Chapter Summaries

Yaoshi Yuan won the Exotic Iron and received Dragon Snake Seven Kills, a Legendary Relic whose abilities perfectly suited her and could grow stronger with her realm. Yan Qing then won Earth Vein Malice, while the remaining thieves watched the auction continue.

• Black Wolf won the Exotic Iron with a bid of 96 Thief Points, leaving Yan Qing relieved but envious that he had missed it.
• The Thieves' Den forged the Exotic Iron into Dragon Snake Seven Kills, and Yaoshi Yuan blood-sacrificed it to herself.
• The relic's revealed abilities impressed the thieves, and Yan Qing regretted that Yaoshi Yuan had received such a perfect custom weapon.
• Yan Qing bid 52 Thief Points for Earth Vein Malice and won it after no one present could outbid him.
• Earth Vein Malice turned into a small stone, and Yan Qing picked it up and learned how to use it.

The thieves auctioned off their rewards, and Shang Xin Lei and Ying Ru Shi coordinated their bids so each could claim an item cheaply. After Thieves' Den announced their increased wanted status and warned that a Gold Badge Divine Arrestor might pursue them on their next mission, Yaoshi Yuan summoned Yan Qing and Shang Xin Lei, then appeared from Black Wolf's room.

• Yan Qing spent all his points to win the Red Furnace Fire Essence, while Ying Ru Shi did not bid.
• Shang Xin Lei proposed that Ying Ru Shi take the Peerless Secret Technique Mastery Book cheaply and promised not to contest the Shore Flower; Ying Ru Shi agreed, and they each won one reward.
• The thieves discussed the rising auction costs and the possibility that their next mission would involve fighting Foundation Establishment experts.
• Thieves' Den announced that their wanted status had been extended to seventy days and that the Divine Marquis Manor would send a Gold Badge Divine Arrestor and three Silver Badge Captains if they committed another crime.
• Ying Ru Shi identified a Gold Badge Divine Arrestor as a Fourth Rank Demon and urged everyone to strengthen themselves before the next mission.
• Yaoshi Yuan asked Yan Qing and Shang Xin Lei to wait, then emerged from Black Wolf's room instead of her own.

Yaoshi Yuan apologized to Shang Xin Lei and the two women became friends, while Yan Qing and Yaoshi Yuan argued over the debts between them. After they agreed to start from zero, Yaoshi Yuan suddenly embraced Yan Qing.

• Yaoshi Yuan revealed her face and apologized to Shang Xin Lei for insulting her, and Shang Xin Lei accepted the apology.
• Shang Xin Lei removed her face covering and told Yaoshi Yuan she trusted her, then invited her to lunch.
• Yaoshi Yuan and Yan Qing argued over whether he had helped her during their mission and whether either of them owed the other anything.
• Yaoshi Yuan declared that they were even and that everything between them started from zero.
• Yan Qing agreed, and Yaoshi Yuan surged into his arms with a fragrant breeze.

Yaoshi Yuan offered to train Yan Qing and used the arrangement to claim a place under his leadership, while Yan Qing struggled to explain their connection to Shang Xin Lei. The chapter ended with Shang Xin Lei giving Yan Qing pastries after threatening him over his remarks.

• Yaoshi Yuan hugged Yan Qing as a substitute for Bunny Heroine, then asked him to spar with her as payment.
• Yan Qing agreed to train with Yaoshi Yuan and insisted Shang Xin Lei join them too.
• Yaoshi Yuan declared herself Yan Qing’s subordinate, revealing her interest in joining the Calamity Organization.
• Shang Xin Lei questioned Yan Qing about his secret with Yaoshi Yuan, but he refused to explain and angered her with his comments about their relative strength.
• Shang Xin Lei gave Yan Qing a box of pastries, and he took them to his room and ate them.

Shang Xin Lei prepared a hotpot meal to surprise Yan Qing, but after he failed to join her, she ate alone and dwelled on Yaoshi Yuan’s closeness with him. She ended the night wondering whether Yan Qing was thinking about her or Yaoshi Yuan.

• Shang Xin Lei had the kitchen slaughter a sheep and prepare fresh mutton for her hotpot.
• Shang Xin Lei cooked and devoured the mutton and other ingredients, then decided not to wake Yan Qing and gave the remaining meat to the servants.
• Shang Xin Lei recalled how Yan Qing had suggested the dish and how she had planned to share it with him after their mission.
• Shang Xin Lei grew jealous as she remembered Yaoshi Yuan hugging Yan Qing and exchanging private words with him.
• Shang Xin Lei questioned whether she had helped spark Black Wolf’s interest in Yan Qing, then wondered who Yan Qing was thinking about.

After Yaoshi Yuan returned from rescuing Bunny Heroine and stealing the Exotic Iron, Chang'an’s officials sought her help to calm the Dragon-Locking Bodhisattva, but she refused and kept her involvement secret. While bathing, she tried to explain away her growing closeness to Yan Qing as a way to stay in the Calamity Organization, while Yan Qing lay awake wondering why his kick had missed Red Snake.

• Wu Qiu told Yaoshi Yuan that powerful officials and palace representatives had gathered, hoping she would mediate the Dragon-Locking Bodhisattva’s anger.
• Yaoshi Yuan refused to meet the visitors and ordered Wu Qiu to say she had gone to bed.
• Shi Dong and Wu Qiu noticed Yaoshi Yuan’s singed hair and teased her about dressing up and wearing perfume to meet someone.
• Yaoshi Yuan recalled hugging Yan Qing and convinced herself that getting close to him would help her remain in the Calamity Organization and trade goods.
• Yaoshi Yuan drank wine in the bath and described Yan Qing as disgusting and infuriating, though sometimes gentle and domineering.
• Yan Qing tossed restlessly in bed and wondered how his fast kick had missed Red Snake.

Ying Ru Shi reported her mission to Ying Le in the palace garden, where they watched over an injured black cat. After Ying Le tested the Shore Flower by killing a palace attendant, she accepted it from Ying Ru Shi and decided to join her next mission; the chapter ended with Ying Le sensing that Ying Ru Shi’s scent resembled her own.

• Ying Ru Shi joined Ying Le in the rain beside an injured black cat, and Ying Le explained how it had come to live in the palace garden.
• Ying Ru Shi reported her mission and showed Ying Le the Shore Flower, which absorbed the vitality of the palace attendant Ying Le burned to test it.
• Ying Ru Shi gave Ying Le the Shore Flower, hoping it would draw her into secret realms and away from governing, and reported that a Gold Badge Divine Arrestor might appear on the next mission.
• Ying Le reacted ominously to the news, then told Ying Ru Shi she would join the next mission and dismissed her with an umbrella.
• After Ying Ru Shi left, Ying Le sniffed the spot where she had stood and realized her scent resembled Ying Ru Shi’s.

Yan Qing prepared Bunny Heroine for life in Ping City and sorted through his mission rewards, discovering a costly new Calamity Dao Foundation option. He postponed deciding whether to pursue it and joined Shang Xin Lei and Yaoshi Yuan for hotpot, where one of them smacked him and both moved their chairs away.

• Yan Qing took Bunny Heroine and Night Four for a walk, and Jiang Shi introduced Bunny Heroine as her younger sister to the people in the military camp.
• Yan Qing decided Bunny Heroine would stay in Ping City and remain an active combatant rather than be kept in storage or sent to Xuanwu Lake Military Town.
• Yan Qing allocated the Red Furnace Fire Essence to Bingzi Jiaolin and considered using Earth Vein Malice to obtain the Secret Record of Through-Glow for the Life and Death Profound Dao Foundation.
• Yan Qing discovered the Calamity Dao Foundation pairing and learned that calamizing the Orb of Harmonious Creation would cost 10 Calamity Karma, leaving him uncertain whether he could gather enough for the foundation before his next mission.
• Yan Qing came out to find Shang Xin Lei and Yaoshi Yuan preparing hotpot, then got smacked on the head as both women moved their chairs farther away from him.

Yaoshi Yuan shared a hotpot meal with Yan Qing and Shang Xin Lei, then persuaded Yan Qing to let her remain in the Calamity Organization despite his attempt to discuss her place on the team. The chapter ended with Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei crowding Yan Qing as he tried to begin an important conversation.

• Yaoshi Yuan asked Yan Qing whether he would protect Bunny Heroine, and he promised to limit her public strength while letting her grow through battle.
• Yan Qing tried to tell Yaoshi Yuan that his team had no room for her, but she threatened to cause trouble on the next mission if he forced her out.
• Yaoshi Yuan argued that staying with the Calamity Organization would offer her and Bunny Heroine more protection, and Yan Qing reluctantly agreed to keep her on the team with limits on her skills.
• Shang Xin Lei shared Drunken Breeze and discussed the hotpot with Yaoshi Yuan, then stood behind Yan Qing’s chair and watched her warily.
• Yan Qing said he had something important to discuss with Yaoshi Yuan, who returned and stood in front of him as Shang Xin Lei remained behind his chair.

Yan Qing discussed helping Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei prepare for the next mission by obtaining spear techniques, talismans, and Dao Foundation materials. When they demanded to know why he was helping them, he admitted he wanted them to complete the Thieves’ Den mission so he could collect its rewards without doing anything, prompting them to attack him.

• Yaoshi Yuan explained that acquiring spear secret techniques required her to fight through dangerous Third Turn Secret Realms, and Yan Qing offered to obtain two for her in exchange for Chu Luoyan’s token.
• Yaoshi Yuan offered to buy Yan Qing Indestructible Vajra Talismans with her money, and he asked her to purchase as many as she could.
• Yan Qing promised to prepare Heavenly Dipper and Earthly Fiend for Shang Xin Lei so she could form a superior Dao Foundation before the next mission.
• Shang Xin Lei restrained Yan Qing and asked why he was giving her such valuable items, while Yaoshi Yuan also questioned his motives.
• Yan Qing revealed that he wanted the women to complete the Thieves’ Den mission so he could claim its rewards without helping, and Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei attacked him from both sides.

Yan Qing used his surplus resources to fund Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei, then asked Yaoshi Yuan to train them for combat. The three teammates agreed to keep advancing together with Thieves' Den, while their training continued toward a test the next day.

• Yan Qing decided to spend his resources on training his teammates and building a Foundation Establishment alternate account, and Yaoshi Yuan and Shang Xin Lei accepted his support.
• Yaoshi Yuan discovered that Yan Qing and Shang Xin Lei lacked experience facing demons directly and began training their reflexes with feather dusters.
• Yan Qing and Shang Xin Lei failed to land a hit on Yaoshi Yuan and agreed to keep training, with the person making more mistakes to face a humiliating punishment.
• Yan Qing declared that he wanted to walk alongside Shang Xin Lei and Yaoshi Yuan with Thieves' Den until the end, and they bumped fists with him.

Yan Qing upgraded the Calamity Organization and switched back to Rat Monk, who was invited to join the Lake Heart Island expedition. There, Jie Huangchao tested Rat Monk and granted him a powerful seven-day buff, leaving Rat Monk face to face with the legendary Skyward Great General.

• Yan Qing decided to delay raising Rat Monk to the Third Turn until the team had a Second Turn Secret Realm as a fallback.
• Yan Qing used a team skill point to raise Immortal Travel to Level 2, then chose three additional team members as the Calamity Organization's Level 2 reward.
• Yan Qing saw the new team missions and decided the group could complete them by conquering Suppressor of Three Mountains with alternate accounts.
• Sun Chaozong hurried Rat Monk to Lake Heart Island after saying a major figure had created an opportunity for him to enter the Third Turn Secret Realm.
• Jie Huangchao attacked Rat Monk to test him, then gave him a seven-day Golden Armor buff after Rat Monk dodged the blow.

Yan Qing watched Jie Huangchao lead a group of heralds through Lake Heart Island, using his overwhelming Foundation Establishment strength to destroy successive waves of demons. The Golden Carp King fell to Jie Huangchao’s full power, and Yan Qing spotted golden loot around the corpses.

• Yan Qing recognized Lake Heart Island’s exposed terrain as a dangerous secret realm, while Jie Julu ordered the heralds to hold the line under damage-reducing protection.
• The first wave of shrimp soldiers and crab generals surrounded the island, and Rat Monk killed one Brute Soldier before the surviving heralds were forced to withdraw.
• Jie Huangchao crushed the first wave with one strike, then killed the second wave’s Lake Palace Alligator General with his Diamond Fire technique.
• The Lake Palace Golden Carp King attacked Jie Huangchao, who unleashed his full power and reduced the demon king to bloody sludge.
• Yan Qing noticed golden loot around the demons’ corpses and pressed close to the screen in excitement.

Jie Julu explained that Jie Huangchao had spent spirit essence to gain fortune and asked Rat Monk to repeatedly conquer Stone Sinking Stream while wearing the Golden Armor. In Qi, Ying Le questioned her ministers about the ancient Guangwu Restoration and Zhaolie Succession, leaving Ying Ru Shi alarmed by the possibility that the court contained hidden enemies.

• Jie Julu told Rat Monk that Foundation Establishment experts pursued fortune through secret realm conquests and that the Golden Armor let him gather fortune for Jie Huangchao.
• Jie Julu asked Rat Monk to lead other Golden Armor bearers in conquering Stone Sinking Stream up to several times a day for seven days, and Rat Monk agreed.
• Jie Julu described fortune as the heavens and earth remembering a Foundation Establishment expert’s actions, then said another expert who lived among mortals might be pursuing it.
• Ying Ru Shi arrived at Ying Le’s court and found its ministers were prominent officials rather than the usual flatterers.
• Ying Le warned that outsiders could harbor different intentions and asked Grand Tutor Yuan Shizhou how Guangwu and Zhaolie had restored the Great Xuan dynasty.

Ying Le tortured Yuan Shizhou’s family to force him to explain how Guangwu Zhaolie restored the dynasty. Yuan Shizhou finally answered that the noble families controlled the secret realms and urged Ying Le to exterminate the Great Noble Families, which she agreed to do.

• Ying Le repeatedly questioned Yuan Shizhou about the source of Guangwu Zhaolie’s success, rejecting his offers to retire or surrender his family fortune.
• Ying Le had the Evil Spirit Warriors bring Yuan Shizhou’s family into the hall as hostages.
• Ying Le burned Yuan Qian to death while Yuan Shizhou pleaded for his family to be spared.
• Yuan Shizhou asked Ying Le for one request, then explained that the noble families had restored the dynasty by controlling the secret realms and their resources.
• Yuan Shizhou advised Ying Le to exterminate the Great Noble Families to prevent another restoration, and Ying Le agreed.

Ying Le ordered Ying Ru Shi to help carry out a mass purge so she could gather luck and prepare to kill the Gold Badge Divine Arrestor, and Ying Ru Shi accepted the command despite its cost. Meanwhile, Yan Qing sorted through his dungeon spoils, equipped the Goldfish Goggles, and began using Immortal Travel to enter the mortal world.

• Ying Le explained that killing the officials and their clans would help her Condense Luck and prepare for her battle with the Gold Badge Divine Arrestor, then asked Ying Ru Shi to assist her.
• Ying Le issued Ying Ru Shi the title Prince of Lanling, the Bright Flame Treasure Blade, and command of troops ordered to exterminate people bearing eighteen surnames; Ying Ru Shi accepted the edict.
• Yan Qing counted the rewards from repeated runs of Stone Sinking Stream and the Lake Heart Island loot, including the Goldfish Goggles, a scouting Token that revealed living beings within five hundred meters.
• Yan Qing equipped his Tokens and used Jiang Shi's account to take Bunny Heroine into the Suppressor of Three Mountains mystic realm, where she guarded him as he prepared to channel Immortal Travel.
• Yan Qing began the twenty-five-second Immortal Travel channel, preparing to enter the mortal world.

Yan Qing used Immortal Travel to meet Jiang Shi in person and discovered that game rules prevented her from lewd behavior. With his alternate characters securing the Zheng residence, he entered the Suppressor of Three Mountains secret realm to gain combat experience.

• Yan Qing chose Immortal Travel and teleported from the Thieves' Den to meet Jiang Shi.
• Jiang Shi dodged Yan Qing's attempts to touch her because regulations for the all-ages game prohibited lewd behavior.
• Yan Qing gave Bunny Heroine Chu Luoyan's spoils to store and ordered her to guard the secret realm's entrance.
• Yan Qing entered the Zheng residence's secret realm, equipped with Bingzi Jiaolin and Melting Hundred Forms, to practice fighting its monsters.

Ying Ru Shi led the Evil Ghost Iron Cavalry to Pingcheng to carry out a massacre order, and the knights began killing the garrison after executing its commander. Gai Louxian fled into the Suppressor of Three Mountains secret realm with the unconscious Bu Liugu Zhen, while Ying Ru Shi entered just before it reached capacity.

• Ying Ru Shi rode toward Pingcheng haunted by visions of the people killed in the County Town of Evernight, and she warned a little girl to stay away from the city.
• Evil Spirit Knights killed the gate guards after Ying Ru Shi entered Pingcheng, and the survivors called out Jiang's name.
• Gai Louxian learned that Ying Ru Shi's forces had entered the garrison and went to meet them, hoping the Bu Liugu clan's removal would let him become acting commander.
• The Evil Ghost Iron Cavalry charged the garrison, killed commander Bu Liugu Ke, and attacked the Bai Bao forces.
• Ying Ru Shi fought Gai Louxian and forced him to flee; Gai Louxian knocked Bu Liugu Zhen unconscious and carried him toward the Suppressor of Three Mountains secret realm.
• Ying Ru Shi entered the secret realm just before it filled, leaving the pursuing Evil Ghost cavalry outside.

Yan Qing finished training against Zheng Shan in the secret realm, then discovered Jiang Shi, Bunny Heroine, Night Four, Bu Liugu Zhen, and Gai Louxian were fleeing an attack by Evil Ghost Elite. As the pursuers closed in, Night Four sacrificed himself to protect Jiang Shi, and Bu Liugu Zhen turned back to fight beside him.

• Yan Qing defeated Zheng Shan after practicing dodging and blocking with him, and planned to return the next day for another lesson.
• Yan Qing heard a commotion and saw Bu Liugu Zhen, Jiang Shi, Bunny Heroine, Night Four, and Gai Louxian rush into the Zheng residence with Evil Ghost Elite close behind.
• Night Four blocked the charging Evil Ghost Elite so Jiang Shi and Bunny Heroine could escape, following Yan Qing's planned Sacrifice Sequence.
• Bu Liugu Zhen stopped fleeing and joined Night Four, declaring that he was just as determined to protect Jiang Nian.

Gai Louxian urged Jiang Nian and her companions to flee as the Evil Ghost Elite overwhelmed their defenders, but the bandaged man declared that they would stand and fight. He unleashed a powerful blade strike against the advancing guards just as Ying Ru Shi arrived, while Yellow Dog appeared as well.

• Gai Louxian realized Jiang Nian could not defeat the Evil Ghost Elite and told her to escape while he stayed behind.
• The Evil Ghost Elite knocked Night Four and Bu Liugu Zhen aside with a coordinated spear attack.
• The bandaged man said Jiang Nian and the others had come to find him, but they had never planned to run.
• The bandaged man summoned eight blades, revealed powerful equipment, and drew an orange-flamed sword as the Evil Ghost Elite charged.
• The bandaged man’s blade light swept across the courtyard and stopped the Evil Ghost Elite as Ying Ru Shi entered and Yellow Dog appeared.