Chapter Summaries

Fang Yue escaped the underground base with Lin Ling and Qing Chen, hoping to reach Qingsi County through a direct passage. He found the Little Blood Hound transformed into a strange creature, but the Seven Seals Short Sword restored it before a Horse Head Masked man confronted them.

• Lin Ling woke and told Fang Yue that Lord Han had been captured and held in a room belonging to Lord Horse Seat, then passed out again.
• Qing Chen advanced to the Postnatal Third-rate Realm, and he told Fang Yue that the underground base's main passage led directly to Qingsi County.
• Fang Yue carried Lin Ling as he and Qing Chen ran toward the passage, fought off strange creatures, and found a group of Big Red Date Horses.
• A Blood-grade Little Blood Hound burst through a horse and attacked Qing Chen, but Fang Yue recognized it and stabbed it with the Seven Seals Short Sword, draining its strange power and restoring its familiar form.
• A man wearing a Horse Head Mask emerged from the dust and called Fang Yue and the others three little rats.

Fang Yue led Lin Ling and Qing Chen through the underground stronghold toward Qingsi County, where they encountered a transformed Little Blood Hound and a man in a Horse Head Mask. The masked man confronted them as Fang Yue held the weakened Little Blood Hound.

• Lin Ling woke and told Fang Yue that Lord Han had been captured and was being held by Lord Horse Seat.
• Qing Chen advanced to the Postnatal Third-rate Realm, and Fang Yue took Lin Ling with him toward the stronghold's direct route to Qingsi County.
• Qing Chen was injured fighting strange creatures, and the group found Big Red Date Horses before a Blood-grade Little Blood Hound attacked them.
• Fang Yue used the Seven Seals Short Sword to suppress the Little Blood Hound's strange-creature power, and it returned to its familiar form.
• A man wearing a Horse Head Mask emerged through the dust and called Fang Yue, Lin Ling, and Qing Chen three little mice.

Fang Yue confronted Horse Seat while Qing Chen fled with Lin Ling and Little Blood Bucket. After Qing Chen was wounded by a Black Silk Horse rider, he told the pursuing Qing Guards that Ye Baiyi was ahead and needed help.

• Fang Yue advanced to face Horse Seat, and their clash sent Qing Chen, Lin Ling, and Little Blood Bucket tumbling away.
• Qing Chen fled through the underground base with Lin Ling and Little Blood Bucket, passing fleeing Phoenix Organization members.
• A group of Black Silk Horses and Qing Guards approached Qing Chen, and one of their projectiles wounded his left thigh.
• A valiant woman questioned Qing Chen about Captain Lin and the events ahead, and he urged the group to help Ye Baiyi.
• The Qing Guards reacted with joy on hearing that Captain Ye was alive and asked Qing Chen what had happened.

Fang Yue confronted Horse Seat after their Auras collided, realizing that Horse Seat was a far stronger Xiantian Realm martial artist. Refusing to retreat, Fang Yue charged Horse Seat again, and their clash shook the passage.

• You Sisi stopped the team from following Captain Wu and asked Jing Yan and Jade White Robe to explain what had happened.
• Fang Yue recovered from the Aura collision and judged Horse Seat to be at least Xiantian Second-class, while recognizing his own Aura was weaker.
• Fang Yue swallowed pills to restore his internal energy as Horse Seat advanced toward him.
• Fang Yue and Horse Seat traded accusations over their past crimes and accelerated toward each other.
• Fang Yue and Horse Seat collided, triggering an explosion that shook the passage and sent rocks raining down.

Fang Yue fought Horse Seat, an Innate Second-class expert, and discovered that his unusual ability to purify blood nullified the Silver Dissolving Fist's most dangerous effect. The fight continued with neither man gaining a clear advantage, and Fang Yue grew confident that he could match Horse Seat physically.

• Fang Yue traded punches with Horse Seat and realized the older fighter was weaker than he had expected.
• Horse Seat attacked with the Silver Dissolving Fist, breaking Fang Yue's hand and breastbone while turning his blood into poisonous mercury.
• Fang Yue's body purified the mercury, allowing him to counter with the Nine Revolutions Chain Saber and break Horse Seat's Innate Qi Shield.
• Horse Seat blasted Fang Yue back with an Aura explosion and retreated, baffled that the Silver Dissolving Fist had failed to incapacitate him.
• Fang Yue assessed their abilities and concluded that Horse Seat was no longer someone he needed to fear.

Fang Yue fought Horse Seat, using his rapid recovery to endure Silver Dissolving Fist while he learned to identify Horse Seat’s real body among the afterimages. Horse Seat’s attacks drove Fang Yue to call on an explosion technique, but two unexpected voices rang out as Horse Seat struck toward his heart.

• Fang Yue quickly recovered from Horse Seat’s attacks and swallowed hundreds of pills while Horse Seat tried to find an opening.
• Horse Seat used six silver afterimages to surround Fang Yue, but Fang Yue tracked his real body and charged him with his flaming blade.
• Horse Seat’s Innate Qi Shield blocked Fang Yue’s blade, and he counterattacked with a series of punches aimed near Fang Yue’s heart.
• Fang Yue shouted for an explosion as two Auras collided, then called out “Blazing! Fire! Explosion!!” while Horse Seat’s punch threatened his heart.
• Two voices rang out almost at the same time, one calling, “Brother Ye?!”

Fang Yue confronted Miaofa after discovering that she had imprisoned Ming, and he protected Ming when she attacked Miaofa. Before Fang Yue and Horse Seat could settle their fight, three Blood-level Anomalies charged into the underground base.

• Fang Yue rewound time to heal himself and recognized the chained, blind Ming beside Miaofa.
• Miaofa unlocked Ming's shackles, and Ming thanked her by whipping her with a chain.
• Fang Yue threatened Miaofa when she reached for her dagger, protecting Ming from further harm.
• Miaofa warned Fang Yue and Horse Seat that they needed to flee, but both men refused to run.
• Three Blood-level Anomalies charged from the darkness, and Ming hid among the corpses while Fang Yue and Horse Seat prepared to recover and fight.

Fang Yue struggled against Horse Seat as Blood-level Anomalies joined the fight, leaving him badly hurt and nearly overwhelmed. Captain Wu arrived to save him but Horse Seat killed him with a single blow, renewing Horse Seat’s confidence in his strength.

• Three Blood-level Anomalies ignored Miaofa and attacked Fang Yue, while Horse Seat seized the chance to join the fight.
• Fang Yue used Blazing Fire Burst and fought off Horse Seat and the anomalies, but Horse Seat exploited the attack’s recovery delay to pressure him.
• Two more Blood-level Anomalies and a group of Black-level Anomalies arrived, and Fang Yue prepared to use the Cape Pill as he waited for Time Rewind to heal him.
• Captain Wu charged in from the passage and attacked Horse Seat, but Horse Seat broke his leg and killed him with the Silver Dissolving Fist.
• Horse Seat was stunned by how easily he had killed Captain Wu, then regained his confidence in his own power.

Fang Yue fought Horse Seat after Horse Seat appeared to kill Captain Wu, but Captain Wu revived and joined the battle against the anomalies. Fang Yue cornered Horse Seat, who died after trying to pierce his own neck with a bone flute.

• Fang Yue attacked Horse Seat in rage after Horse Seat struck Captain Wu down, but three Blood-level Anomalies intercepted him and gave Horse Seat time to retreat.
• Fang Yue killed the three anomalies, and Captain Wu rose again, healed by golden threads that repaired his shattered head.
• Captain Wu held back two newly arrived Blood-level Anomalies while Fang Yue pursued Horse Seat, whose depleted energy left him unable to escape.
• Fang Yue overpowered Horse Seat and blasted him toward Captain Wu and the anomalies, trapping him between them.
• Horse Seat stabbed a bone flute into his neck, but Fang Yue kicked it away; Horse Seat died, and Fang Yue cut off his head and burned his body.

Fang Yue and Captain Wu fought the transformed Bone Anomalies until You Sisi and the Qing Guards arrived with reinforcements. After the battle turned in their favor, Fang Yue learned what had happened in Qingsi County and prepared to use Horse Seat’s key to search for Lord Han.

• Fang Yue took Horse Seat’s medicine and watched two Blood-level Anomalies transform after eating the Bone Flute, then fought the Fishbone Anomaly while Captain Wu faced the Bone Pillar Anomaly.
• You Sisi, Qing Chen, Jing Yan, and other reinforcements arrived and joined the fight against the Anomalies.
• Fang Yue broke the Fishbone Anomaly’s forehead stone and killed it, then questioned Jing Yan about the reinforcements and events in Qingsi County.
• Fang Yue invited Qing Chen to stay with his group and learned that Lin Ling had been sent back to Qingsi County for examination and that Miaofa had been captured and locked up there.
• Fang Yue told the group to search for the escaped Ming later and turned toward the nearly finished battle, holding Horse Seat’s key to the secret chamber where Lord Han might be held.

Fang Yue searched Horse Seat’s room with Qing Chen and Jing Yan, finding Forbidden Books and cultivation pills while learning that pills could exhaust a person’s potential. Qing Chen then proposed a way to deal with Little Blood Dou’s anomaly transformation, but Fang Yue was still looking for the hidden room.

• Fang Yue left Captain Wu and You Sisi to manage the battlefield and went to rescue Lord Han with Jing Yan and Qing Chen.
• Fang Yue killed lone anomalies on the way to Horse Seat’s room, while Qing Chen told Jing Yan about Fang Yue’s strength.
• Fang Yue and the others searched Horse Seat’s tidy room, where Qing Chen found Forbidden Books and Fang Yue collected cultivation pills.
• Qing Chen explained that exhausting one’s potential could prevent further cultivation, making Fang Yue decide to avoid such pills.
• Little Blood Dou woke up, and Qing Chen explained that suppressing the anomaly’s power could restore him before excitedly presenting a bolder idea to Fang Yue.

Fang Yue, Qing Chen, and Jing Yan uncovered Horse Seat’s underground chamber while searching for Lord Han. Fang Yue found Bai Xiaoya’s in-game character, Bai Daya, but discovered she was already dead.

• Qing Chen and Jing Yan excitedly planned to combine Little Blood Bucket’s Ghost Hunter, Ghostly Object, and Anomaly powers.
• Fang Yue found a hidden switch that opened a passage beneath Horse Seat’s bed and led Jing Yan and Qing Chen through the underground chamber.
• Fang Yue and the others searched the chamber’s rooms for Lord Han, whom Lin Ling had seen being taken to Horse Seat’s quarters.
• Fang Yue found Bai Daya in the eighth room and realized she was the in-game character of Bai Xiaoya, whom he had searched for across Qingsi County.
• Fang Yue checked Bai Daya and found that she had no breath, then regretted giving Horse Seat an easy death.

Fang Yue found Bai Xiaoya alive in Horse Seat’s secret room, but she had lost her memories and believed she was a girl named Bai Daya raised by Horse Seat. The chapter left Fang Yue confronting the disturbing possibility that she had been living on anomalous corpses while he searched for a way to restore her memories.

• Fang Yue feared Bai Xiaoya was dead, but she opened her eyes, which had turned completely black and bled black blood.
• Bai Xiaoya failed to recognize Fang Yue and said her name was Bai Daya, that Horse Seat had raised her, and that she remembered only being kept in the room.
• Fang Yue unlocked Bai Xiaoya’s chains, and she happily ran around, calling him Brother Ye.
• Bai Xiaoya dragged out a jar and ate from it, then offered Fang Yue some; he discovered the jar contained anomalous corpses.

Fang Yue found Lord Han’s head suspended in a tank and sought a safe way to free him from Horse Seat’s extraction system. After cutting the power, Fang Yue discovered that Bai Xiaoya could eat Blood Stones, leaving everyone stunned by her teeth.

• Fang Yue carried Bai Xiaoya to the room where Jing Yan had found Lord Han and saw Lord Han’s head floating in a tank of pale green liquid.
• Fang Yue confirmed that Bai Xiaoya was the amnesiac person he had been searching for and asked Qing Chen how to free Lord Han safely.
• Qing Chen explained that the extraction system should be shut down by cutting its power supply inside the table beneath the tank.
• Fang Yue punched through the table, found one hundred Blood Stones wired into the extraction system, and cut its main transmission tube.
• Fang Yue gave Blood Stones to Qing Chen and Jing Yan, then tossed one to Bai Xiaoya, who crunched it up and asked for more.

Fang Yue rescued Lord Han’s head from the fish tank but could not identify the formation marks or remove the black wooden tube, so he set out for Qingsi County with Jing Yan, Qing Chen, and Bai Xiaoya. In the passage, they encountered the Coffin-pulling Anomaly dragging a huge bone coffin, followed by a crowd of anomalies.

• Fang Yue freed Lord Han’s head from the fish tank, but Qing Chen could not decipher the marks around the black wooden tube.
• Fang Yue decided to take Lord Han to Qingsi County so Lord Jun could examine the formation, and he persuaded Bai Xiaoya to come with them.
• Bai Xiaoya tried to eat a cup and then asked to eat Lord Han, so Fang Yue stopped her and explained that people were not food.
• Fang Yue and the others left Horse Seat’s room and spotted a chained, half-human, half-skeleton anomaly approaching with a bone coffin.
• Fang Yue saw a dense crowd of anomalies following the Coffin-pulling Anomaly like devoted believers.

Fang Yue tested the Coffin-pulling Anomaly and was badly injured by a single chain strike, realizing it was far stronger than his group could handle. He ordered everyone to flee after rescuing Lord Han and Bai Xiaoya.

• Fang Yue noticed that several Blood-level Anomalies followed the Coffin-pulling Anomaly and warned the others to be ready to run.
• Fang Yue charged the Coffin-pulling Anomaly and tried to attack it with Fire Feathers, but it tracked his movements and struck him with an iron chain.
• Fang Yue's shoulder was shattered, but Night's Breath helped him recover while the Fire Feathers barely harmed the Coffin-pulling Anomaly.
• Fang Yue judged the Coffin-pulling Anomaly to be beyond their strength and ordered Jing Yan and Qing Chen to retreat with Lord Han and the little Blood Dou.
• Fang Yue carried Bai Xiaoya and led the group away, planning to seal the passage's last exit to Qingsi County.

Fang Yue led the group out of the underground base, bringing the still-living Lord Han and Bai Xiaoya with them as the Strange Curse [Dark Rain] worsened. Behind them, the [Coffin-pulling Anomaly] gathered an enormous horde that grew stronger as it advanced, while it muttered that something was not yet mature.

• Fang Yue carried Jing Yan at a speed that left him vomiting and unable to stand, then explained Lord Han’s condition to You Sisi.
• You Sisi ordered the group to withdraw after Fang Yue warned that a Blood Grade High Rank or Disaster-level Anomaly might be nearby.
• Fang Yue showed You Sisi the burning [Dark Rain] mark on his hand and admitted he knew little about the Strange Curse.
• The [Coffin-pulling Anomaly] followed Fang Yue’s trail as Anomalies gathered behind it and grew stronger.
• The [Coffin-pulling Anomaly] exploded a line of Anomalies after one muttered that it was not yet mature, then continued advancing with its swelling army.

Ming escaped and injured herself to attract the attention of Nian Wushuang, who took her into his carriage and revealed he was a Wenshu of the Red Division. In Qingsi County, the Green Robes decided to request Red Division reinforcements against the Phoenix Organization.

• Ming escaped into the forest, then wounded her leg and called for help to lure in a passing carriage.
• Nian Wushuang offered to treat Ming and took her with him, while she claimed night thieves had ruined her life.
• Nian Wushuang told Ming he was a Wenshu of the Red Division in the Capital City and promised to report the night thieves.
• In Qingsi County, Tian Er Jun, Fang Yue, and You Sisi discussed the Phoenix Organization’s reach and the need for reinforcements.
• Tian Er Jun agreed to inform the Red Division, and You Sisi quietly tried to explain herself to Fang Yue.

Fang Yue and the survivors gathered in the Qing Office hall to discuss defending Qingsi County from the underground anomalies. Tian Er Jun proposed issuing the [Summoning Sect Order], and he explained how he would persuade the sects to send most of their strongest forces.

• Jing Yan privately told Fang Yue that You Sisi seemed to have her eye on him, though Fang Yue doubted it.
• Tian Er Jun proposed issuing the [Summoning Sect Order] to summon sects tied to Qingsi County for its defense.
• Fang Yue supported the order but worried that sects might withhold their human-level experts to protect their own leaders.
• Tian Er Jun said he would use personal connections, warn sects about the Qing Office's consequences, and promise benefits to secure their support.
• Tian Er Jun said he was confident he could bring in eight-tenths of the sects' top forces.

Fang Yue attended a meeting where Lord Jun organized Qingsi County’s defenses, then asked him to save Lord Han. After Lord Jun began examining the formation around Lord Han, Captain Wu told Fang Yue he planned to travel to Chu Nuan City after the crisis and asked him to come along to save An Dong'er.

• Lord Jun explained the Summoning Sect Order and helped You Sisi and the assembled leaders settle plans for defending Qingsi County.
• After the meeting, Fang Yue asked Lord Jun to save Lord Han, and Lord Jun identified the formation’s layers and the black wooden tube as the key obstacle.
• Fang Yue summoned Qing Chen to watch Lord Jun work on the formation and learn about formations.
• Captain Wu told Fang Yue he would wait until Qingsi County survived the crisis before going to Chu Nuan City, then asked Fang Yue to join him.
• Fang Yue angrily insisted that he had not forgotten An Dong'er or his blood feud, and Captain Wu admitted he had misjudged him.