Chapter Summaries

Elder Sun recounted how Ling Tuo became the leader of Dark Night Rose, while Ling Jun, Victoria, and the others uncovered more questions than answers about his death and resurrection. Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang identified the Zoo as a possible source of answers, and Zhang secretly planned to enter it that night to question its artifact spirit.

• Elder Sun told Ling Jun and Victoria that Ling Tuo had joined the Carefree Organization, disappeared after the Light Compass incident, and was later believed dead; Everlasting Rivers and Mountains then went mad and founded Dark Night Rose with him.
• Elder Sun revealed that Dark Night Rose and the Lord of Weapons Cult exterminated the Chu Family two years later, and the meeting concluded that Ling Tuo was the organization's leader, though Taiyi Sect refused to explain the unresolved details.
• Fu Qingyang told Fu Qingxuan that Yuanshi Tianzun had given her a powerful treasure, and she teased him by changing their shared profile picture before returning it after he threatened to extend her loan of the cloak.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Fu Qingyang, and Ling Jun theorized that the Carefree Organization had pursued the Spirit Realm's secrets, that Ling Tuo died during the attempt, and that Everlasting Rivers and Mountains later helped resurrect him by destroying the Chu Family.
• Fu Qingyang suggested that the Zoo's artifact spirit might know what happened to the Carefree Organization, and Zhang Yuanqing secretly decided to enter the Zoo disguised as Zhang Zizhen that night.
• Zhang Yuanqing left to refine his Yin Corpse Spirit Servant, while Fu Qingyang realized he had barely touched his whiskey and remarked that he only drank cola.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared his guild members for their first A-rank death-type dungeon, East Star Hotel, and sent Xie Lingxi, Queen, and Li Chunfeng in with talismans and Little Doubi. Later, he returned to the Zoo at night and called Zhang Zizhen’s name to draw out the artifact spirit.

• Zhang Yuanqing activated the guild dungeon and discovered it was the A-rank death-type East Star Hotel.
• Guan Ya rallied Xie Lingxi, Queen, and Li Chunfeng, and Zhang Yuanqing prepared talismans and sent Little Doubi with them into the dungeon.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya argued playfully over Little Round before spending the night together.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the Zoo using a yin corpse and called Zhang Zizhen’s name to summon the artifact spirit.
• A fierce wind swept through the Zoo, and a gaze descended from the night sky onto Zhang Yuanqing.

Zhang Yuanqing spoke with the Zoo’s artifact spirit, a rabbit, and learned what happened to Zhang Zizhen and the Carefree Organization after they used the Light Compass fragment. The rabbit revealed that the fourth member of the Shadow Twins was The Past Leaves No Trace, leaving Zhang Yuanqing stunned.

• Zhang Yuanqing calmed the angry artifact spirit by revealing that he was Zhang Zizhen’s son, and the spirit possessed a rabbit to speak with him.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked about the events of 1999, and the rabbit said the four members of the Carefree Organization used the Light Compass fragment to enter the Spirit Realm and returned injured after a dispute.
• The rabbit explained that Zhang Zizhen was cursed, later learned Ling Tuo and Chu Shang had died, and eventually left the Zoo without returning.
• The rabbit told Zhang Yuanqing that the Zoo’s sealed creatures were ancient beast souls and identified the spirit’s cry as Xuanyuan, prompting him to connect the Ancient War God with Chiyou.
• The rabbit promised to keep their meeting secret and revealed that the fourth member of the Shadow Twins was The Past Leaves No Trace.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Master Wuhen was one of the Carefree Sons and decided to question him about the past, while Dog Elder and Fu Qingyang investigated the missing Southern Faction elders. The chapter ended as Zhang Yuanqing received a notification that the second Spirit Realm world was opening.

• The little rabbit told Zhang Yuanqing that Master Wuhen was The Past Leaves No Trace, and explained that Dog Elder probably did not know his identity or Zhang Zizhen's family background.
• Dog Elder and Fu Qingyang discussed Celestial Master Zhang, the Southern Faction elders who vanished during the battle, and whether Yuanshi Tianzun could ask a Southern Faction Dream Master about them.
• Dark Night Rose's messengers told the Nihility Sect's Great Elder that their leader wanted to meet the Sect Leader about an opportunity to gain demigod-level power.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the Stop-Killing Palace Lord that Master Wuhen was one of the Shadow Twins and said he planned to question him after his sermon.
• Zhang Yuanqing received a Spirit Realm notification that the East Star Hotel guide had ended and the second Spirit Realm world was opening.

After Xie Lingxi, the Queen, and Li Chunfeng returned from an A-rank instance with a mysterious map fragment, Zhang Yuanqing generated a B-rank non-death training-camp instance for the gang. In the group chat, he revealed that Dark Night Rose's Grand Protector had been a former Taiyi Sect Elder, then hinted that an even more significant person made the incident taboo.

• Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya hurriedly dressed before Xie Lingxi and the others returned from the instance, and he healed their injuries with the Mountain God Scepter.
• Li Chunfeng reported that the team had uncovered the hotel owner's spirit-medium past and found a mysterious map fragment, which Zhang Yuanqing stored in the gang warehouse.
• Zhang Yuanqing generated the gang's second instance, Crazy Training Camp, a B-rank non-death competition, and scheduled the team to enter the next morning.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent Xie Lingxi, the Queen, and Li Chunfeng into the instance, then joined the Protagonist Squad Struggle Group's discussion about events in Songhai.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed that Dark Night Rose's operation to rescue Magic Eye involved a Ghost City and that the Marshal had killed its Grand Protector, a former Taiyi Sect Elder known as Everlasting Rivers and Mountains.
• Zhang Yuanqing said another person, rather than Everlasting Rivers and Mountains, was the real reason the incident was taboo, leaving the group wondering who it was.

Zhang Yuanqing told his teammates that Ling Tuo, the Taiyi Sect Master's son, led Dark Night Rose, then exchanged intelligence with Xiahou Aotian about the Heaven-Worship Set and the First Emperor. At Wuhen Hotel, Little Fatty joined Master Wuhen's small circle of followers as they gathered for the annual sermon and discussed their dwindling membership and funding.

• Zhang Yuanqing revealed Ling Tuo's identity to his teammates, shocking Sun Miaomiao, Zhao Chenghuang, Xiahou Aotian, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire.
• Xiahou Aotian told Zhang Yuanqing that the First Emperor forged the Heaven-Worship Set and sought immortality after receiving an oracle from Haotian.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Xiahou Aotian carried a Qin Dynasty occultist in his ring and told him the Five Elements power could pass from one host to another through an inner pill.
• Xiahou Aotian shared Zhang Yuanqing's information with the Qin Dynasty occultist, whose mental state became intensely agitated.
• At Wuhen Hotel, Little Fatty joined the remaining followers of Master Wuhen before the annual sermon, and the group discussed losses, Little Round's level drop, and their expected funding.

Little Round explained Yuanshi Tianzun’s generosity and good deeds to the Wuhen Hotel team, and Zhang Yuanqing won their favor with gifts and lively conversation. After he revealed his powerful corpse puppets to stop Lin Chong from challenging him, the group prepared to attend Master Wuhen’s sermon and face the Demon-Revealing Mirror.

• Little Round announced that each team member would receive a budget of five hundred thousand, funded by Yuanshi Tianzun’s compensation and other help.
• Little Round recounted Yuanshi Tianzun’s aid to the team and his work with the official organization, greatly improving the team’s opinion of him.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived with Kou Beiyue, introduced himself to the team, and gave members gifts tailored to their preferences.
• Zhang Yuanqing enlivened the gathering with conversation and food, but Lin Chong drunkenly demanded a sparring match.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned ten corpse puppets and released powerful yin energy, causing Lin Chong to abandon the challenge and earning the team’s respect.
• Little Round explained the sermon rules and the Sovereign-grade Demon-Revealing Mirror, then crushed a black jade talisman to begin the gathering.

At Master Wuhen’s Buddhist hall, the team members confronted their inner selves in a mirror, and Zhang Yuanqing discovered a fractured reflection darker than anyone else’s. After Master Wuhen’s chanting prompted Little Fatty to confess his painful past, Zhang Yuanqing challenged the master, and the Buddha statue opened its eyes at his words.

• Little Round and the other team members looked into the mirror, which revealed their hidden selves and worsening hostility in several of them.
• Zhang Yuanqing saw himself split into two fractured halves, with a darkness deeper than Aunt Fang’s, and was guided to sit beside Master Wuhen.
• Master Wuhen chanted the Heart Sutra, calming the group and stirring an urge to confess their buried secrets.
• Little Fatty confessed how school bullies abused him, how Brother Dao protected him, and how he later became a bully himself because he feared returning to his timid past.
• Zhang Yuanqing challenged Master Wuhen to repent, then called out “Blazing Sun and Shadow,” causing the Buddha statue to open its wrathful eyes.

Zhang Yuanqing revealed his identity as Celestial Master Zhang’s son and asked Master Wuhen about the events of 1999. Wuhen explained that the four explorers had been cursed after discovering a truth in the Spirit Realm, then revealed that Ling Tuo had been killed by the other three.

• After Master Wuhen’s Buddha statue opened its eyes, he returned the shaken members to the hotel, where they wondered what Zhang Yuanqing had said to him.
• Little Round recounted how Zhang Yuanqing had been possessed by an instance-dungeon boss, while Little Fatty asked Kou Beiyue to let him leave for the Southern Faction.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Master Wuhen that he was Celestial Master Zhang’s son and asked what the four had done in 1999.
• Master Wuhen said the Light Compass Fragment had taken the four to the deepest part of the Spirit Realm, where learning its truth cursed them and anyone else who learned it.
• Master Wuhen explained that the curse drove him toward bloodthirsty urges and said that the three others had killed Ling Tuo.

Zhang Yuanqing learned from Master Wuhen that Ling Tuo had fallen as a Night Wanderer, been killed, and later returned to seek the Light Compass and revenge. He discovered a possible path to resurrect his father and Chu Shang, then left to share the news with the Stop-Killing Palace Lord.

• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Ling Tuo had fallen under his Night Wanderer curse, prompting Master Wuhen and the Carefree Organization to kill him before Dark Night Rose later helped revive him.
• Master Wuhen explained that Ling Tuo returned as a demigod to seek revenge and obtain the Light Compass, and that fallen high-ranking Night Wanderers had to die.
• Master Wuhen revealed that Celestial Master Zhang and Chu Shang might be resurrected if their hidden clones and Mother Goddess's Womb were recovered, and Zhang Yuanqing suspected Chen Shu had his father's clone.
• Zhang Yuanqing left Wuhen Hotel, told his team they would enter the Spirit Realm the next morning, accepted Demon Eye Heavenly King's friend request, and arranged to meet the Stop-Killing Palace Lord.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the Stop-Killing Palace Lord that he might have found a way to resurrect both their fathers, and she dropped her kettle in shock.

After learning that Ling Tuo may have targeted him while seeking Zhang Zizhen’s Light Compass Fragment, Zhang Yuanqing sought comfort from the Stop-Killing Palace Lord and guidance from Ling Jun about his feelings for several women. He invited Red Chicken Bro to join his guild, and Red Chicken Bro told Elder Sauce Burst about the invitation.

• Zhang Yuanqing told the Stop-Killing Palace Lord what Master Wuhen had revealed about the Shadow Twins and the avatars left by the four Unfettered Sons.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord helped Zhang Yuanqing realize that Dark Night Rose might have tracked Zhang Zizhen’s friends and gifted Night Wanderers, leading him to suspect that Ling Tuo had been involved in Demon Lord’s death and was now targeting him.
• Zhang Yuanqing confessed to Ling Jun that he had feelings for Guan Ya, Little Round, and another woman, and Ling Jun advised him about relationships and power.
• Zhang Yuanqing invited Red Chicken Bro to join his guild, then worried about the upcoming guild dungeon and Ling Tuo’s plans for him.
• Red Chicken Bro told Elder Sauce Burst about the invitation, prompting Elder Sauce Burst to react with surprise.

Elder Sauce Burst approved Red Chicken Bro joining Yuanshi Tianzun’s guild despite the political risks, while Zhang Yuanqing considered the powerful figures watching him and prepared to enter a guild dungeon with his companions. After Red Chicken Bro joined, Zhang Yuanqing generated the S-rank death dungeon Mohist Mechanism City, whose quest was to investigate the Mohist School’s destruction.

• Red Chicken Bro asked Elder Sauce Burst whether he should join Yuanshi Tianzun’s guild, and Elder Sauce Burst told him to join because loyalty mattered most.
• Secretary Xu warned Elder Sauce Burst that supporting Yuanshi Tianzun could worsen his standing with headquarters, but Elder Sauce Burst dismissed the concern.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that Ling Tuo and other powerful figures were watching him, leaving him safe for now but vulnerable to a future attack.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya prepared for the dungeon while their companions joked in the group chat about Red Chicken Bro and Elder Sauce Burst.
• Red Chicken Bro joined the guild, and Zhang Yuanqing generated the S-rank death dungeon Mohist Mechanism City, where the main quest was to investigate the Mohist School’s destruction.

Zhang Yuanqing assembled the guild’s Saints for the S-rank Mohist Mechanism City dungeon, after securing the Yin-Yang Turntable and warning everyone to leave Sovereign-stage items behind. The team arrived in the wilderness, learned they had to reach the Mohist Sect before nightfall, and found a terrified farmer who begged them not to take him to Mohist Mechanism City.

• Zhang Yuanqing warned the guild Saints about the S-rank dungeon, and everyone chose to enter despite the danger.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Guan Ya that Fu Qingyang had secured approval to borrow the Yin-Yang Turntable after paying the Jianghuai Branch eighty million, and he planned to claim it was lost afterward.
• Zhang Yuanqing led eight teammates into Mohist Mechanism City, where Little Round identified Guan Ya as his official girlfriend and left Red Chicken Bro awkwardly explaining himself.
• The Spirit Realm ordered the team to reach the Mohist Sect before nightfall, and Zhang Yuanqing searched the nearby mountains but found no ruins.
• Guan Ya spotted a farmer with an ox, and Zhang Yuanqing asked him about Mohist Mechanism City; the farmer fell to his knees and begged them not to take him there.

Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates discovered that tree demons guarded the forest leading to the Mohist Sect, and Zhang Yuanqing smashed his way through them in bear form. At the forest’s end, Xiahou Aotian opened an Eight Trigrams stone door, revealing a bloodstained corridor littered with bones and corpses.

• Red Chicken Bro forced a terrified farmer to reveal that the Mohist Sect lay beyond a dangerous forest guarded by monsters, where earlier Jin expeditions had disappeared.
• Red Chicken Bro’s attempt to burn the forest failed, and Zhao Chenghuang sent a Soldier Puppet inside before tree demons severed his control over it.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the forest, was seized by vines, transformed into a black bear, and smashed through the tree demons until he reached the stone door.
• Zhang Yuanqing found that the Eight Trigrams stone door would not open and rested while Guan Ya and the others examined it.
• Xiahou Aotian identified the door’s Eight Trigrams Sealing Formation, pressed its symbols, and opened it to reveal a bloodstained corridor covered with bones and corpses.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team crossed a trapped corridor and reached a Mohist grotto guarded by an evil ghost statue that destroyed anything entering its Eight Trigrams floor. After discovering that skills failed inside and their Soldier Puppets could not survive the attacks, the group found themselves trapped between the grotto and a wave of poisonous fog.

• Guan Ya inspected the corpse-strewn corridor and concluded that it was a one-way passage guarded by multiple Swordsmen.
• Princess Yinyao tested two masked Swordsmen, and the team defeated them and recovered their puppet bodies for Xiahou Aotian to study.
• The group survived traps along the corridor and reached a grotto marked with Mohist doctrines, where the evil ghost statue attacked anything crossing the Eight Trigrams floor.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Guan Ya determined that the statue's beams targeted both physical and yin entities, while the grotto prevented skills from working.
• Zhao Chenghuang sent twelve Soldier Puppets into the grotto, but the statue destroyed them in seconds as the team discovered poisonous fog approaching from behind.

The team struggled to escape the poisonous mist and cross the stone grotto, where the evil ghost statues could shatter even Zhang Yuanqing’s powerful shield. Xiahou Aotian discovered that confessing one’s wrongdoing stopped the statues from attacking, but his explanation left Zhang Yuanqing and the others uneasy.

• Little Round endured the toxic mist and recovered quickly thanks to her poison resistance, while Zhang Yuanqing used Red Chicken Bro to push the smoke back with wind.
• The team considered hiding inside Little Red Riding Hood, but Zhang Yuanqing tested the grotto and found that its statues could destroy his shield and disable item functions.
• As the toxic mist advanced, Little Round scattered gu-poison-fed insect eggs that temporarily slowed it.
• Xiahou Aotian consulted the Qin Dynasty Occultist, who explained that the statues attacked those with guilty consciences and could be appeased through confession.
• Xiahou Aotian confessed to stealing his father’s secret stash, crossed without being attacked, and told the team to repent before the ghosts and gods.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team cleared a stone cave by confessing their past misdeeds, then explored a ruined cavern connected to the Mohist Sect’s destruction. They found evidence of a battle between Jin soldiers and Mohist disciples but no route onward, until Guan Ya spotted something interesting by the pool.

• Zhang Yuanqing entered the stone cave first and learned that confessing shameful deeds let the team pass safely.
• Red Chicken Bro, Princess Yinyao, Asano Ryo, Zhao Chenghuang, Sun Miaomiao, All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, Xiahou Aotian, and Guan Ya confessed past wrongs as they crossed the cave.
• The team reached the exit, where Princess Yinyao revealed that she had recorded their confessions, and Zhang Yuanqing led everyone onward.
• The group discovered a cavern filled with ruined buildings, broken mechanisms, and the remains of Jin soldiers and Mohist Sect disciples.
• After searching the cavern without finding a way forward, the team heard Guan Ya point out something interesting by the pool.

Zhang Yuanqing’s team found a passage beneath the pool and entered a cavern containing a strange metal machine that seemed to attack yin corpses but ignore a Soldier Puppet. The chapter ended as Zhang Yuanqing tested the machine with Little Red Riding Hood and it began to activate.

• Zhao Chenghuang sent a corpse puppet through the pool passage, but it was beheaded by an unknown danger near a metal machine.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the others entered the pool and reached a second cavern, where they found the machine and a stone stele reading “Serve the Nation with Utmost Loyalty.”
• Little Round suggested the cavern’s ceiling holes might have killed the corpse puppets, but Guan Ya argued that the machine was responsible.
• Zhao Chenghuang sent a Soldier Puppet around the cavern, and it passed the machine without being attacked.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Yi Chuanmei’s object-control ability to send Little Red Riding Hood past the machine, causing it to hum and begin moving.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions crossed the Mohist machine, whose attack transformed them into pigs and suppressed their skills. While the Qin-era Occultist explained how resisting the belief that they were pigs could break the curse, a blade puppet descended and fatally wounded Red Chicken Bro.

• Yi Chuanmei's failed attempt to control Little Red Riding Hood ended with Zhang Yuanqing swallowing her back into his stomach.
• Zhang Yuanqing led the group past the machine, blocking its electrical attack with his shield before they continued toward the exit.
• The group discovered that they had all turned into pigs and believed they had always been pigs, while Zhang Yuanqing retained his human cognition.
• The Qin-era Occultist told Zhang Yuanqing that a Mohist curse had altered their cognition and explained that resisting the belief that they were pigs could defy their fate.
• A blade puppet dropped from the ceiling and attacked Red Chicken Bro, and Zhang Yuanqing's charge only diverted the blade enough for it to sever Red Chicken Bro's spine.

Zhang Yuanqing and the others were trapped in pig bodies and hunted by a deadly puppet swordsman. After the Cat King Speaker’s music restored their fighting spirit, they joined forces to destroy the puppet, and their human forms began to return.

• The puppet swordsman killed Red Chicken Bro, wounded Sun Miaomiao, and drove the pigs toward the cavern exit.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Purple-Gold Shield to protect the others, but the puppet wounded All Under Heaven Returns to Fire and kept attacking.
• The Cat King Speaker played its suona, rousing Princess Yinyao, Guan Ya, and the other pigs to fight back.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Guan Ya, Princess Yinyao, Little Round, Xiahou Aotian, Zhao Chenghuang, and Asano Ryo pinned down the puppet swordsman.
• Zhang Yuanqing struck the puppet with the pumpkin hammer until its mechanical core and joints were destroyed.
• The pigs began changing back into humans.