Chapter Summaries

Yu Xunge visited Hechipa, asked for help with alchemy, and received an errand to deliver notebooks to Lucia. Hechipa explained that Lucia had stopped teaching children after a former student made a pact with a demon and demanded that Lucia break her principles for her.

• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Minotaur and entered the city to visit Hechipa at her Alchemy Shop.
• Yu Xunge asked Hechipa about teaching a simplified version of Melt Time, and Hechipa lent her potions and assigned her new lessons.
• Hechipa gave Yu Xunge three notebooks to deliver to Lucia in Daybreak City or Midnight City and suggested asking Lucia about modifying Charm.
• Yu Xunge recalled Lucia's autobiography and asked Hechipa why Lucia no longer formally taught students.
• Hechipa said a Little Oak Owl Lucia had taught made a pact with a demon, killed children for alchemical talent, and challenged Lucia to stay and teach her; Lucia stopped teaching children afterward.

Yu Xunge searched Daybreak City and Midnight City for Lucia, learning more about Lucia’s past and finding her at an open-air tavern. The chapter left Yu Xunge face-to-face with the legendary alchemist, while Furious Moon began to glow beneath Midnight City’s moon.

• Tulan told Yu Xunge that Holy Grail had once wanted Lucia to tutor her, and that Lucia had stayed for eight years to train Hechipa despite her vow never to teach again.
• Yu Xunge learned that Lucia had recently been spending most of her time in Midnight City, so she took Tulan there to search for her.
• Yu Xunge searched Midnight City on foot, asking Little Oak Owls for directions while admiring the city’s perpetual night and its enormous clock tower.
• When Yu Xunge drank her sixth bottle of Melt Time, Furious Moon grew cold and began to glow faintly inside her pocket watch.
• Yu Xunge found Lucia at an open-air tavern and recognized the powerful-looking sea demon from Lucia’s autobiography.

Yu Xunge delivered Hechipa’s three notebooks to Lucia and seized the chance to ask the Alchemy Master for guidance on a lower-tier version of Melt Time. Lucia gave her a generous lesson, leaving Yu Xunge impressed by how much she had learned.

• Yu Xunge waited for Lucia at the tavern while studying Hechipa’s notebook and recording her ideas about Melt Time.
• Lucia recognized that Yu Xunge was not truly a Minotaur and accepted the three notebooks Hechipa had sent.
• Lucia created a private space and noticed Yu Xunge’s notes on a lower-tier version of Melt Time.
• Yu Xunge overcame her caution and asked Lucia to guide her in alchemy.
• Lucia taught Yu Xunge for an hour about the herbs used in Melt Time and answered her questions about potions.

Yu Xunge learned to brew a low-grade Melt Time under Lucia’s guidance, then agreed to try to steal Moon Sand from Taosu in exchange for potions and formulas. Lucia showed her a sample of Moon Sand but pulled it away before Yu Xunge could touch it.

• Lucia praised Yu Xunge’s brewing talent and offered her Gold Medal Killer after discovering she had encountered moonlight.
• Lucia revealed that she knew about the Moon Lake City library theft and asked Yu Xunge to obtain Moon Sand from Taosu’s tower.
• Lucia offered advance payment of 50 bottles of Gold Medal Killer for three attempts within a year, and Yu Xunge accepted after inspecting the Oath Gemstone and swearing an oath.
• Lucia explained that she wanted Moon Sand for potion research and showed Yu Xunge a sample, then pulled it away when Yu Xunge reached for it.

Yu Xunge learned that Moon Sand could upgrade Furious Moon, giving her a reason to target the clock tower in Midnight City. After returning to Blue Star, she continued her alchemy training, invested her attribute points in Agility, and rewarded Tulan for helping her.

• Lucia told Yu Xunge that the moon favored people who could change the world's course, and Yu Xunge left worried about becoming a legendary figure with a troubled fate.
• Yu Xunge discovered that Furious Moon's upgrade required Moon Sand and realized the clock tower's galaxy-like hands were filled with it.
• Yu Xunge told Hechipa about the Moon Sand, and Hechipa asked her to bring some back for study.
• Yu Xunge restocked herbs, returned to Blue Star, and resumed training to make a failed version of Melt Time.
• Yu Xunge used seventeen Distributable Attribute Points to raise her Agility to 106 and doubled Tulan's allowance for her help during Yu Xunge's seclusion.

Yu Xunge sold the Special Affairs Bureau the formula for Time Will Come and began teaching alchemists how to make it. After accepting a bundle of arrows, she went to learn mahjong and realized she might have ruined Mistblade’s hand by replacing a tile.

• Yu Xunge agreed to sell the Time Will Come formula to Zhao Shuying under a contract that canceled her debt and gave her a share of sales.
• Zhao Shuying brought Yu Xunge to teach two hundred intermediate alchemists, with lessons continuing until five hundred could make the potion.
• Zhao Shuying gave Yu Xunge a thousand arrows, and Yu Xunge left Tulan at home before heading out to learn mahjong.
• Yu Xunge learned the mahjong rules from two women at a recreation room frequented by Nameless Ones.
• Yu Xunge connected the All Simples rule to Mistblade’s earlier hand and worried that she had ruined it by replacing a tile.

Yu Xunge spent the night playing mahjong with Tulan, only to learn that their game had been livestreamed and her poor etiquette had become public entertainment. At lunch, she devised a plan to use custom perfume to disguise dragon scents and ordered a hundred bottles of semi-finished perfume.

• Auntie Wang and the other mahjong players warned Yu Xunge that breaking up her mother's All Simples was an unforgivable offense, and Yu Xunge realized their outrage was justified by her childhood grudge against Yu Xunhuan.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan played mahjong through the night, and Zhao Shuying arrived to tell them that footage of their game had been livestreamed since morning.
• Zhao Shuying explained that viewers had mocked Yu Xunge's cheating, false winning claims, and tile arrangements, while Yu Xunge insisted on continuing to play.
• At lunch, Yu Xunge worried that Mistblade could easily kill her and realized that perfume carrying dragon scent might help her disguise Tulan's scent or mislead a pursuer.
• Yu Xunge asked Zhao Shuying to connect her with a player skilled in Incense Making, then ordered one hundred bottles of perfume that could be customized with someone's sweat, tears, or saliva.

Zhao Shuying recruited Yu Xunge for a mission to empty the hands of Time Unfixed so the Special Affairs Bureau could reset unlocked Instance Barriers. Yu Xunge agreed but negotiated for a share of anything found inside and refused to surrender the Bureau’s promised rewards if it wanted a share too.

• Yu Xunge and Zhao Shuying joked with Tulan about selling her dragon snot, then Yu Xunge left Tulan with Zhao Shuying to choose toys.
• Zhao Shuying explained that Instance Barriers would keep refreshing and could produce foreign races far above their original levels.
• Zhao Shuying revealed that an artist could manifest a painting of Time Unfixed to reseal the barriers, but could not accurately paint the fluid contents of its hands.
• Yu Xunge suggested stealing the clock, then agreed to try to empty its hands and bring Tulan along, asking for a game contract guaranteeing her a share of anything recovered.
• When Zhao Shuying asked for a research share if the Bureau helped, Yu Xunge refused to give up the mission’s promised rewards and said the hands held extremely high-grade alchemical materials.

Yu Xunge signed on for the long-term mission to investigate the tower in Zelan and compete with the Special Affairs Bureau for Moon Sand. She prepared to raise her attributes and gather intelligence herself, while stirring up Yu Xunhuan’s conflicts with Su Yitong and Black Jade and putting a bounty on Lan Cheng.

• Zhao Shuying and Yu Xunge agreed that Yu Xunge would keep mission items and equipment while the pointer’s contents would be divided according to each party’s contribution.
• Yu Xunge asked about Su Yitong, learned she had a new pet named Green Wine, and decided not to act against her while the Special Affairs Bureau still needed Hymn of Hope.
• Yu Xunge took Tulan to the apartment dungeon, planned to raise all four major attributes above 100, and began stealing attributes while leveling.
• Yu Xunge repeatedly advised Yu Xunhuan to reconcile with Su Yitong and exploit the conflict between Black Jade, the Su Family, Lin Chengze, and Lan Cheng.
• Yu Xunge anonymously offered 1,000 gold on the game forum for Lan Cheng’s life and revealed his God-Bestowed Talent.

Yu Xunge raised all her Base Attributes above 100 and traveled to Gloom City to gather information about Midnight City and the Oak Owl Clan. She left with directions to an information broker and two costly revelations that left her conflicted.

• Yu Xunge gained her final Constitution point, spent her level 10 attribute points on Agility, and brought all her Base Attributes above 100.
• Yu Xunge collected custom mahjong tiles and prepared to travel alone, leaving Tulan to guard the house.
• Yu Xunge disguised herself as a Minotaur and visited Hechipa, who directed her to Little Maki for information about Midnight City.
• Yu Xunge paid Little Maki for directions to Guota, an undead information broker on an island near the Midnight City clock tower.
• Little Maki sold Yu Xunge two pieces of information about the Oak Owl Clan for fifty gold coins, leaving Yu Xunge unsure whether she was glad to know them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.