Chapter Summaries

Richard returned Shenshu's right arm to its sealed place, took the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword, and subdued its resistance. Princess Huaiqing arrived to ask the group to leave, then recognized the sword and nervously asked Richard to return it.

• Mu Nanzhi asked who Xu Qian was, and Luo Yuheng teased that he would be her future husband.
• Richard returned Shenshu's right arm to the lake's sealed location and took the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword.
• Richard forced the sword to stop resisting and explained that he had no reason to awaken it into a sword spirit.
• Princess Huaiqing arrived with attendants to persuade the group to leave on Emperor Yuanjing's behalf.
• Xia Mi immobilized Huaiqing's eunuch, and Huaiqing apologized before asking Richard to return the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword.

Princess Huaiqing returned the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword to her custody, but Richard and his companions left just before the Mountains and Rivers Temple exploded and Shenshu’s right arm escaped its seal. The arm joined Henghui, a walking corpse whose tragic past and desire for revenge had enabled the Demon Race to draw it out.

• Richard returned the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword to Princess Huaiqing, then teased her about the group’s nonhuman members before teleporting everyone away.
• The Mountains and Rivers Temple exploded, destroying the seal beneath it and releasing Shenshu’s right arm; Huaiqing sent word to Emperor Yuanjing and the Nightwatchers.
• Shenshu’s right arm flew to Henghui, a walking corpse puppet made from a monk who had been murdered after eloping with Commandery Princess Pingyang.
• The chapter revealed that Fuxiang had used corpse gu to preserve Henghui’s spirit and resentment, which the Demon Race exploited to draw out Shenshu’s right arm.

Henghui rose early as a walking corpse and headed off to take revenge, while the officials investigating the destroyed Mountains and Rivers Temple struggled over who would question the National Preceptor. Princess Huaiqing returned the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword to Emperor Yuanjing and concealed Richard’s companions’ ties to the Demon Race.

• Lin Feng explained that Henghui and Commandery Princess Pingyang had eloped, and the group watched Henghui walk away to seek revenge.
• At Sangpo Lake, Jiang Lüzhong agreed to question the National Preceptor about the Mountains and Rivers Temple’s destruction despite Wu Lei’s warning.
• Princess Huaiqing returned the Nation-Guarding Divine Sword to Emperor Yuanjing and reported that Richard had wielded it without resistance.
• Emperor Yuanjing speculated that Richard might be descended from the imperial clan, while Huaiqing kept his companions’ Demon Race identities secret.

Jiang Lüzhong questioned Luo Yuheng about the Mountains and Rivers Temple explosion, and Richard pointed him toward a mystery beneath Sangpo Lake. That night, Henghui began taking revenge, slaughtering the Count Pingyuan household before fleeing wounded after failing to kill Zhang Yi and Zhang Shen.

• Jiang Lüzhong found Richard and his companions at a restaurant and questioned Luo Yuheng about her visit to Sangpo Lake and the temple explosion.
• Richard told Jiang Lüzhong to investigate what was hidden beneath Sangpo Lake, and Jiang left with the clue.
• Richard showed the group Henghui killing Count Pingyuan's legitimate son and slaughtering the estate's household.
• Henghui went to the Zhang Family residence to attack Zhang Yi and Zhang Shen, but Nightwatchers and Directorate of Astronomy fighters forced him to flee severely injured.

Emperor Yuanjing dealt with the aftermath of Henghui’s escape and reflected on the powerful figures Great Feng could not control. After finding that the soldiers trapped by the mysterious outsiders’ magic could not be freed, he sent Princess Huaiqing to contact them and seek their release.

• Henghui escaped after the Demon Race fused his walking corpse with Shenshu’s right arm, and even three Golden Gongs and Yang Qianhuan could not stop him.
• Emperor Yuanjing considered Wei Yuan’s hidden strength and the powerful experts outside his command, including the Confucian scholars of Cloud Deer Academy.
• Emperor Yuanjing found that the ice encasing thousands of soldiers would not melt and the branches binding others resisted even his full power.
• Emperor Yuanjing abandoned plans to provoke the mysterious outsiders and ordered Princess Huaiqing to contact them and restore the trapped soldiers.

Huaiqing negotiated with the Ice Empress and Xiao Yao to release the soldiers they had frozen and bound. The women demanded three imperial treasures each, and Huaiqing left to ask Emperor Yuanjing for approval.

• Huaiqing found Richard and his companions outside their restaurant and pleaded with the Ice Empress and Xiao Yao to spare the soldiers.
• The Ice Empress and Xiao Yao demanded cultivation methods and rare treasures, then settled on three treasures each after Luo Yuheng vouched for the imperial family’s resources.
• Huaiqing accepted the terms in principle but said she had to consult Emperor Yuanjing before agreeing.
• Huaiqing departed with her people, satisfied that the negotiation might resolve the crisis, and planned to find a way to send the powerful visitors out of Capital City.

Princess Huaiqing told Xiao Yao that Emperor Yuanjing had accepted their demands, and Xiao Yao and the Ice Empress chose treasures from the imperial family’s hidden vault. Huaiqing reported what happened to Emperor Yuanjing, who realized they had taken items from a treasury he had not intended them to access.

• Emperor Yuanjing agreed to let each visitor choose three rare treasures in exchange for Xiao Yao and the others dispelling their spells.
• Huaiqing visited Spirit Treasure Temple and learned that Xiao Yao had already dispelled the spells affecting the officers and soldiers.
• Xiao Yao opened spatial passages into the imperial family’s most secret vault, where she chose three treasures and the Ice Empress selected three items of her own.
• Huaiqing saw Xiao Yao’s abilities firsthand and left for the palace, while the freed officers and soldiers learned how close they had come to dying.
• Xiao Yao put her treasures away, and Huaiqing reported to Emperor Yuanjing that they had chosen items from a hidden treasury even she had never seen.

Emperor Yuanjing discovered that six items had vanished from his secret vault despite its intact protections, while Richard watched Zhan Lan and the Central Continent Team face a drastically upgraded Alien mission. The team armed themselves aboard the Nostromo, but Chu Xuan warned Zhan Lan that her powerful Vessel King might breach the hull and leave them stranded in space.

• Emperor Yuanjing found six missing items in his secret vault, moved the remaining contents, and resolved not to provoke the mysterious thieves again.
• Zhan Lan returned to God Space and entered the enlarged Nostromo with the Central Continent Team, where the Chief God had raised the mission difficulty to include multiple Alien Queens, hundreds of Aliens, mutants, and a Newborn.
• Zhan Lan scanned the ship, discovered three psychic blind spots and over a hundred Aliens, then shared her findings with her teammates and the newcomers Chu Xuan, Ba Wang, and Zero.
• Most newcomers ran off after the protective barrier lifted, while Zhan Lan, Zheng Zha, Zhang Jie, Li Xiaoyi, Chu Xuan, Ba Wang, Zero, and Li Shuaixi stayed and received weapons.
• Zhan Lan equipped herself with the Vessel King, spiral spikes, and a longsword, but Chu Xuan warned that firing the Vessel King could puncture the ship and kill them all, so she put it away.

Zhan Lan killed three ambushing Aliens after the newcomers were slaughtered, and the team planned to divide its forces to attack the Alien Empresses before they could destroy the ship. Zhan Lan doubted the team had enough strength to carry out the plan safely.

• Zheng Zha rushed toward the newcomers' cries, but five Aliens killed all of them before he arrived.
• Zheng Zha, Li Xiaoyi, and Li Shuaixi vomited at the bloody scene while Chu Xuan, Overlord, Zero Point, and Zhan Lan stayed composed.
• Zhan Lan sensed three Aliens in ambush and used her Imitation Soaring Shuttle to kill them as one attacked Zheng Zha.
• The Chief God awarded Zhan Lan 600 Reward Points for killing three Worker Drone-Class Aliens.
• Chu Xuan proposed splitting the team to eliminate the Alien Empresses simultaneously and prevent them from destroying the ship, but Zhan Lan questioned whether the others could survive their assignments.

After returning from the Alien world, Zhan Lan counted the team’s casualties and reviewed her gains before asking the Chat Group how to prepare for Ju-On. Richard told her to return to the Alien world with her cultivation manual so he could inspect it and place another clone there.

• Zhan Lan and four others returned from the mission, while Li Xiaoyi, Li Shuaixi, and Overlord died; Zheng Zha and Chu Xuan were badly injured.
• Zhan Lan described her injuries and the Alien kills that earned her over thirty thousand Reward Points and enough Side-Quest Plots to combine into an A-Rank plot.
• Zhan Lan asked the Chat Group whether she should upgrade her bloodline or buy a weapon to fight supernatural enemies in Ju-On.
• Lin Feng asked whether Zhan Lan had established a supernatural energy circulation, and Zhan Lan explained that she could not understand the A-Rank Wuji Art or the Old Farmer Art.
• Richard told Zhan Lan to return to the Alien world with her cultivation art so he could examine it and place another clone there.

Zhan Lan returned to Earth in the Alien world and summoned Richard, who joined her there. She discussed her slow Gene Lock progress and the danger of the coming Ju-On mission, while the team’s large haul of points raised concerns about its mission rating.

• Zhan Lan told Richard that Chu Xuan might discover his existence, then returned to Earth in the Alien world under Chu Xuan’s gaze.
• Richard spent a thousand group points to travel from the Great Feng World to Earth, where he met Zhan Lan.
• Richard encouraged Zhan Lan to aim for higher realms, but she said she only hoped to reach the fourth-order stage and resist the Chief God’s erasure.
• Zhan Lan worried that she had not unlocked the second-order Gene Lock and that her powers might be ineffective against Kayako in the next Ju-On world.
• Zhan Lan recalled the team’s substantial rewards and feared its high mission rating, though the loss of fifteen teammates might lower it.