Chapter Summaries

Zhang Yuanqing, Zhai Cai, and the president defeated the Holy Knight and claimed demigod-grade items from the vault, including golden Knight armor and a sealed Wind Mage item. After returning to Fu Family Bay, Zhang Yuanqing discovered that Fu Qingyang had left in a hurry and still had not returned.

• Zhang Yuanqing used the Thunder God Set to keep the Holy Knight pinned down while the president sealed and destroyed its remnant spirit.
• Zhai Cai claimed the golden Knight armor and sword, and the group found a lightning-sealed chest containing a demigod-grade Wind Mage item.
• The president used the Myriad Treasure Tree to gather the vault’s contents, then opened the chest and revealed a miniature hurricane.
• The president transported Zhang Yuanqing, Zhai Cai, and a tiny bat out of the vault, and Zhang Yuanqing returned to his bedroom at Fu Family Bay.
• Zhang Yuanqing went to Fu Qingyang’s study to share his gains, but learned from Rabbit Girl that Fu Qingyang had left in a hurry and had not returned.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that Gao Feng and Sweet Dew Elder had gone missing and went to Hangzhou to rescue Fu Qingyang, who was trapped with them in a dream barrier. He discovered that a powerful enemy group had cornered Fu Qingyang and sent a lightning-wielding clone into the barrier as Fu Qingyang prepared to fight.

• Dog Elder told Zhang Yuanqing that Gao Feng and Sweet Dew Elder had disappeared while dealing with a cult, and that Fu Qingyang and Heavenly Fire Elder were leading the rescue.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Dog Elder about Huo Zhengkui's assassination and learned the old case had no clear leads, then heard that JOJO had become a zoo internet celebrity.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent Uncle information about Saints who had entered Pan's Labyrinth, then followed the Red Dancing Shoes to an industrial park outside Hangzhou.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Dream Leap to see Fu Qingyang, Gao Feng, Sweet Dew Elder, and the injured Heavenly Fire Elder inside a dream barrier guarded by four evil Sovereigns.
• Zhang Yuanqing identified Snake Keeper and Iron Divination Fatebreaker among the attackers, realized only a level-eight Voidwalker could enter the barrier, and sent a Thunder God Set-equipped clone to break through.
• Fu Qingyang told the attackers he was using them to hone his swordsmanship, and the clone's lightning beam pierced the barrier.

Zhang Yuanqing used the Thunder God Set to defeat the Southern Faction Masters who had attacked them, while Fu Qingyang killed the remaining Defiled Evil Spirit. After concealing the battle from civilians, Zhang Yuanqing and Fu Qingyang discussed their gains and planned to enter more dungeons to reach level nine.

• Zhang Yuanqing broke the dream domain with an electromagnetic cannon and unleashed Thunderstorm against the fleeing Southern Faction Masters.
• Zhang Yuanqing and his duplicate killed the Snake Keeper and one Voidwalker, while the duplicate perished from the Thunder God Set’s backlash.
• Zhang Yuanqing pursued and killed the last Nihilist, devoured the fleeing primordial spirits, and watched Fu Qingyang kill the remaining Defiled Evil Spirit.
• Zhang Yuanqing concealed the fight from civilians and told Fu Qingyang that he had collected the Thunder God Set.
• Fu Qingyang advised Zhang Yuanqing to leave one set component outside before entering a dungeon and to refine the Nihilists’ spirit bodies into Spirit Servants.
• Fu Qingyang announced that he would enter dungeons until he advanced to level nine and told Zhang Yuanqing to cooperate by entering the Goddess of Beauty Association’s guild dungeon.

After rescuing Sweet Dew Elder and killing four evil sovereigns, Fu Qingyang and Zhang Yuanqing announced a campaign against the Nihility Sect and Spirit Energy Society to bolster morale and deter their enemies. Zhang Yuanqing distributed powerful items to his companions and began gathering materials to refine a Spirit Servant, while the announcement lifted the spirits of lawful-faction members.

• Zhang Yuanqing stored the fallen sovereigns, and Fu Qingyang, Gao Feng, Sweet Dew Elder, and the others parted ways after confirming that Flower Speech and Xia Shu were alive.
• At Fu Family Bay, Fu Qingyang drafted and published an announcement about the rescue and proposed hunting sovereigns from the Nihility Sect and Spirit Energy Society; Zhang Yuanqing liked the post.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Uncle, who delivered five items intended for Guan Ya, Red Chicken Bro, Zhao Chenghuang, Sun Miaomiao, and All Under Heaven Returns to Fire.
• Zhang Yuanqing distributed the items through the guild warehouse and asked Sun Miaomiao and Zhao Chenghuang to help obtain materials for refining a Spirit Servant.
• Zhang Yuanqing read the popular forum responses to Fu Qingyang's announcement as lawful-faction members welcomed the report of four evil sovereigns being killed.

Zhang Yuanqing divined that an opportunity to refine the Three Talents Pill would come in thirty-five days, then turned two captured Nihility Sect elders into Spirit Servants. He announced a long Goddess of Beauty Association dungeon raid to Return of the Dead and warned that a major upheaval might come in two months.

• The Grand Elder ordered Southern Faction members to keep a low profile after Yuanshi Tianzun and Fu Qingyang killed two elders and two Sovereigns.
• Zhang Yuanqing used the Great Luo Star Chart and divined that an opportunity to refine the Three Talents Pill would arrive in thirty-five days.
• Zhang Yuanqing summoned the Seventh Elder and Eleventh Elder in the Mohist Mechanism City instance, and the Ninth Elder persuaded them to submit and surrender their items.
• Zhang Yuanqing told Return of the Dead that he would enter a thirty-five-day Goddess of Beauty Association dungeon raid and assigned Xiahou Aotian to lead if he died.
• Zhang Yuanqing warned that the world might become chaotic in two months and said he would give the group a mission when he returned.

Zhang Yuanqing visited the Goddess of Beauty Association headquarters to choose dungeons and discuss the price of its support for his bid to become the Sun Lord. He agreed to pursue the arrangement with the Association’s president and asked to meet Betty about a key fragment left by the Demon Lord.

• Eddie Diana and the Goddess of Beauty Association’s female executives greeted Zhang Yuanqing with a lavish reception outside Ring City Building.
• Zhang Yuanqing selected fifteen level-seven dungeons, including the B-rank Forest of Elves, and agreed to consider joining the Association.
• Diana told Zhang Yuanqing that the president wanted him, as Sun Lord, to grant her rightful status so she could pursue becoming the Mother Goddess.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked to meet Betty and obtain the Demon Lord’s key fragment; Diana offered to help negotiate with her.

Zhang Yuanqing coerced Betty into giving him the Demon Lord’s key fragment, then entered a deadly Spirit Realm dungeon. Meanwhile, Xiahou Aotian resolved to join a guild dungeon, the Stop-Killing Palace Lord negotiated with the Xie Family ancestor, and the Demon Eye Heavenly King returned to the Lord of Weapons Cult.

• Zhang Yuanqing threatened Betty until she handed over the Demon Lord’s jade fragment, then accepted the Goddess of Beauty Association’s guild invitation.
• Zhang Yuanqing received a notice that he would enter the single-player Death Mode dungeon Forest of Elves to find the source of its aphrodisiac gas.
• Xiahou Aotian decided to join a guild dungeon and flew to the Xiahou Family ancestral residence to seek his ancestor.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Lord offered the Demon Refining Pot in exchange for dungeon access, the Xie Family’s holy infant, and help assimilating Nüwa’s Cast-Off Body, and the ancestor told her to prepare with Xie Su’s dossier.
• The Demon Eye Heavenly King returned to the Lord of Weapons Cult, and the Freedom Heavenly King warned that he wanted to kill him for betraying the cult.

Demon Eye Heavenly King returned to the Lord of Weapons Cult and gained Asura’s permission to enter its guild dungeon, despite Fear Heavenly King’s objections. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing entered the Forest of Elves dungeon in the body of an elf girl and set out to discover why the tribe’s women were affected by nightly heat.

• Demon Eye Heavenly King defeated Fear Heavenly King’s attempt to stop him and knocked aside the Sovereigns who tried to intercept him.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King asked to train in the Lord of Weapons Cult’s guild dungeon, and Asura agreed because faction allegiance did not matter to Bewitching Demons.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King declared his resolve to grow stronger and pursue his ideal of restraining evil and changing the world.
• Zhang Yuanqing found himself in a female elf’s body while walking through the forest with Teria, but confirmed that his spiritual power and Inventory remained available.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned from Teria about the elf tribe and its taboo against asking why the women experienced nightly heat, then reached the tribe intending to question its leaders.

Zhang Yuanqing lived among the Elf Tribe and learned that their nightly arousal and the deaths of men in the forest were tied to a secret the elders guarded. When sixteen men arrived seeking refuge, the chief welcomed them and offered them wives, but Zhang Yuanqing sensed the leader was lying.

• Zhang Yuanqing followed Teria to his cottage, where his mother scolded Alice for failing to seduce a man and warned her not to question what happened at night.
• Teria explained that men who entered the forest had died from excessive pleasure, and Zhang Yuanqing suspected the elves’ aphrodisiac gas was responsible.
• A group of sixteen armed men arrived at the lakeshore, drawing the elves’ eager attention.
• The elf chief welcomed the men and offered them a place to settle and form families with the tribe.
• Zhang Yuanqing sensed that the men’s leader was lying about having lost his home and possessions.

Zhang Yuanqing watched the elves and bounty hunters deceive each other, then pretended to fall unconscious when Buwaer drugged the tribe. Buwaer interrogated the Elf Queen about the elves’ strange behavior, and she revealed that an awakened relic of the Goddess of Beauty demanded pleasure as a sacrifice.

• The elf chieftain hosted the visiting men with food and wine, while Zhang Yuanqing sensed that their leader, Buwaer, possessed Sovereign-level mental strength and hidden greed.
• Rod Lev tried to persuade Zhang Yuanqing, disguised as Alice, to spend the night with him, but Zhang Yuanqing rejected him.
• Buwaer revealed that his men were bounty hunters, released anesthetic fumes that incapacitated the elves, and ordered his men to bind them for sale.
• Buwaer asked the Elf Queen why the elves had begun acting strangely after nightfall, and she tried to charm him before he shot her with an arrow.
• The wounded Elf Queen agreed to reveal the forest’s secret and said an awakened relic of the Goddess of Beauty required the elves to offer pleasure as a sacrifice.

Zhang Yuanqing defeated Buwaer and forced the Elf Queen to lead him to the Goddess of Beauty’s relic. In a cave in the valley, he found a decayed female head wearing a string of bright white pearls.

• The Elf Queen told Buwaer that the Goddess of Beauty’s necklace caused the elves’ desire and was guarded in a valley cave.
• A beautiful young woman revealed herself, killed Rod Lev and the other bounty hunters, and Zhang Yuanqing used Alice’s body to defeat Buwaer.
• Zhang Yuanqing compelled the wounded Elf Queen to guide him west to the valley where the relic was hidden.
• At night, the relic’s scent drove the two-headed wolves and the Elf Queen into desire, but Zhang Yuanqing suppressed its influence and restored the Queen’s clarity with a bamboo switch.
• The Elf Queen led Zhang Yuanqing into a cave, where he found a decayed female head wearing bright white pearls.

Zhang Yuanqing discovered that the Elf Tribe had guarded the Goddess of Beauty’s head for generations, then fought the goddess’s awakened remnant spirit and completed the Forest of Elves mission. In Songhai, Li Dongze and Chen Yuanjun prepared to use a musician to help recover Lei Yibing’s parents’ memories.

• The Elf Queen told Zhang Yuanqing that her ancestors had found the Goddess of Beauty’s severed head after witnessing a golden arrow pierce her and a golden deity cut it off; they believed the deity was the god of light.
• Zhang Yuanqing examined the head and its Sex Pearls, but the head awakened, shouted “God of Light,” and caused the cave to mutate as it began absorbing the Elf Queen.
• Zhang Yuanqing resisted the Goddess of Beauty’s seductive influence, attacked her remnant spirit with golden light and a Solar Power arrow, then struck it with a Thunder Spear.
• The Spirit Realm confirmed that Zhang Yuanqing had completed the solo Forest of Elves mission and awarded him the Sex Pearls and 3% experience.
• Li Dongze visited Chen Yuanjun and said he could take him to see Lei Yibing’s parents; Chen Yuanjun urged him to lead the way to the musician waiting outside.

Chen Yuanjun, Li Dongze, and Xie Anna investigated the erased missing-person file of Lei Yibing by hypnotizing his mother, Aunt Zhou. Her memories revealed that she reported him missing on July 14, 2019, four years after the date she had believed he disappeared.

• Chen Yuanjun and Li Dongze recruited Xie Anna to investigate the erased file of Lei Yibing, whose family did not remember reporting him missing.
• Xie Anna hypnotized Aunt Zhou, but her resistance showed that a stronger Musician had made her believe she never filed a report.
• Xie Anna guided Aunt Zhou into a deeper dream, while the Pure Yang Sect Leader secretly entered it and searched for clues about who had altered her memories.
• Aunt Zhou remembered reporting Lei Yibing missing at the Kangyang District Public Security Bureau on July 14, 2019.
• Aunt Zhou realized Lei Yibing had disappeared four years earlier, rather than the previous April as she had believed.

Chen Yuanjun and Li Dongze investigated Lei Yibing’s disappearance and learned he had vanished in Hangzhou years before his university disappearance, while the Pure Yang Sect Leader sought help tracing his records. Meanwhile, the chairman reviewed Yuanshi Tianzun’s dungeon progress and discussed growing tensions among the major organizations, leaving the importance of Moral Value in question.

• Xie Anna hypnotized Aunt Zhou, who revealed that Lei Yibing disappeared in Hangzhou three and a half years earlier, before her mind became unstable and the Pure Yang Sect Leader withdrew from her dream.
• Chen Yuanjun and Li Dongze discussed inconsistencies in Lei Yibing’s missing-person records and agreed to investigate through the Hangzhou Public Security Bureau and the organization’s database.
• The Pure Yang Sect Leader asked the Horizon Swordsman to investigate Lei Yibing’s records and said he intended to narrow Yuanshi Tianzun’s identity to several possible targets.
• Annie gave the chairman Yuanshi Tianzun’s dungeon progress reports, and Diana said he had cleared several instances before entering the S-rank Sinking of Paphos Island.
• Diana warned that the Evernight Church was active around the Evernight Pope’s resting place and said Heaven’s Punishment and the Five Elements Alliance were backing the Taiyi Sect Master to open the Sun Instance.
• The chairman dismissed the importance of Moral Value as pressure mounted over opening the Sun Instance.

Diana learned why Moral Value could no longer restrain demigods, while several factions prepared for a meeting called by the Taiyi Sect Master. As the lawful and evil demigods anticipated a major move, the Fear Heavenly King offered Demon Eye a chance to enter an S-rank dungeon, and Demon Eye accepted despite recognizing the danger.

• The chairman told Diana that Moral Value had become useless because a demigod wanted by the Spirit Realm could trigger a catastrophic conflict, and he explained that Ling Tuo wanted the Merit List to challenge the Taiyi Sect Master for the Sun's throne.
• Fu Qingxuan reviewed Fu Qingyang's rapid progress and learned from Ten Thousand Sword Pavilion that the Taiyi Sect Master would convene the lawful demigods of the Second District in three days.
• Xie Lingxi visited Xie Su, who told her that the Stop-Killing Palace Lord would reach Level 8 after one more A-rank dungeon and was preparing to assimilate the Nüwa Sovereign's Body.
• The Fear Heavenly King learned that the Taiyi Sect Master would convene the Orderly Demigod Ritual in three days, then told Demon Eye that an S-rank dungeon held remnants of a Great Existence's power.
• Demon Eye realized the Fear Heavenly King might be trying to get him killed in the dungeon, but accepted the offer anyway.

Demon Eye Heavenly King entered the S-rank Battle of Zhuolu instance, fought alongside Chiyou’s Nine Li Tribes, and learned that the war centered on competing demigod powers. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing awoke in a new instance as Amini, the demigod son of Aphrodite, beside one of her attendant gods.

• Fear Heavenly King sent Demon Eye Heavenly King into the Battle of Zhuolu instance, where his mission was to slaughter the Yan-Huang army and survive ten days.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King fought the warriors and mutant beasts, using his Bewitching Demon Eyes to overwhelm the battlefield and absorb a Fire Master’s energy.
• After the battle, Man identified Demon Eye Heavenly King as Yu, one of Chiyou’s brothers, and explained the Nine Li Tribes’ conflict with the Flame Emperor and the Bear Clan.
• Demon Eye Heavenly King learned that the Flame Emperor and Yellow Emperor had joined forces after competing for spiritual authority, then followed Man’s call to march on Zhuolu.
• Zhang Yuanqing awoke on a beach as Amini, Aphrodite’s demigod son, beside one of her attendant gods.

Zhang Yuanqing entered the S-rank dungeon Sinking of Paphos Island as Amini, whose affair with Helen nearly brought him into conflict with his sister and lover Heracine. Heracine revealed that the God of Light threatened the island because Cupid caused the Laurel Goddess’s death, leaving Zhang Yuanqing to question how the ancient myth connected to the dungeon’s later events.

• Zhang Yuanqing, as Amini, woke beside Helen after their tryst and learned from her that Heracine was his sister and lover.
• Heracine confronted Amini and threatened to tell Cupid about his affair, but Zhang Yuanqing calmed her with a declaration of love and promised to be faithful.
• Heracine warned that the God of Light’s followers might attack Paphos Island and said Cupid would be angry if they failed to return to the palace.
• As Zhang Yuanqing and Heracine walked back, she explained that Cupid’s Arrow of Repulsion had made the Laurel Goddess lose the ability to love, leading her to take her own life and the God of Light to vow revenge.
• Zhang Yuanqing recognized the story as the myth of Apollo and the Laurel Goddess, but questioned why the Goddess of Beauty had not surrendered Cupid to prevent her own eventual death.

Zhang Yuanqing learned about Paphos Island’s preparations for war and met Moneya, who ordered him to answer Cupid’s summons. Meanwhile, Xiahou Aotian traveled toward Chang’an in the An Lushan Rebellion dungeon, took shelter in an abandoned shrine, and heard an unexplained knock at the door.

• Zhang Yuanqing gathered information from Heracine about Aphrodite, the island’s divine offspring, and the threat posed by the God of Light’s followers.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at Aphrodite’s castle and saw Moneya training guards before she told him Cupid was looking for him.
• Xiahou Aotian traveled toward Chang’an with his level sealed and worried about surviving possible bandits on the road.
• Xiahou Aotian took shelter from a storm in an abandoned shrine, lit a charcoal fire, and warmed himself.
• A knock sounded outside the shrine despite Xiahou Aotian hearing no footsteps beforehand.

Zhang Yuanqing faced Cupid’s threat of being made to fall in love with a ewe, but persuaded him to grant one more day and used summoned servants to help finish the arrows. Elsewhere, Xiahou Aotian suspected a young herbalist seeking shelter from the rain had come to kill him.

• Moneya sent Zhang Yuanqing to find Cupid in the western garden, where Cupid cruelly punished several slave foremen with his arrows.
• Cupid threatened to make Amini fall in love with a ewe for failing to produce two thousand arrows, but Zhang Yuanqing convinced him to extend the deadline by one day.
• Heracine offered to help Zhang Yuanqing, and he inspected the Thunder Arrows before summoning Spirit Servants and Yin corpses to make the remaining arrows.
• At an ancient temple, Xiahou Aotian let a rain-soaked herbalist enter, then asked whether she had come to kill him.

Xiahou Aotian was lured into a terrifying illusion by a vengeful presence in a ruined temple, but the power of his ring helped him escape. He traced the haunting to resentment rising from a buried corpse and began digging it up.

• Xiahou Aotian shot a herbalist who had asked to shelter from the rain, then took the herbs from her basket.
• The dead woman appeared to return, and Xiahou Aotian was attacked by her headless corpse in an illusion until his ring awakened him.
• Xiahou Aotian realized the threat was likely a nearby ghost and used an Illusionist mask to search for hidden emotions.
• Xiahou Aotian found resentment rising from the temple courtyard and deduced that an unjustly killed woman was buried there.
• Xiahou Aotian dug into the mud with his saber and uncovered a corpse.