Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing summoned Lady of Three Paths Mountain, discussed the Pure Yang Sect Leader’s worsening instability, and arranged a possible trade of Sovereign-grade items with Huang Taiji. While Zhang planned to lie low in Songhai, the still-living Pure Yang Sect Leader searched local schools for clues to his identity.

• Secretary Zhou admitted to Elder Cai that he feared Yuanshi Tianzun, while Elder Cai insisted that the conflict remained minor and that everything was within the plan.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned Lady of Three Paths Mountain with the Demon Subduing Pestle, and she said the Pure Yang Sect Leader would likely die or lose control as his madness worsened.
• Zhang Yuanqing agreed to attend the Xie Family’s crab feast and learned that the Stop-Killing Palace Lord wanted to trade her Earth Spirit Robe for a more practical Sovereign-grade item.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered Huang Taiji two low-quality Sovereign-grade items in exchange for a mid-quality defensive and close-combat item, and Huang Taiji promised to find one within three days.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Guan Ya he would return home and lie low, believing that hunting the Three Protectors would be too dangerous.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader searched Songhai Second Middle School for people who recognized Yuanshi Tianzun, found none, and decided to question retired teachers as his madness deepened.

Zhang Yuanqing spent his week at home telling fortunes for his neighbors and worrying over an unseen fatal tribulation. The chapter ended with a skeletal figure warning a monk on the steps of a mysterious palace to turn back.

• Zhang Yuanqing correctly predicted an old man's stock losses, exposed another old man's affair, and left with his uncle for the square dance.
• Zhang Yuanqing's aunt's attempt to arrange a blind date for his cousin failed when the woman became interested in Zhang Yuanqing instead.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart but found no revelation, and suspected Elder Cai or Ling Tuo might cause his fatal tribulation.
• A tall ascetic monk climbed the floating steps toward an ancient palace above the Blood Lake as a skeletal figure called him The Past Leaves No Trace and warned him to return.

Master Wuhen tempered his heart for over twenty years and crossed the final steps to claim the path to demigodhood, while Zhang Yuanqing brought Fu Xue back to help resolve the company’s weapon-delivery dispute. Elsewhere, a man investigating Yuanshi Tianzun visited retired teacher Yao Yilin, who recognized the student in his photograph.

• Master Wuhen revealed that he had endured twenty years to temper his heart, crossed the final two steps, and destroyed the skeleton gatekeeper.
• The Southern Faction's Grand Elder saw the Dream Palace transform into a battlefield and learned that The Past Leaves No Trace had advanced to demigod; a distant voice ordered him to contact Ling Tuo.
• Zhang Yuanqing picked up Fu Xue and asked her to handle the dispute over the first batch of mechanism weapons, while she lamented the oath she had made Guan Ya swear.
• A man investigating Yuanshi Tianzun visited retired teacher Yao Yilin and showed him a photograph of a young man suspected of attending Kangyang Middle School.
• Yao Yilin recognized the young man in the photograph as a former student at Kangyang Middle School.

Pure Yang Sect Leader identified Zhang Yuanqing as Yuanshi Tianzun and began planning how to find him, while Teacher Yao started explaining Zhang Yuanqing’s past. In Gold Mountain City, Zhang Yuanqing furnished an apartment for Little Round and their private moment was interrupted by news that Master Wuhen had returned; meanwhile, Pure Yang Sect Leader repeatedly begged the Grand Protector for help.

• Pure Yang Sect Leader learned Zhang Yuanqing’s name and that he had lived in Kangyang District, then considered asking former classmates, using a stargazing artifact, or selling the information to Dark Night Rose and the evil faction.
• Teacher Yao began recounting Zhang Yuanqing’s high-school past after Pure Yang Sect Leader asked why he had been pitiful.
• Zhang Yuanqing arranged for Kou Beiyue, Little Fatty, Little Round, and Zhao Xintong to furnish the apartment he had bought under Xie Lingxi’s name for Little Round.
• Little Round accused Zhang Yuanqing of hiding her as his mistress, and he embraced and kissed her before Kou Beiyue’s knocking interrupted them.
• Little Round fell into an illusion, then announced that Master Wuhen had returned.
• The Grand Protector received alternating messages from Pure Yang Sect Leader claiming he had discovered a shocking secret and pleading for help.

The Grand Protector learned that the Pure Yang Sect Leader had been caught in a causality-driven loop while investigating Yuanshi Tianzun’s identity, which pointed to a far greater secret. In the Palace of Fate, Xie Su reached the Rebirth Spring’s bottom and found numerous corpses bearing Yuanshi Tianzun’s face.

• The Grand Protector received and called back the Pure Yang Sect Leader, but discovered that the distress messages vanished and began repeating as if time were reversing.
• The Grand Protector recognized the effect of a causality-type item and attempted to summon Ling Tuo, but received no response.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader called after escaping the loop by using Momentary Splendor to erase his memories, and he and the Grand Protector concluded that Yuanshi Tianzun’s identity implicated an earth-shattering secret.
• Xie Su entered the Rebirth Spring to collect silt and create a clone, following the Xie Family’s guide to the Palace of Fate.
• Xie Su found the remains of earlier Spirit Realm Walkers at the bottom, then recognized a vast pile of corpses as Yuanshi Tianzun.

Master Wuhen returned from a dungeon with the item needed to challenge the demigod realm and ordered the team to hide while he secluded himself. He entrusted Zhang Yuanqing with leading the team, and the chapter ended with Xie Lingxi worrying about her missing father and the Pure Yang Sect Leader agreeing to trade information for help restoring his strength.

• Little Round told Master Wuhen that Dark Night Rose and the Southern Faction had hunted Yuanshi Tianzun, who had retaliated before the team withdrew from the hotel.
• Master Wuhen revealed he had obtained the item needed to challenge the demigod realm, ordered the hotel to suspend operations, and sent the team into hiding.
• Master Wuhen asked Zhang Yuanqing to lead the team during his uncertain seclusion and explained the painful pasts of its members.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to the hotel and told Little Round that Master Wuhen had tasked them with looking after the team while he advanced.
• Xie Lingxi told Zhang Yuanqing that her father had been in an instance dungeon for a long time without returning.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader accepted the Grand Protector's offer to provide identity information on the retired teacher in exchange for help recovering his peak strength.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared for the Xie Family crab banquet while worrying about Master Wuhen’s attempt to become a demigod and deciding to face his own deadly calamity cautiously. As he traveled with Xie Lingxi to the banquet, he learned that her father, Xie Su, had still not emerged from the Palace of Fate dungeon after half a month.

• Xie Lingxi worried that her father had exceeded the expected duration of the Palace of Fate dungeon, and Zhang Yuanqing tried to reassure her.
• Guan Ya criticized Xie Lingxi for trying to make her misunderstand Zhang Yuanqing, then told him she was training her swordsmanship with Xiahou Aotian’s combat puppets.
• Secretary Zhou received a message from Magician summoning Elder Cai to a meeting in the capital, and he went to see Elder Cai.
• Zhang Yuanqing debated whether to report Master Wuhen’s planned demigod advancement, then decided to postpone the matter until after his own deadly calamity.
• Zhang Yuanqing planned to attend the crab banquet with a clone while his real body entered a dungeon, and he chose to ask the Xie Family ancestor about the Chu Family’s past.
• Zhang Yuanqing traveled with Xie Lingxi to the crab banquet and learned that Xie Su had remained in the Palace of Fate dungeon for half a month; he promised to ask the ancestor about her father.

Zhang Yuanqing attended the Xie Family’s crab banquet, where Xie Lingxi hoped her ancestor would arrange a marriage between them and Mother Xie fended off other women seeking his attention. The Xie ancestor summoned Zhang Yuanqing and revealed himself as a child, then invited him to sit and eat crab.

• Xie Lingxi accompanied Zhang Yuanqing to the Xie Family garden and anticipated the ancestor’s proposed marriage between them.
• Xie Qin welcomed Zhang Yuanqing and led him into the banquet, where Xie Family members scrutinized and admired him.
• Mother Xie teased Zhang Yuanqing about marrying Xie Lingxi and discouraged other young women from courting him.
• Xie Qin told Zhang Yuanqing that the ancestor had summoned him, and she led him away from the banquet to the ancestor’s courtyard.
• Zhang Yuanqing mistook the child eating crab for someone other than the ancestor, then knelt in admiration after the child revealed himself and invited him to eat.

Zhang Yuanqing questioned the Xie Family patriarch about his impending death and the Spirit Realm, learning that demigods held administrative authority and that the Stop-Killing Palace Lord inherited some of the Chu Family’s authority. The chapter ended with Master Wuhen merging a strange black sphere into his heart as someone tried to break into his illusion.

• Zhang Yuanqing served crabs to the Xie Family patriarch, who offered him marriage into the Xie Family and promised to teach him Spirit Realm secrets after he became a Sovereign.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained that a mirror had predicted his death before October and asked for the patriarch’s help; the patriarch warned that hiding with the Xie Family could cause the predicted calamity and advised that a cleared guild dungeon might be safer.
• The Xie Family patriarch revealed that the Chu Family demigod had been her former lover and that the Stop-Killing Palace Lord was her descendant through their three children.
• The Xie Family patriarch explained that demigods held portions of the Spirit Realm’s administrative authority, that the Nüwa Sovereign had been a first-generation administrator, and that the Palace Lord inherited some of the Chu Family’s authority.
• The Xie Family patriarch said authority from one profession had to belong to a single person, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to recall the Light Compass’s prophecy about the sun, moon, and stars returning to their places.
• At Wuhen Hotel, Master Wuhen merged a black sphere containing the seven emotions and six desires into his heart, and the Buddhist-temple illusion began shaking as someone tried to enter.

Master Wuhen endured the Southern Faction leader’s illusions while trying to merge with a demigod item, as Zhang Yuanqing reasoned out the Spirit Realm’s origins and the conflict between Orderly and Evil Professions. The chapter ended with Xie Qin announcing that Xie Su had returned and urgently wanted to speak with the Xie Family ancestor.

• The Southern Faction leader attacked Master Wuhen with illusions, but Master Wuhen used his Nothingness skill and Coward's Quilt to resist.
• Ling Tuo unleashed Lunar Power that dissolved the quilt and sent ghosts swarming toward Master Wuhen.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded that Orderly Professions were administrators gathering permissions, while Evil Professions were viruses seeking control of the Spirit Realm.
• The Xie Family ancestor offered to share more intelligence if Zhang Yuanqing married a Xie Family girl and had children bearing the Xie surname.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked whether Xie Su had returned from the Palace of Fate, and the ancestor gave him no clear answer.
• Xie Qin announced that Xie Su had returned and had an urgent matter to discuss with the ancestor.

Xie Su described a memory-erasing cycle in the Palace of Fate’s Rebirth Pool and brought back a cloth strip whose contents affected even the Xie Family ancestor. Zhang Yuanqing tried to read it but also failed, while Secretary Zhou prepared a joint operation to kill the Wuhen Hotel team.

• Xie Su returned from the Palace of Fate and explained that he had repeatedly fought evil duplicates at the Rebirth Pool without remembering the battles.
• Xie Su showed the cloth strip he had found, and the Xie Family ancestor’s attempt to read it caused time to reverse until he had finished drinking his wine.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Companion Spirit Moon to protect himself, but he also failed to retain the cloth strip’s information.
• The Xie Family ancestor noticed that Zhang Yuanqing’s expression had changed, but declined to explain what he had seen.
• Secretary Zhou ordered the squads to move out in five minutes and kill the Wuhen Hotel team members without leaving survivors.

Official Walkers hunted down members of the Southern Faction, killing Wanderer of the Human World and confronting Drug Chaser with evidence of his connection to him. Sweetheart Red Demon was cornered by the authorities, while another raid ended with the discovery of an old teacher’s appeal documents.

• Wanderer of the Human World detected official Walkers entering his complex, but they blocked his abilities and killed him with a sniper shot as he tried to escape.
• Drug Chaser met the headquarters team at the morgue and learned that Wanderer of the Human World had been his brother and had worked for him; after seeing the body, Drug Chaser drew his sword.
• Sweetheart Red Demon realized the authorities had infected and surrounded her, transformed into a Bee Woman, and found her window sealed by vines.
• Sweetheart Red Demon called her mother, apologized through tears, and hung up without explaining what was happening.
• An official team killed an old man in a residential building and found a thick stack of appeal documents in his bedside drawer.

Lin Zichong relived his father’s murder and died again, while Secretary Zhou’s teams eliminated most of their targets and Raging Waves Show No Mercy attacked the residential complex. As Master Wuhen learned that his disciples were dying and Zhang Yuanqing received Zhao Xintong’s call, the danger to them and the clash with Ling Tuo escalated.

• Lin Zichong remembered his previous failure to avenge his father, charged the thugs who killed him, and was beaten to death.
• Secretary Zhou received reports that his teams had eliminated several targets and ordered them to finish the operation; Raging Waves Show No Mercy then moved to attack Chonghua Residential Complex, intending to draw out Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Raging Waves Show No Mercy’s attack incapacitated Little Fatty, Kou Beiyue, Little Round, and Zhao Xintong, who tried to contact Yuanshi Tianzun for help.
• Master Wuhen sensed Little Round’s plea but lost the connection, then saw visions of his disciples’ deaths as the heart in his hand darkened and the Buddha opened its eyes.
• Elder Cai asked the Palace Master to kill The Past Leaves No Trace, while Zhang Yuanqing chatted with Xie Su at the Xie Family residence and received Zhao Xintong’s call.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Zhao Xintong and his friends were under attack by a government Sovereign, so he sent his clone ahead and rushed to Gold Mountain City with Xie Su. As Zhao Xintong died and Kou Beiyue and Little Round neared death, Yuanshi Tianzun appeared in their bedroom.

• The Water God Palace Lord questioned Elder Cai about how he knew The Past Leaves No Trace had failed to advance, then agreed to act with Jiang to seize the Illusion God item and protect Gold Mountain City.
• Zhao Xintong called Zhang Yuanqing for help before dying, and Zhang Yuanqing sent his clone with supplies and the Ghost Bride to rescue his friends.
• Zhang Yuanqing traveled toward Chonghua Residential Complex with Xie Su, saving his remaining Teleportation Jade Talismans for Little Round and Kou Beiyue.
• Kou Beiyue found Zhao Xintong dead and tried to save Little Fatty, but the Life Essence did not work; Little Fatty sacrificed himself to curse Raging Waves Show No Mercy, only delaying him briefly.
• Kou Beiyue tried to escape with Little Round, but Raging Waves Show No Mercy's water barrier blocked them, and Little Round began to lose consciousness.
• Yuanshi Tianzun appeared soundlessly in Little Round's bedroom.

Zhang Yuanqing arrived too late to save A Good Minister Chooses a Lord to Slay and Zhao Xintong, but he revived Little Round and confronted the Rain Master Raging Waves Show No Mercy. After freeing Little Round and Kou Beiyue, he killed Raging Waves Show No Mercy, just as eleven elders broke into the apartment.

• Zhang Yuanqing found A Good Minister Chooses a Lord to Slay and Zhao Xintong dead, then used the Azure Emperor Longevity Art to revive Little Round.
• Raging Waves Show No Mercy trapped Zhang Yuanqing, Kou Beiyue, and Little Round inside a sealed space and attacked them with plague and water.
• Xie Su arrived outside and restrained two Rain Master elders while Zhang Yuanqing broke through the apartment’s barrier.
• Zhang Yuanqing freed Little Round and Kou Beiyue, and Little Round escaped with Kou Beiyue as officials fired at them.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Soul Seizure and his vortex to defeat Raging Waves Show No Mercy, who returned to the Spirit Realm.
• Eleven elders entered the apartment and saw Raging Waves Show No Mercy’s mummified body in Zhang Yuanqing’s hand.

Little Round learned that her companions had been lost and received medicine for Kou Beiyue from a masked man who claimed to be her new chess player. Meanwhile, Secretary Zhou arranged to have Yuanshi Tianzun taken to headquarters for trial, and the Five Elements Alliance publicly accused him of colluding with an Evil Profession and murdering an elder.

• Little Round used a mysterious visitor’s pills to stabilize Kou Beiyue, then learned the rest of her team had returned to the Spirit Realm and received a jade pendant with instructions to pray to The Past Leaves No Trace when the time was right.
• Secretary Zhou learned that Yuanshi Tianzun had been restrained but could not be killed or stripped of the Heaven-Worship Set, and he ordered that Yuanshi Tianzun be brought to headquarters for trial.
• Secretary Zhou told Elder Cai that Raging Waves Show No Mercy had died at Yuanshi Tianzun’s hands, and Elder Cai instructed him to manipulate public opinion.
• A clan member told Mother Xie that Xie Su had been arrested as Yuanshi Tianzun’s accomplice, prompting her to rush to tell Ling Xi.
• The Five Elements Alliance posted an announcement accusing Yuanshi Tianzun of colluding with an Evil Profession, obstructing law enforcement, and murdering an elder.

After Yuanshi Tianzun was arrested for killing a Five Elements Alliance elder, his friends and allies learned that rescuing him seemed impossible while the authorities prepared his trial. In prison, Zhang Yuanqing learned that the authorities had wiped out The Past Leaves No Trace’s groups and that their leader had gone mad, leaving him reeling over the deaths.

• Xie Lingxi begged the Xie Family patriarch to save Yuanshi Tianzun, but he refused to defy the Five Elements Alliance’s laws.
• Zhao Chenghuang and Sun Miaomiao read the Alliance’s accusation against Yuanshi Tianzun, while their group chat concluded that breaking him out would be futile.
• Fu Xue panicked over Yuanshi Tianzun’s arrest, and Guan Ya received a call from the woman who apologized and asked to speak with her.
• Fear Heavenly King blocked Demon Eye Heavenly King’s convoy, then defeated him after Demon Eye used his Bewitching Eye.
• Little Round told Kou Beiyue that Yuanshi Tianzun had been arrested and faced execution, and Kou Beiyue broke down crying.
• Secretary Zhou told Zhang Yuanqing that his trial would take place the next day and revealed that the authorities had killed The Past Leaves No Trace’s scattered groups and that their leader had gone mad.

Secretary Zhou engineered public outrage against Yuanshi Tianzun, who blamed himself for the deaths of the Wuhen Hotel team and said farewell to his friends and Guan Ya in prison. The next morning, the heavily publicized tribunal began, and Elder Cai ordered Yuanshi Tianzun brought in.

• Secretary Zhou told Yuanshi Tianzun that Drug Chaser and the Nanming City Branch officials had been arrested, then left after provoking him.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized that his failure to protect the Wuhen Hotel team had contributed to their deaths and Master Wuhen's downfall.
• Ling Jun, Miao Teng'er, and Yuanshi Tianzun's friends visited him in prison, where he entrusted them with his belongings and asked them to carry on without him.
• Yuanshi Tianzun apologized to Guan Ya and offered her his treasures before she left in grief.
• Secretary Zhou watched forum users call for Yuanshi Tianzun's punishment and prepared for the livestreamed tribunal.
• Elder Cai opened the trial at Number One Tribunal and ordered Yuanshi Tianzun brought in.

Yuanshi Tianzun defended the Wuhen Hotel members at his trial, but the prosecution’s evidence turned the courtroom and livestream against him. After the court sentenced him to death, Zhang Yuanqing laughed and exchanged a mysterious stamp for a Lunar Moon Origin Fragment.

• Yuanshi Tianzun was brought into Courtroom One, where Secretary Zhou accused him of killing Elder Raging Waves Show No Mercy and presented photographs, recordings, and witness statements.
• Hundred Battles in Yellow Sands argued that the operation had been a trap aimed at Yuanshi Tianzun, but Secretary Zhou countered by exposing the alleged crimes of the Wuhen Hotel members and linking them to Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Zhang Yuanqing told the courtroom that the Wuhen Hotel members had suffered injustice and abuse, and condemned the official faction for failing to see their grievances.
• Elder Cai sentenced Yuanshi Tianzun to death, and the audience and livestream viewers applauded.
• As Demon Eye Heavenly King’s curse echoed in his ears, Zhang Yuanqing laughed, opened his Inventory, and exchanged a blue-ink stamp for a Lunar Moon Origin Fragment.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Myriad Worlds Trading House Exchange Ticket to borrow demigod power and overwhelm the sealed Tribunal. After killing Secretary Zhou, Nine-Bend River, Biologist, and Cai Qinhe, he condemned the ruling elite before his body and soul vanished.

• Zhang Yuanqing exchanged a demigod-grade Lunar Moon Origin Fragment for three Authority Fragments and gained their power for two minutes.
• Zhang Yuanqing broke free of his restraints, unleashed lightning, wind, and Void power, and plunged the courtroom into chaos.
• Zhang Yuanqing killed Secretary Zhou, Nine-Bend River, and Biologist, then stopped Elder Cai from escaping the sealed courtroom.
• Zhang Yuanqing took the River God Seal from Elder Cai and killed him with a lightning pillar while the other nine elders stood down.
• Zhang Yuanqing denounced the Spirit Realm's ruling elite, spat at the nine peak Sovereigns, and vanished as his body and soul were annihilated.