Arc 14The Plague Serpent’s Shadow

Zhang Yang rebuilt his power, uncovered the Plague Serpent’s threat, and established Liangshan County as a village while navigating conflicts across sequences. He exposed a statue clone of the Plague Serpent and left with progress on his Death Black Sail mission.

  • Zhang Yang crossed the Calamity Cloud into the Ashen Graveyard, survived the destruction of a distant world, and returned with a transformed sword and Destiny Village Building Task.
  • Zhang Yang expanded the Heavenly Sword Clan, discovered the Plague Serpent had contaminated Nie Xiaoqian's Well, and accepted a mission to destroy three Plague Serpent eggs.
  • On Earth, Zhang Yang learned that Human Civilization was trapped in the Fifth Sequence and that the Plague Serpent was likely hiding in the Third or Fourth Sequence.
  • Zhang Yang traveled with Li Cang, Turtle, and Xiao Bieli to Liaozhai, but a Snake Monk abducted Xiao Bieli in Liangshan County.
  • Zhang Yang established his village in Liangshan County, appointed Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli to county posts, and sealed the Cursed Land around the Mass Burial Ground.
  • Qin Ge revealed that he controlled most of the Primeval Village Building Order, while Zhang Yang learned more about sequence travel and the Plague Serpent’s threat.
  • Cynthia disclosed the Fate Village Building Order’s ownership shares and offered Zhang Yang work with the Third War Zone, while Mu Shaoan rejected Zhang Yang’s partnership proposal.
  • Zhang Yang fortified Liangshan County, negotiated with Qin Ge for the Liaozhai data world, and dragged a Plague Serpent statue clone into a black vortex before departing as the Fisherman.
Chapters 326–350 Vol. 4 Read

Ch. 326Indictment for Transcendence

Zhang Yang discovered that Qingzhou City's Mass Burial Ground could receive requests to send the dead through Transcendence Space Coordinates. After accepting a request from an Undying Demonic Venerable, he gained a large supply of Spiritual Qi but learned that each arrival increased the Ancient Law of Death in the world.

  • Zhang Yang used the Village Building Order to enhance a weak request at the Mass Burial Ground and received a request to let an evil ghost pass through.
  • Jiang Rong killed the arriving evil ghost, which left behind a jar of eighteen-year-old Daughter Red Wine, and Zhang Yang retained the coordinate held by Wang Erta.
  • Zhang Yang found a second request and accepted the passage of an Undying Demonic Venerable in exchange for fifty measures of Spiritual Qi.
  • Heaven's Punishment destroyed the arriving monster, and Zhang Yang's attempt to plunder its corpse failed, leaving him with only the sky-blue jade.
  • The Village Building Order warned that the Ancient Law of Death had increased by 0.01%, so Zhang Yang ordered Jiang Rong to seal off the Mass Burial Ground.

Ch. 327Daily Farming

Zhang Yang tried to counter the Ancient Law of Death by investing in infrastructure and expanding food production, hoping that flourishing life might weaken or neutralize it. He left Guobei County with two highways under construction and Nie Xiaoqian's Well upgraded to level ten, while planning a two-thousand-mu spiritual farmland project.

  • Zhang Yang used the Village Building Order to begin two Magic-Suppressing Highways from Guobei County to Qingzhou and Jizhou, and two Evil-Repelling Highways connecting Qingzhou and Jizhou to nearby counties.
  • Zhang Yang sent Zhu Ti, Ji Ming, Gou Dao, and Yang Yan to supervise highway construction with teams of outer disciples.
  • Zhang Yang planned two thousand mu of spiritual farmland in Guobei County, but realized he lacked the materials and resources needed to build it quickly.
  • Zhang Yang reserved Spiritual Qi for the farmland project and upgraded Nie Xiaoqian's Well from level five to level ten.
  • Zhang Yang learned that the level-ten well could produce five hundred thousand units of Mortal-grade Spiritual Qi each day, enough to help support Guobei County, and regarded the Antivirus Hunter as his ally.

Ch. 328The End of the Heavens

Zhang Yang staged rain and sunlight over Guobei County to give its people hope, then launched himself through the Calamity Cloud using his Sword Master-level Sword Control and a hidden strength-suppressing technique. He emerged into the Ashen Graveyard, where his world appeared as one star among countless others.

  • Li Guokui used his Wild Dragon-Snake Sword Intent to bring the first rain to Guobei County in three hundred years.
  • Zhang Yang explained that the rain and Jiang Rong’s sunlight display were performances meant to lift people’s spirits and encourage them to thrive.
  • Jiang Rong projected sunlight over Guobei County with her Rivers and Mountains Blazing Sun Sword Intent.
  • After preparing for five months, Zhang Yang set out to carry out his two-thousand-mu spirit-field plan by breaking through the Calamity Cloud.
  • Zhang Yang compressed his sword qi twelvefold to deceive the Calamity Cloud and burst through it with his Sword Master-level Sword Control.
  • Zhang Yang found himself in the Ashen Graveyard, surrounded by countless stars, with his world reduced to one among them.

Ch. 329Unknown World

Zhang Yang left the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and searched the Ashen Graveyard for a brighter world, relying on his sword-qi reserves to survive the Ancient Law of Death. He entered a red-lit world of dense deathly power and found himself amid a vast battlefield, where he hid inside a giant’s corpse as black-armored riders carried it away.

  • Zhang Yang saw that the Ancient Law of Death surrounded worlds like a vast sea and noted the Village Building Order’s warnings about leaving its range.
  • He reviewed his stored spiritual qi, the four spirit seals, and his sword-control reserves before setting out from the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World.
  • Zhang Yang flew through the void for two months, passing hundreds of worlds and watching some fade into darkness while losing lifespan each day.
  • He chose a red-lit Age of Dharma Decline World, entered it through its dense Calamity Cloud, and found a battlefield strewn with corpses beneath several suns.
  • Zhang Yang hid inside the corpse of a four-eared giant when black-armored knights on monstrous birds swept across the battlefield.
  • The riders hooked the giant’s corpse and carried it away, while Zhang Yang stayed hidden under a sense of imminent danger.

Ch. 330Heavenly God Jailer

Zhang Yang was captured near a ruined city by two giants who claimed to be Heavenly Gods, then woke in a sunlit room among unfamiliar people. An old man identified him as a descendant of their people from five billion years in the future, and their leader demanded to know which Sequence he came from.

  • Zhang Yang approached the ruined city but was blasted back by its protective shield and trapped in a talisman cage.
  • Ju Bei captured Zhang Yang and brought him into the city, where Wei Ji lamented that their leader had abandoned them.
  • Zhang Yang’s sword-weapon clone remained near the city and landed on a suppressed corpse whose golden blood began wrapping around the sword.
  • Zhang Yang woke in a sunlit room beside a muscular leader and an old Sky Dome Human Race man.
  • The old man concluded that Zhang Yang came from five billion years in the future, and the leader asked which Sequence he had come from.

Ch. 331Blood Sacrifice of Cousin

Zhang Yang was forced into a blood sacrifice so Supreme Changge’s inheritance could be sent to his cousin, Mu Shaoan. The inheritance reached Mu Shaoan in the 7 Days to Die World, where it subtly affected his sword and training.

  • Zhang Yang learned four languages and told the Ashleaf leader about the Ancient God who had awakened.
  • The old man examined Zhang Yang’s memories and found that his cousin Mu Shaoan could inherit Supreme Changge’s power.
  • The old man sacrificed himself and Zhang Yang at an altar, sending the inheritance away in a streak of bloodlight.
  • The leader fought the Heavenly God Jailers while another force pulled Zhang Yang’s soul into a Sword Master-level Sword Control.
  • Mu Shaoan woke from a dream in his gas-station fortress and resumed shaving a sandalwood square, unaware that Zhang Yang’s soul had entered it.

Ch. 332Death

After the Ashen Graveyard collapsed, Zhang Yang returned to his sword weapon’s clone and discovered that it had become an immensely powerful immortal sword. He used his preserved blood and six remaining essence souls to rebuild his sword meridians, but the Ancient Law of Death surged into his Death Meridian.

  • The Ancient Law of Death destroyed the collapsing world, and the headless corpse broke apart into red-mist limbs that escaped while its torso withered away and revealed a sword weapon.
  • Zhang Yang’s soul returned to the sword weapon’s clone, where he found the blade had grown enormously and gained terrifying power.
  • Zhang Yang found his preserved essence blood and used it with six remaining essence souls and sword qi to begin rebuilding his body.
  • Zhang Yang reforged his Soul, Heart, and Intent Meridians to the sixth level, then formed his Spirit Meridian.
  • When Zhang Yang began reforging his Life and Death Meridians, the Ancient Law of Death rushed uncontrollably into his Death Meridian Sword Shadow.

Ch. 333Fate Village Building Order

After the Death Meridian Sword Core returned Zhang Yang to life, his Village Building Order transformed into the Destiny Village Building Task and fused with his immortal sword. The Fate Tide immediately assigned him a mission to pacify a disturbance in destiny by dealing with ten Age of Dharma Decline Worlds.

  • Zhang Yang awakened in a new body after the Death Meridian Sword Core reached the Thirteenth Layer and his seven spirit essences merged into him.
  • Zhang Yang shrank the immortal sword and flew back toward the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World, where the sword pierced the Village Building Order and transformed it into the Destiny Village Building Task.
  • Zhang Yang inspected the new task’s traits and discovered its luxurious inner space and the Sword of Fate’s abilities, including travel through the First to Sixth Sequences.
  • The Fate Tide activated the Destiny Village Building Task and ordered Zhang Yang to destroy ten escaped Age of Dharma Decline Worlds or place an Anchor of Death in them.

Ch. 334Good and Evil Workshop

Zhang Yang learned that carrying his Heavenly Sword Gate out of the Ashen Graveyard required him to pursue an Ash Boat, so he activated a branch mission to forge the Anchor of Death. He placed the Destiny Village Building Order in the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and unlocked six workshops, leaving him to prepare for a new life of collecting resources.

  • Zhang Yang learned that he could transport up to one hundred people with Fate Points or the Death Black Sail, but needed an Ash Boat to carry an entire world.
  • Zhang Yang activated the branch mission to forge the Anchor of Death, which required land or a world, Good and Evil Value, and resources for the Scales of Destiny and Anchor of Death.
  • Zhang Yang crossed into the Liaozhai Age of Dharma Decline World and placed the Destiny Village Building Order on Dragon Head Peak.
  • The Village Building Order activated the Good and Evil, Time, Space, Destiny, Hope, and Life and Death Workshops.
  • Zhang Yang found that none of the workshops directly increased his strength and joked that he would become a farming expert.

Ch. 335The Sword Intent of Heaven and Earth

Zhang Yang used his Spiritual Qi to strengthen the Heavenly Sword Gate and its Sword Valley before cultivating the Sword Intent of Heaven and Earth to unite his soul, heart, and intent. He then tested his thirteenth-level Death Meridian Sword Core and discovered something that shocked him.

  • Zhang Yang sent the Heavenly Sword Gate’s disciples to cultivate, strengthened the sect’s peaks, and expanded its spiritual fields to three thousand mu.
  • He entered the Sword Valley, where twenty core disciples cultivated beside the Sword Sea, and began refining the Nameless Sword Array.
  • Zhang Yang spent all of the Fate Village Building Order’s remaining Heaven and Earth Dao Rhyme to complete the Sword Intent of Heaven and Earth.
  • He merged his soul, heart, and intent into the Sword Intent, then used the Fate Village Building Order to pull himself safely back out.
  • Zhang Yang activated his Death Meridian Sword Core on an Xuan-grade sword, which turned black, and he burst out in shock.

Ch. 336The Standard of Evil

Zhang Yang prepared the Heavenly Sword Clan to leave the Heavenly Sword Gate and begin his plan at the salvation coordinate outside Qingzhou City. Before opening it, he used the Good and Evil Workshop to judge his disciples, leaving them assembled and ready for battle.

  • Zhang Yang discovered that his Death Meridian could refine Reverse Lifespan Force from a sword artifact and produce Dust of Ash, then waited three years while cultivating at the Heavenly Sword Gate.
  • Zhang Yang’s twenty core disciples reached the Nascent Soul level, and his sixty ordinary personal disciples reached the Golden Core level.
  • Zhang Yang renamed the Heavenly Sword Gate the Heavenly Sword Clan and led its forces toward the Mass Burial Ground outside Qingzhou City.
  • Zhang Yang activated the Good and Evil Workshop and set standards for judging evil, finding that all eighty disciples had some flaws but low scores.
  • Zhang Yang ordered the disciples to form a sword array and prepare for battle, then reopened the salvation coordinate.

Ch. 337Plague Serpent

Zhang Yang accepted an exorcism request for a virus-infected Abomination Demon Spawn, killed it, and discovered that the Plague Serpent it carried had become a trait of the Fate Village Building Order. After he learned his first request had underpaid him, he tried to accept a more valuable Virus King contract, but it had expired; in the Fifth Sequence, Angie’s borrowed body disintegrated.

  • Zhang Yang summoned the Abomination Demon Spawn requested by Demon Emperor Jingzhang and had Wu County’s group kill it, then finished it with death aura when it resurrected.
  • Zhang Yang found that the Fate Village Building Order had gained the incurable Plague Serpent trait and used the Good and Evil Workshop to define viruses and their collaborators as evil.
  • Zhang Yang reviewed the other exorcism requests and found a lucrative Virus King-level Sky Giant Eagle request from Angie in the Fifth Sequence.
  • The Good and Evil Workshop assessed the first exorcism as valid but underpaid, recommending a price increase of 500 units of Golden Core-grade Spiritual Qi.
  • Zhang Yang reached for Angie’s expired request, while Angie watched a muscular man eat stones beside the dead Sky Giant Eagle before her borrowed body began disintegrating.

Ch. 338Scales of Destiny (Revised)

Zhang Yang used a Destiny Fragment to uncover Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s history and learned that a task had directed him toward an ancient virus world called Plague Serpent. He refused to go, choosing to keep strengthening his own position instead.

  • Zhang Yang connected Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s salvation requests and Demon Emperor Chengping’s viral corruption to a looming threat against the Immortal Cultivation True Realm.
  • Zhang Yang decided to avoid confronting his old employer and instead planned to expand his spirit fields and strengthen the Heavenly Sword Clan.
  • Zhang Yang used the Scales of Destiny and obtained a Destiny Fragment depicting Mirror Chapter Demon Emperor’s rise from an Azure Wolf village chief to a powerful ruler.
  • Zhang Yang examined the fragment’s mysterious symbols, and the Fate Village Building Order identified Plague Serpent as the target world of an ancient virus.
  • Zhang Yang learned he could ignore the task and firmly refused to go to Plague Serpent.

Ch. 339Bring Me My Sword Manipulation Quickly

After a plague corrupted Nie Xiaoqian's Well, Zhang Yang set out to find and destroy the Plague Serpent's eggs, but the Immortal Sword sent him to Earth. There he met Li Cang, who identified him as a wanted former virus agent, and Zhang Yang asked for help investigating dangers tied to A Chinese Ghost Story.

  • Zhang Yang discovered that the Plague Serpent had contaminated Nie Xiaoqian's Well, destroying farmland and killing dozens of people, so he sealed the well.
  • Zhang Yang made three Anchors of Death and accepted a revised mission to find and destroy three Plague Serpent eggs.
  • The Immortal Sword transported Zhang Yang to Earth, where he woke in a luxurious room and found his five swords nearby.
  • Li Cang told Zhang Yang that the Earth government and Ninth War Zone wanted him as the last unaccounted-for agent of a T-90-model Village Building Virus.
  • Zhang Yang revealed that he had stolen something from his former employer and asked Li Cang for information about threats distorting the story of A Chinese Ghost Story.

Ch. 340Negotiation

Zhang Yang learned why traversing between sequences left him unconscious and received intelligence about the Plague Serpent’s infection of the Liaozhai worlds. Li Cang explained Earth’s predicament and proposed that Zhang Yang cooperate with the Antivirus Hunters, ending by offering to recommend him to a superior.

  • The Fate Village Building Order explained that sequence traversal could be made safer by increasing Zhang Yang’s strength, forging an Ash Boat, or choosing his destination himself.
  • Li Cang gave Zhang Yang three intelligence records about infected Liaozhai worlds, and the Fate Village Building Order detected traces of an unknown Primeval Village Building Order and the Plague Serpent.
  • Li Cang explained that Human Civilization was trapped in the Fifth Sequence and relied on village chiefs to travel across sequences and fight viruses.
  • Zhang Yang learned that the Plague Serpent was likely hiding in the Third or Fourth Sequence and infecting Liaozhai through projections of divine faith, beyond the Antivirus Hunters’ ability to eradicate.
  • When Zhang Yang asked Li Cang to assess his strength, Li Cang said he could not compare it but offered to recommend Zhang Yang to his superior.

Ch. 341Virus Village Chief

Zhang Yang learned that his existence had been erased from Earth’s records and memories, then joined Li Cang, Turtle, and Xiao Bieli on a trip to the Liaozhai World. They entered a star-filled realm of myths and legends, where Turtle transported the four of them away beneath a falling star.

  • Zhang Yang discovered that his parents, friends, and relatives no longer remembered him, and Li Cang said Zhang Yang and his cousin Mu Shaoan had been erased from existence.
  • Zhang Yang learned that Mu Shaoan still remembered him and was protected by Chaos Base, then met Li Cang’s companions Turtle and Xiao Bieli.
  • Zhang Yang asked Li Cang, Turtle, and Xiao Bieli to help him reach the Liaozhai World and asked them to look after Mu Shaoan if they met him.
  • Li Cang led the group through a restroom door in a shopping mall into a star-filled gathering place for myths and legends.
  • Turtle pulled a star from the sky, and it descended over the four men, making them vanish together.

Ch. 342Snake Monk

Zhang Yang arrived in the Mortal Realm of A Chinese Ghost Story and learned that the Plague Serpent’s corruption was spreading from Lanruo Temple. After a Snake Monk abducted Xiao Bieli in Liangshan County, Zhang Yang decided to build his village there to try to save him.

  • Zhang Yang arrived with Li Cang, Turtle, and Xiao Bieli and asked for permission to build a village in the world.
  • Turtle reported that the village had to be built at Lanruo Temple, where a spreading corrosive force had made the region around Guobei County dangerous.
  • As the group passed through Liangshan County, Zhang Yang noticed the Plague Serpent lock-on progress increasing and searched the city with his Soul Domain.
  • A Snake Monk seized Xiao Bieli with its spatial tongue and vanished despite Zhang Yang’s attack and Li Cang and Turtle’s pursuit.
  • Zhang Yang identified the Snake Monk as a monster empowered by the Plague Serpent and said they had to build the village in Liangshan County to rescue Xiao Bieli before it became Cursed Land.

Ch. 343Kill Monsters and Level Up

Zhang Yang activated the Sub-Fate Village Building Coordinate and discovered that its Backend Modifier could assimilate and alter the datafied world around Liangshan County. He told Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli to keep what they had seen secret and proposed luring Snake Monks to gain resources, leaving the Antivirus Hunters alarmed by his intentions.

  • Zhang Yang activated the Sub-Fate Village Building Coordinate, freezing the world and revealing a monstrous Backend Modifier that devoured Liangshan County and its surroundings before the world reset.
  • Zhang Yang learned that the Backend Modifier could alter people, terrain, buildings, weather, plants, and animals within a hundred li of Liangshan County, but that it needed resources.
  • Zhang Yang saw that devouring land or killing people and monsters could provide village-building resources, including large rewards for killing Turtle, Li Cang, Xiao Bieli, or a Snake Monk.
  • Zhang Yang told Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli to pretend they knew nothing, then proposed luring Snake Monks into attacks so he could kill monsters and gain experience.
  • Turtle said Snake Monks were too dangerous to lure, while Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli reacted with alarm when Zhang Yang called the county his village.

Ch. 344Ancient Painting

Zhang Yang explained how Liangshan County’s ancient-painting mode could trap and kill Snake Monks, then organized the county’s leaders and isolated its curse in a Cursed Land. He went toward Lanruo Temple to lure a Snake Monk himself but stopped short after sensing danger and doubting the plan’s consequences.

  • Zhang Yang told Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli that Liangshan County had become an ancient painting whose powers could stop time and compress space, but required experience and a Cursed Land to summon a powerful projection.
  • Zhang Yang granted the three vacant county positions to Turtle, Li Cang, and Xiao Bieli, who chose the County Magistrate, County Commandant, and Martial Arts Hall Master roles respectively.
  • Zhang Yang designated the Mass Burial Ground as the Cursed Land, drove the curse out of Liangshan County, and sealed the area with four profound-grade swords.
  • Zhang Yang left Liangshan County and traveled toward Lanruo Temple to lure a Snake Monk himself.
  • Zhang Yang stopped two hundred li from Lanruo Temple after sensing danger and worrying that summoning the Plague Serpent’s projection could provoke its true form.

Ch. 345Primeval Village Building Order

Zhang Yang discovered a Cursed Land near Guobei County and learned that an enemy Virus Village Chief was using a Primeval Village Building Order and Bone Tower. After finding that Ancient Demonic Language could bind the curse into Curse Fruits, he began harvesting Plague Serpent Shadows while worrying about the hidden enemy at Lanruo Temple.

  • Zhang Yang inspected a boundary where the Cursed Land’s curse had reached 480 layers and learned that a Bone Tower could nurture Cursed Snake Monks.
  • Zhang Yang realized that a rival Virus Village Chief with a Primeval Village Building Order had the advantage and might be hiding inside Lanruo Temple.
  • Zhang Yang tested several techniques against the Plague Serpent Shadows, then used Ancient Demonic Language to bind them into Curse Fruits.
  • Zhang Yang learned that Plague Serpent Shadows could not travel far from the Cursed Land and that their curse could not be removed once it infected a target.
  • Zhang Yang lured out more Plague Serpent Shadows and bound them into inferior, unstable Curse Fruits to farm experience and improve their quality.

Ch. 346Time Branches

Zhang Yang met Qin Ge on Floor 480 and learned that Qin Ge had come from a tributary of the River of Time to pursue power and freedom. After Qin Ge left, the Fate Village Building Order explained the River of Time, the Fifth Sequence’s conflict, and the forces behind the greater struggle, leaving Zhang Yang wondering how he could kill the Plague Serpent.

  • Qin Ge emerged from the Cursed Land and told Zhang Yang he had traveled from a tributary five thousand years in the future to eliminate a powerful figure before he grew.
  • Qin Ge revealed that he controlled most of the Primeval Village Building Order, denied intending to attack Zhang Yang or the Fifth Sequence, and disappeared into the black mist.
  • Zhang Yang asked the Fate Village Building Order about time travel, and it explained the difference between the River of Time’s main trunk and its tributaries, including Earth’s status as a True Realm.
  • The Fate Village Building Order explained that viruses were unique to the Fifth Sequence and that the deeper struggle centered on survival and securing positions in the Third and Fourth Sequences.
  • Zhang Yang learned that his former employer was a Heavenly God-level existence and that Earth had once been in the Third Sequence.
  • Zhang Yang asked how he could kill the Plague Serpent, but the Fate Village Building Order fell silent.

Ch. 347Fate Cipher

Zhang Yang examined the Village Building Order’s hidden ownership and convened a shareholders’ meeting, where Cynthia revealed that Ancient Heavenly God Changge and the Lord of Ash held shares in his Fate Village Building Order. He accepted a tentative offer to work for Cynthia’s Third War Zone and learned more about the Plague Serpent, but was warned not to return to the Fifth Sequence or meet his cousin Mu Sha'an yet.

  • Zhang Yang reasoned that the Village Building Order was a tool whose upgrades depended on outside investments, then ordered the Fate Village Building Order to reveal its ownership shares.
  • The Fate Village Building Order warned Zhang Yang that a shareholders’ meeting required a special cipher and could cost him if convened before the hundred-year interval, so he returned to Earth to proceed.
  • Cynthia approached Zhang Yang, used a three-character cipher to reveal a separate Backend Village Building Order, and identified herself as a representative attending the meeting.
  • Cynthia explained that Ancient Heavenly God Changge and the Lord of Ash each held ten percent of the Fate Village Building Order’s master control authority, and warned Zhang Yang to complete their missions.
  • Zhang Yang noticed that his Plague Serpent mission had a thousand-year deadline and agreed tentatively to work as a chief mercenary village master for Cynthia’s Third War Zone.
  • Cynthia described the Plague Serpent as an ancient-god-strength statue skilled in curses and warned Zhang Yang against returning to the Fifth Sequence or meeting Mu Sha'an before he mastered the power of laws.

Ch. 348The Mysterious Cousin (Revised)

After examining the Village Building Order’s finances, Zhang Yang decided to find a partner and visited his cousin Mu Shaoan in World 404. He warned Mu Shaoan about Cynthia and offered him a partnership, but Mu Shaoan refused and told Zhang Yang to leave.

  • Zhang Yang discovered that the Village Building Order held investments from the Remnant Soul of Destiny and the Lord of Ash, had few available funds, and lacked a profitable venture.
  • Zhang Yang decided to bring in a partner and traveled with the Fate Immortal Sword to the yellow-sand world where Mu Shaoan lived.
  • Zhang Yang entered Mu Shaoan’s dream, but Mu Shaoan broke free and attacked him, believing he was being deceived in World 404.
  • Mu Shaoan said he was an orphan with missing memories and asked why Zhang Yang had come.
  • Zhang Yang warned Mu Shaoan that Cynthia was a white lotus, but Mu Shaoan said she was the boss of the Third War Zone.
  • Zhang Yang offered Mu Shaoan a Seed Round partnership, but Mu Shaoan refused and told Zhang Yang to return when he was ready to turn over a new leaf.

Ch. 349Core Assets

Zhang Yang decided to defend Liangshan County and bought the complete Liaozhai data world from Qin Ge for two hundred units of Cosmic Law. With the data world and the true Liaozhai World both in his hands, he planned to build up core assets.

  • Zhang Yang sent Li Cang, Turtle, and Xiao Bieli away, then resolved to use the Heavenly Sword Gate and the End of Dharma Liaozhai World as the foundation for his core assets.
  • Zhang Yang spent vital blood and Cosmic Law to activate several sword arrays and defend Liangshan County as black fog closed in.
  • One hundred stone-tower anomalies surrounded Liangshan County, and Zhang Yang told Table to wait for an opening to swallow them.
  • Zhang Yang used the Ninefold Mountain Sword Array to crush several dozen serpent monks attempting to enter Liangshan County underground.
  • Zhang Yang negotiated with Qin Ge and paid two hundred units of Cosmic Law for the complete Liaozhai data world, then prepared to develop core assets using it and the true Liaozhai World.

Ch. 350Call Me the Fisherman

Zhang Yang captured the Plague Serpent’s statue clone after using Qin Ge and the Antivirus Hunters to draw it out, completing the first stage of his Death Black Sail mission. He left after meeting Fourth Sister, who thanked him and invited him for coffee if he gave up his Virus Village Chief identity.

  • Zhang Yang watched the data-based Liaozhai World take root in the void, while Qin Ge attacked it with Plague Black Mist and lost his forces to the strengthened firewall.
  • A half-god Antivirus Hunter froze Qin Ge’s troops, but Qin Ge released a Plague Serpent statue clone and escaped with a VIP Ship Ticket.
  • The statue’s curse overwhelmed the Antivirus Hunters and nearly corrupted the half-god before Zhang Yang returned and dragged the statue into a black vortex with the Black Giant Anchor.
  • Zhang Yang learned that his Death Black Sail mission had reached progress 1/3 and explained how he had manipulated Qin Ge and the Antivirus Hunters to expose the Plague Serpent.
  • Zhang Yang introduced himself as the Fisherman to Fourth Sister, declined her coffee invitation, and departed on the Fate Immortal Sword.
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