Chapter Summaries

Bell Society players attacked the fifth floor to capture Ren Daguo, but Huang Wei killed the Qigong Master and the battle drew in more New Year's Watchers. Mr. He then transformed the fifth floor into a theater stage and entered as Zhao Zilong, leaving the assembled fighters facing his performance.

• Dwarf ordered Qigong Master to block the stairwell and Prisoner Woman to seize the target while he fought Gu Nian.
• Little War Wolf left his elderly body at Xinyuan Spa and sent his soul toward the apartment, while Mr. He sensed the fighters and waited in the shadows.
• Huang Wei endured Qigong Master's Qi Explosion and killed him with Blood Sacrifice-Annihilation, while the other attacker fled upstairs and Ren Ye was injured.
• Prisoner Woman used Spatial Penetration-Thievery to pull Ren Daguo into the sealed space and carried him toward the window as Mr. He redirected the Bell Society to target Ren Ye.
• Little War Wolf reached Room 501, recoiled from the people inside, and fled, while Prisoner Woman prepared to leave with Ren Daguo.
• Mr. He expanded his Theater Stage Model across the fifth floor, summoned the New Year's Watchers onto the stage, and entered as Zhao Zilong.

Ren Ye and the New Year's Watchers fought Mr. He on a supernatural opera stage while Prisoner Woman tried to escape with Ren Daguo. Little War Wolf killed Prisoner Woman and returned Ren Daguo to the stage, where the battle continued and Mr. He's fallen envelope mysteriously changed.

• Xu Peng healed Ren Ye, then withdrew from the fight as Mr. He charged the New Year's Watchers and Huang Wei collided with him.
• Prisoner Woman escaped onto the rooftop with Ren Daguo while two Chaos Faction players held off the remaining New Year's Watchers.
• Little War Wolf sent his ghost to drain Prisoner Woman, killed her with an archaic hammer, and kicked Ren Daguo over the rooftop wall; Ren Daguo then appeared on the stage.
• Little War Wolf returned to Xinyuan Spa, where the old man woke after the attendants thought he had died.
• The New Year's Watchers' attacks battered Mr. He but failed to stop him, and he charged into another fight alongside Dwarf and the Predator Type player.
• The fallen envelope twitched and glowed, and its recorded contents were replaced.

Gu Nian, Ren Ye, and the New Year's Watchers struggled against Mr. He and his allies as their strongest attacks left them exhausted. Just as Mr. He nearly killed Ren Ye, a mysterious girl sent a powerful shadow fighter to confront him, forcing Mr. He to retreat through a supernatural door.

• Gu Nian realized their first-tier players could not defeat Mr. He directly, while Red Dog’s reckless attacks left him vulnerable.
• Red Dog’s Blood Sacrifice-Annihilation shattered the opera stage, and Gu Nian used Levitation to suspend the enemies so Ren Ye could have the Nine-Story Buddhist Pagoda devour the plunder-class player.
• The New Year's Watchers badly injured the suspended dwarf, but Gu Nian and Ren Ye exhausted their abilities and items.
• Mr. He trapped Ren Ye with his spear, but a shadow resembling Mr. He emerged and challenged him, speaking as Zhao Zilong of Shanghai through a mysterious girl.
• The shadow transformed into Sun Wukong and multiplied into a host of fighters, prompting Mr. He to seize the injured dwarf and open a Performers' Entrance door with Curtain call-Enter the Role.

After the shadow pursued Mr. He across the stage, she remotely detonated the marks she had left in his body, gravely wounding him, while the little dwarf carried him away to seek help. The shadow challenged Ren Ye to grow stronger and disappeared; Ren Daguo woke as Huang Wei told him he might be a player.

• Mr. He escaped the stage with the little dwarf through the Actor's Passage, but the shadow tracked the marks she had left in him and detonated them at the Minhuang Grand Theater.
• The little dwarf carried the badly wounded Mr. He away and called for someone to save him, while Mr. He urged him to keep searching for two missing players from the Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate.
• The shadow told Ren Ye to grow stronger so they could fight, then vanished; Red Dog and Gu Nian believed she had been helping Ren Ye.
• Huang Wei and the New Year's Watchers cleared the corridor, and Ren Ye took his unconscious father away as Little War Wolf left Xinyuan Spa.
• Ren Daguo woke in the car, and Huang Wei told him he suspected Ren Daguo was a player.

Ren Ye and Huang Wei investigated why Ren Daguo and Editor Xu had vanished from the New Year's Watchers' perception, while the captured Bell Society members were interrogated. The Liar confirmed Ren Daguo had told the truth, and the group suspected two mysterious allies had concealed the pair to draw out the Bell Society; meanwhile, Yan Duoduo arrived in Shanghai to confront the fallout.

• Huang Wei ordered Gu Nian to interrogate the two captured Bell Society members and learned that Old Yan had been seriously injured by venomous insects.
• Ren Ye agreed with Huang Wei to question Ren Daguo, and the Liar found that Ren Daguo's account of working with Editor Xu and moving apartments was truthful.
• Ren Ye told Huang Wei that his Enchantment ability had confirmed Ren Daguo and Editor Xu were not players.
• The Liar suggested that the Hunter from the Fraud Merchants' Association and an unidentified Soul Body had concealed Ren Daguo and Editor Xu's scents and blocked the Watchers' perception.
• Ren Ye and Huang Wei reasoned that the two mysterious figures may have hidden Ren Daguo to lure the Bell Society into attacking, while Ren Ye wondered whether they were friends or enemies.
• Shanghai headquarters ordered Huang Wei to go to Pet Paradise because Yan Duoduo had arrived, while a woman in a Green Vine Dress and an old man in the Capital discussed the trouble awaiting Shanghai.

Yan Duoduo returned to Shanghai and heard how Huang Wei had let Ren Ye act alone during the apartment-building operation, while the captured Bell Society members revealed information about the Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate. As Lame Boss prepared to flee Tongren Road and Yan Duoduo headed to confront the Mystical Tribunal, Huang Wei gathered Ren Ye and his team for a move against their enemies.

• Lame Boss learned that the Bell Society operation had failed and decided to stay on Tongren Road until his allies came to collect him, while Mastermind agreed to help him stir up trouble before dawn.
• Yan Duoduo returned to Shanghai, learned that one New Year's Watcher was critically injured, and told Chen Hannian to keep watch on Tongren Road while they waited for news from Qingfu.
• Huang Wei explained to Yan Duoduo that he had allowed Ren Ye to draw out the local organization, reported the casualties and arrests, and revealed that an envelope contained information about the Former Dynasty Princess's Tomb.
• Yan Duoduo ordered Huang Wei to obtain statements from the two captured Bell Society members before midnight, and Huang Wei left confident that Yan Duoduo would not punish him.
• Chen Hannian warned Yan Duoduo that Zhou from the Mystical Tribunal was waiting by the roadside, but Yan Duoduo decided to meet him and notified the units.
• Gu Nian told Huang Wei that Xu Peng's pills had made the captured Bell Society members answer questions, and Huang Wei summoned Ren Ye to join a move for revenge.

Yan Duoduo rejected Zhou’s request to spare Limp and led a major operation to arrest him on Tongren Road. He ordered the New Year’s Watchers across Shanghai to assemble, with Ren Ye summoned to join him.

• Zhou asked Yan Duoduo to leave Limp, the Roadside Dogs’ leader, alone in exchange for having Mr. He returned to Shanghai to stand trial.
• Huang Wei told Ren Ye that the New Year’s Watchers were launching a revenge operation and ordered the Huangjiang team to assemble.
• Yan Duoduo let Zhou believe he accepted the proposal, then revealed that he had come to arrest Limp.
• Yan Duoduo said he would pursue any players who used supernatural powers to resist the law, regardless of the risks to stability.
• Yan Duoduo ordered New Year’s Watchers across the city to assemble at both ends of Tongren Road and called for Ren Ye.

Yan Duoduo assembled more than a hundred New Year's Watchers around Tongren Road and sent Ren Ye to arrest Limp and Mastermind at the Roadside Dogs bar. As rival groups prepared to intervene, Ren Ye confronted the bar’s guards while Limp demanded to know whether his allies would act.

• Old Zhou gave up trying to persuade Yan Duoduo and contacted the Mystical Tribunal and Risk Committee as the operation began.
• More than fifty New Year's Watchers gathered behind Yan Duoduo, and Huang Wei arrived with Ren Ye and the teams from Huangjiang and Qingfu Districts.
• Yan Duoduo identified Limp and Mastermind as the culprits behind the attack on Ren Ye's sister and the attempted kidnapping of his father, then ordered Ren Ye to lead the arrest.
• Huang Wei assigned Qingfu District's New Year's Watchers to support Ren Ye, while Chen Hannian confirmed that all sixteen districts had secured the perimeter.
• A Tongren Road faction and the Predator Alliance decided to protect Limp, while a shadow and Dandan watched from a signal tower.
• Ren Ye's team reached the Roadside Dogs bar, where guards blocked the entrance; Ren Ye drew his Heavy Sword and ordered them to move as Limp demanded to know whether his allies would act.

Ren Ye and the New Year's Watchers confronted the Roadside Dogs on Tongren Road, where his deliberate provocations brought the opposing factions to the brink of battle. As hundreds of Chaos Faction players converged, Yan Duoduo isolated the street and revealed his Star Gate, leaving the New Year's Watchers to advance under his command.

• Ren Ye and the New Year's Watchers disarmed the long-haired Roadside Dogs member, cut off his arms, and took him into custody after he blocked their way.
• Ren Ye read aloud the summons for Qian Zheng, then ordered Limp to squat down, provoking him in front of the gathered spectators.
• Limp called on his allies, and hundreds of Chaos Faction players silently converged on the bar as Huang Wei prepared the New Year's Watchers to fight.
• Yan Duoduo ordered the New Year's Watchers to plant more than three hundred Wordless Steles, isolating Tongren Road and summoning his Star Gate.
• Yan Duoduo rose above the street and commanded silence as the yellow-shirted New Year's Watchers advanced and the Chaos Faction players faltered.

Yan Duoduo forced Limp to surrender and ordered the Roadside Dogs Organization detained, asserting control over Tongren Road. As the other powers withdrew, Ren Ye and Shadow were inspired to pursue their own Star Gate ambitions.

• Yan Duoduo opened his Star Gate and challenged Limp to resist arrest, pressuring him to fight one-on-one.
• Limp weighed the risks, surrendered, and squatted with his hands on his head after Ren Ye called out the arrest order.
• The Predator Alliance leader concluded that Yan Duoduo intended to take control of Tongren Road, while other powerful figures and Chaos Faction players dispersed.
• Yan Duoduo declared that Tongren Road would stay quiet, then ordered Chen Hannian to take the Roadside Dogs members in for questioning.
• Yan Duoduo accepted Old Zhou's invitation to drink, while Huang Wei and Ren Ye discussed the night's events and Shadow anticipated his Stage Star Gate.