Recaps

Lin Qiye and the others continued through the forest with the injured Li Deyang, who tried to stop them from going farther. As they rested near their destination, Baili Pangpang produced two steaming hot pots from the woods, leaving Li Deyang stunned.

• Li Deyang warned Lin Qiye that the group could not continue, but Lin Qiye had Cao Yuan and An Qingyu help him onward.
• After roughly two hours, Lin Qiye called a rest because they were nearing their destination and an approaching battle required them to recover.
• Li Deyang offered the group his frozen compressed biscuits, but Lin Qiye declined and sent Baili Pangpang to find food.
• Baili Pangpang returned with a steaming yin-yang hot pot, beef rolls, and tripe, astonishing Li Deyang.
• When Li Deyang challenged Baili Pangpang to catch another hot pot, Baili Pangpang returned minutes later with a tomato-and-beef hot pot.

Lin Qiye and the others questioned Li Deyang about strange legends in the forest, but he dismissed them and refused to go farther. When a swarm of giant ants surrounded the group, Li Deyang prepared to make a path for them, and Lin Qiye called for them to kill the ants.

• Lin Qiye asked Li Deyang whether he had heard of supernatural legends in the woods, and Li Deyang guessed the group was searching for legendary ruins and treasure.
• Li Deyang denied that paper effigies or a Kingdom of the Dead existed in the forest, though Lin Qiye recalled seeing a paper effigy himself.
• Li Deyang refused to continue farther, but the Worker Ant trapped in Baili Pangpang's iron box began thrashing, and Lin Qiye realized they could not leave safely.
• Red Worker Ants and five stronger black Soldier Ants emerged from the forest and surrounded the group; An Qingyu explained that the trapped ant had likely sent a distress signal.
• Li Deyang took Baili Pangpang's weapons and vowed to open a path for the others, while Lin Qiye drew his sabers and ordered them to kill the ants.

Lin Qiye and his companions battled a swarm of giant ants in the forest, with Mumu and A Zhu joining the fight alongside Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Baili Pangpang. Lin Qiye advanced on the Soldier Ants, and the chapter left three of the five still facing him after his allies disabled two and he tore off another’s forelegs.

• Lin Qiye sent Mumu into the ant swarm with blades and hurled the frightened A Zhu into the fight, where A Zhu used Spider Silk to bind ants and draw out their souls.
• Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Baili Pangpang fought the ants with malevolent qi, frost and Eerie Silk, and the Wind Thunder Scroll broom.
• Lin Qiye used Divine Might Descends to crush nearby Worker Ants under his pressure, then killed them with his twin swords.
• Cao Yuan and An Qingyu disabled two of the five Soldier Ants charging Lin Qiye.
• Lin Qiye used darkness to tear off a Soldier Ant’s forelegs, leaving it tumbling in front of him.

Lin Qiye and his companions fought off the giant ants, and Lin Qiye captured a Soldier Ant to use as a guide. After the battle, he ordered Mumu and A Zhu to gather the corpses and tried to convince the dazed Li Deyang that they had come to film a documentary.

• Lin Qiye used Hong Yan's strength and dragon breath to kill one Soldier Ant, then slew another with lightning and his twin blades.
• Lin Qiye disabled a third Soldier Ant and carved away its legs and feelers so it could serve as a guide.
• Cao Yuan suppressed the Black King's baleful aura by himself, though the effort left him weak.
• Mumu excitedly devoured the giant ants' armored spikes after the others finished fighting the Worker Ants.
• Lin Qiye ordered Mumu and A Zhu to collect the corpses, then asked Li Deyang if he believed they had come to film a documentary.

Lin Qiye used the giant ants' corpses to complete a new Dimensional Summoning contract, then followed the Soldier Ant to an Earth Crack at the fog's edge. As the group prepared to descend into the suspected ant nest, Li Deyang insisted on going with them.

• Lin Qiye drew a Dimensional Summoning Magic Array around the giant ants' corpses and completed a contract that made the bodies disappear.
• Lin Qiye's group continued toward the fog with Li Deyang following after learning their strength.
• The Soldier Ant led them to a deep Earth Crack, which An Qingyu judged had appeared within the last two years and was not caused by natural geological movement.
• Lin Qiye warned that the ant nest below might hold a Queen Ant at the Sea realm and many River-realm ants, then told Li Deyang to wait above.
• Li Deyang refused to stay behind, saying his Forbidden Ruin would be strong in the narrow terrain.

Lin Qiye and his companions discovered more than four hundred Worker Ants in the fissure, but chose to infiltrate the nest and target the Queen Ant rather than retreat. Lin Qiye disguised himself as a Worker Ant and found a massive white giant ant at the end of the fissure.

• Lin Qiye sensed at least four hundred Worker Ants at the bottom of the fissure and realized the nest had grown over two years.
• Li Deyang urged the group to withdraw and wait for the Special Squad, but Lin Qiye and the others decided to continue their mission.
• Lin Qiye proposed disguising himself as a Worker Ant to search for the Queen Ant, then descended alone while his companions waited above.
• Lin Qiye transformed into a red Worker Ant and blended into a line of ants moving through the fissure.
• After about five minutes, Lin Qiye reached the end of the rift and spotted a huge white giant ant lying on the ground.

Lin Qiye infiltrated the Queen Ant’s nest and used Mumu as an explosive tribute to badly wound her, but the Queen Ant survived and fled. Lin Qiye pursued her while his four companions rushed toward the explosion and drew a swarm of ants.

• Lin Qiye realized the Worker Ant procession was carrying food to the Queen Ant and that he needed a convincing tribute to avoid exposing himself.
• Lin Qiye sent Mumu atop the food pile, and the Queen Ant swallowed Mumu and the offerings in one bite.
• An explosion from Mumu severely wounded the Queen Ant, but Mumu escaped by teleporting back to their original plane.
• The Queen Ant staggered toward a cave as the Worker Ant procession fell into chaos, and Lin Qiye transformed back and pursued her.
• Lin Qiye’s four companions heard the explosion, rushed toward him on a golden Yaoguang flying sword, and attracted a swarm of Worker Ants climbing the rift walls.

Lin Qiye pursued the wounded Queen Ant into a cave while the others fought to reach him. Li Deyang collapsed the rift valley to clear the ant swarm, and Baili Pangpang piloted Yaoguang into the cave with the group.

• Lin Qiye slipped past the Soldier Ants, chased the Queen Ant to a second nest, and forced his way through the Worker Ants guarding its cave.
• An Qingyu spotted Lin Qiye entering the cave, and Baili Pangpang steered Yaoguang toward it while Cao Yuan hesitated to draw his sword.
• Li Deyang stopped Cao Yuan from using his Forbidden Ruins and leaped down to break the ground beneath the Worker Ants.
• Li Deyang's attack shattered the rift valley again, sending the ants and Li Deyang falling into the fissure.
• An Qingyu pulled Li Deyang back to Yaoguang with Eerie Silk, and Li Deyang explained how his Forbidden Ruins had triggered the collapse.
• Baili Pangpang led the group into the cave after asking about Li Deyang's Myriad Phenomena Vibration.

Lin Qiye followed the wounded Queen Ant into a vast underground chamber and discovered an ancient Bronze Giant Gate built into an impenetrable black wall. He concluded that the Queen Ant had escaped from beyond the gate, abandoned the pursuit, and found himself surrounded by pale paper figures.

• Lin Qiye followed the Queen Ant’s blood trail into a huge underground space and discovered a finely constructed grayish-blue brick wall.
• Lin Qiye found an enormous Bronze Giant Gate set into a black wall, which repelled his Mental Power and blocked his perception.
• Lin Qiye examined a large tunnel and realized that it had been dug outward from behind the wall long ago, meaning the Queen Ant had escaped from beyond the gate.
• Lin Qiye decided to stop pursuing the Queen Ant and turn back, but pale paper figures surrounded him in the darkness.

Lin Qiye was nearly transformed by the paper figures but escaped by leaping into the Queen Ant’s tunnel. His companions found the ancient Bronze Giant Gate and prepared to follow him, only for it to begin opening on its own.

• The paper figures drained Lin Qiye’s strength and began turning him into one of them, but he interrupted the transformation with a miracle.
• As the figures attacked and tried to reconnect their eerie aura to him, Lin Qiye leaped into the Queen Ant’s hole to escape.
• Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Li Deyang entered the underground hollow and found a Han Dynasty-era wall and a strange Bronze Giant Gate.
• An Qingyu determined that the black wall and Bronze Giant Gate were not made by humans, while the group found Lin Qiye’s tunnel nearby.
• As Lin Qiye’s companions prepared to enter the tunnel, the Bronze Giant Gate began opening outward.

Baili Pangpang, Li Deyang, Cao Yuan, and An Qingyu entered an ancient town beyond the Bronze Giant Gate, where Baili Pangpang used his monocle and saw ghosts everywhere. Meanwhile, Lin Qiye escaped the paper figures and hid inside a strange courtyard house as they searched for him.

• The Bronze Giant Gate opened, and the four entered the town, where Cao Yuan explained that death energy filled the area.
• Cao Yuan connected the abandoned town to legends of an eternal Kingdom of the Dead, and Baili Pangpang put on his monocle to see the ghosts.
• Lin Qiye collapsed the cave entrance to slow the paper figures, then fled through the town as they broke out and searched for him.
• Lin Qiye entered a strangely quiet courtyard house and silently closed its red-lacquered gate behind him.

Lin Qiye became trapped inside a residence where invisible ghosts moved objects and blocked the exit. After the ghosts pleaded for mercy, he learned that the place was Fengdu, where the dead could enter but the living could not leave.

• Lin Qiye watched a paper figure pass the residence, then discovered that the gate would not open for him.
• Lin Qiye investigated a fallen paper broom and a door that opened and shut by itself, but his Mental Power sensed no one inside.
• Lin Qiye opened the residence door, cut through a flood of paper money, and saw the paper furniture topple without a visible cause.
• Lin Qiye prepared to burn the strange objects, but a sheet of paper money pleaded with him to spare the ghosts living there.
• The ghost explained that its daughter had knocked over the broom and said the residence's doors trapped the living inside.
• Lin Qiye asked where he was, and the ghost wrote that the place was Fengdu.

Li Deyang, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Baili Pangpang encountered dangerous ghosts in Fengdu and fled when Cao Yuan’s scripture began attracting more spirits. Lin Qiye learned that foreign gods had shattered Fengdu and taken most of its fragments, and discovered their names.

• Baili Pangpang saw ghosts attacking Li Deyang, and Cao Yuan used a scripture and prayer beads to drive them away, revealing his ability to deliver wandering souls.
• More ghosts rushed toward Cao Yuan after he chanted, so he and Li Deyang, An Qingyu, and Baili Pangpang ran rather than risk releasing the Black King.
• Lin Qiye asked whether Fengdu had always been a ruined town, and the joss paper explained that four foreign gods had shattered the city and taken four of its five fragments.
• The joss paper named the foreign gods who took Fengdu’s fragments as Osiris, Hades, Yama, and Satan.

Lin Qiye learned that the abandoned Fengdu was filling with hostile ghosts and found himself trapped inside its walls, while Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Li Deyang were pursued by swarms of ghosts. The chapter ended with Lin Qiye racing toward his companions as they fled converging threats.

• Lin Qiye learned that Fengdu had no ruler and that its trapped souls were mutating into evil ghosts, while Paper Man Yin Soldiers guarded the city.
• Lin Qiye discovered that the Queen Ant had escaped Fengdu through tunnels, then climbed over a residence wall to get out of the courtyard.
• Lin Qiye failed to open either the tunnel or the Bronze Giant Gate and realized that the living could not leave Fengdu through its entrances.
• Lin Qiye saw Baili Pangpang's Yaoguang flare in the distance and ran toward it.
• Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, and Li Deyang fled ghosts approaching from behind and ahead, then turned left to escape the converging death aura.

Baili Pangpang, Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, and Li Deyang fled the ghosts and paper soldiers through the dark city, with Li Deyang admitting he had only been guessing their way. They escaped into a vast hall identified as Zongling Qifei Heavenly Palace, one of Fengdu’s Six Heavens of Luofeng, but Cao Yuan warned that its ghost deity had disappeared over a century ago.

• Li Deyang admitted he did not know the way to the Bronze Giant Gate and had been calling directions at random.
• Baili Pangpang tried to attack the pursuing Paper Man Yin Soldiers with Yaoguang, but they folded themselves flat and evaded the strike.
• Cao Yuan led the four into a nearby hall, and Li Deyang and Cao Yuan shut its vermilion doors before the paper soldiers could enter.
• An Qingyu read the plaque as Zongling Qifei Heavenly Palace, and Cao Yuan identified it as one of the Six Heavens of Luofeng in Fengdu.
• Cao Yuan explained that the ghost deities had disappeared over a century earlier, leaving the heavenly palaces empty.

An Qingyu and the others explored the ghost god’s hall and found a scroll that seemed to explain the wall built around Fengdu. Lin Qiye followed their trail toward the towering palaces, hoping to find them.

• An Qingyu found that the hall’s vermilion gate was locked, so the four of them searched for another exit.
• An Qingyu and Cao Yuan discussed why a Han Dynasty wall had been built around Fengdu and whether it had been meant to keep something inside.
• The four of them entered the ghost god’s imperial bedchamber, where An Qingyu found a scroll and said he understood how the wall came to be.
• Lin Qiye reached the house Baili Pangpang had destroyed, found it empty, and headed toward the palaces where he believed the others had gone.

Lin Qiye entered one of the six heavenly palaces in Lost Fengdu and used orderlies to keep its gate open while he explored. He found nearly three hundred battered suits of Bronze Armor facing a red carved coffin, but the chapter ended before he learned what it contained.

• Lin Qiye summoned Li Yifei and A Zhu to hold the palace gate open so he could enter without becoming trapped.
• Li Yifei agreed to guard the gate while A Zhu stayed with him.
• Lin Qiye entered the dark hall and found rows of Bronze Armor marked with wounds from attacks that had come only from the front.
• Lin Qiye followed the armor’s direction to a red Carved Square Coffin on a stone platform before a Divine Throne.
• Lin Qiye studied the coffin’s intricate patterns and reacted with surprise.

Lin Qiye discovered a black-red coffin in a hall of the Six Heavens of Luofeng and found that its carvings showed a blue-clad figure being carried through the Bronze Giant Gate toward Fengdu. When the coffin began thudding whenever Lin Qiye tried to leave and the Bronze Armor reacted to his sword, he opened the coffin to confront whatever was inside.

• Lin Qiye studied four carved images on the coffin, which showed a blue-clad figure worshipped, fighting strange creatures, entering the coffin, and being carried through the Bronze Giant Gate.
• Lin Qiye turned to leave the hall, but heard a thud from inside the coffin whenever he moved away from it.
• Lin Qiye noticed the Bronze Armor shudder when the coffin thudded and realized the sounds stopped when he approached.
• Lin Qiye drew his sword, causing the Bronze Armor to draw their swords too, so he sheathed his blade again.
• Lin Qiye approached the coffin, demanded to know what it wanted, then lifted the lid with golden light in his eyes.

Lin Qiye opened the coffin and found Jialan, a blue-robed girl who had slept inside it for two thousand years. After she stopped the Bronze Armor from attacking him, she revealed her name, leaving Lin Qiye with more questions about her.

• Lin Qiye opened the coffin and found a living girl inside, who woke and sat up.
• Three hundred suits of Bronze Armor attacked Lin Qiye, but the girl stepped in front of him and told them to retreat.
• Lin Qiye asked the girl questions, and she confirmed that she was depicted on the coffin and had been inside it for two thousand years.
• Lin Qiye asked the girl's name, and she wrote “Jialan” on his palm.

An Qingyu read a record about an immortal girl from the Han Dynasty whose power was broken by mysterious monsters, while the group escaped the sealed bedchamber using Baili Pangpang’s chalk Forbidden Relic. They reached the path to Emperor Fengdu’s Floating Palace, where Cao Yuan spotted a giant white ant leading a tide of paper figures toward it.

• An Qingyu read how a Han Dynasty girl could make one object at a time immortal, until monsters wounded her and the emperor sealed her in a Profound Yin Wood coffin in Fengdu.
• Cao Yuan and the others debated whether the girl’s power was a Forbidden Ruins and decided their priority was finding a way out.
• Baili Pangpang used a chalk Forbidden Relic to open a temporary passage through the wall, and the four crawled through before it vanished.
• The group found themselves on a rugged path facing a vast vermilion Floating Palace, which Cao Yuan identified as likely Emperor Fengdu’s Imperial Palace.
• A tide of white paper figures swept past overhead, and Cao Yuan saw a giant white ant racing toward the Floating Palace at its front.

Lin Qiye rescued Jialan from a heavenly palace and carried her toward the Floating Palace, where Baili Pangpang and the others pursued the Queen Ant. The Queen Ant reached the palace roof, while Li Deyang struggled to climb the floating steps.

• An Qingyu reasoned that the paper figures were pursuing the Queen Ant and that following them could lead the group to Qiye, so Baili Pangpang and the others headed for the Floating Palace.
• Li Deyang stepped onto the first floating slab, which trembled beneath him and left him frozen in place.
• Lin Qiye confirmed Jialan was human, carried her from the hall, and retrieved her Hardwood Bow and quiver.
• Lin Qiye met Li Deyang at the floating steps and hurried ahead after learning Baili Pangpang and the others had entered the palace.
• Li Deyang stepped onto the second slab, which shook even more strongly than the first.
• Baili Pangpang and the others followed the Queen Ant to the palace roof, where it faced the paper figures surrounding the palace.

Lin Qiye and Jialan reached the Imperial Palace, where Jialan used her arrows to bring down the Queen Ant and draw the paper figures away. Lin Qiye then opened the palace doors, while Jialan's mysterious arrows remained unexplained.

• Baili Pangpang, An Qingyu, and Cao Yuan found themselves surrounded by paper figures and decided to take shelter inside the Imperial Palace.
• Lin Qiye carried Jialan toward the palace and recognized that the Queen Ant was exploiting the paper figures' rules to stay safe.
• Jialan fired an arrow that shattered the palace wall beneath the Queen Ant, leaving it clinging to the edge.
• Jialan's second arrow struck the Queen Ant and knocked it from the palace, drawing the paper figures into a swarm after it.
• Lin Qiye examined Jialan's ordinary-looking arrow, questioned whether it was her Forbidden Ruins, and then pushed open the palace doors.

Lin Qiye and his companions gathered in Fengdu’s Imperial Palace and discovered that the figure on the divine throne was Emperor Fengdu’s waiting imperial robe. After the battered Queen Ant entered the hall, Lin Qiye began the Fifth Reserve Team’s first Mystery purge mission.

• Lin Qiye joined An Qingyu, Cao Yuan, and Baili Pangpang in the hall while carrying Jialan, and they watched the figure seated on the divine throne.
• Lin Qiye revealed that the figure was an imperial robe awaiting Emperor Fengdu’s return, and Cao Yuan said Fengdu’s gate had opened on its own for them.
• The Queen Ant burst into the hall and shut the door against the pursuing paper people.
• Lin Qiye set Jialan aside, drew both swords, and declared the purge mission had begun as Cao Yuan and the others charged the Queen Ant.

Cao Yuan, An Qingyu, Baili Pangpang, and Lin Qiye badly wounded the Queen Ant, but it activated Bloodline Sacrifice to absorb the lives of its Worker Ants and Soldier Ants. Just as it neared the Limitless realm, a white-lit arrow severed its sacrifice patterns and stopped its growth.

• Cao Yuan clashed with the Queen Ant and tore away part of its paper-covered body, while An Qingyu restrained and froze its joints.
• Baili Pangpang unleashed a fire tornado that burned the Queen Ant's paper flesh and left it gravely wounded.
• The Queen Ant activated Bloodline Sacrifice, causing Worker Ants and Soldier Ants across the Earth Crack to explode and send red energy to it.
• The Queen Ant regenerated and grew stronger as it absorbed the sacrificed energy, rising toward the Limitless realm.
• An Qingyu identified the Queen Ant's Forbidden Ruins as Bloodline Sacrifice, and Lin Qiye said they had to interrupt it.
• A white-lit arrow pierced the Queen Ant's red patterns, severing them and halting its rising aura.

Lin Qiye summoned an Ancient Treant to help battle the red-armored Queen Ant, whose strength had risen to the peak of the Sea realm. With An Qingyu restraining the Queen Ant and the treant binding it, Lin Qiye pierced its shell and began eroding its insides with Absolute Darkness.

• Jialan interrupted the Queen Ant's sacrificial ritual by shooting it with an arrow, which the Queen Ant failed to break.
• Cao Yuan charged the Queen Ant, but its evolved strength let it block his blade and send him flying.
• Lin Qiye summoned an Ancient Treant, explaining that it could grow stronger as his realm increased.
• The Ancient Treant's roots and vines forced the Queen Ant to dodge while Lin Qiye attacked it from above.
• An Qingyu froze and restrained the Queen Ant's antennae as Lin Qiye struck it with dark lightning and the treant bound its body.
• Lin Qiye pierced the Queen Ant's shell and used Absolute Darkness Erosion, but the enraged Queen Ant began tearing free and slashing wildly.