Ch. 221A little suck-up

After Captain Liu learned Mo Yurou was a Bureau 9 agent, he accepted responsibility for the incident and prepared to arrest Brother Tiger and his group. Before leaving, Xiao Nan pleaded for the children’s families and healed Fat Tiger’s injuries, revealing another power.

  • Mo Yurou ordered Captain Liu to resign, and he agreed before directing his officers to take Brother Tiger and his group to the Police Station.
  • Xiaobei told Xiao Nan what had happened, and Xiao Nan worried that Fat Tiger and the others would be left without their parents.
  • Xiao Nan asked Mo Yurou to release them, but Li Yichen explained that wrongdoing had to be punished and promised the children would be cared for.
  • Xiao Nan approached Fat Tiger and touched his face, making his bruises disappear in front of the stunned onlookers.

Ch. 222So awkward

Xiao Nan healed the children, and Li Yichen, Mo Yurou, Xiaobei, and Xiao Nan reunited with Ouyang Hai before preparing to travel back to Jinling. The chapter ended with Jiang Tianhao asking Steward Zhao whether he had news of Li Yichen.

  • Xiao Nan healed the children completely, moving Brother Tiger and his men to swear they would change their ways.
  • Li Yichen carried Xiao Nan away with Mo Yurou and Xiaobei, while their extraordinary abilities astonished Captain Liu and the others.
  • Li Yichen and his companions met Ouyang Hai, and Xiaobei awkwardly tried to make him his godfather after Ouyang Hai admired Xiao Nan.
  • Ouyang Hai booked the group flights to Urumqi and Jinling, and Mo Yurou took Li Yichen shopping for clothes for Xiao Nan and Xiaobei.
  • Jiang Tianhao asked Steward Zhao whether he had heard anything about Li Yichen.

Ch. 223Out in full force

Jiang Tianhao prepared to eliminate the Su, Jiang, Qin, and Shen Families’ forces while plotting against Ouyang Hai’s family. As the allied groups set out, Elder Wang left the Detention Center with Li Yichen’s Stone Token, while Li Yichen and Mo Yurou followed Xiaobei into a night market.

  • Jiang Tianhao learned that the four families would assemble their forces that night and ordered Steward Zhao to watch Ouyang Hai’s wife and daughter.
  • Old Master Su chose Su Liang to lead the Su Family’s forces, overruled Su Shengnan’s objections, and had her confined as the troops departed.
  • The Jiang, Qin, and Shen Families also sent contingents out from their estates.
  • Elder Wang learned Li Yichen had not returned from Hotan, accepted the Stone Token from Jiang Ruoyi, and left for the gathering.
  • Xiaobei led Li Yichen and Mo Yurou to a night market by following the smell of food.

Ch. 224Scratch cards

Li Yichen and the others enjoyed food at Hotan’s night market, where two officers revealed that they believed he and Mo Yurou were connected to Bureau 9. At a scratch-card stall, Mo Yurou lost all her tickets and dared Li Yichen to choose one for her, while he spotted something surprising among the remaining cards.

  • Li Yichen took Xiaobei, Xiao Nan, and Mo Yurou around the night market, buying them grilled meat skewers.
  • Two officers discussed how Captain Liu had quit and said the young visitors had powerful backing through Bureau 9.
  • Mo Yurou persuaded Li Yichen to buy scratch cards, and she, Xiao Nan, and Xiaobei each scratched a booklet.
  • Xiaobei won eighty-five yuan while Mo Yurou won nothing and tearfully challenged Li Yichen to pick a ticket for her.
  • Li Yichen used his spiritual power to examine the remaining tickets and froze when he noticed one that looked unusually lucky.

Ch. 225Greed at the Sight of Money

Li Yichen and Mo Yurou won a 200,000-yuan lottery prize, but the shop owner tried to steal their ticket. Li Yichen confronted him as a crowd gathered, and Officer Wang rushed over after recognizing the pair from Bureau 9.

  • Li Yichen held Mo Yurou's hand as they scratched the lottery ticket, and she won the 200,000-yuan prize.
  • Mo Yurou gave the ticket to the shop owner, who hid it and claimed she had not won.
  • Li Yichen took Mo Yurou's side and embedded a corner of a ticket in the table as he demanded the real one back.
  • The shop owner refused, revealed a watermelon knife, and challenged Li Yichen.
  • A crowd gathered, and Officer Wang recognized Li Yichen and Mo Yurou before rushing over.

Ch. 226I want to report a crime

Li Yichen and Mo Yurou left the lottery shop after Officer Wang arrested the owner, then headed off together. At Ghostface City, the four young heirs prepared to open the Heavenly Treasury, with Su Liang tricked into agreeing that the Su Family would lead the way.

  • Li Yichen kicked the lottery shop owner down after the owner swung a watermelon knife at him.
  • Officer Wang beat and arrested the owner, then apologized to Li Yichen and Mo Yurou before leaving.
  • Li Yichen found the lottery ticket and gave it to Mo Yurou, who put it in her Space Ring as a keepsake of their love.
  • At Ghostface City, Jiang Tianhao, Shen Beichen, and Qin Wenhan flattered Su Liang into volunteering the Su Family to lead the way into the Sacred Treasury.
  • Elder Wang and Elder Mo bickered until Elder Wu stopped them, and the Jinling Three Elders joined the gathering.
  • Jiang Tianhao presented the treasure map and said the Jiang Family believed the Heavenly Treasury was hidden inside Ghostface City.

Ch. 227A family heirloom

The Qin, Shen, Su, and Jiang families learned that the Blood Demon had been killed and prepared to open the Sacred Treasury passage at midnight. Meanwhile, Li Yichen and Mo Yurou visited a secondhand market, where a girl tried to sell a copper lamp that was her family heirloom.

  • Elder Mo confirmed that the Jiang Family’s treasure-map deduction was correct because the Blood Demon had recently set up a Yin-Yang Blood Sacrifice Array nearby.
  • Elder Mo revealed that a Chinese expert had killed the Blood Demon and his followers, and Elder Wu identified the expert as Li Yichen.
  • Jiang Tianhao explained that the families had to wait until midnight to use the Yin-Yang Reversal Eight Trigrams Array to open the Sacred Treasury passage.
  • Mo Yurou complained that the antiques at the night market were all fakes after searching for a gift for her grandfather.
  • A girl brought a dark-red copper lamp to a stall and asked the owner to buy it, explaining that her family needed money because her father was ill.

Ch. 228I'm not a scammer

Mo Yurou bought Qian Qian’s copper lamp for eighty thousand after recognizing a mysterious mark, then accompanied her to meet her injured father. The group entered the shantytown, where Li Yichen endured unwanted attention from women outside the houses.

  • Qian Qian tried to sell her family’s copper lamp in the market to pay for her father’s surgery, but stall owners offered only a few hundred and onlookers accused her of being a scammer.
  • Mo Yurou examined the lamp, noticed its unusual weight and a mysterious mark, and offered Qian Qian eighty thousand for it.
  • Mo Yurou put the lamp in her Space Ring and said she wanted to transfer the money directly to Qian Qian’s father.
  • Qian Qian told Mo Yurou, Li Yichen, Xiaobei, and Xiao Nan that her father had been injured while digging for jade and needed surgery to save his arm.
  • The group followed Qian Qian into the shantytown, where Li Yichen saw heavily made-up women outside dilapidated houses and felt exasperated by their attention.

Ch. 229Help!

Li Yichen and his companions found Qian'er’s father about to amputate his ruined arm, then bought the Ancestral Oil Lamp from him for eighty thousand. After Xiao Nan and Xiaobei mourned their dead parents, Li Yichen offered to take Xiaobei to the underworld, leaving Xiaobei terrified and pleading for help.

  • Qian'er returned home and found her father raising a cleaver to amputate his ruined arm, but she and Li Yichen stopped him.
  • Qian'er explained that Li Yichen had come to help and planned to buy the Ancestral Oil Lamp for eighty thousand, and her father agreed to the sale.
  • Li Yichen transferred the money, and Qian'er's father revealed that someone had once offered only five hundred for the lamp.
  • Qian'er and her father wept over his injury, while Xiao Nan and Xiaobei cried because they missed their dead parents.
  • Li Yichen offered to take Xiaobei to the underworld to see his parents, and Xiaobei panicked and begged for help.

Ch. 230Immortals descended to earth

Li Yichen and his companions hurried to the airport after Xiao Nan miraculously healed Qian Qian’s father. Li Yichen used his abilities to get everyone to the gate in time, and they boarded a flight to Urumqi.

  • Li Yichen received Ouyang Hai’s call that boarding had begun and said goodbye to Qian Qian and her father.
  • Xiao Nan healed Qian Qian’s father’s swollen, discolored arm with light and tiny white flames from her palm.
  • Li Yichen carried Xiao Nan into the air toward the airport while Mo Yurou and Xiaobei followed, leaving Qian Qian and her father stunned.
  • At the airport, Li Yichen put Mo Yurou, Xiao Nan, and Xiaobei into his Space Ring, then passed through the terminal wall and quickly reached the boarding gate.
  • Li Yichen brought his companions back out beside Ouyang Hai, who handed their boarding passes to the attendant.
  • Li Yichen, Ouyang Hai, Mo Yurou, Xiao Nan, and Xiaobei boarded the plane bound for Urumqi.

Ch. 231Oil Lamp Devil

On a flight, Mo Yurou activated the Bronze Lamp and released a devil who tried to attack her, but Li Yichen easily overpowered him. The devil begged for his life and agreed to become Mo Yurou’s pet, and she decided to judge him by his behavior.

  • Li Yichen and his companions boarded a plane, where Mo Yurou explained that the Bronze Lamp’s ancient mark made it valuable.
  • Mo Yurou dripped her blood onto the mark and rubbed the lamp, freezing the plane and summoning a blue-skinned devil.
  • The devil threatened to eat everyone and lunged at Mo Yurou, but Li Yichen slapped him and subdued him with his aura.
  • Li Yichen ordered the devil out of the lamp and considered destroying him, while Mo Yurou asked to keep him as a pet.
  • The devil agreed to serve Mo Yurou, and she said she would keep him if he behaved.

Ch. 232The Pet Contract

Mo Yurou sealed the Ghost King-level demon as her pet, renamed him Mo Ying, and learned he could transform into anything he had seen. After Li Yichen and Mo Yurou arrived in Urumqi, the experts on Stone Mountain began preparing the Yin-Yang Reversal Eight Trigrams Formation.

  • Li Yichen used Mo Yurou's blood to bind the demon to her, and he warned the demon that the bond would last as long as he lived.
  • Mo Yurou learned the demon's name was Saiban, renamed him Mo Ying, and told him to call her Big Sister.
  • Mo Ying transformed into Li Yichen, provoking Li Yichen to punch him and warn him not to touch Mo Yurou; Mo Yurou forbade Mo Ying from taking either of their forms.
  • Li Yichen, Mo Yurou, and their group landed in Urumqi and checked into the airport hotel Ouyang Hai had booked.
  • On Stone Mountain, Jiang Tianhao announced that the midnight hour had arrived and assigned the families their positions for the Yin-Yang Reversal Eight Trigrams Formation.

Ch. 233Opening the Sacred Treasury Again

Jiang Tianhao and the assembled experts opened the entrance to the Sacred Treasury, and the four families entered its vast passage. After they ran deep inside without encountering danger, a streak of yellow light suddenly raced toward Su Liang’s group.

  • Jiang Tianhao led 168 experts in activating the Yin-Yang Reversal Eight Trigrams Formation, which blasted open the entrance in Ghostface City.
  • Su Liang led the Su Family into the Sacred Treasury, followed by the Shen, Qin, and Jiang families and then Elder Mo, Elder Wu, and Elder Wang.
  • Inside, Master Liu warned Su Liang that the smooth, jointless cavern seemed suspicious, but Su Liang dismissed him and charged ahead.
  • The groups ran one or two thousand meters through the passage without meeting danger, while Jiang Tianhao stayed behind them.
  • Su Liang questioned whether the treasury was real, and a streak of yellow light suddenly raced toward the group along the ground.

Ch. 234Heavy losses

The four families suffered heavy casualties from two bursts of stone spikes in the passage, while their experts used different techniques to survive. Jiang Tianhao accepted the losses as bait, intent on securing the final victory.

  • Master Liu warned Su Liang and the others to get airborne, but the first wave of stone spikes killed ten Yellow Level fighters and one Profound Grade fighter from the Su Family.
  • Su Liang ordered his family to stay alert and spread out as the group advanced more cautiously.
  • A second trap made everyone heavier and sent them falling toward a fresh wave of spikes, forcing Su Liang, Master Liu, Qin Wenhan, Shen Beichen, Jiang Tianhao, and the other experts to use their abilities to survive.
  • The second attack left the families with further losses, bringing the Su Family's toll to fifteen Yellow Level fighters and three Profound Grade fighters across both attacks.
  • Master Lu asked whether the losses were worth it, and Jiang Tianhao said they were acceptable if the Jiang Family had the last laugh.

Ch. 235Time to draw in the net

Jiang Tianhao sealed the expedition’s retreat and led the Jiang Family deeper into the corridor, while the other families pursued them and found the bodies of their fallen members gathered ahead. As everyone examined the corpses, a sinister voice announced that the trap was meant to catch them all.

  • Jiang Tianhao crushed a pebble marked with the character for seven, causing the path behind the group to disappear, then claimed the Jiang Family would lead the way and ran deeper into the corridor.
  • Shen Beichen realized Jiang Tianhao had tricked them and led the Shen Family in pursuit; Qin Wenhan, Su Liang, Elder Mo, Elder Wang, and Elder Wu followed with their people.
  • The surviving members of the Shen, Su, and Qin Families chased the Jiang Family for several kilometers but found no trace of them, while the corpses behind them sank into the floor.
  • Master Liu used a vine to pull a body closer, and Qin Wenhan recognized it as a dead member of the Qin Family; three men then approached and confirmed that the bodies belonged to the fallen from all four families.
  • Shen Beichen questioned why the corpses had appeared there, and a sinister voice declared that the bodies had been gathered to catch everyone in one net.

Ch. 236Corpse Explosion Technique

Jiang Tianhao revealed that the Jiang Family had trapped the other families and used corpse explosions to devastate them. After capturing Su Liang and confronting Qin Wenhan and Shen Beichen, he trapped Elder Mo, Elder Wu, and Elder Wang inside a stone chamber with a mysterious spell.

  • The corpses exploded in succession, killing most of the Su, Qin, and Shen Family fighters and severely injuring Master Liu and Master Jin.
  • Jiang Tianhao and Master Lu emerged from a hidden doorway with the intact Jiang Family forces, and Jiang Tianhao ordered Su Liang captured and his legs broken.
  • Shen Beichen appealed to Elder Mo, Elder Wu, and Elder Wang for help, and Elder Mo confronted Jiang Tianhao about the Jiang Family's plan.
  • Jiang Tianhao crushed a stone marked with the character for eight and cast Stone Prison Space, sealing the three elders inside a chamber.
  • A human face appeared on the chamber wall and taunted Elder Mo, Elder Wu, and Elder Wang.

Ch. 237Outwitting the Three Elders

Elder Mo, Elder Wang, and Elder Wu struggled to escape a shrinking stone chamber whose walls repaired themselves after every attack. With the room down to ten meters square and their strongest treasures failing, Elder Wang asked Yufen to find a solution.

  • Elder Mo struck the wall and wounded the escaping attacker, but admitted the brat had still gotten away.
  • Elder Wu searched the seamless chamber, then realized it was shrinking and warned the others they could be crushed.
  • Elder Mo used the Cloud-Piercing Awl to drill into the wall, but the opening closed and the chamber shrank again.
  • Elder Wang smashed the wall with his Mountain-Shaking Hammer, but the deep crater began repairing itself before he could break through.
  • Elder Wang and Elder Mo ran out of ideas, and Elder Wang asked Yufen to find a way out.

Ch. 238Composite Technique

Elder Wu, Elder Mo, and Elder Wang tried to escape their shrinking stone chamber with their Composite Technique, but the attack failed. Elder Wang used Li Yichen's Stone Token to save Elder Wu, and Li Yichen sensed it had been crushed and suspected it was connected to the Heavenly Treasury.

  • Elder Wu, Elder Mo, and Elder Wang combined their attacks and detonated talismans, but they blasted into the wrong direction and failed to break out.
  • As the chamber shrank, Elder Wu urged the two men to stop bickering, and Elder Mo worried about Yurou and Li Yichen.
  • Elder Wang revealed Li Yichen's Stone Token and insisted Elder Wu use it to escape while he and Elder Mo remained behind.
  • Elder Wu crushed the Stone Token and vanished, while Li Yichen sensed it and wondered if someone had encountered the Heavenly Treasury.

Ch. 239No peeking

Li Yichen brought Mo Yurou to check on her grandparents after sensing they were in danger, then used his power to reveal what was happening inside the Sacred Treasury. They found Elder Mo and Elder Wang alive but trapped together in a rapidly shrinking space.

  • Li Yichen went to Mo Yurou's room to warn her that her grandparents were in danger and ask her to return with Uncle Ouyang and the children the next day.
  • Mo Yurou revealed that she had not given her grandparents the Stone Tokens, and Li Yichen agreed to take her to them immediately.
  • Li Yichen and Mo Yurou appeared beside Elder Wu, who told them Elder Mo and Elder Wang had used their Stone Tokens and might be in grave danger.
  • Li Yichen made the square transparent and enlarged a view of the Sacred Treasury, showing that Elder Mo and Elder Wang were still alive.
  • Elder Mo and Elder Wang bickered as the space around them shrank to about one meter square.

Ch. 240The Stone Demon "Dazhuang"

Li Yichen rescued Elder Mo and Elder Wang from the Stone Prison Space and learned that the Jiang Family had trapped them using the Stone Demon’s power. He introduced Dazhuang, who revealed that he had given nine power-drawing pebbles to Jiang Lüzi years earlier.

  • Elder Mo and Elder Wang discovered they were alive, and Elder Wu beat them for their past misdeeds after Li Yichen brought them over.
  • Elder Mo and Elder Wang blamed Li Yichen for not warning them, but Mo Yurou and Elder Wu stopped them from retaliating.
  • Elder Mo explained that the Jiang Family seemed able to control the Stone Prison Space’s mechanisms.
  • Li Yichen summoned Dazhuang, and Mo Yurou learned that they had been inside the Stone Demon’s belly.
  • Dazhuang said he had given nine pebbles to Jiang Lüzi years earlier, each of which could draw on part of his power.
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