Chapter Summaries

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.

Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, Baili Pangpang, and An Qingyu defeated the Queen Ant, but Jialan revealed an extraordinary ability by stopping its final charge with one hand. The group recognized her as the immortal from an old case file, and the imperial robe suddenly fled the palace as thunder sounded outside.

• Cao Yuan and Lin Qiye badly wounded the Queen Ant, but she charged toward Jialan in a desperate attempt to escape.
• Jialan stopped the Queen Ant with one hand, killing it instantly and leaving herself unharmed.
• Lin Qiye asked Jialan whether she was human, while Cao Yuan and An Qingyu connected her to a case file about an immortal girl.
• Jialan confirmed that the case file described her, and the imperial robe flew from the divine throne and escaped through the palace doors.

Li Deyang recovered his sealed memories, accepted his identity as Emperor Fengdu, and donned the imperial robe as the ghosts welcomed his return. After his power rose only to a limited extent, a black god emerged from crimson ripples above Fengdu.

• Li Deyang recalled how Emperor Fengdu had guided his life and realized that the ghosts of Fengdu were also millions of people who needed saving.
• Li Deyang discarded his medal and climbed the remaining stone slabs, declaring that he would die for the ghosts if necessary.
• The ghosts of Fengdu knelt and welcomed Emperor Fengdu's return, and Li Deyang embraced his identity as the emperor.
• The imperial robe emerged from the palace and clothed Li Deyang, while Lin Qiye and the others recognized him as Emperor Fengdu's reincarnation.
• Li Deyang's realm rose beyond Klein before stopping, and a black god emerged from crimson ripples in Fengdu's sky.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan witnessed Emperor Fengdu confront Yama, an Outer God who had secretly remained in Fengdu to claim its final shard. Emperor Fengdu revealed the Six Paths of Reincarnation, trapped and killed Yama’s incarnation, and vowed to reclaim the Fengdu Shards stolen by other gods.

• Lin Qiye recognized the figure above Fengdu as a god, and Emperor Fengdu identified him as Yama, who had secretly stayed behind to seek the final Fengdu Shard.
• Yama revealed that he planned to kill the weakened Emperor Fengdu and take Fengdu, while warning that the Mist’s divine kingdoms were preparing to unite against Great Xia.
• Yama attacked Emperor Fengdu with a blood-red ghostly face, but Emperor Fengdu dispelled it with netherworld death energy.
• Emperor Fengdu sat upon his Divine Throne and summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation, using its rings to trap Yama within Fengdu.
• Emperor Fengdu used three silver rings to behead Yama’s incarnation and vowed to reclaim the Fengdu Shards stolen by Osiris, Hades, and Satan.

Emperor Fengdu defeated Yama’s projection with the Six Paths of Reincarnation and met Primordial Celestial Venerable, who recognized him as Li Deyang. Before Lin Qiye and the others were sent away, Emperor Fengdu asked Lin Qiye to tell his family he had died in battle and entrusted Team 332 to Chen Han.

• Emperor Fengdu killed Yama’s projection, then respectfully greeted Primordial Celestial Venerable as the Daoist appeared in the palace.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable welcomed Li Deyang back and told Lin Qiye that someone in Heaven was waiting to fight beside him.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable refused to take Baili Pangpang as his disciple but gave him a Jade Ruyi, then silenced his panicked cries.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable ordered the group to keep the events in Fengdu secret, and Emperor Fengdu asked Lin Qiye to tell Tingting and his father that he had died in battle.
• Emperor Fengdu asked Lin Qiye to entrust Team 332 to Chen Han and use the collectibles in his office cabinet; Primordial Celestial Venerable then sent Lin Qiye and the others away.
• Primordial Celestial Venerable asked why Emperor Fengdu would not return to say goodbye, and Emperor Fengdu admitted he feared he would not be able to come back.

Lin Qiye and his companions returned from the primeval forest with Jialan and opened the Forest Ranger Station’s gates. They reunited Tingting with her missing father, who returned after four days away.

• Lin Qiye’s group emerged from the primeval forest, and Lin Qiye joked that they would report Jialan as a special product and hand her over to the state.
• Lin Qiye led the group to the Forest Ranger Station and pushed open its gates.
• Tingting waited by the window for her father while the old man and Chen Han tried to comfort her.
• Tingting broke down crying over her father’s absence as the fourth day passed.
• Tingting’s father arrived, opened his arms, and welcomed her into his embrace.