Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yu Xunge decided not to risk evolving her Thief God talent, then captured Miyasi’s bones and brought Liang Pozhou’s crystal coffin back with her. She prepared to erase Liang Pozhou’s memories about the Thief God and woke him in a warded inn room.

• Yu Xunge admitted her caution had become a kind of cowardice, but chose not to pursue the dangerous talent evolution; Tulan comforted her and promised to help ignite her heart.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan found Miyasi’s bones inside an intact Giant Whale corpse, shrank it, and sealed it in a food container without touching it.
• Yu Xunge searched the area, then returned to the sunken ship and captured Liang Pozhou’s crystal coffin as well.
• Yu Xunge brought both containers to Zelan, bought a dandelion that blocked information transmission and a master-grade Memory Gem, then booked a room in Daybreak City.
• Yu Xunge filled the room with dandelion fluff, enlarged Liang Pozhou’s coffin, and knocked on its lid to wake him.

Yu Xunge obtained the Dragon Ancestor's Reverse Scale from Liang Pozhou, who revived after giving it up and revealed his involvement in Miyasi's plans. Liang Pozhou explained that his Life Chronicle had shown two endings in which Miyasi lost, but Yu Xunge still did not know who he had been waiting for.

• Yu Xunge brought Miyasi's remains to Liang Pozhou and made him surrender the Dragon Ancestor's Reverse Scale.
• Yu Xunge confirmed the scale was genuine, stored it, and discovered that Liang Pozhou was reviving inside the crystal coffin.
• Liang Pozhou warned Yu Xunge not to use dragonkind's belongings and reminded her of her oath not to harm the Liang Family.
• Yu Xunge sealed Liang Pozhou's container with a Lightning Cage and questioned him about the Giant Whale and Miyasi.
• Liang Pozhou said Miyasi had hidden his skeleton in the Giant Whale's corpse and that he had secretly written Miyasi's Life Chronicle after being transformed into a sea demon.
• Liang Pozhou revealed that Miyasi's Life Chronicle had two endings, both of which ended in Miyasi's defeat, but it did not explain who Miyasi had been waiting for.

Yu Xunge learned that the Liang Family was cursed to become sea demons when Zeran invaded, and that Liang Pozhou wanted them to serve her in exchange for Miyasi’s treasures and information. Though she understood Liang Yuchuan’s painful sacrifice to protect her family, she refused the deal, leaving Liang Pozhou to explain the two possible fates of his descendants.

• Liang Pozhou revealed that Mind Catcher was Miyasi’s hand bone and that Miyasi had arranged for Yu Xunge to find him, while the Dragon Scales had helped guide her and caused his petrification.
• Liang Pozhou offered Yu Xunge Miyasi’s seven treasures, the location of his most important lair, and the Liang Family’s service in exchange for her protection from Miyasi’s curse.
• Liang Pozhou explained that the curse would awaken when Zeran invaded, and that the Liang Family could delay or possibly lift it by helping and forming close ties with the person he called Blue Star’s spark.
• Yu Xunge realized that Liang Yuchuan had involved herself with Yu Xunhuan to protect the Liang Family, and that her hostility concealed her distress and concern for Liang Sha.
• Liang Pozhou described two possible endings for the Liang Family, one prosperous but full of regret and another marked by hardship but without regrets, while Yu Xunge rejected his offer.

Yu Xunge weighed Liang Pozhou’s offer to make the Liang Family follow her while considering the danger of keeping Miyasi’s remains. After returning to Dragon Island with the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale, she watched Tulan draw the elders’ attention and defend her.

• Yu Xunge erased Liang Pozhou’s memories of the Thief God concept, destroyed the Memory Gem, and sealed him back into the food box without accepting his deal.
• Yu Xunge considered the Liang Family’s proposed alliance, the clues about the dominoes, and the risks of keeping Miyasi, but stored him in her Game Inventory for now.
• After more than thirty hours of flight, Yu Xunge and Tulan returned to Dragon Island with the Dragon Ancestor’s Reverse Scale.
• Holy Grail Bei Sui and Xuedui questioned Tulan after she mocked Dragon Island’s slow progress and asked for more ways to improve.
• Tulan stepped in front of Yu Xunge and took the blame when the elders looked at her, leaving Yu Xunge to suspect the young dragon had done it on purpose.

Yu Xunge assembled the bone tiles and unlocked the destiny quest The Burning Expedition, learning that the tiles were tombstones of destroyed worlds and could grant access to the World Battlefield. She accepted the quest with Tulan, then visited Snowpile, who explained Midnight City's Oak Owl Heart and how it tested those who entered.

• Yu Xunge joined Six Dots and Eight Dots with Seven Dots, unlocking The Burning Expedition and discovering the World Tombwood Key could let her enter the World Battlefield.
• Yu Xunge chose to accept the quest and continue her contract with Tulan, while keeping the tiles' information from Zhao Shuying and Dinghai.
• Yu Xunge examined the other bone tiles and learned they could unlock items or let her bring one same-race teammate into the World Battlefield.
• Yu Xunge and Tulan visited Snowpile the next day, and he explained that Midnight City's Oak Owl Heart let entrants experience battles from Oak Owl history across three hundred years.