Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing used Spirit Inquiry on a Voodoo Master and uncovered a list of the Voodoo King’s subordinates, while officials suspected the Voodoo King was manipulating them to find Black Impermanence. The chapter ended with the Alliance deciding to keep Zhang Yuanqing rather than transfer him to Taiyi Sect and asking Fu Qingyang to meet Ling Jun.

• Zhang Yuanqing recovered from Spirit Inquiry, told Li Dongze about the list of Black Impermanence’s subordinates, and heard that the Second Team would receive credit and compensate him.
• At dinner, Zhang Yuanqing secretly stole his grandfather’s hearing and redirected his grandmother’s scolding toward him.
• An Elder of the Hundred Flowers Society convened district officers, who discussed the list and suspected the Voodoo King was using them to locate Black Impermanence.
• The officers proposed screening everyone at the Songhai Branch and applying to use the Tiger Tally because Spirit Energy Society agents might be hiding there.
• Fu Qingyang learned that Elder Hongying wanted Zhang Yuanqing transferred to Taiyi Sect, but Old Zhang praised Zhang Yuanqing’s willingness to help, and the officials decided to keep him.
• The Elder told Fu Qingyang that Ling Jun would arrive with his team to help hunt Black Impermanence and asked Fu Qingyang to meet him.

Zhang Yuanqing recruited Wang Qian as an informant after Wang Qian learned his identity was Yuanshi Tianzun. Meanwhile, Lady of Three Paths Mountain escaped a pocket dimension, and Mu Qiu entered an unexpectedly S-rank solo Spirit Realm.

• Zhang Yuanqing asked Wang Qian to register as a Spirit Realm Walker and become his informant, and Wang Qian initially declined.
• Great Sage of Love Madness told Wang Qian to accept Zhang Yuanqing’s offer and watch him after revealing Yuanshi Tianzun’s recent accomplishments.
• Lady of Three Paths Mountain failed to break through the pocket dimension’s barrier, then tore open the sky and escaped.
• Elder Sun received Lady of Three Paths Mountain’s warning that the Night Wanderer Spirit Realm had changed and its missions might behave abnormally.
• Mu Qiu entered the S-rank solo Spirit Realm mission Minghu Town and was shocked by its difficulty.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered that becoming a Night Wanderer had eased his old affliction, though triggering it revealed heightened mental processing and left him bleeding after his aunt interrupted him. Meanwhile, Fu Qingyang met Ling Jun, who connected the Ghost-Eyed Judge’s death to the Demon Lord and hinted at a secret hidden in the Demon Lord’s Role Card; Zhang Yuanqing ended the chapter reading a troubling forum post about Night Wanderers disappearing.

• Zhang Yuanqing tested Little Doubi’s intelligence with textbooks, but the Infant Spirit crawled toward his PS5 instead.
• After realizing he had missed two days of medicine without suffering an attack, Zhang Yuanqing deliberately triggered his affliction and found that his mind could process distant sounds and stray observations with unusual clarity.
• Jiang Yu'er interrupted Zhang Yuanqing’s heightened state, and blood suddenly poured from his nose.
• Fu Qingyang confronted Ling Jun for delaying their meeting, and Ling Jun said the Taiyi Sect’s Sect Master suspected a connection between the Ghost-Eyed Judge’s death and the Demon Lord’s death.
• Ling Jun told Fu Qingyang that the Demon Lord had left something representing the ultimate truth of the Spirit Realm in his Role Card.
• While shopping with Jiang Yu'er, Zhang Yuanqing confirmed his affliction had improved and spotted a forum post reporting that new A- and S-rank Spirit Realms had appeared for Night Wanderers as government-employed Night Wanderers began disappearing.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that a Spirit Realm anomaly had transformed several instances into high-difficulty challenges, including multiplayer instances, and Taiyi Sect announced a bounty for clearing them. Li Dongze gave him an old guide for Jinshui Amusement Park as a precaution, then said he had another matter to discuss: Lei Yibing.

• Zhang Yuanqing read a forum post reporting sudden changes to Night Wanderer instances and worried about his upcoming Spirit Realm entry.
• Yuan Ting told Zhang Yuanqing that Night Wanderers were panicking and that the Council of Elders was investigating the changes.
• Taiyi Sect announced that a revived high-level BOSS had altered eight instances and offered merits or money for clearing them.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that several changed instances were multiplayer challenges that could affect Walkers of other classes.
• Li Dongze told Zhang Yuanqing that Jinshui Amusement Park was a Transcendence Realm instance and provided an old guide, warning him not to rely on it completely.
• Li Dongze said his second reason for calling concerned Lei Yibing.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated Lei Yibing’s disappearance and discovered a coded message hidden among their childhood keepsakes. The message told Yuanzi to find the place where Lei Yibing had left everything, as Zhang Yuanqing faced entering the Spirit Realm.

• Li Dongze told Zhang Yuanqing that Lei Yibing’s college classmates remembered him as withdrawn and that two people who had provoked him had later died, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to conclude Lei Yibing had changed after high school.
• Li Dongze sent Zhang Yuanqing photographs of Lei Yibing’s diary, whose final entry recalled their childhood and games together.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Lei Yibing’s mother, Aunt Zhou, then searched Lei Yibing’s bedroom and found their old childhood toys beneath the bed.
• Zhang Yuanqing discovered a slip of paper hidden in The Amorous History of Emperor Yang of Sui and decoded Lei Yibing’s message: “Yuanzi, find it. I left everything there.”

Zhang Yuanqing decoded a cryptic clue from Brother Bing and discovered it pointed to Jinshui Amusement Park, the group Spirit Realm instance he was about to enter. The instance opened as an S-rank death-type mission, and he entered before he could tell Guan Ya anything more.

• Zhang Yuanqing decided to investigate Brother Bing's clue alone and focus first on his next Spirit Realm mission.
• Zhang Yuanqing read that a colleague had died in Jinshui Amusement Park and refused Wang Qian's offer to sell the old guide, though he studied it himself.
• Zhang Yuanqing connected the guide's instance number, 6203, to the clue's code, Lu Er Ling San, and wondered whether Brother Bing could predict his missions.
• Zhang Yuanqing received a mission notice confirming Jinshui Amusement Park was an S-rank, group, death-type instance, and its introduction said the spirits were seeking a young man named XXXX.
• Zhang Yuanqing took a blue pill and called Guan Ya to report his mission, but the call cut off after he entered the Spirit Realm.

Guan Ya and Li Dongze learned that Zhang Yuanqing had entered the S-rank Jinshui Amusement Park dungeon, while Fu Qingyang and Ling Jun discussed the danger and the dungeon’s altered difficulty. Inside the park, Zhang Yuanqing introduced himself as Wang Tai and began organizing the seven Walkers, leaving the group to decide whether anyone had an old guide.

• Guan Ya called Li Dongze after discovering that Yuanshi had entered Jinshui Amusement Park, and both worried he might not survive.
• Li Dongze notified Fu Qingyang, who reacted with surprise and asked for an update the following morning.
• Ling Jun explained that the Lady of Three Paths Mountain had altered lower-level dungeons, then warned that Jinshui Amusement Park was a death-type dungeon with no way out.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at the illuminated amusement park and found six other Spirit Realm Walkers waiting there.
• Zhang Yuanqing introduced himself as Wang Tai and encouraged the group to introduce themselves; the others gave their names as Fire Demon, River God, Xie Lingxi, Ashamed to be a Father, Great Sage Equal to Heaven, and Xi Shi.
• Xi Shi asked whether anyone belonged to an official organization or had the amusement park’s old guide.

Zhang Yuanqing and the other Walkers entered the S-rank Jinshui Amusement Park instance, where he received a hidden quest to keep the team from falling below three members and suspected an enemy was among them. They followed Xie Lingxi's advice to ride the roller coaster with their eyes closed, but the ride ended with the River God dead and the Fire Demon holding his severed head.

• Xie Lingxi revealed that she knew part of the old walkthrough, and Zhang Yuanqing received a hidden quest to keep the team at three or more members while concealing his role.
• The group chose the roller coaster after Xie Lingxi said riders could survive by keeping their eyes closed for three loops.
• The Walkers entered the ride and discovered their Inventories and active skills had been sealed, though their passive abilities and physical fitness remained.
• Zhang Yuanqing took the front seat, and the group began the ride with their eyes closed.
• The roller coaster returned to the platform, where Zhang Yuanqing found the River God decapitated and the bloodied Fire Demon holding his head.

After River God was decapitated on the roller coaster, Zhang Yuanqing and the other Spirit Realm Walkers struggled to determine whether the ride’s rules had changed or a hidden killer was attacking them. Zhang Yuanqing’s investigation suggested River God died during the ride, and he feared the killer would target him next.

• The six Spirit Realm Walkers received notice that the next round would begin in five minutes and debated why closing their eyes had not prevented River God’s death.
• Fire Demon said River God’s head had landed in his arms as the coaster passed its second hill, while Xi Shi said she had noticed nothing unusual.
• Zhang Yuanqing assessed which riders could have reached River God and replayed the ride’s sounds in his mind to determine when River God had died.
• Zhang Yuanqing suffered a nosebleed after his mental effort and pretended it was caused by seeing pretty girls.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that a hidden Spirit Realm Walker might be killing the group and feared that he, as the smartest person, would be the next target.

Zhang Yuanqing kept most of the team’s eyes closed on the roller coaster and stayed behind to watch, preventing further deaths while hinting that a malicious player had killed River God. After the team completed the attraction, he learned the next stop was an underground parking garage and received a chance to identify and annihilate the malicious player.

• Xi Shi, Fire Demon, Ashamed to be a Father, and Xie Lingxi favored opening their eyes, but Zhang Yuanqing warned that doing so might be dangerous and proposed that one person stay behind to watch.
• Zhang Yuanqing volunteered to leave the roller coaster while his teammates rode with their eyes closed, and nobody objected.
• Zhang Yuanqing watched the ride and saw that nobody died; he told the others he had noticed nothing, prompting them to consider how River God had been killed.
• The team completed the remaining roller-coaster rounds without further deaths, and Zhang Yuanqing learned that the next attraction was the Underground Parking Garage, followed by a haunted house, a detective reasoning hall, and other Heart-Stopping missions.
• Zhang Yuanqing received one opportunity to use his captain’s authority to identify the malicious player within thirty seconds, or forfeit the chance.

Zhang Yuanqing weighed whether to use his captain’s execution authority, then decided to investigate his teammates instead. The group reached the underground parking garage, where Zhang Yuanqing asked Xie Lingxi how to handle the next stage.

• Zhang Yuanqing realized his captain role granted him a conditional execution ability, but chose not to risk killing someone before he had enough evidence.
• Fire Demon blamed Xie Lingxi for the haunted house task, and Ashamed to be a Father stepped in before Zhang Yuanqing calmed their argument.
• Zhang Yuanqing questioned each teammate as they crossed the amusement park, then quietly told Great Sage Equal to Heaven to kill Ashamed to be a Father if Zhang Yuanqing died.
• The six reached the underground parking garage, and Zhang Yuanqing asked Xie Lingxi for the strategy for the stage.

Zhang Yuanqing and the other Spirit Realm Walkers entered an underground parking garage where they had to find a controller before the Car Man appeared. After searching for keys and discovering a healing potion, they ran out of time, and the Car Man attacked Xie Lingxi.

• Xie Lingxi explained that the old guide’s parking garage trial involved finding a controller before the Car Man eliminated the team, and Zhang Yuanqing warned that elimination now meant death.
• Zhang Yuanqing led the team into the garage, where the Spirit Realm sealed their skills and gave them hints to look for a controller and car keys.
• The team searched for keys; Xie Lingxi found one that unlocked no nearby car, while Great Sage Equal to Heaven found one that opened a car containing a Life Concentrate potion.
• The team failed to find another key before the countdown ended, and the metal Car Man charged into the garage with a chainsaw.
• Zhang Yuanqing shouted for everyone to scatter, but the Car Man knocked Xie Lingxi down and swung its chainsaw at her.

Zhang Yuanqing’s group discovered that cars protected them from Car Man, but each encounter or car unlock seemed to shorten their search window. With Fire Demon healed and the team running out of time to find the keys and shut down Car Man, Zhang Yuanqing said he had a way to clear the parking garage.

• Zhang Yuanqing led the group in attacking Car Man, then realized it could not harm them while they were inside a car.
• Xie Lingxi found a card granting one opportunity to use an item, while the group noticed the countdown had shortened.
• The group voted to use Xie Lingxi’s Life Concentrate to regrow Fire Demon’s severed hand.
• Xi Shi urged everyone to find Car Man’s controller, and Zhang Yuanqing announced he had a method to clear the parking garage.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Red Dancing Shoes to hold off Car Man while the team searched for its controller, which Xie Lingxi found and activated. Car Man suddenly restarted and attacked her, and Ashamed to be a Father sacrificed himself to save her before the robot declared that the Demon Lord was finally dead.

• Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Red Dancing Shoes, which stopped Car Man and kept it occupied while the others searched for the controller.
• Xie Lingxi found the controller inside a sports car and pressed its red button, causing Car Man to stop.
• Car Man’s eyes lit up again, and it charged toward Xie Lingxi despite Zhang Yuanqing’s command to stop it.
• Ashamed to be a Father shoved Xie Lingxi out of the way and was cut in half by Car Man’s chainsaw.
• Car Man laughed and said the Demon Lord was finally dead, warning that it would not survive either.

Zhang Yuanqing used Brother Bing’s passphrase to shut down the Autobot, recovered the Cat King Speaker, and led his team through the Underground Parking Lot mission. The group reached the Haunted House’s Ghost Marriage attraction, where Zhang Yuanqing knocked on a wedding household’s gate and sensed a ghost approaching.

• Ashamed to be a Father died after saving Xie Lingxi and asked Zhang Yuanqing to find Master Wuhen and deliver his apology.
• Xie Lingxi reasoned that the Autobot could be shut down again, and Zhang Yuanqing used the phrase “Brothers for life” to stop it and retrieve the Cat King Speaker.
• Zhang Yuanqing claimed the speaker, completed the Underground Parking Lot mission, and forfeited his chance to designate a traitor.
• Zhang Yuanqing danced with the Red Dancing Shoes while the speaker played embarrassing music, then rejoined the others as they headed to the Haunted House.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s team reached a red-lantern wedding courtyard, and he knocked on the gate to announce that he had come to marry the household’s young lady.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions received wedding invitations from the Ghost Bride and entered her residence, where they discovered their skills and Inventory remained available. The chapter ended with Zhang Yuanqing driving the minor ghosts inhabiting the hall’s paper effigies away with a shout.

• A ghostly hand offered five wedding invitations naming the bride White Orchid, and the group learned the Ghost Bride would choose a groom in one hour.
• Zhang Yuanqing connected the invitations to the amusement park’s search for a young man, then wrote Wang Tai as his name and filled in a fabricated birth date and time.
• The companions entered the residence and discovered that their skills and Inventory had not been sealed.
• Xi Shi spotted a woman beneath a lantern, and Zhang Yuanqing led the group toward the main hall while warning that their behavior might affect the Ghost Bride’s choice.
• The group found ghostly paper effigies in the decorated wedding hall, and Zhang Yuanqing shouted them into fleeing.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Lady of Three Paths Mountain was seeking him through the Ghost Bride, then searched the estate for the betrothal gifts while trying to keep his identity hidden. After escaping a mirror ghost and rescuing Xie Lingxi from a vat, he continued deeper into the estate with her, still searching for the missing teammates.

• Zhang Yuanqing found a note listing a steelyard rod, a gold hairpin, medicinal wine, and a wedding quilt as the betrothal gifts, while the team considered the danger of the Ghost Bride's selection.
• Zhang Yuanqing's teammates vanished after the group entered the inner courtyard, and he found a golden weighing rod in a woman's chamber.
• The Cat King Speaker revealed that a powerful being had ordered the bride to find Yuanshi Tianzun, and Zhang Yuanqing realized Lady of Three Paths Mountain was looking for him because of the Demon Subduing Pestle.
• A headless female ghost attacked Zhang Yuanqing through a bronze mirror, but Little Doubi disrupted her long enough for him to escape.
• Zhang Yuanqing found Xie Lingxi being dragged underwater by an Infant Spirit, rescued her, and continued searching for the others with her.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Xie Lingxi to hand over the card she had taken from the parking lot.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions searched the residence for betrothal gifts, but Xi Shi was killed by the Ghost Bride after her invitation identified her as female. The survivors reached the bridal chamber and were separated, leaving Zhang Yuanqing alone as the veiled Ghost Bride approached.

• Zhang Yuanqing saved Fire Demon from a vengeful spirit at an abandoned opera stage, where the group found a golden hairpin.
• Great Sage Equal to Heaven rejoined the others and led them to a bridal quilt, which Zhang Yuanqing retrieved from a haunted room.
• The group mistook a red-shoed ghost for Xi Shi, then found the real Xi Shi hanged beneath the eaves.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned from Xi Shi’s spirit that the Ghost Bride had killed her, and discovered Xi Shi’s invitation listed her gender as female while Xie Lingxi’s listed male.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his three companions found the bridal chamber, but he entered alone after the others vanished; later, the Ghost Bride approached beneath a red veil.

Zhang Yuanqing, Xie Lingxi, and Fire Demon survived the Ghost House and entered the Detective Reasoning Hall, where Zhang Yuanqing deduced the hidden roles among their team. After completing the S-rank mission series, Zhang Yuanqing used his captain’s authority to eliminate Fire Demon.

• Xie Lingxi and Fire Demon left the Ghost House and were surprised when Zhang Yuanqing emerged alive; the three headed to the Detective Reasoning Hall.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed the statues’ roles and deduced that Ashamed to be a Father and Xie Lingxi were Neutrals, while Xi Shi was a Civilian.
• Zhang Yuanqing exposed Fire Demon as the Traitor and Great Sage Equal to Heaven as the Evil Profession, then identified the dead River God as the Guard.
• The Detective Reasoning Hall mission ended, and Zhang Yuanqing received the opportunity to designate an evildoer for erasure.
• Zhang Yuanqing designated Fire Demon, who was decapitated as the team completed the S-rank Jinshui Amusement Park mission.

After clearing Jinshui Amusement Park, Zhang Yuanqing received generous rewards, advanced to Level 2, and returned to reality. He called Guan Ya after finding her message asking him to report in.

• The Spirit Realm awarded Zhang Yuanqing 65% experience, three props, and one consumable, advancing him to Level 2 Night Wanderer and granting him Howl at the Moon, Charm, and Spirit Talisman.
• Zhang Yuanqing inspected the Red Bridal Veil, Steadfast One's Pearl, and Disguise Ring, and learned that using the veil could attract the Lady of Three Paths Mountain's attention.
• Xie Lingxi celebrated her rewards, then reacted with disbelief when Zhang Yuanqing told her his haul was much greater; she asked to exchange phone numbers before they left the instance.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Xie Lingxi returned to reality, where he noticed changes in his appearance and found an unread message from Guan Ya asking him to call.
• Zhang Yuanqing called Guan Ya.