ escape routes as Blood Blade’s commander considered confronting him.

• Red Beard Granero escorted Sun Fei and his companions into the imperial capital, then left after Sun Fei thanked and dismissed him.
• Sun Fei confronted the captive One-Eyed Mad Python and declared that Blood Blade’s destruction had arrived.
• Sun Fei sensed other powers waiting near Blood Blade’s headquarters and ordered his strongest companions to block every escape route and wipe out the mercenary corps.
• A Blood Blade member reported that Alexander had destroyed its northern slave-catching squad and killed its men at the Kingdom of Byzantium’s camp.
• Blood Blade’s commander dismissed Alexander’s motives as foolish, and his men boasted about confronting him and taking revenge on Chambord.

Sun Fei attacked the Blood Blade headquarters in Sorceress Mode, setting its buildings ablaze and fighting the commander. As the battle began, observers across the capital wondered who the masked mage was and how he was connected to the King of Chambord.

• The Blood Blade commander and his senior members grew confident until explosions and flames struck their headquarters.
• Sun Fei appeared in a devil-horn mask atop a burning statue and used fire magic to attack Blood Blade’s senior members and ignite the compound.
• The Blood Blade commander ordered his men to fight the fires and charged Sun Fei with his Kiss of Ice technique.
• A young observer at the headquarters wondered about the King of Chambord’s hidden forces and urged his family to recruit the masked mage.
• Arshavin watched from a northern rooftop, failed to sense the King of Chambord, and ordered an investigation into the mage’s origins.
• The empire’s senior mages discussed the masked mage’s unfamiliar aura, compared it to the God and Demon Ruins, and chose not to intervene.

As Sun Fei’s masked mage persona set the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps headquarters ablaze, onlookers discussed his identity and power. The Blood Blade commander demanded a duel, and the masked mage stopped to prepare a killing move.

• Materazzi watched the battle from the clouds and speculated about the masked mage’s identity with his silent companion.
• Paris observed the fighting with Second Prince Dominguez, Chris Sutton, and Red Beard Granero; Dominguez and his puppy Oka fell asleep.
• The masked mage evaded the Blood Blade commander, killed mercenaries with fireballs, and spread flames throughout the headquarters.
• The Blood Blade commander ordered his men to regroup and fight the fires while he pursued the masked mage.
• The masked mage accepted the commander’s challenge and promised to leave if the commander survived his killing move.

Sun Fei used a feint to distract the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps commander while a hidden attacker stabbed him from behind. As the commander lay dying, Sun Fei revealed his identity and prepared to kill him.

• Sun Fei challenged the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps commander to withstand his powerful move, keeping the commander focused on him.
• A small, frail figure emerged from behind and stabbed the commander through his protective Dou Qi and robe with a black dagger.
• The wounded commander struck his attacker backward, but his injuries left him near death.
• Sun Fei mocked the commander for calling the attack despicable and told him he did not deserve a warrior’s death.
• Sun Fei whispered his name to the commander, then pulled out the dagger and raised it to finish him.

Sun Fei searched the Blood Blade headquarters after sensing a faint summoning aura and discovered a secret passage hidden behind the mercenary leader’s throne. He carefully disarmed its traps and reached the passage beyond, where the mysterious aura came from.

• Sun Fei learned that Inzaghi’s injuries were minor, then ordered his forces to delay wiping out Blood Blade while he investigated something he had sensed.
• Prince Arshavin ordered an investigation into the masked mage, while Materazzi and Krasic discussed whether the mage was Alexander.
• Sun Fei destroyed the twin-lion throne in Hall Number One, revealing a secret passage and a strange ancient archway, which he removed and stored.
• Sun Fei followed the summoning aura into the passage and switched to Assassin Mode to detect its hidden traps.
• Sun Fei spent thirty minutes dismantling a narrow route through the traps and reached the passage’s end without triggering any.

Sun Fei explored the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps’ hidden underground hall and found its hoard, weapons, manuals, and supplies. At the hall’s rear, he discovered a pit filled with skeletons whose ghostly flames surged toward him.

• Sun Fei cut nine mysterious runes from the passage wall and stored them for Akara and Cain to study.
• Sun Fei found Blood Blade’s enormous treasure mound but left it untouched, mindful of his agreement to claim only thirty percent.
• Sun Fei examined the fine weapons and armor, then took the Dou Qi manuals and magic journals for Chambord City.
• Sun Fei found food and supplies prepared as a refuge, unaware that Blood Blade’s commander had planned to escape and rebuild his power there.
• Sun Fei used Sorceress Mode to light the pit and saw countless skeletons as blue ghost flames rushed up toward him.

Sun Fei followed a summoning will through a hidden portal and found a golden skeleton guarding a crimson-flamed battle-axe. Meanwhile, Cahill and his men fled the burning Blood Blade headquarters with two captive women, only to be confronted by a powerful figure demanding to know whether they were Blood Blade mercenaries.

• Sun Fei found a mechanism beneath the bones that opened a Diablo-style town portal, then stepped through it and saw a golden skeleton leaning on a crimson-flamed battle-axe.
• Cahill led more than twenty trusted subordinates out of the burning Blood Blade headquarters, carrying their stolen treasure and two captive women in sacks.
• Cahill warned his men not to touch the women because he had an important use for them.
• A powerful, red-haired figure in strange armor blocked the mercenaries' escape and asked whether they belonged to the Blood Blade Mercenary Corps.
• Cahill and his men trembled as they recognized the killing intent of the figure confronting them.

Lampard, Drogba, Pierce, Elena, and Torres slaughtered waves of Blood Blade mercenaries as they carried out the King of Chambord’s plan. Inzaghi relayed orders to stall the fleeing mercenaries while Sun Fei investigated a mysterious golden skeleton.

• Lampard revealed himself as a Leo Saint serving the King of Chambord and killed Earth Tiger Cahill and the Blood Blade mercenaries in the alley with Lightning Lightspeed Fist.
• Drogba and Pierce blocked the eastern street and killed the fleeing mercenaries, including Embracing Lizard Tony, with Great Horn and Holy Sword Excalibur.
• Inzaghi arrived after the fight and complained that he was late again.
• Elena used her magic arrows to kill dozens of Blood Blade mercenaries while Inzaghi rushed to join her.
• Torres repeatedly shot down fleeing mercenaries before Warden Oleg could use Sekishiki Shock Wave, and Inzaghi told them to stall for time.
• Sun Fei stood before a golden skeleton that radiated an overwhelming presence.