Recaps

Zhang Yuanqing won the arena tournament by defeating Zhao Chenghuang, then faced a curse from Zhu Rong and helped Kou Beiyue reunite with his family. The arc left him entering the unknown A-rank instance Speechless Village, tasked with surviving for twenty-four hours.

• Zhang Yuanqing exploited the reporting rules to eliminate several contestants, but Zhao Chenghuang and Sun Miaomiao betrayed him and took the round until he reported Sun Miaomiao out of the match.
• Zhang Yuanqing defeated Zhao Chenghuang in the final by combining his items, Undead No. 1, and ghostification, and the referee upheld his victory despite Taiyi Sect’s objections over his pill.
• Zhang Yuanqing collected his tournament rewards and listened to the Demon Lord’s recording before Fu Qingyang gave him the Empress Earth Boots, which broke his arm bones when he tried them on.
• Zhu Rong cursed Zhang Yuanqing with worsening fortune after he rejected her, and he traded the Straw Man to Mr. Bill for eight million RMB and the Perfect Skin while suffering a string of accidents.
• Fu Qingyang traced the curse to Zhu Rong and Green Pine Master, while the Mistress of Stop-Killing Palace attacked and mutilated Zhu Rong before the Zhu Family sought her arrest.
• Zhang Yuanqing helped Kou Beiyue return home after the bureau reopened his sister’s murder case and cleared his name, giving the family three hundred thousand in compensation.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the A-rank instance Speechless Village with Undead No. 1 and the Cat King Speaker, then questioned a mute old man and considered whether the speaker knew the village’s secrets.

Zhang Yuanqing cleared Speechless Village, secured its valuable rewards, and prepared for the Slaughter Instance as evil organizations plotted against him. In Lost City, he navigated shifting forest warnings, fought attackers alongside Blood Rose, and took Asano Ryo as a guide while the contestants’ rankings and alliances developed.

• Zhang Yuanqing survived Speechless Village’s nightly ghosts and paper effigy, found the real tomb, and returned Princess Yin Yao’s stolen relics to complete the hidden mission.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to the Five Elements Alliance, explained the dungeon’s dangers and rewards, and helped secure a deal to share its guide and exchange other high-level dungeon information with the Taiyi Sect.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Jinshui Amusement Park with a jade talisman, refined the Ghost Bride into a Spirit Servant, and learned that the mysterious figure in his portrait matched the Demon Lord.
• Elder Ten Steps briefed the contestants on the seventy-two-hour Slaughter Instance and the plots against Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang, while Zhang Yuanqing prepared equipment and refined a fire-resistant corpse puppet from Blood Rose.
• Kou Beiyue attended the evil-profession summit with Human Blood Bun, where Thousand-Faced Elder’s group named Fu Qingyang and Yuanshi Tianzun as targets and planned to use a secret item against Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered Lost City, ignored a voice calling his name, disguised himself as Wang Tai, and gathered clues about the Forbidden Forest’s changing warnings and dangerous inhabitants.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Blood Rose fought mountain monkeys, then joined Peony Fairy, who revealed that her signboard warned against speaking with Lost City hikers.
• Zhang Yuanqing killed three attackers with Blood Rose and the tree demons, carried off their lingering souls to search their memories, rescued Asano Ryo, and traveled with her and Peony Fairy toward the central signboard.

Yuanshi Tianzun led the Mountain God Camp through the forest, exposed a traitor, held off the Mountain Ghost Camp, and joined forces with them to defeat the Unwilling Evil Cultivator. After the camps split again over recruitment, Zhang Yuanqing divided his defenders among the four formations as No Taboos’s group moved to intercept them.

• After the contestants failed to enter the central forest, Tree King Su awakened and forced them to flee, and Zhang Yuanqing discovered that eating the monkeys’ berries let Walkers cross the barrier and join the Mountain God faction.
• Zhang Yuanqing gathered the official Walkers, rescued Guan Ya, and led his team through the maze’s lethal Fog Spider Territory, Reproduction Forest, and Moving Forest.
• At the Mountain God Temple, Zhang Yuanqing exposed Music Idiot as the traitor and fought off the Mountain Ghost Camp until Zhao Chenghuang’s reinforcements arrived and No Taboos ordered a retreat.
• The Mountain God Camp completed the Tragic Mountain God side mission and entered Lost City, where Zhang Yuanqing deduced that the Mountain Ghost Camp sought to complete a blood-pool ritual.
• After Kou Beiyue arranged an alliance, the Mountain God and Mountain Ghost Camps joined forces to kill the Unwilling Evil Cultivator and obtain the Forest Hearts.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered amnesty and protection to Mountain Ghost Camp members, but Red Rose countered his appeal and No Taboos led the camp away.
• Zhang Yuanqing divided his defenders among the four formations, while No Taboos’s group followed and considered whether to attack the shopping mall or the abandoned park.

Zhang Yuanqing led the Orderly Camp to defeat the Mountain Ghost Camp, awakened Lady of Three Paths Mountain through the Demon Subduing Pestle, and claimed the highest score in the Slaughter Instance. Back in Songhai, he pursued Guan Ya and faced growing scrutiny over his connection to the Demon Lord, while Fu Qingyang challenged him to a spar.

• Zhang Yuanqing’s team activated the park’s formations, but No Taboos used Star-Dipper Lots to predict their moves and Red Rose ultimately summoned the Blood Pool Demon God.
• Zhang Yuanqing performed the sacrifice, and the Demon Subduing Pestle awakened the Golden Crow’s power and brought Lady of Three Paths Mountain to his side.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain and Zhang Yuanqing destroyed the demon god, after which Zhang Yuanqing killed the Mountain Ghost Camp leaders, spared Little Fatty, and finished first with a record 1,628 points.
• Zhang Yuanqing advanced to Level 4, visited Guan Ya, and used the Ghost Mirror to help her endure the armor’s price before asking her to be his girlfriend.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain appeared through the Demon Subduing Pestle, questioned Zhang Yuanqing about the modern world, and later joined his family for dinner while possessing Blood Rose.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that thirty young women had disappeared and saw a fatal omen around Chen Yuanjun, so he sent Little Doubi to watch over his cousin.
• Fu Qingyang defended Zhang Yuanqing to the Female Marshal, who suspected his connection to the Demon Lord, and then returned to Songhai after their spar.
• Guan Ya left Zhang Yuanqing’s family dinner upset, but he kissed her and clarified their relationship to his family before choosing to join Fu Qingyang’s patrol team alongside her.
• Fu Qingyang challenged Zhang Yuanqing to spar at Fu Family Bay, where the assembled Walkers prepared to record the fight.