Chapter Summaries

While traveling, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi opened Marcus’s Golden Treasure Chest and gained items that affected their party in different ways. Li Shuyi equipped the Blood Grand Duke Emblem, a powerful accessory that strengthened her combat abilities.

• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi received an A-Tier Battle Rating for defeating Marcus and took turns drawing from his Golden Treasure Chest.
• Bai Xiaowen drew the Blood Pact, an S-Tier item that could bind an Elite lifeform but permanently reduced the user’s maximum Life Value.
• Li Shuyi drew the Blood of the Grand Duke, and Bai Xiaowen gave it to Kitz, who drank it and entered the Black Soul Stone to rest.
• Bai Xiaowen drew the Blood Grand Duke Emblem, a Gold accessory that increased movement speed and granted critical-hit and lifesteal bonuses through Grand Duke’s Wrath.
• Li Shuyi equipped the emblem, which met her base Agility requirement and complemented her Thunder Mark passive.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi were cornered by Prince Richard’s forces on the Grand Mausoleum’s second level, where the leaders demanded the Evil Soulstone. Bai accepted an SS-Tier quest tied to Bright Pass, then escaped through a northern doorway with Melda’s apparent help, leaving the proposed trade unresolved.

• Bai Xiaowen discovered that eight Leader Tier experts and numerous Elite guards had surrounded him and Li Shuyi, sealing the stairs behind them.
• The leaders recognized Bai as the thief of the Evil Soulstone and demanded that he surrender it, while Bai showed that he and Li Shuyi had Return Scrolls.
• Headmistress Melda offered a Divine Gift Page in exchange for the Soul Stone, and Bai learned that it was in Bright Pass and accepted the SS-Tier Scavenger quest to find a sealed hand bone and destroy its Sealing Incantation.
• Bai refused to swear an oath before seeing the Divine Gift Page, but Prince Richard ordered the guards to attack before negotiations could continue.
• Bai used Intimidation to rush toward the northern doorway, and Melda and the burly old nun let him and Li Shuyi pass before Bai called out that their deal still stood.

Melda defied Prince Richard’s order to abandon the pursuit of Dio Skalboom, arguing that recovering the Soul Stone mattered more, and the group continued into the Grand Mausoleum. Meanwhile, Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi fought Elite undead and concluded that Richard was an Awakened rather than a Spirit Realm character, likely with an extraordinary entry identity.

• Melda and a rough-voiced nun rejected Prince Richard’s demand to intercept Dio Skalboom, and Glandis argued that the rebels were unlikely to reach Bright Pass.
• Melda insisted Dio had mastered some of the Evil Soulstone’s power and urged the group to hurry after him before he violated a taboo, so Richard ordered them onward.
• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi fought a group of Elite Zombie Corpse Demonfolk, using Insight and their summoned creatures to defeat them.
• Bai Xiaowen explained that the mausoleum’s monsters might revive repeatedly, and that Marcus could have returned if the Black Soul Stone had not absorbed his soul.
• Li Shuyi suggested killing Prince Richard for Dark Gold Equipment and to meet the main quest’s fame requirement, but Bai Xiaowen said Richard was not a Spirit Realm character.
• Bai Xiaowen speculated that Richard’s status as an imperial prince would have required an S-Tier Spirit Realm Ticket, leaving Li Shuyi stunned by his likely background.

Bai Xiaowen used Marcus's memories to find a route through the Grand Mausoleum toward Bright Pass, then encountered Death Knight Alex Kael and his Terror Knights. His team fought off Kael's charge and drained the Death Knight's mental power, leaving him stunned as the battle continued.

• Delifa shared the first part of Marcus's memories, revealing the mausoleum's structure and the primary-node rooms that weakened its Yin energy.
• Bai Xiaowen planned a short route to Bright Pass that passed through one primary-node room, and he and Li Shuyi avoided dense monster gatherings on the way.
• Alex Kael led a squad of Terror Knights into their path, and Bai Xiaowen identified him as a powerful Level 8 Boss Tier Death Knight.
• Kael's Legion Charge struck Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures, but they stopped the cavalry and the Butcher's Rot weakened Kael and his knights.
• Bai Xiaowen used a Vengeful Spirit's Venomous Resentment to drain Kael's mental power while Kael used Desecration and Blood Strike against the Butcher.
• Kael fell into a brief Stunned Status, and Bai Xiaowen's summoned creatures surrounded him as the Butcher prepared a Crushing Strike.

Bai Xiaowen’s group defeated Death Knight Kael and the Terror Knights, but lost the Butcher in the fight. As they approached the main node room, Bai Xiaowen sensed Kevin Gray, Spiked Helm City’s chief mage, hiding nearby.

• Kael broke his left arm but used Withering Coil to kill the Butcher, whose undead nature did not protect him because Kael considered him an enemy.
• Bai Xiaowen’s summons and ranged attacks wore Kael down, and Kael died, leaving a Large Golden Treasure Chest.
• Bai Xiaowen’s group killed the remaining Terror Knights, suffering the loss of three Skeleton Sword-and-Shield Soldiers and heavy damage to the Skeleton Champion.
• Li Shuyi suggested resting in the main node room, but Bai Xiaowen detected Kevin Gray hiding nearby and called him out.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi confronted Archmage Kevin, who attacked after accusing Bai Xiaowen of bluffing and demanding the Soul Stone. Bai Xiaowen used Deep Freeze to interrupt Kevin, but Kevin summoned Mirror Images and began casting Dragon Breath, leaving the fight poised for a dangerous escalation.

• Bai Xiaowen coaxed Kevin out of hiding by claiming he was too weakened to pose a threat.
• Kevin accused Bai Xiaowen of bluffing and demanded the Soul Stone under their old contract, but Bai Xiaowen insisted he had already fulfilled it and Kevin had later returned the stone.
• Kevin attacked Bai Xiaowen, Li Shuyi, and their summons with Ice Spikes, then began casting Frost Lance.
• Bai Xiaowen rolled Deep Freeze with Lucky Roll, interrupting Kevin and allowing Bai Xiaowen, Li Shuyi, and the summons to attack.
• Kevin broke free, cast Frost Armor, and used Mirror Image to protect his casting as he began preparing Dragon Breath.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi defeated Kevin in the underground mausoleum after Kevin used a powerful necromantic scroll to ambush them. They entered the main node room, where Bai Xiaowen explained how Kevin had secretly tracked them.

• Bai Xiaowen interrupted Kevin’s Dragon Breath with Intimidation and shot through Kevin’s mirror images, wounding the real mage.
• Kevin used an S-Tier Necrotic Touch scroll, but Bai Xiaowen summoned Angerclaw and freed it with the Berserk Talisman.
• Bai Xiaowen restored his mental power and fired at Kevin while Angerclaw chased him, crippled his leg, and pinned him down.
• Bai Xiaowen killed Kevin with a final shot, and a Large Golden Treasure Chest appeared.
• Bai Xiaowen, Li Shuyi, Angerclaw, and the other summoned creatures entered the main node room, where their Yin-Energy Envelopment status vanished.
• Bai Xiaowen told Li Shuyi that Kevin had tracked them using an Arcane Beacon placed on the Soul Stone or on one of them.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi opened Kevin’s treasure chest, gaining a powerful wand, proof that could complete their main quest, and an S-Tier invisibility item. They realized that presenting Kevin’s seal to the opposing faction could fulfill the quest but would devastate their standing with the Resistance Army.

• Bai Xiaowen concluded that Kevin had used a powerful invisibility item to move through the underground mausoleum.
• Li Shuyi drew Winter’s Wrath Wand from Kevin’s chest, and Bai Xiaowen recognized it as exceptional equipment he could use after reaching level 7.
• Li Shuyi drew Kevin’s Chief Mage’s Seal and a Night Raven Feather, which could conceal her and nearby allies for 24 hours.
• Bai Xiaowen realized Kevin’s seal satisfied The Hero Returns quest, though submitting it to the opposing faction could ruin their Resistance Army reputation.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi used the Night Raven Feather to bypass the mausoleum’s undead and reach Bright Pass, where the Guardian Incantation kept them from the Sealing Casket. As they waited invisibly for fake Richard’s group, one of his Hero Class teammates arrived and used a Mirage Shell to alter the casket’s appearance.

• Bai Xiaowen recognized that the Night Raven Feather could let them reach Bright Pass without fighting the undead, then drew a Frozen Heart, the Desecration skill book, and Bone Warhorse's Reins from Death Knight Kael's chest.
• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi activated the Night Raven Feather and traveled invisibly through the mausoleum while avoiding its monsters.
• Prince Richard and his group defeated the Lich Overlord, then agreed to rest in a Sanctuary room despite Richard's concern that the outsiders might reach Bright Pass first.
• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi reached the underground cavern and found the Sealing Casket protected by a Guardian Incantation that required an activation incantation to approach.
• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi hid near the altar and waited for fake Richard's group, while a tall, thin Hero Class teammate arrived ahead of them.
• The teammate used a Mirage Shell, whose colored mist passed through the Guardian Incantation and began changing the Sealing Casket's appearance.

A fake Prince Richard and his companions exposed their scheme to seize Death God Naraku’s hand bone, using an illusion and Goliya’s Divine Grace to overcome the curse. After Richard took the Sealed Holy Coffer, Bai Xiaowen challenged him from hiding and guessed that Richard still could not take it out of the Aaron Plane.

• A tall, thin intruder used a Mirage Shell to make the Sealing Casket appear broken, while Bai Xiaowen realized the deception was part of the fake Prince Richard’s plan.
• Headmistress Melda brought the leaders to Bright Pass, where Prince Richard blamed her and Bai Xiaowen for the apparent theft and ordered Goliya to inspect the Holy Casket.
• When Goliya touched the casket, the illusion vanished and Death God’s Curse struck her; Prince Richard attacked Melda, while Demon Cutter wounded Sanya and Holy Word pulled the casket to Richard.
• Melda revealed that Goliya’s Divine Grace had suppressed the curse for Richard, who admitted he was an outsider and offered Glandis help retaking Northshire in exchange for killing his witnesses.
• Bai Xiaowen spoke from concealment, identified himself as the voice Richard had heard, and guessed that Richard could not carry the Sealed Holy Coffer out of the Aaron Plane.

Bai Xiaowen confronted Richard about his plan to claim the Sealed Holy Coffer and learned that Richard belonged to the Star Alliance, a powerful society unknown to Earth’s native Awakened. Richard then used an imperial Royal Document to claim the coffer, leaving Bai Xiaowen stunned by the privilege behind Richard’s mission.

• Bai Xiaowen deduced that Richard needed time and protection to force ownership of the Sealed Holy Coffer, and Richard introduced himself as a member of the Quill Family from the Star Alliance.
• Richard discovered that Bai Xiaowen was an Earth native, boasted about the Star Alliance’s power, and demanded that Bai Xiaowen sign the Defeated Party Treaty and leave the Spirit Realm.
• Bai Xiaowen warned Glandis that siding with Richard and killing Dean Melda would expose her, while allowing the impostor prince to escape would also damage her standing.
• Holy Word and Demon Cutter urged Richard to stop talking and use the Royal Document to claim the Sealed Holy Coffer.
• Richard opened the Royal Document, which cited Emperor Tiberon III’s decree granting its holder ownership of any unclaimed object in the Northern Frontier, and pressed it against the coffer.

Richard tried to claim ownership of the Holy Casket when seven Divine Colossus statues awakened and attacked everyone in the underground chamber. Their powerful auras exposed Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi and left Richard’s group struggling as the seals fueling the colossi began to burn away.

• Richard used the Royal Document to begin claiming the ownerless Holy Casket while Holy Word shielded him and Demon Cutter hid nearby.
• Melda and Sanya attacked Richard, but Demon Cutter cut off Sanya’s arm with Iaijutsu, while Bai Xiaowen decided he and Li Shuyi should intervene.
• The seven statues activated a purification defense, and Bai Xiaowen used 1,500 Psionic Points to learn that the Divine Colossus had immense strength and durability.
• A colossus struck at Richard, forcing him to interrupt the Royal Document and flee, then the statues unleashed Holy Freeze, Sluggishness, Truth, and Despair auras.
• Demon Cutter’s Stealth was exposed by Truth Aura, which also revealed Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi, as the group faced the full difficulty of the SS-Tier Scavenger mission.

Bai Xiaowen used Kevin Gray’s seal and his willingness to defect to persuade Glandis not to attack him. When Glandis tried to teleport away from the Divine Colossi, a fifth colossus activated its spatial lockdown aura and stopped her.

• Bai Xiaowen assessed the threat posed by the seven Divine Colossi and the auras already affecting the underground space.
• Glandis ordered Carlisle to kill Bai Xiaowen, but Bai offered to join the Imperial Army and presented Kevin Gray’s seal as proof of his sincerity.
• Bai explained that Kevin had attacked him for his Soul Stone and offered to work as a mercenary for Glandis.
• Glandis decided to leave with Carlisle and used a magic teleportation scroll.
• A fifth Divine Colossus activated Lockdown, disrupting the scroll’s magic and trapping Glandis in the underground space.

Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi forced Richard, Holy Word, and Demon Cutter to retreat under the Divine Colossi’s attacks, but the colossi then turned on everyone remaining in Bright Pass. Bai Xiaowen told Glandis that they still had a way to survive.

• Bai Xiaowen explained that the Spatial Lock Aura would not prevent the Awakened from using Free Return, and he and Li Shuyi attacked Richard’s group.
• Holy Word used Free Return to escape after the Divine Colossi stripped away his buffs and cornered him, leaving the Sealed Holy Coffer behind.
• Bai Xiaowen used the colossi’s targeting priorities to keep the Sealed Holy Coffer untouched while he and Li Shuyi fought Richard and Demon Cutter.
• Li Shuyi trapped Richard, and the Divine Colossi battered him before Judgment Aura forced him into Repentance and he used Free Return to escape.
• The Divine Colossi turned on the remaining people, and Bai Xiaowen assured Glandis that they still had a way to survive.

Bai Xiaowen used a Withering Mist Scroll to weaken the Divine Colossi and the other fighters, then helped the group stall until the colossi’s Sealing Incantations burned out. After all seven colossi froze, the danger passed and the group could continue its quests.

• Bai Xiaowen unleashed the Withering Mist, reducing the attributes of the Divine Colossi, Glandis, Carlisle, Melda, and Sanya.
• Li Shuyi suggested killing the four weakened Boss Tier figures, but Bai Xiaowen refused, prioritizing their quests and warning that Carlisle and Glandis could still be dangerous.
• Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi dodged the weakened colossi while Glandis and the others endured their slow, diminished attacks.
• The first five Divine Colossi ran out of energy as their Sealing Incantations burned out, and the Withering Mist expired when the sixth stopped.
• The final Divine Colossus briefly regained its strength, then exhausted its energy after chasing the group and froze in place.

Bai Xiaowen completed two quests and took the Soul Stone, Sealed Holy Coffer, and Divine Gift Page, prompting Abbess Melda and Glandis to turn against him. Just as he and Li Shuyi prepared to flee, Qiao Rui arrived, and Bai Xiaowen summoned his forces as a battle with the four enemies loomed.

• The Sealing Incantation faded, the Sealed Holy Coffer fell, and Li Shuyi picked it up as the Spirit Realm Rules announced that Bai Xiaowen had completed two side quests.
• Bai Xiaowen took the Divine Gift Page and refused Abbess Melda's proposed trade, while Glandis warned that the Imperial Army would reject him if he sided against its allies.
• Melda and Glandis prepared to attack, so Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi ran for the stone stairs.
• A blue portal opened beside Bai Xiaowen, and Qiao Rui emerged, relieved to see him safe.
• After Bai Xiaowen refused Glandis's final offer, he summoned his creatures while Qiao Rui began playing a Soul Melody.

Bai Xiaowen’s group drove off Glandis and the other Boss Tiers, then Bai Xiaowen negotiated with the Spirit Realm Rules over his Scavenger mission reward. He asked to upgrade the reward for both missions and waited to see whether the Rules would agree.

• Li Shuyi, Qiao Rui, Bai Xiaowen, and their summoned creatures attacked Carlisle while Bai Xiaowen’s Overawing Presence incapacitated or frightened the other Boss Tiers.
• The group heavily damaged Carlisle, but Glandis used a magic scroll to teleport herself, Carlisle, Melda, and Sanya away.
• Qiao Rui joined Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi, and Li Shuyi revealed that she had completed an S+ Elite Tier side mission alongside a Scavenger mission.
• Bai Xiaowen asked the Spirit Realm Rules to grant Death God's Hand Bone as his reward, but the Rules refused and offered to upgrade his Ancient Divine Power Residue for Psionic Points.
• Bai Xiaowen agreed to pay for the upgrade and asked whether the reward for his other completed mission could also be upgraded.

After completing the Scavenger mission, Bai Xiaowen obtained Purified Divine Power Residue that could let Li Shuyi attempt a Hero Trial, then upgraded The Monastery's Secret reward into a Book of Ascension. He decided the Book would be best used to improve his Broken Slave Contract.

• Bai Xiaowen received Purified Divine Power Residue after spending one hundred thousand Psionic Points to purify the reward from Death God's Hand Bone.
• Bai Xiaowen learned that the residue could unlock a Hero Trial for an Elite Awakened and proposed giving it to Li Shuyi.
• Bai Xiaowen submitted The Monastery's Secret mission and spent ten thousand Psionic Points to upgrade its Divine Gift Page into a Book of Ascension.
• Bai Xiaowen examined his Broken Slave Contract and decided it was the most suitable item to raise from A+ Tier to S+ Tier.

Bai Xiaowen discovered that killing Goliya would transfer Death God’s Curse to him, so he chose to transform her into a Death Knight instead. As Delifa began the procedure, Bai Xiaowen invited Qiao Rui to join his team, and she accepted.

• Bai Xiaowen used the Book of Ascension to turn the Broken Slave Contract into an Enhanced Follower Contract, then learned how follower contracts worked.
• Bai Xiaowen and his companions found Goliya suffering from the Death God’s Curse and the Light Power within her, and she silently pleaded for him to kill her.
• Delifa warned Bai Xiaowen that killing Goliya would transfer the curse to him, and explained that she could use Kael’s Frozen Heart to transform Goliya into a Death Knight.
• Bai Xiaowen agreed to spend the Frozen Heart and Soul Essence on the transformation, and Delifa began replacing Goliya’s necrotic heart.
• Bai Xiaowen invited Qiao Rui to join his team, and she accepted.

After Qiao Rui joined Bai Xiaowen and Li Shuyi’s squad as a temporary member, the three discussed their growing strength and chose the name White Phoenix. Delifa then announced that Goliya’s transformation was finished.

• The squad reached Level 3, gained a temporary member slot, and Bai Xiaowen invited Qiao Rui to join, offering to pay the Psionic Points.
• Bai Xiaowen and Qiao Rui agreed that her Soul Melody gave the squad the strength to challenge a lord, while Li Shuyi neared Level 7.
• Li Shuyi and Qiao Rui named the squad White Phoenix after rejecting Bai Xiaowen’s suggestion of Three-three Squad.
• Delifa called to Bai Xiaowen as Goliya emerged from the altar wrapped in black mist and radiating frigid energy.