Shen Xing

Biodata

Power Progression

Background / History

Life Before the Land of Mist

After graduating from university and failing to find a job, Shen Xing began delivering takeout. One rainy night, a Dayun N6 truck struck him and ruined his legs. He survived, but the responsible driver had no insurance. With no parents or savings, he spent the following years living largely on government assistance in a rented apartment smaller than thirty square meters 1.

Qin Lang’s description of an exceptionally realistic game attracted him chiefly because he hoped to experience standing again. Instead, the Land of Mist reproduced his body accurately, leaving him in a wooden wheelchair with zero Agility 2.

His limited income also included leveling online accounts for other people. Even after accumulating valuable territorial assets, he briefly found himself with only 4.86 yuan in his bank account because daily takeout and other expenses had exhausted his living money 85.

First Battles and Hidden Talent

Shen Xing drew an ordinary Orc Barracks and recruited ten orc infantrymen for free. When fifteen Lost Ones attacked, he awakened Life-Sacrifice Evolution and selected the mohawked orc who would later become Hellscream for his first evolution 2 3 9.

His troops won without fatalities, earning an S-rank evaluation, twelve Soul Stones, 120 food, and the Hand of the Void skill book. The discovery that he could use that skill in reality—when he deflected a falling steel bar away from two women—gave him renewed hope of eventually recovering his mobility 4 5.

Lu Xiang’s death convinced him that the game had to be treated as a survival challenge. He began studying the internal player forum, prioritizing troop development and using its guides to plan exploration and resource spending 8 9.

Exploration and Physical Improvement

Shen Xing’s early expeditions secured a black iron mine and loot from a black wolf. He equipped himself with a Mechanism Crossbow, built his first arrow towers, and assigned orcs to turn the wolf’s bones and teeth into arrows 12 13 14.

After learning that game fruits could treat real-world ailments, he materialized and ate a Bone Fruit. His bones became sturdier, his arms stopped trembling under his weight, and longstanding discomfort in his back and neck eased 14 15.

He initially declined Xu Jiayi’s offer of a Flesh Fruit because healing his legs might remove the zero-Agility loophole behind his daily troop evolutions. He later consumed several varieties of fruit, including Flesh Fruit. By Chapter 38, he could force himself upright with crutches, but his legs still had no sensation and he fell when attempting to move 14 38.

Later fruit consumption and leveling greatly strengthened his upper body without restoring ordinary mobility. After obtaining Silver Sacred Fruit, which normally permanently increases all four attributes by twenty and recovery speed by ten percent, he found that his Agility still remained zero despite the broader improvement to his physique 98 101.

Plague Village and Xia Wanyin

On first discovering Plague Village, Shen Xing judged its inhabitants too powerful and ordered a retreat. His forces nevertheless killed the pursuing Dark Vulture, obtaining an elite advancement soul and Hope’s Plume 19 20.

He subsequently met Xia Wanyin, who warned him that Dark Naga corpses could attract vengeful relatives and supplied nearby resource-point locations. Initially wary, he checked her warning against forum information before trusting it 27 28.

After strengthening his army, he returned to conquer Plague Village. Hellscream killed its level-eight lesser demon, yielding a skill book, Lesser Demon Essence Blood, and an elite troop nest. Shen Xing also exploited a demon statue’s attribute-sacrifice option to obtain a gold-quality Hero Altar Blueprint without reducing his zero Agility 30 32 33 34.

Xia Wanyin then showed him the Silver Holy Land. He rejected her proposed assault because its estimated forty-percent success rate was too dangerous. The two instead formed an alliance that shared explored maps and resource-point locations 35 36.

Real-World Battles and Territory Expansion

When an Abomination emerged from a dying player’s corpse in a mall, Shen Xing persuaded Qin Lang and Xu Jiayi to summon their strongest troops to protect unconscious civilians. He materialized Hellscream for the battle 23.

Later, the trio entered a Player Association match to compete for Mist Void Realm entry slots. Shen Xing fielded Da Hou rather than exposing Hellscream or Gorehowl, defended himself against an assassin with Hand of the Void, and helped secure victory with Hellfire Fireball. He became dizzy afterward and recovered in the association’s treatment room 39 40 42 43.

He traded his Frost Gem for a Moon Well blueprint and later used the well’s water to heal orcs wounded during Gideon’s failed werewolf raid. The attack turned his alliance with Xia Wanyin into an explicit mutual-defense agreement against Gideon 44 48.

Continuing their exploration, Shen Xing recruited twenty-four former slaves, occupied an intermediate lumber mill, and appointed the limping worker Heishi as their leader. Their subsequent approach to a quarry was interrupted by a Dark Goblin attack 50.

He subsequently evolved Da Hou to elite three-star, giving his territory three troops of that potential. Da Hou’s additional twenty Agility raised the attribute above one hundred and accompanied the awakening of Flying Axe Throw 52.

Mist Void Realm, Gideon, and the Silver Holy Land

Anomaly Handling Bureau operatives escorted Shen Xing to the sealed Mingyue Bay Park for entry into the Mist Void Realm. He registered alongside Qin Lang and Xu Jiayi and received Void Realm Crystal No. 45. His later public profile identified him as having taken first place in the Void Realm 70 136.

Following the expedition, he received a traded Orc Totem and found that his territory now possessed a complete stone wall, eight arrow towers, ten cottages, and a tavern. Gorehowl also reported reaching level nine and a dramatic increase in the orcs’ Soul Stone absorption speed after their previous battle 86.

With his forces strengthened, Shen Xing accepted Xia Wanyin’s renewed proposal to attack the Silver Holy Land. During this period, Gideon’s sudden offensive ended in total defeat, and Shen Xing’s troops captured him, a Tier Two werewolf, and a powerful female mage. The mage’s exceptional potential attracted Shen Xing’s attention; she later became his loyal hero Leina 86 91 93 188.

During the subsequent expedition with Xia Wanyin, Shen Xing proudly identified Hellscream as a Transcendent Rank troop. He also obtained Silver Sacred Fruit and shared one with her 94 98.

Rising Reputation and the Rain God Illusory Realm

Qin Lang and Xu Jiayi helped Shen Xing arrange the purchase of a large house with a reinforced basement as a shared base. Their preparations coincided with abnormal rain spreading through both worlds and reports of monsters appearing in reality 114.

Shen Xing’s leaderboard performance increasingly drew official and international attention. After initially falling out of the top hundred, he resolved to compete seriously, reached fifteenth place by the end of the fourth day, and attracted hostile scrutiny from overseas powers 136 139 141 145 146.

His cooperation with the Anomaly Handling Bureau also expanded. He received contribution points for reporting a grade B mist anomaly, sold Common Stone Eyes through the Bureau, and received a package and congratulatory letter from deputy director Wang Kun. He later regarded the Jiangcheng authorities’ protection as an important safeguard against retaliation in reality 138 155.

In the Rain God Illusory Realm, Lachlan and Asada Hitomi joined forces against him. Leina revealed her terrifying flames, impressing the Bureau’s observers and establishing her as a hero with an exceptionally rare forbidden physique. Shen Xing ultimately took first place on both leaderboards, greatly increasing the importance the national authorities attached to him 179 184 188.

He then broke through to Tier Two, gaining mental-energy manipulation and direct, thought-based control over his territory’s defenses. Xia Wanyin continued helping him explore, and he proposed combining her detection ability with Fried Chicken’s flight speed to locate surrounding resource points from the air 183 188.

Trade Routes, Dragon Origins, and Onyxia

Shen Xing encountered the wandering merchant West and negotiated sharply over his prices, eventually securing a future visit to his territory. When the Skinners seized the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce’s shipment, Shen Xing accepted the recovery quest and later returned the goods. West rewarded him with Ice Burial and the Red Flame Heart Ring, treating the additional gift as an investment in the territory’s future 202 203 208 218.

His relationship with Leina also became intimate. A soul exchange with her granted twenty Spirit and twenty-percent fire resistance 221.

After the Blue Dragon Lord’s destruction, its immense source power entered Shen Xing through the Flower of Mist, transforming his body and providing the foundation for his Dragon Lord inheritance. The resulting dragon forms finally allowed him to stand, although he still depended on his wheelchair outside transformation 237 239 243 316.

The assassin Demon Blade attempted to kill him after using a captured mine to lure him out. Fordring’s protective magic intercepted the opening strike. Once she was defeated, Shen Xing learned that major factions were offering a bounty of two billion for his territory’s location and fifty billion for his head. Rather than accept her promise to leave him alone, he used her as the vessel for Onyxia’s revival. The restored dragon retained inherited memories from Demon Blade but identified herself as Onyxia and pledged to protect him 244 245 246.

Lotus Pond Secret Realm and Expert Advancement

Preparing for the Lotus Pond Secret Realm, Shen Xing sought the epic gem on its fifth floor and gathered advancement materials for his strongest troops. He also began upgrading the Great Bonfire to level five 264.

Inside the realm, he lent Hellscream and Xiao Hei to Qin Lang so they could advance on separate fronts without wasting surplus combat strength. His group’s success drew further attention, while Lachlan again attempted to organize an attack. Onyxia’s domain overwhelmed the hostile lords, and Shen Xing deliberately eliminated them in batches while sowing distrust by claiming that he and Lachlan had arranged the purge together 273 274 280 281 282.

Shen Xing, Qin Lang, Xu Jiayi, Xia Wanyin, and Yu Feifei subsequently occupied half the top-ten places on the fourth floor. His forces and Xia Wanyin’s detection ability helped bring the team to the fifth floor. During the later challenge, he stood from his wheelchair in a transformed state, revealing that his apparent physical vulnerability did not represent his full combat ability 285 286 291.

Afterward, he distributed valuable spoils and gave Qin Lang, Xu Jiayi, and Yu Feifei a Thousand-Year Lotus Seed each. He also provided a seed to help Elder Wang’s advancement, receiving Zhang Yu’s Nine Prayer Beads in return. Elder Wang later confirmed that the lotus seed and Rain and Dew Essence had helped him reach Master Rank 302 331.

Shen Xing devoted the following period to accelerated cultivation in the Lotus Pond. After reaching level nineteen and obtaining a Tier Three Lord’s Heart, he advanced to Tier Three Expert, doubled his attributes, and extended his daily dragon transformation time to two hours 303 314 315 316.

Blackwing Plains, the Saintess, and the Spiral Labyrinth

Intelligence about a transaction between the Blood Origin Cult and Weideng Royal City alerted Shen Xing to Lord Haidesen’s plan to recover, advance, and subjugate the Blackwing Plains. Because both his and Xia Wanyin’s territories would be threatened, Shen Xing decided to seek an opportunity to interfere. He observed the fighting between the cult and the Lion Knights while preparing to exploit their conflict 318 323.

The wounded Blood Origin Saintess Yiweishi later reached his territory. Shen Xing concealed his involvement in her troubles and presented himself as a lord whose subordinates had rescued her from the mist. Though she initially claimed to be a merchant’s daughter, he knew more about her circumstances than he admitted. He allowed her to recuperate and later sent her away with supplies, while ordering Onyxia to discreetly follow her 336 337 416 417.

In the Spiral Labyrinth, Shen Xing used his compass to navigate shifting passages and seek the most rewarding routes. He rescued the lost Jiang Rong from a mirror maze and later fought alongside her, proposing a sixty-forty division of their battle spoils according to contribution 371 373.

After reuniting with his companions, he led them through hundreds of stone-door trials and numerous hidden chambers. Conrad, Lachlan, Asada Hitomi, and other lords from the Golden Eagle Kingdom, Petrel Nation, and Cherry Blossom Nation then ambushed the group with hundreds of troops. Following their escape, Shen Xing proposed retaliating by using his compass to locate the attackers’ resource chambers and Zhou Zheng’s remote item-taking ability to empty them 379 386 387 388.

His actions in connection with the labyrinth also earned Shi Lan’s gratitude for freeing her child Lin’er from the enemy and bringing back crucial evidence. She later visited him to deliver a treasure on behalf of the higher authorities 471 472.

Blood Mist Development and the Dragon Sovereigns

Shen Xing continued expanding agriculture, industry, and cultivation support. He accepted Natalie, a refugee with mushroom-growing skills, and invited Xia Wanyin to share the Lotus Pond’s accelerated cultivation because the cost did not increase with the number of occupants 417 426.

During the Blood Mist Frenzies, his monster-farming performance placed him ahead of the Sand Lord. By the seventh night, his score had reached seventy-nine million against the Sand Lord’s fifty-three million. At the same time, the first White Jade Lotus harvest promised tens of thousands of seeds, which he ordered divided between replanting and food production 486.

The Lotus Pond operated at hundredfold acceleration throughout the ten-day event. Shen Xing observed that, for his group, nearly two years of development had passed while other lords experienced only ten days 495.

Natalie’s cultivation subsequently produced Beast Strength Mushroom spawn and raised her planting mastery to Master Rank. When she offered herself because she believed a lord was entitled to her first night, Shen Xing clothed her and refused. He distinguished a relationship based on mutual affection from compliance with an imposed custom 511.

A later conflict involving the Red Dragon Sovereign brought both major gains and severe losses. After the battle, the Black Dragon Lord warned Shen Xing that Green Dragon Lord Tilius had likely manipulated events to make him gather the other dragons’ sources. More than two thousand territorial troops had died, and walls and buildings were heavily damaged. Shen Xing ordered the fallen honored in the cemetery district with records of their deeds, strength, and kills, promising that everyone who served the territory would be remembered 528 532 533.

Master Trial and Preparations for the Myriad Worlds Arena

After reaching the third mental-power realm, Shen Xing received the Tier Four Lord’s Heart and a large shipment of materials and recruitment scrolls. He borrowed Yu Feifei’s Mist Transmitter to move the haul more efficiently, compensating her with three drops of Lava Dragon Essence Blood. She also reminded him that they had agreed to collect Xia Wanyin from the airport that day 548 551.

He began his Master breakthrough after preparing his territory’s central flame structure. The SS-rank trial subjected him to a despairing scenario in which Blue Star faced destruction, civilians blamed him for their losses, and familiar allies died before him. These events occurred within the trial rather than representing the actual deaths of those people 558 564 566 568.

Passing the trial granted him Heart of the Benevolent King and advanced him to Tier Four Master. Returning to his intact territory and living companions strengthened his resolve to prevent the trial’s catastrophe from becoming real and to secure Blue Star’s victory in the approaching Myriad Worlds Arena 568.

Shortly afterward, a representative of Black Hawk City demanded that he surrender his territory or face its destruction. Following this confrontation, Shen Xing obtained a key to a hidden chamber beneath Black Hawk City and planned to locate it with his Omnipotent Compass 574 582.

He also agreed to give Xia Lingyin two Chaos Portals to establish a relay between their territories. He asked her to help connect Qin Lang, Xu Jiayi, and the others to his territory after the arena, extending the benefits of his territorial development to his wider circle of allies 584.

Appearance

Shen Xing is a young, fair-skinned man with delicate, clean-cut features 5 15.

• Build: Initially slender, with withered legs; fruit consumption and leveling later make his upper body noticeably bulkier 1 5 38.
• Complexion: His skin became especially fair after years spent indoors; his complexion improves as his physique strengthens 15 38.
• Mobility: Uses a wheelchair in both worlds. His initial in-game chair is made of black wood 2. Dragon transformations later allow him to stand and walk, but do not eliminate his reliance on the wheelchair in his ordinary state 239 316 497 511.
• Mark: Bears a hazy, flower-shaped Flower of Mist mark on his wrist, connecting him to the game world 14 40.
• Blue dragon transformation: The initial influx of the Blue Dragon Lord’s source turns his short black hair into long blue hair and causes blue scales to appear across his body 237.
• Ruin Black Dragon transformation: His hair becomes a deeper black, protective scales cover vital areas, and dragon claws emerge from his hands and feet. This form presents a more physically powerful, warrior-like appearance 243 316.
• Red dragon transformation: Displays crimson hair, illuminated slit pupils, and a scorching, majestic aura 536.
• Public image: His repeated first-place finishes make his wheelchair so recognizable that healthy players begin copying the look, occasionally causing mistaken identifications 331.

Personality

Shen Xing is cautious without being unwilling to act. He retreats from Plague Village when outmatched and rejects the risky Silver Holy Land assault, but later explains that caution should preserve lives rather than prevent every opportunity for growth. Once confident in his army’s survival, he authorizes a direct attack on Plague Village 19 31 35.

He is resource-conscious and protective of his advantages. He studies guides before committing materials, prioritizes troops over his own early leveling, and conceals Life-Sacrifice Evolution behind a fabricated account of traps and tactics. He also avoids displaying his strongest units publicly because their rapid development would attract attention 6 8 9 40.

His outward humor contrasts with the isolation and despair of his years after the accident. He jokes about his disability and ambitions, yet the possibility of walking again remains a powerful motivation. He also shows concern for others: saving the two women, organizing resistance to the mall monster, thanking his defenders, and treating wounded orcs 2 5 23 25 29 38 48.

As his territory grows, he concludes that a lord cannot avoid competition merely by remaining passive: other factions may attack or exploit a peaceful territory regardless. He therefore accepts that acquiring resources and protecting his people require active struggle, while continuing to reject needless gambles with his own life 155 388.

He can be calculating and ruthless toward enemies. He exploits Demon Blade’s expectation that he might accept her oath, deceives hostile lords during the Lotus Pond Secret Realm, conceals his role in Yiweishi’s misfortune, and plans retaliation against the three nations’ lords only after considering the tactical situation 245 281 337 388.

His generosity is directed especially toward trusted companions and people under his protection. He lends powerful troops to help friends compete, distributes rare lotus seeds, shares accelerated cultivation with Xia Wanyin, and orders permanent memorials for fallen troops 273 302 417 533.

He does not consider himself morally flawless, but insists that intimacy should rest on mutual affection rather than a lord’s privilege. His refusal of Natalie’s customary offering explicitly contrasts with his established relationships with Leina and Onyxia 511.

The Master trial recognizes both his willingness to save others and his readiness to kill when necessary, describing light and chaos as coexisting within him. The resulting Heart of the Benevolent King leaves his state of mind unusually peaceful and influences those around him 568 569.

Abilities & Skills

Life-Sacrifice Evolution

A unique hidden talent that permanently sacrifices one basic attribute to raise a territory unit’s potential. The target also permanently receives the sacrificed attribute points 3.

• Daily use: Can be activated once per day, providing a guaranteed advancement within the applicable limits 3 29.
• Evolution direction: The chosen attribute influences the unit’s development. Shen Xing’s Agility sacrifices produce unusually agility-focused orcs and altered advancement paths 3 40 49.
• Zero-Agility loophole: Although his Agility is already zero, the talent still advances troops and grants its additional attribute bonus. Hellscream receives an extra twenty Agility during his elite three-star evolution 16 26.
• Increasing cost: The required sacrifice rises from ten to twenty Agility as Hellscream’s potential increases 16 26.
• Potential cap: Attempting to evolve level-five Hellscream beyond elite three-star triggers a warning that his body could explode. The system specifies level nine as the point at which he can continue toward boss grade 28.
• Further development: Shen Xing recognizes that the talent can break through a unit’s potential ceiling rather than merely guarantee a conventional advancement 67.
• Da Hou’s advancement: Raises Da Hou to elite three-star, grants an additional twenty Agility, and accompanies his awakening of Flying Axe Throw 52.

Hand of the Void

Forms an invisible hand using mental power, allowing Shen Xing to seize targets or inflict slapping damage. He learns it from the blue-quality skill book awarded for his first S-rank victory 4.

• Deflects a falling steel bar in reality, saving two women 5.
• Helps restrain or disrupt the black wolf during his troops’ attack 12.
• Counters an assassin during the Player Association match 42.
• Consumes spiritual power; using it in reality initially causes dizziness 5.
• Combines with Hope’s Plume to launch himself and his wheelchair onto a city wall, using the feather’s lightening effect before striking the chair with the hand 105.
• Later identifies the technique as a third-realm mental-power manifestation method directly imprinted by the system. This allows him to use it before naturally reaching that realm, albeit with reduced power 252.

Hellfire Fireball

An area-attack spell learned from the lesser demon’s skill book 32 37.

• Deals splash damage within a three-meter-by-three-meter area 37.
• Maximum damage and range depend on Spirit; learning requires 20 Spirit 37.
• Consumes both mental power and vitality 37.
• Used in the winning exchange of the association match; Shen Xing becomes dizzy immediately afterward 42.
• By level five, after repeated attribute-enhancing fruit consumption, Shen Xing assesses that a single fireball could destroy a building 58.

Flower of Mist

The wrist mark is the true connection between a player and the Land of Mist; glasses and other devices are entry mediums 40.

• Transfers inventory items into reality. Early transfers are limited by spiritual power, with rarity increasing the cost 14 45.
• Allows temporary troop materialization; Shen Xing summons Hellscream during the mall battle 14 23.
• Emits heat when his territory is threatened and alerts him to another lord’s attack 15 47.
• Supports alliance map sharing 36.
• By Chapter 45, he successfully transfers a second item into the game during the same day 45.
• Draws the Blue Dragon Lord’s source into his body after the dragon’s destruction 237.
• Transfer capacity grows with his spiritual power. At level nineteen, he can move nine Tier Three advancement materials before reaching his limit, while less demanding construction materials can be transferred in batches of several hundred 315.
• Transfer cost depends on an item’s value, rarity, and tier, rather than a fixed daily item count 315.
• For especially large shipments, he supplements his personal transfer ability by borrowing Yu Feifei’s Mist Transmitter 551.

Crossbow Use and Command

Shen Xing develops a personal ranged attack while directing a growing mixed army 13 30.

• Practices with his Mechanism Crossbow for roughly an hour, substantially improving his initially poor accuracy 14.
• Uses troop positioning, concentrated attacks, defensive assignments, and resource planning to reduce losses 12 27 30 42.
• His advice prompts Hellscream to reconsider his fighting style and combine Wind Walk with Earth-Splitting Slam into a concealed, concentrated strike 30.
• Redistributes powerful units when they would otherwise remain idle, lending Hellscream and Xiao Hei to Qin Lang while retaining enough damage dealers and a front-line defender for his own advance 273.
• Coordinates mixed allied forces in the Lotus Pond Secret Realm, assigning Fordring to the front and Xu Jiayi’s Xiao Xiao and Yu Feifei’s Steel Fang to rear defense 286.

Mental Energy Control

Unlocked upon his breakthrough to Tier Two. Increasing Spirit and dedicated training allow Shen Xing to progress from basic telekinesis to independently controlled weapons and direct mental attacks 183 210 336 548.

Shen Xing studies a mental cultivation manual and understands that later realms include Empowerment, but his discussion of reaching the fourth realm is an aspiration rather than a confirmed advancement in the available account 252 548.

Territory Perception and Thought Control

His Tier Two breakthrough unlocks Global Perspective and Thought Control, giving him an overhead view of his territory and the ability to direct certain structures mentally 183.

• Can command arrow towers to fire, stop firing, aim, or focus on a selected target 183.
• Can coordinate arrow towers and lighthouses as groups with a single thought 183.
• These functions supplement his conventional troop command rather than replacing the independent roles of his commanders 183 188.

Dragon Lord

A legendary class associated with his fusion of dragon origins. Its transformations grant major combat enhancements and allow him to use his legs while transformed 237 239 243 316.

• Temporary mobility: His ability to stand is tied to transformation, not a confirmed permanent cure of his ordinary body 316 497 511.
• Increasing duration: Daily transformation time rises from one hour to two after his Expert breakthrough, later reaches three hours, and expands to eight hours after his Master breakthrough 316 432 568.
• Origin fusion: Further fusion with the Five Chromatic Dragons’ essences unlocks corresponding abilities and extends transformation duration 316 568.
• Class bonuses: At level nineteen, the panel lists forty-percent bonuses to magic and physical damage. At level thirty, it instead lists thirty-percent bonuses to physical damage, magic damage, and attack power 316 569.
• Physical offense: In his black dragon form, a casual claw strike tears through a five-meter-thick level-two city wall 243.
• Advanced combat: Before reaching Master, he assesses his full power as sufficient to confront Tier Four opponents. After reaching Master, he believes he can fight a same-tier Overlord without transformation and overwhelm most same-tier enemies at full power 532 569.

Resistance to Sacrificial Costs and Backlash

Shen Xing’s ability to avoid costs extends beyond the original zero-Agility exploit. When he boards the Soul-Ferrying Boat, the attempted deduction of ten years of lifespan fails. He connects this with his earlier avoidance of attribute-sacrifice costs and the lethal backlash associated with pulling one hundred chains in the Lotus Pond Secret Realm 338.

This is presented as Shen Xing’s observation that effects demanding a sacrifice or imposing backlash do not work on him in these instances. The available account does not establish a separate named talent as the definitive cause 338.

Heart of the Benevolent King

An S-rank talent unlocked through his performance in the SS-rank Master advancement trial 568.

• The trial recognizes that he will step forward to save others while showing no mercy when killing is necessary 568.
• Its evaluation describes light and chaos as coexisting within him, enabling his own path to strength 568.
• Afterward, he experiences exceptional inner peace, and the resulting change also influences the people around him 569.

Territory

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Gaming glasses — Black, rimless glasses used to enter the Land of Mist 2.
• Mechanism Crossbow — Blue-quality weapon with a forty-five-meter effective range. Its repeating mechanism fires three to four arrows in succession, with a sixty-second cooldown 13.
• Hurricane Lantern — Dispels mist during exploration. At level 3, illuminates a twenty-five-meter radius for three and a half hours 30.
• Phantom Clone Scroll — Blue-quality emergency protection that creates a clone and turns its user invisible when a fatal blow is imminent 13.
• Hope’s Plume — Blue-quality item granting sixty seconds of flight, with a five-minute cooldown 20. Later used with Hand of the Void to propel his wheelchair onto a wall 105.
• Hero Altar Blueprint — Gold-quality blueprint obtained from the demon statue through an Agility sacrifice that leaves his attribute unchanged 33 34.
• Frost Gem — Purple-quality troop-nest enhancement granting ten-percent ice attack and resistance bonuses to its troop type; traded for the Moon Well blueprint 37 44.
• Blackwater Greataxe — Purple-quality level-nine weapon obtained as loot and earmarked for Hellscream. Grants Strength +10, thirty-percent armor penetration, and a stacking consecutive-attack damage effect reaching fifty percent 67.
• Tripwire Trap Blueprint — Green-quality blueprint for concealed tripwires that trip enemies and inflict the crippled effect; each meter requires two Black Iron and one Soul Stone 83.
• Orc Totem — Obtained through a matched exchange and transferred to his territory 86.
• Silver Sacred Fruit — Gold-quality fruit whose listed effect permanently increases all four attributes by twenty and recovery speed by ten percent. His use improves his physique without raising ordinary Agility above zero 98 101.
• Stone Eye Gem — Purple-quality gem granting fifteen Agility and ten-percent accuracy when socketed into equipment. Shen Xing decides to place it in Hellscream’s Blackwater Greataxe 139.
• Ice Burial and Red Flame Heart Ring — Orange-quality weapon and gold-quality ring received after recovering West’s shipment 218.
• Nine Prayer Beads / Telekinesis Orbs — Epic-quality mental weapon set received from Zhang Yu in exchange for a Thousand-Year Lotus Seed. Requires Tier Three and the second mental-power realm to equip. Each additional bead sharply increases the control and mental-energy burden; Shen Xing gradually develops control over two, three, and four orbs 302 303 336 358 509.
• Mental cultivation manual — Studies it to understand the stages of mental-power development and the relationship between natural cultivation and system-imprinted skills 252.
• Omnipotent Compass — Guides him through the Spiral Labyrinth toward rewarding routes and allows him to seek particular locations given sufficient clues. He later intends to use it to locate Black Hawk City’s hidden treasure chamber 371 388 582.
• Modified wheelchair — After Demon Blade damages his chair, he gives the wreckage to Logan for repair or replacement. His later chair supports flight and a gentle movement mode and is noted by Qin Lang to emit fire 247 259 273.
• Growth Water Droplets — Plant-growth resources; the fifty-year variety immediately advances a growing plant by fifty years, with a maximum of three droplets of the same type 270.
• Thousand-Year Lotus Seeds — Rare resources distributed to his teammates and supplied to Elder Wang to assist his advancement 302 331.
• Ancient Tree of Life Essence — Epic-quality essence whose listed effects can extend a creature’s lifespan by one hundred to three hundred years and raise aptitude by three to ten points beyond its normal limit, or accelerate a plant’s growth by three hundred to five hundred years 477.
• Lotus Lantern — Used during the blood-mist period; Shen Xing extinguishes it and returns to his ordinary lantern when the event ends 495.
• Tier Four Lord’s Heart — Receives the long-awaited advancement resource through the Bureau’s matching service and uses it to begin his Master breakthrough 551 558.
• Mist Transmitter — Borrows Yu Feifei’s device to move a large resource shipment faster than his personal spiritual-power allowance would permit 551.
• Black Hawk City hidden-chamber key — An ancient key to a concealed chamber beneath the city, potentially containing the vice city lord’s accumulated treasures 582.
• Chaos Portals — Gives Xia Lingyin access to two for an allied territorial relay and plans further connections to his friends’ territories 584.

Relationships

• Hellscream — First troop selected for Life-Sacrifice Evolution and a principal commander. Shen Xing recognizes his tactical intelligence, invests heavily in his development, and lets him decide whether to risk fusing Lesser Demon Essence Blood; the fusion transforms him into a Hell Vanguard 3 9 25 30 46. Shen Xing later proudly identifies him as a Transcendent Rank troop, equips him with increasingly powerful weapons, and regards him as his strongest subordinate fighter 94 328 484.
• Gorehowl — Warg-bonded orc who evolves into a wolf rider. Shen Xing balances his eagerness for combat with defensive duties and encourages him to value improvement over competing for kills 25 27 32. Gorehowl later reports the orcs’ accelerated leveling and the territorial casualties after the dragon conflict 86 533.
• Da Hou — Trusted defender and third major warrior. Shen Xing evolves him into an elite orc warrior, later raises him to elite two-star, and fields him in the association match 30 40 42. Subsequently evolves him to elite three-star; Da Hou also accompanies Hellscream on a westward exploration assignment 52 188.
• Qin Lang — University friend who supplies the gaming glasses and a Skeleton Archer nest. Fights alongside Shen Xing and blocks a sword attack aimed at him during their arena match 2 5 22 42. Helps arrange his new home, receives troop support and a Thousand-Year Lotus Seed, and repeatedly joins his secret-realm expeditions 114 273 302 386.
• Xu Jiayi — University friend and teammate. Offers him a Flesh Fruit and helps repel the assassin targeting him in the arena 5 14 42. Helps establish the shared real-world base, cooks for him, receives a Thousand-Year Lotus Seed, and stands with him during the Spiral Labyrinth crisis 114 252 302 388.
• Lu Xiang — University friend whose death reinforces Shen Xing’s determination to treat the game seriously 5 8 15.
• Xia Wanyin — Neighboring lord, exploration partner, and ally. Shares resource locations and maps with him; they pledge mutual assistance against Gideon 28 36 48. Their trust deepens through repeated exploration and shared battles. When their expanding territories approach each other, they reaffirm their alliance rather than divide over land. Shen Xing later invites her to use the Lotus Pond, and his friends arrange to welcome her to Jiangcheng 188 360 417 502 551.
• Gideon — Hostile lord whose werewolves raid Shen Xing’s territory. Shen Xing initially considers him an ongoing threat that must be dealt with 48. A subsequent attack ends in Gideon’s total defeat and capture 91.
• Zhou Zheng — Provides access to the internal forum and arranges the trio’s opportunity to compete for Mist Void Realm slots 8 39. Later becomes a Spiral Labyrinth teammate. Shen Xing incorporates Zhou Zheng’s remote item-taking ability into his plan to strip the three hostile nations’ resource chambers 386 388.
• Tang Mengmei — Landlady, addressed as “Aunt Mei.” Has reduced or waived his rent over the years; Shen Xing declines her romantic and sexual advances 15.
• Heishi — Limping former slave whom Shen Xing names and appoints as the workers’ leader 50.
• Leina — Fire mage and hero first encountered among Gideon’s defeated forces. Shen Xing initially covets her exceptional combat potential; she later declares absolute loyalty to him and becomes intensely protective of him 91 93 187 188. Their relationship becomes romantic and intimate, and a soul exchange grants him Spirit and fire resistance. He later shares dragon-source power with her for her Metamorphosis 221 511 533.
• Onyxia — Former Tier Four dragon revived through a reconstructed true spirit and Demon Blade’s body. She recognizes Shen Xing’s role in restoring her and pledges to protect him 246. Becomes a trusted shadow operative, major combatant, and romantic partner. Their relationship also strengthens his dragon origin 281 417 432 511.
• Fordring — Veteran knight and major defensive commander. Protects Shen Xing during Demon Blade’s assassination attempt and holds the front line in team battles. Shen Xing recognizes that Fordring is recovering his own former abilities rather than merely gaining an inherited power 244 273 286 316.
• Black Arrow — Ice-skeleton subordinate whose cultivation and advancement Shen Xing supports with Rain and Dew Pearls and an Ancient Era Skull. His development benefits from the territory’s aptitude-enhancing resources 313.
• Xiao Hei — Black Moon Knight commander. Shen Xing lends him to Qin Lang with Hellscream during the Lotus Pond Secret Realm and relies on his forces in territorial defense 105 273.
• Fried Chicken — Hippogryph mount used for real-world travel, territorial exploration, and transporting commanders. Shen Xing proposes pairing its speed with Xia Wanyin’s detection ability 188 210 247 331.
• Yu Feifei — Friend and frequent teammate who helps him against Stone-Eyed Fleas and joins later secret-realm expeditions. Receives a Thousand-Year Lotus Seed, leaves Duoduo in his care, and lends him her Mist Transmitter in exchange for Lava Dragon Essence Blood 138 247 285 302 551.
• Jiang Rong — Association and Bureau contact who registers him for the Mist Void Realm and later arranges valuable material exchanges. Shen Xing rescues her in the mirror maze and fights alongside her in the Spiral Labyrinth 70 331 371 373.
• Ding Han — Trading department manager who handles Shen Xing’s private purchases, buybacks, and advancement-material matching. Their dealings continue as Shen Xing’s membership rises from platinum recognition to Black Diamond service 168 331 426 551.
• Zhang Yu — Jiangcheng official and veteran Master who helps protect him in reality, provides the Nine Prayer Beads, and conveys official recognition and gifts 184 302 471.
• Elder Wang — Official whose Master breakthrough is aided by Shen Xing’s Thousand-Year Lotus Seed and Rain and Dew Essence. Shen Xing offers additional help if one seed proves insufficient 302 331.
• West — Ouroboros merchant whom Shen Xing initially treats as a difficult negotiator. Recovering his stolen shipment develops the relationship into trust and regular trade; West regards his gifts as an investment in Shen Xing’s future 202 203 208 218.
• Lila — Vice president of the Ouroboros Chamber of Commerce. Agrees to establish Shen Xing’s territory as a regular caravan stop and provide favorable internal prices 307.
• Logan — Territorial blacksmith entrusted with armor production, the Hellfire Cannon Turret, and repair or replacement of Shen Xing’s damaged wheelchair 144 247.
• Nimue — Responsible for food production and increasingly important agricultural processing. Shen Xing samples her dishes and entrusts her with the White Jade Lotus harvest and replanting plan 221 486.
• Natalie — Refugee mushroom cultivator accepted into the territory. Shen Xing values her agricultural achievements but refuses her attempt to submit to a customary first-night obligation 426 511.
• Yiweishi — Blood Origin Saintess whom Shen Xing shelters while concealing his role in the events that injured her. He appreciates her concern about endangering his territory, supplies her departure, and secretly sends Onyxia to follow her 337 416 417.
• Kazdoreth / Black Dragon Lord — Powerful dragon whose aid and rewards greatly benefit Shen Xing. Restores Onyxia’s true spirit and later warns Shen Xing about Tilius’s plans. Refuses further summons unless Shen Xing obtains a Moon Essence 239 246 533.
• Tilius / Green Dragon Lord — Suspected manipulator who, according to the Black Dragon Lord, intends to use Shen Xing to gather other dragon sources before taking the accumulated power for himself 533.
• Lachlan Downton — Recurring hostile lord who repeatedly targets Shen Xing in competitive realms and seeks his assassination. His defeats intensify the feud, and he later joins the Spiral Labyrinth ambush 184 280 282 386.
• Conrad and Asada Hitomi — Hostile lords involved in organized attacks against Shen Xing and other Heavenly Star Nation players. Conrad’s tracking hound helps pursue the group through the Spiral Labyrinth 184 379 386 388.
• Demon Blade — Assassin who attacks Shen Xing for the bounty on him and damages his wheelchair. Her defeated body becomes the vessel for Onyxia’s revival 244 245 246.
• Shi Lan — Senior lord grateful to Shen Xing for freeing her child from enemy torment and preserving crucial evidence. Visits him personally while delivering a treasure from the authorities 471 472.
• Xia Lingyin — Ally entrusted with two Chaos Portals and plans for linking Shen Xing’s territory with those of Qin Lang, Xu Jiayi, and other companions 584.

Notable Quotes

“What we need to do now is take this game seriously. Our lives and livelihoods are at stake.” 8

“Caution is for survival, but always playing it safe will only make us miss many opportunities.” 31

“A warrior's glory doesn't lie in the number of enemies he kills, but in a heart that always strives to improve.” 32

“One day, I'll stand on my own again!” 38

“Captain Zhou, when have you ever seen me act impulsively? Don't worry. I wouldn't gamble with my own life.” 388

“Then allow me to introduce myself again. I am Lord Shen Xing, the Black Dragon Lord's savior and the one who absorbed the essence of three great dragon sovereigns.” 536

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