Chapter Summaries

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.

Zhang Yuanqing was trapped in Yi Chuanmei’s dream and nearly killed, but Chen Bloodblade broke the illusion and revealed that he had been waiting to expose her. The monster remained sealed, and Yi Chuanmei was wounded as Chen Bloodblade confronted her.

• Zhang Yuanqing realized Yi Chuanmei had dragged him into a dream and tried to escape, but she guessed he was Yuanshi Tianzun and decided to kill him.
• Yi Chuanmei fired a rocket at Zhang Yuanqing, but his Blue Face faceplate nullified the attack; he then exiled her summoned images of Fu Qingyang, Demon Lord, and the Silver Moon Divine General.
• Yi Chuanmei saw through Zhang Yuanqing’s bluff, grew gigantic, and crushed him while explaining that she had trapped the Princess in an illusion.
• Chen Bloodblade stabbed Yi Chuanmei from behind, breaking the dream and revealing that the black coffin’s monster had never escaped its seal.
• Chen Bloodblade explained that he had been waiting for Yi Chuanmei and identified her as the Evil Profession in the team, leaving her to demand to know who he was.

Zhang Yuanqing and Chen Bloodblade fought Yi Chuanmei, who trapped them in a dream before Princess Yinyao awakened Zhang Yuanqing. Yi Chuanmei then revealed she had manipulated Zhao Youcai into feeding a Scout to the coffin, awakening the fiendish thing.

• Chen Bloodblade and Zhang Yuanqing attacked Yi Chuanmei, but she used vines, mental strikes, and illusions to resist them.
• Zhang Yuanqing wounded Yi Chuanmei by using wind feedback to locate her real body, while Chen Bloodblade revealed he was Huang Taiji and explained how he had deduced her identity.
• Yi Chuanmei trapped Zhang Yuanqing and Huang Taiji in a dream and tried to kill them, but Princess Yinyao pulled Zhang Yuanqing out of it.
• Zhang Yuanqing saw Zhao Youcai open the coffin and throw a Scout escort guard inside, while Huang Taiji and Yi Chuanmei also emerged from the dream.
• Yi Chuanmei revealed she had manipulated Zhao Youcai into seeking mutual destruction, and the fiendish thing began devouring the Scout as yin energy and rain returned.

Zhang Yuanqing and Huang Taiji were trapped in a mirror world with a powerful water-aligned undead creature and Yi Chuanmei. Zhang Yuanqing absorbed and suppressed the black mist at the cost of his physical body, and Huang Taiji carried his corpse toward Divine Sword Manor in hopes of saving him.

• Zhao Youcai emerged possessed by the black-mist creature, while Yi Chuanmei revealed that her side quest was complete and taunted Zhang Yuanqing and Huang Taiji.
• Huang Taiji protected himself and Zhang Yuanqing with earth barriers, but the black mist spread disease and dehydration through their defenses.
• As Huang Taiji turned to stone and fell asleep, Zhang Yuanqing used the Azure Emperor Jade Belt to recover, then drew the black mist into himself and fought it with Solar Power and the Heaven-Worship Set.
• Zhang Yuanqing suppressed the black mist but collapsed as a charred corpse when the mirror world disappeared, and Yi Chuanmei fled after Huang Taiji attacked her.
• Princess Yinyao told Huang Taiji that Zhang Yuanqing had planned for him to be awakened, and Huang Taiji sensed the black mist fused with Zhang Yuanqing's kidneys.
• Huang Taiji sealed Zhang Yuanqing's corpse in an earthen coffin and left for Divine Sword Manor with Princess Yinyao.

Yi Chuanmei reached Divine Sword Manor and found Orderly Profession survivors trapped in the Sword Pavilion while Evil Profession players held the grounds outside. After joining Greedy Divine General and the other attackers, she learned the sword formation was blocking their advance, and they expected her dream abilities to break the stalemate.

• Yi Chuanmei rode toward Divine Sword Manor, avoided venomous snakes and a buried explosive trap, then transformed into an eagle to fly over the forest.
• Yi Chuanmei spotted the corpses at the manor and saw that Cai Longshen and Jiang Ju were defending the Sword Pavilion with wounded Far Sea escorts.
• Cai Longshen told Jiang Ju to meet the Yellow Banner Escort Agency if it arrived, and Jiang Ju accused him of treating him as cannon fodder.
• Yi Chuanmei landed near Greedy Divine General, who recognized her, and she discovered Snake Woman, Hundred-Man Slayer, and Little Round nearby.
• Yi Chuanmei asked about the conflict and learned that Greedy Divine General and Snake Woman had eliminated two escort agencies, Little Round controlled the Red Flame Escort Agency, and Cai Longshen had seized the Sword Pavilion's powerful formation.
• Greedy Divine General asked Yi Chuanmei to use her dream abilities to break the deadlock because the sword formation could not stop dreams.

After Yi Chuanmei revealed that Yuanshi Tianzun had died, Little Round lost control and attacked her, but Greedy Divine General drove her away. Little Round then reached Huang Taiji and the others, where Princess Yinyao declared that the wounded bee woman was not an enemy.

• Yi Chuanmei read Murong Wenxing’s blood letter, learning how Murong Long’s attempt to master the Five Elements secret arts caused Divine Sword Manor’s massacre and how Murong Wenxing concealed the secrets and his son’s remains.
• Snake Woman explained the free and orderly factions’ objectives, and Yi Chuanmei revealed that Yuanshi Tianzun had died after the water-element spiritual power merged into him.
• Little Round reacted with grief and rage to Yuanshi Tianzun’s reported death, then attacked Yi Chuanmei; Greedy Divine General blocked her stinger and struck her away.
• Jiang Ju used the chaos to leave the Sword Pavilion in Night Wanderer mode, while Huang Taiji approached Divine Sword Manor carrying the earthen coffin with Princess Yinyao and Blood Rose.
• The injured Little Round landed near Huang Taiji and stared at the coffin, but Princess Yinyao told Huang Taiji that she was not an enemy.