Recaps

Ren Ye met the Xu Family’s aging patriarch as the Zhou and Xu Families prepared to reclaim territory in the Migration Land, then celebrated Xiao Shuai’s wedding. As Xu Qingzhao prepared to leave and pursue her own opportunity, Ren Ye gave her powerful guardians and treasures and asked her to return so he could marry her.

• Xu Yuan told Ren Ye that the Zhou and Xu Families had secured authority over Ninggu City in Cold Moon Frozen Earth, and planned to return to the Migration Land with the New Year's Watchers.
• Ren Ye visited Xu Weizhi, received Colorful Beans from him, and learned of the old patriarch’s determination to return to his homeland before his Dao Touching light collapsed.
• Xiao Shuai married Zhou Muyun in a lavish celebration, while Ren Ye and his friends joined the wedding feast and bridal-chamber games.
• Xu Qingzhao told Ren Ye she was leaving to pursue an opportunity, and he sent Divine Baby, Night Walkers, Water of Life, the Boundary-Space Stone, and the Nine-Curve Azure Cloud Bamboo with her.
• Ren Ye asked Xu Qingzhao to return and marry him, and she accepted his proposal with a joke about her allowance before they leaned in to kiss.

After seeing Ai Fei off, Ren Ye received a Heaven's Grace Token and learned that the coming struggle over Heavenly City would pit Order against powerful Chaos factions, possibly leaving him to face a solo assignment. He organized three squads to set out, then arrived at Qinghe Academy and found Mr. Xu gone, with only a farewell letter left behind.

• Xu Qingzhao and Ren Ye shared a passionate kiss, and the next day their friends saw Ai Fei off as she entered the Secret Realm disguised as Little Black Fatty.
• After refining the Authority Key and returning to Vermilion Bird City, Ren Ye received a Heaven's Grace Token from Second Master and learned about the high-stakes contest for Heavenly City and the threat posed by the Wall-Facing People.
• Lin Xiang warned Ren Ye to prepare for a potentially solo assignment, while Zhao Baicheng revealed that he had seized the token in the Fallen God Tower and been injured by jealous rivals.
• In Longtian City, Ren Ye organized three squads for the Heavenly Capital journey, with Dragon Head leading Squad One and Xiao Shuai and Li Yan forming separate teams.
• Ren Ye led Squad One to Gu Tan City and found Qinghe Academy deserted, where he discovered a farewell letter from Old Xu.

Ren Ye entered a secret location in Heavenly City and was thrown into Illusion Village, where he had lost his identity, his eyes, and nearly all of his abilities. He began investigating his new life as a blind jailer, then realized the Heavenly Dao had not revealed whether other outsiders were in the Secret Realm.

• Ren Ye learned from Mr. Xu and White Chicken's letters that both had departed, then visited the Myriad Phenomena Sect and secured its promise to support the New Year's Watchers in the Heavenly Capital.
• Ren Ye parted from the Park District Squad and used his Heaven's Grace Token to travel separately to Heavenly City.
• Ren Ye met an Old Fisherman in a foggy forest, who hooked him with his fishing line and plunged him into a puddle that transported him elsewhere.
• The Heavenly Dao identified Ren Ye as a blind third-rank jailer in Illusion Village, stripped him of his Human Emperor Inheritance, and assigned him tasks to discover his faction, origins, eyes, and identity.
• Ren Ye used divine sense to inspect his cramped room, then answered a woman's call and found her preparing breakfast in the living room.
• Ren Ye wondered why the Heavenly Dao had not disclosed how many outsiders were in the Secret Realm or whether they were allies or rivals.

Ren Ye adjusted to life in Delusion Village, learning that his missing eyes and fatal seven-day illness made him a burden to Aunt Tian Wei. On his way to work, Little Fatty Li offered to help him sabotage the Yin Family Pharmacy, triggering a new assignment and leaving Ren Ye to decide whether to join the scheme.

• Ren Ye met Aunt Tian Wei and learned from her memories that she had raised him alone while working nights at the Yin Family Pharmacy.
• The Heavenly Dao revealed that Ren Ye would die unless he took medicine every seven days, and that finding his missing eyes would break the rule.
• Ren Ye dressed for his jailer job and reviewed a shopping list filled with medicine and expensive delicacies.
• Ren Ye traveled through Delusion Village and learned about its Four Great Families, Dao Comprehension Academies, and the difficult route out of the village.
• Little Fatty Li stopped Ren Ye and proposed tampering with the Yin Family Pharmacy's furnaces in exchange for covering his medicine costs and giving him money.
• The Heavenly Dao assigned Ren Ye to conspire with Little Fatty Li against the Yin Family, allowing him to accept or refuse.

Ren Ye navigated Li Xiaopang’s plot against the Yin Family while trying to learn his own identity in Delusion Village’s Heavenly Prison. After the Heavenly Dao penalized his attempt to obtain information, he endured Yin Ping’s bullying and prepared to sneak into the prison archive; elsewhere, the Little Marquis woke in a modern Secret Realm and mistook a bald man for Great Might Heavenly Dragon.

• Ren Ye stalled Li Xiaopang’s request to poison the Yin Family’s Alchemical Furnace, accepted the Passion Flower Pollen, and received a Behavioral Compatibility Value of 80.
• Ren Ye tricked Li Xiaopang into writing a recommendation letter, but the Heavenly Dao blurred its identifying details and deducted five points, leaving his value at 75.
• At the Death Prison, Ren Ye discovered that everyone around him radiated black energy, then obeyed Prison Supervisor Yin Ping’s humiliating demands and gained one compatibility point.
• Ren Ye planned to search the archive for his personnel file, activated the Three Thousand Secret Treasures, and acquired the defensive Divine Method Bronze Head and Iron Bones.
• The Little Marquis woke in an unfamiliar modern Secret Realm, saw a bald man in a black suit, and called him Great Might Heavenly Dragon.

Ren Ye found a file revealing that the Four Great Families had arranged his position in the Heavenly Prison because of his surname and that he secretly met Zhao Mi each night. After triggering a formation core in the archives, he fought the Three-Headed Netherworld Beast, which bound him and slashed his neck.

• Ren Ye changed into a condemned prisoner's clothes and infiltrated the archives during the midday break.
• Ren Ye found his unnamed file, which said the Four Great Families had secured his prison position and assigned him to meet Zhao Mi alone each evening.
• Ren Ye received a Heavenly Dao Gifted Enlightenment Talisman and decided to investigate Zhao Mi and his lost eyes.
• A ghostly presence trapped Ren Ye in an illusion, and he activated Bronze Head and Iron Bones before confronting the Three-Headed Netherworld Beast.
• Yin Ping took Number 79's file toward the archives, unaware that an oil lamp in his quarters had signaled a formation disturbance.
• The Three-Headed Netherworld Beast bound Ren Ye with its tongue and cut open his neck with a blade.

Ren Ye escaped the Three-Prefecture Underworld Beast by using Passion Flower Pollen, which later caused Yin Ping to kill it after it attacked him. After finishing his prison shift, Ren Ye prepared to visit Zhao Mi, while the Little Marquis learned his Heavenly City mission and discovered another captive had been caught immediately after arriving.

• Ren Ye endured the Underworld Beast's assault, bit its tongue to escape its binding, and blew Passion Flower Pollen into its three faces.
• Ren Ye fled the archive room as the pollen affected the beast, and Yin Ping was attacked by it before killing it in a rage.
• Ren Ye recovered, explained his absence to Yin Ping, and received a medicinal bottle intended as a reward for his aunt.
• Yin Ping gave Ren Ye an excellent performance rating and explained that he judged the blind jailer objectively despite his insults.
• Ren Ye finished his shift and set out to visit Zhao Mi of the Zhao Family.
• The Little Marquis reviewed his Fulong Pavilion mission and learned that an ordinary-looking captive had spent a year and a half preparing for Heavenly City only to be captured at the outset.

The Little Marquis broke out of a makeshift dungeon with Fei Liangliang, Dong Wu, and Han Mang, then joined the fight to defend North Wind Town. When an overwhelming host of Great Might Heavenly Dragons appeared, he was beaten and forced to give a code name, while Ren Ye arrived at the Zhao Residence after work.

• The Little Marquis broke his restraints and killed the bald guards with the Nine Skies God-Slaying Spear, prompting Fei Liangliang, Dong Wu, and Han Mang to escape alongside him.
• The four emerged from the supermarket and found Order forces battling Great Might Heavenly Dragons throughout North Wind Town.
• As the Little Marquis led the group toward the fight, countless Secret Realm gates opened and Great Might Heavenly Dragons filled the sky.
• A black-robed Great Might Heavenly Dragon ordered the Little Marquis captured, and over a hundred bald men beat him until he confessed that his code name was Punching Bag.
• After checking out from work, Ren Ye waited at the back entrance of the Zhao Residence to be summoned.

Ren Ye visited Zhao Mi at the Zhao Residence, where Zhao Mi had him contemplate a painting that exhausted him and left him unconscious. After secretly examining Ren Ye’s dantian, Zhao Mi let him ask one question, and Ren Ye asked what he had asked the previous day.

• Zhao Haochen led Ren Ye into the Zhao Residence and told him that Yin Ping had given him an excellent performance rating.
• Zhao Mi instructed Ren Ye to study a painting, and Ren Ye became immersed in its depiction of two Unknown Grade Realm Cultivators before falling asleep.
• Zhao Mi opened Ren Ye’s abdomen, examined his unusual Star Core, and sent his divine soul into it while Ren Ye slept.
• Ren Ye woke an hour later with pain and weakness, and Zhao Mi offered to answer one question.
• Ren Ye asked Zhao Mi what question he had asked the day before, surprising him.

Ren Ye tried to understand why Zhao Mi was helping him and concluded that Zhao Mi was probing an abnormality in his dantian and the Three Thousand Secret Treasures. He decided to seek answers from death-row prisoner No. 79 the next day, while Brother Wolf and Qingning entered Heavenly City with a group from the Wealth Protector Pavilion.

• Zhao Mi warned Ren Ye not to keep asking about his lost eyes, and Zhao Haochen gave him Spirit-Nourishing Pills and invited him to study together.
• Shopkeeper You delivered the Yin Family’s regular payment to the Zhao Residence and declined a proposed joint pharmacy until the Yin Family could obtain another fragment of the Heaven-Mending Formula.
• Ren Ye inspected his bloodstained uniform and, after reviewing the day’s clues, guessed that Zhao Mi had been cutting into his abdomen to investigate his dantian and Star Core.
• Ren Ye theorized that the Three Thousand Secret Treasures might be hidden in his Star Core and resolved to visit death-row prisoner No. 79 for information the next day.
• Ren Ye discovered that his boiling pot had extinguished the stove flame and was leaking gas, while Brother Wolf and Qingning entered Heavenly City with six Wealth Protector Pavilion figures.

Ren Ye tried to learn about Delusion Village’s secrets by contacting No. 79 Death Row Inmate, while Li Xiaopang canceled his plan to sabotage the Yin Family. No. 79 finally agreed to talk in exchange for a lavish last meal, leaving Ren Ye with a chance to hear his story.

• Ren Ye learned that the Yin Family had beaten an alchemist to death as a warning amid its rivalry with the Li Family, and realized how dangerous Li Xiaopang’s scheme had been.
• Li Xiaopang told Ren Ye that his family had blamed and beaten him over the missing Passion Flower Pollen, then canceled their plan against the Yin Family.
• Ren Ye resolved to contact No. 79 secretly and waited until the prison passage was nearly empty before approaching the inmate’s cell.
• No. 79 ignored Ren Ye until he offered extra food, then requested twelve dishes and two pots of wine for his last meal.
• No. 79 declined Ren Ye’s offer to find him a woman and promised to tell him what he wanted to know if Ren Ye prepared a decent final meal.

Ren Ye secretly fed No. 79, the Storyteller, and learned that he might know the truth about Ren Ye’s origins and the Delusion Divine Tomb. The Storyteller offered to lead Ren Ye to a surviving, now-mad tomb guardian in exchange for help escaping before Death Sacrifice Day, leaving Ren Ye torn over the dangerous bargain and asking Zhao Mi for expensive food.

• Ren Ye smuggled food and wine to No. 79 during his midday break and questioned him about a child who had awakened in the Delusion Divine Tomb nine years earlier.
• The Storyteller described how the blind child’s lost eyes disappointed Delusion Village’s hopes, then revealed that a survivor from the tomb’s guardians still lived in the village but had gone mad.
• The Storyteller offered to take Ren Ye to the surviving guardian if Ren Ye helped him escape before Death Sacrifice Day, and explained that Spirit-Passing Powder from the Yin Family or Li Family could counter one of his restraints.
• Ren Ye spent the afternoon weighing the risks of a prison break against his need for the Storyteller’s clues, while reminding himself that the prison was heavily guarded.
• Ren Ye visited Zhao Mi again at dusk and asked him for a list of costly specialty dishes, recalling that buying food for the Storyteller had helped him understand why he had lost behavioral compatibility value.

Ren Ye treated Tian Wei to a lavish dinner, then persuaded her to help steal Spirit-Passing Powder so he could pursue a lead about his missing eyes. After Tian Wei planned the theft, Ren Ye found the Li and Yin families facing off across Delusion Long Street.

• Ren Ye obtained fine dishes from Zhao Mi and brought them home for a long-overdue dinner with Tian Wei.
• Ren Ye told Tian Wei he needed Spirit-Passing Powder and asked her to help him learn the Yin Family Pharmacy’s layout.
• Tian Wei agreed to steal the powder herself and proposed copying its recipe so she could replace what she took.
• Ren Ye warned Tian Wei that the theft would be more difficult than she expected, then waited anxiously through the night for her return.
• Ren Ye went to Delusion Long Street and saw the Li and Yin families gathered in a standoff as Li Xiaopang declared that their struggle would end that day.

Ren Ye was dragged into the confrontation between the Li and Yin Families, where Li Taishan threatened to destroy the Yin clan and revealed a tiny mirror that summoned a strange, familiar aura. As dark clouds gathered over Delusion Village, Ren Ye sensed that the source of the aura was somehow both distant and close.

• Ren Ye learned that the Li and Yin Families had gathered after the Li Family smashed the Yin Family Pharmacy’s signboard, but Li Xiaopang forced him to come along with the Li Family.
• Yin Hong prepared to fight the Li Family, while Li Taishan entered the Yin Family Pharmacy with only six young people and demanded tea before declaring he had come to exterminate the clan.
• Yin Ping sought help from Zhao Haochen, who refused to mediate on the Yin Family’s terms and warned that the Zhao Family would demand its agreed share if the Yin Family survived.
• Yin Hong rejected Li Taishan’s challenge to a Heaven-Ascending Deathmatch and rallied the Yin clansmen, who released their powerful auras.
• Li Taishan raised a tiny mirror and revealed that the Li Family’s reserves had not been exhausted, summoning dark clouds and a vast aura that made Ren Ye sense something familiar.

Li Taishan and Yin Hong agreed to settle their families’ conflict with a death duel through pill refining, while the Li Family revealed its power by opening the Delusion Divine Tomb. As the contest began, Yin Hong revealed that he had secretly obtained the Southern Bright Separation Fire.

• Li Taishan opened the Delusion Divine Tomb, causing a jade mirror to reveal a crimson bronze coffin, while Old Qian decided not to intervene in the Li-Yin conflict.
• Ren Ye learned from Li Xiaopang that an ancestor in the Years-Old Hanging Coffin might awaken briefly, and he resolved to investigate the divine tomb after sensing a familiar aura.
• Yin Hong accepted Li Taishan’s proposal for a pill-refining death duel and wagered his life, while Li Taishan demanded the women who had shared Yin Hong’s bed if Yin lost.
• The Sun Family head presided over the duel, and Yin Hong revealed that his apparent failures at pill refining had been a performance.
• Yin Hong summoned the Southern Bright Separation Fire, shocking Ren Ye, who wanted to obtain it for refining aphrodisiac powder.

Yin Hong and Li Taishan fought a pill duel to decide their families’ fates, with Yin Hong producing a peerless Primordial Vajra Pill using Southern Bright Separation Fire. Li Taishan won with a Supreme Treasure-grade pill by compressing his flame through Void Power, claimed the Heaven-Mending Formula, and left Ren Ye wondering why Heavenly Dao had shown him the rare techniques and treasures.

• Yin Hong summoned Southern Bright Separation Fire and refined a peerless one-of-a-kind Primordial Vajra Pill, prompting the Sun Family patriarch to praise its quality.
• Li Taishan began refining the same pill with Myriad Spirits Bone Fire, which Li Xiaopang explained was produced by the Li Family’s formation from captured beings.
• Li Taishan used Void Power to compress the fire beneath his furnace, then risked aggravating his hidden ailment to sense the pill’s final changes and withdraw the flame at the right moment.
• The Sun Family patriarch inspected Li Taishan’s Supreme Treasure-grade pill and declared him the winner, while Li Taishan spat blood from his relapse.
• Yin Hong surrendered the Heaven-Mending Formula, and Li Taishan demanded that Yin Hong’s wives and maidservants come to the Li Family’s gates before leaving.
• Heavenly Dao told Ren Ye he could remember the fire, pills, and Divine Canon Mending Heaven Formula but would receive none of them, while Li Xiaopang collapsed in relief at the Li Family’s victory.

After the Yin Family lost the pill duel, Ren Ye understood that Delusion Village’s brutal rules rested on fairness and gave its people hope. The Yin Family’s women refused to become the Li Family’s spoils and killed themselves, while Yin Hong sent his family away and then ended his own life.

• Ren Ye reflected on the Li and Yin families’ conflict and concluded that Delusion Village’s harsh competition was accepted because education, public positions, and chances to advance were broadly fair.
• At a council meeting, Yin Hong explained that Li Taishan had demanded his wives to strip the Yin Family of its dignity and drive it out of Delusion Village; he urged the family to relocate, settle its debts, and choose a new clan head.
• Ye Hongmian asked Yin Hong whether he could win the women back; when he said no, she led the Yin Family women to the Li Family’s front hall and declared they would not become wagers or playthings.
• Ye Hongmian killed herself before the Li Family’s entrance, and the other Yin Family women followed by taking their own lives; Li Taishan told his descendants that the Yin Family had forced them into this position through its unity and backbone.
• Yin Hong sent his son Yin Ping away, urging him to raise his children and return one day; after Yin Ping left, Yin Hong shattered his Star Core and dissolved into the Dao.

Ren Ye negotiated with the Storyteller over helping him escape before Death Sacrifice Day, securing the Storyteller’s Life-Bound Treasure as a token of sincerity. Meanwhile, Li Taishan appointed Li Fusheng to fill the vacancy in the Heavenly Prison, and Li Xiaopang insisted on becoming a jailer too.

• Ren Ye used his time at the Heavenly Prison to investigate the prison district and prepare for No. 79’s escape before Death Sacrifice Day.
• Ren Ye tested the Storyteller’s commitment by threatening to abandon him, then demanded security before agreeing to help him escape.
• The Storyteller offered Ren Ye eight million star source, a Fifth Grade Peerless Treasure, and an oath before finally handing over his Life-Bound Treasure, the Storyteller’s Opening Block.
• Li Taishan assigned Li Fusheng to become the new Prison Supervisor, while Li Xiaopang unsuccessfully pleaded to serve in the Heavenly Prison as well.
• The Heavenly Dao identified the Storyteller as a powerful special death-row inmate and activated Ren Ye’s Dangerous Relationship assignment.

Ren Ye secured the Storyteller’s Life-Bound Treasure and prepared to rescue him on Death Sacrifice Day, while the Yin Family’s collapse brought an unexpected clue about Ren Ye’s identity. At the prison, Li Fusheng took over as Prison Supervisor and revealed that Li Xiaopang would begin as a temporary guard.

• Ren Ye learned the Storyteller had hidden his striking block by swallowing it, took the treasure, and ordered him to follow instructions during the planned escape.
• Ren Ye scouted the prison, visited Zhao Haochen, and received two medicinal powders from his aunt after the Yin Family prepared to leave Delusion Village.
• Ren Ye thanked Yin Ping at the prison gate, and Yin Ping revealed his father had chosen to die with the women of the clan before calling Ren Ye “Brother Huang,” giving him the surname Huang.
• Ren Ye returned to the prison intending to carry out the rescue plan and learned that Li Fusheng had replaced Yin Ping as Prison Supervisor.
• Li Fusheng explained that Li Xiaopang would take a public recruitment assessment and serve as a temporary guard in the meantime, while Li Xiaopang privately teased Ren Ye about his new position.

Ren Ye prepared to guide Number 79’s escape from prison while keeping himself safely away from the breakout, and Li Xiaopang learned how the prison’s formation and Death Sacrifice preparations worked. The chapter ended with the Storyteller ready to break out and Li Xiaopang preparing to steal something from Heavenly Prison that night.

• Ren Ye made preparations to rescue Number 79 and arranged to spend the evening at the Zhao Family residence as an alibi.
• Li Fusheng toured Heavenly Prison with the veteran jailer, who explained the Locking Spirit Grand Formation and the Death Sacrifice’s Guiding Talismans; Li Xiaopang secretly watched the handover.
• Ren Ye saw the Yin Family leave Delusion Village in a large procession, then went to the Zhao Family residence with Young Master Zhao.
• The Storyteller found Ren Ye’s hidden packet in his dinner plate and read instructions for the escape, while grumbling that Ren Ye had taken eight million Star Source from him.
• After Li Fusheng left the Prison Supervisor’s room, Li Xiaopang shut the door and prepared to steal something from Heavenly Prison as the Storyteller also readied his breakout.

The Storyteller used Ren Ye’s detailed escape plan as a starting point, then recovered his spiritual power and used an inherited storytelling art to slip through the Death Prison and reach its formation core chamber. There, he found Li Xiaopang hiding behind the three-headed Nether Beast statue, leaving both men on the verge of a dangerous encounter.

• The Storyteller read Ren Ye’s escape plan, swallowed the Spirit-Passing Powder, and suppressed the aura of his recovering spiritual power.
• The Storyteller narrated a tale that drew the Death Prison’s jailers into its story, transformed himself into the Night Wandering God, and escaped his cell without opening its doors.
• The Storyteller forced out the twelve Source-Sealing Nails, slipped through his restraints, unlocked Qian Mei’s office, and took the Dragon Pillar.
• The Storyteller entered the formation core chamber through the inspection passage and approached the three-headed Nether Beast statue while continuing his tale.
• Li Xiaopang, trapped inside the chamber after stealing a Guiding Talisman, hid behind the statue and watched the Storyteller approach with the Dragon Pillar.

The Storyteller’s attempt to destroy the Heavenly Prison’s Grand Formation was disrupted when he encountered Li Xiaopang, whose escape attempt exposed them both and triggered a prison-wide alarm. After collapsing the formation, the Storyteller abducted Li Xiaopang and fought his way into the sky, leaving Delusion Village’s jailers and families scrambling to stop him.

• Li Xiaopang mistook the Storyteller for a jailer and tried to bribe him, disrupting the Storyteller’s story and waking the Heavenly Prison’s guards.
• The Storyteller captured Li Xiaopang with a Nether Soul Cage, while Li used the Space-Escaping Ancient Mirror to send the Dragon Pillar to dear Grandson’s Prison Supervisor’s office.
• The Storyteller’s Night Wandering God blade shattered the Spirit-Communicating Great Mage’s statue, collapsing the Grand Formation and its oppressive pressure.
• The Storyteller teleported away with Li Xiaopang and killed a charging jailer with a single slash before Qian Mei led more than thirty jailers against him.
• The Storyteller unleashed Thousand-Shadow Strangulation against the jailers as the Qian Family mobilized and Zhao Haochen summoned Ren Ye to the Heavenly Prison.

Ren Ye and Zhao Haochen rushed to the Heavenly Prison, where they learned that the Storyteller had escaped after killing more than a dozen guards and fleeing toward the Southern Sky amid the Yin Family’s battle against intruders. Outside the village, the Storyteller persuaded Li Xiaopang to cooperate in entering the Delusion Divine Tomb, while Li Xiaopang began suspecting his own Second Uncle was the mysterious mastermind behind the escape.

• Zhao Haochen took Ren Ye to the Heavenly Prison as the Yin Family fought intruders on the Conquest Road in the Southern Sky.
• Ren Ye and Zhao Haochen found the Heavenly Prison’s Front Courtyard ruined and learned from Qian Mei that the Storyteller had escaped after destroying the Spirit-Communicating Great Mage’s statue.
• The Four Great Families’ experts arrived at the Heavenly Prison, and Ren Ye worried that the Storyteller’s actions would trigger a major reckoning.
• The Storyteller concealed his aura with Soul-Calming Pills and confronted Li Xiaopang, who had helped him escape while seeking the Guiding Talisman.
• The Storyteller claimed a powerful insider had arranged his escape, leading Li Xiaopang to suspect his Second Uncle and the Yin Family.
• The Storyteller revealed that he wanted Li Xiaopang to help him enter the Delusion Divine Tomb, and Li Xiaopang asked him to identify the mysterious mastermind.

Li Xiaopang agreed to cooperate with the Storyteller and secretly planned to use him to enter the Divine Tomb. Meanwhile, Zhao Haochen investigated No. 79’s escape and concluded that a Death Prison guard had helped him, placing Ren Ye in danger despite Ren Ye’s insistence that he had never entered the formation core chamber.

• Li Xiaopang agreed to cooperate with the Storyteller and placed a strand of his divine soul into The Human World Story Miscellany as a token of sincerity.
• The Storyteller gave Li Xiaopang a signal to watch for and sent him home, while his immersion in the Night Wandering God’s character left him struggling with its urges.
• Li Xiaopang considered creating an alibi and planned to use his knowledge of the Divine Tomb to turn against the Storyteller if necessary.
• Zhao Haochen took charge of the Heavenly Prison investigation and deduced that No. 79 had escaped without using a key, then inspected the formation core chamber with Sun Michen and Ren Ye.
• Zhao Haochen found footprints behind the Three-Headed Netherworld Beast sculpture and identified their pattern as matching Ren Ye’s shoes.
• Zhao Haochen concluded that a Death Prison guard had secretly helped No. 79, leaving Ren Ye stunned because he had never entered the chamber.

After rescuing the Storyteller, Ren Ye learned that Li Xiaopang had accidentally become involved in the escape and accepted the Storyteller’s plan to keep him at a distance while they hid for two days. The Storyteller gave Ren Ye a one-use talisman, while Zhao Haochen began narrowing the Heavenly Prison investigation to Death Prison jailers and planned to lure the mole into revealing himself.

• Zhao Haochen ordered the Formation Core Chamber and No. 79’s cell sealed, then told Ren Ye he would receive merit for helping with the incident.
• Sun Michen offered to find Ren Ye’s aunt a respectable job, prompting Ren Ye to suspect that she was avoiding the Sun Family.
• Ren Ye met the Storyteller near the ruined temple and learned that Li Xiaopang had been caught in the Formation Core Chamber and recruited into their group.
• Ren Ye judged the Storyteller’s account consistent with the clues at the prison and agreed that Li Xiaopang could join, while warning the Storyteller to conceal Ren Ye’s identity.
• The Storyteller gave Ren Ye a one-use Nine Heavens Mystic Venerable Talisman, and Ren Ye agreed to bring him food while he recovered in hiding for two days.
• At the Clan Hall, Zhao Haochen argued that a Death Prison jailer was the mole and proposed investigating meal deliveries, bathing, and head shaving without alerting the jailers.