Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Lei Yibing had been reported missing three years earlier, while Dog Elder uncovered ties between the Same Boat Society and three alliance leaders. When Zhang Yuanqing asked Lei Yibing’s mother about the old disappearance, she denied that it had ever happened.

• Zhang Yuanqing visited his aunt with gifts bought using his uncle’s money, and they agreed to lure their targets out.
• Jiang Yu'er visited Zhang Yuanqing, revealed the years of suffering she had endured while trying to repair his soul, and nearly kissed him before Chen Yuanjun interrupted.
• Chen Yuanjun told Zhang Yuanqing that a deleted 2019 missing-person file concerned Lei Yibing and had been erased using official access privileges.
• Dog Elder asked Elder Miao about the Same Boat Society and learned that Gang Leader Jiang, the Lord of the Central Court, and the president were surviving members.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Lei Yibing’s mother to ask about the old missing-person report, but she insisted Lei Yibing had never disappeared before.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated the mystery surrounding Lei Yibing’s disappearance, then organized a plan to hunt Southern Faction elders. The chapter ended with Dog Elder asking Ms. JOJO about the guild meeting as she considered how to gather intelligence.

• Zhang Yuanqing found that Aunt Zhou had no memory of Lei Yibing going missing, and Jiang Yu'er confirmed that she had not been hypnotized.
• Jiang Yu'er reasoned that Lei Yibing could have withdrawn the missing-person report himself, but Zhang Yuanqing remained unsure who had filed it or what had happened.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Uncle about Lei Yibing, then proposed using an auction at the House of Myriad Treasures to lure Southern Faction elders and discussed how to counter Ling Tuo.
• Zhang Yuanqing traded a Fire Thief-tier bead to Lian Sanyue for an improved Craftsman's Ring and learned that the ring caused a continuous collecting obsession.
• Zhang Yuanqing assigned Madam JOJO, Demon Eye, and Little Round to gather intelligence on the Southern Faction ahead of a hunt planned for one week later.
• At Songhai Zoo, Dog Elder asked Ms. JOJO what the guild meeting had been about as she considered how to carry out her assignment.

Kou Beiyue used a theft at Bun Logistics as an opening to approach the Southern Faction’s intelligence, while Zhang Yuanqing admitted he had arranged the opportunity and recruited Little Round into the White Tiger Corps. Zhang Yuanqing then traveled to Capital City to meet Gang Leader Jiang and arrived at the estate, where Jiang Jingwei eagerly admired his sleeping Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.

• Madam JOJO told Dog Elder that Yuanshi Tianzun wanted intelligence on the Southern Faction, and Dog Elder took charge of teaching her how to investigate it.
• Kou Beiyue found police at Bun Logistics after an accountant stole money and warehouse goods, then persuaded Human Blood Bun to consider borrowing from others in the trade.
• Kou Beiyue reported the opportunity to Little Round, who recognized that Yuanshi Tianzun had arranged events to help his mission.
• Zhang Yuanqing revealed his role in setting up the opportunity, invited Little Round to join the White Tiger Corps, and spent time with her while awaiting news about Yin Yao’s materials and his Thunder God Set.
• Zhang Yuanqing arranged a meeting with Gang Leader Jiang through Jiang Ju and flew to a mountain estate near Capital City on the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon.
• Jiang Jingwei ran over to inspect the Five-Clawed Golden Dragon after it landed and fell asleep around Zhang Yuanqing’s arm.

Zhang Yuanqing visited Gang Leader Jiang to ask about the Same Boat Society and learned that it disbanded after a dispute over foreign influence. Two days later, he went undercover to the House of Myriad Treasures to identify a Sovereign buyer through an auction.

• Zhang Yuanqing visited Jiang Jingwei and Jiang Ju, sparred with the siblings, and met Gang Leader Jiang at the mountaintop.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Gang Leader Jiang about Huo Zhengkui’s assassination and asked why the Same Boat Society had disbanded.
• Gang Leader Jiang explained the Society’s split over foreign control and named the Lord of the Central Court, the president of the Hundred Flowers Society, and Elder Zhao as possible Sovereign-level suspects.
• Zhang Yuanqing decided to leave the investigation to the demigods rather than risk pursuing the suspects himself.
• Two days later, Zhang Yuanqing met Lian Sanyue at the House of Myriad Treasures and prepared to track a Sovereign buyer through the auction.

Zhang Yuanqing attended the House of Myriad Treasures auction, secretly helping an Illusionist win the Fire Thief Orb before gathering intelligence on the Southern Faction’s leaders. He used night-roaming to hide his thoughts from Ling Tuo and drafted a coordinated plan to attack the Third and Ninth Elders.

• Zhang Yuanqing watched a Voodoo Master kill a Wood Demon in the black market’s ring before taking his seat at the auction.
• Lian Sanyue auctioned mechanism puppets, Life Source Fluid, and the Sovereign-grade Fire Thief Orb as bidders drove prices up.
• Zhang Yuanqing sensed that a ghost-masked bidder was an Illusionist and manipulated the other bidders into giving up, letting the Illusionist buy the orb for ninety million.
• Lian Sanyue warned the Illusionist to store the Fire Thief Orb before inspecting it, then sent him away from the black market.
• Zhang Yuanqing compiled intelligence identifying several Southern Faction members and ruled out the Illusionist Kou Beiyue was tracking because of his karmic ties to Ling Tuo.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered night-roaming mode to conceal his plans from Ling Tuo and wrote a plan to split his allies into teams to attack the Third and Ninth Elders.

Zhang Yuanqing organized a coordinated hunt for the Nihility Sect’s Southern Faction elders and sent his allies to meet in Songhai. He then hypnotized Brainstorm into revealing the compass incantation and entered the Ninth Elder’s dream world, gambling that a Southern Faction demigod awaited him.

• Zhang Yuanqing announced a plan to hunt the Southern Faction’s Third Elder and Ninth Elder, and the Sovereigns chose whether to participate.
• Zhang Yuanqing assigned the participants their teams and ordered them to meet at Fu Family Bay in Songhai at midnight.
• Brainstorm returned home with a woman and was possessed by the Ghost Bride while Princess Yinyao hypnotized him.
• Princess Yinyao made Brainstorm reveal the compass’s activation incantation, and Zhang Yuanqing took the compass and opened the dream world.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the dream world, wondering whether a Southern Faction demigod was waiting there.

Zhang Yuanqing led a concealed strike against the Southern Faction’s Ninth Elder, but the ambush turned into a confrontation with several enemies in a mirror space. He summoned his allies and used his Sun skills to disrupt a powerful illusion, leaving the battle poised to begin.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord hypnotized the Ninth Elder’s subordinate and extracted the incantation needed to enter the Elder’s dream.
• Zhang Yuanqing entered the Ninth Elder’s dream, defeated her dream guardians, and dragged her back into reality.
• The Ninth Elder revealed a scroll that summoned a powerful illusion, and Zhang Yuanqing activated the teleportation array to call his companions.
• The Demon Eye Heavenly King, Little Round, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, and Madam JOJO arrived in a mirror space, where Zhang Yuanqing identified the Third Elder, Dark Night Rose’s Fourth Protector, Extinction Heavenly King, and the Pure Yang Sect Leader as their enemies.
• Zhang Yuanqing activated Blazing Sun War God and Sunrise, dispelling the forming phantom and suppressing the array’s mystical power.

Zhang Yuanqing and his allies defeated the Ninth Elder and escaped before the Southern Faction's Grand Elder could arrive, but they lost contact with the clone’s team. In the Mirror World, the clone realized the Third Elder had exploited his arrogance to lure Demon Eye Heavenly King and the others into an ambush.

• The Ninth Elder fled through Sunrise’s suppressive light, relying on her Heart Demon Body Transformation Divine Art to resist Zhang Yuanqing’s Solar Power attacks.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Xiahou Aotian’s Forbidden Artifact Heavenly Stele to nullify the Ninth Elder’s scroll, then trapped and weakened her with the Body and Soul Annihilation Blade and his companions’ attacks.
• Zhang Yuanqing subdued the Ninth Elder’s primordial spirit with Lunar Power and absorbed her as a Spirit Servant while Xiahou Aotian’s loudspeaker helped restore the nearby residents.
• Sofia carried Zhang Yuanqing, Xiahou Aotian, and Deng Jingguo away from the city, but they could not contact the clone or Demon Eye Heavenly King and suspected the team was trapped behind a barrier.
• In the Mirror World, Demon Eye Heavenly King accused the clone of recklessly summoning the team into Ling Tuo’s ambush, and the Third Elder revealed that he had amplified the clone’s arrogance.

Zhang Yuanqing and his allies followed the Red Dancing Shoes to a county-town internet cafe after learning their teammates were trapped in Dark Night Rose’s Cloud Dream Divine Realm. Inside the mirror world, the Southern Faction’s Third Elder used a powerful beast-hide drum to overwhelm them, while the rescuers discovered they could not breach the cafe’s restriction.

• Zhang Yuanqing used Little Round’s hair to send the Red Dancing Shoes toward the missing teammates, and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord’s teleportation scroll failed to escape the Cloud Dream Divine Realm.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord attacked the enemy group, but the Third Elder struck his beast-hide drum and dispelled their control effects.
• The drum countered Zhang Yuanqing’s Sunrise and disabled his allies, allowing Extinction Heavenly King to overpower Demon Eye and the Six Protectors to attack Madame JOJO.
• Zhang Yuanqing stopped the Six Protector’s rain attack and helped the Stop-Killing Palace Lord, who escaped the Pure Yang Sect Leader’s World in the Palm with the aid of her revived severed arms.
• As the drumbeats intensified, Zhang Yuanqing’s group struggled to defend themselves inside the mirror world.
• Outside an internet cafe, Xiahou Aotian and Deng Jingguo learned that the hair’s owner was still alive but a powerful restriction prevented them from entering to rescue their trapped teammates.

The author reported being diagnosed with sleep apnea caused by enlarged tonsils and uvula, which had been affecting his sleep, energy, and ability to write. He left the chapter wary of surgery and trying conservative treatment with weight loss and daily tongue exercises.

• The author went to the hospital after waking up choking and struggling to breathe.
• The author learned that he had sleep apnea syndrome caused by enlarged tonsils and uvula blocking his airway.
• The author connected the illness to his poor sleep, declining energy, and difficulty updating Spirit Realm.
• The author explained that surgery could interrupt updates and might not cure the condition, so he was wary of undergoing it.
• The author began conservative treatment by trying to lose weight and do daily tongue exercises.

Zhang Yuanqing and his allies broke through the barrier and joined the battle inside the Cloud Dream Divine Realm, where they worked to seal the Third Elder’s drum and defeat the Southern Faction. The Third Elder’s body was destroyed, but the Pure Yang Sect Leader swallowed his remnant soul, leaving the enemy’s intentions unclear.

• Zhang Yuanqing kicked open the invisible barrier after the Red Dancing Shoes let him touch it, restoring contact between his avatar and true body.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s true body arrived in the Cloud Dream Divine Realm, but the Third Elder’s drumbeats disrupted his attack and left the allies struggling to fight.
• Xiahou Aotian threw a sealing stele at the drum while Zhang Yuanqing, Sofia, and the Demon Eye Heavenly King fought to keep the Extinction Heavenly King and the other Sovereigns at bay.
• Little Round tried to strike the drum with the Falling Treasure Money, and the Stop-Killing Palace Lord restored the coin so it could seal the drum.
• With the drum silenced, the Sovereigns overwhelmed the Third Elder and destroyed his body, but the Pure Yang Sect Leader intercepted and swallowed his remnant soul.

Zhang Yuanqing and his allies defeated the Southern Faction’s elders, claimed two Sovereign-grade items, and regrouped to divide the spoils. After identifying the Pure Yang Sect Leader as Ling Tuo’s hidden contingency, Zhang Yuanqing prepared to enter a dungeon while Jade Fusion officials learned he had killed a Southern Faction elder.

• The Sixth Protector escaped through the sewers, while the Pure Yang Sect Leader fled with the Third Elder’s primordial spirit and Extinction Heavenly King threatened Demon Eye before leaving.
• Zhang Yuanqing and the others withdrew, and he examined the Kui Ox Drum before discussing Ling Tuo’s tactics and his plans to strengthen himself with Jiang Yu'er.
• Zhang Yuanqing placed the Kui Ox Drum and Hundred Ghost Garment in the guild warehouse, set rules for members to use them, and awarded each participant twenty million.
• Uncle told Zhang Yuanqing that Ling Tuo had not tried to trap him and the Marshal; Zhang Yuanqing concluded that the Pure Yang Sect Leader had been Ling Tuo’s contingency, then defended the Star Lord against Uncle’s suspicions.
• In Jade Fusion City, Waves Still Sound identified Yuanshi Tianzun in surveillance footage and learned from Fresh Fish Ball that he had killed the Southern Faction elder.

Zhao Chenghuang learned that Yuanshi Tianzun suspected his great-grandfather of being a Fallen One and returned to the old headquarters to investigate. While waiting for his great-grandfather, Zhao Chenghuang recalled a forbidden basement beneath the locust tree and decided to explore it.

• On the flight to Capital City, Zhao Chenghuang, Sun Miaomiao, and Yuan Ting read that Yuanshi Tianzun had killed two Southern Faction elders and built Return of the Dead into a powerful organization.
• Yuanshi Tianzun offered Zhao Chenghuang the corpse puppets of Greedy Divine General and Hundred-Man Slayer, then asked him to investigate whether his great-grandfather was tied to the Same Boat Society.
• Asano Ryo resisted Kobe Ichiro's demand to reclaim the Eight-Span Mirror and agreed only to convey the request to Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Zhao Chenghuang reached the old headquarters, learned his great-grandfather was away, and waited beneath the locust tree while considering the suspicion against him.
• Zhao Chenghuang remembered that his great-grandfather had forbidden him from entering the basement beneath the locust tree and decided to investigate it.

Zhao Chenghuang tried to enter his great-grandfather’s basement but was stopped by Elder Zhao, while Zhang Yuanqing dismissed the idea that it contained evidence of a fallen one and decided to visit the Capital City himself. At Zhang Yuanqing’s welcome banquet, he sensed a waiter’s malice and confronted the intruder, who warned that he was about to die.

• Zhao Chenghuang used Yuanshi Tianzun’s Evil-Breaking Talismans to force open the basement door, but Elder Zhao caught him and ordered him to stay out.
• Elder Zhao questioned Zhao Chenghuang about his cultivation, then told the basement spirit that Zhao Chenghuang had not seen inside.
• Zhang Yuanqing concluded the basement was probably unrelated to fallen ones and told Zhao Chenghuang he would go to the Capital City to ask Elder Zhao about the Same Boat Society.
• Zhang Yuanqing refused Asano Ryo’s request to return the Eight-Span Mirror and prepared a welcome banquet for Guan Ya and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire.
• Guests including Li Dongze, Ling Jun, Miao Teng'er, and Xie Lingxi attended the banquet, where Xiahou Aotian told Ling Jun and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire that his divinations had predicted Zhang Yuanqing might die young.
• Zhang Yuanqing sensed malice from a burgundy-vested waiter, followed him into the restroom, and heard him declare that Zhang Yuanqing was about to die.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated Pure Yang Sect Leader’s death threat and concluded it was meant to scare him away from a planned inquiry into the Same Boat Society. He visited Elder Zhao with Zhao Chenghuang and questioned him about the society, ending as Elder Zhao began revealing the truth about the North China branch.

• Pure Yang Sect Leader possessed a waiter, threatened to kill Zhang Yuanqing in seven days, and was destroyed by Zhang Yuanqing.
• After stargazing revealed no imminent danger, Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang to assess the threat, and Fu Qingyang reasoned that it was meant to make him hide.
• Zhang Yuanqing suspected the threat was connected to his plans to investigate the Same Boat Society and decided to visit Elder Zhao in the Capital City.
• Zhang Yuanqing and Zhao Chenghuang met Elder Zhao, and Zhang Yuanqing asked whether he belonged to the Same Boat Society and who had attacked Huo Zhengkui.
• Elder Zhao described the Same Boat Society as a secretive, loosely organized patriotic network and denied that the evidence made him the only possible suspect.
• Elder Zhao said the branch rumored to have collapsed in internal strife was the North China branch, then revealed that the truth was different.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that a mysterious seed left by Ling Jun’s birth mother was hidden in Elder Zhao’s basement, and agreed to help uncover its secret. Meanwhile, Zhai Cai was unexpectedly pulled into an S-rank death-type dungeon, Knight’s Twilight.

• Elder Zhao told Zhang Yuanqing that Everlasting Rivers and Mountains had survived a massacre at the Same Boat Society’s North China branch.
• Zhang Yuanqing questioned Elder Zhao about the basement, and Elder Zhao revealed a seed entrusted to him by Ling Jun’s birth mother, Wind Chime.
• Elder Zhao asked Zhang Yuanqing to investigate the seed’s secret, and Zhang Yuanqing agreed to keep it confidential.
• Zhang Yuanqing returned to Songhai and considered why Ling Tuo had tried to stop his investigation, despite seemingly not knowing about the seed.
• Zhai Cai received a notification that he would enter the S-rank death-type dungeon Knight’s Twilight and shouted to Yuzuriha Inori before vanishing.

Zhang Yuanqing decided to investigate the cultivation method for the seed left by Ling Jun's biological mother without telling Uncle or Fu Qingyang, then arranged to speak with Ling Jun. The chapter ended with Ling Jun reacting fiercely after Zhang Yuanqing said the matter concerned his mother.

• Zhang Yuanqing analyzed how Ling Tuo might be manipulating events and decided to find a way to cultivate the seed before revealing it to anyone.
• Zhang Yuanqing invited his allies to enter a dungeon in three days, and they discussed whether Saints could join Sovereign-level guild instances through the White Tiger Corps.
• Zhang Yuanqing contacted Ling Jun and arranged to meet him the next day about the seed and his mother.
• Zhang Yuanqing's duplicate visited Ling Jun's villa in disguise, and Ling Jun became a fierce lion after realizing Zhang Yuanqing was talking about his biological mother.

Zhang Yuanqing played a Demon Lord recording for Ling Jun that revealed Ling Jun’s mother had warned of a terrifying secret before returning to the Spirit Realm, prompting suspicions about the Taiyi Sect Master. He learned the key to his investigation might lie with the Miao Family, then used the Cat King Speaker to request more recordings of the Demon Lord and Teng’er’s mother.

• Zhang Yuanqing asked Victoria to prepare a secret room protected by Lunar Moon, then warned Ling Jun that hostile factions might target him as his power grew.
• Zhang Yuanqing played the Cat King Speaker’s recordings, and Ling Jun reacted angrily when the Demon Lord’s conversation suggested Ling Jun’s mother had spoken with him.
• The recording revealed that Ling Jun’s mother had told her sister she had discovered a terrifying secret and feared it might involve the Taiyi Sect Master before entering the Spirit Realm.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Ling Jun that his mother had left a relic requiring a key related to the Wood Demon profession, and Ling Jun suspected the key might be with the Miao Family.
• Zhang Yuanqing urged Ling Jun not to investigate, then returned to his grandmother’s house and asked the Cat King Speaker to play all recordings involving the Demon Lord and Teng’er’s mother.

Zhang Yuanqing uncovered a clue about the cultivation method tied to Ling Jun's mother, then chose the A-rank Lord of a Fallen Kingdom dungeon for his group to enter in two days. The chapter ended when An Yeqi urgently told him that something had happened to the boss.

• Zhang Yuanqing listened to Demon Lord's recordings and learned that Ling Jun's aunt remembered her sister revealing a cultivation method only Wood Demons could understand.
• Zhang Yuanqing arranged through Little Doubi to meet Miao Teng'er's mother the next morning, then left Night Roaming to visit Fu Qingyang.
• Fu Qingyang showed Zhang Yuanqing the available unraided dungeons, and Zhang Yuanqing chose the A-rank Lord of a Fallen Kingdom dungeon.
• Zhang Yuanqing invited his companions to enter the dungeon in two days, and Ling Jun was included on the team.
• An Yeqi called Zhang Yuanqing on Punchable Knight's phone and told him that something had happened to the boss.

Zhang Yuanqing sought help for the Sole-Heir Knight, who had entered an S-rank dungeon, then visited Miao Fengyun to ask for a spiritual plant cultivation method. While traveling to Elder Zhao’s residence to retrieve a seed, he was trapped outside the real world and confronted by Ling Tuo.

• An Yeqi told Zhang Yuanqing that the Sole-Heir Knight had entered the S-rank dungeon Knight’s Twilight, and Zhang asked his uncle to rescue him.
• Zhang Yuanqing’s uncle agreed to bring back the Sole-Heir Knight but left without explaining how he planned to do it.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Miao Fengyun at Victoria’s villa and asked for the spiritual plant cultivation method left by Ling Jun’s mother.
• Zhang Yuanqing left the villa under Victoria’s concealment protection and flew toward Elder Zhao’s residence to retrieve a seed.
• The city turned black and white around Zhang Yuanqing, his powers froze, and Ling Tuo appeared as a vast face in the sky, calling him a ridiculous clown.