Chapter Summaries

Yuan Yu, Qian Renxue, and Hu Liena investigated forged seals, falsified orders, and counterfeit crossbow mechanisms while escorting witnesses and tracing the stolen grain shipment. At Jialing Pass, they found the grain stores dwindling and received a blood-marked plea from Feng Ce: “Save my family.”

• Qian Renxue confirmed that someone had copied an Old Rubbing to forge a seal, and she ordered the verification officer to document who had accessed it.
• Hu Liena traced the missing officials’ names to forged collection slips bearing Feng Ce’s name, while Bibi Dong assigned the three investigators separate leads and arranged protection for Lu Ping and Zheng Jiu.
• Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue showed the Crossbow Mechanism to a Tang Sect craftsman, who found that its copied design would cause the weapon to jam.
• Tang San’s reply confirmed that the shipment numbers were genuine but the grain wagons remained in the Heaven Dou warehouse, and he urged them to compare original records at the pass.
• At Jialing Pass, Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue found damp grain, dwindling supplies, and soldiers receiving tallies instead of rice; Qian Renxue recorded the shortage for Bibi Dong.
• Qian Renxue received a blood-smeared note signed by Feng Ce asking them to save his family.

Yuan Yu, Qian Renxue, Xue Beng, and their allies negotiated a safe grain handover at Jialing Pass and uncovered an attack meant to destroy the shift records. They found Feng Ce alive but poisoned in a dungeon room secretly reassigned by newly installed guards, and sealed the evidence for investigation.

• Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue met Xue Beng, Tang San, Ning Fengzhi, Dai Mubai, and Zhu Zhuqing outside Jialing Pass to resolve missing escorts and delayed supplies.
• Yuan Yu held the defenders’ crossbows down with his Soul Power while both armies withdrew; the coachmen passed through, and the parties recorded moldy grain and arranged replacement supplies.
• Ning Fengzhi and Dai Mubai made Officer Tao document the routes and handovers, while Tang San discovered that the dungeon guards had been replaced without an entry in the barracks accounts.
• An attacker shot at Tang San’s shift log, but Xiao Wu kicked the arrow away, Zhu Zhuqing captured the fleeing attacker, and the group stopped an oil jar from burning the records.
• Officer Tao recognized the attacker’s token as belonging to the new dungeon guards; the group found Feng Ce alive but poisoned in a reassigned room, and Yuan Yu ordered the room records and schedules sealed.

Tang San and Qian Renxue uncovered Feng Ce’s role in a forged grain order and found evidence linking the ship to hidden cargo, but his wife and child remained missing. As rival orders threatened to ignite a conflict on the bridge, Tang San and Xiao Wu set out to stop seven carts from crossing.

• Yang Wudi treated Feng Ce for poison, and Feng Ce later admitted taking money to assist a forged order while revealing that his wife and child had been detained.
• Feng Ce identified Accountant Hu of the Snake Fang Merchant Guild and recalled two missing deacons who had warned about hidden cargo aboard a ship.
• Tang San, Zheng Jiu, and others found concealed iron chests, yellow sand, and rope aboard the grain ship, while Xiao Wu found a torn ribbon that Feng Ce recognized as his wife’s.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu traced cart tracks and drag marks from the empty West Warehouse toward abandoned stables and the river bridge, but Feng Ce’s family remained missing.
• A courier reported that both military camps had received orders accusing the other side of plotting an attack, and Tang San and Xiao Wu pursued seven carts approaching the bridge.

Yuan Yu, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Qian Renxue stopped a plot to destroy the bridge and frame Spirit Hall as medicine carts crossed into Jialing Pass. Yuan Yu reached Level 98 while sealing the damaged bridge, and the group discovered a route map pointing to a long-abandoned Soul Beast Breeding Ground.

• Yuan Yu noticed figures pushing a cart beneath the bridge, and Xiao Wu and Tang San stopped their attack from igniting the bridge’s explosives.
• Yuan Yu stabilized the collapsing bridge while Xiao Wu, Tang San, and soldiers from both sides helped the medicine carts cross; he broke through to Level 98 and gained the Earth Origin Boundary-Sealing Seal.
• Qian Renxue captured disguised attackers and prevented the Spirit Hall soldiers from retaliating against Heaven Dou, while the two forces uncovered fake uniforms and gunpowder cylinders.
• Tang San showed both commanders that the seized crossbows were crude counterfeits, and the Heaven Dou lieutenant reunited with his younger brother and arranged medical care for the feverish child.
• Zheng Jiu found a concealed route map beneath the bridge, and Tang San realized its markings counted live beast pens at a breeding ground seventy miles from the pass.

Tang San killed an eighty-three-thousand-year-old Earth Cavern Demon Spider and absorbed its spirit ring, advancing to Level 82 and gaining his eighth soul skill. Hu Liena's investigation linked the blood nails at the breeding farm to Zhong Kui, and the nails pointed toward Jialing Pass.

• Tang San and Xiao Wu entered the breeding farm, rescued its keepers, and learned that Accountant Hu had released a dangerous spider beast from its cage.
• Tang San fought the Earth Cavern Demon Spider while Xiao Wu evacuated the keepers, and Yuan Yu stopped Hu's men from setting a fuse and secured evidence from the cellar.
• Tang San and Xiao Wu worked together to kill the spider, and Tang San began absorbing its black spirit ring as Xiao Wu guarded him.
• Tang San completed the absorption, reached Level 82, and tested his eighth soul skill, Blue Silver Vein Severing.
• Hu Liena reported that Zhong Kui had handled the blood nails, and Tang San found twelve nails embedded in the well wall and pointing toward Jialing Pass.

Hu Liena, Tang San, and Yuan Yu uncovered a blood diversion scheme beneath the breeding farm and found records linking it to the Old Spirit-Hunting Office. The evidence implicated Zhong Kui in the hunt that killed Xiao Wu’s mother, and Yuan Yu insisted Xiao Wu see the list before anyone questioned the captured suspects.

• Hu Liena confronted Accountant Hu with evidence of forged orders and a suspicious medicine chest, while Tang San and Yuan Yu investigated blood residue in the well.
• Hu Liena, Tang San, and Yuan Yu followed the hidden corridor beneath the well, stopped an ambush, and discovered a blood trough tied to a planned attack around the Alliance Council meeting.
• The three rescued two missing Deacons from a prison cart and captured one masked Soul Master, while the other fled deeper into the drainage channel.
• Hu Liena identified signs of a privately imitated Divine Trial Blood Formation and confirmed that someone had stolen records from the Old Spirit-Hunting Office.
• Tang San found a list naming Zhong Kui as responsible for positioning hunters in the expedition that killed Xiao Wu’s mother, and Yuan Yu ordered that Xiao Wu see it before they questioned the captured old man.

Xiao Wu rescued Feng Ce’s wife and child, confronted Zhong Kui with the hunting roster, and forced him to confess to his role in the forest fire and the current conspiracy. She reunited Feng Ce with his family and left to dismantle the underground blood formation before the planned afternoon attack.

• Xiao Wu found Feng Ce’s wife and child hiding in the clinic and learned that someone had tried to use them as hostages.
• Tang San showed Xiao Wu a hunting roster naming Bibi Dong, and Xiao Wu questioned Zhong Kui about the fire that killed her mother.
• Zhong Kui escaped his restraints and attacked the clinic, but Xiao Wu stopped him while Tang San sealed the exits.
• The child revealed a hidden note showing the second entrance to the blood formation, and Zhong Kui confessed to the planned attack and his orders during the hunt.
• Xiao Wu reunited Feng Ce with his family, secured Zhong Kui’s recorded confession, and set out to dismantle the underground furnace before afternoon.

Yuan Yu, Tang San, and Hu Liena rescued captives and destroyed the Blood Formation beneath Jialing Pass while the soldiers aboveground contained arsonists and gathered evidence. As the group prepared to leave, the old faction's Formation Master opened an ancient Rakshasa-patterned door, and Yue Guan announced that His Holiness the Pope had arrived.

• Qian Renxue ordered Spirit Hall's soldiers to follow only her new commands, and military physicians confirmed that the rescued Deacons had matching chain marks.
• Yuan Yu, Tang San, and Hu Liena followed the hidden tunnel map to the storage room and freed two bound grain escorts without triggering the Blood Formation.
• Yan, Ma Hongjun, and Xie Yue stopped attackers from setting fire to the granary and shelters, while two surviving arsonists revealed that three copies of the granary map had been sold.
• Yuan Yu burned through the Blood Formation's main nail as Tang San and Hu Liena freed the remaining captives, and the group preserved the evidence and sealed three unconnected nails.
• Qian Renxue told Yuan Yu that Officer Tao had detained the Pass Clerk, then covered his burned sleeve with her cloak.
• The old faction's Formation Master opened an ancient door bearing a Rakshasa Pattern, and Yue Guan announced that His Holiness the Pope had arrived.

Bibi Dong, Tang San, Hu Liena, and Qian Renxue rescued captives from a blood-thread trap and uncovered forged orders tied to former elder Shen Ming. Qian Renxue passed her Angel God's Third Trial, but Shen Ming appeared with more captives and warned that one more toll of the bell would be enough.

• Yue Guan found evidence that someone had secretly opened the sealed door, while Bibi Dong confirmed the old seal was hers and acknowledged her responsibility for Xiao Wu's mother's Spirit Ring and Spirit Bone.
• Qian Renxue and Tang San split up to rescue captives on opposite sides of the door, while Hu Liena disabled a concealed trap and Bibi Dong suppressed the Rakshasa Pattern.
• When the Formation Master detonated the bed of nails, Qian Renxue shielded Spirit Hall soldiers and saved a wounded Heaven Dou soldier, passing her Third Trial and rising from level eighty-four to eighty-six.
• Yue Guan found a roster linking the forged command to retired elder Shen Ming, and Bibi Dong ordered an arrest and sent a rubbing of the original page to the two military camps.
• Qian Renxue left a bandage for Bibi Dong without reconciling with her, then Shen Ming appeared at the entrance to a deeper cavern with more than a dozen captives and said one more bell toll would be enough.

Yuan Yu and the others freed the captives at Jialing Pass and exposed Shen Ming’s plot to provoke a battle by concealing forged orders and embezzled funds. The armies held their fire, but Heaven Dou and Star Luo Empire left the unresolved dispute to negotiations, with a seven-day deadline to confirm the ceasefire.

• Yuan Yu, Tang San, Hu Liena, Bibi Dong, and Qian Renxue defeated Shen Ming’s trap and freed every captive from the blood well.
• Hu Liena and Qian Renxue uncovered records tying Shen Ming to forged orders, diverted payments, and stolen grain funds, while the rescued Deacon identified him.
• Yuan Yu handed Shen Ming over to Chen Xin, and the three sides recorded the evidence as their armies brought out the wounded and did not engage.
• Bibi Dong stripped old-faction Spirit Hall branches of their authority to move troops, while Xue Beng and Dai Mubai arranged aid for the wounded.
• Yuan Yu treated the young bridge guard’s cut hand, and Chen Xin delivered letters stating that Star Luo Empire would remain outside the pass pending a joint handover agreement within seven days.

At the alliance table beside the repaired bridge, Heaven Dou, Star Luo, Spirit Hall, and their allies negotiated aid deliveries, investigations, and border rules while uncovering evidence tied to Shen Ming’s crimes. The talks continued as medicine began passing through the gates, but a missing artillery report led the group to discover that the siege ballista barrels had vanished and a second trail led toward Jialing Pass.

• Xue Beng presented Xue Ye’s letter demanding the return of six grain shipments, and Bibi Dong ordered sound grain released while spoilage was assessed separately.
• Dai Mubai and Zhu Zhuqing arranged an inspection of Star Luo’s salt and medicine carts, while Tang San proposed a joint review of counterfeit crossbows and their records.
• Xiao Wu rejected Spirit Hall’s unilateral authority over Zhong Kui’s case, and Qian Renxue drafted rules for joint investigations and military transfers.
• Hu Liena reported counterfeit devices, ledgers, and seals found in Shen Ming’s warehouse, and a Tang Sect craftsman identified poison compartments in two weapons.
• Ning Rongrong and Oscar brought the clinic accounts to the table, where a clerk noticed that the North Gate’s impoundment list omitted the siege ballista barrels.
• Zhu Zhuqing tracked cart marks from the North Gate toward the woodland, while another trail curved back toward Jialing Pass.

Three cannons threatened civilians and the alliance meeting as the coalition tried to evacuate the pass and stop the attackers. Yuan Yu defeated a Titled Douluo at the bridge, but the final cannon cart barreled toward Bibi Dong and the officials, and Qian Renxue reached its barrel as the fuse burned out.

• Xue Beng, Dai Mubai, and Bibi Dong organized the defense and civilian evacuation after a cannon fired into an empty field, while Zhu Zhuqing disabled the first cannon cart.
• Ma Hongjun and Dugu Bo protected retreating laborers from the second cannon, and Tang San traced the shells to their supplier through a page Oscar gave him.
• Tang San and two Tang Sect disciples stopped the third cannon's horses and limited its ammunition, while Yuan Yu held the bridge against a Titled Douluo attacking its supports.
• Yuan Yu defeated the twin-hook Soul Master with help from Zhu Zhuqing, while Chen Xin and Gu Rong protected the bridge and passing medicine carts.
• The third cannon cart escaped Tang San's grasp and hurtled toward Bibi Dong, Yue Guan, and the officials at the alliance table, so Qian Renxue flew in and reached its barrel as the fuse burned out.

Yuan Yu stopped an exploding cannon from killing people at the negotiation site, and his nine-pattern rotation carried him past Level 98 to Level 99. After the injured were counted, the negotiations resumed with autonomy for territorial branch halls and protection of Soul Beast habitats still unresolved.

• Qian Renxue, Tang San, and Xiao Wu prevented a gunner from firing the cannon, but its damaged carriage sent explosives rolling toward the negotiation table.
• Yuan Yu rescued the record keepers and used his artifacts and Nine-Aspect Rotation to control the fire and absorb the blast, while Qian Renxue, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and others protected the nearby people.
• Yuan Yu completed the rotation, reached Level 99, and injured his right wrist; Qian Renxue made him accept treatment from a physician.
• Bibi Dong ordered the remaining fuse and warehouse markings sealed, Chen Xin took the gunner away, and Xue Beng resumed the negotiations after the wounded were counted.
• Tang San raised concerns about hunting near the Star Dou Great Forest, Xiao Wu presented a list of rescued young Soul Beasts, and Yuan Yu insisted the remaining disputes be addressed after his bandages were finished.

The leaders at Jialing Pass finalized a ceasefire agreement with rules for military records, supply restitution, Soul Beast protection, and joint investigations. After the signatories departed toward their separate duties, a message from Sea God Island revealed that Tang Chen’s old reference to the Asura Inheritance matched a Blood Mark on cargo intercepted from Slaughter City.

• Ning Fengzhi and the delegates verified casualty records, sealed Shen Ming’s private arsenal, and set terms for jurisdiction, arrests, and restitution of salt and medicine.
• Tang San, Xiao Wu, Bibi Dong, and the other delegates negotiated Soul Beast protections, restrictions on the Old Spirit-Hunting Office, and separate clauses for the Tang Sect’s weapons and Xiao Wu’s old debt.
• The delegates signed the pact, setting delivery and compensation deadlines and scheduling a review of old cases at Jialing Pass in three months.
• Yuan Yu told Xiao Wu she could change her mind about her debt, then shared a quiet moment with Qian Renxue as they planned to inspect bridge repairs before returning to Spirit City.
• Bai Chenxiang delivered a letter from Sea God Island stating that Tang San had formed his Eight Rings and that cargo intercepted from Slaughter City bore the Blood Mark linked to Tang Chen’s mention of the Asura Inheritance.
• Yuan Yu agreed to heal his injured hand before traveling, while Qian Renxue took away his wine and the group considered when the ship would leave.

After recovering from his wrist injury, Yuan Yu returned to Spirit City, helped investigate the Blood Mark, and watched Qian Renxue begin her Fourth Trial. He sailed with Tang San toward the island, where Bo Saixi's letter warned that their Sixth Trial would begin soon.

• Yuan Yu recovered enough to help release the first shipment of grain, salt, and medicine, while Bibi Dong kept injured deacons at the pass and Hu Liena continued investigating witnesses.
• Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue studied her Fourth Trial, and Azure Luan tested Yuan Yu's injured wrist before approving his sword control.
• Tang San showed Yuan Yu a rubbing of the Blood Mark's hammer pattern, and they agreed to seek Bo Saixi's insight and have the Clear Sky Sect send two knowledgeable clan members.
• Qian Renxue began her Fourth Trial, and Yuan Yu left after asking her to write to him when it ended.
• Yuan Yu and Tang San sailed toward the island, where Tang San delivered Bo Saixi's letter saying their Sixth Trial would begin the day after they arrived.

The Shrek group began the Sixth Trial, facing Bo Saixi in a one-stick-of-incense battle while Yuan Yu watched from outside. Bo Saixi’s Sea Burial pulled the group toward the center of the Stone Platform, and with only thirty percent of the incense left, Tang San found a way to resist and called on Dai Mubai for strength.

• Tang San delivered the ceasefire agreement to Bo Saixi, who announced that the Sixth Trial would begin the next day.
• Yuan Yu tested the Tribulation Blade and Thunder-Punishment Sky Drum before the trial, then stayed outside the grounds as Bo Saixi instructed.
• Bo Saixi limited herself to her first six Soul Skills and attacked the Shrek group as Tang San, Dai Mubai, Xiao Wu, and the others coordinated their defense.
• Bo Saixi used Sea Burial to drag the group toward the Stone Platform’s center, while Dai Mubai, Zhu Zhuqing, and Tang San’s vines helped keep Oscar and the others from being swept away.
• Tang San anchored the Clear Sky Hammer in a crack and used Bo Saixi’s upward strike to dodge, then called on Dai Mubai to lend him strength as the incense dwindled.

Tang San and his companions endured Bo Saixi’s assault until the incense burned out, passing the Sixth Trial. After receiving their rewards and tending to their injuries, they prepared for Tang San’s Seventh Trial and the Sea God’s Trident.

• Tang San’s team combined their abilities and used the Blue Silver Emperor, the Hell White Tiger, and their remaining strength to withstand Bo Saixi’s attacks as the incense burned down.
• Tang San and Dai Mubai kept fighting until Sea Horse Douluo called time, and Bo Saixi declared the Sixth Trial passed.
• Tang San’s Sea God affinity rose to forty-five percent; Dai Mubai completed his Black-Level Six Trials, and several companions reached level eighty or gained Soul Power.
• Dai Mubai asked about finding an Eighth Ring, while Xiao Wu learned that her Seventh Trial would test her own Soul Power and mind alongside Tang San’s.
• Yuan Yu and the physician tended the group’s wounds, and Bo Saixi warned them to remember how they had resisted her control-type attack.
• Bo Saixi said Ning Rongrong could support Tang San during his Seventh Trial but no one could touch the weapon for him, then told him to heal his hand before claiming the Trident.

Tang San lifted the Sea God Trident and passed his Seventh Trial, while Yuan Yu formed a defensive artifact by protecting islanders from the trident’s divine light. Bo Saixi then assigned Tang San his Eighth Trial: defeat the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King, and told him he could leave the island but needed to work out how to reach it.

• Tang San used the Ocean's Heart, the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud, and Ning Rongrong’s strength boost to lift the Sea God Trident as Xiao Wu endured her own divine trial beside him.
• Yuan Yu shielded islanders and rescued passengers from a boat endangered by the divine light, awakening the Nine Heavens Rosy Cloud Garment.
• Tang San passed his Seventh Trial, raised his Sea God Affinity to sixty percent, and found that the trident weighed one hundred and eight jin in his hands.
• Ning Rongrong and Xiao Wu completed their Top-Level Seven Trials, and Yuan Yu briefly lifted the trident at its full weight of one hundred and eight thousand jin.
• Bo Saixi gave Tang San the Eighth Trial, naming the Deep Sea Demonic Whale King and confirming that he could leave the island.

Tang San and Yuan Yu tested their weapons and investigated a divine passage, learning that opening it could consume Bo Saixi’s life force unless the power requirements were met safely. After uncovering evidence that someone had recently used Tang Chen’s seal, they prepared to travel to the Northern Old Tavern and find the person acting in his name.

• Tang San and Yuan Yu sparred for twenty days, and Yuan Yu tested how the Cloud Garment diverted Tang San’s Blue Silver Emperor vines.
• Bo Saixi read Tang San’s Eighth Trial requirements, which did not require Xiao Wu’s life, and gave Xiao Wu a copy.
• Yuan Yu and the Sea God tested a divine passage at the Altar and learned it required a guardian’s life force unless the nine Elemental Gods could supply equivalent power; Yuan Yu received a bronze plate that could shut the Altar down.
• Bo Saixi showed Tang San and Yuan Yu shipping records and an old message bearing evidence that Tang Chen’s seal had been used recently.
• Sea Horse Douluo reported that the shipment went to the Northern Old Tavern, where a masked steward had been waiting, and Yuan Yu proposed investigating who was using Tang Chen’s seal.

Tang San, Yuan Yu, and Hu Liena followed the trail of Slaughter City’s shipments to an old tavern in the north, while Yuan Yu and Qian Renxue investigated the Angel God’s trial. The tavern’s hidden entrance opened, and the King of Slaughter confronted Tang San about the seal they had brought.

• Bo Saixi saw Tang San off with two Sea God Temple Communication Stones, while Xiao Wu stayed on the island to prepare for her eighth ring.
• Hu Liena traced payments bearing Tang Chen’s old seal to shipments of winter clothes, grain, and medicine bound for Slaughter City, and she and Tang San agreed to investigate its supply route.
• Yuan Yu brought a copper plate to Qian Daoliu, who confirmed that the Angel God’s gate was involved and agreed to ask the Angel God about verifying it; Qian Renxue resolved to learn her grandfather’s plans and began her Sixth Trial.
• Yuan Yu, Tang San, and Hu Liena returned to the old northern tavern, where Tang San questioned the attendant about the Hammer Crest on recent shipping documents.
• After Hu Liena presented the medicine crate’s seal and Yuan Yu used Divine Slaughter’s Domain, the stone entrance opened and the King of Slaughter demanded to know where they had found it.