Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing defied headquarters during his trial, exposing Cai Longshen’s cowardice and accusing the Ten Elders of framing him to protect Elder Cai’s family. As Elder Cai ordered his detention and Zhang prepared to escape, the executives rallied behind him and a fiery figure arrived, greeted by Fu Qingyang as the Guild Master.

• Zhang Yuanqing refused to plead guilty, and the Ten Elders and executives pressured him to accept headquarters’ judgment.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed that Cai Longshen had abandoned Huang Taiji and Jiang Ju in the dungeon, while Huang Taiji confirmed his account.
• Zhang Yuanqing defended his record of service, accused Elder Cai of using the trial to avenge his grandson, and declared that he would never bow his head.
• Elder Cai ordered Zhang Yuanqing detained for a later retrial, but Zhang prepared to escape with a Teleportation Jade Talisman as many executives demanded a fair hearing.
• A flaming tornado filled the Court of Judgment, and Fu Qingyang greeted the powerful figure emerging from it as the Guild Master.

Gang Leader Jiang intervened in Zhang Yuanqing’s trial, denounced the Ten Elders, and forced headquarters to release him. Fu Qingyang revealed that he had arranged Jiang’s intervention, warned Zhang Yuanqing about the consequences of defying headquarters, and began a public counterattack as Zhang Yuanqing left with him.

• Gang Leader Jiang appeared at the trial, ordered the elders to release Zhang Yuanqing, and condemned their factional control of the Five Elements Alliance.
• After Gang Leader Jiang left, Elder Cai ordered Zhang Yuanqing detained, but headquarters later cleared him and let him go.
• Zhang Yuanqing healed his burns, escaped the interrogation room with Star Escape, and joined Fu Qingyang in the business van.
• Fu Qingyang explained that he had invited Gang Leader Jiang to intervene and warned Zhang Yuanqing that headquarters might retaliate and reduce his benefits.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing to pursue Sovereign advancement and promised to pave the way for him despite headquarters’ hostility.
• Zhang Yuanqing found forum posts criticizing headquarters, and Fu Qingyang admitted that he had paid online trolls to spread them.

After Yuanshi Tianzun’s defiance at the Tribunal sparked widespread support, Fu Qingyang explained how the backlash weakened Elder Cai’s standing and warned Zhang Yuanqing about Elder Miao’s interest in the Qin Feng Academy treasures and a marriage alliance. The chapter ended with the Cai family trying to contain the scandal while Yuanshi Tianzun’s allies and admirers discussed his growing reputation.

• Zhang Yuanqing read posts condemning headquarters over the Tribunal, but the posts were deleted; Fu Qingyang said public support for him would undermine Elder Cai’s influence among grassroots members.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that Elder Miao suspected he had entered Qin Feng Academy’s hidden instance dungeon and now wanted a marriage alliance with Fu Qingyang; Fu Qingyang said he would reject it.
• Elder Hongying and Gao Feng discussed Yuanshi Tianzun’s defiance and the Five Elements Alliance’s loss of vitality, while Yuan Ting shared Tribunal reports with the Night Wanderers.
• Cai Shuishi ordered his siblings to suppress criticism of Elder Cai and said the family would wait for an opportunity before dealing with Fu Qingyang.
• Fu Xue praised Fu Qingyang and Zhang Yuanqing for turning the Tribunal crisis against Cai Qinhe, then asked for Zhang Yuanqing’s number; Fu Qingyang later suggested a contract forbidding infidelity.
• Xiahou Aotian and the protagonist squad debated whether Yuanshi Tianzun had taken the protagonist’s role, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire encouraged them to follow their own paths.

After being acquitted, Zhang Yuanqing returned to Wuhen Hotel and arranged to use Little Fatty as bait to lure out the Pure Yang Sect Leader. Two days later, Little Fatty was caught in an unreal world filled with yin creatures.

• Little Fatty told Little Round and Kou Beiyue that Zhang Yuanqing had defied the Five Elements Alliance elders in court, received the Red Fire Gang leader’s support, and been acquitted.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Wuhen Hotel, reassured Little Round, and told Little Fatty he would help deal with Dark Night Rose and the Pure Yang Sect Leader.
• Zhang Yuanqing made Little Fatty bait for the Pure Yang Sect Leader with the Southern Faction Great Elder’s approval, while four Sovereigns watched over him.
• Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Guan Ya, and she teased him about Little Round before the two spent the night together.
• Two days later, Little Fatty rode toward Wuhen Hotel and found himself surrounded by yin creatures in an unreal world.

Fu Qingyang and the Saints fought Dark Night Rose’s yin creatures while Zhang Yuanqing arranged to rescue Magic Eye and lured the Female Marshal away by having Fear Heavenly King attack a prison. The chapter ended with Dog Elder answering a video call from someone who looked like Zhang Yuanqing’s father.

• Dark Night Rose’s Grand Protector attacked Fu Qingyang’s group with yin creatures, and the Southern Faction’s elder destroyed the resentful spirits with a Mental Strike.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart to assess the risks, then disguised Hundred-Man Slayer as his father and called Dog Elder to draw him toward Magic Eye.
• Fear Heavenly King attacked Plainland City’s No. 3 Prison, prompting the Female Marshal to leave the Zoo and head there.
• Dog Elder worried that the Marshal’s absence might leave Fu Qingyang’s group vulnerable, then returned to the pet shop after the plants alerted him to a ringing phone.
• Dog Elder answered an unfamiliar video call and recoiled when a refined, gentle face appeared on the screen.

Zhang Yuanqing impersonated his father to convince Dog Elder to leave the Zoo, then entered with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord to rescue Magic Eye. They found Magic Eye had been moved toward the Zoo’s core area, where both available routes appeared dangerous.

• Zhang Yuanqing called Dog Elder as Zhang Zizhen, revealed details of their shared past, and lured him away from the Zoo.
• Dog Elder ordered a camphor tree to move Magic Eye, warned the Zoo’s inhabitants that intruders were enemies, and left the grounds.
• Zhang Yuanqing met the Stop-Killing Palace Lord outside the Zoo and asked her to help free Magic Eye.
• The pair entered the Zoo and discovered that Magic Eye and the camphor tree had been moved from the lion enclosure.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord followed the tracks to a signpost warning them away from the core area.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Ghost Mirror to check both routes and saw a bloody glow indicating danger on either path.

Zhang Yuanqing and Stop-Killing Palace Lord searched the Zoo’s staff lounge for clues after his Stargazing Art was restricted. They found an employee handbook revealing that the Zoo’s staff were dead visitors granted a second life, leaving Zhang Yuanqing to wonder whether he would become one if he died there.

• Zhang Yuanqing failed to use the Stargazing Art to glimpse the future, so Stop-Killing Palace Lord advised him to investigate the staff lounge instead of risking his Yin Corpses on trial and error.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned Blood Rose and Princess Yinyao, then followed Stop-Killing Palace Lord along the dark path to the staff building.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Stop-Killing Palace Lord entered a dusty dormitory room and found an employee badge for Qiao Jun.
• Stop-Killing Palace Lord found an employee handbook, which said its reader had died in the Zoo and been granted a second life to work there forever.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the Zoo’s uniformed employees might be dead visitors and wondered whether he would become one if he died.

Zhang Yuanqing, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, and Princess Yinyao searched the abandoned staff dormitory and uncovered clues about the employees’ disappearances. Wang Mingming may have become the monster haunting the dorms, and stiff footsteps approached just as they realized he might be nearby.

• Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord read the employee handbook, including a warning about surnames Zhang, and concluded that its rules left dangerous gaps.
• Princess Yinyao found a note saying staff had begun dying after an accident and that the administrator had arranged a new dormitory.
• The group searched the dormitory and opened a locked room, where they found Wang Mingming’s journal and employee badge.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord deduced that Wang Mingming may have been the one disappearing or returning as the window-knocking monster, killing staff in their rooms.
• Stiff footsteps sounded in the corridor outside Wang Mingming’s locked room.

Zhang Yuanqing’s group evaded a corpse-like presence in the dormitory and continued through the Zoo in search of Magic Eye, while Fu Qingyang revealed overwhelming strength by killing Silver Moon Heavenly King. The chapter left Zhang Yuanqing’s party trapped in sudden fog inside Dodder Garden, where the handbook ordered them to stay still and remain silent.

• Zhang Yuanqing, Blood Rose, Princess Yinyao, and the Palace Lord hid in their beds until a rotten-smelling patrol creature left the dormitory, and a notebook recorded that it would keep following them.
• Little Fatty and the Saints watched the rulers’ battle until Silver Moon Heavenly King ambushed Fu Qingyang and forced him into close combat.
• Fu Qingyang summoned one hundred bronze soldier puppets and used their amplified sword strikes to dismember Silver Moon Heavenly King, stunning the assembled fighters.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s group followed the muddy tracks through the Zoo, put on his Lucky Necklace, and reached Dodder Garden.
• Dense fog suddenly covered Dodder Garden and erased the road ahead, so Zhang Yuanqing’s group stopped under the handbook’s fog rule.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions survived the dense fog and Heart Demon in Dodder Garden, then entered the Monkey Enclosure, where a monkey spoke to him about Dog Elder taking charge of the Zoo. Meanwhile, Dog Elder followed a note written in Zhang Zizhen’s handwriting toward a meeting.

• Zhang Yuanqing used the Gale Gloves against the dense fog, but they failed to disperse it, and he encountered a silent apparition of the Ancient War God.
• Dodder Garden’s Heart Demon tempted Zhang Yuanqing with questions about his father, the Carefree Organization, Zhang Zizhen, and the Demon Lord, but he resisted turning around by activating the Pure Yang Body Cleansing Record.
• Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Princess Yinyao and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, and the group hurried through Dodder Garden after the fog cleared.
• Dog Elder found a note bearing what he recognized as Zizhen’s handwriting and flew toward the meeting place it named.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s group hid from a blue-uniformed employee with no ID badge as the employee’s uniform began turning black, then continued toward the Monkey Enclosure.
• A huge monkey spoke about entrusting the Zoo to Dog Elder and warned that its suppressed inhabitants could escape without an administrator, leaving Zhang Yuanqing frozen in place.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that his father helped create the Zoo to contain evil beings released from a ruin, but hearing the Monkey Enclosure’s recording cursed him into becoming a monkey. After escaping the transformation, he and his companions reached the Panda Enclosure, where Princess Yinyao saw a terrifying panda and developed a black mark on her back.

• Zhang Yuanqing alone heard the Monkey Enclosure replay a conversation between Celestial Master Zhang and Dog Elder about the Zoo’s creation and the evil beings it contained.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that hearing the monkey speak had cursed him, and his body and mind began changing into those of a monkey.
• Stop-Killing Palace Lord helped Zhang Yuanqing regain his self-awareness, and he used the Eight-Span Mirror and Perfect Skin to transfer the curse to a clone and recover.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions followed the mud fragments toward the Panda Enclosure, hoping to reach the tree that sealed the Magic Eye.
• Princess Yinyao saw a monstrous panda that Zhang Yuanqing and Stop-Killing Palace Lord could not see, so the group fled the enclosure.
• After they escaped, Zhang Yuanqing noticed a mottled black patch on Princess Yinyao’s back.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions discovered that Princess Yinyao was being corrupted, then realized their group might have been contaminated before entering the Zoo. They reached the lake where Demon Eye Heavenly King was trapped, but a powerful white lion guarded the shore, leaving them to find a way to contact him unnoticed.

• Princess Yinyao’s back turned black, but Zhang Yuanqing and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord helped her remember her name, Zhu Huiyao, and the corruption dissipated.
• Princess Yinyao suggested that the group’s sudden contamination meant they had already been affected before entering the Zoo.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord noticed a contradiction in Wang Mingming’s notes and concluded that a high-level curse might be affecting them.
• Zhang Yuanqing, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, and Princess Yinyao reached the lake and spotted Demon Eye Heavenly King suspended in a tree.
• The group hid from a powerful white lion guarding the shore, and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord said she knew a way to contact Demon Eye without alerting it.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Stop-Killing Palace Lord’s matchmaking technique to contact Demon Eye, who explained how to reach him and evade White Lion. After the Palace Lord lured White Lion away, Zhang Yuanqing discovered the lake was Weak Water, and Blood Rose’s boat began sinking as she tried to cross it.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord bound Zhang Yuanqing and Demon Eye with paper dolls and a red thread, allowing them to communicate telepathically.
• Demon Eye told Zhang Yuanqing to lure White Lion away, explained that the camphor tree could be forced to return him to shore, and identified the ferry as the lake’s likely crossing route.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord attacked White Lion and drew it away while Zhang Yuanqing ran toward the ferry.
• Dog Elder discovered that the ancient residence had been left undisturbed and realized the diversion was meant to rescue Magic Eye, so he rushed back.
• Zhang Yuanqing identified the lake as Weak Water and sent Blood Rose across in the wooden boat, but the boat began sinking and swallowed her beneath the surface.

Zhang Yuanqing and Princess Yinyao uncovered why Blood Rose sank in Weak Water Lake, escaped an unseen anomaly with help from a panda, and rescued Demon Eye Heavenly King. The group reached shore, but the bloodied Stop-Killing Palace Lord fled back with White Lion in pursuit.

• Blood Rose vanished when her boat sank, so Zhang Yuanqing retraced his steps with Princess Yinyao to ask an employee about Weak Water Lake’s rules.
• A blue-uniformed employee explained that each boat could carry only one person, revealing that an unseen presence had boarded Blood Rose’s boat.
• Zhang Yuanqing led Princess Yinyao to the panda enclosure, where the panda attacked and drove a black-smoke anomaly out of her.
• Princess Yinyao crossed the lake alone, freed Demon Eye Heavenly King from the camphor tree, and brought him safely back to shore.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King joined Zhang Yuanqing, but the bloodied Stop-Killing Palace Lord returned with White Lion chasing her.

Zhang Yuanqing escaped the Zoo with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord and Princess Yinyao after helping the Demon Eye Heavenly King suppress the white lion, then returned to investigate the self-writing diary. Outside, Demon Eye revealed that the Zoo’s animals might hold the secret to Evil Profession demigods before heading back to the Lord of Weapons Cult and asking Zhang Yuanqing for travel money.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord threw her Azure Emperor Jade Belt to Zhang Yuanqing, who gave it to the Demon Eye Heavenly King so he could recover his strength and suppress the white lion with his Demon Eye.
• Zhang Yuanqing carried the injured Stop-Killing Palace Lord out of the Zoo, then returned alone to check the dormitory diary and found that it had written a new entry by itself, so he took it with him.
• Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Princess Yinyao and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord outside the Zoo, and the Demon Eye Heavenly King emerged after removing Zhang Yuanqing’s curse.
• Demon Eye told Zhang Yuanqing that the Zoo’s animals carried an ancient aura and might be connected to the secret of Evil Profession demigodhood.
• Demon Eye promised to keep the operation secret, discussed the Lord of Weapons Cult and Zhang Yuanqing’s strained relationship with the authorities, then prepared to return to the northwest.
• Demon Eye flew off, returned moments later after crashing onto the rooftop, and asked Zhang Yuanqing to lend him money because the northwest was far away.

Zhang Yuanqing returned to his grandmother’s home after helping rescue Demon Eye, while the Grand Protector trapped Fu Qingyang and the others in the demigod-level Ghost City. When Zhang Yuanqing realized the operation’s participants could not be reached, he rushed to Guan Ya and told her to call her demigod cousin.

• Zhang Yuanqing lent Demon Eye Heavenly King five hundred yuan, then flew toward Kangyang District as Fu Qingyang, Elder Hongying, and Gao Feng fought Dark Night Rose’s Sovereigns.
• The Grand Protector awakened Ghost City and transported the battlefield into a supernatural-themed ancient city, leaving Fu Qingyang and the others facing its horrors.
• Fu Qingxuan learned that Fu Qingyang, Hongying, and Challenge the Peak had lost contact, then set out for Gold Mountain City to find them.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to his grandmother’s home, reflected on the Zoo rescue, and shared breakfast with his family, who teased him about Guan Ya and urged him to answer Chen Shu’s calls.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Fu Family Bay and discovered that Fu Qingyang, Dog Elder, and the other officials involved in the operation could not be reached.
• Zhang Yuanqing hurried to Guan Ya and told her to call her demigod cousin immediately.

After learning that Fu Qingyang and two elders were missing inside a concealed pocket dimension, Zhang Yuanqing realized the Fear Heavenly King had helped Dark Night Rose turn his plan against him. He used the Red Dancing Shoes to locate Fu Qingyang, and the shoes found him trapped at an intersection in Gold Mountain City.

• Guan Ya called Fu Qingxuan, who explained that the Fear Heavenly King had lured her away while Dark Night Rose trapped Fu Qingyang in a concealed pocket dimension.
• Zhang Yuanqing confronted the Fear Heavenly King and concluded that Dark Night Rose and the Lord of Weapons Cult had coordinated their operation to rescue Magic Eye and capture the elders.
• The Songhai elders discussed their failed search until Fu Qingxuan left their meeting after learning Zhang Yuanqing had a way to locate Fu Qingyang.
• Zhang Yuanqing used cells from Fu Qingyang's wine glass as a medium for the Red Dancing Shoes, then rode with Fu Qingxuan to Gold Mountain City.
• The Red Dancing Shoes located Fu Qingyang at an intersection but could not break into the pocket dimension, so Fu Qingxuan flew toward it and Zhang Yuanqing followed.

Zhang Yuanqing followed Fu Qingxuan into Ghost City, where she offered to help him gather Saint-level Spirit Servants before they continued the rescue. Meanwhile, Silver Moon Heavenly King revived at God Mountain and learned from Fear Heavenly King why Fu Qingyang would not retreat from a challenge.

• Zhang Yuanqing followed the white-haired marshal into Ghost City after she entered the spatial rift, and Fu Qingxuan identified the place as a demigod-level item.
• Zhang Yuanqing subdued and absorbed a weakened Level Seven vengeful spirit, impressing Fu Qingxuan, who offered to help him collect Saint-level Spirit Servants and yin corpses.
• At God Mountain, Silver Moon Heavenly King emerged from Mother Goddess's Womb, and Fear Heavenly King taunted him about his defeat by the Ancient War God.
• Fear Heavenly King explained that Fu Qingyang had spent over twenty years confining himself to training and would never back down from an equal-level challenge.
• Silver Moon Heavenly King recalled his enslavement in the Free Federation and his vow never to be anyone's slave, while Fear Heavenly King waited for another person to revive.
• Fu Qingyang emerged from the darkness and confirmed that he would not retreat even if it meant dying.

The official team remained trapped beneath Gao Feng’s Coward’s Quilt in the doll gallery until Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingxuan arrived to rescue them. Fu Qingxuan then took Fu Qingyang’s Swordmaster Cloak and used it to kill three Dark Night Rose protectors, one of whom Elder Hongying recognized.

• The official team hid under Gao Feng’s Coward’s Quilt as the doll gallery’s curse transformed parts of their bodies, and their four-hour limit drew near.
• Zhang Yuanqing collected another corpse puppet with Fu Qingxuan’s help, then found the trapped team by following his Red Dancing Shoes.
• Zhang Yuanqing photographed the nine people beneath the quilt, and Fu Qingxuan cut down the dolls and freed them.
• Fu Qingxuan took Fu Qingyang’s Swordmaster Cloak, boosted her sword technique, and killed three Dark Night Rose protectors.
• Fu Qingxuan identified the three protectors as likely to revive in the northwest, and Elder Hongying recognized one as Elder Everlasting Rivers and Mountains.

After the failed operation in Ghost City, Fu Qingyang exposed that Taiyi Sect records for Everlasting Rivers and Mountains and Ling Tuo had been erased, prompting suspicion that Ling Tuo led Dark Night Rose. Elder Sun confirmed the suspicion to a shaken Ling Jun, leaving him struggling to understand why his admired brother had become the leader of an evil organization.

• Elder Hongying identified Dark Night Rose's Grand Protector as Everlasting Rivers and Mountains, a former Taiyi Sect elder believed to have returned to the Spirit Realm.
• Ghost City vanished, and Fu Qingxuan left for the Capital City after telling Fu Qingyang to investigate and asking Zhang Yuanqing to send her the photos.
• The three Dark Night Rose Protectors resurrected in the Lord of Weapons Cult's flesh pod, and the Grand Protector admitted their operation had failed.
• During an online meeting, Fu Qingyang revealed that Taiyi Sect records for Everlasting Rivers and Mountains and Ling Tuo had been erased, naming Ling Tuo as a suspect for Dark Night Rose's leader.
• Ling Jun confronted Elder Sun, who confirmed that Ling Tuo was Dark Night Rose's leader and that Everlasting Rivers and Mountains had been his follower.