Chapter Summaries

Ye Bai monitored the Necromancer and Spirit Holy Son as they began experiments in the second round, then visited Blue Phoenix and learned about her powerful Gu-enhanced Black Flea Bug. The latest intelligence revealed that the Hell Association had infiltrated the Young Qilin Cup and that several other dangerous secrets were unfolding.

• The contestants received Black Flea Bug and Shadow Mantis eggs and began a month-long cultivation experiment under surveillance.
• The Necromancer and Spirit Holy Son each ordered materials and started preparing methods to evolve their insect eggs, while Ye Bai secretly copied their experiments.
• Blue Phoenix showed Ye Bai her Black Flea Bug Gu King, a parasite strengthened by ten kinds of Gu that could rival a Peak Tier 6 Strange Beast.
• Ye Bai learned that the Gu-enhanced parasite was difficult to mass-produce and asked for more information on Pet Beasts to be collected.
• Ye Bai checked the latest intelligence and discovered the Hell Association had infiltrated the competition, the Necromancer had prepared a forbidden Magic Tool, and the Gospel Association's Necronomicon had been stolen.

Ye Bai learned that the Hell Association’s Seven Stars planned to replace Young Qilin Cup contestants with puppets and use them to bargain with the undead mages. He tightened security and thwarted several abductions, while sending a disguised Rubik’s Cube after the escaping clay puppets.

• Gui Jinyang told Ye Bai and Jing Mu'an that the Hell Association was a branch of the Hell Worshipers, described the Seven Stars, and agreed to help track them down.
• The Seven Stars, led by Friday, decided to replace contestants with puppet doubles and use them to obtain benefits from the undead mages, including access to the Necronomicon.
• Ye Bai ordered inspections for contestants entering and leaving the competition grounds and modified the surveillance system to expose altered footage.
• Clay puppets tried to abduct contestants in laboratories, but the Candle Dragon Spirit and Ice Fire Twin Swords destroyed them before anyone was harmed.
• Ye Bai recorded the contestants targeted by the puppets, then transformed a Rubik’s Cube into an earthworm and sent it after the fleeing clay creatures.

Ye Bai confronted Saturday of the Seven Stars, uncovered his real identity as Han Zhuang, and learned the group planned to attack the Young Qilin Cup and abduct contestants. Saturday escaped, while Ye Bai and his allies decided to continue the competition and worried about the lingering blood-red Mist in Tianzhong City.

• Ye Bai tracked Saturday to a cemetery and fought his clay puppets using the Sky Devouring Pelican's Space Slash.
• Saturday summoned clay pet beasts from coffins, but Ye Bai escaped his trap and discovered that his opponent was a clay Doppelganger.
• Ye Bai found Saturday posing as a janitor named Han Zhuang near the competition venue and confronted him as he tried to carry out the Seven Stars' plan.
• Ye Bai exploited clay's weakness to heat, destroyed Saturday's Giant Tooth Sharks with Hellfire, and forced Saturday to flee.
• Ye Bai told Gui Jinyang and Jing Mu'an that Saturday was Han Zhuang, and the three discussed the Seven Stars' planned attack on the Young Qilin Cup.
• Gui Jinyang suggested suspending the competition, but Ye Bai insisted it continue and warned that Tianzhong City's blood-red Mist could signal danger.

Ye Bai proposed a plan to protect the Young Qilin Cup as the Necromancer, Spirit Holy Son, and Saturday launched an undead assault on the venue. The attack met hidden defenses and a betrayal by the Spirit Holy Son, while Kuo Mu Lang’s deception left the attackers confused.

• Ye Bai reassured Gui Jinyang and Jing Mu'an about the cities’ defenses and proposed a plan called swapping the heavens and changing the sun.
• The Necromancer met the Spirit Holy Son and Saturday, learned their leader was unavailable, and prepared to abduct contestants with an undead ritual.
• The Necromancer arrived at the Young Qilin Cup with an undead army, including a bone dragon and Blood Skeleton Legion, and attacked the Beast Mercenary Group.
• The undead dragged Screaming Giraffes underground and raised them as undead, prompting Wang Hu to order the other beasts behind the second barrier.
• Sunflower Immortal doppelgangers revealed themselves and used Holy Light Illumination to destroy Crimson Skeletons, while the Necromancer summoned Headless Knights to resist.
• The Sunflower Immortals fled from the Headless Knights, and Gui Jinyang remarked to Kuo Mu Lang that the attackers would realize they had been tricked.

The Spirit Holy Son secretly prepared to defect from the Resurrection Society and offered Ye Bai information and a Soul Crystal while the Necromancer and Saturday were trapped at the Young Qilin Cup venue. As Ye Bai fought Saturday, Zhang Lingxue and Blue Phoenix both set out to pursue Seven Stars, leaving the group's members under growing threat.

• The Spirit Holy Son learned that the venue's defenses were a mirage, then ordered Ox-Head and Horse-Face to seal his palace and sent Black and White Impermanence to deliver Ye Bai a Soul Crystal.
• The Spirit Holy Son planned to seek refuge with Flame Kingdom, offered information about a life-spring island, and considered using the Energy Holy Son to further his plans.
• Jing Mu'an's Barrier trapped the Necromancer and Saturday; Gui Jinyang chose to confront the Necromancer while Ye Bai and Da Hui attacked Saturday in a forest domain that restrained his clay.
• Zhang Dashan told Zhang Lingxue that Seven Stars might have been connected to her parents' deaths and sent her with Zhang Yuelu to capture Wednesday.
• Blue Phoenix created an Explosion Gu and set out to confront Seven Stars for slaughtering a village in pursuit of the Five Poisons Sect's Secret Treasure.

Ye Bai helped contain the danger posed by Saturday and returned to judge the Young Qilin Cup, where Jiangnan presented his evolved Black Flea Queen and Poisonous Mantis. The contestants remained confined in the Laboratory as the third-round evaluations continued.

• Blue Phoenix recalled how Seven Stars slaughtered her clanspeople and how she inherited the Deer God Flute and Five Poisons Sect from the previous Zhang Yuelu.
• Ye Bai killed one of Saturday's soul-bearing clay Doppelgangers, while Saturday's remaining Doppelganger struggled to find clay inside Jing Mu'an's Barrier.
• Gui Jinyang challenged the necromancer and prepared his puppets as the necromancer summoned Skeleton Soldiers.
• Jing Mu'an told Ye Bai to return to the Young Qilin Cup as a reviewer and keep the contestants unaware of the emergency lockdown.
• Ye Bai announced the competition rules, confined the contestants to the Laboratory, and advanced those who had hatched Black Flea Bugs and Shadow Mantises to the third round.
• Jiangnan presented his Black Flea Queen and Poisonous Mantis, and Song Fu'an praised the queen's potential to lead a colony.

After the Seven Stars' undercover contestants exposed themselves at the Young Qilin Cup, one escaped and the Seven Stars chose Bureau 750 as their revenge target. Acting on intelligence from Y, Ye Bai arranged to take charge of the prison's security and prepare for their attack.

• The necromancer and Spirit Holy Son revealed suspiciously raised pet beasts, and a Bone Claw smashed through the contestants' Barrier to rescue the necromancer as the Spirit Holy Son destroyed his possessed body.
• The Seven Stars learned that Saturday had died, and Friday decided they would attack Bureau 750 and release its imprisoned Unspeakable Things.
• Ye Bai saw intelligence predicting the assault and decided to use himself as bait while taking over Bureau 750's defenses.
• Zhang Lingxue and Blue Phoenix agreed to help Ye Bai, and Marshal Qilin approved the assignment after seeing Y's warning.
• Ye Bai took temporary command of Bureau 750, with Xin Yue Hu and Zhang Yuelu joining him to defend it against the Seven Stars.

Ye Bai used his Eidetic Memory to finish Bureau 750’s manuals and began a covert plan to seize control from Master Zhi Shen before Seven Stars attacked. The chapter revealed that Master Zhi Shen had secretly freed the Evil God Statue and become its puppet, while Ye Bai was infiltrating the first Rakshasa Gate.

• Master Zhi Shen tried to keep Kui Mu Lang and his companions out of Bureau 750 by forcing them to read a vast stack of manuals, while secretly believing the task would take at least a month.
• Zhang Lingxue warned Blue Phoenix not to use Gu Worms against Master Zhi Shen, and Ye Bai finished the manuals in under four hours using Eidetic Memory.
• Ye Bai decided to take control of Bureau 750, and Blue Phoenix and Zhang Lingxue agreed to help him capture Master Zhi Shen and deal with the bureau’s negligent executives.
• Ye Bai used the Calamity Mirror Woman and Da Hui to evade surveillance, then approached the first Rakshasa Gate with Blue Phoenix and Zhang Lingxue.
• Master Zhi Shen awakened the Evil God Statue, which revealed that it had turned him from a Buddhist scholar into its puppet.
• Ye Bai passed through the first Rakshasa Gate as Master Zhi Shen’s secret allegiance to the Evil God Statue remained concealed.

Ye Bai, Zhang Lingxue, and Blue Phoenix infiltrated Bureau 750 through the Rakshasa Gate and began seeking Fuxi’s help and evidence against Master Zhi Shen. Meanwhile, the Seven Stars prepared to attack Bureau 750 and planned to use the Tenfold Rakshasa Gate and Evil Dragon Vein to merge the worlds of the living and the dead.

• Ye Bai discovered a secret passage through the Rakshasa Gate that could teleport the group directly to Bureau 750, and he explained that reaching Fuxi could help them take control of the facility.
• Ye Bai used the Nether Hell Wolf to activate the dark script, and diamond chains carried him, Zhang Lingxue, and Blue Phoenix through the gate to Bureau 750.
• Blue Phoenix used a Silent Gu to conceal their arrival, and Ye Bai hacked into a branch of Bureau 750’s system to draw Fuxi’s attention while planning to investigate Master Zhi Shen.
• Fuxi noticed Ye Bai’s message and agreed to see whether the intruder could find its true body.
• Saturday briefed the Seven Stars on their plan to capture the Tenfold Rakshasa Gate and use it to bring hell into the human world.
• Friday identified the Evil Dragon Vein as their target and said the Seven Stars would exploit the angel’s arrival at Sea God Abyss to attack a weakened Flame Kingdom.

The Seven Stars prepared to seize Bureau 750 and free the Unspeakable Things, while Ye Bai, Zhang Lingxue, and Zhang Yuelu searched for Master Zhi Shen. Master Zhi Shen learned that the evil god statue wanted the Twenty-Eight Mansions sacrificed to break its seal, and he professed his loyalty.

• Friday ordered the Seven Stars to attack Bureau 750, exploit its internal divisions, and use their Undead Armies and human puppets to overwhelm the Flame Kingdom's defenders.
• Ye Bai, Zhang Lingxue, and Zhang Yuelu discussed using Zhang Yuelu's Gu Worm to control Bureau 750's personnel and searched for Master Zhi Shen using coordinates found through the Dark Web.
• Master Zhi Shen visited the evil god statue's hall, where Ghost Cry Monks sacrificed their senses and life force to nourish the statue.
• The evil god statue told Master Zhi Shen that the Seven Stars' planned attack could help it escape its seal beneath the Earth Vein.
• The evil god statue asked Master Zhi Shen to sacrifice the Twenty-Eight Mansions and their Soul Artifacts to break the Ten Thousand Dragon Slashes, and Master Zhi Shen declared his devotion.

Master Zhi Shen plotted to use the evil god's power while secretly resisting its control, but the evil god discovered his deception. Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue tracked Master Zhi Shen down and attacked him, beginning a battle inside Bureau 750.

• Master Zhi Shen revealed that he had freed the evil god to absorb its demonic energy and planned to use the Twenty-Eight Mansions' deaths to secure his own position.
• The evil god realized Master Zhi Shen was plotting against it and considered devouring powerful fighters to break the Ten Thousand Dragon Slash seal.
• The Candle Dragon Spirit sensed something underground and sent seven Ten Thousand Dragon Slashes and a Bronze Ancient Sword toward it, while Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue continued toward Master Zhi Shen.
• Blue Phoenix's flying insect located Master Zhi Shen, and she released the Barrier Gu so Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue could attack without alerting Bureau 750.
• The Asura Demon Ape smashed through Master Zhi Shen's meditation chamber, but Master Zhi Shen survived and transformed into a scaled, dragon-like form.
• Master Zhi Shen attacked the Asura Demon Ape, but the True Goddess of Light Butterfly's Holy Light Protection rebounded his strike, and he prepared to cast the Immovable Wisdom King Mantra.

Master Zhi Shen revealed his Immovable Wisdom King Form and fought Zhang Lingxue’s Asura Demon Ape, eventually defeating it and turning his attack toward Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue. As the evil god statue realized its control over Master Zhi Shen had been a disguise and began to break free, Ye Bai called on the Myriad Changes Butterfly to act.

• Master Zhi Shen transformed into the Immovable Wisdom King Form, while the Asura Demon Ape used Blood Sha to attack him and Ye Bai summoned protections for himself and Zhang Lingxue.
• The Asura Demon Ape’s powerful fists cracked Master Zhi Shen’s defenses, but Master Zhi Shen endured its assault and struck it with a dragon-and-tiger-powered attack.
• Master Zhi Shen trapped the wounded Asura Demon Ape in a Swastika Light Array, forcing it to dissipate, then released his form and revealed that he had replaced Bureau 750’s higher-ups and planned to free its imprisoned Unspeakable Things.
• Master Zhi Shen restored the Immovable Wisdom King Form and attacked Ye Bai and Zhang Lingxue, while Ye Bai ordered the Myriad Changes Butterfly to get to work.
• The evil god statue realized Master Zhi Shen had only appeared to be under its control and shrieked as the power of the Ten Thousand Dragon Slash began to fade.

The Old Celestial Master battled the Evil Dragon Vein, which had grown stronger by absorbing the resentment and Corpse Qi of a million corpse soldiers. With the Wuchen Sword’s arrival, he sacrificed his remaining soul to seal the Evil Dragon Vein again, leaving it gravely wounded but alive.

• The Evil Dragon Vein tried to break the Dragon Subduing Array while taunting the Old Celestial Master, whose soul appeared after the dragon challenged him.
• The Old Celestial Master summoned the Four Symbols Evil-Slaying Array and the Thunder God, but the Evil Dragon Vein survived the lightning strike by sacrificing more than half its million corpse soldiers.
• The Bronze Ancient Sword arrived with seven Ten Thousand Dragon Slashes, absorbed the shattered blades, and cleaved the Evil Dragon Vein in two.
• The Old Celestial Master fused the Ten Thousand Dragon Slashes and Tai Chi Yin-Yang Sword into the Wuchen Sword, sacrificing his soul to unleash its final strike.
• The Tai Chi Dustless Sword struck the Evil Dragon Vein with the Big Dipper Seven Stars Evil-Slaying Array and dragged it into the Earth Vein, suppressing it while sparing its life.

A massive quake sealed the Evil Dragon Vein and caused Unspeakable Things to escape across Bureau 750. Bai Ming fought to protect the bureau while Ye Bai overwhelmed Master Zhi Shen, who discovered that the Evil God statue had been destroyed and blamed Ye Bai.

• The Evil Dragon Vein was sealed again, and the resulting tremors damaged Bureau 750 and opened fissures that swallowed people.
• Bai Ming and Sword Immortal Fox rescued people as the Ghost Bride blinded Bai Ming, but Sword Immortal Fox struck her and made her disappear.
• Bai Ming ordered Bureau 750 to contain the escaped Unspeakable Things and followed the Ghost Bride and Ghost Sedan through a cracked wall.
• Master Zhi Shen discovered the Evil God statue split in two, then attacked Ye Bai with the weakened Immovable Wisdom King Form.
• The Myriad Changes Butterfly absorbed Master Zhi Shen's Fist of Anger, and the True Goddess of Light Butterfly trapped him in a Holy Light Cage.
• Ye Bai summoned the evolving Candle Dragon God, and Master Zhi Shen recognized the Evil Dragon Vein's aura and accused Ye Bai of destroying the Evil God statue.

Ye Bai used the Five Poisons Silk Gu to take control of Master Zhi Shen while preparing to seize Bureau 750 before the Seven Stars could claim the Evil Dragon Vein. When Bureau 750’s deputy directors arrived, its personnel mistook Ye Bai’s group for enemies and sounded the alarm.

• Master Zhi Shen surrendered after Ye Bai revealed that the Evil Dragon Vein had been sealed, but Ye Bai secretly planned to use him to uncover his allies in Bureau 750.
• Ye Bai learned that Deputy Director Bai Ming opposed Master Zhi Shen, that the Ten Dragons Ten Tigers Demon Subduing Technique could absorb Blood Gu, and that the Seven Stars wanted the Evil Dragon Vein.
• Ye Bai asked Blue Phoenix for her Five Poisons Silk Gu and promised he could help it evolve; she brought it to him and used it to make Master Zhi Shen lose control of his body.
• Ye Bai told Blue Phoenix to spread Sleep Gu, Paralysis Gu, Freeze Gu, and Poison Gu before the Barrier Gu came down and Bureau 750 saw Master Zhi Shen captured.
• Bureau 750’s staff raised the alarm, and deputy directors Moxi, a golden-haired woman, and an old man arrived with their pet beasts and demanded action.

Ye Bai and his allies fought Master Zhi Shen’s forces after he invoked the Qilin Token to expose their attack on Bureau 750. The battle left Moxi’s War Armor Boar dead and ended with Ye Bai’s Immortal Swords cutting down the Geng Metal Killer Bees, while Master Zhi Shen and Golden-haired Chris’s forces remained under threat.

• Ye Bai summoned the Qilin Dharma Image with the Qilin Token, but Master Zhi Shen called it fake and ordered Moxi and Chris to attack.
• Moxi sent the War Armor Boar charging at Ye Bai, and the Nether Hell Wolf pinned it down and burned it with Hellfire.
• The wounded War Armor Boar charged into the Medusa Stone Statue’s range, was petrified, and shattered against the statue, killing it and breaking Moxi’s contract.
• Ye Bai told Master Zhi Shen that he had placed something in his heart and that his crimes would be presented to the Flame Kingdom’s upper ranks.
• Chris sent her Geng Metal Killer Bees against Ye Bai’s Myriad Changes Butterfly, while Zhang Lingxue protected Ye Bai from a Bee King’s surprise attack.
• Ye Bai summoned Immortal Swords and sent them through the Geng Metal Killer Bees, slicing them from the sky.

Ye Bai and his companions took control of Bureau 750 after suppressing Master Zhi Shen’s supporters and appointing Bai Ming to manage the bureau. The chapter ended with Ye Bai studying the Tenfold Rakshasa Gate’s defenses and preparing to meet trustworthy higher-ups before the Seven Stars arrived.

• The Candle Dragon Spirit’s Bronze Ancient Sword form frightened Chris’s Geng Gold Killer Bee, while Blue Phoenix punished Master Zhi Shen and Zhang Lingxue summoned the Asura Demon Ape.
• Tsuchikata tried to rally Bureau 750’s Pet Beast Masters, but Zhang Yuelu used Shielding Gu to block the alarm and Ye Bai exposed Tsuchikata as Master Zhi Shen’s hidden hand.
• Ye Bai summoned the Hell Wolves through the Shadow Gate, and they overwhelmed Bureau 750’s Pet Beast Masters while Blue Phoenix’s Gu left Chris, Tsuchikata, and Mohawk incapacitated.
• Ye Bai identified himself as Kui Mu Lang and ordered the staff to disperse, while Master Zhi Shen, Moxi, Chris, and Tsuchikata were sent into his Secret Realm.
• Ye Bai asked Bai Ming to temporarily manage Bureau 750 and prepare for the Seven Stars; Bai Ming agreed and shared a Notebook detailing how the Tenfold Rakshasa Gates could withstand eighth-tier attacks.
• Ye Bai memorized the gate’s operating methods and asked Bai Ming to arrange a meeting with higher-ups who had not joined Master Zhi Shen’s faction.

Ye Bai authorized Bureau 750 to research Weird under mental-health safeguards and toured its containment facility, where his Bronze Ancient Sword proved devastating to a Shadow Weird. The sword also explained why the Red Umbrella had fled, and Xiao Lan offered to show Ye Bai a powerful water-controlling wraith for further testing.

• Ye Bai agreed to fund research on Weird, requiring mental-threshold monitoring, and ordered Bai Ming to expose Master Zhi Shen’s crimes and purge Bureau 750’s hidden agents within three days.
• Ye Bai toured the containment facility with Xiao Lan, learned how the Shadow Weird was secured, and heard that it might possess a hidden shadow space.
• Ye Bai saw the Red Umbrella Weird, but she fled before Xiao Lan could explain that she had been targeting him.
• Ye Bai summoned the Bronze Ancient Sword, which made the Shadow Weird scatter into black mist and shrink after he put the sword away.
• Xiao Lan concluded that the sword restrained Weird and offered to take Ye Bai to a dangerous water-controlling wraith held at the bottom of the facility.

Ye Bai discovered that the Primordial Iron Staff contained the weapon spirit Wu Zhiqi and helped trigger his awakening. Wu Zhiqi fought the chamber’s Thunderstorm Cloud, and the chapter ended as he swung the staff at its newly intangible body.

• Ye Bai learned that the Primordial Iron Staff was sealed with a Demon King and used his Eye of Truth to identify its spirit as Wu Zhiqi.
• Wu Zhiqi awakened, broke his chains, and demanded food and alcohol while Ye Bai considered recruiting him.
• The Thunderstorm Cloud appeared to suppress Wu Zhiqi, and the smaller Thunderstorm Clouds joined it in attacking.
• Wu Zhiqi blocked the lightning with the Primordial Iron Staff and knocked away the smaller Thunderstorm Clouds.
• The Thunderstorm Cloud turned intangible as Wu Zhiqi swung the staff at it, while Ye Bai noticed Wu Zhiqi’s knowing smile.

Ye Bai recruited the hungry artifact spirit Wu Zhiqi to Bureau 750 and began organizing the bureau’s defenses around the Tenfold Rakshasa Gate. Meanwhile, Saturday and Wednesday mobilized their forces for an assault on Bureau 750.

• Wu Zhiqi emerged from the damaged containment facility, but Ye Bai calmed him with instant noodles and persuaded him to join Bureau 750 on the condition that he would only help when necessary.
• Ye Bai, Zhang Lingxue, and Xiao Lan discussed inspecting the Tenfold Rakshasa Gate and putting its guardians and specters to use against Seven Stars; Xiao Lan sent Ye Bai her records of the contained specters.
• Saturday awakened an army of winged clay servants and ordered them to march on Bureau 750, vowing to conquer the Flame Kingdom and avenge his master.
• Wednesday raised thousands of unfinished zombies from a black pool and resolved to attack Bureau 750 and avenge Saturday.