Recaps

Ren Ye delivered gutter oil to Law Enforcement Team Elementary School, where he learned that the school was dangerous and operated under strict rules. After hiding outside a yellow line to observe, he recognized Brother Hong entering the grounds.

• Ren Ye drove the blue truck carrying gutter oil from Wang Laogou’s restaurant toward Law Enforcement Team Elementary School.
• At the school gate, Ren Ye learned that Director Hong was unavailable until recess and heard from a watermelon vendor that normal and abnormal children attended the school, where strangers could die.
• Ren Ye returned to the truck, gathered his Destiny, and entered the school grounds when the recess bell rang.
• The school’s rules announced that everyone had to stay silent during class, accept invitations to games and finish them, and that strangers entering during recess could not leave until the class bell rang.
• Ren Ye stopped before a yellow line, concealed himself with an Invisibility Talisman and False-Death Pills, and watched Brother Hong cross the line toward the classroom building.

Brother Hong entered the campus to investigate a clue and was forced into a supernatural game of hide-and-seek with a little girl. He failed to hide until the class bell and was killed, leaving Ren Ye inside the truck, shaken by the girl’s power.

• Brother Hong agreed to play hide-and-seek with a little girl, who transformed the campus into a dark, haunted place and set the class bell as the game's deadline.
• Ren Ye stayed inside the blue truck while the girl searched the campus, and he refused to answer when she appeared outside his windshield.
• Brother Hong used soul flames in porcelain bottles to distract the girl, then hid on a basketball backboard after she found and destroyed one of the ghosts.
• With only seconds left before the bell, the girl found Brother Hong and killed him by making his body explode.
• The class bell rang as Ren Ye watched Brother Hong die and realized that even a Third Tier captain could not survive the game.

Ren Ye realized how to exploit the little girl’s blind spot in the school’s deadly hide-and-seek game and persuaded Brother Hong to follow his plan. The two entered the game together, and Ren Ye began testing his strategy as the girl searched for them.

• Ren Ye escaped the campus after watching the little girl kill Brother Hong’s decoy body, then discovered the real Brother Hong was alive and learned about his clue to find Song An’s student file.
• Ren Ye and Brother Hong agreed to work together, but neither could devise a way past the girl until Ren Ye recognized that people had a blind spot behind them and offered to lead Brother Hong through the game.
• At 10:30, Ren Ye and Brother Hong crossed the yellow line together, triggering the girl’s hide-and-seek game.
• Ren Ye carried Brother Hong onto the playground and approached the girl from behind while she counted, warning Brother Hong not to panic or use his Mystical Ability.
• Ren Ye used Holy Eyes to track the girl in slowed time and stepped left as she turned her head, staying within her blind spot.

Ren Ye and Brother Hong survived the hide-and-seek game by keeping out of the little girl’s sight until the class bell ended the round, earning Errand Permits and ten Gold Coins each. Ren Ye then went to Director Hong’s office, where he found a balding man berating a female teacher over a missing Skeleton Specimen.

• Ren Ye used Holy Eyes to track the little girl and dodge her gaze while Brother Hong waited for the game’s countdown to expire.
• When the little girl flew through a classroom wall and trapped them, Ren Ye used a Ground-Shrinking Talisman to escape to the campus toilets.
• The class bell rang, the little girl accepted her loss and dissipated, and Ren Ye and Brother Hong received Errand Permits and ten Gold Coins each.
• Brother Hong decided to work with Ren Ye, and the two presented their permits at the gatehouse before heading into the classroom building.
• Ren Ye knocked at the Director’s Office and saw a balding man accusing a female teacher of losing a Skeleton Specimen.

Ren Ye delivered supplies to Director Hong, then joined Brother Hong in the Old Archives to investigate Song Yi and his family. Brother Hong found Song An’s files and earned an autobiography fragment, while the pair left with new leads on the family.

• Ren Ye delivered food supplies to Director Hong, who ordered him not to wander around the campus.
• Ren Ye met Brother Hong in the Old Archives, where Brother Hong found files about Song Yi’s family.
• Brother Hong shared details about Song An, Song Yi, their parents, and the family’s possible investigation leads.
• Ren Ye connected Song Mingzhe to the man who bought meals at the fast-food shop, giving the pair complementary clues.
• Brother Hong received Song An Autobiography Fragment Code-3 as they left the archives, and Ren Ye’s right eyelid twitched.

Ren Ye learned that Song Mingzhe had ordered boxed meals from Wang Laogou for years, but Wang Laogou used Ren Ye’s inquiries to blackmail him and threaten to report him to the Enforcement Team. Ren Ye attacked Wang Laogou with the Human Emperor Sword, leaving him pinned to a table.

• Ren Ye returned to Xiaoyu Fast Food with Brother Hong and warned him not to interfere with the bald Enforcement Team members nearby.
• Ren Ye completed the Oil Peddler’s task and asked Wang Laogou about a man who regularly ordered eight boxed meals.
• Wang Laogou identified the customer as Song Mingzhe, who had stopped coming more than three years earlier.
• Wang Laogou played a recording of their conversation and threatened to report Ren Ye for investigating Song Mingzhe unless he paid two hundred thousand Star Source.
• Wang Laogou demanded that Ren Ye work for him as a slave, so Ren Ye stabbed him through the chest with the Human Emperor Sword and pinned him to the table.

Ren Ye killed Wang Laogou and used Ai Fei’s Soul-Questioning Talisman to learn that Wang had surveillance footage of Song Mingzhe. As Brother Hong fought off the Enforcement Team, Ren Ye escaped an inkstone treasure and destroyed it, but the two were placed under a permanent territory-wide manhunt.

• Ren Ye killed Wang Laogou, summoned Ai Fei’s phantom, and questioned Wang’s soul while Brother Hong killed the people in the refinery and shop.
• Wang Laogou revealed that Song Mingzhe had been burned alive three and a half years earlier and that he had kept surveillance footage of him; Ren Ye asked where the backup was.
• The Human-Soul Snake detected activity, and the Enforcement Team entered the shop, where Brother Hong and Ren Ye fought the bald enforcers.
• The Team Leader trapped Ren Ye inside an inkstone, but Ren Ye broke the treasure with one strike and killed him.
• The Star Gate placed Ren Ye and Brother Hong on a permanent territory-wide wanted list, while Ren Ye said he had completed his mission and obtained a fragment of Song Mingzhe’s Autobiography-number 6.

Ren Ye killed Wang Laogou and searched the fast-food restaurant’s surveillance recordings while Enforcers rushed to the scene. As Fulai County descended into chaos and Yin Tiger fought his way out of an inspection, Ren Ye found a faint character on a wounded green snake.

• Ren Ye explained why he had killed Wang Laogou, then searched the surveillance recordings for clues about Song Mingzhe.
• Brother Hong shut the shop, covered the windows, and waited as Enforcers approached.
• Yin Tiger attacked and killed a group of Enforcers who ordered him to remove his hood, then fled into an alley.
• A woman and a veteran cadre abandoned their mission, while Xiao Shuai and Tan Pang speculated about the Heavenly Dao’s response.
• Ren Ye returned from the duty room and noticed a faint character on the green snake’s belly.

Ren Ye and Brother Hong escaped the enforcement team by disguising themselves and blowing up the illicit refinery, which lowered their wanted scent rating. Ren Ye then took Wang Laogou’s corpse to Liu Yidao for precise deboning, where the butcher revealed he had a personal grudge against the dead man.

• Ren Ye and Brother Hong disguised themselves as bald men, planted Fire Talismans in the refinery, and triggered an explosion that covered them in filth and lowered their wanted scent rating.
• Ren Ye used a Ground-Shrinking Talisman to escape with Brother Hong and Wang Laogou’s corpse, then drove away in an enforcement vehicle.
• Yin Tiger saw the smoke over Xiaoyu Fast Food, speculated that a powerful treasure had been used, and considered recruiting Ren Ye as a teammate.
• Ren Ye told Brother Hong he suspected Wang Laogou’s corpse could serve a hidden quest, then sought out the butcher Liu Yidao for expert deboning.
• Liu Yidao agreed to make Wang Laogou’s body into a perfect skeleton for three thousand Star Source, then offered a discount because he held a personal grudge against him.

Ren Ye and Brother Hong delivered Wang Laogou’s skeleton to Director Hong at Law Enforcement Team Elementary School and completed the easter egg quest, earning rewards while learning the Enforcement Team had discovered the murder. After they returned to the villa, the group compared notes, but everyone denied making progress despite Tan Pang pointing out the commotion on Jianyuan Road.

• Ren Ye and Brother Hong brought Wang Laogou’s skeleton to Director Hong, who accepted it as a specimen for the principal.
• Director Hong received a report that Xiaoyu Fast Food had been wiped out and Wang Laogou was dead, but he covered for Ren Ye and Brother Hong and made the crime their shared secret.
• Ren Ye completed Director Hong’s Worries, receiving a Lucky Token and fifteen Gold Coins, while Brother Hong received ten Gold Coins.
• Ren Ye and Brother Hong discussed the Star Gate and Brother Hong’s team, then agreed to return to the villa separately and act as if they had not met.
• Tan Pang gathered the villa residents to compare notes, but everyone claimed to have made no progress.
• Tan Pang challenged the group’s denials by mentioning the large number of bald men heading to Jianyuan Road, then admitted he had found nothing himself.

The Players gathered for dinner after Tan Pang’s attempt to organize them, but the Star Gate’s ranking announcement exposed the leaders and sharpened suspicions. As the group left Xiao Yuan isolated, Yin Tiger told Ren Ye he had uncovered a secret about the moving stick and proposed comparing notes.

• Tan Pang invited the Players to dinner and tasted the food to reassure them it was safe.
• At 18:00, the Star Gate announced that Woman, Sandbag, and Stationmaster held the top three Gold Coin totals, prompting the Players to eye the leaders suspiciously.
• Ren Ye guessed that Woman and Stationmaster had completed hidden Easter egg missions and redirected suspicion toward their possible involvement in the Jianyuan Road incident.
• The veteran cadre urged cooperation, and Tan Pang declared dinner open, easing the tension over the rankings.
• The other Players socially excluded Xiao Yuan, while Tan Pang asked him to clean up after dinner.
• Yin Tiger privately told Ren Ye that the moving stick held a major secret, and Ren Ye agreed to compare notes with him.

Ren Ye and Yin Tiger exchanged clues linking Song Mingzhe to a black market and suspected killings, while keeping some information back and agreeing to cooperate. Xiao Yuan ended his isolation by sharing details about Song Yi’s family, then approached a woman for a private conversation as lights-out neared.

• Ren Ye and Yin Tiger compared their clues, connecting Song Mingzhe to the Two-Surname Shop’s illicit magic-treasure trade and suspected killings.
• Ren Ye offered Yin Tiger a clear image of Song Mingzhe after another investigation and warned that the Enforcement Team might consider the name sensitive.
• Xiao Yuan volunteered information about Song Yi’s parents, Pan Lianrong and Song Mingzhe, and their children, Song An and Song Yi, drawing the group’s interest.
• Tan Pang and the Veteran Cadre Stationmaster asked Xiao Yuan for more details about Pan Lianrong and the brothers.
• As people dispersed before lights-out, Xiao Yuan patted a woman on the shoulder and asked to talk; she agreed.

Ren Ye organized clues about Song Mingzhe, then endured a night of eerie disturbances in his locked room before calming himself with scripture. At dawn, the group discovered that Xiao Yuan had apparently died in the Kan room, where a grisly offering and his memorial portrait had appeared.

• Ren Ye wrote up his clues about the Song family and concluded that investigating Song Mingzhe's workplace was his main lead.
• At half past eight, the Star Gate announced a scratch-card game, and Xiao Shuai spent eight Gold Coins to win a disguise set he could not store in Consciousness Space.
• Ren Ye stayed in his room overnight, saw a ghostly woman in the firelight, and used the Human Emperor Sword and an ancient scripture to settle himself and fall asleep.
• At six in the morning, Ren Ye joined the others, who said they had also witnessed frightening events during the night.
• When Xiao Yuan and the woman failed to answer, Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang entered the Kan room and found bloodied bedding, a severed rooster's head, an offering, and a memorial portrait of Xiao Yuan.

Ren Ye concluded that Xiao Yuan had died in the Star Gate’s Death Mechanism after encountering an Anomaly in the Kan Room, rather than being killed by a player. The group realized the mechanism would likely claim someone every night.

• Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger found Gold Coins and an Autobiography Fragment beside Xiao Yuan’s memorial portrait in the Kan Room, but no body.
• Old Cadre and the others found Fang Ying unconscious in the Dui Room; Yin Tiger gave her Star-Sea Detoxification Pills, and she later woke up.
• Fang Ying said Xiao Yuan had approached her the previous night to discuss joining her and the stationmaster, but she could not remember what happened after they talked.
• The group questioned Fang Ying because Xiao Yuan had died in her room, but Ren Ye argued that the mourning ritual, locked doors, and missing body pointed to a Star Gate mechanism rather than a player’s attack.
• Ren Ye reasoned that Xiao Yuan encountered an Anomaly after returning to the Kan Room and triggered the Death Mechanism at eight thirty, then warned that the mechanism would strike once every night.

With one Player destined to die each night, the group argued over whether to share clues and agreed to investigate Song Mingzhe’s trail together. As they prepared to leave, Xiao Shuai asked how they would divide Xiao Yuan’s remaining account fragments and Gold Coins.

• Xiao Shuai and the others discussed the nightly deaths and agreed they needed to uncover the anomalous killing mechanism.
• Tan Pang asked who was investigating Song Mingzhe, and Ren Ye admitted that he believed Song Mingzhe owned the Secret Chamber.
• Ren Ye and Yin Tiger refused to disclose their private clues, while Brother Hong defended their right to keep them private.
• Tan Pang proposed joining Ren Ye and Yin Tiger to investigate Song Mingzhe’s clues, and the group agreed to work in teams.
• Xiao Shuai asked how the group would divide Xiao Yuan’s account fragments and Gold Coins, drawing Yin Tiger’s rebuke.

Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger followed clues linking Song Mingzhe and the Two-Surname Supplies Store to the abandoned Longevity Taoist Temple. The temple appeared restored when they approached, and its greeter was Xiao Yuan, who had died the previous night.

• Tan Pang proposed sealing the ten Gold Coins and Autobiography until the group escaped the death trap, and the others agreed.
• Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger spotted several animals around the villa before Yin Tiger explained the Two-Surname Supplies Store owner's disappearance and the Boss Lady's revenge mission.
• Ren Ye connected the store owner's investigation to Song Mingzhe, the Taoist priest, and Longevity Temple, so the three decided to investigate the temple.
• The Star Gate rated Longevity Taoist Temple SSS+ and recommended a party of more than five, but Tan Pang, Ren Ye, and Yin Tiger entered anyway.
• As they neared the gate, the ruined temple appeared restored, and a young priest revealed himself as Xiao Yuan, who had died the previous night.

Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger discovered that the missing Xiao Yuan had returned as a corpse serving as a priest at the Longevity Temple, where they began trials to uncover its buried secrets. After choosing separate courtyards, Yin Tiger approached the Martial Courtyard while Ren Ye and Tan Pang continued with Xiao Yuan.

• Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger identified Xiao Yuan as a walking corpse whose body had gone missing from the Kan Room.
• Xiao Yuan explained that the Longevity Temple had Pill, Martial, and Wisdom Courtyard assessments, and the Heavenly Dao revealed the temple’s history and the disciples’ mission.
• Yin Tiger chose the Martial Courtyard, Tan Pang chose the Wisdom Courtyard, and Ren Ye took the Pill Courtyard.
• Xiao Yuan led the three through the bustling temple, where they saw priests feeding refugees and distributing pills to children.
• Yin Tiger went to the Martial Courtyard gates to begin his assessment, while Ren Ye and Tan Pang followed Xiao Yuan onward.

Yin Tiger entered the Martial Academy and challenged its corrupted disciples, defeating them with one swing of his saber before learning that passing the trial required a deadly bridge contest. Meanwhile, Tan Pang arrived at the Wisdom Academy and boldly began its assessment.

• Yin Tiger entered the Martial Academy and agreed to attempt its Trial Bridge assessment.
• The yellow-robed priest and more than thirty disciples took pills that revealed their monstrous forms and transformed the academy into a graveyard.
• Yin Tiger challenged all the disciples at once and killed them with a single saber swing without leaving the entrance.
• The remaining inner disciple explained that challengers had to race him across the trial bridge, where the loser died.
• At the Wisdom Academy, Tan Pang dismissed his doubts, declared his confidence in his intelligence, and knocked on the gates.

Yin Tiger began the Martial Academy trial bridge against the pill-enhanced head disciple, while Ren Ye started the Pill Academy test by searching for five missing ingredients. Ren Ye discovered that each ingredient drawer revealed its properties, but he still had no way to identify the correct choices as the Pill Room grew hotter.

• The Martial Academy head disciple explained the physical-only trial bridge rules, and Heavenly Dao restrictions sealed Yin Tiger’s abilities.
• The head disciple swallowed pills until he reached the peak of a Third Grade physique, then began the trial bridge race with Yin Tiger.
• Ren Ye entered the Pill Academy with Xiao Yuan and learned from head disciple Seeking Medicine that he had to add five elemental ingredients to a pill furnace.
• Ren Ye opened drawers in the metal cabinet and heard descriptions of schisandra and Chinese yam, but realized the correct ingredients would be difficult to find among hundreds of drawers.
• Ren Ye wondered whether there was a smarter way to locate the ingredients as the Pill Room grew hotter.

Ren Ye endured the Phoenix Fire Furnace’s deadly heat and uncovered that the trial’s true ingredients were the disciples’ five organs, taken from their bodies to refine pills. He realized Xiao Yuan was the remaining answer, but the chapter ended with Xiao Yuan collapsing and the hollow-bodied attendants revealing their mortars filled with ground organs.

• Ren Ye dumped every ingredient from the metal-labeled cabinet into the furnace, intensifying the flames and badly burning himself.
• Ren Ye found Xiao Yuan tending the furnace below, then returned upstairs and deduced that the five organs, not the cabinet ingredients, were the trial’s answer.
• The disciple in charge revealed his empty torso and urged Ren Ye to cut out his own organs, claiming the other disciples had passed by doing so.
• Ren Ye recognized that Xiao Yuan was the only other intact person and concluded that Song Mingzhe’s victims were brought to Longevity Temple for their organs.
• Ren Ye knelt beside Xiao Yuan with the knife, but Xiao Yuan told him to stay alive and then collapsed as the hollow-bodied attendants turned toward Ren Ye, pounding organs in their mortars.

Ren Ye retraced the Longevity Temple’s past and discovered that Song Mingzhe and Lu Wentian planned to sacrifice worshippers to create powerful pills and win favor with the Higher-Ups. He received pill rewards and autobiography fragments, then was told to regroup for the final challenge.

• Ren Ye agreed to retrace the temple’s secrets and watched the Main Hall return to the past, where Song Mingzhe and Lu Wentian met.
• Lu Wentian revealed that the Phoenix Fire Furnace and Peerless Pill Recipe could make Life Essence Pills from the organs of supernatural ability users and ordinary people.
• Song Mingzhe and Lu Wentian planned to use a Martial Academy and Wisdom Academy to attract people who could be turned into pill ingredients.
• Lu Wentian described several other pill recipes, and Song Mingzhe said he was pursuing influence and advancement rather than ideals.
• Ren Ye returned to the present, condemned the pair’s cruelty, and received Star Source, experience, two pills, and Song Mingzhe’s autobiography fragments before being instructed to regroup for the final challenge.

Ren Ye survived the Pill Room trial, looted medicinal ingredients, and compared clues and rewards with Tan Pang while they waited for Yin Tiger. Just as they feared Yin Tiger had died, he appeared with both feet severed.

• Ren Ye took the Great Dao Divine Strength Pill and Divine Light Enlightenment Pill rewards, looted medicinal ingredients from the Fire Cabinet, and was thrown out of the Pill Room when he tried to take the Heavenly Lord's Wooden Sword.
• Ren Ye used Antidote Pills and a Golden Recovery Pill, then met Tan Pang outside Heavenly Lord Hall after both had cleared their academy trials.
• Ren Ye and Tan Pang pieced together clues that Longevity Temple had secretly lured people in to refine pills and practice evil arts, and Tan Pang shared information about Song Mingzhe and Lu Wenlong.
• Tan Pang gave Ren Ye two Flame-Dissipating Pills and discussed their rewards, duplicate Autobiography Fragments, and the need to work together to solve the Villa Murder House mystery.
• After waiting for hours for Yin Tiger, Ren Ye and Tan Pang saw him arrive walking on his hands, with both feet chopped off and his ankles bleeding.

Yin Tiger revealed that he had cut off his feet to win the Martial Academy test, then used a Fetal Shedding Pill to recover and joined Ren Ye and Tan Pang on their way to Heavenly Lord Hall. The trio walked through years of changing seasons and reached a scene one year before Longevity Temple’s destruction, where Song Mingzhe confronted Lu Wentian about his abuses.

• Yin Tiger explained that he had thrown his severed feet across the Trial Bridge’s finish line to beat the inner disciple, then revealed his Fetal Shedding Pill and recovered while Ren Ye and Tan Pang guarded him.
• Yin Tiger told Ren Ye and Tan Pang that the Martial Academy tested pills and used poisoned medicine to control its disciples, and that he had received two pills and fragments seven, eight, and nine of Song Mingzhe’s Autobiography.
• Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger entered the Main Hall courtyard, where each step carried them through the seasons and years until they arrived one year before Longevity Temple’s destruction.
• The trio hid behind a Screen and watched Song Mingzhe tell Lu Wentian that the Ministry of War’s intercepted supplies and dead men had angered those above.
• Lu Wentian claimed the killings were a mistake and offered to hand over the Martial Academy disciples, while Song Mingzhe accused him of keeping most of the pills and abusing his position.

Song Mingzhe humiliated Lu Wentian and refused to yield to his demands, so Lu Wentian ordered Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger to retrieve weapons for a planned assassination. Meanwhile, Ren Ye noticed their car had moved, and Brother Hong raised the possibility that someone was exploiting the Heavenly Dao’s rules to kill.

• Lu Wentian complained to Song Mingzhe that the higher-ups’ escalating pill demands forced him to kill more people, but Song Mingzhe slapped and threatened him, reducing him to kneeling in apology.
• After Song Mingzhe left, Lu Wentian told Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger that he planned to kill him with Chaos Gu and a Puppet-Slaying Blade.
• Lu Wentian sent the three disciples to retrieve the two Magic Treasures and the Star Gate assigned them an A+ murder-and-robbery mission with a two-hour limit and no survivors.
• As the three left the temple, Ren Ye noticed that their car bearing the license plate Fu.00001 had moved.
• While investigating Pan Lianrong in Fulai County, Brother Hong suggested that someone might be using the Heavenly Dao’s nightly killing rule to murder people.

Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang retrieved two Magic Treasures from a courtyard crowded with Plunderers' Alliance fighters, killing the group after Yin Tiger provoked a fight. Back at Longevity Temple, they received an SSS+ final-act mission and a deadline to leave before 17:30, while Ren Ye began interpreting Star Gate's insult as a hint.

• Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang found the address Lu Wentian had given them and entered the courtyard, where over forty Third Grade Supernatural Ability Users awaited them.
• The middle-aged man showed Yin Tiger the Chaos Gu and the Puppet-Slaying Blade, but Yin Tiger drew his saber and demanded to know whether the man wanted its edge or its back.
• The Plunderers' Alliance fighters attacked, and Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang killed them before taking the two Magic Treasures.
• The trio returned to Longevity Temple and learned they could trigger its SSS+ final-act mission, which required them to leave before 17:30.
• Ren Ye suggested Star Gate's insult about spittoons and chamber pots was a hint, then began explaining what happened to such filthy things after use.