Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing trained under Lady of Three Paths Mountain for the approaching Slaughter Dungeon while the factions prepared for the contest and weighed the threat of his supposed death. The chapter left the orderly faction’s candidates uncertain about advancement, with Yuanshi Tianzun’s return still expected by those close to him.

• Lady of Three Paths Mountain made Zhang Yuanqing spar with her and ordered Princess Yinyao to give him forty lashes for his weak weapon switching and lack of domineering spirit.
• Fear Heavenly King told the three Divine Generals not to enter the Slaughter Dungeon, explaining to Demon Eye Heavenly King that Yuanshi Tianzun was too difficult to kill and should be avoided.
• Yin Ji cultivated the Pure Yang Body Cleansing Record at Elder Hongying’s home, but Elder Hongying warned that advancing to Dominator would be difficult without Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Kou Beiyue visited Little Round and asked whether Yuanshi Tianzun had left instructions for the Slaughter Dungeon; Little Round said he had not.
• Ling Jun asked Jiang Ju and Huang Taiji whether they could advance to Sovereign, while Fu Qingyang questioned Ling Jun about skipping the dungeon.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared for the Slaughter Dungeon, weighing whether to use one of its limited slots to help Huang Taiji or Yin Ji before deciding to support Huang Taiji. When the dungeon finally opened on December 15, the Spirit Realm malfunctioned, leaving Zhang Yuanqing and other participants unable to enter.

• Zhang Yuanqing completed his training with Old Clapper, returned to reality with Princess Yinyao, and reunited with Guan Ya.
• Fu Qingyang asked Zhang Yuanqing to help Huang Taiji advance through the Slaughter Dungeon, while Zhang Yuanqing also considered Yin Ji; Guan Ya advised him to choose Huang Taiji for the political connections.
• Zhang Yuanqing spent the two days before the dungeon opening with Guan Ya, the Palace Lord, and the Saints of Return of the Dead.
• Zhang Yuanqing accepted the Spirit Realm's invitation to enter the Slaughter Dungeon as the Black Moon spread through the Spirit Realm and clashed with the stars resisting its darkness.
• The Spirit Realm repeatedly announced that the map was opening, but the dungeon failed to start, and Zhang Yuanqing found an official forum post reporting the malfunction.

The Spirit Realm malfunctioned, preventing Zhang Yuanqing from entering the Slaughter Dungeon as the Five Elements powers confronted Ling Tuo’s black hole in the Spirit Realm. The instance finally opened, sending Zhang Yuanqing into the death-type World Museum.

• Walkers confirmed that the Spirit Realm had malfunctioned and the Slaughter Dungeon had not opened.
• Zhang Yuanqing discussed the crisis with Fu Qingyang, who warned that Ling Tuo’s larger plan might target the Sea God Church, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to alert Vinnie.
• In the Spirit Realm, five elemental imperial phantoms restrained Ling Tuo’s black hole and stopped it from pulling in the instances.
• The Spirit Realm assigned Zhang Yuanqing to World Museum, a multiplayer death-type instance where he had to survive for 72 hours.

Zhang Yuanqing entered a Slaughter Dungeon where the First and Second Districts had merged, bringing forty-one participants together in a modern museum. He and Princess Yinyao cautiously explored Exhibition Hall No. 3, where a blood coffin began calling for help after they left a yin corpse near it for three minutes.

• Zhang Yuanqing saw that the Slaughter Dungeon had forty-one participants and realized that Eastern and Western participants from both districts had been brought together.
• Zhang Yuanqing found Yin Ji, Huang Taiji, and other familiar names on the leaderboard, then checked the map and learned he had to cross Exhibition Hall No. 3 to reach the second floor.
• Zhang Yuanqing disguised Princess Yinyao, warned her to keep the Cat King Speaker quiet, and used the Great Luo Star Chart to discover that flying through the hall would get him killed by a red beam.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent a yin corpse ahead as he and Princess Yinyao passed exhibits, then found a violently shaking blood-red coffin inside a glass enclosure.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Princess Yinyao withdrew from the coffin and waited three minutes, after which a woman inside cried, “Yuanshi Tianzun, let me out!”

Zhang Yuanqing and Princess Yinyao discovered that a statue guarding the stairway could only be challenged with artifacts from the exhibition hall. After Zhang Yuanqing learned how to subdue an artifact, a group of hostile Spirit Realm Walkers ambushed them, but he and Princess Yinyao killed the attackers and rose in the rankings as another squad approached.

• Zhang Yuanqing resisted the Buddhist corpse’s hypnotic call, then sent a yin corpse toward the stairway, where a statue of a crowned huntress killed it with an arrow.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart to deduce that the statue’s attacks were too powerful to withstand and that escape techniques would fail, so he guessed the exhibition artifacts could help defeat it.
• Zhang Yuanqing broke the case holding a Bronze Shu and discovered that it exhausted itself after three powerful blows, revealing how the artifacts could be subdued.
• A toad-like Voodoo Master and a golden-haired Deadly Poison Master stole the Bronze Shu and tried to kill Zhang Yuanqing with help from a Night Wanderer and a soul-extracting cross.
• Zhang Yuanqing used an illusion to evade the ambush and kill the attackers, while Princess Yinyao killed the Star Official; Zhang Yuanqing climbed to ninth place as another squad approached.

Zhang Yuanqing met Alicia, Green Bamboo, and Federal No History in Exhibition Hall 3, where they agreed to cooperate against the powerful boss. After signing a contract not to harm one another, they headed toward the boss’s display case to learn how to subdue her.

• Alicia questioned Zhang Yuanqing about the corpses, and he introduced himself as Celestial Venerable Moral and identified Greedy Divine General and Princess Yinyao as his Yin corpses.
• Green Bamboo and Alicia privately suspected Zhang Yuanqing might be connected to Dark Night Rose but decided not to confront him without evidence.
• Alicia proposed cooperating against the boss, whose attack power reached the Sovereign level, and Zhang Yuanqing agreed.
• Alicia and Zhang Yuanqing signed a contract forbidding them from harming each other in Hall 3.
• Alicia led the group toward the boss’s display case, and they arrived at an empty stone platform bearing an artifact description plaque.

Zhang Yuanqing and Alicia’s team gathered artifacts and defeated the guardians of the Gilt Silver Ewer before confronting Artemis, the S-rank goddess of the hunt. They tested her power with the nude statue Laos, which survived her first arrow and created an opening for the team to advance.

• Alicia used the Eye of Wind to scan the exhibition hall, identify three valuable Level 1 artifacts and two useful Level 2 artifacts, and memorize the exhibits’ information.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions unsealed the Gilt Silver Ewer and defeated its three divine servants with their combined abilities.
• The team subdued two more Level 1 artifacts and two Level 2 artifacts, including the nude statue Laos and a medieval knight’s shield.
• After resting and planning, Zhang Yuanqing led the group toward the stairway, concealed some of his allies, and summoned two Level 4 Yin Corpses as cannon fodder.
• Alicia sent Laos charging at Artemis, who shot it with a blood-red arrow; the statue lost an arm but survived, and Zhang Yuanqing ordered it to run through.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions failed to pass the Goddess of the Hunt, whose arrows killed Federal No History, so he searched the museum for another way forward. He assembled the Buddhist corpse’s missing relics, revealing her as the S-rank Blood Bodhisattva and believing she could help clear the trial.

• Alicia, Green Bamboo, Federal No History, and Zhang Yuanqing charged for the stairs, but the Goddess of the Hunt’s golden arrow killed Federal No History and forced the others to retreat.
• Zhang Yuanqing surveyed the exhibition hall with Alicia’s Eye of Wind, then opened the Buddhist corpse’s coffin and subdued the female corpse with Mental Strike and talismans.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the corpse was incomplete and needed her facial skin and two Buddhist relics, while Green Bamboo reported that Sleeping Dragon Duke had taken first place in the rankings.
• Zhang Yuanqing released the facial skin and two Buddhist relics; the corpse restored her face, and the Spirit Realm identified her as the S-rank Blood Bodhisattva.

Zhang Yuanqing and his companions reached the second floor, where he used the Great Luo Star Chart to foresee five Evil Profession enemies approaching. He told Green Bamboo and Alicia he had a plan, and they positioned themselves as bait while the enemies climbed the stairs.

• The Blood Bodhisattva broke free of Zhang Yuanqing's control and fought the Goddess of Hunting, giving Zhang Yuanqing, Green Bamboo, and Alicia time to reach the second floor.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Green Bamboo, and Alicia surveyed Hall No. 2, discussed the surviving Spirit Realm Walkers, and checked the leaderboard.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart and saw fragmented visions of five enemies attacking their group.
• Zhang Yuanqing warned Green Bamboo and Alicia that five Evil Professions were coming and asked them to cooperate with his plan.
• Green Bamboo and Alicia took positions by the display cases as bait, while five enemies approached and discussed them from the stairs.

Alicia and Green Bamboo faced five Evil Profession Saints, but Zhang Yuanqing intervened and used the Yin-Yang Turntable and his Yin corpses to defeat them. The battle ended with Alicia freed from petrification, while Green Bamboo recognized Zhang Yuanqing as Yuanshi Tianzun.

• Alicia and Green Bamboo confronted Hundred-Armed Demon Bug and four other Evil Profession Saints as Celestial Venerable Moral prepared to ambush them.
• Hundred-Armed Demon Bug trapped Alicia with the Yin-Yang Gourd, but the Spirit Medium attacked him under Zhang Yuanqing's mind control, and the Yin-Yang Turntable ensnared the enemies.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned Princess Yinyao, Hundred-Man Slayer, and Greedy Divine General, then killed the Illusionist and Drunkard while the turntable drained the enemies' life force.
• Zhang Yuanqing killed the Mutant and Spirit Medium despite being struck by the Spirit Medium's poisoned spear, then helped his Yin corpses defeat Hundred-Armed Demon Bug.
• Hundred-Armed Demon Bug's death reversed Alicia's petrification, and Green Bamboo recognized Celestial Venerable Moral as Yuanshi Tianzun.

Zhang Yuanqing reunited with Little Round and Huang Taiji after rescuing them from a gourd, then revealed to his allies that he was Yuanshi Tianzun, resurrected and disguised as Ju Mang. The group entered the second-floor exhibition hall to seek a way forward, where an unseen voice from a display case told them to stop disturbing its rest.

• Green Bamboo and Alicia realized that Zhang Yuanqing had been Yuanshi Tianzun and Ju Mang all along.
• Zhang Yuanqing freed Little Round and Huang Taiji from Hundred-Armed Demon Bug's gourd and revealed his identity to them.
• Huang Taiji explained how he and Little Round had been trapped, and Zhang Yuanqing warned the group that Green Bamboo was fated to die in black water on the dangerous second floor.
• The group searched the display cases for a key to the bronze door, but Alicia found no clues and the cases resisted their attempts to break them.
• An aged voice from a display case in the western corner told the group to stop knocking and disturbing its rest.

Zhang Yuanqing and his team questioned a talking clay mask for clues to the bronze door, but its alternating truths and lies led them to trigger a flood of Weak Water. They escaped the rising water by climbing onto display cases, but the flood continued to rise and threatened to overtake them.

• Zhang Yuanqing questioned a clay mask, which described its ancient origins and explained the hierarchy of the Three Sovereigns, Five Emperors, gods, and rogue cultivators.
• The clay mask told the team the bronze-door key was among the four cardinal relics and said it was inside Guanyin's Jade Purity Vase.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent a level-four corpse puppet to search the vase, causing it to erupt with Weak Water that began flooding the exhibition hall.
• The clay mask revealed that its answers alternated between truth and lies, confirming it had deceived the team about the water's danger.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates climbed onto display cases to escape the Weak Water, but the rising flood threatened to cover them.

As Weak Water flooded the exhibition hall, Zhang Yuanqing used the clay mask’s answers and a Matchbox wish to obtain a Creation Brush, then made a boat to rescue the group. His Stargazing Art revealed that the next danger was a dragon statue whose fire threatened everyone aboard.

• The group learned from the clay mask that they needed Qilin Wood, a Fire Dragon Eye, and the Dionysus Staff to reverse the Jade Purity Vase and collect the Weak Water, but they could not reach the brush needed to draw the wood.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized he could use the Matchbox to bring the brush’s display case beneath him without directly wishing away the Weak Water crisis.
• Zhang Yuanqing took the Creation Brush, drew a boat from his memory, and rowed to collect Little Round, Green Bamboo, Huang Taiji, and Alicia.
• Zhang Yuanqing consulted the Great Luo Star Chart and saw visions of a dragon statue attacking the group, with Green Bamboo, Huang Taiji, Alicia, and Little Round all in danger.

Zhang Yuanqing faced the dragon-breath trial alone while his teammates entered the dangerous Blank Scroll. After surviving the dragon’s first barrage, he watched Green Bamboo face a corpse inside the scroll and was struck through the chest by the dragon’s next attack.

• Zhang Yuanqing warned that his Stargazing Art showed the dragon wiping out the team, and Huang Taiji learned that one person had to face the trial while the others hid in the Blank Scroll.
• Huang Taiji, Little Round, Alicia, and Green Bamboo entered the scroll, where an eerie ink-painted residence appeared around them.
• Zhang Yuanqing used a Wood Demon earring and the qilin-wood oar to challenge the dragon statue, which awakened and began firing fireballs.
• Zhang Yuanqing dodged and blocked the dragon’s volleys, but the flames badly burned him before the dragon ended its first attack.
• Zhang Yuanqing healed himself, saw a corpse attack Green Bamboo in the scroll, and donned the Thunder Armor and bracers.
• The dragon fired a crimson beam that broke through Zhang Yuanqing’s electromagnetic protection and pierced his chest.

Zhang Yuanqing survived the dragon’s escalating trials, reversed the Weak Water, and rescued his teammates from a painting. After retrieving the bronze key from the Jade Purity Vase, he prepared to lead the group to the third floor.

• Zhang Yuanqing dodged eight Master-level dragon-breath attacks with the Slide-Tackle Shoes and a decoy corpse, then used his items and abilities to endure the dragon’s thirty-second fire breath.
• Zhang Yuanqing took the dragon’s eye gemstones and the Dionysus Scepter, then used the scepter’s Chaos skill to make the Weak Water flow back into the Jade Purity Vase.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the painting, suppressed the Sovereign-level female ghost, and freed Little Round, Huang Taiji, Green Bamboo, and Alicia from the locust tree.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his teammates escaped the painting and waited for the Weak Water to drain while he checked the leaderboard and noticed Jiang Ju had risen to eighth place.
• Zhang Yuanqing explained that the Staff of Dionysus could distort the Weak Water, retrieved the bronze disc key from the Jade Purity Vase, and led the group toward the third floor.

Zhang Yuanqing opened the path from the museum’s second floor and led his teammates toward the final floor after hearing the Terracotta Mask’s account of the Three Sovereigns. In the Spirit Realm, Ling Tuo revealed that he had found and devoured an instance containing a core fragment, causing the alliance leaders to discover that Moral Value had vanished.

• Zhang Yuanqing used White Orchid to place the metal disk in the bronze doors, then questioned the Terracotta Mask about the Three Sovereigns.
• The Terracotta Mask described legends about the Heavenly Sovereign and Earthly Sovereign, and Zhang Yuanqing led his team up the stairs toward the third floor.
• After the six teammates departed, an old man appeared from the Terracotta Mask and thanked the Lunar Moon Lord for showing mercy.
• Ling Tuo explained that an instance contained one of the cores sustaining the Spirit Realm, then located it and sent a black-robed figure to retrieve it.
• Ling Tuo’s black moon devoured the instance, and the five alliance leaders discovered that Moral Value had disappeared.

Ling Tuo revealed that he had erased every Spirit Realm Walker’s Moral Value, triggering widespread violence and putting the world’s order at risk. In the Slaughter Dungeon, Zhang Yuanqing’s group learned that Sleeping Dragon Duke had destroyed nearly all the orderly divine avatars, and they hurried toward the Hall of Gods to confront the crisis.

• Ling Tuo explained that he had used Lunar Power to obscure the Merit List and erase Moral Value, unleashing chaos across the Spirit Realm.
• Lofty Mountains, Flowing Water told Fu Qingyang that Evil Professions were attacking public places and killing civilians, and Fu Qingyang confirmed that Moral Value had disappeared.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his companions reached the museum’s third floor and found the badly wounded Osmon.
• Osmon told Alicia and the others that Sleeping Dragon Duke had destroyed the orderly professions’ divine avatars and that only the Scholar avatar remained.
• Osmon revealed that Xiahou Aotian was fighting Sleeping Dragon Duke alongside Jiang Ju and others in the Hall of Gods, so Zhang Yuanqing urged his group to hurry there.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered Xiahou Aotian and Rayleigh Eugene fighting three evil Saints with deity avatars, while their allies were badly wounded. Little Round reached the Voodoo Master statue but could not fuse with its dharma body because she lacked the required 100 points, drawing the enemy’s suspicion.

• Zhang Yuanqing scouted the temple and saw Xiahou Aotian and Rayleigh Eugene battling Sleeping Dragon Duke, Bloody Liquid, and Human-Animal Hybrid as Jiang Ju, Yin Ji, and Xia Zuo lay gravely wounded.
• Zhang Yuanqing realized the intact Voodoo Master statue offered their best chance and told Little Round to avoid Xiahou Aotian and fuse with it.
• Little Round entered the temple, touched the statue, and attempted to fuse with its dharma body.
• The Spirit Realm rejected Little Round’s fusion because she had only 40 points instead of the required 100.
• Human-Animal Hybrid recognized Little Round’s problem, and Sleeping Dragon Duke and Bloody Liquid began questioning whether she had encountered Osmon.

Xiahou Aotian and the Orderly Profession fighters struggled to protect the Voodoo Master's divine avatar, and Xia Zuo sacrificed himself to help secure points. Outside the dungeon, Moral Value disappeared and chaos spread across the country as Fu Qingyang declared the final battle had begun and learned that Evil demigods had gathered in New Covenant County to hunt the Sea Emperor.

• Xiahou Aotian tried to fool the three Evil Saints, but Sleeping Dragon Duke sealed Zhang Yuanqing's Thunder God Set as the Chromie Demon attacked the statue.
• Xiahou Aotian trapped the enemies in a formation, while Zhang Yuanqing realized they needed points and Xia Zuo offered his life to help the orderly camp win.
• Xia Zuo asked Zhang Yuanqing to protect order in his stead, and Little Round killed him to claim his points.
• Sea Monsters destroyed ships around New Covenant County as a huge island arrived under spreading purple clouds.
• A report showed that Evil practitioners and some Orderly practitioners were exploiting the disappearance of Moral Value to commit massacres, theft, and attacks across the country.
• Fu Qingyang ordered the Nine Elders to make the government cooperate and declared the final battle between Orderly and Evil had begun, just as an officer reported that Evil demigods had gathered in New Covenant County to hunt the Sea Emperor.

The evil faction’s demigods besieged the Sea Emperor in New Covenant County, while a tsunami threatened millions of residents and the lawful faction struggled to respond. As the Spirit Realm’s dungeons were swallowed by Lunar Moon, Little Round fused with the Voodoo Master’s dharma body.

• Vinnie and other Spirit Realm Walkers felt a terrifying pressure as purple clouds darkened New Covenant County, then sensed danger approaching New Covenant Harbor.
• A Smoker formed from a man and countless mutated monsters, crossed the sea, and headed for the Sea God Church, where the Sea Emperor raised a barrier with his trident.
• Ling Tuo and other evil faction forces attacked the Sea God Church; their assaults shattered the barrier, incapacitated church members, and surrounded the Sea Emperor.
• The chairman saw a hundred-meter tsunami approaching and teleported away to seek reinforcements, while Fu Qingyang learned from Fu Qingxuan that Ling Tuo had swallowed the Merit List and the evil demigods were targeting the Sea Emperor.
• As the black moon swallowed Spirit Realm dungeons, Lady of Three Paths Mountain worried that Yuanshi would be trapped in the Slaughter Dungeon, and a fading golden figure told her to redeem his promise through Yuanshi.
• Little Round fused with the Voodoo Master’s dharma body, transforming as ghostly light corrupted the temple and weakened the four deity avatars.