Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi comprehended the limited skill Winding Warp through Reincarnation Insight just as Abyss Descent Energy erupted and transformed a massive Beast Tide near Great Xia’s Southern Border. With the approaching horde threatening Tianhe City, more than two hundred thousand Great Xia reinforcements arrived, leaving Lin Yi to witness the nation’s strategy of saturation rescue for allies and saturation destruction for enemies.

• Lin Yi discovered that Reincarnation Insight had granted him Winding Warp, a limited-use skill that could teleport targets by bending space.
• Abyss Descent Energy burst from underground as Nangong Ling and the others spotted a Beast Tide advancing beyond the Changtan Mountain Range.
• The Abyss Descent Energy corrupted and multiplied the beasts, swelling their numbers toward a million as Shi Yi realized the attack had been deliberately arranged to threaten the Southern Border and Tianhe City.
• Lan Ruoxi warned the group to look up, and Lin Yi saw the Shenxiao Main Ship and a vast force of Great Xia reinforcements arriving by air.
• More than two hundred thousand troops, including over a hundred thousand Winged Cavalry, advanced against the Beast Tide, and Nangong Ling explained Great Xia’s policy of saturation rescue for allies and saturation destruction for enemies.

After the mission, Lin Yi deduced that the rescue and Beast Tide crisis had been staged as Shenxiao’s entrance assessment. Nangong Ling revealed the principal’s plan, then brought Lin Yi to watch Shenxiao’s main cannon prepare to fire at the Beast Tide.

• Lin Yi helped the rescued experts and scholars board aircraft, while Great Xia reinforcements arrived and thanked the academy students for saving their comrades.
• On the return to Shenxiao, Lin Yi confronted Nangong Ling and explained how the mission’s unusual team, reward, trap, rescued seniors, and rapid military response exposed the plan.
• Nangong Ling confirmed that the principal had turned the mission into Shenxiao’s entrance assessment and said most of Lin Yi’s companions could become freshmen.
• Nangong Ling took Lin Yi to Shenxiao’s command room, where the main cannon charged as the troops and aircraft fought the Beast Tide.
• Lin Yi watched the cannon gather power and resolved to summon a celestial star to destroy the Beast Tide more thoroughly.

Lin Yi used his Gravity Domain to pull an asteroid toward the Beast Tide while the Shenxiao Main Cannon devastated thousands of beasts. As the meteor neared its target, Principal Wan intervened by turning the Southern Border sky into a starry night and manifesting a gigantic Hand of God.

• Lin Yi expanded his Gravity Domain upward, marked the Beast Tide with Gravity Resonance, and began pulling a suitably sized asteroid toward his chosen impact point.
• The Shenxiao Main Cannon fired at the Beast Tide, vaporizing the monsters at the center and killing tens of thousands with its blast.
• Great Xia soldiers and the Shenxiao crew saw the meteor heading toward the Beast Tide, prepared for its impact, and praised their apparent good fortune.
• Nangong Ling suspected Lin Yi had summoned the meteor, but he denied it while watching the approaching impact.
• The Southern Border sky turned to night, and Principal Wan revealed himself as the Mountain River War God by forming a gigantic Hand of God from the stars.

Lin Yi witnessed Shenxiao’s principal use War God-level power to redirect his Forbidden Spell, destroy the million-strong Beast Tide, suppress the Abyss Descent, and reshape the Changtan Mountain Range into a towering border barrier. The chapter revealed the principal and Lan Ruoxi had been playing out the crisis on a chessboard, and the principal asked to meet Lin Yi and promised him a fortuitous opportunity.

• The principal flicked Lin Yi’s summoned meteorite off course and used a giant hand of starlight to flatten the Beast Tide, stop the Abyss Descent, recover its crystal, and raise the Changtan Mountain Range.
• At Shenxiao, Lan Ruoxi and the principal played a chess game representing the conflict, and Lan Ruoxi’s surprise move threatened to capture the principal’s black pieces.
• The principal flicked Lan Ruoxi’s white piece off the board, then removed his own black pieces and decided the countries involved needed to be punished.
• The principal praised Lin Yi for mastering Forbidden Spell magic at eighteen and said he wanted Lin Yi to visit so he could give him a fortuitous opportunity.

Lin Yi’s meteor missed the Beast Tide and devastated Ramayana, Curry Country’s largest eastern city, killing more than a hundred million people. As Lin Yi headed to meet Lan Ruoxi, he learned that Curry Country was blaming Great Xia for the disaster.

• Lan Ruoxi accepted the principal’s support for Lin Yi and left his office after receiving permission to assess visiting students herself.
• Curry Country soldiers in Ramayana celebrated their collaboration with Eastern Ying, unaware that a meteor was approaching the city.
• Lin Yi’s meteor struck Ramayana, leveling the city and evaporating the Holy River as nearby areas also suffered severe damage.
• Nangong Ling urged Lin Yi to check the news, and he saw reports of the destruction and the immense casualties.
• Curry Country diplomats accused Great Xia of causing the meteor strike, and Great Xia’s Foreign Ministry denied the allegation.

After Lin Yi’s mission succeeded and a meteor struck Curry Country, Lan Ruoxi told him Principal Wan wanted to meet and offer him a fortuitous opportunity. Lin Yi discovered that Principal Wan was the White Cat on his desk, who recognized his identification skill and praised his potential.

• Lin Yi read reports that a meteor had hit Curry Country and understood why Principal Wan had redirected it away from Great Xia.
• Lan Ruoxi praised Lin Yi’s mission performance, raised its rank to S-rank, and told him Principal Wan had requested to see him.
• Lin Yi refreshed his buffs and went to Principal Wan’s office, where he found an old man petting a White Cat.
• Lin Yi’s All-Knowing Eye showed question marks for both the old man and the White Cat, and he realized the cat was Principal Wan.
• Lin Yi asked Principal Wan if he could pet him, and the White Cat revealed its human voice and recognized Lin Yi’s identification skill.

Lin Yi discovered that Principal Wan Chongshan was a War God-level white cat and won his favor by petting him. Wan Chongshan then brought Lin Yi to see the wounded Azure Dragon, Great Xia’s totem, and called it his old friend, Ao Xuan.

• Wan Chongshan watched Lin Yi pet him and was surprised by how much he enjoyed it.
• Wan Chongshan admitted that Lin Yi’s Forbidden Spell had helped him and offered him a major opportunity.
• Wan Chongshan explained that War Gods were constrained by treaties and rival nations’ power.
• Wan Chongshan transported Lin Yi’s view beyond the Shenxiao Ship’s mountains and mist.
• Lin Yi saw a colossal, gravely wounded Azure Dragon coiled around the ship’s tail, and Wan Chongshan greeted it as Ao Xuan.

Lin Yi learned that Wan Chongshan wanted him to enter Nibelungen with the dying dragon Ao Xuan and inherit her unborn child as his battle pet after they recovered part of the Great Xia Dragon Vein. Wan Chongshan also promised to arrange access to Lin Yi’s Fourth Turn Dungeon in Dongying, while Lin Yi resumed massaging the principal.

• Ao Xuan woke briefly and revealed that she was carrying a child and had endured for a century to give it a chance to survive.
• Wan Chongshan introduced Lin Yi to Ao Xuan and said he wanted Lin Yi to enter Nibelungen with her in one hundred days and take her child as his battle pet.
• Ao Xuan rejected the plan because she hated humanity, but Wan Chongshan explained that the European Alliance had stolen the Great Xia Dragon Vein and moved it to Nibelungen.
• Wan Chongshan told Lin Yi that Ao Xuan would try to reclaim a fragment of the Dragon Vein so her child could be born, and that Lin Yi’s fortune might preserve the last dragon bloodline.
• Wan Chongshan said Lin Yi’s White Night Nightmare Fourth Turn Dungeon was in Dongying and offered to arrange his entry.
• Lin Yi agreed to massage Wan Chongshan again and began an advanced tail massage.

Lin Yi learned that Ghost Moon was behind the attack on the Great Wall Army and resolved to seek justice, while Wan Chongshan pointed him toward Mitsui Shigeru at the upcoming Pan-Asian Youth Professional Peak Competition. A week later, Lin Yi prepared to infiltrate Dongying’s White Night Nightmare Dungeon in disguise, with Nangong Ling warning him about its spirit-type monsters.

• Lin Yi asked Wan Chongshan about Ghost Moon and said he wanted to avenge the Great Wall Army soldiers, but Wan Chongshan warned him not to confront the organization yet.
• Wan Chongshan told Lin Yi that Mitsui Shigeru, a Ghost Moon genius, would compete in the Pan-Asian Youth Professional Peak Competition, giving Lin Yi a possible chance to face him.
• Nangong Ling disguised Lin Yi as Kobayashi Itsujiro and explained that he would infiltrate the White Night Nightmare Dungeon because Great Xia and Dongying had no Dungeon-sharing agreement.
• Nangong Ling said she would pose as Lin Yi’s concubine and use illusions to cover their language and behavior, while Wan Chongshan promised to intervene if they were discovered and outmatched.
• Nangong Ling warned Lin Yi that White Night Nightmare was a spirit-type Dungeon, where most monsters could only be struck by spirit-cleansing attacks or enchanted weapons.

Lin Yi spent three days preparing for the trip to Dongying, collected his upgraded mission rewards, and learned of the fallout from his mission and Xia Yuyan’s defeat. On the night before departure, he enhanced Necromancy to Tier 9 and obtained Styx Funeral, a Forbidden Spell that could control and condemn living and spirit-type targets.

• Lin You told Lin Yi that her sword could exorcise spirits, prompting him to consider whether Necromancy Forbidden Spells could restrain spirits.
• Lin Yi collected his S-class mission rewards, including the Sunset Sundial, 2,000 Academic Credits, 100 Breakthrough Magic Crystals, and 50 Attribute Spirit Crystals.
• Lin Yi heard that Curry Country backed down after several Great Xia War Gods answered its challenge, and that Feng Sanyou, Shi Yi, and Song Shuwen would enroll at Shenxiao.
• Lan Ruoxi told Lin Yi that Xia Yuyan’s obsession had endured and that his Finger Snap had left her hospitalized and changed her personality.
• Lin Yi spent one million Skill Points to enhance Calamity Monarch into the Tier 9 Forbidden Spell Styx Funeral, which inflicted Soul Loss and could reduce living targets’ maximum Health Points to 1 or drag spirits into the Necromantic Realm.

Lin Yi traveled with Nangong Ling and the Kobayashi Family retainers to Funasawa Island while posing as Kobayashi Itsujiro. After arriving, he was ordered to fight his brother in the family’s martial exhibition, and Nangong Ling told him to swing his blade while she handled the rest.

• Nangong Ling and two assistants dressed Lin Yi in a Warrior Robe, applied makeup to disguise him, and prepared to leave for the East Sea.
• Lin Yi and Nangong Ling boarded an airship with dozens of Kobayashi Family retainers, who had secretly gathered intelligence in Great Xia.
• The airship crossed the East Sea and landed at Funasawa Island, where no one from the Kobayashi Family had come to greet them.
• Lin Yi entered the Kobayashi estate during the annual clan martial exhibition and met Kobayashi Masahiro, who demanded he fight his brother.
• Nangong Ling told Lin Yi he had no choice but to fight and urged him to swing his blade while she took care of the rest.

Lin Yi posed as Itsujiro and fought Reiichiro to prove himself to the Kobayashi Family, using Lin You’s power to defeat him and win Kobayashi Masahiro’s approval. He planned to sneak into the guarded Dungeon entrance that night.

• Nangong Ling explained that Kobayashi Masahiro had sent Itsujiro abroad partly to protect him from his legal wife, who had poisoned Itsujiro’s mother.
• Reiichiro leered at Nangong Ling and challenged Itsujiro, while Kobayashi Masahiro ordered them to spar.
• Lin Yi let Lin You control his strike and used a wind-and-thunder sword technique to sever Reiichiro’s bloodline and knock him unconscious.
• Kobayashi Masahiro praised Itsujiro’s swordsmanship and decided to welcome him back into the main family.
• Lin Yi planned to enter the Dungeon guarded by the Kobayashi Family after everyone went to sleep.

Lin Yi used Uncle He’s medicine and Nangong Ling’s illusion to slip past the Kobayashi Family guards and enter the Abyss Descent Dungeon. Kobayashi Masahiro discovered the deception only after Lin Yi had been pulled inside.

• Uncle He delivered medicinal soup as a signal that the guards’ Spirit Power had been weakened and Lin Yi needed to leave immediately.
• Nangong Ling concealed Lin Yi from the shrine guards with an illusion while he reached the ancestral residence.
• Lin Yi used Winding Warp to pass through the shrine doors and found the Dungeon entrance beneath the shrine.
• The Invitation opened the stone gate, and a force pulled Lin Yi into the Abyss Descent Dungeon.
• Kobayashi Masahiro learned that the Dungeon gate had opened and realized Young Master Itsujiro was actually a Great Xia native in disguise.

Lin Yi entered the Annihilation 3 White Night Nightmare Dungeon, where he was required to survive for ten days. After the ghosts on the bus tried to frighten him, he destroyed them and confronted the Ghost Driver.

• Lin Yi found himself aboard a bus in the fog-filled White Night Nightmare and received the mandatory mission to survive for ten days.
• A ghost boy showed Lin Yi a ball made from a child’s head, but Lin Yi stomped it apart instead of being frightened.
• The other ghosts on the bus turned their heads toward Lin Yi, and he used the Hand of Annihilation to blow them apart.
• Lin Yi approached the frightened Ghost Driver and asked where the bus was going.

Lin Yi forced the Ghost Driver to take him to Sealed Gate Residential Area, the dangerous terminus known as Sealed Gate Ghost Nest. After discovering the bus was a strange entity fused with its driver, Lin Yi sent it into the abyss and entered the residential area, where he spotted a clue in the guard booth.

• Lin Yi learned from the Ghost Driver that he had supposedly asked to get off at Sealed Gate Residential Area and ordered him to bypass Spirit Mountain Park and drive to the terminus.
• Lin You searched the decapitated Ghost Driver and found that he had lied: he had chosen Sealed Gate Residential Area because it was the most dangerous stop in Ghost Fog Ridge.
• The Ghost Driver and the bus tried to escape, but Lin Yi flipped the bus with a snap, sending it over the abyss beneath the white fog.
• Lin Yi entered the eerie Sealed Gate Residential Area and saw a gaunt old man trimming his repeatedly regrowing fingernails in the guard booth.
• Lin Yi spotted something hanging on the guard booth wall and recognized it as a clue.

Lin Yi climbed through a haunted residential building and realized a kindly old woman’s Ghost Wall had been trying to protect him from the danger above. He reached the sixth floor, where the Sealed Gate Ghost Nest opened into his home.

• Lin Yi saw his own portrait on the building’s wall and found the same memorial portrait of an old woman repeated across several floors, growing more hostile each time.
• Lin Yi encountered a Ghost Wall that trapped him in identical stairwells, then used Gravity Crush to destroy the stairwell walls.
• Lin Yi realized the old woman had created the Ghost Wall to warn him away, thanked her, and continued upward after the illusion disappeared.
• Lin Yi climbed through a dark stairwell that turned into a Blood Pool, with black hair hanging from the ceiling and the stench of rot and blood filling the air.
• Lin Yi reached the sixth floor, where a door woven from blood clots, flesh, and black hair burst open, revealing the entrance to the Sealed Gate Ghost Nest.

Lin Yi entered the highest-difficulty Sealed Gate Ghost Nest and resisted a Soul-Snatching Ghost King’s layered illusions. He unleashed the Forbidden Spell Styx Funeral, shattered the illusions, and confronted the Ghost King as the River Styx poured into the ghost world.

• Lin Yi entered his apartment in the Sealed Gate Ghost Nest and discovered that the Dungeon drained Sanity Value.
• An illusion tempted Lin Yi to eat dishes made from his own organs, but the Immortal Fruit restored his clarity and exposed altered Sanity Value readings.
• Lin Yi waited through another illusion and used True Words to cast the Forbidden Spell Styx Funeral.
• The Netherworld rift and River Styx shattered multiple layers of illusion and revealed a world surrounded by ghosts and enormous Spirit Body monsters.
• Lin Yi recognized the fleeing Soul-Snatching Ghost King as the likely source of the illusions as the Styx Funeral began to take shape.

Lin Yi unleashed Styx Funeral on the Sealed Gate Ghost Nest, wiping out its spirits and Ghost Kings before the River Styx grew beyond his control. The Royal Tier Ghost Emperor revealed herself and tried to flee with the entire nest, so Lin Yi cast Ice Age to stop her.

• Lin Yi opened a Netherworld rift and, with Lin You's help, expanded Styx Funeral into a vast river that swallowed the nest's evil spirits, resentful souls, and Quasi-Emperor Rank Ghost Kings.
• The River Styx grew wider and lasted longer as it devoured Spirit Body creatures, then surged beyond Lin Yi's control.
• A Royal Tier female ghost revealed herself as the Ghost Emperor and the source of the Soul Nexus, which she had used to raise and consume the nest's spirits.
• The Ghost Emperor moved the entire ghost nest away from the River Styx, intending to wait out the spell before attacking Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi filled the nest with freezing cold and cast Ice Age to stop the Ghost Emperor's escape.

Lin Yi used gravity and the Styx to defeat Xu Shanshan, destroying the ghost domain and freeing the wandering souls trapped inside. He received an SSS Rank clearance for White Night Nightmare and an invitation to Cloud Top Entertainment City (Floor 9).

• Lin Yi used Gravity Crush and redirected gravity to pull Xu Shanshan toward the expanding Styx.
• Xu Shanshan entered the Styx, releasing the wandering souls stored within her before she shattered and vanished.
• The ghost domain collapsed, and Lin Yi saw Xie Zhisheng and Wu Xiulan among the souls drifting toward the Styx.
• Lin You revealed that she had taken a crystal-like object from the river because it seemed useful to her.
• Lin Yi cleared White Night Nightmare with an SSS Rank rating and received an invitation to Cloud Top Entertainment City (Floor 9).

After Lin Yi cleared White Night Nightmare, the River Styx destroyed the Dungeon, but a surge of mist transported him and Lin You into the Bottomless Ghost Abyss. They found themselves in an unexplored Dungeon where a Royal Tier monster stalked through the fog.

• Lin Yi gave Lin You the mysterious finger bone after the All-Knowing Eye revealed that analyzing it would take nearly an hour.
• The River Styx flooded and erased the Sealed Gate Residential Area and the rest of White Night Nightmare, prompting the Dungeon to be permanently removed from the roster.
• Lin Yi entered the Global Dungeon Hall of Fame for the fourth time and received the Four-Crown Champion title.
• White mist engulfed Lin Yi and Lin You and carried them into the special Abyss Descent Dungeon, Bottomless Ghost Abyss, whose floor was listed as LV.??.
• Lin You scouted ahead with Soul's Elegy as the pair explored the fog without receiving any quests or prompts.
• Lin Yi spotted a massive tentacle belonging to a genuine Royal Tier monster moving through the mist.