Chapter Summaries

After the curse ended, Zhang Yuanqing and his team healed their wounded and entered a valley filled with resentful spirits and yin corpses. A powerful wraith attacked Sun Miaomiao, and as more enemies emerged, Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Holy Infant to face them.

• Zhang Yuanqing used Life Source Fluid and the Mountain God Scepter to heal Red Chicken Bro, while Guan Ya recovered from the scepter’s side effect with the Ghost Mirror.
• The team inspected the Six Livestock Instrument, then continued through the passage and reached a valley marked with Mohist principles and filled with resentful spirits.
• Sun Miaomiao used a Daoist robe to absorb the spirits, but a powerful wraith possessed her and twisted her body; Zhang Yuanqing, Yi Chuanmei, Zhao Chenghuang, and Guan Ya drove it out and weakened it.
• The wraith summoned more than a hundred yin corpses from coffins on the cliffs, and Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Holy Infant, warning his teammates that its cry could cause pregnancy.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Holy Infant’s ability to multiply Ghost Claw Grass and defeat the yin corpse army, then devoured the black-robed wraith and learned how the Jin Kingdom destroyed the Mohist Sect. The team reunited, but All Under Heaven Returns to Fire noticed that the instance had not recognized the main quest as complete.

• The Holy Infant’s cries caused the fleeing team to become pregnant and lose power, but they escaped the cries’ range and recovered; Princess Yinyao returned to help Zhang Yuanqing after realizing yin corpses could not become pregnant.
• Zhang Yuanqing spread Ghost Claw Grass spores among the yin corpses and used the Holy Infant’s cries to make them multiply inside the corpses, leaving the army vulnerable to his undead allies.
• Zhang Yuanqing defeated the black-robed wraith with Yi Chuanmei’s help, devoured its soul, and learned that the Jin Kingdom had invaded the Mohist Sect to seize its ancient treasure.
• The recovered team returned, and Zhang Yuanqing offered Sun Miaomiao and Zhao Chenghuang level-five yin corpses before explaining what he had learned about the Mohist Sect’s destruction.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire questioned why the instance had not marked the main quest complete despite Zhang Yuanqing’s discovery.

The Undead Squad reached the ruined headquarters of the Mohist Sect and discovered a powerful mechanical guardian at its center. Zhao Chenghuang’s Corpse Puppet was destroyed by the guardian’s strange influence, leaving the team unsure what it had encountered.

• The team debated whether they had completed the mission and concluded that another stage likely remained, possibly involving a weakened Ancient War God.
• Zhang Yuanqing led the team through a trapped mountain cave into the devastated underground city of the Mohist Sect.
• Guan Ya spotted a three-meter-tall mechanical construct in the city center and detected signs of life inside it.
• Zhao Chenghuang sent a Supernatural Corpse ahead and found the construct standing on a massive Bagua diagram beside the remaining Mohist doctrine tablets.
• The construct appeared beside Zhao Chenghuang’s Corpse Puppet, made it lose its fear and resistance, and split it in two with a saber.
• Zhao Chenghuang returned to the team visibly shaken, and Guan Ya asked what had happened.

Zhang Yuanqing’s group discovered that the dungeon’s final boss was a Mohist mech and learned that its rules could suppress their will to fight. After surviving repeated drone attacks, they used corpse puppets to probe the mech’s abilities and began narrowing down the rules’ timing.

• Zhao Chenghuang revealed that the mech was the final boss and that Universal Love made its victims lose their will to fight.
• More than thirty drones emerged from the mountain walls and bombarded the group, but All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, Red Chicken Bro, Zhang Yuanqing, and Sun Miaomiao helped bring them down.
• Zhang Yuanqing ordered the group to return to the valley and refine corpse puppets for reconnaissance, then assigned Sun Miaomiao to scout and Guan Ya to analyze her findings.
• Sun Miaomiao’s first corpse puppet revealed that Non-Aggression prevented attacks on the mech, while a second puppet was destroyed and afflicted with Universal Love.
• Guan Ya compared Sun Miaomiao’s and Zhao Chenghuang’s experiences and concluded that Universal Love and Non-Aggression appeared to trigger after different time intervals.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team tested the Bagua stage’s rules and devised a plan to confront its mech-men and mechanical beasts. He aimed to guarantee zero casualties by using the Great Luo Star Chart to test the plan’s feasibility.

• Zhang Yuanqing tested Non-Aggression and Universal Love against the mech and determined when each rule triggered.
• The team fought off more than fifty mechanical constructs, and Xiahou Aotian identified their coordinated attacks as Unity of Will.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates established the stage’s rules, including the timing and effects of Will of Heaven.
• Zhang Yuanqing proposed having Sun Miaomiao handle the mechanical beasts, Xiahou Aotian observe the Bagua formation, and the team use his Italian Cannon and Yin-Yang Turntable against the mech.
• Zhang Yuanqing said he wanted to guarantee zero casualties and used the Great Luo Star Chart to deduce whether their plan would work.

Zhang Yuanqing led the team through a carefully planned assault that damaged the mech’s armor and exposed the old man inside. The Yin-Yang Turntable landed on black, triggering its deadly question and summoning over a hundred mechanical beasts.

• Zhang Yuanqing finished using Stargazing Art and told the team they had to defeat the boss in the first round by following his plan precisely.
• Zhang Yuanqing drew the mech’s fire as a black bear, and Xiahou Aotian fired the cannon, damaging the mech but leaving its armor intact.
• All Under Heaven Returns to Fire, Red Chicken Bro, Asano Ryo, and Guan Ya attacked the mech and cracked its heated bronze chest plate before the team retreated from the plaza.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned with the Thunderstorm Cannon and destroyed the cracked chest armor, revealing a white-haired old man connected to the mech by metal tubes.
• The Yin-Yang Turntable landed on black and warned that a wrong answer would be fatal, while more than a hundred mechanical beasts emerged from the mountain walls.

The Undead Squad fought increasingly intelligent mechanical puppets while Zhang Yuanqing tried to destroy the regenerating mech before Heavenly Will activated. With the Yin-Yang Turntable draining the old man inside and his teammates holding off the constructs, Zhang Yuanqing destroyed the mech and killed the Mohist elder just before the five-minute deadline.

• Sun Miaomiao and Guan Ya discovered that the mechanical puppets could dodge attacks, while Little Round spotted the mech regenerating with Resting Earth.
• Zhang Yuanqing rejected Plan B and ordered the squad to protect him while he continued Plan A and attacked the mech.
• Yi Chuanmei restrained the mech’s Resting Earth repairs as the Yin-Yang Turntable presented Zhang Yuanqing with a question and began draining the old man’s life force.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Heaven-Worship Set, the Thunderstorm Cannon, and his Purple Thunder Hammer to weaken the mech while his yin corpses helped pin it down.
• Zhang Yuanqing broke apart the mech’s armor and stabbed the old man inside with a flame knife, killing him just before Heavenly Will activated.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team defeated the Mohist Mechanism City boss, uncovered why the city had been destroyed, and received their S-rank dungeon rewards. As they prepared to leave, Zhang Yuanqing examined his new Craftsman's Ring and explained his answer to the Rogue Disk’s question.

• Zhang Yuanqing and the team destroyed the remaining mechanism constructs, but the Spirit Realm delayed reward settlement because their main mission was incomplete.
• Guan Ya deduced that the Mohist Sect had spread a false rumor about an ancient treasure to lure Golden Court’s forces into the city and destroy them, completing the mission.
• Zhang Yuanqing discovered the mech’s old pilot had died long ago, told his lingering spirit that Golden Court had fallen and Great Song had survived, and watched the spirit dissipate.
• The team received experience, tokens, and items, while Zhang Yuanqing gained the Craftsman’s Ring, which reduced item costs by 30% and could waive one cost.
• Zhang Yuanqing shared his crude interpretation of the Rogue Disk’s question, and the team was transported out when the countdown ended.

After clearing an S-rank dungeon, Zhang Yuanqing organized the guild’s next expedition and arranged for Guan Ya to borrow the Heavenly Cloud Cluster. The chapter ended with Elder Zhao warning about a sacrifice on the chessboard and Elder Sun scolding Sun Miaomiao to stay away from Yuanshi Tianzun.

• Zhang Yuanqing returned from the dungeon with Guan Ya and Princess Yinyao, then discussed the risks and rewards of S-rank dungeons with Guan Ya.
• Zhang Yuanqing arranged for the guild to enter another dungeon and generated the B-rank, non-death dungeon Grassland Shadow, while telling the group he would not join.
• Little Round told Kou Beiyue she had reached Level 5 after an S-rank dungeon and left him to watch the hotel while she entered another guild dungeon.
• Zhao Chenghuang asked Elder Zhao to prepare materials for a Level 5 yin corpse, and Elder Zhao compared their situation to a chess piece that might need to be sacrificed.
• Elder Sun scolded Sun Miaomiao to stay away from Yuanshi Tianzun, and she dismissed his warning.

Sun Miaomiao considered her feelings for Yuanshi Tianzun while Elder Sun worried about the consequences of their connection. Asano Ryo secured the Heavenly Cloud Cluster for Yuanshi, Xiahou Aotian traded a mechanism blueprint for family favors and prepared to provoke his demigod ancestor, and Annie received a bounty mission involving Underworld King.

• Elder Sun asked Sun Miaomiao whether she liked Yuanshi Tianzun, and she admitted she might have a tiny bit of interest in him.
• Asano Ryo persuaded the Thousand Crane Group officials to honor their agreement and received the Heavenly Cloud Cluster for Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Kobe Ichiro told Asano Ryo that Heaven's Punishment's Level-One Executor would visit the island nation before heading to the mainland, so she postponed her guild instance.
• Xiahou Aotian showed the Xiahou Family patriarch a mechanism blueprint, negotiated a family debt write-off, and flew a drone toward the residence of the family's demigod ancestor to provoke him.
• Annie sent an intelligence report about Yuanshi Tianzun to the Goddess of Beauty Association, then received a bounty mission recommending him to capture the infiltrating Underworld King.

After dinner with Fu Qingyang and Guan Ya, Zhang Yuanqing learned that Heaven's Punishment was sending a bronze Level One Executor to the Island Nation and received a warning from Zhao Chenghuang that he was caught in a game. When Xiahou Aotian failed to check in for a dungeon, Zhang discovered the Xiahou Family's ancestor had hung him from a drone, then contacted Huang Taiji about buying dual-cultivation items; the chapter ended with Annie calling him.

• At dinner, Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang that Xiahou Aotian had obtained a mechanical arts manual, and Fu Qingyang proposed supplying mechanical weapons to the official organization.
• In the King's Gang group chat, Asano Ryo reported that a bronze Level One Executor from Heaven's Punishment would soon visit the Island Nation, and Zhao Chenghuang privately relayed Elder Zhao's warning to Zhang Yuanqing.
• Zhang Yuanqing started the faction dungeon without Xiahou Aotian, who was missing and whose phone was switched off.
• A Xiahou Family representative told Zhang Yuanqing that the family's ancestor had hung Xiahou Aotian from a drone for a day and a night after he angered the ancestor.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Huang Taiji to return his Resting Earth and asked to buy two dual-cultivation items, and Huang Taiji agreed to send him details.
• Annie called Zhang Yuanqing after he excitedly rolled around on the bed.

Zhang Yuanqing chose the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt from Huang Taiji’s list of dual-cultivation items and exchanged the Beast King Bracelet and Resting Earth for it. He then accepted Annie’s secret mission to capture the level 6 Abyss Walker Underworld King, but suspected the Goddess of Beauty Association was hiding a reason for keeping the task from the Five Elements Alliance.

• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed Huang Taiji’s four dual-cultivation items, chose the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt, and arranged to trade the Beast King Bracelet and Resting Earth for it.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Annie at her apartment after driving to the residential complex with the Queen and Xie Lingxi.
• Annie told Zhang Yuanqing that the Goddess of Beauty Association wanted him to secretly capture the wanted criminal Underworld King without alerting the Five Elements Alliance.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Underworld King was a level 6 Abyss Walker, a former member of the destroyed overseas organization Dream of the Night who had recently entered China.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted the mission for six million federal dollars and 160 points, then questioned why the Association required secrecy; Annie hesitated to explain.

Annie told Zhang Yuanqing that the Church, once the world’s dominant Spirit Realm Walker organization, had been destroyed during World War I, and that the Underworld King might hold secrets behind its fall. After arranging a higher reward for capturing him, Zhang Yuanqing discussed the political risks with Fu Qingyang, then visited family and contacted Xiahou Aotian about a business opportunity in Songhai.

• Annie explained that the Church had dominated Spirit Realm Walkers until World War I, when Orderly and Evil organizations joined forces to destroy it.
• Annie revealed that Heaven's Punishment and other major organizations had pursued Dream of the Night's leaders over clues to the Church's destruction, leaving the Underworld King as the sole known survivor at large.
• Zhang Yuanqing negotiated double the points and bonus for the Underworld King mission, then discussed the Church's history and the dangers surrounding the capture with Fu Qingyang.
• Fu Qingyang asked Zhang Yuanqing to bring Xiahou Aotian to Songhai to discuss business and help settle the Yin-Yang Turntable matter.
• Zhang Yuanqing received the Yin-Yang Joyous Union Quilt, visited his grandmother's family, and joined his uncle in entertaining the local square-dancing crowd.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Xiahou Aotian, joked about his ancestor sending him into the sky, and invited him to Songhai for Fu Qingyang's business proposal.

Xiahou Aotian negotiated with Fu Qingyang to manufacture and sell mechanisms from the manual he had obtained, while Zhang Yuanqing helped arrange the deal. Fu Qingyang set up a factory and recruited Li Chunfeng, leaving the team surprised by the Scholar’s reassignment.

• Xiahou Aotian met Fu Qingyang and learned that Zhang Yuanqing had told him about the mechanism manual.
• Xiahou Aotian admitted that he had already given the Xiahou Family a blueprint for a low-grade puppet.
• Fu Qingyang proposed an exclusive manufacturing and sales partnership, and Xiahou Aotian agreed after hearing the guild would receive a major share and he could lead a factory.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing he planned to reduce Xiahou Aotian’s shares later and give Zhang Yuanqing ten percent of the company.
• Li Chunfeng told Xie Lingxi and Queen that Fu Qingyang had transferred him to the new mechanism factory for a higher salary.

Li Chunfeng joined Xiahou Aotian’s Technical Department and inspected its equipment, while Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang faced a dispute over the supposedly lost Yin-Yang Turntable. After Secretary Li and Elder Detective left, Fu Qingyang warned Zhang Yuanqing that they would likely seek Cai’s help to target him.

• Li Chunfeng questioned Xiahou Aotian’s bizarre employee handbook but agreed to join the Technical Department after receiving Yuanshi Tianzun’s message, then toured the factory and examined Xiahou Aotian’s furnace.
• Fu Qingyang told Zhang Yuanqing that he had reported the Yin-Yang Turntable lost and that headquarters might question him, then Elder Detective arrived demanding compensation for the Jianghuai Branch’s item.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered to repay his rewards from the Jianghuai Branch, and Fu Qingyang offered an item, but Elder Detective rejected the offer and clashed with Fu Qingyang over the Heaven-Worship Set.
• Fu Qingyang and Zhang Yuanqing used their accusations and a claim of an 800 million sponsorship to reject Secretary Li’s proposed settlement, so Secretary Li and Elder Detective departed without an agreement.
• Secretary Li privately planned to persuade Elder Cai to detain Zhang Yuanqing and implicate Fu Qingyang, while Fu Qingyang warned Zhang Yuanqing to lie low and predicted that they would seek Cai’s help.

Zhang Yuanqing used stargazing to locate the Underworld King and prepared for the dispute over the Yin-Yang Turntable, then cooperated with the Jianghuai Branch’s investigation. The Detective Elder’s plan to obtain a Tiger Tally collapsed when the Marshal refused to lend it, leaving headquarters without the approval it needed.

• Zhang Yuanqing foresaw a high-ranking Sovereign’s involvement in the Yin-Yang Turntable dispute and deduced that the Underworld King was southwest of him.
• Ling Jun brought Victoria to Zhang Yuanqing, and she agreed to set up an array that would conceal him.
• Prairie-Scorching Heavenly Fire arrived with a detention order, but Zhang Yuanqing trapped the enforcement team in an illusion before agreeing to travel with them to the Jianghuai Branch.
• During questioning, Zhang Yuanqing said the Yin-Yang Turntable had been lost in the S-grade Mohist Mechanism City guild instance and refused to identify the other guild members.
• The Detective Elder and the black-robed old man reviewed Zhang Yuanqing’s transcript and expected Elder Cai’s Tiger Tally to secure headquarters’ case against him.
• Secretary Zhou told the Detective Elder and the black-robed old man that the Marshal had refused to lend the Tiger Tally because she was in a bad mood.

Elder Detective used his Automaton Master ability to force Zhang Yuanqing to confess that he had lied about the Yin-Yang Turntable, while Fu Qingyang reviewed Xiahou Aotian’s new mechanism weapons. The chapter ended as headquarters began a disciplinary meeting about Yuanshi Tianzun embezzling official assets.

• Elder Detective and Secretary Zhou decided they could proceed against Zhang Yuanqing without the Marshal’s Tiger Tally by using his confession as a pretext.
• Elder Detective controlled Zhang Yuanqing during interrogation and recorded him admitting that the Yin-Yang Turntable had not been lost and that he had wanted to embezzle it.
• Fu Qingyang examined four mechanism weapons made by Xiahou Aotian, including the Atlas Gauntlets, Buddha’s Fury Tang Lotus, and a combat puppet.
• Elder Cai opened a headquarters meeting to discuss the case of Yuanshi Tianzun embezzling official assets.

Headquarters used Yuanshi Tianzun’s alleged embezzlement of the Yin-Yang Turntable to demand the Heaven-Worship Set, but Fu Qingyang’s warning and a secret offer changed the outcome. Headquarters let Yuanshi Tianzun keep the turntable with a reduced punishment, and Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang what he had negotiated.

• Secretary Li presented evidence that Yuanshi Tianzun had lied about losing the Yin-Yang Turntable, while the Songhai and Jianghuai elders argued over the case.
• Secretary Yang proposed settling the matter by having Yuanshi Tianzun surrender the Heaven-Worship Set, but Dog Elder refused on Songhai’s behalf.
• Fu Qingyang reminded headquarters of Fu Qingxuan’s warning to the Ten Elders, prompting Elder Cai to suspend the meeting.
• Elder Cai announced that headquarters would deduct one A-grade merit and one B-grade merit, impose a five-million fine, and require one Saint-quality prop instead of taking the Heaven-Worship Set.
• Secretary Li told Detective Elder that Fu Qingyang had offered headquarters compensation it could not refuse and had leverage over the officials, ending the Jianghuai Branch’s attempt to claim the turntable.
• At Fu Family Bay, Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang how he had negotiated with headquarters after learning that the Yin-Yang Turntable was his to keep.

Fu Qingyang arranged funding, staffing, and security for a mechanical-weapon company, while Xiahou Aotian rejected his family’s demands and offered them a limited stake. In the Free Federation, Fu Xue learned that Fu Qingyang’s deal with the Five Elements Alliance had prompted the Fu elders to sell the companies she managed and that he wanted to become family head.

• Fu Qingyang explained that headquarters had accepted a discounted mechanical-weapon deal, and he planned to fund the company through Fu Xue’s investment while keeping her from decision-making power.
• Fu Qingyang outlined safeguards for the company, including White Tiger Guard security, Scholars recruited through Li Chunfeng and Xiahou Aotian, and a contract and debts to keep Xiahou Aotian loyal.
• Xiahou Aotian refused his Sixth Uncle’s demand to share the mechanical arts with the Xiahou Family, but offered the family 5% of the company in exchange for Transcendent Stage Scholars.
• Fu Xue confronted Fu Long about the sale of the three listed companies she managed, and he told her the Fu elders had sold them to raise funds after Fu Qingyang secured a major deal with the Five Elements Alliance.
• Fu Long revealed that Fu Qingyang had rejected the family’s investment because he demanded that his father step aside and that he become family head, prompting Fu Xue to ask what the deal involved.

Fu Xue accepted Zhang Yuanqing’s offer to buy shares in Fu Qingyang’s mechanical arts company and left for the mainland despite Fu Long’s attempt to redirect the deal to the Fu Family. In Tokyo, Asano Ryo met Heaven’s Punishment envoy Demon Hunter, who questioned her about Yuanshi Tianzun and an allegation that he was the Demon Lord’s inheritor.

• Fu Long told Fu Xue that Fu Qingyang planned to mass-produce mechanical weapons, but his demand to become family head had set him against the Council of Elders.
• Fu Xue defended Guan Ya’s relationship with Yuanshi Tianzun, then learned from Zhang Yuanqing that she could buy five percent of the mechanical arts company for one billion Federation dollars if she lent it another billion interest-free.
• Fu Xue decided to travel to the mainland and sought a five-hundred-million-dollar loan from Chen Shu, who refused after hearing that Zhang Yuanqing had called Fu Xue Mom affectionately.
• Fu Long offered Fu Xue other companies and a larger profit share if she transferred the equity to the family, but Fu Xue rejected him and drove away.
• Asano Ryo joined Thousand Crane Group leader Kobe Ichiro in welcoming Heaven’s Punishment envoy Demon Hunter and three other men at Mountain House.
• Demon Hunter told Asano Ryo that an informant claimed Yuanshi Tianzun was the Demon Lord’s inheritor and began questioning her about him.