Chapter Summaries

Lady of Three Paths Mountain tried to break into the slaughter dungeon but was stopped by the Spirit Realm, while Zhang Yuanqing’s team became scattered in the Moving Forest. Zhang Yuanqing reunited the team and led them out by timing the forest’s spatial transfers, then demanded to know who had received a reward item.

• Lady of Three Paths Mountain attacked the Transcendence Realm slaughter dungeon with golden arrows but could not penetrate its barrier, and Dog Elder’s offer to recruit her failed.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned from Human Nature Is Evil’s memories that No Taboos had used a snail-shaped earpiece, but the Moving Forest suddenly separated him from his teammates.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Demon Subduing Pestle to confirm the forest was teleporting people, then reunited with Jiang Jingwei and found the other teammates by calling out and checking their ears.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire proposed marking reference points to measure the forest’s safe interval, and the team found Music Idiot while following the plan.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s team timed the transfers and escaped the Moving Forest, earning ten points; Zhang Yuanqing then asked who had received a reward item.

Zhang Yuanqing accused two Walkers of being Dark Night Rose’s spy and had them restrained, but Music Idiot revealed himself as the real traitor and sent the team back to the Moving Forest. As the evil faction reached the Mountain God Temple to seize the staff, Zhang Yuanqing appeared beside them with Guan Ya, ready to confront them.

• Zhang Yuanqing suspected the Walker who received the Moving Forest reward of being the traitor and named The Little Match Boy and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire as suspects.
• Zhang Yuanqing had The Little Match Boy and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire restrained while the group continued to the Mountain God Temple.
• At the temple, the Walkers examined murals showing the Mountain God killing an evil cultivator and sealing the city, then prepared for the approaching evil faction.
• Music Idiot revealed himself as the Dark Night Rose traitor and used a forest sandbox to transport the group back to the Moving Forest.
• Music Idiot met A Yi and No Taboos outside the temple and directed the evil faction to the Mountain God Staff.
• A Yi noticed a pair of boots by a bluestone, and Zhang Yuanqing appeared beside them with Guan Ya, saying he had returned to retrieve them.

Zhang Yuanqing exposed Music Idiot as the mole and returned to the Mountain God Temple with Guan Ya, where he killed Music Idiot and faced the Mountain Ghost Camp. He activated the Empress Earth Boots, gaining Saint-level strength as Zhao Chenghuang’s team raced through the Forest of Stone Giants to support him.

• Zhao Chenghuang’s team learned that the Mountain Ghost Camp had reached the summit while Yuanshi Tianzun’s team had returned to the Maze Forest, and Sun Miaomiao suspected a mole had helped them.
• Zhang Yuanqing confronted Music Idiot, explained how he had inferred the mole’s plan, and used a Ghost Bride illusion to bait the Mountain Ghost Camp into attempting to teleport him and Guan Ya.
• Zhang Yuanqing appeared inside the Mountain God Temple and beheaded Music Idiot, while Guan Ya and he prepared to face the remaining enemies.
• I Alone Reign Supreme and Nine-Leak Fish admitted they served Dark Night Rose, and Nine-Leak Fish deflected Guan Ya’s rifle shot as he attacked Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing put on the Empress Earth Boots he had left in the clearing and began refining the area, raising his strength from Transcendence Realm toward Saint level.
• Zhao Chenghuang’s team encountered a stone giant and hurried to defeat it so they could support Yuanshi Tianzun before the Mountain Ghost Camp claimed the staff.

Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya fought off the Mountain Ghost Camp’s assault on the Mountain God Temple, but coordinated attacks overwhelmed Zhang Yuanqing’s stone giant form. He activated a water-and-fire formation that trapped the attackers inside the temple, where two clay figures of him appeared.

• Zhang Yuanqing used gravity and terrain to hold back the Mountain Ghost Camp while Guan Ya shot A Yi and fought No Taboos and All Under Heaven Is White at the temple entrance.
• No Taboos ordered All Under Heaven Is White to hold Guan Ya while A Yi and the others attacked Zhang Yuanqing; A Yi and Zhang Yuanqing fought in giant forms.
• Shatter the High Heavens, the Illusionists, the Fire Masters, the Wood Demons, Nine-Leak Fish, and Only I Alone Am Supreme combined their abilities to melt and shatter Zhang Yuanqing’s stone armor, sending him crashing into the temple.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp charged into the temple as Kou Beiyue considered seizing the staff, while Guan Ya retreated inside.
• Zhang Yuanqing threw out a ritual robe and formed a water-and-fire Taiji barrier, trapping the attackers; two clay figures of him appeared and taunted them.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Yin-Yang Robe to trap the Mountain Ghost Camp, but his opponents found a way to attack his spirit and forced him to withdraw the formation. Just as they rushed for the Mountain God’s staff, his reinforcements arrived, and No Taboos ordered a retreat.

• The Mountain Ghost Camp failed to break out of Zhang Yuanqing’s Yin-Yang formation, and the water avatar redirected I Alone Reign Supreme’s river to strengthen the water formation.
• The trapped Walkers shattered both avatars, but they repeatedly reformed until Red Rose used a mental attack and her xun to weaken them; the Illusionists also tried to extinguish the fire avatar’s emotions.
• Zhang Yuanqing withdrew the formation after the water avatar reversed the Yin-Yang Robe’s flow, then realized the Empress Earth Boots’ Honest Man restriction had kept him from using other items.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp rushed for the Mountain God’s staff as Zhang Yuanqing announced his reinforcements had arrived: the Ghost Bride, Zhao Chenghuang, Sun Miaomiao, and their group.
• Seeing the reinforcements arrive and their morale falter, No Taboos ordered the Mountain Ghost Camp to retreat and pursue the Lost City instead.

Zhang Yuanqing held off the Mountain Ghost Camp at the Mountain God Temple, allowing Zhao Chenghuang's group to secure the staff. As the two camps prepared for the next stage in the Lost City, the Empress Earth Boots made Zhang Yuanqing unusually honest, and his allies pressed him to keep an old promise to Yuan Ting.

• Zhao Chenghuang's group entered the temple as the Mountain Ghost Camp retreated into the Maze Forest, leaving the staff secure.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire and Peeping at Abalone Through a Tube arrived with their groups, and Zhang Yuanqing candidly explained how he had delayed the attackers.
• Zhao Chenghuang assigned guards to protect the temple, while the group studied a mural hinting that evil cultivators had used blood sacrifices to summon something.
• No Taboos rallied the Mountain Ghost Camp by arguing that the Lost City was the key to turning the instance around and teasing two secret weapons.
• Guan Ya asked why Zhang Yuanqing had explained his tactics, and he revealed that the Empress Earth Boots made people honest.
• Yuan Ting demanded the secrets Zhang Yuanqing had promised, and Sun Miaomiao, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, Zhao Chenghuang, and Guan Ya persuaded him to tell her some of them.

Zhang Yuanqing kept his promise by revealing secrets about Demon Lord, the Lord of Weapons Cult, and Fu Qingyang, causing trouble with both the powerful figures listening outside and his companions in the temple. After the group completed the Mountain God Temple side mission, they received instructions to enter Lost City at dawn and inspect the seal.

• Zhang Yuanqing told Yuan Ting and the others that the Hundred Flowers Society Grand Elder’s daughter and granddaughter had both been involved with Demon Lord, and Guan Ya revealed they were Ling Jun’s aunt and cousin.
• Zhang Yuanqing disclosed that the Lord of Weapons Cult had helped Dark Night Rose obtain Mother Goddess’s Womb to revive its leader, and he revealed that Wrath Divine General’s wife had been Lust Divine General’s sex slave.
• Zhang Yuanqing repeated Fu Qingyang’s insulting remarks about Guan Ya, Ling Jun, Jingwei, and the Female Marshal, angering the Marshal as the gathered leaders listened.
• The Maoshan Sorcerer asked whether Zhang Yuanqing was Demon Lord’s successor, and Guan Ya shot near him before forcing him to leave after he challenged her.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the others had used his promise to make him reveal damaging secrets, and he cursed them as the group waited for the temple to close.
• The group completed Side Mission Three: The Tragic Mountain God; Zhang Yuanqing received a Monkey King Beast Soul, and everyone was instructed to enter Lost City at dawn and inspect the seal.

As dawn opened the route to Lost City, Zhang Yuanqing led the Mountain God Camp into the ruined city to recover four Forest Heart gems and reinforce a seal. The group found a recently killed Voodoo Master, forcing Zhang Yuanqing to reconsider the quest and the danger ahead.

• Zhao Chenghuang organized the camp’s rest and patrols while Zhang Yuanqing let him handle the leadership duties.
• After resting, Zhang Yuanqing rallied the Mountain God Camp by claiming he still had powerful trump cards, while No Taboos urged the Mountain Ghost Camp to attack.
• At dawn, the route to Lost City opened, and the Mountain God Camp followed it through the forest to the ruined city.
• The group received Side Quest Four, which required them to defeat an evil cultivator, reclaim four Forest Heart gems, and reinforce the seal around the blood pool.
• Peony Fairy detected blood, and the group found Justice Lies in the Blade’s corpse; Crossing Pawn determined that he had been killed by a powerful attacker.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that the group had misunderstood Side Quest Four.

Zhang Yuanqing’s group discovered that the Mountain Ghost Camp was also seeking an item from the level-four Bewitching Demon, then lured the monster out to study it. The monster tracked their corpse puppets back to the group and pursued them through the ruins, leaving Zhang Yuanqing trying to divert it as the chapter ended.

• Zhang Yuanqing shared his deductions about the Mountain Ghost Camp’s mission, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire proposed that they sought an item to complete the blood-pool ritual.
• Guan Ya shot animals to lure the monster while Zhang Yuanqing and the Taiyi Sect used corpse puppets to observe it; they confirmed it was a level-four Fog Master but could not see its appearance.
• Zhang Yuanqing recommended exploring Lost City and locating the four formations before confronting the monster, but the fog silently followed their returning corpse puppets.
• The monster charged the Mountain God Camp, swallowed two Spirit Realm Walkers, and forced the group to flee as Zhang Yuanqing searched for a way to draw it away.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Peeping at Abalone Through a Tube for a defensive item, and Peeping at Abalone Through a Tube threw him a tattered coat.

Zhang Yuanqing used Blood Rose to lure an intelligent, powerful monster away from the Mountain God Camp, then shared what he learned about its abilities while the group searched for the seals. The Mountain Ghost Camp debated how to escape their hiding place and contact the officials, and A Good Minister Chooses a Lord to Slay volunteered to approach the Mountain God Camp.

• Zhang Yuanqing controlled Blood Rose, provoked the intelligent dried corpse, and escaped its attacks by using the corpse puppet’s items and abilities to draw the monster away from the Mountain God Camp.
• The Mountain God Camp regrouped, and Zhang Yuanqing explained that the monster retained its Bewitching abilities, Saint Realm speed and strength, and Mark skill.
• The group found four sealed locations but could not enter them without obtaining the quest item, while Blood Rose evaded the monster through the sewers.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp remained concealed beneath an item that prevented movement, but its members grew desperate to move and attend to bodily needs.
• Red Rose proposed contacting the Mountain God Camp to form an alliance, and A Good Minister Chooses a Lord to Slay volunteered to go.

Kou Beiyue found Yuanshi Tianzun and secured an alliance between the Mountain Ghost Camp and the Mountain God Camp to face the dungeon’s boss. He returned to his relocated companions with Yuanshi Tianzun’s agreement, while the camps’ dangerous missions and hidden trump cards remained unresolved.

• Kou Beiyue volunteered to find Yuanshi Tianzun, shouted his name across the city, and met him near the Mountain God Camp’s shelter.
• Kou Beiyue told Zhang Yuanqing that the Mountain Ghost Camp had been Marked by the monster and was relying on Nine-Leak Fish’s item to stay alive.
• Zhang Yuanqing rejected waiting or attacking the Mountain Ghost Camp and agreed to meet them and form an alliance against the boss.
• Kou Beiyue told Zhang Yuanqing that his mission involved obtaining four blood jades to summon a supreme being, and mentioned No Taboos’s two unknown trump cards.
• Zhang Yuanqing warned Kou Beiyue about A Good Minister Chooses a Lord to Slay, whom Kou Beiyue had taken as a subordinate.
• Kou Beiyue returned to the relocated Mountain Ghost Camp, where No Taboos asked whether he had met Yuanshi Tianzun and what he had said.

Kou Beiyue returned with news that the Mountain Ghost Camp and Mountain God Camp had agreed to unite against the level-four Fog Master. The two camps devised a way to disperse the fog and began fighting the monster, leaving the battle underway after their combined attack failed to harm it.

• Kou Beiyue told No Taboos that Yuanshi Tianzun had agreed to an alliance, and the Mountain Ghost Camp traveled to meet the Mountain God Camp.
• Zhang Yuanqing and No Taboos discussed how to fight the Fog Master, and Asano Ryo proposed making wind by combining hot and cold air.
• The two camps prepared traps and weapons, then Zhang Yuanqing entered the fog to draw the Fog Master into battle.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Zhao Chenghuang's Yin Corpse, No Taboos, All Under Heaven Is White, and A Yi attacked the Fog Master while Asano Ryo and the Fire Masters created a powerful wind that dispersed most of the fog.
• A Yi struck the Fog Master's head with his bone-spike sword, but the attack failed to injure it.

Zhang Yuanqing and the two camps battled a powerful mummified Fog Master whose defenses, bewitchment, and blood-draining ability overwhelmed them. After the team weakened it and opened a wound in its chest, Zhang Yuanqing used the Ghost Doll and Ghost Bride to restrain it and destroyed it with the Demon Subduing Pestle.

• The mummy broke A Yi’s bone sword, wounded him, and used its Bewitching Eye to turn Crossing Pawn and other Spirit Realm Walkers against their allies.
• The two camps coordinated to weaken and restrain the mummy, but it survived Red Rose’s Soul-Seizing Grand Array and began draining its victims’ blood to restore its strength.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the mummy could not regenerate, and Jiang Jingwei, Zhao Chenghuang, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, and others damaged its chest until Nine-Leak Fish cut through its defenses.
• The mummy broke free and charged toward the gathered Spirit Realm Walkers, but Zhang Yuanqing’s Ghost Doll and Ghost Bride possessed it and held it in place.
• Zhang Yuanqing drove the Demon Subduing Pestle into the mummy’s chest wound, burning it down until only a skeleton remained.

Yuanshi Tianzun killed the Unwilling Evil Cultivator and received a Forest Heart as the Mountain God Camp and Mountain Ghost Camp earned rewards and temporary protection. He tried to recruit members of the Mountain Ghost Camp during the safe period, but Red Rose rallied them against his offer, leaving the camps to prepare for the next mission.

• Yuanshi Tianzun killed the Unwilling Evil Cultivator, and the Spirit Realm Walkers received point rewards while he obtained the Forest Heart.
• Zhao Chenghuang and Jiang Jingwei revealed that they also had Forest Hearts, and the mission instructed the warriors to activate four formations within ten minutes of one another.
• Yuanshi Tianzun tested the safe period by shooting at Kou Beiyue, then offered eligible Mountain Ghost Camp members amnesty, payment, and protection if they joined the Songhai Branch.
• Red Rose countered Yuanshi Tianzun's offer with an emotional appeal, and No Taboos led the Mountain Ghost Camp away.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire discussed the failed recruitment attempt with Yuanshi Tianzun, who gathered the Mountain God Camp and asked who had the last Forest Heart.

Zhang Yuanqing divided the Mountain God Camp into four teams to reinforce the formations and prepared for the Mountain Ghost Camp to concentrate its attack on the weakest position. After scouts revealed the defenders at the final two formations, No Taboos’s group debated whether to attack Yuanshi Tianzun’s position or the downtown shopping mall.

• Zhang Yuanqing explained the four-formation mission and proposed sending eleven people to each of the first two formations, nine to the third, and five to the fourth.
• Zhang Yuanqing assigned the third formation to Taiyi Sect members, Crossing Pawn, and the Undead Knight, while he, Zhao Chenghuang, Guan Ya, Jiang Jingwei, and Asano Ryo took the fourth.
• No Taboos rallied the Mountain Ghost Camp and ordered Wood Demons to scout the Mountain God Camp’s movements.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp followed the enemy as eleven defenders entered each of the first two formations and nine entered the downtown shopping mall.
• After learning that Yuanshi Tianzun and four allies were defending the abandoned park, No Taboos’s group weighed attacking them against striking the shopping mall.

No Taboos chose nine Mountain Ghost Camp experts to ambush Yuanshi Tianzun’s five-person team as they raced toward the abandoned park. The birds warned Zhang Yuanqing’s group of danger, but A Yi had already dived toward Asano Ryo.

• No Taboos rejected a rotation tactic and proposed ambushing Yuanshi Tianzun’s team with the Mountain Ghost Camp’s numerical advantage.
• The powerful figures watching the Slaughter Instances shifted their attention to the Transcendence Realm showdown and discussed the teams and their stakes.
• Zhang Yuanqing urged his four teammates to hurry toward the abandoned park, suspecting that the Mountain Ghost Camp would target their small team.
• As Zhang Yuanqing’s group neared the park, Peony Fairy’s birds warned them, and A Yi dove from above to attack Asano Ryo.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team escaped the Mountain Ghost Camp’s ambush and entered the abandoned park, where they faced the assembled enemy forces. No Taboos revealed his trump card by transforming into a Level 4 mountain ghost as the fight over the formation began.

• A Yi attacked Asano Ryo, but Zhang Yuanqing’s Ghost Bride interrupted him and Asano Ryo wounded him with Draw Slash before a beam freed him from the possession.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp surrounded Zhang Yuanqing’s team, but the team escaped under cover of an illusion and used the Forest Heart to break the abandoned park’s barrier.
• Peony Fairy placed the Forest Heart into the bank building statue, activating the first formation as Cattle-Pen Mountain Little Fairy announced that the subway station formation would follow.
• Inside the park, the Ghost Bride trapped A Yi and Shatter the High Heavens in a Ghost Wall, but Red Rose freed them as both camps gathered for a confrontation.
• No Taboos swallowed a black heart and transformed into a Level 4 mountain ghost, revealing the Mountain Ghost Camp’s trump card.

Zhang Yuanqing transformed into the Handsome Monkey King to match No Taboos’s Saint Realm mountain ghost, while the Mountain God Camp fought to stop the Mountain Ghost Camp from reaching the park’s depths. Zhao Chenghuang deployed thirty bronze puppets against the six advancing enemies, leaving the battle unresolved.

• No Taboos summoned a Saint Realm mountain ghost, leaving the Mountain God Camp outnumbered and forcing Zhao Chenghuang to seek help holding the enemy back.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Mountain God Temple reward to transform into the Handsome Monkey King and clashed with No Taboos’s mountain ghost.
• The Mountain Ghost Camp advanced toward the park’s depths, but the Ghost Bride and Zhao Chenghuang’s Spirit Servants possessed A Yi and Shatter the High Heavens, while Jiang Jingwei and Asano Ryo countered I Alone Reign Supreme.
• Guan Ya defeated Nine-Leak Fish in close combat and stopped him from breaking through.
• Zhao Chenghuang summoned thirty bronze puppets and challenged the six remaining members of the Mountain Ghost Camp to attack him together.

Zhao Chenghuang used his Soldier Puppet Storage Box to block the Mountain Ghost Camp, but A Yi’s gu beasts disabled the puppets and let the camp break past. The survivors reached the blood pool and threw in the Blood Jade, while the fight behind them continued.

• Zhao Chenghuang summoned thirty bronze puppets, but Red Rose identified the Spirit Servant controlling them and Shatter the High Heavens failed to weaken Zhao Chenghuang’s luck.
• A Yi vomited up fifteen gu beasts, which matured rapidly and tore apart the bronze puppets while the Mountain Ghost Camp ran deeper into the park.
• Jiang Jingwei killed All Under Heaven Is White, and Asano Ryo shot him before No Taboos attacked her with a thrown tree; the black-furred giant ape intervened.
• Shatter the High Heavens threw the Blood Jade toward the blood pool, and Red Rose used her Brass Mirror to freeze the Ghost Bride before the jade fell into the pool.

Zhang Yuanqing’s side exposed and defeated several Dark Night Rose spies while activating the formations, but No Taboos revealed a final countermeasure as Zhang Yuanqing sent the Forest Heart to the statue. The Mountain Ghost Camp summoned a star-chart formation, leaving the battle unresolved.

• Zhang Yuanqing’s group dispelled the illusion, and Guan Ya and Blood Rose fought Shatter the High Heavens while the Mountain Ghost Camp tried to reach the blood pool.
• The chubby man’s Mental Strike stunned Guan Ya, but Kou Beiyue killed Shatter the High Heavens and revealed that he served Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned in human form after Mountain Ghost defeated his giant ape, and No Taboos claimed that two more Dark Night Rose agents remained hidden among the defenders.
• Maoshan Sorcerer seized the Forest Heart at the mall and revealed himself as a Dark Night Rose agent, while Undead Knight killed him under a contract with Zhao Chenghuang.
• Undead Knight returned the Forest Heart to the statue, activating the mall formation, and Zhang Yuanqing sent another Forest Heart to activate the final formation.
• No Taboos gathered his allies with matching bamboo slips as Zhang Yuanqing released the Forest Heart to the statue, and a star-chart pattern appeared beneath the Mountain Ghost Camp.