Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye mistakenly believed he had been transformed into a crocodile and barely survived a minute in the crocodile park before realizing his body housed a human soul trapped in an animal form. He identified the Zoo dormitory as his true home and learned that the animals there were people whose souls Song Mingzhe had imprisoned in animal bodies.

• Ren Ye entered the Sky Bay Crocodile Park, where crocodiles attacked him after the Heavenly Dao assigned him to survive there for one minute.
• Ren Ye escaped the crocodiles and questioned why entering their territory had not completed his quest, then reconsidered the clues about his human perspective and glowing mark.
• Ren Ye realized he was a human soul imprisoned in a crocodile's body and returned to the Zoo's dormitory, which he identified as the Human Master's Dormitory Room.
• Ren Ye deduced that Song Mingzhe had imprisoned victims in animal bodies and sent the survivors to the Zoo, where Song Yi oversaw them.
• A voice congratulated Ren Ye for finding his home.

Ren Ye reached Room 501 and collected Song Mingzhe’s unique Autobiography Fragment No. 1, then waited for other Players to claim the Rewind reward. Yin Tiger arrived, having found his home after fighting through the Zoo, but no one else appeared before the fragment’s deadline approached.

• Ren Ye followed the Heavenly Dao’s instructions to Room 501 and read Song Yi’s letter, which showed Song Yi leaving his home amid the war.
• Ren Ye collected the unique golden Autobiography Fragment No. 1 and learned it could rescue one teammate by ending their mission, though their rewards would be halved.
• Ren Ye tried to take another letter that appeared in the room, but the Heavenly Dao rejected him because it was meant for another Player.
• Ren Ye hid near Room 501 to watch for other Players, then Yin Tiger arrived and explained that he had found his home after fighting a pride of lions and searching the Zoo’s buildings.
• With only minutes left before the fragment disappeared and no other Player in sight, Ren Ye grew suspicious and urged Yin Tiger to go downstairs with him.

Ren Ye rescued Xiao Shuai from the Zoo mission and joined him and Yin Tiger in searching the Main Building for the source of a familiar smell and Star Source aura. They found Tan Pang and Old Cadre dead after an apparent fight, and Yin Tiger began explaining how Old Cadre had ambushed Tan Pang.

• Ren Ye discovered Tan Pang had already left the Zoo mission and used the No. 1 Autobiography Fragment to rescue Xiao Shuai.
• Xiao Shuai appeared outside the Dormitory Room and hurried to the Main Building after learning Ren Ye had rescued him.
• Ren Ye, Yin Tiger, and Xiao Shuai heard an explosion and followed the Star Source aura to an auditorium-like room.
• The three found Old Cadre and Tan Pang dead amid the wreckage, with signs of a fierce battle.
• Xiao Shuai kicked Old Cadre's corpse and accused him of breaking their agreement and killing Tan Pang.
• Yin Tiger reasoned that Old Cadre had hidden in the Main Building and ambushed Tan Pang when he returned for his reward.

Ren Ye, Xiao Shuai, and Yin Tiger investigated Tan Pang and Old Cadre’s deaths in the Zoo Secret Realm, finding evidence of an isolated fight and three drops of unusual golden blood. After evacuation, Ren Ye realized they had overlooked the missing Autobiography Fragments and Gold Coins, leaving the deaths’ circumstances unresolved.

• Ren Ye asked Yin Tiger and Xiao Shuai to investigate the bodies and auditorium, while Ghost Child confirmed that both victims’ souls had scattered beyond summoning.
• Xiao Shuai found a shattered Array Core Stone that could have isolated Tan Pang and Old Cadre during their fight.
• Ren Ye followed Tan Pang’s outstretched arm to a shattered mirror and found three drops of golden blood, which Yin Tiger identified as blood that could serve as a Mystical Ability Treasure.
• As evacuation approached, Ren Ye had Yin Tiger sweep the room’s debris into the air and scanned it with the Human Emperor Sword and Holy Eyes, but the three Players were evacuated before the search was explained.
• Outside the Zoo, Yin Tiger said Old Cadre and Tan Pang had carried the peculiar scent, and Ren Ye realized the Autobiography Fragments and Gold Coins were missing.

Ren Ye pieced together that Shadow had survived the Memorial Hall death by using a substitute-death Item, hiding in the Villa, and later obtaining a key to a concealed safe room. He concluded that Shadow had helped Old Cadre kill Brother Hong and Tan Pang, and warned Xiao Shuai that Shadow was likely coming for him next.

• Ren Ye reconstructed how Shadow and Old Cadre ambushed Xiao Yuan, and how Shadow used an Item to fake his death after the killing mechanism targeted the Kan Room again.
• Ren Ye explained that Old Cadre had concealed Shadow in the Villa and helped him evade the nightly room rules, while Shadow used a key taken from Pan Lianrong’s mission to access a safe room.
• Ren Ye deduced that Shadow had secretly entered the Tiangong Building, helped Old Cadre kill Brother Hong, and collected Gold Coins and Song An’s Autobiography Fragment.
• Ren Ye connected Shadow to the attack on Tan Pang at the Zoo and concluded that Shadow had accumulated the Gold Coins of Brother Hong, Old Cadre, and Tan Pang.
• Ren Ye warned Xiao Shuai that Shadow was likely to target him and had nearly completed her objectives.

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.