Arc 11The Reverse Scale Bargain

Yu Xunge investigated the Oak Owl tower and bone tiles, then joined Tulan on Dragon Island and traced the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale to Liang Pozhou. After uncovering Liang Pozhou’s story and surviving his repeated time reversals, Yu Xunge agreed to a deal but decided to pursue his resurrection instead of the evolution ritual he urged her toward.

  • Yu Xunge learned the Oak Owls’ secrets, entered Midnight City disguised as Cookie, and stole the Nine Bamboo tile from Vanilla before escaping Feng Cang’s attack.
  • Yu Xunge returned to Blue Star, checked on Yu Xunhuan, and gathered information about the Su and Liang Families from Baozi.
  • Yu Xunge traveled with Tulan to Dragon Island, where they found that Liang Pozhou had possessed the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale and discovered his connection to the Liang Family.
  • Yu Xunge found a Sea Monster symbol beneath the Liang Family’s old fishing boat, then took Mind Catcher from Liang Pozhou’s grave and learned the Reverse Scale lay at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Yu Xunge and Tulan found the Reverse Scale inside a shipwreck, where Liang Pozhou offered information about evolving her talent in exchange for sparing his descendants.
  • Liang Pozhou recounted how he and Xu Yunsheng raised the sea siren Miyasi and received God-Bestowed Talents, then explained that Miyasi’s prayers came at a price.
  • Yu Xunge discovered that Liang Pozhou had repeatedly reversed time and read her thoughts, while Tulan’s time-reversal skill became disabled after at least a hundred reversals.
  • Yu Xunge swore to spare the Liang Family unless they provoked her, received the location and instructions for finding Miyasi’s remains, and decided to abandon the evolution ritual and focus on resurrecting Liang Pozhou.
Chapters 254–278 Vol. 3 Read

Ch. 254After Breaking Up with an Oak Owl, I Made a Million a Year Running a Fried Chicken Shop

Yu Xunge learned about Pu Jiu’s effects and a strange Oak Owl partnership ritual, then bought information from Guota about Midnight City’s tower. She discovered that reaching the tower’s summit required entering its sole entrance and completing a randomly assigned fate-node trial.

  • Yu Xunge learned that Pu Jiu from Oak Owl Clan food reflected some damage onto attackers and marked anyone who killed an Oak Owl as an enemy, and realized she had likely been parasitized by food she bought in Midnight City.
  • Little Maki told Yu Xunge that swearing to become partners with an Oak Owl beneath Four Seasons City’s bird nest granted permanent wings, even after a separation, and Yu Xunge informed Zhao Shuying about both secrets and asked to be reimbursed for the information fee.
  • Yu Xunge returned to the deep sea outside As City to kill monsters, then went to Midnight City and found Guota in a tavern using Little Maki’s note.
  • Yu Xunge asked Guota for information about Midnight City and paid three hundred gold coins to learn about the tower.
  • Guota explained that the tower had one entrance, was least watched during the Oak Owls’ Hazelnut Festival from December 15th through 17th, and required visitors to complete a randomly selected fate-node trial to reach its summit.

Ch. 255If Future Talent Shows Aren't Run by the Oak Owl Clan, I Won't Watch Them

Yu Xunge learned that climbers who reached the tower’s summit were transformed into Light Oak Owls and began preparing to enter Midnight City in disguise. In the city library, she found an account of how the Oak Owl Clan’s founders had risen to become Zelan’s twelfth Sacred Clan.

  • Guota told Yu Xunge that reaching the tower’s summit transformed climbers into Light Oak Owls, and he shared rumors of hidden treasures and Taosu’s reluctance to handle official duties.
  • Yu Xunge verified intelligence with Guota, bought a rare Bear Cookies, gave him an Oblivion Potion, and sent the tower information to Zhao Shuying for reimbursement.
  • Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Little Oak Owl named Cookie and entered Midnight City’s largest library after passing the guards’ inspection.
  • Yu Xunge found The 12th Sacred Clan: Oak Owl and read that Peach Crown, Pine Rose, and Maple Syrup had once sworn to conquer Zelan, before becoming Oak Owl royalty.

Ch. 256God-Bestowed Talent: Best Supporting Role (B-rank)

Yu Xunge tested Vanilla, an oak owl with the Best Supporting Role talent, by offering him a mahjong tile and asking what his master wanted him to collect. Vanilla refused to buy it immediately, then asked where she had gotten her Bear Cookie, leaving his connection to the tiles and her disguise in question.

  • Yu Xunge spent the day in the library, then returned a custom Blue Star mahjong tile to the information desk and secretly watched to see whether anyone recognized it.
  • After waiting out her Disguise Skill's cooldown, Yu Xunge traveled to Vanilla's general store and recalled his talent, which rewarded him for collecting items desired by a powerful person.
  • Yu Xunge used So Happy Now to lower Vanilla's luck, then offered him the tile; Vanilla reached for it but withdrew his hand and told her to return in three days.
  • Yu Xunge realized Vanilla knew bone tiles were valuable but likely could not identify one without touching it, so she offered to trade and asked whether his master wanted Tong Character Tiles or Wan Character Tiles.
  • Vanilla studied Yu Xunge and asked where she had bought the Bear Cookie hanging from her waist.

Ch. 257Pain! It Hurt So Much! She Understood Wuren More and More!

Yu Xunge tricked Vanilla, an Oak Owl, and stole the Nine Bamboo tile from him, but triggering his hidden trap left her sealed inside the shop. She ended the chapter trapped in the corner as magical chains sprang from the array.

  • Yu Xunge pretended to negotiate a tile trade with Vanilla, then used a soda can to distract him and knocked him unconscious with a sleeping potion.
  • Yu Xunge repeatedly drugged and sealed Vanilla while practicing her White-Handed Fortune skill, eventually stealing the Nine Bamboo tile and gaining honor.
  • Yu Xunge decided to flee rather than risk staying near Vanilla, and wounded and poisoned him so he would die after she had time to escape.
  • Vanilla's HP dropping below 50% activated a hidden trap that sealed the shop and disabled Yu Xunge's skills.
  • Yu Xunge used the Item Skill I'm in a Hurry to move to a corner, avoiding the magic array and the chains it unleashed.

Ch. 258She Swore to Follow the Mist Blade Moon Empress to the Death!

Yu Xunge killed Vanilla, hid in the oak owl shopkeeper’s ear, and was discovered by Feng Cang, the Level 97 ruler of the Maple Lineage. She disguised herself as a Mist-tail Moon Fox and invoked the Mist Blade Moon Empress as she faced Feng Cang alone.

  • Yu Xunge killed Vanilla, searched the shop, and found a secret passage while oak owls gathered outside.
  • She changed her appearance and hid as a spider in Vanilla’s ear to avoid the arriving oak owls.
  • The oak owls identified several of Yu Xunge’s skills, and one struck her hard enough to break her spider form.
  • Yu Xunge transformed into a Three-tailed Moon Fox and used the name Mist Walker as she faced Feng Cang.
  • Feng Cang tested Yu Xunge with a maple leaf, then sent the other oak owls away while leaving the Magic Array active.

Ch. 259Back to the Past, Escape the Present

Yu Xunge tried to escape Feng Cang, an Oak Owl royal, and used her time-travel skill to flee to the past before returning to the present. She learned that Feng Cang was poised to become the next Maple Owl Emperor and feared the consequences of crossing her.

  • Feng Cang questioned Yu Xunge about the bone tile and her disguise, then asked her to work for her, but Yu Xunge refused and fought back.
  • Feng Cang struck Yu Xunge with a lethal attack, but Fire Spirit Ring blocked the fatal damage, and Yu Xunge scattered fake bone tiles while using her skill against Feng Cang.
  • Yu Xunge spotted scattered Skill Books, grabbed two, and used Furious Moon—Time-Space Walk to return to a time three hours earlier.
  • Yu Xunge escaped the shop with Phantom Shift, flew toward a floating island, and returned to the present as a phantom acorn engulfed the island where Vanilla was.
  • Tulan told Yu Xunge that Feng Cang was the most capable of Maple Owl Emperor's descendants and was expected to succeed the dead emperor.

Ch. 260Two New Skills

Yu Xunge learned two lightning skills while laying low on the floating islands with Tulan, and the chapter left them preparing to return to the city under disguises as Yu Xunge’s wanted posters revealed her identities. Tulan considered disguising herself as her mother, Holy Grail, so she could accompany Yu Xunge.

  • Yu Xunge learned Lightning Cage and Hundred Thousand Volts, then hunted monsters and trained while waiting for the red glow around her to fade.
  • Players on the Huaxia Channel debated Yu Xunge’s Honor Points, while Zhao Shuying received Yu Xunge’s explanation that she had been running for her life and only partly understood the matter.
  • Tulan joined Yu Xunge on Zelan, heard how she had offended Feng Cang, and discovered Yu Xunge had obtained the Nine of Characters mahjong tile.
  • After three days, Yu Xunge disguised herself as a goblin and returned to Daybreak City with invisible Tulan, where they saw wanted posters for Mist Walker and Cookie.
  • Tulan suggested she could disguise herself as her mother, Holy Grail, while Yu Xunge told her to develop a transformation skill.

Ch. 261Don't Underestimate the 12 Sacred Clans

Yu Xunge returned to Zelando under heightened security, investigated the Bear Cookies, and received Hechipa’s warning about the rulers of the 12 Sacred Clans. She left Dark City for Blue Star without asking Little Maki about the bone tiles, worried about the Su Family’s little spider.

  • Yu Xunge drank Lucia’s Gold Medal Killer to pass the stricter inspections into Zelando, then searched the Oak Owl Library while soldiers questioned her and removed the lost-and-found box.
  • Yu Xunge asked Guota about the Bear Cookies, and he suspected they were unique because the Oak Owl who sold them knew the one who noticed something unusual about hers.
  • Hechipa guessed that Yu Xunge was Feng Cang and warned her not to underestimate the royalty of the 12 Sacred Clans, explaining that even Little Maki respected the Undead Monarch.
  • Yu Xunge asked Little Maki whether she could connect Guota’s information network to someone else, and Little Maki agreed while cautioning that Yu Xunge might otherwise get cheated.
  • Yu Xunge left Dark City with Tulan without asking Little Maki about bone tiles, intending to return to Blue Star and check on the Su Family’s little spider.

Ch. 262Come Back to Dragon Island with Me

Yu Xunge agreed to accompany Tulan to Dragon Island after first returning to Blue Star, where she prepared a gift for Yu Xunhuan and secretly visited him. She reached Black Jade’s manor disguised as an oak owl and saw Yu Xunhuan washing the flood dragon’s scales late at night.

  • Tulan asked Yu Xunge to travel with her to Dragon Island so they could ask the Dragon Elder about the Holy Grail and Beisui, and Yu Xunge agreed after a stop on Blue Star.
  • Yu Xunge bought three bottles of Flaming Tail Calming Essential Oil for Yu Xunhuan and arranged to send them to him after he said Black Jade would not let him meet Blue Star people.
  • Yu Xunge waited for Armor Up!’s cooldown, disguised herself as an oak owl, and carefully avoided the players guarding Black Jade’s manor.
  • Yu Xunge flew close enough to see Yu Xunhuan working in the lake at 23:47, washing Black Jade’s scales while dressed in a simple T-shirt and baggy shorts.

Ch. 263Unknown Curse Level II

Yu Xunge found Yu Xunhuan badly injured and cursed, then left without confronting him and sought information from Baozi while disguised as a cat. Baozi shared news about Yu Xunge, her parents, the Su and Liang families, and the Special Affairs Bureau’s investigation into scaled players.

  • Yu Xunge saw Yu Xunhuan’s curse, missing fingers, and claw scars, felt satisfied at his suffering, then reflected on how her growing strength had changed her perspective on revenge.
  • Yu Xunge avoided Black Jade’s wind attack and left, deciding to return for Yu Xunhuan’s attributes later when she had an alibi.
  • After evading the Special Affairs Bureau, Yu Xunge turned into a kitten and met Baozi at McDonald’s to buy information about herself, Yu Xunhuan, the Su Family, and the Liang Family.
  • Baozi told Yu Xunge that she had obtained a Legion Token on the grasslands, that her parents had joined Wildfire in B City, and that Yu Xunhuan and Black Jade were under constant Bureau surveillance.
  • Baozi reported that Su Yitong had formed her own team while remaining connected to the Su Family, Su Baige’s face had been disfigured by boss venom, and the Liang Family had secretly contacted Su Yitong.
  • Baozi told Yu Xunge that the Liang Family had gained several powerful, snake-scaled players, which the Special Affairs Bureau was investigating.

Ch. 264I Never Heard of Playing Mahjong Boosting an Entire Race's Abilities!

Yu Xunge prepared gifts for Tulan’s dragon kin and learned that Zeran’s royal family possessed something that could enhance an entire race’s abilities. She traveled with Tulan to Dragon’s Nest, where Tulan planned to introduce her to the dragons under the pretense that Yu Xunge had come to sell her dragon dung.

  • Yu Xunge blocked an attempt to bind her with Bloodline Shackles using Spring Will Not Be Late, then realized the attack might have come through one of her relatives.
  • Yu Xunge bought the gifts Tulan requested, including thousands of mahjong sets, while telling Zhao Shuying about Guota’s intelligence network and Hechipa’s information about the royal family.
  • Zhao Shuying told Yu Xunge that the royal family possessed something that could enhance an entire race, leading Yu Xunge to suspect the mahjong tiles she carried were connected to three alien races.
  • Yu Xunge and Tulan traveled through Dundun Mountain to Dragon’s Nest, and Tulan explained that the dragons lived among the remains of seven Dragon Ancestors.
  • Tulan told Yu Xunge she would claim that she had threatened to die unless Yu Xunge brought her to Zeran to sell dragon dung.

Ch. 265Dragon Island · Holy Grail · Bei Sui · Xue Dui

Yu Xunge arrived on Dragon Island with Tulan and met Tulan’s parents and Dragon Elder Xue Dui, whose warmth toward her came from Tulan’s blessing. After Tulan left to visit other dragons, she introduced Yu Xunge to them with an embarrassing, over-the-top announcement.

  • Tulan and Yu Xunge reached the Dragon's Nest, where Holy Grail and Bei Sui greeted Tulan and Bei Sui healed Yu Xunge and cleared her negative statuses.
  • Dragon Elder Xue Dui and several other Great Dragons arrived, and they politely welcomed Yu Xunge.
  • Tulan explained that the dragons treated Yu Xunge kindly because she had an Equal Contract with her and carried her blessing.
  • Tulan brought Yu Xunge to her Dragon's Nest, gave her access to the treasure vault, and went out to deliver gifts to other dragons.
  • Tulan loudly introduced Yu Xunge outside as a famous esports prodigy and Blue Star’s strongest player’s contract dragon, leaving Yu Xunge mortified.

Ch. 266Being a Pokémon on Dragon Island

Yu Xunge joined Tulan and the Dragon Elders for dinner, where she gained numerous bonuses from eating rare fruits and vegetables. When Tulan revealed that Yu Xunge had collected five mysterious bone tiles and loudly asked the elders for more, Yu Xunge realized she had put herself in an awkward position.

  • Yu Xunge wondered whether the malice behind the Bloodline Shackles came from someone with a will strong enough to resist her skill or from Yu Xunhuan himself.
  • Tulan invited Yu Xunge to a family dinner with Holy Grail, Bei Sui, and Xue Dui at Xue Dui's residence.
  • Yu Xunge ate the dragons' rare fruits and vegetables, gaining several skill and attribute bonuses while Tulan kept bringing her more.
  • Tulan asked Xue Dui about bone tiles marked with Oak Owl and Moon Fox writing, and Yu Xunge admitted she had collected five.
  • Tulan eagerly asked the Dragon Elders to give her more tiles, leaving Yu Xunge panicking as she tried to explain that they had not come to ask for them.

Ch. 267Ding—Dragon Elder Has Issued You a Quest

Yu Xunge and Tulan accepted Snowdrift’s quest to retrieve a Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale in exchange for a bone tile or information about Midnight City’s tower. They recognized Snowdrift’s clue as Liang Pozhou, and the pair stayed on Dragon Island to search for treasures.

  • Tulan playfully demanded a bone tile and information about Midnight City’s tower, and Snowdrift offered both in exchange for the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale stolen by a Wind Sickle and lost on Blue Star.
  • Snowdrift showed Yu Xunge the last owner of the Reverse Scale, and Tulan discovered that the bone tile in his Dragon’s Nest was a Seven Dots tile.
  • Yu Xunge recognized the man in Snowdrift’s clue as Liang Pozhou after comparing his face with a character statue in her backpack.
  • Yu Xunge and Tulan spent several days on Dragon Island, gathering discarded dragon materials and bringing them to Snowdrift, who let Yu Xunge keep them.

Ch. 268Liang Pozhou

After leaving Dragon Island, Yu Xunge investigated the Liang Family and learned that its wealth traced back to Liang Pozhou, while she continued probing the Dragon Ancestor’s Remains. The chapter left her wondering whether humans could evolve as dragons did and whether Black Jade’s pursuit of Dragon Transformation was connected.

  • Tulan and Yu Xunge left Dragon Island with gifts from Tulan, a Dragon Scale from Bei Sui, and an appearance-altering ice sculpture from the Holy Grail.
  • After Tulan announced she could now join Yu Xunge in causing trouble, Bei Sui and the Holy Grail attacked them, but Yu Xunge’s Lightning Cage bought Tulan time to dodge.
  • Yu Xunge returned to Blue Star and investigated local rumors about the Liang Family, learning that Liang Pozhou was Liang Sha’s great-grandfather and that the family maintained its fishing tradition.
  • Yu Xunge listed the statue for sale again and anonymously asked the game forum how Liang Pozhou had made his fortune, while Tulan questioned players about him using an alt account.
  • Tulan explained that the Dragon Ancestor’s Remains could purify dragons’ power and raise their life level, prompting Yu Xunge to consider whether humans could evolve and whether Black Jade sought this through Dragon Transformation.

Ch. 269Sea Monster Script:¤

Yu Xunge searched the Liang Family’s grounds with Tulan for the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale, then investigated an old fishing boat that the family had inexplicably kept. She found a Sea Monster Script character hidden beneath the boat and recognized it as meaning attack and extermination, leaving its purpose unclear.

  • Yu Xunge asked Tulan how far she could sense the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale, and Tulan described a range that let Yu Xunge make several trips between her home and the Liang Family’s estate.
  • Yu Xunge took Tulan to search near the Liang Family’s grounds that night, but they sensed nothing.
  • Yu Xunge remembered Black Jade’s Hungrier, Luckier talent and suspected Black Jade might have obtained the reverse scale in her previous life.
  • Yu Xunge followed her research to the Liang Family’s beach and inspected the old fishing boat they had kept for over a century.
  • Yu Xunge found a tiny Sea Monster Script character in a narrow gap beneath the boat and identified it as a symbol meaning attack, extermination, and endless fighting.

Ch. 270Mind Catcher (Wonder): Truth or Dare?

Yu Xunge and Tulan stole Mind Catcher from Liang Pozhou’s grave and discovered it was a Sea Monster hand bone that played truth or dare. Yu Xunge completed her first truth and gained the right to ask it one question about increasing her strength.

  • Yu Xunge told Tulan about the Sea Monster symbol, and Tulan explained it had marked the Undead race, the Moon Fox Clan, and the Oak Owl Clan for destruction.
  • Yu Xunge searched the cemetery for Wind Sickle and found Mind Catcher in Liang Pozhou’s grave instead of his ashes.
  • Yu Xunge and Tulan stole the hand bone and brought it home to inspect it.
  • Yu Xunge chose truth when Mind Catcher asked whether strength or race mattered more, and she answered that strength did.
  • Mind Catcher released Yu Xunge and granted her one question related to increasing her strength.

Ch. 271Great Adventure

Yu Xunge and Tulan tested Mind Catcher’s truth-and-dare game after learning the location of the Dragon Ancestor’s lost Reverse Scale. The dare stayed the same through a time reset, and Tulan eventually completed it by unexpectedly headbutting Yu Xunge, releasing the hand bone and triggering their fight.

  • Yu Xunge asked One Answer for the Reverse Scale’s location and received coordinates pointing to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
  • Tulan answered a money question by agreeing to split two hundred thousand gold coins with Yu Xunge, then drew the dare to betray her friend.
  • Tulan turned back time, but the dare remained unchanged when they started the game again, and staged attacks failed to satisfy it.
  • Yu Xunge concluded that a betrayal had to be unexpected and not arranged in advance, but Tulan suddenly headbutted her and completed the dare.
  • Yu Xunge and Tulan fought in the courtyard, trading attacks and insults.

Ch. 272Borrowing Dinghai's Influence

Yu Xunge considered Mind Catcher’s new power and decided not to bind it, then told Zhao Shuying she planned to go abroad. She reflected on how her concessions had earned Dinghai’s protection and left her balancing between factions as an independent player.

  • Yu Xunge examined Mind Catcher’s new abilities, including renting items, skills, or emotions, and decided to postpone binding it after recalling the Holy Grail’s warning about burdening her soul.
  • Yu Xunge told Zhao Shuying she planned to go abroad, and Zhao Shuying offered help and assured her that her concern would not come to pass.
  • Yu Xunge assessed Dinghai’s tolerance of her independence and concluded that her earlier concessions had secured its trust and protection at low cost.
  • Yu Xunge resolved to keep cooperating with individuals while avoiding allegiance to any faction, aiming to become freer and harder for others to target.

Ch. 273I Want to Make a Deal with You

Yu Xunge and Tulan traveled to the deep sea to find the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale and discovered it inside a crystal coffin in a shipwreck. The coffin held a statue identified as Liang Pozhou, whose detailed inspection revealed an unusual Storyteller talent and a skill that could turn someone’s life into a short biography.

  • Yu Xunge and Tulan stocked up on supplies, left instructions for the backyard cats, and flew invisibly to their underwater destination.
  • Yu Xunge cleared nearby sea demons while Tulan sensed the Reverse Scale and led them deeper into the sea.
  • Tulan used Dragon Kin to shield Yu Xunge from the Dragon Ancestor’s intimidation as they approached a massive shipwreck.
  • Yu Xunge prepared for combat, disguised herself, and entered the wreck with Tulan hidden as a tiny jellyfish.
  • Yu Xunge found a crystal coffin containing a statue that resembled the face Xuedui had conjured, and Tulan sensed the Reverse Scale inside its stomach.
  • Yu Xunge inspected the statue and discovered it was identified as Liang Pozhou, a Level 0 sea demon with the Storyteller talent and a Life Chronicle skill.

Ch. 274Sea Siren · Miyasi

Yu Xunge confronted Liang Pozhou, who offered Dragon Scales and a way to evolve her God-Bestowed Talent if she stopped seeking revenge on his descendants. As Yu Xunge weighed the offer, Liang Pozhou began recounting how he and his wife found and raised the sea siren Miyasi.

  • The stone sculpture in the crystal coffin opened its eyes and spoke to Yu Xunge, but her attacks failed to damage it.
  • Yu Xunge tried to use her collection skill on Liang Pozhou, who revealed that he knew her talent and her grudge against the Liang Family.
  • Liang Pozhou offered Yu Xunge Dragon Scales and information about evolving her talent in exchange for sparing his descendants, but Yu Xunge said she could not spare Liang Yuchuan.
  • Liang Pozhou asked Yu Xunge to hear his story before deciding, and explained that his name came from the phrase “burn your boats.”
  • Liang Pozhou recounted how he and his wife Xu Yunsheng caught the injured sea siren Miyasi, raised him, and received God-Bestowed Talents from him.
  • Liang Pozhou said he and Xu Yunsheng later discovered that every prayer Miyasi made came at a price.

Ch. 275Miyasi's Talent

Yu Xunge uncovered that Miyasi’s Disguise Skill may have let the sea demon steal the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale while fooling the dragons, and learned that Liang Pozhou had used Life Chronicle to arrange a bargain. Liang Pozhou offered to reveal where Miyasi’s remains were and how they could evolve her God-Bestowed Talent if she spared his descendants, but he demanded another condition for the Dragon Scales.

  • Yu Xunge failed to steal anything from Liang Pozhou as he described the curse that afflicted him, Yunsheng, and their descendants after they left Miyasi.
  • Yu Xunge questioned Liang Pozhou about his Dragon Scales and the research company, then realized the sea demon may have stolen the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale by disguising itself as a Wind Scythe.
  • Yu Xunge suspected Miyasi’s God-Bestowed Talent was the Thief God and asked whether Liang Pozhou had used Life Chronicle to learn what she needed and arrange a deal.
  • Liang Pozhou confirmed that Miyasi’s remains were the source of his hint and explained that Life Chronicle’s vague predictions had prevented him from identifying Yu Xunge in advance.
  • Yu Xunge stopped trying to steal from Liang Pozhou and asked for his terms; he required her to spare the Liang Family before revealing Miyasi’s remains and demanded another condition for the Dragon Scales.

Ch. 276Your Caution Is Your Shackles

Yu Xunge distrusted Liang Pozhou’s seemingly perfect offer to trade information about Miyasi’s bones for his revival and a truce with the Liang Family. After Liang Pozhou’s timed outburst ended, she left with two guesses to verify.

  • Liang Pozhou offered to reveal how Miyasi’s bones could evolve Yu Xunge’s God-Bestowed Talent in exchange for her oath not to attack the Liang Family and her promise to bring him the bones so he could revive himself.
  • Yu Xunge refused an unconditional truce, and Liang Pozhou offered to prevent Liang Yuchuan’s current impairment from being healed as long as Yu Xunge did not attack the family first.
  • Yu Xunge grew suspicious because Liang Pozhou’s motives and explanations fit her expectations too perfectly, despite the Malice Detector showing no warning.
  • When Yu Xunge tried to leave, a three-minute countdown appeared above Liang Pozhou, and he berated her for hesitation and caution until time ran out.
  • Yu Xunge could no longer detect information from Liang Pozhou’s crystal coffin, then told Tulan she had two guesses to confirm.

Ch. 277You Old Dog, What Right Do You Have to Call Me This Adorable Little Puppy?!

Yu Xunge discovered that Liang Pozhou could read her thoughts and had reversed time dozens of times to anticipate her doubts. After Tulan’s time-reversal skill was disabled by temporal turbulence, Yu Xunge returned to negotiate, while Liang Pozhou’s countdown began and his survival skills were revealed.

  • Yu Xunge used Mind Catcher during negotiations, but Liang Pozhou revealed that Liang Yuchuan’s eye was fine and her real problem was with her ears, exposing that he had read Yu Xunge’s thoughts.
  • Yu Xunge realized Liang Pozhou had repeatedly reversed time to patch flaws in his story and suspected he could read only one person’s thoughts or that Tulan resisted the ability.
  • Yu Xunge ordered Tulan to keep reversing time, but Tulan’s skill became disabled after the area had undergone at least a hundred reversals.
  • Tulan explained that Thieving Baby Dragon would be unusable for forty days because of temporal turbulence, and Yu Xunge concluded Liang Pozhou had reversed time ninety-six times himself.
  • Yu Xunge prepared outside the shipwreck, then returned and decided to make the deal; Liang Pozhou’s countdown began, and his Half-Dream and Half-Awake skills were revealed.

Ch. 278The Old Servant Means No Harm!

Yu Xunge made a time-pressured bargain with Liang Pozhou for Miyasi’s remains and the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale, while recognizing that his real goal was to push her toward evolving her God-Bestowed Talent. She decided to bypass Miyasi’s scheme and prioritize bringing Liang Pozhou back to life, leaving what would happen to Miyasi’s remains unresolved.

  • Yu Xunge and Liang Pozhou swore an oath that she would spare the Liang Family unless they provoked her, while he would reveal Miyasi’s remains’ location and explain how to evolve a God-Bestowed Talent.
  • Liang Pozhou gave Yu Xunge coordinates, a list of materials, and a tune for the evolution ritual, then fell silent when the countdown ended.
  • Yu Xunge told Tulan she had accepted Liang Pozhou’s offer because its rewards were high enough, but she suspected his eagerness to have her find Miyasi’s remains concealed a scheme.
  • Tulan pointed out that Liang Pozhou had not specified whose God-Bestowed Talent would evolve, and Yu Xunge agreed that his main aim was to steer her toward evolution.
  • Yu Xunge decided to abandon the apparent treasure and simplify the plan, aiming to resurrect Liang Pozhou rather than complete the evolution ritual.
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