Recaps

Ren Ye and Yin Tiger escorted Xiao Shuai to Pan Lianrong’s location, then returned to Song Mingzhe as Fulai County Town fell. Daoist Jiang sabotaged the evacuation array and revealed himself as a traitor, and the Bald Enforcers captured Song Mingzhe and the Heavenly Ministry of Works officials.

• Ren Ye reasoned that the group needed to find Song Yi and gave Xiao Shuai Treasure Armor to protect him while he pursued Pan Lianrong’s questline.
• Xiao Shuai entered the building to report in, and Ren Ye secretly advised him what to do if the woman appeared.
• Ren Ye told Song Mingzhe that Song Yi had left after leaving a message at the zoo, and Song Mingzhe decided to evacuate with Ren Ye and Yin Tiger.
• Daoist Jiang destroyed the teleportation array, revealed that Xu Lang had fled after being tipped off, and admitted that he had helped Pan Lianrong fake her death.
• A black Star Gate appeared above the warehouse, and the Bald Enforcers captured Song Mingzhe and the Heavenly Ministry of Works officials as Ren Ye and Yin Tiger began to be transported away.

Xiao Shuai witnessed Pan Lianrong’s hidden choices, while Ren Ye and Yin Tiger viewed Song Mingzhe’s Rewind and learned how a betrayal within the Order Faction shaped him. Song Mingzhe died by burning at the Victory Monument after condemning the collapse of the heroes’ faith, and Ren Ye obtained the final fragment of his autobiography.

• Xiao Shuai entered Pan Lianrong’s Rewind and saw her hand over evidence against Song Mingzhe while refusing to bring her son, Song An, to her side.
• Ren Ye and Yin Tiger entered Song Mingzhe’s Rewind and saw him join a doomed assault on Kun Palace, where he discovered the officers had sacrificed their soldiers to seize treasure.
• Song Mingzhe left the Thunderfire Division for the Heavenly Ministry of Works, burned his military honors, and began a relationship with Pan Lianrong.
• After Pan Lianrong became pregnant, Song Mingzhe rejected marriage, but she proposed a partnership and he recognized her value.
• The Enforcers executed Song Mingzhe before Fulai County Town, where he declared that the heroes had collapsed from within and conjured funeral rites as he burned.
• Ren Ye completed Song Mingzhe’s Rewind and obtained the fragment of his autobiography numbered “17-End.”

Ren Ye and the others watched a rewind showing Song Yi return to Fulai County Town and reunite with his brother Song An, who begged him to share their father’s crafting secrets. Back in the villa, they learned they had until six the next morning to find Song Yi, then detected someone on the first floor and rushed downstairs.

• Ren Ye and Yin Tiger watched a rewind of Song Yi returning to the zoo in Fulai County Town, where he reunited with his brother Song An.
• Several days later, Song An complained that their mother had abandoned him and begged Song Yi to teach him the crafting secrets in their father’s books.
• Song Yi said he had forgotten the books, but Song An knelt and pleaded for help before the rewind ended.
• Ren Ye, Xiao Shuai, and Yin Tiger returned to the villa and learned they had to find Song Yi before six the next morning or everyone would die.
• Ren Ye realized someone might still be in the villa, and a Star Source Fluctuation erupted on the first floor as Xiao Shuai charged downstairs.

Ren Ye and his companions searched for Song Yi, their only chance to overcome the hidden woman's Gold Coin advantage, and investigated the ruined Zoo where Song Yi and Song An had last met. Ren Ye realized the woman's scent and the missing Autobiography Fragments pointed to something buried in the Main Building's ruins, then declared that he had found her.

• Ren Ye confirmed the woman had survived by hiding in a locked Villa room, and he learned the final-day rules suspended the Villa's usual return deadline and Death Mechanism.
• Ren Ye calculated that the woman likely had about 1,793 Gold Coins and decided finding Song Yi was their best chance; he planned to investigate the Zoo and then complete his Autobiography Fragments if needed.
• Ren Ye, Xiao Shuai, and Yin Tiger searched Fulai County Town's ruined Zoo but initially found no clues about Song Yi or Song An.
• As they started to leave, Ren Ye sensed something unusual at the Main Building ruins and ran around them before searching through rubble where Yin Tiger had tracked the woman's scent.
• Yin Tiger gave Ren Ye the two missing Autobiography Fragments, numbered 13 and 16, and Ren Ye stared east and said he had found the woman.

Ren Ye entered the Exchange Hall with Song Mingzhe’s complete Autobiography Fragments, hoping to learn how the exchange worked and whether it could help him find Song Yi. As he hesitated over exchanging the fragments, he spotted numbered writing on two more fragments and realized the numbers might reveal a missing clue.

• Ren Ye contacted the Heavenly Dao and entered the Exchange Hall, where Song Yi’s phantom explained the two tasks and confirmed that only the first player to find him would receive an extra reward.
• Ren Ye learned that finding Song Yi might require awakening him, but the host would not reveal the fragment exchange reward until Ren Ye committed to it.
• Ren Ye reasoned that Pan Lianrong’s missing No. 1 fragment might prevent the remaining Autobiographies from providing enough clues to locate Song Yi.
• Ren Ye brought out all seventeen fragments and noticed that two additional fragments contained numbered writing.
• Ren Ye searched the fragments, found the markings, and began to realize the six sets of numbers might be significant before Song Yi’s phantom asked whether he would exchange the complete set.

Ren Ye exchanged the Autobiography Fragments for Song Mingzhe’s Autobiography and a Rewind clue that pointed him toward Longevity Temple. As Ren Ye searched the temple and found someone he needed to awaken, Pan Lianrong and a force of Enforcers arrived, and Yin Tiger charged alone to hold them off.

• Ren Ye exchanged the Autobiography Fragments, earning 640 gold coins and the Rewind clue, while an unknown figure in Fulai County Town resolved to kill more people.
• Pan Lianrong arrived at the Enforcers' Headquarters as a Great Spirit Official, and the Enforcers announced that the Players’ wanted scents had raised the final battle’s difficulty.
• Ren Ye told Xiao Shuai and Yin Tiger that Rewind showed Song Yi meeting Song An near the Victory Monument before they headed toward Longevity Temple, so the three left the Villa with memorial portraits of their dead companions.
• The three reached Longevity Temple and split up to search; Ren Ye found a hidden corridor beneath the Pill Room and summoned a figure, while a violent aura erupted from the underground cavern.
• Pan Lianrong and a large force of bald Supernatural Ability Users appeared above Longevity Temple, and Yin Tiger ordered Xiao Shuai to guard Ren Ye before charging into the sky to fight them.

Ren Ye protected Song Yi’s awakening while Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai held back the Great Might Heavenly Dragon’s forces. When the Divine Inheritor entered the Pill Hall through a mirrored illusion, Ren Ye used the Azure Bamboo to strike off his mask and confront him; Xiao Shuai then realized the Divine Inheritor was someone he had cared about.

• Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai fought the Enforcers to keep them away from Ren Ye, who used Human Destiny to shield the Pill Hall and continue awakening the aura beneath it.
• The Divine Inheritor sensed Song Yi below the hall, but Ren Ye’s purple Human Destiny blocked their perception and concealed the cavern.
• As Enforcers broke into the Pill Hall, Ren Ye summoned the Phoenix Fire Furnace and unleashed the Burning Corpses against them.
• The Divine Inheritor created a heavenly mirror and tried to enter the Pill Hall through its reflection, so Ren Ye called Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai back and confronted them himself.
• Ren Ye summoned the Waters of the Nether River and Azure Bamboo; a bamboo branch struck the Divine Inheritor and shattered their mask, but the Divine Inheritor used countless mirror doubles to enter the real hall.
• Xiao Shuai recognized the unmasked Divine Inheritor as someone he had worried about and angrily stomped on their memorial portrait.

Ren Ye confronted Tan Pang, exposed him as the Chaos Faction’s mole and Divine Inheritor, and challenged him to fight. As they prepared to leave the hall, an unseen voice offered to help Tan Pang kill Ren Ye, but Tan Pang rejected the offer.

• Ren Ye explained how the impossible layout of the Zoo’s Main Building and the auditorium’s unusual doors revealed that Tan Pang had staged his death using a mirror or hidden space.
• Ren Ye accused Tan Pang of manipulating the group into suspecting Old Cadre, then described how Tan Pang had attacked Old Cadre and the woman before faking his own death and taking their Gold Coins.
• Tan Pang confirmed he was the Chaos Faction’s sole Player and Divine Inheritor, denied killing Brother Hong, and warned Ren Ye that his power and accumulated Gold Coins made him difficult to defeat.
• Ren Ye refused Tan Pang’s offer to let him and his brothers leave safely, insisting he would win with them and Brother Hong.
• Tan Pang and Ren Ye agreed to fight outside the hall, but an unseen speaker offered to help Tan Pang kill Ren Ye; Tan Pang rejected the speaker and threatened to kill them.

Ren Ye battled Tan Pang over Song Yi and survived the Divine Inheritor’s mirror attack by invoking his Human Emperor authority. As Pan Lianrong’s forces stormed the Pill Hall, a hidden woman attacked Xiao Shuai, but Yin Tiger intervened and confronted her.

• Tan Pang challenged Ren Ye to a duel, forbidding his followers from interfering and demanding that Ren Ye surrender the Pill Hall so he could awaken Song Yi.
• Ren Ye defended himself against Tan Pang’s many attacks, then resisted the Infinite Mirror-Mirror House by calling on human destiny and hiding himself within purple qi.
• Pan Lianrong ordered her forces to storm the Pill Hall and reclaim her son, while Xiao Shuai and Yin Tiger fought to hold them back.
• Tan Pang trapped Ren Ye inside an immense mirror, and Ren Ye summoned the Human Emperor Seal to illuminate and shake the chaotic space.
• A hidden woman put Xiao Shuai to sleep and tried to kill him, but Yin Tiger shattered her Hairpin and confronted her as she offered to join forces.

Yin Tiger used the Blood of Divine Prohibition to defeat the woman and sever part of her Xiangliu inheritance, while Ren Ye caught him as the battle left the Pill Hall’s defenders on the verge of defeat. Tan Pang gathered his hidden Gold Coins and entered the Underground Cavern to awaken Song Yi, where he encountered the waiting Daoist Fenglin.

• The woman sealed Yin Tiger inside an illusory realm and attacked him with Xiangliu’s serpent eyes and their curses.
• Yin Tiger used the Blood of Divine Prohibition and his Heaven-Splitting One-Slash Strike to destroy three of the woman’s lives and sever three serpent heads before collapsing from exhaustion.
• Ren Ye broke free of Tan Pang’s mirror world, caught Yin Tiger, and learned that the Pill Hall could no longer hold out.
• Tan Pang collected his Gold Coins, revealing that his wallet had hidden the 400-coin reward from his traitor quest line, and entered the Underground Cavern to awaken Song Yi.
• Tan Pang found a white-haired old man holding a Lotus Lamp, who introduced himself as Daoist Fenglin and said he had been waiting.

Ren Ye revealed that he had used Fenglin’s body and the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp to lure Tan Pang into the open, while dozens of Enforcers were burned away by its power. With the Li Gate opening soon, Ren Ye explained how he had deciphered Song Mingzhe’s autobiography fragments and found a clue to Song Yi’s location, but he had not yet revealed the resulting sentence.

• Old Man flicked the Lotus Lamp’s flame across the Underground Cavern, and dozens of Lingguan aged, rotted, and vanished into ash.
• Tan Pang escaped the cavern as Ren Ye put Xiao Shuai and Yin Tiger inside the Phoenix Fire Furnace and warned them to stay there.
• Tan Pang and thousands of Enforcers confronted Ren Ye, who admitted nothing about Song Yi’s location and began explaining his suspicions about the Exchange Hall.
• Ren Ye said he had declined to exchange Song Mingzhe’s complete autobiography because the Star Gate’s design made cooperation between all three storylines seem impossible.
• Ren Ye recalled that Song Yi’s phantom always carried two Classics, then explained that he matched six sets of numbers on the autobiography fragments to passages in the books and assembled six characters into a sentence.

Song Yi’s autobiography revealed how his brother betrayed him, how he survived by entering the black dog’s body, and why the Two Classics contained the words “I am a black dog.” Ren Ye exposed his plan, claimed first place in the Gold Coins Rankings, and faced down Pan Lianrong’s Enforcers before Tan Pang withdrew; a black dog then approached him and introduced itself as Scabbard.

• Song Yi recounted returning to Fulai County Town, teaching Song An a Soul Extraction method, and being poisoned and killed by his brother before his yin soul entered the black dog.
• Ren Ye told Tan Pang that he had awakened Song Yi through the Nether Mountain Ghost Child and had written Song Mingzhe’s Autobiography as a decoy while keeping his true Gold Coin count hidden.
• Ren Ye removed the Low-Profile Card’s effect and exchanged the seventeen Autobiography Fragments for Song Mingzhe’s Autobiography, reaching 2,110 Gold Coins and first place in the rankings.
• Pan Lianrong ordered the Enforcers to attack, but Ren Ye summoned his powerful artifacts and allies and forced her to her knees with the Reincarnation Finger.
• Tan Pang admitted defeat and left for the Land of Fallen Gods, while a black dog leaped toward Ren Ye and introduced itself as Scabbard, his Guide in the Migration Land.

Ren Ye returned to Base City after winning the Migration Land Star Gate, where he received massive rewards and learned that Song Yi had become his team’s God Grade Guide. He exchanged team Glory Points for Dao Comprehension Sources, prompting his teammates to notice the deductions and rush back to the Fortune Tea House.

• Ren Ye said goodbye to Xiao Shuai and Yin Tiger, then left the Star Gate through the Li Gate as the battle’s aftermath cleared over Fulai County Town.
• Back at the Fortune Tea House, Ren Ye received Star Source, experience, divine-grade Dao Comprehension Sources, a jade pendant, and the news that Song Yi would join his team as a Guide.
• Ren Ye checked the Qingliang Prefecture Park Team’s Glory Points and exchanged 2,000 points for an ordinary-grade Dao Comprehension Source.
• Black Robe and the handsome young man heard the team’s points deductions and hurried back to the Fortune Tea House to check on Ren Ye.
• Little Black Fatty heard that 4,000 points had been deducted, rushed away from her pastries, then returned and packed them up before heading off.

Ren Ye used three God Grade Dao Comprehension Sources to awaken Song Yi, a black dog Guide whose prosperous fortune could increase his squad’s Star Source rewards. After returning to the Fortune Tea House, Ren Ye reunited with Ai Fei, Tang Feng, and Apu, then revealed the sleeping dog as their Guide.

• Ren Ye summoned Song Yi from the Craftsman's House Jade Pendant and negotiated before feeding him Dao Comprehension Sources.
• Song Yi consumed all three sources, awakened as a First Grade Guide, and gained the ability to grant favored squad members ten percent more Star Source from Migration Land missions.
• Ren Ye celebrated Song Yi’s ability and considered how the extra rewards could support the Park District squad.
• Ai Fei arrived, saw Ren Ye’s injuries, and let him lean on her while he rested.
• Tang Feng and Apu came to check on Ren Ye, who said he had won the mission and brought back their Guide.
• Tang Feng saw Song Yi sleeping in the corner and was shocked that Ren Ye had returned with a dog.

Ren Ye returned from the Secret Realm with Brother Dog, whose fortune granted the team a ten percent bonus to Migration Land mission rewards, then rested and recovered at the Fortune Tea House. After dinner, Ren Ye decided to lead the team to Gutan City to fulfill Brother Hong’s wish.

• Ren Ye told Tang Feng, Apu, Dragon Head, and Ai Fei about his eight days in the Secret Realm and introduced Brother Dog, whose soul was Song Yi’s.
• Ren Ye revealed that Brother Dog’s Heavenly Dao blessing gave the team ten percent more Star Source rewards for Migration Land missions, and his teammates eagerly welcomed him.
• Ren Ye rested in Ai Fei’s room while Xu Qingzhao arranged clothes, food, and a medicinal bath to help him recover.
• Ren Ye and Ai Fei shared a quiet afternoon, and Ren Ye told her that having her there made him feel at home.
• Ren Ye announced that the team would leave after dinner for Gutan City to fulfill Brother Hong’s wish.

Ren Ye's team traveled to Gutan City to seek Ming Quan and Brother Hong's companions, while Brother Song Yi joined them as their guide. They learned that the group had scattered and a young man had recently left the inn, and Ren Ye stayed to wait for them before spotting a familiar acquaintance.

• Dragon Head and Ren Ye decided to leave the Fortune Tea House and travel to Gutan City without waiting for Brother Liu and the others.
• Apu brought the awakened Brother Song Yi to dinner, where the black dog ate from golden bowls and introduced himself to the other diners.
• Ren Ye's team used a Star Gate to reach Gutan City, and Brother Song Yi sensed that the Gutan Sect's Secret Realm had opened.
• At the Welcome Guests inn, the proprietor told Ren Ye that Ming Quan's group had split up and that their last remaining young man had left two days earlier.
• Ren Ye decided that the team would wait at the inn for Ming Quan's companions and for Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai, then heard a familiar voice and turned to see an acquaintance enter.

Ren Ye and Tang Feng reunited with Gu Nian in Gutan City, where she told them about Xu Qingyan’s unusual lessons at Qinghe Academy and the magical brush that barred higher-rank visitors. Intrigued, Ren Ye decided to visit the academy, while outside the city someone learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect had monopolized entry passes to the Gutan Sect’s Secret Realm.

• Ren Ye and Tang Feng greeted Gu Nian at an inn and caught up over tea.
• Gu Nian explained that her team had attended lessons at Qinghe Academy, where Xu Qingyan taught Supernatural Ability Users and offered personal guidance.
• Gu Nian described the Dragon Gate and its powerful brush, which had prevented nearly all Third Grade and higher visitors from reaching Xu Qingyan.
• Ren Ye said he wanted to visit Qinghe Academy after hearing about Xu Qingyan and the Dragon Gate.
• Outside Gutan City, a young man asked about entry passes to the Gutan Sect’s Secret Realm and was told the Myriad Phenomena Sect had monopolized them.

Ren Ye visited Qinghe Academy and watched Supernatural Ability Users fail the Dragon Gate test. Tang Feng entered the passage and endured its haoran qi without using his Mystical Ability, then stripped away his desires and fears as the test continued.

• Ren Ye stayed in Gutan City because Brother Hong's teammates had not returned, then went to Qinghe Academy with Ai Fei and Tang Feng.
• Ren Ye and his companions found a crowd betting on challengers at the academy's Dragon Gate, where a brush's haoran qi repeatedly blasted people from the passage.
• Tang Feng entered the Dragon Gate passage without channeling Star Source Power, and the brush's phantom struck his forehead.
• Tang Feng endured the haoran qi with his body as blood spilled from his mouth, while Ren Ye watched without intervening.
• Tang Feng confronted his terror by declaring that he feared no illusion and snapped his fingers seven times, stripping away his pride, jealousy, wrath, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.

Ren Ye entered Qinghe Academy’s Dragon Gate trial after Tang Feng and Ai Fei gained enlightenment beneath its brush. He passed the trial by lifting the brush with his Human Emperor Destiny, then met Mr. Xu in the Inner Courtyard, where Mr. Xu confronted him for touching it.

• Tang Feng and Ai Fei entered meditation beneath the Dragon Gate brush, and Ren Ye followed them into the corridor.
• Ren Ye gathered haoran qi and entered meditation in a single breath, surprising the onlookers.
• In the Mountain and River Pavilion, Ren Ye found he could not lift the brush until he manifested the Human Emperor and used Purple Fortune to raise it.
• Ren Ye hesitated to write with the brush, heard a faint voice, and returned to the corridor before passing through the Dragon Gate into the Inner Courtyard.
• Ren Ye met Mr. Xu, who asked why he had touched the brush, and Ren Ye protested that Mr. Xu had started by showing off.

Ren Ye visited Xu Qingyan seeking guidance, but Xu Qingyan demanded three hundred thousand Star Source for a lesson, which Ren Ye paid before rushing back to the Inn. Xu Qingyan and his wife privately discussed Ren Ye’s destiny and whether he was the person Xu Qingyan had been waiting for.

• Ren Ye questioned Xu Qingyan about the Mountains and Rivers Brush and asked him for instruction.
• Xu Qingyan demanded three hundred thousand Star Source for a lesson, and Ren Ye paid, agreeing to return in three days.
• After Ren Ye left, Xu Qingyan’s wife said she had sensed that Ren Ye was blessed with destiny, and they discussed whether to charge him more later.
• Xu Qingyan’s wife asked whether Ren Ye was the person Xu Qingyan had been waiting for, and Xu Qingyan smiled without answering.
• Ren Ye learned from Dragon Head that Brother Hong’s teammate had returned to the Inn and hurried back with Tang Feng and Ai Fei, while Old Wu protested that Ren Ye had promised them spicy hot pot.

Ren Ye learned that Ming Quan and his teammates were trapped in the Gutan Sect Secret Realm, whose strange rules allowed the Myriad Phenomena Sect to monopolize entry passes. After Brother Dog recommended entering for its rewards, Ren Ye decided the team would seek the sect and negotiate for Route Passes.

• Ren Ye told Ning Bo that Brother Hong had died and promised to deliver Hong’s Gold Digger treasure chest to Ming Quan.
• Ning Bo explained that Ming Quan and five others had entered the Gutan Sect Secret Realm, where casualties were heavy and the Myriad Phenomena Sect controlled the newly appearing Route Passes.
• Ning Bo reported rumors that Myriad Phenomena Sect members could leave the Secret Realm, while ordinary entrants could not.
• Ren Ye told his team he wanted to enter the Secret Realm to find Ming Quan and help his teammates, and the others agreed to go.
• Brother Dog sensed generous Dao Comprehension Source rewards and a special Key inside the Secret Realm, then urged the group to enter.
• Ren Ye decided the team would first seek out the Myriad Phenomena Sect and negotiate for Route Passes.

Ren Ye and his companions went to the Myriad Phenomena Sect seeking Route Passes to find their missing friends in the Gutan Sect’s secret realm. Director Liu agreed to sell them six passes, but Ren Ye discovered him changing out of his formal robes in the privy, and powerful figures rushed toward them as the chapter ended.

• Ren Ye’s group reached the Myriad Phenomena Sect and asked the guest reception disciple for Route Passes, but he mocked them and raised his price from one million to two million Star Source per pass.
• Dragon Head threatened the guest reception disciple and repelled a Daoist boy’s attack with a golden thread, prompting Director Liu to summon the group into the Main Hall.
• Director Liu warned Ren Ye that the sect was determined to claim an object inside the secret realm, then offered passes for two hundred thousand Star Source each after Ning Bo said he sought his missing friend Ming Quan.
• Ning Bo paid 1.2 million Star Source for six Route Passes, and Director Liu left to fetch them while Ren Ye followed him toward the privy.
• Ren Ye found Director Liu naked and changing into an ordinary Craneless Daoist Robe, while a priest elsewhere recognized another man claiming to be Director Liu and called for his sword.
• Director Liu tried to usher Ren Ye out of the privy, but Ren Ye confronted him as powerful auras and pounding footsteps approached.

Ren Ye and his companions exposed a fake Myriad Phenomena Sect director and fought their way out before pursuing him through Gutan City. They identified the disguised swindler as a beggar in an alley, where Tang Feng began interrogating him with a bizarre question.

• Ren Ye discovered the fake director changing clothes in a latrine, and the man admitted he had swindled Ren Ye while urging him to escape with the stolen Route Passes.
• Sanhe Taoist Priest and Myriad Phenomena Sect disciples attacked the fake director and Ren Ye, while the fake director broke through the sect's Grand Formation and fled.
• Dragon Head, Apu, and Tang Feng helped Ren Ye fend off the sect's attackers, and the group escaped using Ground-Shrinking Talismans.
• Ren Ye and his companions tracked the fake director to a filthy alley, where a beggar pointed them in the wrong direction.
• Ghost Child recognized the beggar's yin-object aura as belonging to the fake director, and Ren Ye signaled the others to stop him.
• Tang Feng confronted the disguised swindler and slapped him, demanding to know how many hairs the man in white trousers had.

Ren Ye and his companions forced Daoist Chu to surrender six Route Passes and thirty talismans, then learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect was hunting them. Ren Ye planned to enter the Gutan Sect Secret Realm the next day and went out alone to outwit the sect, while Lord Man identified an unknown variable in Gutan City.

• Tang Feng and the others cornered Daoist Chu, who dropped his disguise and threatened to fight them.
• Ren Ye pressured Daoist Chu into handing over six Route Passes and thirty Ghost Formation Talismans, and gave him a brochure to disguise the trade as a purchase.
• Daoist Chu left Gutan City, while Ren Ye's group learned that the Myriad Phenomena Sect was hunting them and planned to enter the secret realm the following day.
• Ren Ye left the inn alone that night to deal with the Myriad Phenomena Sect, while Apu made concealed weapons and Ai Fei examined the Nether Mountain Ghost Child.
• Lord Man heard that events in Gutan City were going smoothly but warned that one variable remained, then learned that Xiao Yu would return that night.

Ren Ye and his companions entered the Gutan Sect Star Gate to rescue the captured sect members, only to discover a faction-war mission and encounter hostile Taoists. Meanwhile, a Gutan Sect priest reported their arrival to a handsome senior brother.

• Ren Ye told Ning Bo to stay behind to deliver news if the rescue party failed and to meet two of Ren Ye’s arriving friends.
• Ren Ye, Dragon Head, Ai Fei, Tang Feng, Apu, and Brother Dog reached the Mist Barrier, used disguises, and entered the Gutan Sect Star Gate with their Route Passes.
• The Star Gate assigned them to the Order Faction’s rescue mission and explained its squad rankings, commander and communicator roles, and victory conditions.
• Ren Ye suspected the Star Gate favored powerful organizations by letting communicators carry Route Passes out to recruit reinforcements.
• A group of more than thirty Third Grade Supernatural Ability Users in dark blue robes surrounded Ren Ye’s party, accusing them of stealing Route Passes.
• A Gutan Sect priest reported the five newcomers to a handsome senior brother, who went to investigate.