Chapter Summaries

Su Mu cleared the Spider Nest Deep Valley waves quickly, collecting two spider creature cards and watching his demons battle increasingly powerful monsters. By the fifteenth wave, the Green Lion King had still refused to join the fight, showing signs of intelligence that surprised Su Mu.

• Su Mu learned that the Brood Nest Spider Queen’s eggs could provide experience and Momentum Points, then watched his demons kill her and collected her creature card.
• Su Mu’s demons defeated the sixth through ninth waves and killed the tenth-wave Web-Weaving Spider Queen, whose card Su Mu collected for his plans to create varied Spider Demons.
• Su Mu’s demons fought through the eleventh to fourteenth waves as the monster count rose above 2,500.
• More than three thousand Spider Nest Guards appeared in the fifteenth wave, and Little Drill Wind, White Bone Spirit, Benbo'erba, and Babo'erben fought them with ease.
• Su Mu noticed that the Green Lion King watched from his throne without joining the battle and wondered whether its unusual intelligence increased its combat potential.

Su Mu and his four demons fought the fifteenth-wave boss, the Deep Valley Spider Nest Lord, defeating it with attacks on its weak points. With the lord dead, the wave’s battle ended.

• Su Mu appraised the Deep Valley Spider Nest Lord and identified its venom, egg, web, and spider-buffing skills.
• The lord attacked Little Drill Wind with venom and webs, while White Bone Spirit and the catfish demons struck from its flank and beneath it.
• White Bone Spirit evaded the poison-exploding spiders, and Benbo'erba and Babo'erben damaged the lord’s armor and severed its legs.
• The four demons exploited their different abilities to evade the lord’s attacks and steadily reduce its health.
• The lord released its final swarm of eggs, but Little Drill Wind split its skull, White Bone Spirit burned its egg sacs, and Benbo'erba and Babo'erben severed its head.

Su Mu’s monsters cleared the first nineteen waves of Spider Nest Deep Valley, gaining levels before the level-32 Deep Valley Spider Emperor appeared as the twentieth-wave boss. The Spider Emperor overwhelmed Little Drill Wind, White Bone Spirit, Benbo'erba, and Babo'erben, leaving Little Drill Wind trapped and pleading for Su Mu’s help.

• Su Mu collected the Deep Valley Spider Nest Lord Card after the fifteenth-wave lord fell.
• Little Drill Wind, White Bone Spirit, Benbo'erba, and Babo'erben fought through the elite spider waves as Su Mu gained experience and levels.
• Su Mu appraised the level-32 Deep Valley Spider Emperor when it emerged in the twentieth wave.
• The Spider Emperor trapped Little Drill Wind in poisonous silk, struck White Bone Spirit back, and forced Benbo'erba and Babo'erben away with a web.
• Little Drill Wind struggled against the tightening silk and shouted, "Your Majesty, save me!"

The Green Lion King effortlessly killed the Spider Emperor, and Su Mu gained a new card and a boost to Years Like a Blade. Su Mu left the dungeon with materials for Pansi Cave and the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven growing faster, while saving his Soul Power for the Golden-Winged Great Peng King and White Elephant King.

• The Green Lion King swallowed the Spider Emperor’s silk and venom, then killed him with two paw strikes in less than ten breaths.
• Su Mu watched the fight and judged the Green Lion King’s true strength to be far greater than his displayed combat index.
• The Spider Emperor’s death raised Su Mu’s Years Like a Blade proficiency to level three, improving its effects and reducing its cooldown.
• Su Mu collected the Deep Valley Spider Emperor Card and reviewed his spider cards, materials, experience, and the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven’s 620 years of age.
• Su Mu decided to reserve his Soul Power for the Golden-Winged Great Peng King and White Elephant King, then left the dungeon.

Su Mu emerged from Spider Nest Deep Valley after clearing its hell difficulty solo and breaking the record, despite being only level seventeen. The senior and the witnesses were left stunned by his achievement.

• The senior waited anxiously outside the dungeon while onlookers speculated that Su Mu was trapped or in danger.
• A bell announced a nest record had been broken, and the crowd discovered it was for Spider Nest Deep Valley on hell difficulty.
• The senior realized no one else had entered since Su Mu and told the two girls that he had achieved Leaping over the Dragon Gate.
• Su Mu came out of the dungeon calm and unharmed, then confirmed to the senior that he had cleared it.
• The updated record showed Su Mu had soloed the dungeon in 1 hour 08 minutes, beating the previous ten-person team's time by sixteen minutes.

Su Mu learned that breaking the Spider Nest Deep Valley Hell clear record earned him generous rewards, then asked his senior about ways to level up quickly. He decided that buying dungeon cooldown scrolls with school points could help him reach level twenty sooner.

• Su Mu received 100,000 credits, an A-rank card selection, and an extra daily dungeon entry for breaking the clear record, then left Nest Plaza with his senior and the two girls.
• Su Mu's senior confirmed that the level-twenty-five Mechanical Ruined Capital was available, but Su Mu rejected it because its mechanical theme and materials did not suit his needs.
• Su Mu asked how to level up quickly, and his senior explained that he could repeat dungeons by combining points with cooldown equipment.
• Su Mu learned that the school sold dungeon cooldown scrolls for 10,000 points and decided he could spend points to gain levels faster.

Su Mu headed to the Resource Exchange Center to buy cooldown items, while Shen Congyun learned that he had solo-cleared Spider Nest Deep Valley on hell difficulty and broken its record. Impressed, Shen Congyun ordered a personal training plan for Su Mu.

• Su Mu decided to spend points on cooldown items and asked Wen Miaomiao how to exchange for school resources.
• Wen Miaomiao pointed Su Mu toward the Resource Exchange Center, then gave him her name and offered to help with future instance recommendations.
• Shen Congyun discussed Su Mu's SSS contract with Elder Xiu and said he would not give the student special treatment if his results fell short.
• A bell announced a nest record had been broken, and Shen Congyun learned that level-seventeen Su Mu had solo-cleared Spider Nest Deep Valley on hell difficulty in one hour and eight minutes.
• Shen Congyun ordered Xiao Zhang to obtain Su Mu's file and have the academic affairs office prepare a separate training plan for him.

Su Mu searched the exchange center for ways to reduce dungeon cooldowns and discovered that the best equipment was free but required high competitive ranks or mission achievements. He chose to look for a suitable Gold-rank mission and found a team mission on Iron Turtle Island that could help him pursue Limit-Breaking Academy slots.

• Su Mu found that cooldown scrolls cost 10,000 points and were limited by his access level, while rechargeable cooldown equipment was free if he met demanding competition or mission requirements.
• Su Mu decided against buying scrolls and focused on earning a cooldown talisman by completing a Gold-rank mission.
• Su Mu reviewed Gold-rank missions but rejected most as too time-consuming because they required long trips into the wilderness or to the national border.
• Su Mu discovered a team mission on Iron Turtle Island that required five first-year students to seize a nest control core fragment and offered Limit-Breaking Academy slots as its reward.

Su Mu accepted the mission for a Limit-Breaking Academy slot and repeatedly cleared Spider Nest Deep Valley on Hell difficulty, drawing campus-wide attention as he broke his own record. After further runs on lower difficulties, he reached level nineteen and confirmed that the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven had passed a thousand years of age and grown stronger.

• Su Mu accepted the selection mission that awarded a Limit-Breaking Academy slot, matched for teammates, and bought three Dungeon Cooldown Scrolls.
• Su Mu entered Spider Nest Deep Valley on Hell difficulty again, and the crowd recognized him as the student who had already solo-cleared it.
• Su Mu cleared Hell difficulty three more times, breaking the dungeon record each time as the bells and forum posts drew growing attention.
• Su Mu ran Nightmare, Hard, and Normal difficulties, raising his level to nineteen, forty percent.
• Su Mu checked the Stone Left Over from Mending Heaven and found that its age had passed one thousand years, its health had risen to 880,000, and its defense to 8,800.