Recaps

Zhang Yuanqing explained his theories about the sealed Third District and a recurring world-ending catastrophe, then learned Star Official techniques from Starry Sky Observer. The lesson’s examples and his own suspicions left him questioning whether the Demon Lord, his father, and other supposed coincidences were part of a hidden plan.

• Zhang Yuanqing collected twenty-two million in tuition and told the class that the Third District likely corresponded to Norse mythology and that a past catastrophe had depleted spiritual power.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed that the Light Compass had foretold another catastrophe, then speculated that the Spirit Realm might fall dormant after each disaster.
• Zhang Yuanqing agreed to Zhao Chenghuang’s private lesson and traveled with him and Starry Sky Observer to Chicken Heart Island.
• Starry Sky Observer taught Zhang Yuanqing about Star Official combat techniques, Astral Physiognomy, and how Stargazing Arts could help Star Officials plan around danger.
• Starry Sky Observer described manipulating events around Ling Jun, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to suspect that his father, the Demon Lord, and several recent events might be part of a larger scheme.

Starry Sky Observer taught Zhang Yuanqing about specializing in Night Wanderer powers, and Zhang’s extraordinary control of spirits and talisman skills astonished him and Zhao Chenghuang. Later, Dean Li Yanqi introduced karmic items and revealed that Moral Value was a high-rank causality-type item, leaving Zhang to reconsider the significance of his own possessions.

• Starry Sky Observer explained Night Wanderer specialization, secret techniques, and why he did not recommend focusing on solar power.
• Zhang Yuanqing controlled nearly a hundred vengeful spirits at once and demonstrated his ability to draw several spirit talismans, shocking Starry Sky Observer and Zhao Chenghuang.
• Zhang Yuanqing charged Starry Sky Observer and Zhao Chenghuang tuition to teach them the Soul-Control Technique, then used the Beast King Bracelet to scout the mermaids guarding Beast Island.
• Zhang Yuanqing considered how to enter the stone door safely, then flew to Spirit Plant Island and startled Peony Fairy and the other students with his urge to return to nature.
• Dean Li Yanqi taught the academy students about item classifications and revealed that karmic items were extremely rare, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to realize Perfect Skin was one.
• Dean Li Yanqi identified Moral Value as a high-rank causality-type item that every Spirit Realm Walker encountered.

Director Li Yanqi taught the trainees about karmic items and item classifications, while Zhang Yuanqing’s abundance of rare items surprised the class. After an extravagant afternoon tea and a rowdy return to class, Xiahou Aotian and Red Chicken Bro were punished as the next lesson began.

• Li Yanqi explained the theory that Moral Value was a karmic item, warned the trainees not to investigate such matters prematurely, and taught them how item levels, quality, and rules worked.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed that he had encountered six or seven rule-based items and stored more than a dozen Saint-quality items, leaving Li Yanqi and the trainees stunned.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered to treat the trainees to barbecue and drinks, then made Sun Miaomiao pay the cafeteria bill by threatening to take back the Infant Spirit.
• Xiahou Aotian told Zhang Yuanqing that Zhao Feiwen and Zhu Mingxu had tried to recruit him against Zhang, and recounted how he had encouraged them to attack so he could play the hero.
• Li Yanqi reprimanded the tipsy trainees after class, and Xiahou Aotian tried to wake the snoring Red Chicken Bro with a rifle before the other trainees restrained him.
• Li Yanqi punished Xiahou Aotian and Red Chicken Bro at the podium, then had Zhao Chenghuang distribute a list of Spirit Realm Walker classes across the two major regions.

Zhang Yuanqing studied overseas Spirit Realm professions and organizations as President Li Yanqi explained their powers and histories. The lesson ended with the revelation that the Fear Heavenly King had once belonged to the Five Elements Alliance.

• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed overseas Orderly professions, including Wind Mages, Punishment Knights, Queens, Sirens, Merchants, and Judges.
• Zhang Yuanqing read about overseas Evil professions, including Mutants, Disorderly Ones, and Apostles of the Abyss.
• President Li Yanqi described the overseas organizations, including Heaven's Punishment, the Goddess of Beauty Association, the Merchant Guild, and several Evil factions.
• Yuan Ting asked which Five Elements Alliance figures had come from Heaven's Punishment, and Li Yanqi named the White Tiger Corps marshal and the Fear Heavenly King.
• Xiahou Aotian asked how the Fear Heavenly King could have belonged to the Five Elements Alliance despite being a Bewitching Demon.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Fear Heavenly King had once been a Scout in the Five Elements Alliance, then used a lakeside barbecue to draw attention and observe who might be targeting the stone gate. He planned to send Princess Yinyao through Mermaid Lake the next day while he stayed behind with an alibi.

• Headmaster Li Yanqi revealed that Fear Heavenly King had once been a Scout in the Five Elements Alliance before becoming a Bewitching Demon, and Zhang Yuanqing refused to disclose how Orderly Professions could turn evil.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the trainees attended Red Chicken Bro's lakeside barbecue, where Zhang Yuanqing gave Three Yang Opens Madam dating advice and joked that he was a virgin.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire told Zhang Yuanqing that he wanted to leave the Red Fire Gang and join the White Tiger Corps because the gang's leaders wanted to change his temperament.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Princess Yinyao that she would enter Mermaid Lake and explore the stone gate during the next day's classes while he maintained an alibi.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained that he had organized the barbecue to increase lakeside surveillance and watch for anyone interested in the stone gate, then prepared to recall the trainees' behavior.

Zhang Yuanqing used his rewind ability to identify trainees who had watched Mermaid Lake, then attended an artifact-refining class where the Mirror of Fate answered the trainees’ questions. Meanwhile, Princess Yinyao reached the stone gate on Beast Island and opened it with the jade disk, leaving what lay beyond unknown.

• Zhang Yuanqing replayed the barbecue party in his mind, identified eight suspicious trainees, and ruled out Yuan Ting and Xiahou Aotian while deciding to watch the others.
• Princess Yinyao warned Zhang Yuanqing that his spirit body was damaged, and he explained that it had been shattered and repaired.
• Zhang Yuanqing entrusted Princess Yinyao with his valuable Spirit Realm items before attending Mo Pan’s artifact-refining class.
• Mo Pan showed the trainees the Hundred Flowers Society’s display room and explained how the Mirror of Fate worked.
• Red Chicken Bro learned the mirror predicted two divorces, Xiahou Aotian received an insult, Sun Miaomiao saw herself pregnant, and Three Yang Opens Madam was told he would have neither happiness nor a partner.
• Princess Yinyao used Sleep Talismans on two merfolk guards, inserted the jade disk into the stone gate, and opened it.

Zhang Yuanqing explored the secret realm beneath Beast Island and discovered a heavily guarded underground palace called Longevity Palace, but its terracotta warriors forced him to retreat. Back in the artifact-refining room, he decided to try the Mirror of Fate and seek another way forward.

• Teacher Mo Pan explained that the native Orderly Professions of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth were linked, while Zhang Yuanqing recalled the Yin-Yang Turntable's origins.
• After Princess Yinyao opened the stone door, Zhang Yuanqing entered the flooded secret realm and used Zombie Suppressing Talismans to immobilize two corpse fiends.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent the Ghost Bride ahead through a trapped passage and followed her to a vast cavern containing a terracotta army and the Longevity Palace.
• The terracotta warriors attacked Zhang Yuanqing with crossbows and swords, and he discovered that their clay bodies could reform and that a Brass Mirror could expose him during Night Roaming.
• Unable to overcome the palace guards, Zhang Yuanqing fled and returned to the artifact-refining room, where he stopped carving merman tear pearls and asked to try the Mirror of Fate.

Zhang Yuanqing recruited four allies to explore Qin Feng Academy’s hidden underground palace, but the Mirror of Fate warned that his lifespan was only three months. The team entered the palace and Xiahou Aotian used his Sovereign-grade cannon to destroy the terracotta soldiers, though each shot cost a fortune.

• Zhang Yuanqing asked the Mirror of Fate whether the planned operation would succeed and learned it would be dangerous, then asked how long he would live and received the answer: three months.
• After fate interference caused chaos in artifact-refining class, Zhang Yuanqing invited Sun Miaomiao, Zhao Chenghuang, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, and Xiahou Aotian to join his secret expedition.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained the hidden mission beneath Mermaid Lake, and the group agreed on their roles and how to divide the underground palace’s treasures.
• The five explorers and Princess Yinyao subdued the mermaids, opened the stone door, and crossed the sword-qi passage into the cavern.
• Xiahou Aotian assembled his cannon and fired into the charging terracotta soldiers, destroying them while Zhang Yuanqing revealed that each shot cost 8 million.

Zhang Yuanqing's team defeated and collected the terracotta soldiers guarding the palace approach, then reached the First Emperor's bedchamber. The two giant guards attacked after a wave of intimidation, and one split Zhao Chenghuang in half.

• Zhang Yuanqing led the group in defeating the remaining terracotta soldiers and warned them that the stronger guards on the steps could reassemble after being smashed.
• Sun Miaomiao drew two guards out, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire fought one before Princess Yinyao saved him from its sword; the team broke the guard apart and stored it in Zhao Chenghuang's box.
• Xiahou Aotian examined a fragment and guessed that the soldiers contained the legendary material Resting Earth, prompting the group to collect the remaining guards for Zhao Chenghuang.
• The group reached the ceremonial archway, left its bronze mirror untouched, and climbed to the bedchamber, where Zhang Yuanqing saw fatal danger in Zhao Chenghuang's physiognomy.
• The two giant terracotta guards used an intimidating mental wave, and one charged Zhao Chenghuang and split his body in two.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team returned to the Hall of Longevity, defeated the two terracotta warriors by exploiting Ghost-Face Vines and the Thunderstorm Cannon, and entered the First Emperor’s sleeping quarters. The chapter ended as they opened the brightly lit rear hall and heard someone—or something—gulping nearby.

• A terracotta warrior killed Zhao Chenghuang’s substitute, then wounded Zhang Yuanqing and routed the team before Zhao Chenghuang revealed he had survived with a substitute-death item.
• The team retreated, treated their injuries, and devised a plan to use Sun Miaomiao’s Ghost-Face Vine seeds, enhanced by Princess Yinyao’s Mountain God Scepter, to suppress the terracotta warriors’ remains.
• The team returned to the Hall of Longevity, where Zhang Yuanqing’s group battled the terracotta warriors; the cannon barrage shattered one, and the Ghost-Face Vines stopped its remains from regenerating.
• A spear-wielding terracotta warrior impaled Sun Miaomiao, but Zhang Yuanqing used the Thunderstorm Cannon to destroy it and injected her with Life Source Fluid to save her.
• After the vines suppressed both warriors’ remains, the team entered Longevity Palace and found the front hall empty.
• Zhang Yuanqing and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire opened the rear hall’s bronze doors, revealing a candlelit room as gulping sounds came from within.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions explored the treasure vault, finding ancient materials, cultivation manuals, and artifacts that supported their theory about the Nüwa Sovereign. Zhang Yuanqing claimed the Twin Dragon Jade and discovered a powerful Scout-exclusive cloak, while Zhao Chenghuang identified another piece of the Heaven-Worship Set.

• Xiahou Aotian appraised the vault's valuables as the group calmed their greed by taking turns holding the Ghost Mirror.
• The group found nine types of Sovereign-grade materials and ancient cultivation manuals covering the Orderly and Evil Professions.
• Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the Twin Dragon Jade contained the Nüwa Sovereign's divine blood, claimed it, and inferred that the First Emperor had built the underground palace around the High Plain of Heaven Jade Disc.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions recognized clues in the shrine painting that connected the Nüwa Sovereign to Nuwa, the Holy Infant, and Lian Sanyue's Hundred-Forged Furnace.
• Zhang Yuanqing opened a chest and found the Court Swordmaster Cloak, a Sovereign-grade item that enhanced Scouts', Swordsmen's, and Puppeteers' skills by 40%.
• Zhao Chenghuang identified an Azure Emperor Jade Belt as part of the Heaven-Worship Set, which included the Empress Earth Boots.

Zhang Yuanqing obtained the Azure Emperor Jade Belt and discovered that the Heaven-Worship Set’s description had changed, then tested its three-piece set effect and divided the treasures with his teammates. The next day, their academy combat class was interrupted when Xia Chaoxue was found dead.

• Zhang Yuanqing examined the Azure Emperor Jade Belt, claimed it as his priority selection, and learned that the Heaven-Worship Set now promised communication with the Vast Heaven rather than the secret of immortality.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates divided the Sovereign-grade treasures, stored their haul in Little Red Riding Hood, and secretly returned to their dormitory after agreeing to keep the operation quiet.
• Zhang Yuanqing equipped the Yin-Yang Robe, Empress Earth Boots, and Azure Emperor Jade Belt, activating a powerful set effect that granted him enhanced skills from four classes for up to five minutes.
• The next morning, Zhang Yuanqing, Sun Miaomiao, and Zhao Chenghuang kept their secret from Yuan Ting, then joined the students for combat training with Luo Lesheng.
• When Xia Chaoxue failed to appear at the dock, Cattle-Pen Mountain Little Fairy checked the girls’ dormitory and returned with the news that Xia Chaoxue was dead.

After Xia Chaoxue was found murdered, Zhang Yuanqing helped investigate while secretly trying to protect the underground palace team’s secret. He passed the academy’s lie detector, but the dean’s follow-up question suggested the armored man knew someone had left the dormitory during the night.

• Cattle-Pen Mountain Little Fairy reported Xia Chaoxue’s death, and Zhang Yuanqing organized the trainees’ response while arranging for the Ghost Mirror to reach Princess Yinyao.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the other investigators found Xia Chaoxue’s body, learned she had been killed with little resistance after intercourse, and discovered that her spirit body had been erased.
• The dean suspended classes and questioned the students, while Yuan Ting noted that Xia Chaoxue had no obvious lover among the academy’s students.
• Zhu Mingxu accused Zhang Yuanqing and other Night Wanderers of the murder, but Zhang Yuanqing passed the dean’s lie-detector test by denying that he had visited the girls’ dormitory, killed Xia Chaoxue, or assaulted her.
• The dean asked Zhang Yuanqing whether he had stayed in his dormitory all night, leading Zhang Yuanqing to suspect that the armored man knew the stone gate had been opened.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others investigated Xia Chaoxue’s murder, but lie detection failed to identify a culprit, and suspicion shifted toward the dean and the armored man. By retracing his memories, Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the armored man had marked the stone door to detect whether it had been opened, though the reason he knew to check it remained unclear.

• Zhao Chenghuang defended Zhang Yuanqing during the dean’s questioning, and Yuan Ting’s lie about not liking gossip triggered the little brown horn.
• The group’s lie-detection tests found no murderer, so the dean ordered them to record their movements and stay in pairs; Zhang Yuanqing also made the dean undergo the test, which he passed.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions discussed whether the dean was the armored man, then concluded the murder and the armored man’s knowledge of the opened stone door remained unexplained.
• Zhang Yuanqing used his ability to revisit the night the armored man searched for the stone door and saw him smear an invisible substance around its keyhole.
• Zhang Yuanqing inferred that the armored man had detected traces showing the door had been opened and returned to the lake regularly to check for them.

Zhang Yuanqing and the Underground Palace team investigated Xia Chaoxue’s murder while evading the academy teachers’ inquiries. After Starry Sky Observer explained how perfected Lunar Power could conceal others, Zhang Yuanqing deduced that a Dark Night Rose member had infiltrated the trainees and prepared to tell the academy.

• Zhang Yuanqing theorized that the armored man had tampered with the stone door and that the killer had secretly investigated Mermaid Lake during the night.
• The dean reviewed the students’ alibis, ordered Starry Sky Observer to question Yuanshi Tianzun and Zhao Chenghuang, and directed the teachers to investigate the armored man’s motive.
• Starry Sky Observer confronted Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang, but Zhang Yuanqing passed the lie-detection test by truthfully saying he had given Zhao Chenghuang a Spirit Talisman manual.
• Starry Sky Observer said he suspected the killer was the person who had infiltrated Mermaid Lake and explained that perfected Lunar Power could conceal others from lie detection and Insight.
• Zhang Yuanqing deduced that the armored man was likely a Dark Night Rose member hidden among the trainees and told Starry Sky Observer he had guessed the killer’s identity.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team weighed how to identify the armored man without exposing the underground palace treasure, while the academy teachers investigated Xia Chaoxue’s murder. The headmaster announced that Zhu Mingxu had lied about his whereabouts, but the timing of his absence cast doubt on whether he was the killer.

• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire warned Zhang Yuanqing not to reveal his suspicion that the armored man belonged to Dark Night Rose, lest the academy investigate the underground palace and its treasure.
• The dean reasoned that the armored man might have killed Xia Chaoxue and sent Lin Su to ask the Mermaid Queen whether anything unusual had happened in the lake.
• Sun Miaomiao explained that the academy teachers probably lacked current information about Dark Night Rose, and Xiahou Aotian outlined why lunar yin’s secrecy could not be defeated by reverse reasoning.
• Red Chicken Bro noticed the team’s earpieces, but the headmaster’s announcement summoned everyone to the library for a new development in the case.
• The headmaster revealed that Zhu Mingxu had lied about leaving dinner for ten minutes, and Red Chicken Bro questioned whether that was enough time for him to commit the murder.

Zhu Mingxu confessed that he had used a Love Thread item on Xia Chaoxue, while Zhang Yuanqing and the Underground Palace Squad investigated the armored killer and the principal. The investigation remained unresolved, and the principal announced that Teacher Lin Su had been murdered.

• Zhu Mingxu admitted that he had secretly used a Love Thread item on Xia Chaoxue and visited her with a Night Wanderer item, but the lie detector showed that he had not killed her or told anyone about their relationship.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the Underground Palace Squad reasoned that the armored killer might be a female student who knew about Zhu Mingxu and Xia Chaoxue, and they planned ways to test their suspects and investigate the principal.
• Xiahou Aotian proposed using hallucinogenic smoke and hypnosis to question the principal, while the squad exchanged items and spread poison across the academy's plants and animal habitats.
• Zhang Yuanqing disguised himself as Lin Su, drugged and hypnotized the principal, and learned that the principal claimed he had only wanted to determine where the students had been; Zhang Yuanqing concealed the principal's affair with Lin Su.
• Sun Miaomiao reported that Cicada-Bearing Lord and Moon Rabbit were not the armored killer, while Zhang Yuanqing told the squad that questioning the principal had yielded no useful answers.
• The principal summoned everyone to the library and announced that Teacher Lin Su had been murdered.

After Teacher Lin Su was murdered, Yuanshi Tianzun deduced that the armored man had mistaken him for Lin Su and was targeting whoever entered the stone door. The armored man then influenced the dean to turn on the trainees, forcing the Underground Palace Squad into a dangerous confrontation.

• Teacher Song Man reported that Lin Su had died in bed with her heart shattered, and the trainees’ lie-detector test found no murderer among them.
• Zhang Yuanqing reasoned that the armored man had watched the dean’s residence and killed Lin Su after mistaking her disguise for Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Zhang Yuanqing linked Xia Chaoxue’s death to her absence from her dormitory and concluded that the armored man had learned about it through someone who knew of her connection to Zhu Mingxu.
• Moon Rabbit and Cicada-Bearing Lord reported being attacked by a man in blood-red armor, prompting Fire Demon Luo Lesheng to demand another lie-detector test.
• Zhang Yuanqing urged the trainees to avoid further investigations by staying together, but the dean accused them of killing Lin Su and blew a whistle.
• The dean roared that everyone had to die, revealing that the armored man had influenced him to force the culprit out through violence.

Three Yang Opens Madam used the Light Compass Fragment to steer the investigation toward Yuanshi Tianzun and Sun Miaomiao as the Tiger King and the maddened dean attacked the students. Sun Miaomiao revealed Ten Thousand Butcher and killed both enemies, then removed the armor before its cost could drive her to kill again; the survivors agreed to restrain her until they could report to headquarters.

• The dean ordered the Tiger King to slaughter the students, while Song Man and the teachers fought to subdue the dean and the students battled the beast.
• The Tiger King badly injured Three Yang Opens Madam, who used the Light Compass Fragment to prophesy that Yuanshi Tianzun would use the stone-gate treasure to kill the Tiger King and dean.
• The Tiger King killed Xie Lingzhou and Liu Yushu and wounded Red Chicken Bro, while Zhang Yuanqing transformed into a black bear and tried to hold it back.
• Three Yang Opens Madam concluded that Sun Miaomiao had the true treasure and made a prophecy that she would use it to kill the Tiger King and dean.
• Sun Miaomiao summoned Ten Thousand Butcher, killed the Tiger King and drained the dean of his blood, then removed the armor when All Under Heaven Returns to Fire warned her about its cost.
• The students and teachers accused Sun Miaomiao of killing Xia Chaoxue and Lin Su, but Three Yang Opens Madam proposed restraining her until the instance ended, and Sun Miaomiao agreed.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team attacked Three Yang Opens Madam, believing he was the Armor Man, while Ren Junzi revealed himself as the real culprit and used a prophecy item to control events. Zhang had anticipated the trap, rescued Sun Miaomiao, and possessed Ren Junzi to interrogate him.

• Zhang Yuanqing identified Three Yang Opens Madam as a likely suspect and led Zhao Chenghuang and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire to attack him in Room 612.
• The group discovered a ghost face on Three Yang Opens Madam’s back, which claimed its master had already obtained the armor.
• Ren Junzi knocked out Song Man and confronted Sun Miaomiao, using a golden compass to force her to surrender her treasures.
• Zhang Yuanqing appeared after Ren Junzi took the treasures, severed his hands and legs, and explained how he had used a clone and Perfect Skin to evade the prophecy.
• Zhang Yuanqing exposed Ren Junzi’s connection to Xia Chaoxue and the murder, then used Spirit Roaming to possess him.

Zhang Yuanqing killed Ren Junzi and learned that Dark Night Rose had sent him into Qin Feng Academy to find a treasure beneath Mermaid Lake. After the group agreed on a shared account and joined Zhang Yuanqing’s guild, the dungeon ended with no rewards.

• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire burned the parasitic gu beast on Ren Junzi, and Zhang Yuanqing used Spirit Devour to overcome the Great Protector’s blessing and consume Ren Junzi’s spirit.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Ren Junzi had infiltrated Qin Feng Academy for Dark Night Rose’s leader and had used Three Yang Opens Madam to mislead the group, then found the golden compass fragment on the floor.
• Zhang Yuanqing rescued Sun Miaomiao, told Teacher Song Man that Ren Junzi had been the armored man, and carried Sun Miaomiao back to the boys’ dormitory.
• Zhang Yuanqing told his companions what he had learned, discussed handing over the compass and agreeing on a shared account, then invited them to join his guild, Return of the Dead.
• Sun Miaomiao took a detox pill and left, while Zhang Yuanqing returned to his room and went to sleep; the next morning, the Spirit Realm announced that Qin Feng Academy was complete and awarded no experience or items.

After returning from the Qin Feng Academy underground palace, Zhang Yuanqing coordinated the team’s story with Fu Qingyang and reported the Light Compass fragment and recovered treasures. Fu Qingyang arranged to trade the fragment for a Myriad Worlds Trading House redemption ticket, while Zhang Yuanqing prepared to investigate High Plain of Heaven with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord and offered Fu Qingyang a Sovereign-grade cloak.

• Zhang Yuanqing rejected the underground palace team’s initial warehouse requests as a joke, then approved them and agreed Xiahou Aotian could auction one antique.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Guan Ya had taken Queen and Li Chunfeng on a mission, then told Fu Qingyang about Ren Junzi’s attack at Qin Feng Academy while leaving out the underground palace’s details.
• Fu Qingyang advised Zhang Yuanqing to play ignorant about Ren Junzi’s motive and said Sun Miaomiao’s armor was the main weakness in their story; Sun Miaomiao persuaded Elder Sun to claim he had given it to her.
• Zhang Yuanqing showed Fu Qingyang the Light Compass fragment, and Fu Qingyang proposed trading it to the president of the Merchant Guild for a redemption ticket.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed the Nüwa Sovereign Map and Twin Dragon Jade Pendant, and Fu Qingyang recognized the Xie Family’s Holy Infant and Lian Sanyue’s furnace.
• Fu Qingyang tested Zhang Yuanqing’s resolve to travel with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, then declined the Swordmaster’s Cloak, so Zhang Yuanqing offered it to Guan Ya and asked Fu Qingyang to appraise it.

Zhang Yuanqing gave Fu Qingyang a powerful Scout cloak and a sword manual, then warned his companions about the missing terracotta army core as Dark Night Rose investigated the academy incident. Fear Heavenly King revealed that Role Cards could be replaced from order to freedom, leaving Zhang Yuanqing stunned by the Spirit Realm’s role in the system.

• Zhang Yuanqing gave Fu Qingyang the Court Swordmaster Cloak, which increased Scout, Swordsman, and Puppet Master skills by 40%, and Fu Qingyang accepted it as a gift.
• Zhang Yuanqing gave Fu Qingyang a Sword Control Technique manual, and Fu Qingyang warned him that the terracotta army’s controlling core was missing and advised his companions to check themselves.
• The Grand Protector divined that Ren Junzi’s death had no apparent cause and ordered an investigation into Qin Feng Academy’s trainees.
• Cloud Master suspected that Yuanshi Tianzun had been involved in the academy’s hidden mission and told Ling Jun to watch him.
• Zhang Yuanqing raised the missing terracotta army core in the group chat, then contacted Fear Heavenly King about his class change.
• Fear Heavenly King told Zhang Yuanqing that Role Cards could be replaced from order to freedom, and described them as both protection for Spirit Realm Walkers and a self-defense mechanism of the Spirit Realm.

Zhang Yuanqing considered the dangers of Role Cards, his death prophecy, and whether to save Magic Eye, while Fu Qingyang revealed he had temporarily cut Zhang Yuanqing’s marriage red thread. Meanwhile, Xiahou Aotian investigated the terracotta warrior core and discovered that his examination machine detected two people in his body.

• Zhang Yuanqing questioned Fear Heavenly King about Role Cards and the Spirit Realm’s self-defense mechanism, then decided to wait for level-five Stargazing before deciding whether to save Magic Eye.
• Yin Ji refused to tell Zhang Yuanqing how to obtain Taiyi Sect’s secret technique, and he considered using Perfect Skin to evade Fear Heavenly King’s contract and curse.
• Ling Jun learned that the Hundred Flowers Society suspected Zhang Yuanqing had uncovered Qin Feng Academy’s hidden mission and agreed to keep an eye on him.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing he had cut his marriage red thread for twenty-four hours to guard against the Stop-Killing Palace Lord’s Musician skill.
• Xiahou Aotian entered the patriarch’s treasure vault to examine himself, and the scanner warned him not to scan two people at the same time.

Xiahou Aotian discovered that a Qin Kingdom Occultist had possessed him and agreed to work with the ancient spirit. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya broke up after their feelings changed, and Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing the Merchant Guild's president wanted to meet him that night.

• Xiahou Aotian's scanner revealed a high-level wraith possessing him, and the spirit identified itself as an Occultist of the Qin Kingdom who had survived for over two thousand years.
• The Occultist offered to teach Xiahou Aotian alchemy and artifact forging in exchange for spiritual power and help finding a soul-nourishing artifact.
• Zhang Yuanqing found that Xie Lingxi and Queen treated him with unusual distance, and Guan Ya told him she no longer liked him; he left the villa after their breakup.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent the evening playing games with Jiang Yu'er at his grandmother's house and reflected that family remained dependable despite his broken relationship.
• Fu Qingyang called Zhang Yuanqing and said the Merchant Guild's president wanted to meet him that night, arranging for him to come over at ten.