Chapter Summaries

After suffering the lingering effects of the Golden Lotus Seed, Yang Lin contacted the Mad Hatter Merchant to ask about buying Containment Objects. In Hong Kong, Meng Qing arranged for the Golden King to send Yang Lin a photograph, while the Golden King reaffirmed that his merchant guild would trade with anyone who could pay.

• Yang Lin vomited and struggled with the lingering visions and pain caused by the Golden Lotus Seed.
• Yang Lin found a Mad Hatter Merchant card and called the number, asking whether the merchant could obtain anything he could afford.
• The merchant's representative explained that customers could visit a store or request delivery and warned Yang Lin that the goods were expensive.
• In Hong Kong, Meng Qing gave the Golden King a photograph to include as a gift with whatever Yang Lin ordered.
• The Golden King explained that he had arranged the photograph through the merchant and said he would trade with anyone who could pay.

Yang Lin visited the Mad Hatter Merchant to buy a Peace Talisman and received a photograph revealing that his father might be alive and contained by the Nine-Tailed Fox. Convinced the clues pointed to the organization, Yang Lin set out for its headquarters as Bai Ye ordered a purge of its personnel.

• Yang Lin visited the Mad Hatter Merchant in Hong Kong and learned that its catalog items were real but priced in US dollars.
• The Golden King told the red-haired woman that someone had paid for Yang Lin to choose one item, excluding anything in the White Book.
• Yang Lin chose a Peace Talisman, and the Golden King sent it to him with a photograph as a complimentary gift.
• Yang Lin recognized his father in the photograph, which identified him as Number 004-1 Guardian Bee Yang Yan, contained by the Nine-Tailed Fox.
• Yang Lin concluded that he had to confront the Nine-Tailed Fox and left the building clutching the Dragon Talisman.
• Bai Ye joined the halves of the Tiger Talisman and ordered the Nine-Tailed Fox to kill the remaining targets as its headquarters personnel dispersed.

Qin Leng concluded that Sea King had a hidden backup because another party had also found the potion. On a flight to North America, Yang Lin learned from Jiang Chen that the Nine-Tailed Fox’s 004-1 derivatives had been destroyed, but he resolved to verify the claim himself.

• Qin Leng reasoned that Sea King would not have trusted the angel to save him and concluded that someone else had found the potion.
• Yang Lin boarded a flight to North America and woke to find Jiang Chen sitting beside him.
• Jiang Chen said the force behind him wanted to take down the Nine-Tailed Fox and might recruit Yang Lin as an ally.
• Yang Lin asked about 004-1s, and Jiang Chen said they had all been destroyed years ago.
• Yang Lin suffered a stabbing headache, doubted Jiang Chen’s claim, and decided to confirm what happened to the 004-1s himself.

The Monster Alliance agreed to attack Nine-Tailed Fox Headquarters after Meng Qing confirmed the Golden King would stay neutral. As Bai Ye prepared to spring his trap, Yang Lin and Jiang Chen infiltrated headquarters to search its Containment Zone, where A-Class Personnel Rattlesnake pursued them.

• Night King and other Monster Alliance members debated whether to launch a full-scale assault, and Meng Qing said the Golden King would not intervene.
• Taotie and Nightmare brought Bai Ye their talismans as he declared that he was ready to end the struggle between containment and loss of control.
• After learning that two unregistered people had entered headquarters, Bai Ye ordered them killed.
• Yang Lin and Jiang Chen slipped into the Containment Zone and used a white card and key to open its entrance.
• Rattlesnake and armed soldiers surrounded them, but Yang Lin and Jiang Chen rushed inside before the door shut.
• Rattlesnake ordered his men to activate the maze and pursued the intruders using his mechanical thermal-imaging eye.

Yang Lin and Jiang Chen were trapped by Rattlesnake inside the Containment Zone, where poison gas and Rattlesnake’s enhanced body left them struggling to fight back. Just as Rattlesnake cornered Yang Lin, the Plague Rat King emerged from a containment chamber and seized him.

• Yang Lin and Jiang Chen fled Rattlesnake through the Sky-Based Maze but reached a dead end, where his poison gas weakened Jiang Chen and Bai Qi.
• Yang Lin fought Rattlesnake, whose mechanical body shattered his Snake Scales and withstood the Dragon Talisman's fire attack using multiple Light Shields.
• A swarm of rats poured from a containment chamber and the Plague Rat King grabbed Rattlesnake, revealing himself as the rat Rattlesnake had been mocking.

The Rat King killed Rattlesnake and helped Yang Lin locate 004-1, whose designation had been changed to 021-7. After Yang Lin and Jiang Chen followed a rat guide, Bai Ye appeared to confront the Rat King.

• The Rat King infected Rattlesnake through his armor, tore off his head, and let a swarm of rats devour his body.
• The Rat King revealed his human-like face and told Yang Lin that 004-1 had been redesignated 021-7, which was connected to the Sword Forger.
• The Rat King sent rats to search the Containment Zone, and one led Yang Lin and Jiang Chen toward their target.
• The Rat King told Yang Lin that Jiang Chen was not Sequence 069 Resurrected Soul, while a voice in Yang Lin's mind explained that Jiang Chen was only the resurrected half.
• Bai Ye arrived, slammed the Rat King into a wall, and resisted his poisonous gas; the Rat King laughed and asked whether Bai Ye could handle someone else.

Yang Lin found the living Yang Shu Sword and confronted Bai Ye, who revealed that Yang Lin’s father had founded Nine-Tailed Fox and urged him to join. Yang Lin rejected Bai Ye’s utilitarian methods and refused to ignore the truth, leaving Jiang Chen and Yang Lin facing the organization’s chief.

• The Rat King released Beast of a Thousand Throats, which mimicked Bai Ye’s voice to open nearby voice-activated doors as Bai Ye prepared to fight.
• Yang Lin followed a rat to the Yang Shu Sword’s chamber, and Jiang Chen used Bai Qi to retrieve the sword through the electric nets.
• Yang Lin became unresponsive after taking the sword, while a blast shook the underground base and Bai Ye appeared before Jiang Chen and Yang Lin.
• Bai Ye revealed that Yang Lin’s father, Yang Yan, had proposed the Nine-Tailed Fox Plan and secretly founded the organization.
• Yang Lin challenged Nine-Tailed Fox’s willingness to sacrifice innocent people, and Bai Ye offered him the chance to join and change it after Bai Ye’s death.
• Yang Lin refused Bai Ye’s offer, saying that he could not turn a blind eye after seeing the truth.

The Rat King and the Beast of a Thousand Throats escaped their restraints but ran into Nightmare, who confronted them. On the third underground level, Bai Ye tried to recruit Yang Lin to fight fate, but Yang Lin refused and was disarmed, with ten seconds to reconsider.

• The Rat King escaped from the Rat King's head and joined the Beast of a Thousand Throats, who had broken free of his restraints.
• The Rat King told Thousand Throats that the Clown and other sequences had been transferred, so they headed out to regroup with the main force.
• Nightmare intercepted Thousand Throats and the Rat King, then used Absolute Darkness against them.
• Bai Ye told Yang Lin that fate was the true enemy and asked him to fight alongside him, but Yang Lin refused.
• Yang Lin attacked Bai Ye with the Yang Shu Sword, but Bai Ye parried his strikes and knocked the sword into the wall.
• Bai Ye appeared behind Yang Lin and gave him ten seconds to reflect before reconsidering his refusal.

Yang Lin resisted Li Yuan’s voice and refused Bai Ye’s offer to join the Nine-Tailed Fox, while Nightmare intervened before Bai Ye could kill him. After waking beneath a starry sky, Yang Lin explained why he distrusted Bai Ye and chose to leave rather than fight him.

• Yang Lin struggled against Li Yuan’s voice and told both Li Yuan and Bai Ye to shut up.
• Nightmare arrived, and Bai Ye prepared to kill Yang Lin with the final stance of the Soaring Cloud Sword Art.
• Darkness swallowed the third underground level and trapped Bai Ye in a Dreamscape.
• Hours later, Yang Lin woke beneath a starry sky with Nightmare and Jiang Chen nearby.
• Yang Lin said he had refused Bai Ye because he believed Bai Ye had lied about his father and that he would rather fight him than work with him.
• Yang Lin decided that instead of joining Bai Ye or fighting him, he could run away.

Nightmare told Yang Lin that Bai Ye had secretly investigated him because he feared Yang Lin might be connected to something that could threaten him. Yang Lin agreed to join the effort against Bai Ye and called out to the hidden presence whose Mental Power he sensed.

• Nightmare explained that Bai Ye had ordered repeated investigations of Yang Lin because of Yang Lin’s father and the sword he carried.
• Nightmare described Bai Ye’s worsening mental state, his diary entries about not wanting to die, and the note threatening to bury all Sequences with him.
• Nightmare said he had saved Yang Lin because Bai Ye feared something might be connected to him, and explained why he wanted Bai Ye removed as leader.
• Yang Lin agreed to oppose Bai Ye, saying Nightmare had guided him into the conflict and he could no longer choose to stay out of it.
• Yang Lin sensed a powerful hidden presence and called out, asking his master to stop hiding.

Yang Lin learned that Meng Qing had guided him toward the campaign against Bai Ye, then chose to join the fight. As the Monster Alliance launched its general offensive on Nine-Tailed Fox Headquarters, Bai Ye defeated the attackers with the Four Symbols and his control over time.

• Meng Qing admitted he had steered Yang Lin toward Bai Ye and explained that the campaign could help Yang Lin grow stronger and pursue revenge.
• Yang Lin told Meng Qing he would help shatter the wall standing in his way.
• The Monster Alliance began its full-scale attack on Nine-Tailed Fox Headquarters, where only Bai Ye and Taotie remained to defend it after Nightmare switched sides.
• Sequence 009 attacked Bai Ye with a missile and gunfire, but Bai Ye's defenses left him unharmed.
• Bai Ye used the Four Symbols to repel the Beast of a Thousand Throats, the Rat King, and other attackers, then slowed them with the Black Tortoise and killed the Lord of Flesh and Blood.

Bai Ye fought off the Sequences’ coordinated attempts to steal the Tiger Talisman and suppress him, while Yang Lin refused to join him and helped attack. The assault appeared to have no effect, and a scene in Hong Kong revealed Bai Ye had bought the Grand Corridor from the White Book.

• Queen Bee’s clones attacked Bai Ye, but his Yin energy melted their stingers, and he repelled the Sequences with the Chaotic Flowing Cloud Swords.
• Sequence 009 stole and crushed a fake Tiger Talisman, while the Night King’s ability-nullifying attack failed and Bai Ye shattered his arm and blasted away half his body.
• Jiang Chen, Yang Lin, and Nightmare arrived, and Yang Lin refused Bai Ye’s offer before teaming with Sequence 009 to hurl the Spear of Yelloh at him.
• Nightmare blinded Bai Ye, but his attempt to control him failed because Bai Ye had taken an insomnia potion; the spear struck him without apparent effect, and Bai Ye attacked Yang Lin and Sequence 009.
• In Hong Kong, Golden King told a red-haired woman that Bai Ye had bought the Grand Corridor from the White Book, after previously buying Mirror Flower Water Moon.

Bai Ye overwhelmed Yang Lin until Yang Lin awakened the power of the Yang Shu Sword and reached out to his father’s consciousness within it. As Yang Lin prepared to face Bai Ye with borrowed strength, the beings in the Inner World agreed to lend him their power.

• Taotie restrained the monsters with metal and rejected Nightmare’s warning, choosing to help Bai Ye contain the Containment Objects.
• Bai Ye battered Yang Lin, whose Snake Scale armor kept breaking, and recognized that Yang Lin’s Lesser Formless Body let him imitate Bai Ye’s energy circulation and sword art.
• Yang Lin revealed the Yang Shu Sword’s true form, which pierced his fingers and transformed him with Guardian Bee traits, greatly increasing his strength.
• Yang Lin spoke with his father, Yang Yan, within the sword; Yang Yan urged him to run, but Yang Lin insisted they face the danger together.
• The beings in the Inner World chose to lend Yang Lin their strength, and the Queen Bee and Lord of the Red Flow sent him red mist.

Bai Ye appeared to die after the Lord of Flesh and Blood swallowed him, but Queen Bee sensed no departing spirit and Yang Lin realized something was wrong. Bai Ye’s Mirror Flower Water Moon projection had been destroyed, while the unharmed original stabbed Yang Lin and declared that he would reject his fated death.

• Bai Ye fought Yang Lin through the red mist, lost an arm to its plant growth, and unleashed Absolute Darkness with his final sword technique.
• Sequence 009 and the Lord of Flesh and Blood used Old Man I Ching’s senses reversal to catch Bai Ye off guard and rot him in Meat Mountain form.
• Yang Lin warned that something was wrong, and Queen Bee sensed that Bai Ye’s spirit had not departed, revealing that he was still alive.
• A mirror shattered as the original Bai Ye appeared unharmed and stabbed Yang Lin, having used Mirror Flower Water Moon to project a pseudo-immortal avatar.
• Bai Ye explained that he had repeatedly forgotten his memories of his predicted death, then declared that he would refuse his fate and kill it instead.

Bai Ye defeated the apparent Yang Lin and trapped the battlefield inside the Grand Corridor, but Meng Qing revealed that the fight had been engineered with clones, borrowed power, and hidden Sequences. With the real Yang Lin and the monsters surrounding him at the center of the board, Bai Ye was left in check.

• Bai Ye killed the apparent Yang Lin with Ascending to Heaven, then used the Grand Corridor to isolate the battlefield in a self-contained space.
• Meng Qing appeared behind Bai Ye and attacked him with his Demon Blade and a fourth-tier magic attack.
• Meng Qing revealed that the I Ching and the Lord of Flesh and Blood had switched the real Yang Lin with a clone after Bai Ye struck it down.
• Yang Lin returned to Meng Qing's side and admitted he had borrowed the fourth-tier monsters' power through his sword, as Meng Qing had planned.
• The I Ching released the Sequences and the real monsters around Bai Ye, revealing that Bai Ye stood on Tianyuan at the center of the chessboard.
• Meng Qing sent a black chess piece to Bai Ye's feet and declared that he was at a dead end.

Meng Qing confronted Bai Ye, who discarded the Tiger Talisman and revealed his fourth-tier Taiji form at the end of the Grand Corridor. Bai Ye’s power overwhelmed the group, but Yang Lin could ignore his slowdown and intervened, losing one Snake Scale when Bai Ye struck back.

• Meng Qing recognized the black chess piece and threatened to kill Bai Ye before Bai Ye could act.
• Bai Ye tore apart the Tiger Talisman, unleashing an explosion that scattered the approaching sequences.
• Bai Ye revealed his fourth-tier Taiji form and explained that the Grand Corridor’s terminus let beings of higher tiers exist without exile.
• Queen Bee’s clone advanced to lower fourth tier, but Bai Ye’s slowdown and black blade threatened her.
• Yang Lin ignored Bai Ye’s slowdown and knocked his blade aside, but Bai Ye struck him and shattered one of his Snake Scales.

Bai Ye battered Yang Lin until Meng Qing revealed his newly evolved Line of Balance ability and, with Yi Jing’s help, isolated Bai Ye and Yang Lin in Eight Trigrams Space. Yang Lin’s power rose to Bai Ye’s level, and he charged into their final duel.

• Bai Ye shattered Yang Lin’s remaining Snake Scales and knocked him down, but Meng Qing intervened before Bai Ye could finish him.
• Meng Qing’s potion-triggered evolution gave him the Line of Balance, which connected Bai Ye and Yang Lin and equalized their strength and abilities.
• Meng Qing called to Sequence 017 Yi Jing, who pulled Bai Ye and Yang Lin into Eight Trigrams Space to keep Bai Ye from attacking Meng Qing.
• Inside the transformed space, Yang Lin retrieved the Yang Shu Sword and rose to Fourth Tier, matching Bai Ye.
• Yang Lin challenged Bai Ye to fight one-on-one and charged at him, choosing to face the battle rather than flee.

Yang Lin and Bai Ye fought to the death in the Book of Changes’ shifting space, with Yang Lin using its strange forces to pierce Bai Ye while both men’s abilities steadily destroyed them. Yang Lin collapsed after Bai Ye fell, and the Yang Shu Sword absorbed their blood and grew into a tree whose white blossoms drifted down like summer snow.

• The Book of Changes altered the battlefield, helping Yang Lin’s attacks bypass space while Bai Ye adapted by closing his eyes and fighting by sound.
• Yang Lin and Bai Ye traded wounds as Yin Fire burned Yang Lin and the Blood Mist drained Bai Ye, until neither could recover faster than the damage they suffered.
• Bai Ye stabbed Yang Lin in the heart as Yang Lin pierced Bai Ye’s heart with the Yang Shu Sword.
• Bai Ye collapsed and claimed victory, while Yang Lin knelt motionless beside him and planted the Yang Shu Sword in the ground.
• The Yang Shu Sword absorbed their blood, grew into a towering tree, and released white poplar blossoms that drifted down like snow.

During the Nine Stars Alignment, the barrier between the inner and outer worlds shattered, and Meng Qing confronted Yijing over Bai Ye’s apparent death. Yijing and Jiang Chen seized Bai Ye’s power, but Meng Qing’s hidden plan restored Bai Ye through the soul of the original Resurrected Soul Potion owner, leaving the Sequences to compete over the spoils.

• The Nine Stars Alignment shattered the barrier between the inner and outer worlds, and Yijing revealed Yang Lin alive but said Bai Ye was dead.
• Yijing used his Refine Spirit ability to extract Bai Ye’s Taiji, raising his own life level to Tier Four, and Meng Qing pressed a Demon Blade to his neck.
• Jiang Chen took black mist from Bai Ye’s corpse, formed a second four-leaf clover petal, and summoned a black Bai Ye to attack Meng Qing.
• The Sequences rushed to take parts of Bai Ye’s corpse as Meng Qing revealed that the original owner of Number 069 Resurrected Soul Potion had possessed Bai Ye’s body.
• Jiang Chen realized Meng Qing had deceived him, while Nightmare and Queen Bee questioned the shifting alliances and the scramble for Bai Ye’s power.

Tang Yan realized his prophecy of Bai Ye’s death had been a memory rather than the future, while the Nine Stars Alignment coincided with the barrier between the Inner World and the outside world disappearing. As monsters appeared across the world, the Frost King caught Sequence 009 and confronted him.

• Tang Yan gouged out his eyes, saw Bai Ye’s phantom, and realized he had mistaken a fragment of Bai Ye’s memory for a prophecy of the future.
• People around the world witnessed the Nine Stars Alignment, and a man who photographed the sky saw a centipede-shaped monster in his picture before it appeared above him.
• The Sequences returned to real space and saw a white dragon in the sky as Nightmare realized the barrier between the Inner World and the outside world had disappeared.
• Meng Qing warned that monsters would converge on them and left, prompting the others to prepare to follow.
• The Frost King froze time, caught Sequence 009, and pinned him down; Sequence 009 taunted him about his Immortal Body.