Recaps

Zhang Yuanqing met the Merchant Guild chairman, received a powerful exchange ticket for returning the Light Compass Fragment, and asked about the Carefree Organization. The ticket then offered to trade for his Lunar Moon Origin Fragment, exposing how much it knew about him.

• Zhang Yuanqing left home and used a black jade talisman from Fu Qingyang to teleport to the chairman’s nightclub suite.
• The chairman thanked Zhang Yuanqing for finding the Light Compass Fragment, gave it to him, and rewarded him with a Class A Myriad Worlds Trading House Exchange Ticket.
• The chairman explained that the ticket exchanged items for power, could only be used by its holder, and chose what it wanted in the trade.
• The chairman said the Carefree Organization’s Solar Twins and Shadow Twins had taken the compass’s core fragment after the White Tiger Corps old marshal died protecting it.
• Zhang Yuanqing took the exchange ticket out of his Inventory and saw it ask to trade for his Lunar Moon Origin Fragment.

Zhang Yuanqing confronted the Stop-Killing Palace Lord about her secrets, then agreed to travel with her to the High Plain of Heaven. They opened the entrance beneath Mount Fuji and revealed a towering door of light, leaving their journey into the hidden place about to begin.

• Zhang Yuanqing rejected the Exchange Ticket's offers, learned why Bill had invested in him, and returned to Fu Qingyang with the ticket.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang to keep the red string secret from Guan Ya, then met the Stop-Killing Palace Lord and challenged her about Nuwa and his father's hidden item.
• After the Stop-Killing Palace Lord admitted she had concealed truths to protect him, Zhang Yuanqing agreed to visit the High Plain of Heaven with her the next morning.
• Zhang Yuanqing advised Xiahou Aotian to sell the antiques through the House of Myriad Treasures, while Xiahou Aotian discussed alchemy with the Occultist in his ring.
• At Mount Fuji, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord opened a cavern beneath the High Plain of Heaven, and Zhang Yuanqing placed the jade disc in the Golden Crow statue's eye, revealing a door of light.

Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord entered the High Plain of Heaven and activated the Bronze Divine Tree, where they found the Demon Refining Pot and relics connected to Nüwa Sovereign. As they examined the ancient bronze records, they discovered a depiction of meteorites granting divine power to the people who found them.

• Zhang Yuanqing ordered Little Doubi and the Ghost Bride to guard the entrance while he and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord entered the High Plain of Heaven.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord used Nüwa Sovereign's divine blood to activate the Bronze Divine Tree, opening its living interior.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord identified the bronze pot as the Demon Refining Pot, collected the Life Essence inside it, and made Zhang Yuanqing a clay body that could serve as a backup after death.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord examined the bronze plates and found one depicting meteorites that gave ancient people divine powers.

Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord uncovered carvings suggesting meteor showers created ancient supernatural powers and caused a catastrophe that Nüwa Sovereign stopped, while they remained uncertain about who or what caused it. They extracted Solar Power from the Bronze Divine Tree, and the chapter ended with Xiahou Aotian arriving at the House of Myriad Treasures in disguise.

• Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord studied the bronze carvings and inferred that a second meteor shower had created monstrous beings and triggered an ancient catastrophe.
• Zhang Yuanqing connected the catastrophe to the Carefree Sect’s records and questioned whether experimenters had caused the meteor showers, but the Palace Lord warned that the evidence was incomplete.
• Zhang Yuanqing recognized the ten Little Suns carved atop the Bronze Divine Tree as possibly the Golden Crows associated with the Demon Lord’s Little Sun.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord used her Fate Commander abilities to make the Bronze Divine Tree give birth to ten strands of Solar Power and stored them in the Demon Refining Pot for Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing collected the six bronze plates and prepared to return, while Xiahou Aotian disguised himself and arrived at the House of Myriad Treasures.
• A woman inside the shop told Xiahou Aotian to stop putting on a monkey show and come in.

Xiahou Aotian sold Qin dynasty relics to Lian Sanyue and discovered that her cauldron was a rule-type item. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing learned more about cultivation secret arts, offered to help the Taiyi Sect contact the Nihility Sect, and headed to speak with Fu Qingyang.

• Xiahou Aotian sold Lian Sanyue Qin dynasty relics for auction and paid her to keep the deal secret.
• Xiahou Aotian paid to enter the House of Myriad Treasures' black market but found no bargains, so Lian Sanyue showed him a cauldron that he recognized as a rule-type item.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Songhai and read messages from Guan Ya, Xie Lingxi, the Queen, and Sun Miaomiao.
• Yin Ji told Zhang Yuanqing that cultivation secret arts could unbalance the powers of the sun, moon, and stars, and warned that the Sun's supreme power might be troubled.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered to help the Taiyi Sect contact the Nihility Sect about the Pure Yang Sect Leader and asked Sun Miaomiao to compile a list of Taiyi Sect Night Wanderers.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Star Escape to appear outside Fu Qingyang's study.

Zhang Yuanqing reported his discoveries from High Plain of Heaven to Fu Qingyang, who examined bronze plates depicting ancient events and questioned what they revealed about Nüwa Sovereign and the Spirit Realm. Meanwhile, Xiahou Aotian learned the Hundred-Forged Furnace’s history and lost nearly all his materials trying to use it, leaving the chapter with him threatening to blow himself up.

• Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang about the Demon Refining Pot, the Palace Lord’s plan to nourish his clay figurine avatar and Solar Power, and the bronze plates he had brought back.
• Fu Qingyang reacted angrily to Zhang Yuanqing giving the Demon Refining Pot to the Palace Lord, then studied the bronze carvings and questioned Zhang Yuanqing’s theories about meteorites and the Spirit Realm.
• Fu Qingyang suggested Nüwa Sovereign’s power beyond demigod rank made her unusual, but rejected Zhang Yuanqing’s speculation about the Spirit Realm’s role in the ancient apocalypse as too simplistic.
• The Qin Kingdom Occultist told Xiahou Aotian that the Hundred-Forged Furnace was part of Nüwa Sovereign’s inheritance and recounted how the First Emperor’s attempts to use it caused disasters.
• Xiahou Aotian fed increasingly valuable materials into the Hundred-Forged Furnace, gaining little energy, then assembled his weapon and threatened to take everyone down with him.

Zhang Yuanqing tried to manipulate Guan Ya into regretting their breakup, but she saw through his scheme and beat him up. After Ling Jun advised him to let her feel his absence, Zhang Yuanqing shut himself away, and Guan Ya lay awake until she heard him sneak to her door.

• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Guan Ya had gone to his house, rejected Xiahou Aotian’s request to access the warehouse, and planned his next steps.
• Lian Sanyue offered Xiahou Aotian a partial refund for the materials lost to the furnace, while Fu Qingyang and Ling Jun discussed Guan Ya’s relationship and possible changes to the Spirit Realm’s performance assessments.
• Zhang Yuanqing pretended to accept the breakup, but Guan Ya recognized his scheme, threw him down, and dislocated his arm before leaving.
• Zhang Yuanqing complained to Ling Jun, who advised him to make Guan Ya feel his absence; Zhang Yuanqing stayed in his room for the rest of the day, and Guan Ya went upstairs after dinner.
• Guan Ya tossed and turned late into the night until she heard Zhang Yuanqing quietly open her bedroom door and ask if she was asleep.

The Pure Yang Sect Leader met with Dark Night Rose in Kaifeng, while Fu Qingyang warned Zhang Yuanqing that Guan Ya’s family would oppose their relationship and gave him Qin Feng Academy’s training roster. In Gold Mountain City, Little Fatty reported to the Grand Elder that Yuanshi Tianzun had approached him.

• The Pure Yang Sect Leader met a water-bodied representative of Dark Night Rose, discussed his plans and the threats from the Taiyi Sect and Five Elements Alliance, and agreed to help them if circumstances allowed.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that Guan Ya’s mother would oppose their relationship, explained that she might use her influence against him, and handed him the Qin Feng Academy roster.
• Little Fatty saw Yuanshi Tianzun in Gold Mountain City and told Little Round that he had gone to Songhai; Little Round reacted with restrained displeasure.
• Little Fatty entered the dream palace and reported to the Grand Elder that Yuanshi Tianzun had come looking for him.

Little Fatty was ordered to negotiate the Nihility Sect’s cooperation against the Pure Yang Sect Leader, while learning that Master Wuhen might be nearing demigodhood. Zhang Yuanqing investigated Dark Night Rose, uncovered more about its leader’s concealment and Fu Qingyang’s family, and ended by questioning whether the Demon Lord had truly died.

• The Nihility Sect’s Grand Elder ordered Little Fatty to represent the sect in negotiations with Yuanshi Tianzun’s allies in two days and asked him to keep watch on The Past Leaves No Trace, whose strength might approach demigod level.
• Zhang Yuanqing examined Qin Feng Academy’s training roster, but Fu Qingyang pointed out that Dark Night Rose’s leader could not have attended the academy because the leader had died before it was founded and later revived using the Mother Goddess’s Womb.
• Ling Jun warned Zhang Yuanqing that investigating Dark Night Rose’s leader could expose him to fate-based detection, while Zhang Yuanqing found Fear Heavenly King’s old Spirit Realm ID, Freedom Dove, on the roster.
• Zhang Yuanqing discovered that Fu Qingxuan was Fu Qingyang’s older sister, the Female Marshal, and Fu Qingyang explained that headquarters limited alliance leaders’ authority.
• Ling Jun said the Taiyi Sect could not locate Dark Night Rose’s leader, who might wield lunar-moon power and have touched upon its origin; Zhang Yuanqing suspected the leader possessed a Lunar Moon Origin Fragment.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that the lunar moon could shield the Demon Lord from divination too, and began to doubt whether the Taiyi Sect Master’s report of the Demon Lord’s death was accurate.

Zhang Yuanqing arranged a potential alliance between Elder Hongying and the Nihility Sect, then returned to Fu Family Bay and continued his new relationship with Guan Ya. As Queen reacted to their intimacy and Xie Lingxi received her message, Zhang Yuanqing learned the Nihility Sect’s meeting conditions and obtained Sun Miaomiao’s list of Night Wanderers.

• Zhang Yuanqing reassured himself that the Demon Lord was dead, then asked Fu Qingyang to help Elder Hongying cooperate with the Nihility Sect against the Pure Yang Sect Leader; Fu Qingyang agreed, citing Elder Gao Feng as protection against betrayal.
• Little Fatty asked Master Wuhen whether reaching demigod status would provoke the Sect Leader, and learned that Wuhen had spent twenty years lowering his level to avoid slaughter.
• Rabbit Girl told Zhang Yuanqing that Queen had become upset about Guan Ya sleeping with him, and that Guan Ya had taken Queen and Princess Yinyao to practice fighting.
• Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Guan Ya, and they resumed their sexual relationship while Queen trained with Princess Yinyao and messaged Xie Lingxi about Guan Ya.
• Xie Lingxi read Queen’s message during Xie Lingzhou’s funeral and began crying dramatically, convincing the mourners that she was overcome with grief.
• After Guan Ya went to shower, Zhang Yuanqing read Kou Beiyue’s message about the Nihility Sect’s meeting conditions and downloaded Sun Miaomiao’s list of Night Wanderers.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated the Carefree Organization and the Night Wanderers who fought over the Light Compass, asking Ling Jun to help identify possible Taiyi Sect members. Ling Jun ruled out some suspects but noticed that his Seventeenth Brother’s Spirit Realm ID was missing from the records.

• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed Taiyi Sect membership records and considered asking Ling Jun about the Carefree Organization after Guan Ya suggested it.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Ling Jun and explained that he wanted to learn who in the Taiyi Sect had belonged to the Carefree Organization.
• Ling Jun identified the Spirit Medium Elder and the Starry Sea Elder as more plausible suspects than Crimson Sun Executioner, who had fought alongside Ling Jun’s father.
• Ling Jun argued that two peak Day Wanderers in the same unaffiliated organization were unlikely, given how scarce guides and resources had been.
• While scanning the spreadsheet, Ling Jun noticed that his Seventeenth Brother’s Spirit Realm ID was missing.

Zhang Yuanqing and Ling Jun connected Ling Jun’s dead brother Ling Tuo to the Shadow Twins and suspected that the Taiyi Sect Master had killed him over the Light Compass Fragment. The chapter left Zhang Yuanqing preparing to meet the Nihility Sect with Yin Ji while he and Guan Ya spent the night together.

• Ling Jun told Zhang Yuanqing about his enormous family and recalled that his kind, talented seventeenth brother, Ling Tuo, had died in 1999.
• Zhang Yuanqing recognized Ling Tuo as a likely member of the Shadow Twins, and he and Ling Jun discovered that the Taiyi Sect database held no record of him.
• Zhang Yuanqing suggested that the Taiyi Sect Master had erased Ling Tuo’s records and may have killed him over the Light Compass Fragment, leaving Ling Jun shaken.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Yin Ji that the Nihility Sect had arranged a meeting in Gold Mountain City and requested that she bring a Saint-quality knight item.
• Elder Hongying approved Yin Ji’s meeting with Zhang Yuanqing and gave her a Solar Realm and a Saint-quality turtle shell for protection.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent the night with Guan Ya, while Yin Ji returned to rest with Elder Hongying’s blessing.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared for his next dungeon and drove Yin Ji to meet the Southern Faction, where tortoiseshell divination warned that he would soon face great danger. The chapter left the negotiations about to begin, with Little Fatty revealing that he was the Southern Faction’s envoy.

• Guan Ya told Zhang Yuanqing that her mother was coming to Songhai, and Zhang Yuanqing joked that he would fight her family’s opposition to their relationship.
• Yin Ji read Zhang Yuanqing’s face and warned that his relationship with Guan Ya might face setbacks because the Fu Family favored her marrying into the Miller Family.
• Yin Ji used a tortoiseshell to divine Zhang Yuanqing’s fortune and found an omen of great misfortune, while her own reading foretold safety.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji arrived at the Southern Faction’s meeting, where Zhang Yuanqing moved Kou Beiyue aside and greeted Little Round.
• Little Fatty announced that he was the Southern Faction’s envoy.

Zhang Yuanqing navigated a tense meeting with the Nihility Sect, then sought to prepare for a dangerous upcoming dungeon. When the Cat King Speaker played an unfamiliar woman calling the Demon Lord a heartbreaker, Zhang Yuanqing entered Night Roaming to listen for clues.

• Little Fatty and Yin Ji signed a contract binding each side against betrayal, while Zhang Yuanqing watched their preliminary contact conclude.
• Zhang Yuanqing coaxed Little Round into calming down, then drove Yin Ji to the airport, where she warned him to keep his distance from people who could give officials leverage over him.
• Ling Jun called Victoria and arranged to meet her in the Capital City to investigate Seventeenth Brother's return to the Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Yuanqing considered how to survive his next dungeon, asked Princess Yinyao about absorbing Solar Power, and messaged the Palace Master about her Life Essence.
• The Cat King Speaker failed to identify Zhang Yuanqing's upcoming dungeon and instead played a woman's voice calling the Demon Lord a heartbreaker, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to enter Night Roaming.

Zhang Yuanqing listened to Demon Lord’s recording and learned about the Taiyi Sect Master, Ling Jun’s mother, and ways to advance through guild instances. The Stop-Killing Palace Lord emerged from seclusion, and Zhang Yuanqing saw a convoy arrive at Fu Qingyang’s villa as Guan Ya warned him that her mother had arrived.

• Zhang Yuanqing listened to Demon Lord’s recording, which revealed that Female Marshal advanced by completing a guild dungeon and that the Taiyi Sect Master had mastered the origin of stars.
• Teng’er’s mother told Demon Lord that her sister, Ling Jun’s mother, had feared a terrible secret before dying, and that the Taiyi Sect Master was the strongest Night Wanderer and the president of the Hundred Flowers Society’s cousin.
• Zhang Yuanqing considered opening his guild’s first instance and kept the information about Ling Jun’s mother to himself so he would not expose his connection to Demon Lord.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord recovered from her madness, and a masked man urged her to reach peak Sovereign within a year and help gather three demigods.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord returned to the Good Music Hotel and offered Yuanshi Tianzun her remaining bathwater.
• Zhang Yuanqing saw a black convoy arrive outside Fu Qingyang’s villa, while Guan Ya messaged him that her mother had arrived.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared a Peach Blossom Talisman to soften Fu Xue’s hostility while Fu Xue confronted Guan Ya and tried to force her into marrying Ron Miller. The chapter ended with Zhang Yuanqing catching Fu Xue’s raised hand and asking her to talk calmly.

• Zhang Yuanqing decided to deter Fu Xue and used a Peach Blossom Talisman before heading to the villa.
• Fu Xue arrived at Fu Qingyang’s villa, rejected his objections, and revealed that the Elders' Council had approved bringing Guan Ya back to the Fu Family.
• Fu Xue slapped Guan Ya, then urged her to marry Ron Miller for the sake of wealth and family status.
• Guan Ya rejected her mother’s arrangements and warned that their relationship could be destroyed if Fu Xue interfered.
• Fu Xue raised her hand to slap Guan Ya again, but Zhang Yuanqing caught her wrist and asked her to talk it out.

Zhang Yuanqing tried to persuade Fu Xue to accept his relationship with Guan Ya, but she initially refused and prepared to take Guan Ya away. Fu Qingyang argued that the marriage alliance would hurt the Fu Family’s future and revealed Zhang Yuanqing’s priceless gift, leaving Fu Xue wavering as she answered a call from Chen Shu.

• Fu Xue was charmed by Zhang Yuanqing but still refused to accept his relationship with Guan Ya and ordered her bodyguards to take Guan Ya away.
• Guan Ya drew the Han Eight-Sided Sword and threatened to cut ties with Fu Xue, while Fu Qingyang sent her and Zhang Yuanqing outside so he could speak privately with his aunt.
• Fu Qingyang argued that the Fu Family would shift its power back home and that rejecting Zhang Yuanqing could cost Fu Xue her daughter and future influence.
• Fu Qingyang showed Fu Xue the Court Swordmaster Cloak and told her Zhang Yuanqing had given it to him, making her reconsider the Miller Family marriage alliance.
• Fu Xue remained alone in her study, wavering over her decision, until a bodyguard brought her phone and she answered Chen Shu’s call about sailing at Wilga Lake.

Fu Xue reconsidered Guan Ya’s marriage alliance after speaking with Chen Shu and hearing Fu Qingyang’s warnings, while Guan Ya and Zhang Yuanqing continued their relationship under a no-pregnancy oath. As Zhang Yuanqing prepared to enter a dungeon, he discovered that his Peach Blossom Curse had not passed.

• Fu Xue told Chen Shu about Guan Ya’s boyfriend, and Chen Shu advised her to suppress the relationship unless Zhang Yuanqing proved exceptional.
• Fu Xue made Guan Ya swear on a brass medallion not to get pregnant before the end of the year, then decided to observe Zhang Yuanqing’s performance as a Saint.
• Zhang Yuanqing flirted with Fu Xue while seeing her off, and Guan Ya confronted him about Fu Qingyang’s importance to him before knocking him into a fountain when he suggested a way around her oath.
• Fu Xue decided to investigate the council of elders and the Light Compass prophecy, then told Will she would observe Zhang Yuanqing until the end of the year.
• Ling Jun arrived at Victoria’s villa and asked whether his father was still in the dungeon.
• Zhang Yuanqing prepared to leave for the dungeon, but his reflection showed that dark clouds of misfortune still surrounded him.

Zhang Yuanqing spoke with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord and visited her at the Good Music Hotel, while Ling Jun investigated his brother Ling Tuo’s past with Victoria’s help. The chapter ended with Zhang Yuanqing reuniting with Wang Qian and showing him the summoned baby.

• Zhang Yuanqing called the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, who invited him to wait at the Good Music Hotel, and Guan Ya checked his contacts before teasing him about her mother.
• Ling Jun told Victoria that the Carefree Organization might be connected to Ling Tuo’s death and asked her for the secrecy of the Lunar Moon while he investigated his father’s faction.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at the Good Music Hotel and reunited with Wang Qian, who said he had avoided dangerous instances and had not yet leveled up.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Wang Qian that the baby was still with him and summoned the baby on the counter.

Zhang Yuanqing received the stored Life Source Liquid and Solar Power from the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, who discovered his relationship with Guan Ya and left him hanging. Elsewhere, Ling Jun and Victoria uncovered a lead about the deaths of Ling Tuo and Everlasting Rivers and Mountains, while Lady of Three Paths Mountain met the mysterious figure from her dreams; Zhang Yuanqing's dungeon notification finally arrived the next morning.

• Zhang Yuanqing let Wang Qian see and hold the Infant Spirit before going to meet the Stop-Killing Palace Lord.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord realized Zhang Yuanqing had been intimate with Guan Ya, restrained him with red threads, and threatened to castrate him before giving him stored Life Source Liquid and Solar Power.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the Stop-Killing Palace Lord about his tortoise-shell divination, and she confirmed he would be matched with high-level Spirit Realm Walkers.
• Victoria told Ling Jun that Ling Tuo had clashed with Crimson Sun Executioner before being expelled, and that Elder Everlasting Rivers and Mountains returned to the Spirit Realm around the same time; they decided to investigate through Elder Sun.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain found the Land of Sunrise but not the Fusang Divine Tree, then met the man from her dreams, who revealed the tree remained in Japan and asked her for a favor.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Fu Family Bay, waited through the night for a dungeon, and received the Spirit Realm's notification at seven the next morning.

Zhang Yuanqing entered the A-rank Spirit Realm dungeon “Chaos of the Five Elements” under the identity of Lin Ci, a young escort in the Yellow Banner Escort Agency. After two guards vanished while watching a mysterious coffin, Chen Bloodblade asked him to inspect it for leaking yin energy.

• Zhang Yuanqing entered the dungeon with Blood Rose and Princess Yinyao and discovered that the Spirit Realm had placed him in Lin Ci’s identity and memories.
• Lin Ci woke beside Chen Wei, his secret lover and foster sister, and learned that the agency had been summoned to gather by Chen Bloodblade.
• Zhang Yuanqing confirmed that he could still access his Inventory and reasoned that the Spirit Realm had disguised his body rather than replaced it.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Princess Yinyao left their room and learned that two escorts assigned to guard the coffin had disappeared overnight.
• Chen Bloodblade showed Zhang Yuanqing a cut copper lock and asked him, as a Night Wanderer, to check whether yin energy was escaping from the coffin.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated the sealed coffin during an escort stop and learned that its talismans were nurturing a terrifying entity. While keeping watch with Chen Bloodblade that night, he heard fingernails scrape against the coffin lid.

• Zhang Yuanqing used his Night Wanderer vision to sense a vicious entity inside the coffin and discovered that its yellow and purple talismans were weakening and unbalanced.
• Chen Bloodblade ordered Zhang Yuanqing to buy materials for suppressing talismans, sent Zhuo Peiran to search for Zhang Hu and Zhao Ma, and planned to consult an old friend about the coffin.
• Zhang Yuanqing went to the market and pleasure quarter with Chen Wei and Zhao Youcai, then rejected Chen Wei’s invitation to spend time alone with her.
• After returning to the inn, Zhang Yuanqing made Zombie Suppressing Talismans and Spirit Sealing Talismans and placed them on the coffin.
• During the night watch, Chen Bloodblade told Zhang Yuanqing to take Chen Wei and her dowry away after the escort journey, then fingernails began scraping against the coffin lid.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered that a hidden Level 6 Dream Master was putting the escort team to sleep and using the black coffin to sacrifice people as it traveled toward Divine Sword Manor. The convoy raced toward its destination, but Chai Gui returned with news that Divine Sword Manor had been destroyed three years earlier.

• A creature stirred inside the coffin at night, but Zhang Yuanqing and Chen Bloodblade kept it contained with talismans.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Chen Bloodblade fell asleep overnight, and Yang Shuo and Wang Pingle vanished from the inn.
• Chen Bloodblade realized a Dream Master had targeted the escort team, while Zhang Yuanqing sensed that the coffin's contents had grown stronger.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent Princess Yinyao ahead to watch for pursuers, then joined the escort convoy as it left Wan City in a hurry.
• Chai Gui returned from Beautiful City and reported that True Person Xuanyu said Divine Sword Manor had been wiped out three years earlier.

After learning that Divine Sword Manor had been wiped out three years earlier, Zhang Yuanqing and the Yellow Banner Escort Agency continued transporting a sealed coffin despite warnings. At a remote morgue, a Dream Master sent the escorts to sleep as a corpse began emerging from the coffin, while Zhang Yuanqing faced an omen of a bloody calamity.

• Chai Gui told Chen Bloodblade that True Person Xuanyu warned the escort agency to abandon the delivery because Divine Sword Manor had been destroyed three years earlier.
• Zhang Yuanqing confirmed Chai Gui was genuine, then persuaded Chen Bloodblade to continue the escort job and deliver the coffin.
• Zhuo Peiran and Chen Bloodblade led the escorts in killing two groups of bandits on the road.
• The escorts took shelter from a storm in a roadside morgue, where Zhang Yuanqing saw a bloody calamity omen on his own face and warned Chen Bloodblade.
• After Zhang Yuanqing returned from gathering firewood, the escorts ate and kept watch through the storm until a gust blew open the morgue door.
• Zhang Yuanqing found the entire escort asleep, and a bluish-black hand reached out from the black coffin as its lid slowly opened.

Zhang Yuanqing was trapped in Yi Chuanmei’s dream, but used a duplicate to attack her real body and expose her disguise. Yi Chuanmei survived the apparent killing, revealed her mission was complete, and left Zhang Yuanqing facing the consequences of the scream from inside the mortuary.

• Yi Chuanmei amplified Zhang Yuanqing’s fear in a dream and forced him to fight a four-headed monster while his abilities were suppressed.
• Yi Chuanmei appeared in the dream and killed Zhang Yuanqing, but his real body used a duplicate to strike her with the Purple-Gold Pumpkin Hammer.
• Zhang Yuanqing checked the Ghost Mirror and discovered that the mortuary scene had been an illusion; Yi Chuanmei confronted him in the courtyard.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained how he had identified Yi Chuanmei, while she described restrictions on her coffin and profession skills.
• A scream rang out from the mortuary, and Yi Chuanmei said that her mission was complete.