Chapter Summaries

After learning that Uncle Zhang had died, Zhang Yuanqing uncovered that Wei Yuanzhou had manipulated his grandfather into targeting Long Live White Tiger and arranged his death for promotion. Zhang Yuanqing headed to the Public Security Bureau to confront the truth, while Wei Yuanzhou covered up his crimes and greeted the arriving Songhai Patrol Team.

• Guan Ya told Zhang Yuanqing that Wei Yuanzhou had killed the attacker, and Zhang Yuanqing learned the dead man was Uncle Zhang.
• Little Round explained that Uncle Zhang had seemed troubled before his death, while Guan Ya's questions about the failed assassination led Zhang Yuanqing to suspect an insider.
• Master Wuhen revealed that Wei Yuanzhou had pressured Uncle Zhang to assassinate an official Saint, and Zhang Yuanqing realized Wei Yuanzhou had framed his grandfather and engineered his death.
• Wei Yuanzhou recalled his troubled childhood and admitted to himself that he had used his grandfather to target Long Live White Tiger, then killed him and destroyed his lingering spirit.
• Wei Yuanzhou suppressed the identification results, claimed his grandfather's spirit had vanished, and secured approval for merit toward promotion to deacon.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at the River Gate District office with the Songhai Patrol Team as Wei Yuanzhou greeted them.

Zhang Yuanqing exposed Wei Yuanzhou’s role in his grandfather’s death, attacked him with the Songhai patrol team, and killed him despite lacking official authority. The killing sparked outrage across the official forum, while Songhai’s elders debated the team’s punishment and whether Demon Eye’s curse had changed Zhang Yuanqing’s temperament.

• Zhang Yuanqing accused Wei Yuanzhou of arranging his grandfather’s assassination and murder, but Mountain-Moving Deacon demanded evidence and refused to restrain him.
• Zhang Yuanqing ordered the Quiet Sea Branch office cleared, and Guan Ya and Jiang Jingwei attacked Wei Yuanzhou while Zhang Yuanqing countered his plague abilities.
• After Zhang Yuanqing recounted Wei Yuanzhou’s painful childhood, Wei Yuanzhou admitted his grandfather had interfered with his life, and Zhang Yuanqing beheaded him.
• An anonymous forum post reported that Zhang Yuanqing had killed a fellow Saint, prompting public outrage and an emergency meeting of the Songhai elders.
• Fu Qingyang said Zhang Yuanqing had become stubborn and extreme, and Dog Elder revealed Demon Eye had once cursed him to become paranoid before going to question Demon Eye.

Demon Eye Heavenly King explained to Dog Elder why he believed Yuanshi Tianzun was his kindred spirit, while Zhang Yuanqing defended his actions and beliefs during a psychological assessment with Doctor Sun. Doctor Sun later warned Fu Qingyang that Zhang might be revealing a deeper personality, possibly even a second personality.

• Demon Eye Heavenly King broke free against his restraints until Dog Elder told him Yuanshi Tianzun was alive, then eagerly asked about Yuanshi’s killing of Wei Yuanzhou.
• Demon Eye denied cursing Yuanshi and told Dog Elder that Yuanshi’s rationality concealed a paranoid nature like his own.
• During his assessment, Zhang Yuanqing admitted he had acted irrationally but argued that he could not accept injustice when he had the power to confront it.
• Zhang told Doctor Sun that Wei Yuanzhou was both deserving of punishment and a victim of a system that had failed his family, leaving Doctor Sun unable to continue the consultation.
• Doctor Sun told Fu Qingyang that Zhang might be showing his real, obstinate personality after years of social adaptation, and suggested he could have a second personality.

Fu Qingyang learned that Yuanshi Tianzun’s drastic change in temperament might stem from dissociative identities, but concealed the diagnosis and helped the elders devise a plan to protect him. As Yuanshi awaited headquarters’ punishment, Fu Qingyang urged him to seek the Ghost Mirror and warned him against letting extremity become unavoidable.

• Doctor Sun told Fu Qingyang that Yuanshi Tianzun’s condition might be treated with a Voidwalker or an item, and Fu Qingyang decided to hide the diagnosis from Yuanshi and the other elders.
• At an online meeting, Fu Qingyang reported the diagnosis as an unexplained change in temperament, and the elders agreed to suppress the matter and use complaints and public opinion to reduce Yuanshi’s punishment.
• Fu Qingyang visited Zhang Yuanqing in the underground prison and told him headquarters might imprison him, while offering to find an item to dispel the hostile energy.
• Zhang Yuanqing proposed borrowing Princess Yinyao’s Ghost Mirror, and Fu Qingyang approved the idea and advised him to prepare for an S-rank dungeon.
• Guan Ya, Jiang Jingwei, Xie Lingxi, Queen, and Li Chunfeng discussed Yuanshi’s case while confined in a villa, and Li Chunfeng emailed the Guild Master, who replied that Yuanshi was interesting.
• Queen announced that the Songhai Branch had posted a statement clearing Yuanshi Tianzun’s name.

The Five Elements Alliance weighed public pressure and political concerns before punishing Zhang Yuanqing for killing Wei Yuanzhou, while Zhang prepared to enter a dungeon during his confinement. The chapter ended with Blood Rose, carrying the Cat King Speaker and little blue pills, unexpectedly meeting grandmother and aunt at the elevator.

• Jiang Jingwei and others read the Songhai Branch's announcement, and Long Live White Tiger and Yuanshi Tianzun's supporters flooded the forum with posts threatening to resign if headquarters punished him harshly.
• Yuan Ting learned that the training camp had delayed his departure by half a month because Evil-Breaking Talismans were scarce, while Sun Miaomiao celebrated his misfortune.
• Headquarters elders debated Zhang Yuanqing's punishment and weighed forum support, the threatened resignations, and Fu Qingyang's influence.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that headquarters had demoted him to ordinary member, removed his bonuses and benefits, confined him at Fu Family Bay for one month, and barred his promotion for a year.
• After Fu Qingyang left, Zhang Yuanqing sent his consciousness into Blood Rose, who took the Cat King Speaker and little blue pills and left for the elevator.
• Blood Rose entered the elevator and froze when she saw grandmother and aunt inside.

Zhang Yuanqing dealt with his punishment, met Ling Jun’s cousin Miao Teng'er, and arranged for her to speak with Annie. The chapter ended with Miao Teng'er asking whether the Demon Lord had given Betty a map fragment, which caught Annie’s attention because she was searching for an important item for the Association President.

• Zhang Yuanqing, disguised as Blood Rose, visited his grandmother, who told him he was living with his girlfriend and invited him to dinner.
• Ling Jun brought Miao Teng'er to Fu Qingyang's villa, where she asked Zhang Yuanqing to help her contact Annie.
• Zhang Yuanqing told his team that Guan Ya would take over as captain and asked Li Chunfeng to find him a powerful close-combat weapon.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained Magic Eye's curse to Guan Ya and said he would seek the Ghost Mirror to suppress it, while Guan Ya objected to him using Blood Rose's body to kiss her.
• Zhang Yuanqing arranged for Annie to meet Miao Teng'er, who asked whether the Demon Lord had left Betty a map fragment.

Annie confirmed that Betty possessed a map fragment tied to the Demon Lord’s treasure, while Miao Teng'er sought allies to gather the fragments. Zhang Yuanqing uncovered the past between Miao Teng'er and the Demon Lord through the Cat King Speaker’s recordings, learned the treasure held half of the Demon Lord’s opportunities, and asked for a hint about his next Spirit Realm instance dungeon.

• Miao Teng'er showed Annie a jade map fragment and explained that the Demon Lord had left fragments with cherished lovers to lead them to his hidden treasure.
• Annie confirmed Betty had an identical pendant, and she later told Zhang Yuanqing about her conversation with Miao Teng'er.
• Zhang Yuanqing reasoned that the Demon Lord had deliberately made the fragments difficult to assemble because the treasure contained something important, possibly another component of his damaged Role Card reward.
• Zhang Yuanqing used music to persuade the Cat King Speaker to play recordings of the Demon Lord and Miao Teng'er’s past, including their capture, separation, and reunion.
• The recordings revealed that the Demon Lord gave Miao Teng'er a jade pendant containing half of his opportunities before telling her not to seek him again.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that the Demon Lord’s women loved and hated him because he alternated between guilt and violence, then asked the Cat King Speaker for a hint about his next instance dungeon.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated three possible dungeons, prepared for his next trial, and learned that he would enter the deadly Sea of Yamen. Meanwhile, a possessing spirit took over Azure Fury and began hunting Spirit Realm Walkers.

• Zhang Yuanqing listened to Demon Lord’s recordings about three dungeons and identified the Feather Ascension Secret Realm and Sea of Yamen as possible matches.
• Zhang Yuanqing borrowed Little Tiger’s high-clearance account and learned that the Sea of Yamen was an S-rank dungeon where Shen Gongbao and six other Walkers had died.
• Azure Fury destroyed a Water Ghost underwater, but a vengeful spirit possessed him and used his memories to plan its next hunts.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent five days strengthening his body with Solar Power and making eighty Evil-Breaking Talismans before preparing for his next dungeon.
• Zhang Yuanqing received a Spirit Realm notification that he would enter the Sea of Yamen, an S-rank multiplayer death dungeon, with a quest to survive for 36 hours.

Zhang Yuanqing entered the S-rank Sea of Yamen instance and found himself among a group that included Yin Ji, a powerful fellow Star Official. As the group compared their missions and discussed the instance’s dangers and lost items, Zhang Yuanqing claimed the items were still inside and had become part of the instance.

• Zhang Yuanqing learned he had entered Spirit Realm No. 012, Sea of Yamen, and sent Fu Qingyang a voice message before being transported into the instance.
• Fu Qingyang searched the official database and recognized the Sea of Yamen as an uncleared S-rank instance that had claimed six Saints.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived on a dark shore with five companions, including Yin Ji, Love of Summer Trees, Xiahou Aotian, Wu Cloud Dream, and Free Eagle.
• The companions introduced themselves, and Xiahou Aotian challenged Zhang Yuanqing by boasting about his family and his own supposed protagonist status.
• Yin Ji said she and Xiahou Aotian had missions to deal with the revived monster, while the Level 4 Walkers had to survive for thirty-six hours.
• After Yin Ji described the dungeon’s history and the bounties for lost items, Zhang Yuanqing insisted those items remained in the instance and had become part of it.

The Saints analyzed the Sea of Yamen instance and boarded a ghostly warship bound for Yamen Island. After Xiahou Aotian sent a diving robot to investigate the Dragon Locking Array, something below the water frightened him.

• Zhang Yuanqing reasoned that the instance's increased difficulty was likely connected to the items left behind by the six dead Saints.
• Yin Ji led the group in discussing the Battle of Yamen, and Xiahou Aotian proposed crossing the sea to explore Yamen Island.
• Zhang Yuanqing raised questions about the enemy, the Dragon Locking Array, the differing quests, and the need for a ship.
• A weathered warship appeared, and the Saints boarded it; Yin Ji's Spirit Servants helped Xiahou Aotian steer toward Yamen Island.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Love of Summer Trees about the Pure Yang Sect Leader, and she said divination had failed to locate him.
• Xiahou Aotian sent a diving robot underwater to scout the Dragon Locking Array, then tore off his helmet in terror.

Xiahou Aotian discovered a seabed graveyard of wrecks and corpses, then his companions were ambushed by ghost ships while crossing the sea. The Saints survived the fleet’s attack when Xiahou Aotian assembled and fired a costly cannon, destroying the enemy ships.

• Xiahou Aotian reported that the seabed was covered in shipwrecks, a strange array, and thousands of corpse-like soldiers, including a woman who appeared before the underwater robot’s camera.
• Xiahou Aotian divined that everyone landing safely was a sign of great misfortune, but Yin Ji urged the group to keep moving and avoid spreading panic.
• Ghost ships appeared ahead and bombarded the Saints’ vessel; Red Chicken Bro, Free Eagle, Zhang Yuanqing, Yin Ji, and Love of Summer Trees helped intercept the shells.
• A cannonball damaged the vessel and nearly sent Red Chicken Bro overboard, while Cloud Dream sealed the hole with rapidly growing vines.
• Xiahou Aotian assembled a cannon during the barrage, then used its ten expensive shots to destroy the ghost fleet.

After Xiahou Aotian’s cannon destroyed the fleet, the group continued toward Yamen Island and learned that the real danger still lay ahead. When they discovered they were trapped in a formation, Xiahou Aotian proposed diving beneath the sea, and Zhang Yuanqing realized this might be how they could confront the ghost ship.

• Xiahou Aotian returned Zhang Yuanqing’s Lucky Necklace, then asked the group to split the eighty-million cost of the energy pack, but they ignored him.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Ghost Bride and Little Doubi to help crew the ship while Cloud Dream healed Red Chicken Bro.
• Yin Ji explained that the Xie Family’s lost item was part of a rule-type heirloom and that the Jianghuai Branch’s lost item was the Yin-Yang Turntable, also called the Rogue Disk.
• Love of Summer Trees and Yin Ji noticed Zhang Yuanqing hiding his waist pouch, but Yin Ji said she did not care.
• Xiahou Aotian realized the ship had been moving in circles, and Cloud Dream’s attempt to fly toward Yamen Island ended with her circling back above the ship.
• Xiahou Aotian identified a formation affecting the sea and sky and proposed diving underwater to break it; Zhang Yuanqing connected the idea to the Demon Lord’s instructions about the ghost ship.

Yin Ji’s team decided to dive to the seabed to break the Sea of Yamen dungeon formation, and Yuanshi Tianzun’s attempt to summon the Mountain Goddess failed. As the seven Saints reached the sunken fleet, thousands of armored corpses awakened and stared up at them.

• Yuanshi Tianzun argued that the team had to descend to the seabed, and the others agreed after rejecting the idea of waiting out the dungeon.
• Yuanshi Tianzun tried to summon the Mountain Goddess with the Demon Subduing Pestle, but she did not appear, so he pretended his ritual had failed.
• Yin Ji lent Red Chicken Bro a Water-Repelling Pearl, and Yuanshi Tianzun asked Love of Summer Trees to stay close because he foresaw danger for her and Red Chicken Bro.
• Xiahou Aotian led the Saints into the sea and gave them earbuds that broadcast their thoughts, prompting Yuanshi Tianzun to suppress his stray thoughts.
• The seven Saints reached a vast field of sunken warships and saw thousands of armored corpses raise their heads and open their eyes.

Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates fought the formation-powered army of yin corpses, then defeated the purple-robed corpse guarding the array core. Love of Summer Trees survived a fatal attack through a Revival Pearl and Zhang Yuanqing’s healing, but the Yin-Yang Wheel’s pointer stopped on black, leaving its effect unknown.

• Yin Ji, Free Eagle, and the others fought off the regenerating yin corpses while Xiahou Aotian searched for the formation’s core.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Demon Subduing Pestle to destroy yin corpses as Xiahou Aotian located the core aboard a ship with a broken mast.
• A hidden female corpse tore out Xiahou Aotian’s heart, and the purple-robed corpse activated the Yin-Yang Wheel’s formation against the team.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji coordinated to restrain and kill the purple-robed corpse, but Love of Summer Trees was left gravely wounded.
• Zhang Yuanqing revived Love of Summer Trees with the Mountain God Scepter and Life Essence, then the team saw the Yin-Yang Wheel’s pointer stop on its black half.

Zhang Yuanqing solved the Yin-Yang Turntable’s trick questions, survived its deadly trials, and lifted the seal. He claimed the turntable as the group emerged from the dark seawater.

• The turntable landed on black and demanded two answers to what was hardest in the world, threatening to kill anyone who answered incorrectly.
• Cloud Dream answered “charcoal” correctly, but Love of Summer Trees’ “Coward’s Quilt” was wrong, killing Cloud Dream before she revived.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the question was a Rogue Disk-style trick and answered “male high school students” as the second hardest thing, earning another spin.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Lucky Necklace to spin twice into white, then answered the question about poetry’s cheapest thing with “The mountain’s end.”
• The pointer landed on white for a third time, lifting the seal and clearing the dark seawater.
• Zhang Yuanqing picked up the Yin-Yang Turntable and told the others it was his.

Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji destroyed the seabed array, discovered the little emperor’s empty husk, and concluded the remaining monster was on Yamen Island. As the team debated whether to pursue it, a masked president met Mr. Bill in Songhai and hinted that he was preparing a funeral for the Dionysus Club.

• Love of Summer Trees, Red Chicken Bro, and Yin Ji accepted Zhang Yuanqing’s claim to the Yin-Yang Turntable, while the group faced the freed yin corpses.
• Red Chicken Bro planted explosives on the warship, and Zhang Yuanqing protected Love of Summer Trees from the blast with the Heart-Protecting Mirror; the explosion destroyed the array and turned the yin corpses into ordinary corpses.
• The team regrouped without Xiahou Aotian, then Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji searched the dragon boat and found the little emperor’s discarded husk.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that the monster was on Yamen Island, but Free Eagle argued against pursuing it; Zhang Yuanqing gave Cloud Dream three Evil-Breaking Talismans and warned that splitting up would doom the team.
• Mr. Bill met the masked president at a Western restaurant, where the president revealed that his black suit was for a funeral and the lights outside went dark.

The Guild Master fought the Dionysus Club’s three peak Sovereigns while a Twisted Realm threatened to merge with the city, until the Marshal’s sword shattered both the realm and the Guild Master’s Myriad Treasure Tree. At dawn, Fu Qingyang learned that more than a hundred scattered items could trigger a global crisis, and headquarters ordered an urgent recovery operation.

• The Guild Master faced Cowboy Locke, Drunkard Fanny, and Chaotic One Lite, repeatedly banishing them while their rule-reversal abilities brought them back.
• A Twisted Realm began merging two versions of the city, and the Guild Master summoned a golden divine tree to hold the worlds apart.
• The Marshal’s sword beam shattered the Twisted Realm and the Myriad Treasure Tree, scattering more than a hundred items across the world.
• Dog Elder told Fu Qingyang that the counter-ambush had succeeded but that the scattered items could empower ordinary people and put demigods at risk of being hunted.
• Fu Qingyang criticized the Marshal’s destructive sword aura, then learned that headquarters had ordered personnel to collect the scattered items before the Marshal’s Moral Value reached zero.

Zhang Yuanqing persuaded the team to face the powerful monster on Yashan Island, then led them ashore after they rested. At the temporary imperial palace, Yin Ji located the sleeping boss, but lost sight of it just as the team prepared to attack.

• Zhang Yuanqing convinced the team that they needed to defeat the monster together to survive the remaining dungeon, and Free Eagle reluctantly agreed to follow the majority.
• Yin Ji arranged Spirit Servants to guard the ship while the team rested, and Zhang Yuanqing inspected the Yin-Yang Turntable and cultivated the Pure Yang Body Cleansing Record.
• The team reached Yashan Island and crossed its deserted forest and ruined town, where Zhang Yuanqing agreed to sell Yin Ji the cultivation method under specific conditions.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Yin Ji sensed dense Yin energy at the temporary imperial palace and prepared to attack the boss inside.
• Yin Ji sent a Spirit Servant to scout and found the monster sleeping in Compassionate Origin Palace, but urgently called the team back when she could no longer see it.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team fought Little Emperor, a powerful yin creature whose Water Deprivation and infant-head abilities nearly killed them. After Little Emperor revived and inflicted a dangerous pregnancy effect that stole their powers, Zhang Yuanqing sent Blood Rose to draw it away, leaving the team with five minutes to plan their next move.

• Yin Ji spotted Little Emperor outside the palace, where it ambushed Red Chicken Bro and nearly crippled him before Yin Ji’s yin corpses drove it back.
• Little Emperor used Water Deprivation to desiccate and destroy both yin corpses, then ambushed Cloud Dream and drained moisture from the rest of the team.
• Yin Ji’s spirit form pulled Little Emperor’s spirit free while Love of Summer Trees pierced its chest and Zhang Yuanqing struck it with the Demon Subduing Pestle.
• The infant head on Little Emperor’s shoulder cried, reviving the creature and making the team’s bellies swell as it stole their powers and reduced Zhang Yuanqing to Level 3.
• Zhang Yuanqing disguised Blood Rose as himself and used her to lure Little Emperor away; when the crying faded, the team’s stolen power began to return.
• Zhang Yuanqing warned the team that Blood Rose could hold out for only five minutes and urged them to devise a new strategy.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions devised a plan to weaken Little Emperor and counter its healing, but he had to face the boss alone after Yin Ji completed a Spirit Talisman formation. He defeated Little Emperor with the Yin-Yang Turntable and several items, then reunited with his returning teammates.

• Xiahou Aotian proposed using earth-aligned items, explosives, and the Yin-Yang Turntable, while Yin Ji began drawing a formation to weaken Little Emperor.
• Yin Ji completed the formation and left with the others as Little Emperor arrived, leaving Zhang Yuanqing to fight it inside the Yin-Yang Turntable's seal.
• Zhang Yuanqing used explosives to injure Little Emperor, and the turntable stopped its healing while his earth items strengthened him.
• Little Emperor drained Zhang Yuanqing's moisture and battered him, so he used the Mountain God Scepter to bind it and sent his spirit and the Ghost Bride into its body.
• Zhang Yuanqing stabbed Little Emperor with the Demon Subduing Pestle, destroyed it with Solar Power, and stored its infant head before Yin Ji and the others returned.