Chapter Summaries

After defeating the Little Emperor and clearing the S-rank Sea of Yamen mission, Zhang Yuanqing uncovered the purpose of the Dragon Locking Array and returned the Demon Subduing Pestle to Lady of Three Paths Mountain. The surviving team gathered materials until the dungeon announced their mission completion.

• The team celebrated the Little Emperor's death, exchanged contact information, and Zhang Yuanqing claimed the Xie Family's rule-type item while promising to distribute rewards according to their contributions.
• Xiahou Aotian and Yin Ji received their experience rewards and left the dungeon, while the remaining teammates stayed to survive the required thirty-six hours and search for materials.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Love of Summer Trees found a document stating that cultivators had advised the Yuan army to refine the remnants of dragon qi, and Zhang Yuanqing explained how the Dragon Locking Array was meant to create a Dominator-level Yin corpse.
• A golden aura filled the Sea of Yamen, and Zhang Yuanqing told the team that Lady of Three Paths Mountain had arrived before sending them to the seaside.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned the Demon Subduing Pestle to Lady of Three Paths Mountain, received a reusable sacrificial ritual, and asked her to give him Princess Yinyao's Ghost Mirror.
• After nearly twenty hours of gathering materials, the team heard the dungeon announce that they had completed the S-rank Sea of Yamen mission.

After clearing the Sea of Yamen, Zhang Yuanqing received generous experience and powerful items, then returned to Fu Family Bay and called Fu Qingyang. Xiahou Aotian returned to the Xiahou Family and loudly announced his S-rank dungeon clear.

• Zhang Yuanqing gained 93% experience, bringing his total to 98%, and received the Military Soul Mask and Gale Gloves.
• Zhang Yuanqing examined the Holy Infant's incomplete head and concluded that completing its body would trigger an unimaginable disaster.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the others left the Spirit Realm as the dungeon countdown ended.
• Xiahou Aotian showed Xiahou Gan his sword and revealed that he had entered the Sea of Yamen with Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Xiahou Aotian drove around the Xiahou Family grounds with a loudspeaker, announcing that he had cleared the S-rank mission.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Fu Family Bay, called Fu Qingyang, and confirmed that he had obtained the two items.

After clearing the Sea of Yamen dungeon with both the Yin-Yang Turntable and the Holy Infant Head, Zhang Yuanqing negotiated their return and learned that a demigod’s damaged Myriad Treasure Tree had scattered items across Songhai. He reunited with Guan Ya and Xie Lingxi, who learned he had her family’s artifact, while Fu Qingyang contacted the Jianghuai Branch and the Xie Family prepared to respond.

• Zhang Yuanqing gave Fu Qingyang the Yin-Yang Turntable and Holy Infant Head, and they discussed negotiating rewards with the Jianghuai Branch and the Xie Family.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that the Marshal’s battle had damaged the Myriad Treasure Tree and scattered over a hundred items, and that Zhang was free from confinement to help recover them for merit and Moral Value.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to the villa and told Guan Ya, Queen, and Xie Lingxi that he had entered the Sea of Yamen dungeon.
• Xie Lingxi learned Zhang Yuanqing had obtained the Holy Infant Head and said her family would buy it back; Zhang Yuanqing asked her to name a price.
• Fu Qingyang informed Cold-Blooded Detective that Zhang Yuanqing had emerged from the Sea of Yamen with the Yin-Yang Turntable.
• Xie Su and Mother Xie discussed Xie Lingxi, Zhang Yuanqing, and whether to bring their daughter home before Xie Lingxi called.

Zhang Yuanqing negotiated over the recovered Holy Infant’s head and the Yin-Yang Turntable with the Xie Family, the Jianghuai Branch, and headquarters representatives. After demanding a steep price from the Xie Family, he rejected the official bounty and left the dispute with headquarters unresolved.

• Xie Lingxi persuaded her father, Xie Su, to hurry to Songhai by revealing that Zhang Yuanqing had recovered the Holy Infant’s head, while securing promises of gifts and money from him.
• Xie Lingxi explained that her father wanted the Holy Infant’s return to strengthen his standing in the Xie Family, and Zhang Yuanqing agreed to demand a high price.
• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed three Saint-stage weapons from Li Chunfeng and asked for a high-grade or top-grade item instead.
• Fu Qingyang summoned Zhang Yuanqing to meet Xie Su, Elder Detective, and Secretary Li, who had arrived to discuss the recovered items and the Yin-Yang Turntable.
• Zhang Yuanqing demanded two billion in cash, one hundred vials of Life Essence, and a top-tier Saint Realm item from Xie Su, who left to consult the ancestor.
• Elder Detective offered Zhang Yuanqing the certified bounty of a B-rank merit and eight million in cash, but Zhang Yuanqing rejected the terms.

Zhang Yuanqing confronted headquarters and negotiated compensation for the Yin-Yang Turntable, then struck a separate deal with the Xie Family for the Holy Infant Skull. The chapter ended with the Xie ancestor ordering Xie Lingxi to marry Zhang Yuanqing and a forum post accusing him of subduing the Jianghuai Branch's Rogue Disk.

• Zhang Yuanqing defied the Detective Elder and Secretary Li, demanding cash, a Saint-quality item, restored material quota, turntable uses, and merit in exchange for the Yin-Yang Turntable.
• Secretary Li and the Detective Elder agreed to report Zhang Yuanqing's terms, and the Detective Elder urged headquarters to guide him rather than suppress him.
• Zhang Yuanqing negotiated with Xie Su for Life Essence, cash, Saint-quality items, and access to the Holy Infant Skull, while Xie Su agreed to the deal and took Xie Lingxi with him.
• Headquarters accepted Zhang Yuanqing's first offer, providing cash, a Saint-grade item, turntable uses, and B-rank merit with conditions; Fu Qingyang explained the power structure at headquarters.
• The Xie ancestor entrusted the Holy Infant Skull to Xie Su and ordered him to arrange Xie Lingxi's marriage to Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing planned to distribute items to his teammates, then saw a forum post claiming he had subdued the Jianghuai Branch's Rogue Disk and suspected the branch was smearing him.

Zhang Yuanqing distributed powerful items and rewards after clearing the Sea of Yamen, while learning more about the Stop-Killing Palace Lord’s past. The chapter ended when Jiang Yu'er saw a bloodied girl in a red hat walking upside down across a darkened tunnel ceiling.

• Zhang Yuanqing read a forum post teasing him as Rogue Tianzun after news spread that he had subdued the Yin-Yang Turntable.
• Xie Lingxi told Zhang Yuanqing that the Xie Family ancestor had entrusted Holy Infant’s head to her father, Xie Su, strengthening Xie Su’s position.
• Zhang Yuanqing gave Guan Ya Battle-Hardened Leather Armor, Xie Lingxi a Nightwalking Cloak, and Queen the Shennong Whip.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent reward money to Yin Ji and his other teammates, then learned from Xie Su that the Stop-Killing Palace Lord had once been a Master before her realm fell.
• Jiang Yu'er drove through a tunnel during a power outage and saw a bloodied girl in a red hat walking upside down along the ceiling.

After Jiang Yu'er vanished in a mass disappearance at the Inner Ring Tunnel, Zhang Yuanqing rushed to investigate and used the Red Dancing Shoes to track her. The shoes led him into the tunnel, where he realized Aunt might still be there.

• A bloodied girl in a red hat walked upside down along the Inner Ring Tunnel ceiling, and Jiang Yu'er and dozens of other people vanished as the lights and signal failed.
• Grandmother told Zhang Yuanqing that Jiang Yu'er was missing, and he learned she had disappeared with forty-one others in the tunnel.
• At the Kangyang District Public Security Bureau, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire and Li Dongze concluded that a bloodthirsty girl had likely caused the disappearances and could vanish from sight.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned home, comforted Grandmother with an illusion, and secretly used a strand of Jiang Yu'er's hair to activate the Red Dancing Shoes' tracking ability.
• Zhang Yuanqing followed the Red Dancing Shoes through the city and saw them enter the Inner Ring Tunnel.

Zhang Yuanqing entered the dimensional rift through the Red Dancing Shoes and found Jiang Yu'er among seven survivors hiding in a cabin. He possessed one of her companions to contact her, but the werewolf threat and the danger of the strange realm remained.

• Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the Red Dancing Shoes could cross the tunnel wall into a dimensional rift, but their equipped form could not take his body with them.
• After consulting Fu Qingyang, Zhang Yuanqing left his physical body in a car and attached his spirit body, Little Doubi, and White Orchid to the Red Dancing Shoes.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered a moonlit forest in the rift and found several people killed by an upright wolf-like monster.
• The Red Dancing Shoes led Zhang Yuanqing to a cabin where seven survivors, including Jiang Yu'er, were hiding from the wolf.
• Zhang Yuanqing possessed the young man beside Jiang Yu'er and whispered to her that he was there.

Zhang Yuanqing projected his consciousness into a young man to rescue Jiang Yu'er and learned that she and five others were trapped in a cabin protected by a barrier from a giant monster. After piecing together the cabin’s dark history, he realized the monster was due to knock for the fourth time, and heavy footsteps approached outside.

• Zhang Yuanqing revealed himself to Jiang Yu'er, calmed her, and used a mask to make the other captives obey him.
• The captives told Zhang Yuanqing that a huge wolf-like monster attacked them and returned roughly once an hour, but could not break into the cabin.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Jiang Yu'er found a parchment explaining that the cabin owner feared a half-monster girl and had arranged for a hunter to protect her.
• Zhang Yuanqing suspected the monster was the hunter, while Jiang Yu'er recognized the story’s details as familiar.
• Jiang Yu'er confirmed that four hours had passed since she entered the place, and heavy footsteps approached the cabin.

Zhang Yuanqing fought the Werewolf, discovered it could regenerate and grow stronger under the moonlight, and ultimately devoured its spirit despite suffering severe mental contamination. The Werewolf vanished and left behind a Triangular Red Hat, which Zhang Yuanqing picked up to inspect.

• Zhang Yuanqing lured the Werewolf away from the cabin while the Ghost Bride stayed behind to protect Jiang Yu'er and the other civilians.
• Zhang Yuanqing possessed the Werewolf and crushed its heart, but it grew a second heart after howling at the moon and forced him and the Ghost Bride out of its mind.
• When the Werewolf charged toward a terrified young man, Zhang Yuanqing weakened it with the Golden Mask and had the Ghost Bride possess it.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Yellow Mask to strengthen himself and devoured the Werewolf's spirit, then relied on the Blue Mask to regain control of his mind.
• The Werewolf vanished, leaving behind a Triangular Red Hat, and Zhang Yuanqing picked it up to inspect its properties.

Zhang Yuanqing escaped the sealed disaster with the powerful, corrupting Little Red Riding Hood and reunited with his companions and Aunt. After Little Doubi called Aunt “Mama,” he suspected that her hidden profession was Musician, and Xie Lingxi offered to bring Palace Master Sister to hypnotize the survivors.

• Zhang Yuanqing examined Little Red Riding Hood, wore it, and learned its werewolf and sealing abilities and their dangerous costs.
• He lifted the seal, earned 500 Moral Value, and returned to the tunnel, where Guan Ya and the others guarded the survivors.
• Overcome by the cap’s bloodlust, Zhang Yuanqing nearly acted on his instincts but calmed himself with an Evil-Breaking Talisman after Aunt embraced him.
• Fu Qingyang suggested Little Red Riding Hood came from the unopened Third District, and Zhang Yuanqing kept it rather than handing it in.
• Zhang Yuanqing treated Aunt’s leg and scolded Little Doubi, whose call of “Mama” made him suspect Aunt was a Musician.
• Xie Lingxi said Palace Master Sister was available to hypnotize the survivors and their relatives if Fu Qingyang approved.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Stop-Killing Palace Lord to erase witnesses’ memories and learned that Jiang Yu'er was not a Spirit Realm Walker, though she might possess a Musician item. The next morning, he tested Little Red Riding Hood’s effects on Blood Rose and accepted Li Chunfeng’s offer to visit an independent item shop.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord hypnotized the tunnel survivors, and Fu Qingyang asked her to erase the team members’ memories of Zhang Yuanqing and Jiang Yu'er.
• Zhang Yuanqing had the Palace Lord question his sleeping aunt and learned she was not a Spirit Realm Walker; the Palace Lord suggested she might have a Musician item that attracted Little Doubi.
• Zhang Yuanqing brought Jiang Yu'er home and told his family the tunnel had collapsed, following the Palace Lord’s cover story.
• Zhang Yuanqing tested Little Red Riding Hood on Blood Rose, discovered its transformation caused mental contamination, and assessed her Flame Demon Wolf abilities.
• Li Chunfeng told Zhang Yuanqing about an independent artificer who ran an item shop and black market, and Zhang Yuanqing agreed to visit using a token.

Zhang Yuanqing traveled to Flower City to visit the House of Myriad Treasures and learn about its owner, Lian Sanyue. When he entered the shop, he recognized her as the woman from Steward Pang’s memories who had sold him the White-Clad Murderess.

• Li Chunfeng gave Zhang Yuanqing a House of Myriad Treasures token and described Lian Sanyue as unpredictable, with a fondness for smoking cigars.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Red Chicken Bro at the Flower City airport, where Red Chicken Bro’s men publicly greeted him as Celestial Venerable.
• Red Chicken Bro told Zhang Yuanqing that Lian Sanyue was a powerful, trustworthy artificer whose shop served as a prop market, intelligence hub, and black market.
• Zhang Yuanqing disguised himself and entered the House of Myriad Treasures through an illusion-hidden convenience store.
• Zhang Yuanqing recognized the woman behind the counter as the White-Clad Murderess from Steward Pang’s memories and the person who had sold her to him.

Zhang Yuanqing visited Lian Sanyue at the House of Myriad Treasures to find a top-grade Saint Realm melee weapon and learned he could forge one with the Hundred-Forged Furnace. After sacrificing many items and spending heavily, he reached 85% energy, then sealed the furnace for seven days, believing his Lucky Necklace was making it nurture an exceptionally powerful artifact.

• Zhang Yuanqing gave Lian Sanyue Cuban cigars, confirmed he had seen her in Steward Pang's memories, and asked for a top-grade Saint Realm melee weapon.
• Lian Sanyue revealed her guild instance dungeon, where Zhang Yuanqing browsed a black market and learned the stalls were full of scams and mundane goods.
• Lian Sanyue showed Zhang Yuanqing the Hundred-Forged Furnace, which could forge artifacts after accumulating energy from sacrificed items and materials.
• Zhang Yuanqing sacrificed several items and bought more from Lian Sanyue, raising the furnace's energy to 85% before realizing his Lucky Necklace was slowing its progress.
• Zhang Yuanqing paid to seal the furnace for seven days, bought another token, and left with Little Doubi, urging him to help find more items.

After the demigod battle scattered artifacts across several provinces, Zhang Yuanqing returned to Songhai to hunt for them and study the official recovery records. He received a list of suspicious incidents and headed to Song Prefecture University to investigate an urban legend.

• Zhang Yuanqing planned to search Songhai, Jiangnan Province, and Scattered Province for artifacts, then asked Queen and Xie Lingxi to gather intelligence for him.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Guan Ya's account to review records showing that ninety-five artifacts had been lost, fifty-three remained unrecovered, and artifact-related incidents had caused hundreds of casualties.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Little Round and Kou Beiyue to watch for incidents in Gold Mountain City, while Little Round agreed to help.
• Queen sent Zhang Yuanqing more than twenty suspected artifact cases, including three urban legends identified by Li Chunfeng in Songhai.
• Zhang Yuanqing chose to investigate the Love Forest at Song Prefecture University first.

Zhu Hanjing followed Xiao Lan to the secluded grove and found students overcome by a mysterious tree’s overwhelming lust-inducing influence. Zhang Yuanqing interrupted the scene, brought Zhu Hanjing back to the dormitory, and reached the tree, whose information he began to inspect.

• Zhu Hanjing noticed Xiao Lan leaving the dormitory at night with a vacant expression and followed her to the grove.
• Zhu Hanjing found Xiao Lan and other students engaging in sexual acts around an emerald-green sapling that seemed to strip away their reason.
• A naked student approached Zhu Hanjing, and the sapling’s influence overwhelmed her with desire until she heard Zhang Yuanqing snap his fingers.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s intervention returned Zhu Hanjing to the dormitory, where she could not remember the frightening encounter.
• Zhang Yuanqing resisted the sapling’s powerful lust-inducing effect with Blue Face, reached it, and began reading its information.

Over six days, Zhang Yuanqing hunted down dangerous items across several provinces, using Little Doubi to locate them and his strength to seize them. After collecting twelve items, he arrived in Gold Mountain City and stopped at Wuhen Hotel to rest and visit Little Round.

• Zhang Yuanqing found the Breeding Sapling at Song Prefecture University, called Queen to arrange help for the students, and escorted Zhu Hanjing out of the park.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Little Doubi to investigate North River Residential Complex and discovered a middle-aged man worshipping the Evil Spirit Coffin, which he took into his Inventory.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent six days collecting four Saint-grade items and eight Transcendent-grade items across Songhai, Scattered Province, and Jiangnan Province.
• Zhang Yuanqing drove to Wuhen Hotel in Gold Mountain City to sleep and see Little Round.
• Elders from the Crab City, Songhai, and Hangzhou Branches held a brief meeting about the item collection operation.

Zhang Yuanqing spent six days recovering scattered props for the Songhai Branch, while a Dark Night Rose subordinate found item number nine and a deranged man acquired a Sovereign-level item. When Zhang Yuanqing returned to House of Myriad Treasures to forge a prop, Lian Sanyue told him the firestones had been bought out by someone targeting him.

• Fu Qingyang shared Songhai Branch’s prop-recovery spreadsheet, showing that Zhang Yuanqing had collected many props in six days, and the elders discussed the missing items ranked number nine and number three.
• Dark Night Rose’s Grand Protector learned that a subordinate had obtained number nine and ordered him to prepare to enter Qin Feng Academy so the Leader’s wish might be fulfilled.
• A contaminated man in Xin'an County celebrated finding a Sovereign-level item and called out for his disciple.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Little Round, Kou Beiyue, and Little Fatty stories about the people and incidents he encountered while recovering props, then warned Little Fatty not to harm Kou Beiyue.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to House of Myriad Treasures intending to forge a top-tier prop, but Lian Sanyue told him someone had bought all the firestones and was trying to thwart him.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered that Zhao Feichen had bought all the firestones needed to finish charging the Hundred-Forged Furnace and was trying to seize the item inside. After their dispute escalated, Zhao Feichen challenged him to a life-and-death arena fight, and Lian Sanyue asked whether he was sure he wanted to proceed.

• Zhang Yuanqing used Star Eyes to judge that Lian Sanyue had not betrayed their agreement, then messaged Fu Qingyang before following her into the marketplace.
• Lian Sanyue introduced Zhang Yuanqing to Zhao Feichen, who offered him twenty million to surrender the furnace or demanded one hundred billion for all the firestones.
• Zhang Yuanqing refused Zhao Feichen’s terms and threatened to kill him if he came outside, prompting Zhao Feichen to threaten him in return.
• Zhao Feichen challenged Zhang Yuanqing to fight his sword-bearing bodyguard in the arena under a life-and-death contract, offering the firestones if Zhang Yuanqing won.
• Zhao Feichen promised his bodyguard a Zhao Family treasure and ten million for killing Zhang Yuanqing, while Lian Sanyue warned that either fighter could legally kill the other and asked whether Zhao Feichen was sure.

Zhang Yuanqing fought Zhao Feichen’s Level 5 swordsman bodyguard in a contracted death match at the House of Myriad Treasures. By combining Blood Rose’s Werewolf form with his own items and skills, Zhang Yuanqing defeated the swordsman, while Zhao Feichen’s plans for what would happen after the fight remained unresolved.

• Lian Sanyue drew up a contract forbidding items and skills above Level 6, surrender, and outside help, and Zhang Yuanqing and the middle-aged swordsman signed it.
• Lian Sanyue led the crowd to the arena, where Zhang Yuanqing and the swordsman prepared to fight; Zhao Feichen sent a companion to fetch his father in case his bodyguard lost.
• The swordsman used his crimson blade and defensive items to overwhelm Blood Rose, but Zhang Yuanqing transformed her into a Flame Demon Wolf and used Astral Physiognomy to shape his strategy.
• Zhang Yuanqing ambushed the swordsman, wounded him with a cursed blade, and coordinated the Werewolf’s attacks to break his defense and inflict fire poison.
• The swordsman covered the arena in fog to recover, but Zhang Yuanqing cleared it with the Gale Gloves and finished him with the Flame Demon Wolf’s fiery breath.