Chapter Summaries

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.

Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger recovered their strength before returning to Heavenly Lord Hall with Lu Wentian’s two magic treasures. Suspecting their master’s tea was a trap, they attacked him and cut off his head, though Tan Pang doubted the fight could have ended so easily.

• Yin Tiger gave Ren Ye and Tan Pang Star-Breath Pills, and the three sat down to recover for fifteen minutes.
• The three returned to Heavenly Lord Hall, where Ren Ye encountered a newly arrived young Taoist carrying cleaning supplies on his way to Wisdom Academy.
• A Star Gate notification said Lu Wentian was waiting for them and that Longevity Temple had refreshed for the final time.
• Ren Ye and Tan Pang urged Lu Wentian to drink the tea he had prepared, then launched an attack when he refused.
• Ren Ye struck Lu Wentian with the Human Emperor Sword while Tan Pang used Mirror Manifestation and Yin Tiger attacked with his saber.
• Lu Wentian’s head fell to the floor, and Tan Pang questioned whether they had really killed him so easily.

Lu Wentian survived the disciples’ attack, healed his severed head, and swallowed three powerful pills from the divine statue to transform himself. Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang launched a desperate assault, but Lu Wentian summoned the statue’s sword and blasted them back.

• Lu Wentian’s headless body rose and rejoined his head after Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang attacked him.
• Tan Pang used his mirror ability to expose Lu Wentian’s leg to Yin Tiger’s saber, and Yin Tiger severed and destroyed his foot.
• Lu Wentian revealed his plans to become immortal and summoned three pills from the divine statue, swallowing them to gain immense strength, insight, and protection.
• Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang agreed to fight together and attacked Lu Wentian with their strongest abilities.
• Lu Wentian summoned the Heavenly Lord statue’s peachwood sword, which struck the three disciples and sent them flying back bloodied.

Lu Wentian used the Phoenix Fire Furnace to trap Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger, then battled them as the furnace’s flames burned them. Ren Ye spotted a glowing badge and rushed outside, realizing what Lu Wentian feared, while Tan Pang and Yin Tiger struggled to hold him off inside the furnace.

• Lu Wentian unleashed lightning and fought the group, but Yin Tiger swallowed a Great Dao Divine Strength Pill and briefly matched his strength.
• Lu Wentian summoned the Phoenix Fire Furnace and trapped Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger inside, where he attacked them with Li Gate flames.
• Ren Ye fought Lu Wentian with his sword but was wounded, then realized their attacks only made Lu Wentian stronger under the Heavenly Dao’s authority.
• Ren Ye noticed a glowing badge on Lu Wentian’s robe and asked Tan Pang to send him outside, leaving Tan Pang and Yin Tiger to keep Lu Wentian occupied.
• Tan Pang used Mirror-House Maze to fill the furnace with reflections while Yin Tiger recovered, and Ren Ye ran outside and recognized what lay beyond the hall entrance.

Ren Ye found the jacket, badge, and Medicine Collection Writ that let him strip Lu Wentian of his powers and command his obedience. After Ren Ye confronted Lu Wentian in the Main Hall, the Star Gate announced that all three players had passed the Longevity Temple trial.

• Ren Ye inferred that the black sedan held a clue and found it being washed by a Taoist boy in the Wisdom Academy courtyard.
• Unable to enter the upstairs gathering, Ren Ye searched the sedan and learned from the Taoist boy that he needed to bring pills and wait in the car for the person collecting them.
• Ren Ye received the Medicine Collection Writ, discovered an authoritative jacket and badge hidden in the car, and put on the jacket.
• Lu Wentian cornered the wounded Yin Tiger and Tan Pang in the Main Hall as Ren Ye arrived wearing the jacket and badge.
• Ren Ye used the items' authority to slap Lu Wentian, suppress his mystical powers, and force him to submit as his dog.
• The Star Gate announced that Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang had passed the Longevity Temple trial.

Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger survived the Longevity Temple trial, and Ren Ye received the Phoenix Fire Furnace as the MVP reward. After leaving the Star Gate, the three discussed their futures and friendship before returning to the villa, where Ren Ye offered the others safe passage for 800,000.

• The Star Gate awarded Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger coins, pills, and the Puppet-Slaying Blade and Chaos Gu, while naming Ren Ye MVP and granting him the Phoenix Fire Furnace.
• Ren Ye inspected the furnace in his Consciousness Space and considered collecting mystical flames and giving it to Ai Fei for pill refining.
• Tan Pang shared recovery pills, and the three recovered before taking the rewards and leaving the Taoist Temple.
• On the way down the mountain, Ren Ye learned Tan Pang was from Blue Star and heard him and Yin Tiger warn of fierce competition and shifting allegiances in the Migration Land.
• Ren Ye invited Tan Pang and Yin Tiger to remain friends and join forces, and they exchanged fist bumps beneath the setting sun.
• At the villa, Xiao Shuai asked if they had found a way out, and Ren Ye offered a worry-free night for 800,000.

After Ren Ye and his companions confirmed they had found a way to escape the Secret Chamber, the survivors thanked them and gathered to share their clues about Pan Lianrong and Song Mingzhe. Ren Ye then used a Scratch-Off Ticket and received a Low-Profile Card that could hide part of his Gold Coin holdings from the rankings.

• Ren Ye let Tan Pang announce that their group had found a way out, and the other survivors gratefully praised Ren Ye, Tan Pang, and Yin Tiger.
• Tan Pang recounted their investigation and credited Ren Ye as the MVP, while Yin Tiger confirmed that Ren Ye had played the leading role.
• Old Cadre shared that Pan Lianrong had worked in the Ministry of Works Fire-Consumption Room, where she met Song Mingzhe, and that Song later married her after confirming her pregnancy was his.
• Tan Pang proposed that everyone set up the Magic Treasures targeting Song Mingzhe before eight and enter their rooms together that night, and the group agreed.
• Ren Ye reviewed the clues about Pan Lianrong, then spent eight Gold Coins on a Scratch-Off Ticket and received a Low-Profile Card that could hide twenty percent of his Gold Coins in the rankings for eight days.

Ren Ye and the others prepared the villa to kill Song Mingzhe, then heard a scream and found blood after the night passed. The group discovered that one Player was missing, and Yin Tiger traced the blood smell to the Kan Room, where they found the woman’s memorial portrait between candles.

• Ren Ye spent eight Gold Coins on another scratch-off ticket, received a useless message, and stopped himself from gambling further.
• Tan Pang led a water-toast celebration, and the group planned to use the Chaos Gu Poison and Puppet-Slaying Blade against Song Mingzhe.
• The Players sealed off the first floor, planted the Puppet-Slaying Blade in the ceiling, and lit the Chaos Gu Poison at 20:25 before returning to their rooms.
• At 20:30, the Star Gate announced the Gold Coin rankings, placing Mountain Eagle and Qingshan first and second and Sandbag third.
• Ren Ye heard a scream and a crash during the night, then slept beneath the Human Emperor Sword after concluding the trap had worked.
• At six the next morning, the group found blood on the floor and realized someone was missing; Yin Tiger led them to the Kan Room, where they found the woman’s memorial portrait between two white candles.

After the woman was killed in the Kan Room despite the group’s trap, Ren Ye realized they had misunderstood Song Mingzhe’s weaknesses, and suspicion tore the players apart. Brother Hong then hinted that he had obtained a utility item that might reveal someone was using the Secret Chamber’s rules to kill.

• Ren Ye inspected the woman’s body and found the same grisly signs as Xiao Yuan’s death, along with seventy gold coins and Pan Lianrong’s Autobiography fragments.
• Xiao Shuai accused Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang of hiding clues, and he and Yin Tiger nearly fought until Tan Pang intervened.
• Ren Ye concluded Song Mingzhe may have anticipated Lu Wentian’s plan and found a way to counter the Magic Treasures, leaving the group with no clear defense against further deaths.
• Old Cadre, Xiao Shuai, Yin Tiger, and Tan Pang left to investigate separately as distrust spread through the group.
• Brother Hong asked Ren Ye whether the three had told everyone everything, then revealed that he had obtained a utility item.

Ren Ye rejected the idea of secretly using the Secret Chamber’s rules to kill his rivals and chose to search the villa while Brother Hong went out. During his investigation, he found a dead mouse and fresh scratches near a mouse hole, then suddenly turned toward the stairs.

• Brother Hong told Ren Ye about his Fortune Divination Stick and warned that anyone might be using an item to manipulate events and kill through others.
• Ren Ye said he trusted his companions from the Taoist Temple, though they had kept their individual item rewards private, and argued that competition did not require underhanded killings.
• Brother Hong left to take his chances outside, while Ren Ye stayed behind to search the villa.
• Ren Ye considered whether he would use the Secret Chamber’s rules to eliminate rivals and decided he would not, then began inspecting the first floor while imagining Song Mingzhe’s perspective.
• Ren Ye found a dead mouse beside a mouse hole and detected a faint Star Source Fluctuation inside its body.
• Ren Ye spotted three fresh finger scratches above the hole and abruptly turned toward the stairs.

Ren Ye and Tan Pang investigated Song Mingzhe’s habits and concluded that he might have kept materials related to his murders at work or in a secret hideaway. They decided to question an Enforcement Team member to learn where Song Mingzhe worked or whether he owned another house.

• Ren Ye searched the eight rooms for a pattern in the bloodstains but found none, then Tan Pang returned with lunch.
• Ren Ye and Tan Pang went to the backyard to inspect the animals, but the animals fled before they could catch any.
• Ren Ye imagined Song Mingzhe’s daily routine and argued that the ritual of killing was a private pleasure he anticipated throughout the day.
• Ren Ye and Tan Pang reasoned that Song Mingzhe might have kept murder-related materials at his workplace or in a secret house.
• Tan Pang realized the Enforcement Team’s investigation might reveal Song Mingzhe’s workplace or hideaway, and he and Ren Ye set out to confront an Enforcement Team member.