Chapter Summaries

Li Chenguang confronted Hu Qi in a Dream Domain after catching him stealing Dream Eyes, but Hu Qi survived Li's dump-truck attack and struck him with a gigantic palm. The chapter ended as Hu Qi emerged from the dust behind the collapsed wall.

• Li Chenguang sensed Nightmare power in the Security Agency and appeared in the underground room where Hu Qi was devouring Dream Eyes.
• Li Chenguang pulled Hu Qi into a deserted Dream Domain and demanded to know who sent him and why he had stolen the Dream Eyes.
• Hu Qi claimed he had taken the Dream Eyes to destroy them, but Li Chenguang rejected his explanation and attacked with a phantom dump truck.
• Li Chenguang approached the ruins believing Hu Qi was badly injured, but a gigantic palm burst through the dust and smashed him through walls.
• Hu Qi's tall shadow emerged behind the collapsed wall as the dust cleared.

Hu Qi revealed his true form and overwhelmed Li Chenguang with his speed and strength, damaging Li Chenguang’s Dream Eye. Li Chenguang summoned a White Bone Giant and challenged Hu Qi to fight head-on; Hu Qi vanished, and a disturbance in the Dream Domain drew Li Chenguang’s attention upward.

• Hu Qi shed Twisted Light’s disguise and stopped Li Chenguang’s summoned dump truck, then destroyed it with pale golden flames and cracked Li Chenguang’s Dream Eye.
• Hu Qi struck Li Chenguang at extreme speed until his body burst apart, but the remains proved to be a broken straw-doll substitute.
• Li Chenguang appeared inside a White Bone Giant and attacked Hu Qi with a bone spear, while Hu Qi evaded the blows and the surrounding buildings collapsed.
• Li Chenguang angrily challenged Hu Qi to stop running and fight head-on, and Hu Qi accepted before vanishing from sight.
• A tremor disturbed the Dream Domain, and Li Chenguang looked upward, freezing at what he saw.

Li Chenguang’s White Bone Giant faced Hu Qi’s Demonic Elephant Blood Soul, which crushed the nightmare space and severely wounded Li Chenguang. Hu Qi escaped to a mountain forest outside Morning Light City, exhausted but alive, and disappeared into the woods.

• Hu Qi manifested a gigantic Demonic Elephant whose pressure immobilized Li Chenguang and the White Bone Giant.
• Li Chenguang raised the White Bone Giant’s spear against the elephant’s stomp, but the attack destroyed the city and shattered the nightmare space.
• Hu Qi appeared in a forest outside Morning Light City, battered and drained after using a secret technique that burned some of his Demonic Elephant blood.
• Hu Qi identified his surroundings, leaped onto a tree branch, and vanished into the forest.

Li Chenguang returned to the Security Agency after Hu Qi defeated him and stole eleven Dream Eyes, then told Zhu Xiao and Qin Yizhou about Hu Qi’s unusual powers. Hu Qi watched the Agency from nearby and left, planning to return for the Dream Eyes later.

• A charred shell appeared in the Security Agency, and Li Chenguang crawled out and ordered the Agency sealed at the highest alert level.
• Li Chenguang told Zhu Xiao and Qin Yizhou that Hu Qi had resisted his Dream Domain, overwhelmed him, and left all his Dream Eyes in a temporary crash state.
• Li Chenguang urged the ministers to capture Hu Qi and proposed using an unusually powerful Dream Eye to find him.
• Hu Qi watched the Agency from a nearby tree, realized Li Chenguang’s mark had been swallowed by his Spirit Devouring Talent, and decided to return for the Dream Eyes later.
• Hu Qi transformed into a black swift and vanished into the rain.

Hu Qi used Modification Points to advance the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art to the ninth level of the Elephant Heart Chapter, then entered its inheritance illusion. He saw a giant elephant burn vengeful spirits with golden flames and wondered whether his cultivation had resonated with the Demonic Elephant of that world.

• Hu Qi examined his panel and noted that his eighteen Dream Eyes had raised his Modification Points and could further advance his cultivation.
• Hu Qi spent six hundred Modification Points to raise the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art to the ninth level, strengthening his golden blood and growing to around 3.9 meters tall.
• Hu Qi continued modifying the art and entered an inheritance illusion filled with wandering souls.
• Hu Qi watched a giant elephant engulf vengeful spirits in golden flames and absorb the black smoke left behind.
• Hu Qi returned from the illusion and wondered whether the cultivation art had connected him to the Demonic Elephant of that world.

Hu Qi reached the Demonic Soul Realm of the Crimson Sun Demonic Elephant Hellfire Art and spent several days adapting to his increased strength. He then traveled to Hanyang City and headed by taxi toward Shidun County, where the driver asked why he was going there.

• Hu Qi sensed that his Demonic Soul had strengthened his body and formed a domain, while raising the art to Demonic Soul Chapter Level 1 had consumed six Dream Eyes and one thousand Modification Points.
• Hu Qi concluded that he qualified as a Dream Controller by some standards, but recognized that he had not mastered the Dream Domain.
• Hu Qi decided not to modify the art further and spent several days adapting to his new strength in the mountain forest.
• Hu Qi arrived in Hanyang City in disguise, bought a Grape-Coconut Treasure Tea, and hailed a taxi.
• Hu Qi asked the taxi driver to take him to Shidun County, and the driver asked whether it was his hometown.

Hu Qi traveled toward Shidun County and asked his taxi driver about Fox Tail Mountain, where a sealed nightmare incident had been recorded. The driver began recounting his ancestor’s account of a winter expedition into the mountain, ending with a strange chewing sound heard in the night.

• Hu Qi asked the taxi driver about Fox Tail Mountain, and the driver warned him that outsiders were forbidden from entering.
• A red SUV dangerously cut in front of the taxi, and the driver swerved to avoid it before returning to the conversation.
• The driver explained that his great-great-grandfather had entered Fox Tail Mountain with other hunters during a bitter winter more than eighty years earlier.
• A blizzard trapped the hunters on the mountain, and they followed distant lights to an isolated village.
• The villagers welcomed the hunters and gave them places to sleep, but the village was unnaturally quiet.
• Hu Qi’s great-great-grandfather lay awake and heard a faint sound like someone chewing in the darkness.

Hu Qi learned the history of Fox Tail Mountain and the deaths linked to it, then went to investigate the sealed mountain. He found that the occupants of the red SUV had entered ahead of him and followed them inside.

• The driver told Hu Qi how a fox-like creature had attacked travelers near a vanished village and how teenagers later died in Fox Tail Mountain.
• Hu Qi connected the mountain’s strange events to a Nightmare Incident and wondered how the teenagers could have died if the incident had been sealed.
• Hu Qi arrived in Shidun County and headed directly to Fox Tail Mountain.
• Hu Qi found the red SUV hidden near the mountain and followed its occupants’ footprints to a freshly cut gap in the fence.
• Hu Qi leaped over the fence and entered Fox Tail Mountain.

Hu Qi warned Shen Ling, Cao Fei, Lu Yang, and Luo Xiaomeng to leave Fox Tail Mountain, then continued on alone. The four hikers camped near a ravine as night fell, and while searching for shelter from the worsening cold, they spotted a village.

• Shen Ling invited Hu Qi to join the group, but he declined and warned them that the mountain was dangerous.
• Lu Yang, Cao Fei, and Shen Ling criticized Hu Qi after he left, while Luo Xiaomeng watched him thoughtfully.
• The four continued their climb, filming along the way, and reached only about two-thirds of the mountain by evening.
• The group set up two tents beside a ravine and ate, but the cold grew severe as mist spread through the forest.
• Luo Xiaomeng suggested looking for a cave or rock shelter, and the group spotted a village nearby.

Hu Qi reached the nightmare village on Fox Tail Mountain and confronted its eerie inhabitants. After one villager was destroyed, he challenged the rest to attack him together.

• Shen Ling, Cao Fei, and Lu Yang entered the village while Luo Xiaomeng secretly watched them from behind a tree.
• As night fell, Hu Qi sensed the nightmare incident begin and hurried toward the lights on the mountainside.
• Luo Xiaomeng warned Hu Qi that the village was dangerous and that her friends had entered it, then left after he continued on.
• Hu Qi called out at the village entrance, drawing villagers from their houses.
• An old woman stepped outside and Hu Qi blasted apart her upper body, then challenged the villagers to attack him together.

Hu Qi destroyed the endlessly reviving fox-faced villagers with his overwhelming strength and Crimson Sun Flame Fire, then entered the surviving ancestral hall and confronted the Fox God Statue. He shattered the hall with a stomp, leaving the cracked shrine standing in a vast crater.

• The villagers transformed into fox-faced monsters and attacked Hu Qi, who killed them with ease.
• The village and its dead villagers repeatedly reappeared in greater numbers, and Hu Qi realized they would wear Dream Controllers down through endless revival.
• Hu Qi unleashed the Crimson Sun Flame Fire, which consumed the village and made it vanish while sparing the surrounding grass and trees.
• Hu Qi entered the intact ancestral hall and saw a black Fox God Statue on a blood-red shrine, whose voices and invisible force tried to make him kneel and stop him.
• Hu Qi stomped the ground, destroying the hall and leaving a huge crater around the cracked but standing shrine.

Hu Qi confronted an intelligent purple-eyed fox that used Fox Tail Mountain’s earth qi to protect itself with an apparently unbreakable barrier. After revealing his true size and stomping at the shield, Hu Qi caused its first crack, leaving the fox shocked.

• The shrine shattered, revealing a small purple-eyed fox that declared Hu Qi had passed its test and ordered him to capture another person as an offering.
• Hu Qi ignored the fox’s command and tried to seize it, but an invisible barrier blocked him.
• Hu Qi struck the barrier with his Crimson Sun Flame Fire, but the fox explained that it drew on the earth qi of all Fox Tail Mountain.
• Hu Qi dispelled Twisted Light, returned to his three-meter-nine normal height, and stomped repeatedly at the barrier.
• A tiny crack appeared in the barrier, and the purple fox reacted with panic and disbelief.

Hu Qi defeated Fox Three, a powerful Primal Dream Eye, and learned about its abilities and the mysterious man called Tian who had sealed it. The chapter ended when two black-robed figures attacked Hu Qi and were burned to ash by his golden flames, prompting Fox Three to recognize them as the King of Hell's Post.

• Hu Qi shattered Fox Three's Mystic Qi Barrier, caught it as it tried to flee, and forced it to answer his questions.
• Fox Three revealed that it was a Primal Dream Eye called Fox Three, while ordinary Dream Eyes were incomplete fragments with narrower abilities.
• Fox Three explained that it used human fear to strengthen itself and cast spells, and said a man called Tian had sealed it for decades.
• Fox Three suggested Hu Qi's power reminded it of Tian, but Hu Qi sensed danger and leaped from the pit.
• Two black-robed figures attacked Hu Qi, who burned them to ash with golden flames; Fox Three recognized them as the King of Hell's Post.

Hu Qi faced increasingly powerful monsters summoned by King of Hell's Post, then used the Scarlet Panel to remove its mark and stop its pursuit. Far away, the bloody paper slip that powered the Post fell onto a corpse, while Hu Qi turned back to his discussion with Fox Three.

• Fox Three explained that King of Hell's Post marked its target and summoned stronger monsters until the target was killed.
• Ox-Head and Horse-Face attacked Hu Qi, but he destroyed them with a slash of flame.
• Hu Qi concluded the summoned figures were connected to Blue Star's underworld legends and decided to remove the mark before stronger beings appeared.
• Hu Qi spent 300 Modification Points to remove the abnormal status, and the approaching phantoms dispersed.
• Fox Three realized Hu Qi had interrupted King of Hell's Post's killing law, and Hu Qi told it to resume their earlier discussion.
• In an underground space several thousand kilometers from Fox Tail Mountain, the bloodied paper slip lost its power and fell onto a corpse.

Li Chenguang learned that King of Hell's Post’s attack had been interrupted because its target had already died by another means, leaving his attempt to uncover Hu Qi’s secret unsuccessful. Hu Qi left Fox Tail Mountain with Fox Three, identified Li Chenguang as the likely attacker, and refused Luo Xiaomeng’s offer of a ride before she called the police about her missing friends.

• King of Hell's Post’s killing pattern stopped, and Elder Gu told Li Chenguang that the target had already died by another person's hand.
• Li Chenguang learned that King of Hell's Post could not be used again for at least a month and accepted that his attempt had failed.
• Hu Qi emerged from Fox Tail Mountain with Fox Three and learned from its memories about Tian, King of Hell's Post, and the likely role of Li Chenguang.
• Hu Qi concluded that Li Chenguang had targeted him and that Twisted Light now protected him from another attack.
• Luo Xiaomeng met Hu Qi on the mountain path and offered him a ride after he told her that her friends were dead.
• Hu Qi refused to get involved and left, while Luo Xiaomeng called the police to report her friends missing.

During a script mission at a nightmare amusement park, Wei Fan and the other survivors escaped a horde of stitched-together monsters, but only six of sixteen made it out. Ouyang Shuokong collapsed after secretly trying to send information to his lord, leaving Wei Fan to discover that her back wound had soaked through her bandages.

• A two-headed teddy bear monster and other stitched monsters chased the fleeing group through the amusement park, killing the man at the rear.
• The survivors rushed through the park gates, where the monsters stopped and roared from inside; Wei Fan noted that only six of the sixteen mission participants remained.
• Wei Fan thanked Zhou Qing for saving him and asked about her back wound, while she coldly said she had saved him because he was more valuable alive.
• Ouyang Shuokong decided that the restrictions preventing him from sending information to his lord required special methods, then used his blood and qi and collapsed.
• Wei Fan hurried to Ouyang Shuokong and found that the bandages on her back were soaked with blood.

Gao Qian treated Zhou Qing’s severe back wound, while Wei Fan held back from using his costly healing ability. In Li Country, Hu Qi destroyed the Hanging Rope Dream Eye, gained Modification Points, and used its power to suppress Fox Three.

• Gao Qian stitched Zhou Qing’s deep back wound with the web-like tattoo on her palm and warned that Zhou Qing’s survival was uncertain.
• Wei Fan considered using his hidden ability to heal Zhou Qing but decided to wait rather than pay its cost.
• In an ancient castle in Li Country, Hu Qi burned through the Hanging Rope Dream Eye and absorbed it, gaining 1,230 Modification Points.
• Hu Qi put the Hanging Rope around Fox Three’s neck, suppressing its strength and calling it a leash.
• Fox Three agreed to Hu Qi’s demand while fearing his ability to destroy Dream Eye vessels and absorb their power.

Hu Qi escaped the ancient castle after devouring its Dream Eye and discovered that the Hanging Rope had drained the victims’ flesh, blood, and vitality. He sensed that Ouyang Shuokong was gravely injured and traveled through the Mirror World to Qingyin City, where he searched for the man’s concealed aura.

• Hu Qi found the desiccated bodies of people who had been hanged in the ancient castle and realized the Hanging Rope had drained their vitality.
• Hu Qi’s layered Dream Eye powers continued to suppress Fox Three as he learned the Hanging Rope was powerful but not a Primal Dream Eye.
• Hu Qi sensed that Ouyang Shuokong’s soul-origin had become dangerously weak and decided to investigate.
• Hu Qi passed through the sealed castle door, then took Fox Three through the Mirror World to Qingyin City using Ouyang Shuokong’s aura as a marker.
• Hu Qi found Ouyang Shuokong’s aura faint and erratic, closed his eyes, and released a ripple that seemed to freeze the rain.

Hu Qi learned from Fox Three that Ouyang Shuokong was likely trapped in the Blood Script, then used its divination to locate the bus that could mark him as an actor. As midnight approached, Hu Qi waited at the stop while Guo Wei arrived, unaware of the danger drawing near.

• Hu Qi searched Qingyin City with his demonic soul but could not find Ouyang Shuokong, and Fox Three suggested he had entered a deeper layer of the Nightmare Gap.
• Fox Three detected the Blood Script and explained that it trapped chosen actors in dangerous scenarios, then divined that its nightmare medium was a bus arriving at midnight.
• Fox Three's divination showed an old bus stop and a bus with a license plate ending in 44, and Hu Qi recognized the stop's location in Qingyin City.
• Hu Qi restored the hemp rope's restraints on Fox Three, went to eat, and later headed for the identified bus stop.
• Guo Wei left work at 11:37 p.m. and reached the bus stop, where she asked a young man whether the last bus had come.
• A low engine rumble sounded as two dim yellow lights appeared through the rain.

Hu Qi boarded a bus with Guo Wei, knowing through Fox Three’s divination that it would become the Blood Script’s medium. After the bus entered a fog and began the Ghost Bus assessment, a passenger was killed for breaking the rules, while veteran Script Actor Yang Hu explained the survivors’ task.

• Hu Qi and Fox Three watched the bus arrive, and Fox Three said it would become the Blood Script’s medium that night.
• Guo Wei and Hu Qi boarded the bus, which picked up a schoolboy, a masked man, and a drunken passenger before entering a strange fog.
• The Blood Script declared the passengers Temporary Script Actors and ordered them to remain seated and avoid disturbing the driver until the bus reached its terminal.
• The tank-top man ignored the rules and approached the driver, whereupon his body exploded and sprayed blood across the bus.
• Yang Hu identified himself as a veteran Script Actor and explained that the passengers had to survive the assessment by following the rules.