Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye witnessed Wu Yuanjun’s betrayal of his twelve sworn brothers and took part in the bloody ambush that killed or gravely wounded them. As Rat Lord questioned Wu Yuanjun afterward, the general insisted that Niu Xi could serve the ruler but could not betray him.

• Wu Yuanjun left the banquet and ordered the attack, while General Feng shot the first of the twelve generals and Ren Ye’s group launched a surprise assault.
• The poisoned generals fought back inside a sealed hall, but Ren Ye and the ambushers overwhelmed them at great cost.
• Outside Immortality Mountain, Ghost-Headed Saber warned Xu Ersan to follow his orders as a group fled with Guan Feng and Wu Yuanjun’s relatives hidden in chests.
• Rat Lord confronted the dying Third Brother, who condemned Wu Yuanjun’s betrayal and predicted the White Python Clan would never bow again.
• Rat Lord asked Wu Yuanjun why he had moved against Niu Xi despite knowing he had joined the Imperial Court, and Wu Yuanjun said Niu Xi could serve the ruler but could not betray him.

Wu Yuanjun killed Niu Xi and accepted the Court’s takeover of Immortality Mountain, while Ghost-Headed Saber and the others led Wu Yuanjun’s family toward safety. Their party was ambushed in a gorge, and the chapter ended as a hidden attacker launched a silver needle at Hundred-Flower Immortal and a dragon’s roar sounded within her.

• Wu Yuanjun showed Rat Lord Niu Xi’s severed head and said he had killed him for betraying him.
• Rat Lord ordered Wu Yuanjun to help the emperor’s generals take over the Twelve Generals’ camps and said he would return to take Immortality Mountain.
• Wu Yuanjun drank with Ren Ye and the others as Imperial Court agents inspected the dead generals.
• Xu Ersan sent Ghost-Headed Saber, Weng Sanren, Hundred-Flower Immortal, and soldiers to scout a gorge, then hid his main force nearby.
• An ambush killed several scouts; Weng Sanren fled, while Ghost-Headed Saber and Hundred-Flower Immortal fought their way out under attack.
• A hidden attacker launched a Silver Needle Treasure at Hundred-Flower Immortal as she fought black-clad pursuers, and a dragon’s roar rang out from within her.

Ren Ye learned that Hundred-Flower Immortal had been poisoned and separated from the group during an ambush, while Weng Sanren reported the Witch Lord’s family safely evacuated. When Hundred-Flower Immortal returned and accused Weng Sanren of attacking her, Ren Ye launched a sword strike at him.

• Ghost-Headed Saber told Ren Ye that the group had been ambushed, Hundred-Flower Immortal was missing, and the Witch Lord’s family had been escorted to safety.
• Weng Sanren reported to Wu Yuanjun that General Xu had evacuated the family and presented the Special Token as proof.
• Wu Yuanjun rewarded Weng Sanren and Ghost-Headed Saber, then ordered his guards to search for Hundred-Flower Immortal.
• Ren Ye found Hundred-Flower Immortal returning wounded and learned she had been poisoned by a Poison Dart that Weng Sanren had fired at her.
• Ren Ye attacked Weng Sanren with the Human Emperor Sword, while Hundred-Flower Immortal accused him of ambushing her and demanded the antidote.

Ren Ye and Hundred-Flower Immortal tried to force Weng Sanren to surrender the antidote, but the steward stopped them and brought the Six Gentlemen to hear Wu Yuanjun’s final assignment. In a secret chamber beneath the Dungeon, Wu Yuanjun revealed thirteen men whose faces stunned the group, leaving Ren Ye to realize they were all pieces in a larger game.

• Ren Ye and Hundred-Flower Immortal pursued Weng Sanren, accusing him of poisoning her, until the steward intervened and summoned them to the Main Hall.
• The steward promised to seek a way to neutralize Hundred-Flower Immortal’s poison and escorted the Six Gentlemen to Wu Yuanjun.
• Wu Yuanjun led the Six Gentlemen through a hidden passage beneath the Dungeon, where they encountered She Tian and twelve black-robed men.
• Wu Yuanjun opened a secret chamber and told thirteen burly men that they were dead to the world and free to live under new identities.
• Ren Ye recognized the men and realized that the Six Gentlemen, the Pottery Figurines, and the False Bodies were all parts of the same game.

Wu Yuanjun revealed how he used the Pottery Figurines to fake the deaths of his thirteen sworn brothers and explained why he had chosen surrender and sacrifice over rebellion or alliance with Great Qian. After arranging their escape through the Spirit-Communicating Tunnel, he left alone to carry out his final plan.

• Ren Ye realized the Pottery Figurines had copied the officers after being activated by their blood, allowing Wu Yuanjun to stage their deaths in the Main Hall.
• Wu Yuanjun told his thirteen brothers that rebellion would doom their army, while becoming Great Qian’s vassals would violate their honor, and that sacrificing themselves could bring peace to the Southern Border.
• He asked the generals to surrender their Military Command Seals and write orders for their camps to accept the Heavenly Dragon Tribe’s takeover.
• Wu Yuanjun revealed that he and his four Personal Guards would fake their deaths with Pottery Figurines on the journey back to the Capital, while the Six Gentlemen escorted the generals’ families out through the Spirit-Communicating Tunnel.
• The thirteen generals knelt and begged to share Wu Yuanjun’s final journey, but he left alone, telling them it was time to rest.

Ren Ye tried to cure Hundred-Flower Immortal’s poison with the Water of Life and Heavenly Lord’s blood, but learned the blood could only suppress it. Meanwhile, Weng Sanren confronted Poison Wine Flask about their alliances and revealed that he knew Poison Wine Flask’s identity and past.

• Ren Ye examined the three blood-red marks on Hundred-Flower Immortal’s wrist and found no information about the poison in the Thousand Poisons Manual.
• Hundred-Flower Immortal drank the Water of Life, which healed her injuries but did little against the poison.
• Ren Ye used a wisp of Heavenly Lord’s blood on Hundred-Flower Immortal, and she found it could suppress the poison but that more blood or a corresponding remedy was needed to purge it.
• Poison Wine Flask questioned Weng Sanren about whether his Poison Dart had struck Hundred-Flower Immortal, and Weng Sanren reasoned that Poison Wine Flask and Ghost-Headed Saber were working together.
• Poison Wine Flask claimed the board was three against two against one and asked Weng Sanren to prove he came from Great Qian.
• Weng Sanren recited Poison Wine Flask’s hidden identity and history, leaving Poison Wine Flask stunned that the Court had watched him for years.

The Six Gentlemen led the generals and their families through the Spirit-Communicating Tunnel toward safety while Poison Wine Flask enlisted Weng Sanren to help retrieve something from the Twenty-Four Heavenly Kings' Mausoleum. Ren Ye opened the exit gate and prepared to scout ahead, unaware that Poison Wine Flask and Weng Sanren had separated from the group.

• The Six Gentlemen guided more than two hundred people through the tunnel, and Poison Wine Flask suspected Weng Sanren knew about his secret political schemes because the emperor was watching him.
• Poison Wine Flask persuaded Weng Sanren to leave the procession with him, arguing that they could use what he planned to do against Buddha Young Master.
• Ren Ye reached Mountain-Outer Road's gate with the group and opened it with the help of Ghost-Headed Saber, Hundred-Flower Immortal, Big Fat Dragon, and several generals.
• Ren Ye and Hundred-Flower Immortal went to scout the road ahead, while Ren Ye privately told Big Fat Dragon to watch Ghost-Headed Saber.
• Poison Wine Flask and Weng Sanren entered the Twenty-Four Heavenly Kings' Mausoleum, where Poison Wine Flask told Weng Sanren to distract unseen children while he retrieved an object from a tomb's outskirts.

Poison Wine Flask secretly harvested the eight Formless Fruits needed to cure Qingliang Prefecture’s plague poison, but someone stole them before he could collect them. Big Fat Dragon and Ghost-Headed Saber grew suspicious when Ren Ye failed to meet the escaping group and went to search for him.

• Poison Wine Flask persuaded Weng Sanren to stand beyond the Dragon Lord Mausoleum’s warning tablet and coax the spiritual essences while he slipped away.
• Hundred-Flower Immortal led Niu Xi and the fleeing families out of the mountains, but Ren Ye was missing from the road where he was supposed to be waiting.
• Big Fat Dragon and Ghost-Headed Saber stayed behind after the group departed, and Ghost-Headed Saber went to search for Ren Ye with Big Fat Dragon joining him.
• Poison Wine Flask climbed the Formless Tree and used Spirit-Sealing Rings to knock down all eight Formless Fruits.
• Poison Wine Flask found the fruits gone and saw Weng Sanren still meditating, while a conman nearby called him Peking Man.

Ren Ye and Weng Sanren exposed Poison Wine Flask’s deception and fought him beneath the Formless Tree, but he escaped before Ren Ye could recover Hundred-Flower Immortal’s antidote. Weng Sanren revealed that he had helped arrange the theft of the Formless Fruits and was actually Daoist Fenglin, Prince Huai’s old retainer, leaving Ren Ye to wonder how he entered the secret realm as an Auxiliary Game Player.

• Ren Ye confronted Poison Wine Flask beneath the Formless Tree and demanded Hundred-Flower Immortal’s antidote, while Poison Wine Flask realized his scheme had been exposed.
• Weng Sanren rushed in as if to help, but Poison Wine Flask recognized the act and attacked him while trying to awaken the Dragon Lord Witch Spirit.
• Ren Ye split one of Poison Wine Flask’s fireballs with the Human Emperor Sword, while Weng Sanren stopped and dispersed the other before it reached the tomb.
• Poison Wine Flask activated a Human-Escape Talisman and vanished after Ren Ye struck him with sword energy, escaping with the antidote still in his possession.
• Weng Sanren told Ren Ye that Hundred-Flower Immortal had agreed to help stage the ambush and that he believed he could cure her Poison Dart’s poison.
• Weng Sanren explained how he had tested Poison Wine Flask’s identity and revealed that he was Daoist Fenglin, Prince Huai’s old retainer, though his secret-realm Identity Card had named him an Auxiliary Game Player.

Ren Ye and Weng Sanren confirmed their alliance and discussed the factions and strategy in the Secret Realm. Poison Wine Flask and Ghost-Headed Saber regrouped, with Ghost-Headed Saber claiming he had a move that could still turn the contest around.

• Ren Ye learned how Weng Sanren and Hundred-Flower Immortal had used the code phrase Little Orange to identify each other and deceive Poison Wine Flask.
• Ren Ye and Weng Sanren concluded that the factions were largely clear, and Weng Sanren advised Ren Ye to stay close to Big Fat Dragon without fully trusting him.
• Ren Ye and Weng Sanren agreed that all Six Gentlemen had to survive until the final story appeared, and they headed back while discussing Poison Wine Flask and Guan Feng.
• Poison Wine Flask and Ghost-Headed Saber treated their injuries in the woods and discussed Big Fat Dragon's attempt to keep Ghost-Headed Saber under control.
• Poison Wine Flask proposed hiding until the Secret Realm ended, but Ghost-Headed Saber insisted he had a move to reverse their fortunes and said he wanted Earth Dragon Six Jia.

Ghost-Headed Saber revealed his role in saving Wu Yuanjun’s family, earning the Witch Lord’s trust and triggering a hidden final story. The Six Gentlemen were summoned to join Wu Yuanjun in a decisive battle for Immortality Mountain.

• Ren Ye and the others returned to the manor and told the Steward that Ghost-Headed Saber and Poison Wine Flask had disappeared.
• Ren Ye, Big Fat Dragon, Hundred-Flower Immortal, and Weng Sanren waited over a feast while discussing whether the final story would begin.
• Ghost-Headed Saber and Poison Wine Flask waited outside the manor, deciding to return if a notification arrived.
• Wu Yuanjun received Xu Ersan’s letter describing how Ghost-Headed Saber had helped save the Witch Lord’s family and earned the foremost credit.
• The Star Gate announced Ghost-Headed Saber’s increased Trust Value and triggered a hidden story summoning the Six Gentlemen to the decisive battle.
• Ghost-Headed Saber heard the notification and said they could return.

Ren Ye and his allies planned how to secure the Supreme Treasure by building trust with Wu Yuanjun, while Ghost-Headed Saber’s rescue of Wu Yuanjun’s family made him a serious competitor. As the Imperial Court prepared to take Immortality Mountain, Wu Yuanjun wondered who would inherit his supreme art.

• Weng Sanren explained how Ghost-Headed Saber had used his memories to save Wu Yuanjun’s family and earn a surge of Trust Value.
• Ren Ye learned that his Trust Value had reached 99 and that Big Fat Dragon had 91, then estimated Ghost-Headed Saber might have overtaken Hundred-Flower Immortal and could be close to Big Fat Dragon.
• Ren Ye proposed that the group help him gain the final point of Trust Value before the Hidden Story began, and they agreed on a tactical plan.
• Big Fat Dragon asked Ren Ye to secure Earth Dragon Six Jia for him, and Ren Ye demanded thirty million Star Source for a copied edition or approval from the Southern Border Court.
• The Dragon Lord told Rat Lord that he would personally lead people up Immortality Mountain after the White Python Clan’s camps surrendered.
• Ren Ye’s group met Poison Wine Flask and Ghost-Headed Saber in the Main Hall, while Wu Yuanjun watched the soldiers and wondered who could inherit his supreme art.

Wu Yuanjun dismissed his soldiers, servants, and steward so they could survive the Imperial Court’s attempt to seize the White Python Clan’s legacy. He then faced the Heavenly Dragon Tribe’s ten thousand troops with the Six Gentlemen, declaring that only seven would defend Immortality Mountain.

• Wu Yuanjun told the steward that giving his son Jing'er the clan’s legacy would bring certain death, then ordered the generals to withdraw and serve the Wuyao Kingdom.
• Wu Yuanjun sent his household attendants away with their savings and dismissed the steward, who dressed him in armor before leaving.
• Wu Yuanjun asked the Six Gentlemen to fight beside him, and they vowed to follow him to the death.
• The Azure Qilin Army arrived, and a second-grade official read the emperor’s edict demanding Wu Yuanjun hand over the Earth Dragon Six Jia and the Heavenly Lord.
• Wu Yuanjun refused the edict and killed the official with a spear, then declared that he would defend Immortality Mountain with six men.
• Wu Yuanjun faced the ten thousand troops alone, and the Six Gentlemen joined him atop the Northward-Looking Wall.

Wu Yuanjun entered the Void Realm to fight the Dragon Lord, while the Six Gentlemen defended Immortality Mountain against the Imperial Court's army. As the battle raged, Big Fat Dragon confronted Rat Lord over his role in the plot against Wu Yuanjun's family, and Rat Lord began to realize the second prince was involved.

• The Dragon Lord challenged Wu Yuanjun to a final battle in the Void Realm, and a white python followed them inside.
• The Star Gate announced the hidden story and its trust-point rewards, then the Six Gentlemen attacked the army at Immortality Mountain.
• Ren Ye led the assault while Big Fat Dragon, Weng Sanren, and Hundred-Flower Immortal disabled soldiers, and Poison Wine Flask and Ghost-Headed Saber fought elsewhere in the ranks.
• A Heavenly Dragon commander charged Ren Ye, who called the others over to help kill him after finding that killing ordinary soldiers had not raised his trust value.
• Big Fat Dragon seized Rat Lord and beat him over stopping Wu Yuanjun's family and withholding the bribe money for Niu Xi; Rat Lord began to suspect the second prince.

Ren Ye fought Pang Sandao beneath the Northward-Looking Wall and used the Three-Burst Poison Sky Star to kill the enemy commander. His victory earned him Absolute Trust in Witch Lord Wu Yuanjun and the right to select a Supreme Treasure.

• Big Fat Dragon slapped Rat Lord and nearly killed him before a junior officer and palace experts drove Big Fat Dragon back, allowing Rat Lord to escape.
• Pang Sandao charged Ren Ye and wounded him with his three flawless mounted strikes while enemy forces kept Weng Sanren and Hundred-Flower Immortal occupied.
• Ren Ye used The Sword Holds a Divine Kingdom to repel Pang Sandao and cut off his warhorse's front legs.
• Ren Ye launched the Three-Burst Poison Sky Star, whose three explosions fatally poisoned and injured Pang Sandao and killed more than two hundred soldiers.
• Ren Ye beheaded Pang Sandao and announced his victory, earning one Trust Value point, Absolute Trust, and the right to select a Supreme Treasure.

Ren Ye and his allies fought their way into Immortality Mountain Manor as Big Fat Dragon and Ghost-Headed Saber tied at 99 Trust Value, triggering a fifteen-minute contest for second place. Outside the Secret Realm, Li Yan met Xu Ersan, who recruited him to help capture people at Immortality Mountain.

• Ren Ye retreated with Hundred-Flower Immortal and Weng Sanren after killing Pang Sandao, while Big Fat Dragon fought back through the enemy ranks carrying Rat Lord.
• Big Fat Dragon crushed Rat Lord after Rat Lord refused to betray the emperor, raising his Trust Value to 97 before rejoining Ren Ye.
• Li Yan left an inn with Zou Qing and met Xu Ersan, who asked him to help capture people at Immortality Mountain within a day or two.
• Ren Ye and his allies helped Big Fat Dragon kill officers, while Ghost-Headed Saber’s kills brought both men to 99 Trust Value and triggered a fifteen-minute contest.
• Ghost-Headed Saber refused Poison Wine Flask’s warning to retreat and challenged the enemy troops to fight.

Ghost-Headed Saber and Poison Wine Flask fought through the enemy ranks while Big Fat Dragon used a blood-based Divine Curse to help kill an enemy general. After Wu Yuanjun emerged gravely wounded from the Void Realm and recognized the Six Gentlemen as the Entrusted Orphans' Guardians, he offered Ren Ye a choice of three supreme treasures, and Ren Ye chose the Earth Dragon Six Jia.

• Ghost-Headed Saber held the mountain steps against the Southern Border forces, and Poison Wine Flask returned to help him fight their general.
• Big Fat Dragon withdrew to a side hall and used the Divine Curse to kill the enemy general just as Ghost-Headed Saber struck, earning Wu Yuanjun's Absolute Trust.
• Ghost-Headed Saber killed a deputy general and became the third person to receive Wu Yuanjun's Absolute Trust, opening the Void Realm gates.
• Wu Yuanjun emerged gravely wounded, followed by White Python Mang Tianjun and the Dragon Lord, who demanded that Wu Yuanjun hand over the treasure.
• Wu Yuanjun named the Six Gentlemen his Entrusted Orphans' Guardians and offered Buddha Young Master a first choice among three supreme treasures.
• Ren Ye chose to learn the Earth Dragon Six Jia so he could restore the White Python Tribe's glory.

Wu Yuanjun bestowed the Earth Dragon Six Jia on Ren Ye and sent the Six Gentlemen away before sacrificing himself to hold back the Southern Border army. The White Python Heavenly Lord died at the Northward-Looking Wall and reincarnated as a snake egg, which Ren Ye, Big Fat Dragon, and Ghost-Headed Saber contested as the escape array activated.

• Wu Yuanjun gave Ren Ye the Earth Dragon Six Jia, entrusted the White Python Heavenly Lord to Big Fat Dragon, and passed the Heavenly Lord Spear to Ghost-Headed Saber.
• Wu Yuanjun told the Six Gentlemen to escape through the array beneath Clearwater Pool, and they bowed before leaving with the White Python Heavenly Lord.
• The Dragon Lord ordered his troops to attack, while Wu Yuanjun rose to face them beneath the Northward-Looking Wall and was overwhelmed as the Six Gentlemen activated the escape array.
• The White Python Heavenly Lord returned to the wall, mourned Wu Yuanjun, and killed himself by striking the stone; his remnant soul later formed a snake egg that flew toward Ren Ye.
• Ren Ye, Big Fat Dragon, and Ghost-Headed Saber each unleashed their power to claim the snake egg as the array began to take effect.

Ren Ye left the Immortality Mountain Secret Realm after yielding the Heavenly Lord snake egg to Big Fat Dragon, who warned him to go to Lingnan. The Star Gate assigned Ren Ye an SSS+ mission in the political struggle of Borderland Turmoil, and he returned to his companions while Hundred-Flower Immortal hurried away with her own allies.

• Ren Ye tried to draw the snake egg to himself, but Big Fat Dragon used black energy and a scepter-like treasure to seize it; on Weng Sanren's advice, Ren Ye stopped contesting it.
• Big Fat Dragon absorbed the snake egg and warned Ren Ye to head to Lingnan, while Ren Ye threatened to burn Earth Dragon Six Jia before he died.
• Ren Ye, Weng Sanren, Hundred-Flower Immortal, and Big Fat Dragon left the Secret Realm, and the Star Gate rewarded Ren Ye with 600,000 Star Source and assigned him an SSS+ mission called "Prince Huai's Rise."
• Ren Ye returned to the thatched hut, hurried to meet his companions, and called for Old Liu; Xu Bangzi and Ai Fei greeted him, with Ai Fei asking whether Zhu Zigui was all right.
• Hundred-Flower Immortal reunited with two companions, told them to leave immediately without using Azure Bird, and urged them not to look for someone.

Ren Ye and his companions left Immortality Mountain and were ambushed in the forest by men waiting for Little Prince Huai. After Ai Fei, Old Liu, and Xu Bangzi defeated the attackers, Ren Ye encountered Hong Jiadi, who presented a severed head and pledged his service.

• Ren Ye reunited with Ai Fei, Xu Qingzhao, Old Liu, and Xu Bangzi, then led them away from Immortality Mountain to pick up Daoist Fenglin and Erleng.
• Xu Bangzi noticed signs of a hidden fire, and the group spotted an ambush after arrows were shot at them from the woods.
• Old Liu returned the arrows and killed two attackers, while the group learned nine more men had been waiting to capture them and had sent a messenger for reinforcements.
• Ren Ye pursued the messenger as Ai Fei, Old Liu, and Xu Bangzi fought the ambushers, killing eight and capturing their leader.
• Ren Ye found Hong Jiadi in another patch of woods; Hong Jiadi presented a bloodied head and declared himself Prince Huai's commander of the Personal Guards before the throne.