Recaps

Fan Daoyi defeated the principal and offered the branches and vines a chance to revive the students, while Apothecary and Xuan Miao arranged for the players to leave Guixu. Fan Daoyi fell unconscious after a flood of wishes drained his Origin Source, and Azure Dragon Guards found a weak survivor in the principal’s office.

• Fan Daoyi exposed the principal’s betrayal, and the formation caused Wang Long to age as the principal turned on him.
• Fan Daoyi’s branches and vines found and tore apart the principal, then accepted the potion he offered and carried it toward the rosebushes.
• Fan Daoyi ordered the vines to keep the remaining players in Guixu and refresh the story, while Apothecary and Xuan Miao restored the students and prepared to let players pass through.
• Players across multiple instances completed their objectives and made wishes to save people, draining Fan Daoyi’s Origin Source until he fell asleep.
• Apothecary killed fleeing players, took Jiang Lin’s corpse through a crimson opening, and left the college entrance exam instance.
• Azure Dragon Guards entered the instance, searched the remains, and found a survivor with weak breathing in the principal’s office.

Fan Daoyi woke in a private hospital in Magic City after being publicly hailed as the savior who killed Guixu’s final boss. He learned that the authorities were investigating Wang Long, while He Piaojian and Kan Water questioned whether the evidence pointed to another Fan Daoyi.

• He Piaojian and Kan Water discussed Fan Daoyi’s condition and the authorities’ decision to present him as a savior before Kan Water nearly tried to dissect him.
• Fan Daoyi revealed that he had been awake and asked where he was and why the public called him a savior.
• Kan Water explained that Fan Daoyi was in his private hospital in Magic City and that the authorities would reward him for saving students.
• Fan Daoyi told Kan Water that Wang Long had colluded with the dungeon boss, and Kan Water confirmed that surveillance evidence showed Wang Long killing his companions and working with Guixu.
• After leaving Fan Daoyi’s room, He Piaojian told Kan Water that the footage showed Fan Daoyi throughout the incident, raising the possibility that there had been two Fan Daoyis.

Fan Daoyi was taken outside in a wheelchair by He Piaojian, who nearly sent him into a lake before Kun Earth rescued him. After learning why the group used trigram code names, Fan Daoyi heard that Xun Wind’s intuition had directed Kun Earth to help him.

• Fan Daoyi rested in his room until He Piaojian brought him a wheelchair and rushed him outside.
• He Piaojian pushed Fan Daoyi toward a steep slope, then ran to greet Li Fire and left the wheelchair rolling downhill.
• Li Fire tried to stop the wheelchair but let go, and Kun Earth used her ability to catch Fan Daoyi and bring him safely to the bottom.
• Fan Daoyi stood up and asked why the group used trigram aliases, and Kun Earth explained that some abilities could exploit real names.
• Kun Earth said Xun Wind’s intuition had told her when and where to use her ability, prompting Fan Daoyi to wonder whether it resembled foreseeing the future.

Fan Daoyi visited the underground [Eight Trigrams] base to meet Xun Wind, who used a stone to detect Fan Daoyi’s ability. Xun Wind sensed that Fan Daoyi’s power extended beyond teleportation and eagerly tried to recruit him into [Eight Trigrams].

• Fan Daoyi agreed to meet Xun Wind at the organization’s base after He Piaojian said Xun Wind would not dare leave it.
• Kun Earth led Fan Daoyi, Li Fire, and He Piaojian through the Moonlight Bar to [Eight Trigrams]’s hidden underground headquarters.
• Fan Daoyi met Gen Mountain and found Xun Wind crouched by the door, where Xun Wind asked whether Fan Daoyi could teleport.
• Xun Wind had Fan Daoyi hold a detection stone, and Fan Daoyi selected the teleportation ability [Essential for Getting Around, Boundless Fleeting Shadows].
• Xun Wind inferred that Fan Daoyi’s ability involved space and urged him to join [Eight Trigrams], while Kun Earth tried to restrain him.

Fan Daoyi considered joining [Eight Trigrams] as Kun Earth and Xun Wind explained the organization’s benefits and tested his intentions. After Xun Wind’s Intuition convinced him to trust the group, Fan Daoyi agreed to join and warned them not to rely too heavily on acquired abilities.

• Xun Wind promoted [Eight Trigrams] to Fan Daoyi, emphasizing its authority to strike first and report afterward, while Kun Earth hinted that Fan Daoyi could use it to deal with people indirectly.
• Fan Daoyi asked Kun Earth whether he should join, and she said she trusted Xun Wind’s judgment but left the choice to him.
• Fan Daoyi questioned how he could join when all eight positions seemed filled, then transported himself and Xun Wind to the top of a spire and asked whether he was about to kill him.
• Xun Wind explained that [Eight Trigrams] could add a position and that losing Fan Daoyi to another organization would be a great loss; Fan Daoyi pushed him from the spire, then rescued him when Xun Wind’s Intuition predicted he would survive.
• Fan Daoyi agreed to join [Eight Trigrams] and advised its members not to depend too heavily on abilities they had acquired.

Zhen Thunder burst in and attacked Fan Daoyi, mistaking him for a thief, before the Eight Trigrams members calmed the fight and apologized. Fan Daoyi then began coughing up blood, and the chapter ended with Kan Water treating him after a frantic, queasy trip to the scene.

• Zhen Thunder kicked open the door and charged at Fan Daoyi, but Fan Daoyi blocked his electrified fist with a bamboo staff.
• Li Fire attacked Zhen Thunder, while Kun Earth restrained her and Qian Heaven restored calm; the group realized Zhen Thunder had misunderstood the situation and he apologized to Fan Daoyi.
• Inside Guixu, Sculptor returned feeling guilty about being defeated, but Flower Tender and Puppet reassured them and persuaded them to join a drinking game.
• Fan Daoyi suddenly coughed up blood as the Eight Trigrams members scrambled to help, and Qian Heaven called Kan Water for medical aid.
• He Piaojian rushed Kan Water to the scene on a flying sword, where Kan Water treated the unconscious Fan Daoyi before vomiting into a trash can.

Fan Daoyi recovered from surgery and joined [Eight Trigrams] under the codename Tai Chi, despite his ability remaining at the first tier of the First Illumination realm. He tested himself in the training room, took first place in the highest-difficulty agility course, and left Qian Heaven wondering how powerful his talent really was.

• Qian Heaven dismissed the others, questioned Fan Daoyi about his slow realm progression, and welcomed him into [Eight Trigrams].
• Qian Heaven proposed the codename Tai Chi, and Fan Daoyi accepted it.
• Fan Daoyi visited the training room and raised the agility course difficulty until he was dodging attacks at the highest setting.
• Fan Daoyi perfectly completed the course and took first place in the rankings.
• Qian Heaven questioned Fan Daoyi about the limits of teleporting with another person, and Fan Daoyi described restrictions that still impressed him.

Fan Daoyi accepted a mission to confront Wang Haotian over the Wang Family’s suspected crimes and a debt involving Sacrificial Artifacts. He bypassed the guards and pressured Wang Haotian into dismissing his people, then demanded that he do something to clear the debt.

• Qian Heaven explained that Xia Baoguo’s team had surrounded the Wang Family, but suspicious surveillance footage and an empty search had left them without decisive evidence.
• Fan Daoyi accepted the mission, and He Piaojian agreed to accompany him to confront Wang Haotian.
• Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian appeared outside the Wang Family residence, where He Piaojian shouted for Xia Baoguo and the Azure Dragon Guards moved to seize him.
• Fan Daoyi vanished and entered the residence, where he appeared at Wang Haotian’s table and threatened him with a knife.
• Fan Daoyi reminded Wang Haotian of a transaction involving a Sacrificial Artifact and made him send his guards away.
• Fan Daoyi offered to wipe out Wang Haotian’s debt if he did something for him, then threw a knife past Wang Haotian’s cheek and refused to negotiate.

Fan Daoyi exposed Wang Haotian’s hidden worship of the Blood Doctor and discovered a grotesque monster in the family’s secret chamber. After the monster devoured the old believer and began eating people in the villa, Wang Haotian begged Fan Daoyi to believe his loyalty to Guixu.

• Fan Daoyi showed Wang Haotian a real entrance to Guixu, and Wang Haotian admitted he had taken precautions.
• Wang Haotian led Fan Daoyi to the family’s hidden ancestral hall, where a cloaked old man tried to force him to kneel before the Blood Doctor.
• Fan Daoyi reversed the old man’s crushing gravity, shattered most of the ancestral tablets, and found a grotesque stitched monster in the chamber beyond.
• Fan Daoyi woke the monster, which broke free and ate organs to satisfy its hunger.
• The monster swallowed the old man after Fan Daoyi allowed it, then went upstairs to eat people in the villa as ordered.
• Wang Haotian prostrated himself before Fan Daoyi and declared his devotion to Guixu.

Fan Daoyi forced Wang Haotian to prove his loyalty, then disarmed him and demanded to know how he contacted Guixu. Meanwhile, the monster inside the villa grew more powerful as the faces on its belly awakened and urged it to leave, bringing it into conflict with He Piaojian.

• Wang Haotian smashed the tablet, swore allegiance to Fan Daoyi, and accepted even the claim that Fan had caused his son's death.
• Wang Haotian tried to ambush Fan Daoyi, but Fan cut off his arm and asked how he had contacted Guixu.
• The monster grew as it ate people inside the villa, while He Piaojian noticed it had not yet attacked anyone outside and Xia Baoguo went to gather materials for a barrier.
• The faces on the monster's belly awakened and persuaded it to ignore Fan Daoyi's instructions and move toward the villa's exit.
• He Piaojian recognized the old man's face among the monster's faces and mocked their combined strength, prompting them to shout at him.

Fan Daoyi killed Wang Haotian, then arranged an alibi while He Piaojian fought the monster in the villa. After He Piaojian defeated it, a masked man introduced himself as Taotie.

• Fan Daoyi tortured Wang Haotian into agreeing to attack the authorities, then killed him and said his plans to attack them gave him reason to do so.
• Fan Daoyi teleported behind the Azure Dragon Guards and helped Xia Baoguo set up a barrier, then discussed He Piaojian’s fight with him.
• Fan Daoyi summoned Dao Er and planned for him to put on an act so Fan Daoyi could establish a convincing alibi.
• He Piaojian dodged the monster’s attacks until Xia Baoguo threw him a sword, then cut the monster in half with one slash.
• The monster returned to its normal size and regained consciousness, and a masked man emerged from behind it and introduced himself as Taotie.

Dao Er, who called himself Taotie, confronted He Piaojian and Xia Baoguo while opening a passage to Guixu. Dao Er escaped through it after revealing the Four Fiends Cult intended to bring Guixu’s terror back to the world, leaving Xia Baoguo to warn of a coming calamity.

• Xia Baoguo rebuilt the barrier as Dao Er appeared, and He Piaojian cut Dao Er apart, only for him to regenerate completely.
• He Piaojian gave up fighting and left after Dao Er confirmed he meant no harm, but returned to strike him with a wooden stick and sword qi.
• Dao Er opened an entrance to Guixu and forced the wounded monster through it, then dodged He Piaojian’s renewed attack.
• Dao Er announced the Four Fiends Cult planned to let Guixu’s terror descend upon the world before disappearing into the closing entrance.
• He Piaojian asked Xia Baoguo about Dao Er’s final words, and Xia Baoguo said they needed to prepare for a calamity.

After the Wang Family incident, He Piaojian returned Fan Daoyi’s sword and negotiated a share of the mission’s reward. At the villa’s ancestral hall, Xia Baoguo investigated Wang Haotian’s gruesome death while Fan Daoyi concealed his involvement and left without suspicion.

• He Piaojian admired Xia Baoguo’s sword, learned it belonged to Fan Daoyi, and returned it to him.
• Xia Baoguo’s Azure Dragon Guards searched the ruins and brought He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi to inspect Wang Haotian’s corpse.
• Xia Baoguo noted that Wang Haotian had suffered many nonfatal weapon wounds and that his heart had been removed.
• Fan Daoyi acted uncomfortable around the bloody scene, prompting Xia Baoguo to let him leave with He Piaojian.
• He Piaojian negotiated a twenty-percent share of the reward from Xia Baoguo before departing with Fan Daoyi.

He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi went to a hot pot restaurant, where strange insects erupted from the food and transformed diners. Fan Daoyi discovered an unknown egg-laying creature hidden in the restaurant’s cold storage as the insect nest began to withdraw.

• He Piaojian called Qian Heaven to get money for the meal and changed his soup base to a divided pot after Qian Heaven warned him about spicy food.
• Fan Daoyi tasted the soup’s white pearls and wormlike contents while He Piaojian chatted with nearby diners.
• A bloodied chef transformed into an insect creature and tried to force adult insects into the diners’ mouths, while some customers also mutated.
• He Piaojian pierced the chef’s wrist with chopsticks, and Fan Daoyi entered the kitchen and found corpses beneath a huge insect structure.
• Fan Daoyi entered the cold storage room and saw a large white creature laying eggs before the insect structure retracted, revealing itself as the creature’s body.

Fan Daoyi and He Piaojian fought the insect mother and its swarm in the hot pot restaurant. After they killed it and freed the parasitized diners, Fan Daoyi suggested that He Piaojian try eating the insects.

• The corpses mutated into parasitized attackers, and Fan Daoyi discovered that cutting their antennae left them unable to target him.
• Fan Daoyi found the mother in the cold storage room, while He Piaojian set up a Barrier to keep the adult insects inside the restaurant.
• Fan Daoyi rescued He Piaojian from the swarm and teleported him close enough to stab the mother’s abdomen.
• Fan Daoyi severed the antennae of insects defending the mother’s tail cyst, allowing He Piaojian to pierce it with chopsticks and kill the mother.
• The adult insects died, and the parasitized diners vomited out the eggs and returned to normal; He Piaojian collected payment for his trouble.
• Fan Daoyi told He Piaojian that the larvae and eggs tasted good, and He Piaojian agreed to try them.

After the hot pot insect incident, Fan Daoyi received official rewards and waited for admissions while keeping his true identity and abilities hidden. At the admissions testing event, Jiang Wanyu revealed a Wind ability, and the chapter ended as she began her tier test.

• He Piaojian and Fan Daoyi ate the insect mother, then gave statements to the police and split the reward they received.
• Fan Daoyi received an apartment and a rare item for contracting a Guixu creature, but dismissed the idea of commanding such creatures.
• Fan Daoyi watched authorities take control of Guixu entrances and later checked his exam results, finding his academic and Guixu scores sufficient for Dawn.
• Fan Daoyi arrived at the city gymnasium for admissions testing and took his seat among the candidates.
• Jiang Wanyu demonstrated a Wind ability, registered it, and placed her hand on the second stone to test her tier.

At the college entrance tests, Jiang Wanyu and Mo Chengyuan drew attention with their high ability tiers, until He Piaojian revealed an even more astonishing Fusion Realm tier. Fan Daoyi then tested at only Initial Illumination Realm First Tier, but the students celebrated him for having slain Guixu’s final boss and saved them.

• Jiang Wanyu tested as an Open Source Realm Second Tier elemental ability user with a written score of 656, then accepted Lingxiao Academy’s invitation.
• Mo Chengyuan tested as a Condensation Realm First Tier mental ability user, insulted the other students, and drew no blame from the admissions teachers.
• He Piaojian arrived late, tested as a Fusion Realm cultivator, and said he had come only to go through the motions because his boss had not told him which school to choose.
• Fan Daoyi tested as an Initial Illumination Realm First Tier spatial ability user, leaving the gymnasium stunned because the students knew he had slain Guixu’s final boss.
• The students defended Fan Daoyi and erupted into cheers of “Dao God, fucking awesome.”

Fan Daoyi chose Dawnlight Academy with He Piaojian and reversed a recruitment curse onto Dawnlight’s president. Qian Heaven then sent Fan Daoyi to investigate a hospital where the Four Fiends Cult was conducting human experiments, and Fan Daoyi saw staff manipulating patients.

• Fan Daoyi applied to Dawnlight Academy, and He Piaojian decided to apply there too after saying he would follow Fan Daoyi’s choice.
• A curse triggered when He Piaojian chose Dawnlight, but Fan Daoyi reversed it and sent a rain of knives and lightning onto Dawnlight’s president.
• At [Eight Trigrams], Qian Heaven told Fan Daoyi that the Four Fiends Cult was luring patients into a hospital for human experiments and experiments involving Guixu creatures.
• Fan Daoyi agreed to pose as a patient and infiltrate the hospital.
• A hospital guard led Fan Daoyi to the waiting area, where he watched doctors reassure patients and steer them toward a supposed wonder drug.

Fan Daoyi went to a hospital suspected of using fake medicine and agreed to a trial injection after the doctor promised cheap treatment. While he slept in the ward, the Eight Trigrams lost his location signal and feared he had entered Guixu; he woke up believing he was home.

• The doctor told Fan Daoyi his illness would be difficult to treat, then persuaded him that the hospital could help for less than a thousand yuan.
• Fan Daoyi agreed to a free trial injection and followed a nurse to a private ward, where she injected him and told him to stay for twenty-four hours.
• Fan Daoyi became drowsy in the calm ward and fell asleep.
• The Eight Trigrams watched Fan Daoyi's tracking dot, but Xun Wind sensed that his location signal had disappeared.
• The Eight Trigrams worried that Fan Daoyi had entered Guixu, and Kun Earth prepared to retrieve him from the hospital.
• Fan Daoyi woke up and wondered if he was home.

Fan Daoyi discovered that the flower procession was an illusionary passage into Guixu and encountered the little gardener in the Flower Tender's plantation. He reached a hall of players who had entered through the regular entrance and struck one of them with a shovel.

• Fan Daoyi realized the flowers were guiding patients through an artificial passage between Guixu and the present world.
• When the flower bud failed to recognize him, Fan Daoyi copied a patient's flower cluster with Origin Source and entered the plantation.
• The little gardener recognized Fan Daoyi, tried to flee, and then blamed the Flower Tender when he confronted her.
• Fan Daoyi left the gardener and wondered whether the Flower Tender and the Apothecary were connected to human experiments on the patients.
• Fan Daoyi entered a hall of players and struck one of them on the forehead with a shovel.

Fan Daoyi convinced the players that Mo Chengyuan had used mental control, then let them believe his shovel was an item that exposed the deception. After the group introduced themselves, Fan Daoyi sensed that several people were probing him with Origin Source and realized other mental ability users were hiding among them.

• Fan Daoyi knocked Mo Chengyuan unconscious and claimed he had tried to control the players’ minds.
• Fan Daoyi used the hallucinogenic pollen on his shovel to persuade a doubting player that Mo Chengyuan had deceived them.
• A player struck Mo Chengyuan with the shovel when he woke, and the others thanked Fan Daoyi for warning them.
• Chen Yang, Chu Yue, Sun Ruijie, Olivia Clark, and Fan Daoyi introduced themselves and shared their assigned identities.
• Several players sent Origin Source toward Fan Daoyi, who realized that multiple mental ability users were among them.

Fan Daoyi exposed Chu Yue’s suspicion of the butler and explained why the Guixu guides could not reliably identify the troublemaker. He then told a story in which the flower shop owner, noble, reporter, and merchant all used the unemployed vagrant to help kill the duke and frame him.

• Chu Yue questioned the butler about how he knew the troublemaker had already slipped among the guests, and he left without giving a clear answer.
• Chen Yang asked Chu Yue why she had challenged the butler, and she dismissed the inconsistent Guixu guides.
• Olivia Clark asked Fan Daoyi whether the unemployed vagrant had a story of his own, and he said everyone present played a part in it.
• Fan Daoyi described how the flower shop owner and noble arranged for the vagrant to deliver flowers that formed a deadly poison for the duke.
• Fan Daoyi explained that the reporter and merchant used the vagrant to spread news of the duke’s supposed death and incite a crowd that delayed medical help.
• Fan Daoyi concluded that the others had arranged events so the vagrant would take the blame for the duke’s death.

The players debated whether Fan Daoyi’s story was true and whether the troublemaker was one of them or an NPC, then split up to search the castle. Chu Yue learned that the troublemaker was the mastermind behind the events and heard Fan Daoyi suggest that only one person was responsible.

• Fan Daoyi defended his story about being an unemployed drifter, while Sun Ruijie, Chu Yue, and the others questioned how the new game worked and what role the unconscious Mo Chengyuan played.
• Chu Yue proposed that the troublemaker could be an NPC, and she began to believe Fan Daoyi’s story after reading his thoughts and comparing it with her own identity’s account.
• The group agreed to search the castle and meet again, and Fan Daoyi struck the sleeping Mo Chengyuan on the forehead with his shovel, leaving him unharmed but more deeply asleep.
• Chu Yue asked the butler how he defined a troublemaker, and he said the troublemaker was the mastermind behind everything that ruined the duke’s birthday.
• Fan Daoyi emerged from behind a corner and told Chu Yue that there was probably only one troublemaker orchestrating the apparent coincidences.

Fan Daoyi discussed suspicions about the players’ identities with Chu Yueru, then traded his shovel to Clark for a cane. The exchange ended with Sun Ruijie interrupting Clark and offering her food, while Fan Daoyi recognized how strongly her charm affected him.

• Chu Yueru questioned Fan Daoyi about whether the players might be the troublemaker, and he admitted he had suspected himself and offered to share his ideas.
• Fan Daoyi discussed his theory about someone who did not exist in the story with Clark, who asked for his shovel.
• Fan Daoyi identified Clark as the mental-type ability user Olivia and asked her to trade the shovel for a stick.
• Clark brought Fan Daoyi a cane, and he gave her the shovel in exchange.
• Sun Ruijie interrupted Clark before she could kiss Fan Daoyi and offered her a plate of food.

Fan Daoyi tricked Clark into taking the pollen-coated shovel, which Clark used to test its ability to block her charm. At the duke’s birthday banquet, Chen Yang confronted the duke while Chu Yue listened in, setting their plan to investigate the hidden saboteur in motion.

• Fan Daoyi left Clark with the shovel, and she tested it on Sun Ruijie, confirming that holding it broke the effect of her charm.
• Fan Daoyi met Chen Yang, who used his lie-detection ability to assess him and asked whether Clark could become a threat.
• The duke entered the banquet hall, and Chen Yang went to record his words and actions.
• Chu Yue began eavesdropping as Chen Yang approached the duke and hinted that he valued the truth, putting pressure on him over the compromising photographs.