Chapter Summaries

After learning that Yuanshi Tianzun had supposedly been assassinated, Guan Ya discovered that Fu Qingyang had arranged his fake death and began to suspect her own feelings for him. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing received intelligence about Black Impermanence, Voodoo King, and the Evil Professions’ bounty roster, then considered contacting Voodoo King’s people to help seize the Roster.

• Guan Ya believed the report that Yuanshi Tianzun had died, but Fu Qingyang told her that he and Yuanshi had staged the death and asked her to cooperate.
• Fu Qingyang reflected that Guan Ya’s affection for Yuanshi had grown, while Guan Ya returned to work and heard Teng Yuan and Jiang Jingwei discuss compensation for Yuanshi’s supposed death.
• Zhang Yuanqing woke at home, joked with Jiang Yu'er, and then reviewed his plans for the operation to find Black Impermanence.
• Little Round told Zhang Yuanqing that Voodoo King’s subordinate had put out a bounty on Black Impermanence, that Yuanshi Tianzun appeared on the Evil Professions’ bounty roster, and that Li Xianzong had risen in the rankings.
• Zhang Yuanqing decided to contact Voodoo King’s subordinate, Human Blood Bun, and considered using the resulting confusion to help seize the Roster.

Zhang Yuanqing contacted Human Blood Bun to trade intelligence about Black Impermanence, while the Spirit Energy Society learned that Black Impermanence was seeking Dark Night Rose's help over the Fallen Holy Grail. Fu Qingyang then ambushed Unjust Heaven beneath a bridge and called Zhang Yuanqing to perform Spirit Inquiry.

• Zhang Yuanqing posed as a Dark Night Rose member and exchanged intelligence with Human Blood Bun, learning that a scout's profile could help locate Black Impermanence.
• Human Blood Bun reported the intelligence to the president of the Spirit Energy Society, who recognized it as true, warned that Zhang Yuanqing was likely working with the authorities, and approved sharing Black Impermanence's file.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Fu Qingyang at Fu Family Bay, and Fu Qingyang drove him to a river where he went to confront Unjust Heaven.
• Unjust Heaven waited beneath a bridge and mocked Fu Qingyang over Yuanshi Tianzun's supposed death before Fu Qingyang appeared.
• Unjust Heaven transformed using his strength-type gu, but Fu Qingyang flicked a finger and knocked him unconscious.
• Fu Qingyang called Zhang Yuanqing and told him to come perform Spirit Inquiry.

Zhang Yuanqing learned from Unjust Heaven’s memories that Black Impermanence planned to meet Dark Night Rose, and Fu Qingyang used a Soldier Puppet to impersonate the dead man and contact him. As the puppet reached the question of Young Soldier King, Zhang Yuanqing decided to tell Fu Qingyang what he had withheld.

• Zhang Yuanqing used Spirit Inquiry on Unjust Heaven and learned that Black Impermanence communicated through an item, wanted the Fallen Holy Grail, and planned to share Young Soldier King’s identity with Dark Night Rose after an assassination.
• Fu Qingyang used the Soldier Puppet to control Unjust Heaven’s corpse and proposed using it to contact Black Impermanence.
• Zhang Yuanqing, Fu Qingyang, and the puppet went to Unjust Heaven’s apartment and found the bronze bowl used to communicate with Black Impermanence.
• The puppet told Black Impermanence that Yuanshi Tianzun was dead, and Black Impermanence arranged a meeting with Dark Night Rose in two days.
• When Black Impermanence asked what Dark Night Rose had said about Young Soldier King, Zhang Yuanqing told Fu Qingyang he had something to report.

Zhang Yuanqing passed Fu Qingyang intelligence about Black Impermanence and helped him narrow down where Black Impermanence might meet Dark Night Rose. He then met the Lord of Stop-Killing Palace and offered the transaction details in exchange for her help with the Roster and Black Impermanence’s spirit body.

• Zhang Yuanqing revealed that Dark Night Rose was searching for the Young Soldier King, while concealing the connection to Demon Lord’s operation.
• Fu Qingyang learned several of Black Impermanence’s former hideouts from Zhang Yuanqing and decided there were too many to watch without more information.
• Zhang Yuanqing received detailed files on Black Impermanence from Human Blood Bun and forwarded them to Fu Qingyang, who used them to predict likely meeting locations.
• Fu Qingyang told Elder Teddy that the files might make a request for headquarters’ help unnecessary and credited Yuanshi Tianzun’s connection to the Lord of Stop-Killing Palace.
• Zhang Yuanqing met the Lord of Stop-Killing Palace and offered the time and place of the transaction in return for help seizing the Roster and destroying Black Impermanence’s spirit body if he died.

Zhang Yuanqing prepared for Black Impermanence’s midnight deal with Dark Night Rose at Songhai No. 3 Elementary School, while arranging for the Voodoo King to complicate the fight over the Holy Grail. As the operation began, Black Impermanence confirmed Dark Night Rose had secured a Contract Book, and someone knocked at his office door.

• Zhang Yuanqing told the mistress of Stop-Killing Palace where the deal might happen and asked her to strike at Dark Night Rose during the clash.
• Human Blood Bun received a message naming Songhai No. 3 Elementary School as the transaction site and rushed to report the intelligence to the vice president.
• At 23:50, Zhang Yuanqing coordinated the perimeter team while Unjust Heaven entered the school.
• Black Impermanence learned from Moist Matron that Dark Night Rose had borrowed the Contract Book to safeguard their trade.
• At midnight, someone knocked on Black Impermanence’s office door.

Unjust Heaven attacked Black Impermanence’s office while Fu Qingyang confronted him at Songhai No. 3 Elementary School, where powerful allies and enemies gathered and sealed the campus. Watching through Little Doubi, Zhang Yuanqing discovered the Infant Spirit’s treasure-hunting instinct had activated and was leading him away from the school.

• Unjust Heaven threw a mountain-bearing figurine into Black Impermanence’s office, immobilized him and Moist Matron, and shot Moist Matron dead before Fu Qingyang arrived and attacked Black Impermanence.
• Black Impermanence warned that killing him would return the Holy Grail to the Spirit Realm, but Fu Qingyang attacked anyway as a masked Fire Master intervened with flaming arrows.
• Black Impermanence summoned a poisonous toad, but Voodoo King arrived and devoured the poison mist before forming a giant of blood mist.
• The Grand Protector struck Voodoo King with Solar Power, a silver-masked woman dragged the Grand Protector from Night Roaming, and a Hundred Flowers Society elder covered the school in a forest and sealed it with a green barrier.
• Zhang Yuanqing watched the battle through Little Doubi and realized the Infant Spirit’s treasure-hunting instinct had taken control, drawing him toward an intersection outside the school.

Black Impermanence’s clone tricked the gathered factions with an illusion of the Fallen Holy Grail, while his true body escaped with it and planned to trade with Dark Night Rose later. As he waited in an alley, he sensed a little wraith watching him.

• Zhang Yuanqing followed Little Doubi through the streets while the factions fought around Black Impermanence at the school.
• Black Impermanence revealed a cracked crystal goblet and threw it into the air, drawing everyone into a scramble for the supposed Fallen Holy Grail.
• Fu Qingyang seized the goblet, but it became an ordinary glass cup when the Grand Protector exposed the scene as an illusion.
• Black Impermanence revealed that the figure at the school was a Voodoo Clone and said the Contract Book let Dark Night Rose complete the trade elsewhere.
• Black Impermanence’s true body waited with the real Holy Grail in a secluded alley and noticed a little wraith staring at him.

Zhang Yuanqing was nearly killed when Black Impermanence ambushed him, but a mysterious figure arrived and killed the Voodoo Master. Zhang Yuanqing survived and found a cracked crystal cup beside Black Impermanence’s corpse.

• Black Impermanence recognized Zhang Yuanqing as Yuanshi Tianzun and attacked him before he could finish calling for reinforcements.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Steadfast One's Pearl and Red Dancing Shoes to survive Black Impermanence’s blows, but Black Impermanence cursed his shoes and poisoned him.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Howl at the Moon and the Demon Subduing Pestle to recover some strength, then covered himself with the Red Bridal Veil as Black Impermanence prepared to kill him.
• The world turned gray and silent, and a mysterious voice addressed Black Impermanence, who reacted with terror before collapsing dead.
• Zhang Yuanqing removed the Red Bridal Veil, found a cracked crystal cup beside Black Impermanence’s corpse, and picked up the rule-type item.

Zhang Yuanqing killed Black Impermanence, recovered the Fallen Holy Grail and the Roster, and found that Brother Bing’s page had been torn out. Meanwhile, the battle at Songhai No. 3 Elementary School ended with Black Impermanence’s death disrupting the enemy’s plans, and Fu Qingyang learned that the capture operation might have succeeded after all.

• Zhang Yuanqing collected the Fallen Holy Grail, the scarecrow, and the Red Bridal Veil, then found Black Impermanence’s Roster and discovered that Brother Bing’s page had been torn out.
• Zhang Yuanqing found no spirit in Black Impermanence’s corpse and suspected that a mysterious old acquaintance had erased it; he concluded that finding Brother Bing might reveal why Demon Lord had hunted Judge of Ghostly Eyes.
• Teng Yuan and the rescue team arrived, and Zhang Yuanqing told them he had killed Black Impermanence; Guan Ya checked whether he had been poisoned while Teng Yuan called Fu Qingyang.
• At Songhai No. 3 Elementary School, Black Impermanence’s avatar died, and the Grand Protector summoned a giant hand that broke the Hundred Flowers Society elder’s barrier before escaping with the Fire Master.
• Fu Qingyang learned that the transaction between Black Impermanence and Dark Night Rose could no longer be stopped and prepared to end the operation.
• Teng Yuan called Fu Qingyang and reported that Yuanshi Tianzun had killed Black Impermanence nearby, suggesting the capture operation might not have failed.

Zhang Yuanqing returned the Fallen Holy Grail to the Five Elements Alliance after killing Black Impermanence, while Fu Qingyang and the elders investigated the mysterious figure and the Grail’s deeper connections. That night, Zhang Yuanqing heard an old recording of the Demon Lord describing the Holy Grail’s corruption and vowing to kill Judge of Ghostly Eyes.

• Teng Yuan told Fu Qingyang that Zhang Yuanqing had killed Black Impermanence alone and recovered the Fallen Holy Grail.
• Zhang Yuanqing met Dog Elder, surrendered the damaged Holy Grail, and learned that the elder planned to reward him.
• Fu Qingyang assigned the cleanup at the school, then reported the battle and Zhang Yuanqing’s treasure-locating item to the Five Elements Alliance elders.
• Dog Elder and the elders discussed the mysterious person, the deaths of Black Impermanence, Judge of Ghostly Eyes, and Demon Lord, and whether Zhang Yuanqing knew the mysterious figure.
• Zhang Yuanqing inspected the Curse Straw Man and put it away, then used Night Wanderer mode to listen to the Cat King Speaker.
• The recording revealed the Demon Lord struggling against the Holy Grail’s corruption and vowing to kill Judge of Ghostly Eyes.

Zhang Yuanqing investigated the Demon Lord’s possible connection to Brother Bing, then sought answers from Master Wuhen, who insisted that an unbound Role Card meant its owner was dead. He learned that the Straw Man was already corrupting him and decided to hand it over to the organization, just as Fu Qingyang summoned him to choose two reward items.

• After hearing the Cat King Speaker recording, Zhang Yuanqing suspected that a mysterious person working for the Demon Lord had torn a Roster page containing both the Demon Lord’s and Brother Bing’s identities, and he planned to ask Master Wuhen about Role Cards.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Black Impermanence had been killed and the Holy Grail recovered, while the chief protector ordered the Fire Master to target Yuanshi Tianzun and spread word that the Roster was in the Five Elements Alliance’s hands.
• Zhang Yuanqing visited Master Wuhen, who said that removing a Role Card’s binding required death and that obtaining another person’s card would require being inside the Spirit Realm.
• Aunt Little Round identified the Straw Man’s influence as Voodoo Master corruption that was changing Zhang Yuanqing’s desires, and he decided to surrender the item to the organization.
• Fu Qingyang called Zhang Yuanqing to choose two items from ten as his reward for the Black Impermanence incident.

Zhang Yuanqing received A-rank merit and chose two items suited to his fighting style, then asked Fu Qingyang to purify the Red Dancing Shoes and assess the Straw Man. Elsewhere, Xie Lingxi learned that Zhang Yuanqing had killed Black Impermanence, while Auntie Little Round heard that Li Xianzong had chosen Songhai for the coming slaughter dungeon.

• Fu Qingyang awarded Zhang Yuanqing A-rank merit, two million in cash, and two items; Zhang chose the Eye of Insight and Explosive Pistol.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked Fu Qingyang to arrange purification of the corrupted Red Dancing Shoes and submitted Black Impermanence's Straw Man for the elders to assess.
• Xie Lingxi told the Mistress of Stop-Killing Palace that Zhang Yuanqing had killed Black Impermanence and that her father wanted her to get closer to him.
• Auntie Little Round paid Tian Lingling for information and learned that Li Xianzong had chosen Songhai for the upcoming large-scale slaughter dungeon.

Aunt Little Round learned that Yuanshi Tianzun had earned A-rank merit for his role in Black Impermanence’s capture and suspected he was the young man she had met. Meanwhile, Li Xianzong planned to provoke the Songhai branch by attacking Pingtai Hospital, while Zhang Yuanqing enjoyed his sudden fame and returned to work to find Squad Leader Li waiting.

• Tian Lingling told Aunt Little Round that the Songhai branch had captured Black Impermanence and that Yuanshi Tianzun had received A-rank merit, leading her to suspect Yuanshi was the young man she had met.
• Li Xianzong arrived at Tian Lingling’s bar, reviewed intelligence on Yuanshi Tianzun, and decided to target Pingtai Hospital to test the Songhai branch’s response.
• Official Walkers praised Yuanshi Tianzun on the forum after the Five Elements Alliance announced his A-class merit for seizing the Holy Grail.
• Zhang Yuanqing browsed the praise on his phone while shopping and watching a movie with Aunt.
• Zhang Yuanqing arrived at work the next day and learned that Squad Leader Li was waiting upstairs.

Zhang Yuanqing learned that evil organizations would target promising Spirit Realm Walkers ahead of the midyear slaughter instance, while Li Xianzong approached a Nihility Sect protector to discuss a possible alliance against Yuanshi Tianzun and Fu Qingyang. The chapter ended with the protector intrigued by Li Xianzong’s offer.

• Li Dongze visited Second Team, celebrated Zhang Yuanqing’s A-rank merit, and warned that evil organizations would hunt promising candidates before the midyear slaughter instance.
• Zhang Yuanqing asked for a wanted list of evil Transcendents, and Li Dongze advised him to keep a low profile while Teng Yuan offered to seek a danger allowance for him.
• Guan Ya worried that Fu Qingyang would be targeted by powerful Saint Realm enemies, while Li Dongze noted that Zhang Yuanqing might not yet be strong enough to enter the slaughter instance.
• Li Xianzong entered a villa and confronted a Nihility Sect protector who had been torturing a woman and whose target was Fu Qingyang.
• Li Xianzong proposed discussing cooperation against Yuanshi Tianzun and Fu Qingyang, and the protector gave him three minutes to explain.

Li Xianzong planned to seize Pingtai Hospital to draw out Yuanshi Tianzun, while Zhang Yuanqing learned that Li Xianzong had come to Songhai to hunt him. The chapter ended as armed attackers took control of the hospital where Jiang Yu'er was working.

• Li Xianzong recruited a female guardian to hold back Fu Qingyang while he planned to seal off Pingtai Hospital and lure out Yuanshi Tianzun.
• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed wanted criminals and worried about his approaching Spirit Realm and his vulnerability as a Level 2 Walker.
• Little Round told Zhang Yuanqing that his bounty had risen, A Yi was hunting official Walkers, and Li Xianzong had arrived in Songhai to target him.
• Jiang Yu'er chatted with Doctor Zhao at Pingtai Hospital, where she learned Wang Qian had resigned and was urged to meet Doctor Zhao's cousin.
• A gunshot and an announcement revealed that Li Xianzong's group had taken control of Pingtai Hospital and ordered everyone to stay put.

Terrorists led by Li Xianzong seized Pingtai Hospital and demanded that Yuanshi Tianzun come to them, threatening to kill hostages and detonate bombs. With Zhang Yuanqing’s aunt trapped inside and only ten minutes to act, Li Dongze’s team faced the crisis as Fu Qingyang remained unreachable.

• Jiang Yu'er kept Dr. Zhao inside a room, reasoning that the hospital’s entrances were guarded and staying put was safest.
• Li Xianzong monitored his men as they gathered patients and medical staff in the hospital lobby, ordering them not to harm pregnant women.
• Zhang Yuanqing learned that Pingtai Hospital had been attacked, feared for his aunt, and joined Li Dongze’s team as they rushed to the scene.
• Jiang Jingwei knocked out a hostage-taker outside the hospital and seized his walkie-talkie, allowing Li Dongze to contact the attackers.
• Li Xianzong identified himself and demanded Yuanshi Tianzun’s arrival within ten minutes, threatening to kill hostages and detonate bombs.
• Zhang Yuanqing offered to enter the hospital, but Li Dongze and Guan Ya rejected the idea and began considering a strategy.

Zhang Yuanqing’s colleagues planned to stall the kidnappers at Pingtai Hospital while he secretly sent Little Doubi to find his aunt. When he saw her in danger, Zhang Yuanqing entered the hospital and confronted the attacker, leaving the hostages’ rescue underway.

• Li Dongze organized a plan to delay Li Xianzong, bring Yuan Ting to the hospital, and have Wang Tai hack the surveillance system.
• Zhang Yuanqing sent Little Doubi to scout the hospital and discovered that his aunt, Jiang Yu'er, was hiding in an office with Doctor Zhao.
• A kidnapper found Jiang Yu'er and approached her, prompting Zhang Yuanqing to abandon the plan and rush into the hospital.
• Li Dongze told Li Xianzong that Zhang Yuanqing had arrived, while Li Xianzong ordered the criminals to watch for him.
• Zhang Yuanqing attacked the kidnapper in the office, endured the man’s flames, and shot him repeatedly while shielding Jiang Yu'er.

Zhang Yuanqing rescued his aunt and helped neutralize the hospital bombs while the authorities moved against Li Xianzong’s criminals. After meeting Yuan Ting, Zhang Yuanqing was trapped in dense fog created by Li Xianzong’s item.

• Zhang Yuanqing killed the criminal holding Jiang Yu'er and knocked out the female doctor, then urged his aunt to stay hidden while he dealt with the attackers.
• Zhang Yuanqing used Spirit Inquiry to learn that two bombs had cross-held detonators, then sent Li Dongze the information and prepared to strike when Yuan Ting arrived.
• Li Xianzong ordered the bombs detonated after surveillance went dark, but Zhang Yuanqing attacked the second-floor criminals, drove the Earth Monster into a frenzy, killed him, and recovered the detonator.
• Yuan Ting arrived with a zombie and told Zhang Yuanqing that the lower-floor criminals had been dealt with and the hostages evacuated; Zhang Yuanqing reported that a Water Ghost had escaped.
• A dense fog spread through the hospital, separating Zhang Yuanqing from Yuan Ting and leaving Zhang Yuanqing unable to find his bearings.

Zhang Yuanqing narrowly survived Li Xianzong’s attack at Pingtai Hospital, but Li escaped and Zhang was left badly injured. As the Five Elements Alliance organized a search, Li celebrated at an underground bar until a masked woman confronted Tian Lingling about the Chu Family massacre.

• Zhang Yuanqing used Little Doubi to test how Li Xianzong tracked movement through the fog, then fought him and was wounded by his knife and poison.
• Little Doubi distracted Li long enough for Zhang Yuanqing to summon the Red Bridal Veil, but Li escaped through a chalk circle as the Ghost Bride took over Zhang’s body.
• The Ghost Bride helped Zhang embrace and absorb the fading Little Doubi, after which Zhang lost consciousness.
• Fu Qingyang’s team reviewed the hospital attack, learned that Zhang was recovering, and ordered a search for Li while Fu gave Guan Ya a rifle.
• Li celebrated the attack at an underground bar and claimed he had escaped without being followed.
• A masked woman arrived, revealed a red thread had been tied to Li’s ankle, and asked Tian Lingling whether he remembered the Chu Family massacre twenty-one years earlier.

The Stop-Killing Palace Master hunted down Tian Lingling over the Chu Family massacre, killed him, and learned nothing before swallowing his spirit. Meanwhile, Zhang Yuanqing recovered from Li Xianzong’s attack, weighed the gap between them, and received Xie Lingxi’s invitation as he resolved to reach Level 3 quickly.

• The Stop-Killing Palace Master entered Tian Lingling’s underground bar, killed a heckler, and revealed her identity as the villains prepared to fight her.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Master overwhelmed the bar’s Evil Walkers; Tian Lingling escaped through the back door with illusions, while Li Xianzong healed himself by draining a wounded Walker and vanished using chalk.
• The Stop-Killing Palace Master caught Tian Lingling, questioned his spirit about the Chu Family massacre and its rule-type item, then swallowed it.
• An Official Forum post reported Li Xianzong’s attack on Yuanshi Tianzun, while Boxing King warned his team member not to bet on Yuanshi Tianzun winning.
• Xie Lingxi learned her father had told her to keep away from Yuanshi Tianzun, then secretly invited him to dinner at the hotel.
• Zhang Yuanqing reviewed his defeat, decided he needed to reach Level 3 quickly, and heard Aunt approaching his room.