Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye exposed Tian Wei as the one who stole his Origin Eyes and used the Gray Mist to devour living sacrifices, and she admitted she had been waiting to consume the clan chiefs and their followers. As the Storyteller attacked and Tian Wei unleashed the Undying Hall’s Gray Mist, Ren Ye struggled to face his aunt until her contemptuous words stirred him from his despair.

• Ren Ye laid out the clues implicating Tian Wei, including her night visits to the Death-Sacrifice Ground, the lingering medicinal fragrance, and her ability to locate the Divine Tomb without a Guiding Talisman.
• Tian Wei stopped denying the truth, revealed that she had been waiting for the other clans to enter the tomb, and unleashed Gray Mist to take Ren Ye toward the Undying Hall.
• The Storyteller arrived and attacked Tian Wei, but she drew more Gray Mist from the Undying Hall to fight him.
• The Storyteller urged Ren Ye to kill Tian Wei before the Gray Mist engulfed the Hanging Coffin Grounds, while Ren Ye stood paralyzed by grief over their family bond.
• Tian Wei condemned Ren Ye as weak and unworthy of the Huang Family’s inheritance, and her words broke through his anguished hesitation.

Ren Ye overcame his immersion in Blind Huang’s memories and used the Storyteller’s Great Dao sword ray to strike Little Aunt Tian Wei, whose gray mist then showed him the truth behind her plans for his inheritance. As Tian Wei said goodbye and returned his eyes, Ren Ye opened them to see the warmth she had promised him.

• Ren Ye broke free of his imposed memories and took the Great Dao sword ray while Tian Wei drove the Undying Hall’s gray mist toward the Azure Palace.
• The Storyteller used the square Magic Treasure to pin Tian Wei in place, and Ren Ye stabbed her with the sword ray.
• As Tian Wei’s gray mist entered Ren Ye, he saw her past: she had arranged for Little One to inherit the Three Thousand Secret Treasures while she took the Delusion Eyes to protect and test him.
• Ren Ye learned that Tian Wei had planned for him to endure hardship and eventually kill her, and that she had been preparing to awaken alongside him in the future.
• Tian Wei told Ren Ye she had raised him, promised that he would first see warm light when he opened his eyes, and said goodbye before the gray mist solidified within him.
• Ren Ye opened his eyes as tears streamed down his face.

Ren Ye mourned Tian Wei Little Aunt, then received the Heavenly Dao’s reward and entered the Undying Hall to claim the human world’s final wisp of Chaos Origin Qi. As he touched the strange aura deep inside, the star river and Divine Tomb Immortal Palace began to shake, while several hundred experts surrounded the palace outside.

• Ren Ye caught Tian Wei Little Aunt as she died after returning his Origin Eyes, then carried her to the rear hall and laid her in her jade coffin.
• The Storyteller restored Little Aunt’s youthful appearance with a drop of divine liquid, and Ren Ye bid her farewell with three ceremonial kowtows.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that Ren Ye had recovered his memories, triggered the final story, and earned entry to the Undying Hall to retrieve Chaos Origin Qi.
• Ren Ye persuaded Li Xiaopang and the Storyteller to accompany him; the Undying Hall’s gray mist parted around him, allowing all three to enter safely.
• Deep in the hall, the Storyteller warned Li Xiaopang not to respond to an eerie old man, while Ren Ye sensed the Chaos Origin Qi and reached for it.
• As Ren Ye touched the aura, the star river flickered and the Divine Tomb Immortal Palace trembled, while hundreds of experts surrounded it outside.

Ren Ye obtained Chaos Origin Qi and the Three Devouring Immortal Lights in the Undying Hall, then helped Li Xiaopang survive as a Great Dao treasure chose him. The treasure revealed itself as the Void: the Infinite Mirror, while Zhao Haochen prepared outside the tomb for Ren Ye’s emergence.

• Ren Ye absorbed Chaos Origin Qi into his dantian and received the Three Devouring Immortal Lights, which could only be used within Delusion Village’s Heavenly Grace-level Secret Realm.
• The Storyteller said the qi he sought was not meant for him, and Ren Ye offered to help him find what he was looking for.
• Li Xiaopang spotted black divine radiance in the Undying Hall and pleaded with it to leave the tomb and save Second Uncle.
• The black light chose Li Xiaopang as its master and flooded him with void power, tearing at his body and divine soul.
• Ren Ye drew gray mist into Li Xiaopang to nourish him, allowing him to withstand the void power as the treasure revealed itself as the Void: the Infinite Mirror.
• Outside the Divine Tomb Immortal Palace, Zhao Haochen told Little Sister Qingxue to leave the tomb and have their families watch the Li and Qian Families for Ren Ye’s exit.

Li Xiaopang found resolve to seek the void Dao and save Second Uncle, but the returning gray mist trapped him, Ren Ye, and the Storyteller inside the Immortal Palace. Their signal reached Delusion Village as Sun Michen prepared to seize the tomb, while Li Taishan and the Li Family quietly readied their response.

• The Storyteller persuaded Li Xiaopang to turn his grief into a goal of mastering the void Dao, and Ren Ye and Li Xiaopang joked with him as they left the Undying Hall.
• The gray mist returned and swept through the Immortal Palace, forcing Ren Ye, Li Xiaopang, and the Storyteller to flee toward the Hanging Coffin Grounds; Ren Ye warned that it would soon consume them.
• The Storyteller used Li Xiaopang's Void Infinite Mirror to send three bursts of void power above Delusion Village, then collapsed to recover while Ren Ye and Li Xiaopang prepared for a fight.
• Sun Michen interpreted the void signal as proof that Blind Huang had found the origin eyes and planned to wait outside the tomb, while ordering Sun Qingxue to secure Li Taishan's token and prepare the Sun Family.
• Sun Qingxue visited Li Taishan in the Dragon Key Arena, and he gave her a packet of medicinal powder as a token; afterward, Li Taishan began singing as Grandson Fusheng delivered the Li Family's call to arms to the clan elders.
• Qin Yanting and Sixth Grandpa discussed the Road of Return and the sound of nighttime reading as events in Delusion Village continued to gather momentum.

As the Sun and Zhao Families tightened their grip on the Clan Hall, Qin Yanting intervened to save Qian Zhongge from execution while pretending to accommodate Zhao Han. Inside the Divine Tomb, Ren Ye prepared to draw the enemy’s attention, and Wu Zhengfeng’s lantern call sparked a village-wide uprising that brought the Li Family into open conflict.

• Qin Yanting followed Zhao Han to the Rear Courtyard, where Zhao Han threatened Qian Zhongge and brought more than a hundred experts and an Innate Supreme Treasure to force him to kneel; six Sitting Elders stood with Qian Zhongge against them.
• Qin Yanting entered the pressure-bound space, took a drop of Qian Zhongge’s Glabella Blood as a supposed token, and persuaded Zhao Han to accept it and hold off on killing Qian Zhongge.
• Ren Ye decided to leave the Divine Tomb alone to assess the enemy and activate the Former Master’s Protective Immortal Light if necessary, while the Storyteller and Li Xiaopang prepared to follow if he failed to return.
• Sun Michen entered the Divine Tomb as Zhao Haochen waited outside, and Ren Ye’s furious voice rang from the Immortal Palace gate, challenging Zhao Haochen to a fair fight.
• Wu Zhengfeng gathered 132 Ruler Masters at the academy and urged them to light lanterns; teachers and disciples throughout Delusion Village followed, and other academies began gathering as well.
• Li Fusheng saw the lanterns and called the Li Family to action; Clan Elders rose against the Sun Family, while more than a thousand people from the Li Family Pill Academy declared clan war.

The Li Family launched an Annihilation War against the Sun Family, while Wu Zhengfeng and more than two thousand Enlightenment Academy teachers and disciples confronted Zhao Han at the Clan Hall. As the Qian Family joined the uprising, Zhao Mi watched from his cottage and hinted that Qin Yanting had entered the Divine Tomb eight years earlier.

• Li Fusheng led more than a thousand Li Family cultivators to attack the Sun Family and ordered the twenty-three Ancestors to deploy the Void Sword Formation.
• The Sun Family activated the Nine Heavens Star Rampart Formation, but three waves of Bamboo Swords weakened it and left Sun Fu'an vomiting blood as he waited in vain for reinforcements.
• Qin Yanting prevented Zhao Han from leaving the Clan Hall, while Wu Zhengfeng led more than two thousand Academy teachers and disciples there to challenge the Zhao and Sun Families.
• Nearly a thousand Qian Family members arrived at the Clan Hall, and Qian Zhongge rose from the Rear Courtyard to join them.
• Zhao Mi remained calm amid the unrest and said Qin Yanting had finally revealed himself, then wondered whether a death row inmate who fell into the Nine Netherworlds had discovered its secrets.

Qian Zhongge led the Qian Family and the Enlightenment Academies to defeat Zhao Han, while the Li Family attacked the Sun Family and the allied forces moved against the Zhao Family. Zhao Mi’s letters halted the assault, and in the Divine Tomb, Ren Ye recognized a familiar aura from the Soul Banner Yang Huanzhen brought.

• More than three thousand cultivators surrounded the Clan Hall, and Qian Zhongge forced Zhao Han to kneel before killing him and sending his head to the Zhao Family’s gate.
• Second Uncle Li ordered the Li Family to destroy the Sun Family’s defenses, kill its high-grade cultivators, and spare its young children and low-level clansmen for imprisonment.
• Qian Zhongge, Qin Yanting, and Second Uncle Li divided their forces, sending Wu Zhengfeng and a thousand cultivators into the Divine Tomb while the others went to surround the Zhao Family.
• Zhao Mi sent Yang Huanzhen into the Divine Tomb with a Nether Artifact Soul Banner and gave clan elders letters for Qian Zhongtang, Li Taishan, and Qin Yanting.
• After reading Zhao Mi’s letters, Qian Zhongge, Qin Yanting, and Second Uncle Li decided not to attack the Zhao Family and withdrew.
• Ren Ye saw Wu Zhengfeng’s reinforcements arrive in the Divine Tomb, then sensed a familiar aura from the Soul Banner Yang Huanzhen carried.

Ren Ye discovered that the Zhao Family’s Soul Banner contained Dao-Death Qi linked to his Three Thousand Secret Treasures, then watched the Zhao Family abandon Sun Michen and enter the Nine Netherworlds. As Sun and Li forces clashed, Ren Ye descended and awakened the Former Master’s power, leaving his enemies facing his Heaven-Swallowing Immortal Radiance.

• Ren Ye used the Three Thousand Secret Treasures to obtain Dao-Death Qi after realizing the Soul Banner resonated with a Dao Light in his Star Core.
• Sun Michen and Zhao Haochen agreed to attack Wu Zhengfeng’s forces, but Yang Huanzhen revealed the Soul Banner’s presence and ordered the Zhao Family into the Nine Netherworlds.
• Yang Huanzhen cleared a path with the Soul Banner, and the Zhao Family followed him into the abyss, leaving Sun Michen to realize Zhao Mi had abandoned him.
• Sun Michen summoned the Cold Sky Bell as Wu Zhengfeng’s forces attacked, while Ren Ye decided to pursue Zhao Haochen into the Nine Netherworlds.
• Ren Ye descended toward the abyss, ignored the Storyteller’s warning, and confronted Sun Family Clan Elders by claiming the identity of Huang Qi, the New Master of Delusion.
• Ren Ye unleashed three rays of the Former Master’s immortal light, filling the sky with Gray Mist as Wu Zhengfeng recognized the Former Master’s Great Dao awakening.

Ren Ye used the Former Master's immortal light to defeat and capture Zhao Haochen as the battle against the Sun Family ended. Zhao Mi emerged from seclusion, proposed a one-on-one fight against ten opponents to settle the conflict, and Zhong Deng unexpectedly challenged him alone.

• Ren Ye descended into the Nine Netherworlds, immobilized Zhao Haochen and the Zhao elders with the immortal light, destroyed Zhao Haochen’s Star Core, and carried him out alive.
• Li Xiaopang joined Ren Ye as Second Uncle Li, Qin Yanting, and Qian Zhongge led reinforcements to defeat the Sun Family, leaving Sun Michen bound and fewer than three hundred Sun Family members alive.
• Zhao Mi broke through the roof of his Enlightenment Cottage, ordered his family to remain in its courtyard, and used the Guiding Talisman to enter the Divine Tomb.
• Zhao Mi summoned the two beings beneath the Nine Netherworlds and challenged Qian Zhongge, Li Taishan, Qin Yanting, Wu Zhengfeng, and six Clan Elders to fight him together, offering to surrender his claim if they won.
• Qian Zhongge, Li Taishan, Qin Yanting, and the six Clan Elders accepted Zhao Mi’s challenge, but Zhong Deng declared that he would fight Zhao Mi alone as Ren Ye’s Path Guardian.

Ren Ye persuaded Delusion Village’s elders to let the Storyteller fight Zhao Mi over the inheritance, and the two crossed the starry Void to battle on a dead star. After Zhao Mi destroyed the Storyteller’s attempts to revive the star, the Storyteller awakened the cauldron’s Creation Qi, defeated Zhao Mi’s three Yang Bodies, and named the reborn star the Human Emperor Star before his presence vanished.

• Ren Ye asked the Storyteller to fight Zhao Mi, and Ren Ye won the elders’ permission by explaining that he trusted the Storyteller to protect his inheritance.
• Zhao Mi challenged the Storyteller to fight on a dead star, and both men crossed the Void to reach it as Delusion Village watched their auras from afar.
• The Storyteller used the cauldron’s Creation Qi to raise the sun and moon and bring forth life, but Zhao Mi summoned three Yang Bodies that destroyed each creation.
• The Storyteller awakened the cauldron’s full power and summoned a golden figure, which used Creation Qi to revive the star and shatter Zhao Mi’s three Yang Bodies.
• Zhao Mi admitted defeat, and the Storyteller named the newly revived star the Human Emperor Star before his presence disappeared; Ren Ye suspected the Storyteller had faked his death.

Zhao Mi conceded defeat and accepted responsibility for the Zhao Family’s crimes, while Sun Michen surrendered the Sun Family’s Dragon Key and took his own life. Ren Ye reclaimed his identity as Delusion’s new master and later visited Zhao Mi in confinement, where he revealed that he was grateful to him.

• Zhao Mi admitted his role in the Zhao Family’s crimes, concealed the two presences beneath the Nine Netherworlds, and agreed to enter the Heavenly Prison until the Day of Silent Death.
• Sun Michen acknowledged his defeat, surrendered the Sun Family’s Dragon Key and secret method, and used the Cold Sky Bell to kill himself.
• Li Taishan, Qian Zhongge, and the gathered cultivators bowed to Ren Ye as Delusion’s new master, and the Heavenly Dao announced that he had passed the Delusion Village trial.
• Ren Ye visited Zhao Haochen in the Heavenly Prison and called him Delusion Village’s biggest coward.
• Ren Ye shared a final drink with Zhao Mi in the Formation Core Chamber, asked why he had never taken his Three Thousand Secret Treasures, and told him he was the outsider he was most grateful to.

Ren Ye explained to Zhao Mi how he uncovered the truth about the Origin Eyes, the Tomb Keepers, and Zhao Haochen’s role in the Zhao Family’s rebellion. After learning that Zhao Mi had tried to protect his clan while upholding the law, Ren Ye revealed that Zhao Haochen and the elders responsible had already died by suicide, leaving Zhao Mi with his son’s final message.

• Ren Ye told Zhao Mi that his fairness and care had protected Ren Ye, while Zhao Haochen’s proximity to the Three Thousand Secret Treasures had fueled his desire to seize them for the Zhao Family.
• Ren Ye explained how Tian Wei had taken his Origin Eyes and reconstructed the Tomb Keepers’ plot from Zhou Taozhi’s memories and his own sensations in the coffin; Zhao Mi confirmed the account.
• Ren Ye deduced that Zhao Mi had entered the Divine Tomb to guard against Sun Michen, then had cared for Ren Ye after killing the two Tomb Keepers who tried to steal his eyes.
• Zhao Mi revealed that Yang Huanzhen and Zhao Family elders had drugged him and placed him under house arrest, and that he had acted to prevent needless deaths and preserve the clan’s strength.
• Ren Ye thanked Zhao Mi as his Path Guardian, but said the responsible Zhao Family members had to die for justice to be served.
• Ren Ye told Zhao Mi that Zhao Haochen and more than twenty elders had killed themselves in their cells, then delivered Zhao Haochen’s uneaten porridge and final message to his father.

Ren Ye left Delusion Village after completing its final hidden task and joined the others at Homesickness Tower to await Leaving Hometown Road. There, he and the Storyteller secretly poisoned each other, and Ren Ye caught the Storyteller trying to extract his Chaos Origin Qi.

• Ren Ye completed the hidden task “The Final Truth,” received the Incense Token, and learned that Zhao Haochen and the Zhao Family Clan Elders had chosen suicide to clear Zhao Mi’s name.
• Ren Ye settled with the Li Family, while Li Xiaopang persuaded Second Uncle Li to help Da Erbi obtain a place on Leaving Hometown Road.
• The immortal radiance appeared, and Ren Ye, Fatty, Da Erbi, and the others crossed the divine bridge to Homesickness Tower as Second Uncle Li decided to leave Delusion Village too.
• Ren Ye met Da Erbi privately at a banquet and recognized him as the Storyteller, who had returned under an alias after surviving his battle with Zhao Mi.
• The Storyteller drugged Ren Ye’s soup and tried to draw out his Chaos Origin Qi, but Ren Ye revealed that he had poisoned the Storyteller’s wine with every deadly poison he had obtained from the Li Family.

Ren Ye exposed the Storyteller as an Order Traveler who had stolen a Chaos Traveler’s place and entered Delusion Village to obtain the Chaos Origin Qi. Ren Ye gave him the Qi, opening Leaving Hometown Road, and departed Delusion Village with Fatty while anticipating the coming Heavenly Capital arc.

• Ren Ye explained how he deduced the Storyteller was a Player, and the Storyteller admitted he had taken a Chaos Traveler’s place using a stolen Heaven’s Grace Token.
• The Storyteller revealed that he needed the Chaos Origin Qi to avoid becoming lost, and Ren Ye willingly drew it out and handed it over.
• The Storyteller absorbed the Chaos Origin Qi, causing Leaving Hometown Road to open and the Cultivators outside Homesickness Tower to set off.
• Ren Ye gave the Storyteller the Antidote, and the Storyteller promised to return the Chaos Qi before leaving as a Divine Rainbow.
• Ren Ye reunited with Fatty, said goodbye to Delusion Village and Tan Pangzi, and thought of the approaching Ninety-Nine Human Emperor.

Ren Ye completed the Delusion Village secret realm, gained two divine rewards, and reached the consummate Fourth Grade realm before returning to the Old Fisherman. The Old Fisherman recruited him as an undercover captain for the Fulong Pavilion and sent him to rescue Jiu Zhi, while Jiu Zhi remained imprisoned in North Wind Town.

• The Heavenly Dao rewarded Ren Ye for fully exploring Delusion Village, and he chose the southern bright separation fire and a fragment of the Divine Canon Mending Heaven Formula.
• Ren Ye received ten god-level enlightenment sources and ten Understanding-level Dao Comprehension Sources, then checked his status and found that he still needed to complete his advancement assignment to reach Fifth Grade.
• After returning from the secret realm, Ren Ye told the Old Fisherman that he was Huang Qi, the Lord of Delusion's legitimate son, and described Delusion's spirit as extreme rules and extreme fairness.
• The Old Fisherman recruited Ren Ye to infiltrate Chaos on behalf of Order, appointed him captain of the Fulong Pavilion's Heavenly Mystery Squad, and gave him the Fulong Token.
• The Old Fisherman ordered Ren Ye to rescue Jiu Zhi from the Heavenly Radiance Temple's Great Might Heavenly Dragon in North Wind Town, where Jiu Zhi had been imprisoned and abused for half a month.

Ren Ye reached Heavenly Capital and met Fulong Pavilion master Long Er, who gave him a new identity for infiltrating North Wind Town. The identity also triggered a contradictory Chaos Faction assignment to steal a treasured medicine from Wang Anquan, leaving Ren Ye caught between opposing missions.

• Old Fisherman directed Ren Ye to meet Young Master Long Er at Qionghua House in Heavenly Capital.
• Ren Ye traveled to Heavenly Capital and found Long Er at Qionghua House, where Long Er tasked him with rescuing Jiu Zhi and locating the missing agent Punching Bag.
• Long Er ordered Ren Ye to secretly investigate commander Wang Anquan, turn him back to the Divine Court if possible, and help retake North Wind Town.
• Long Er used a strand of Zhenyi's Divine Soul to give Ren Ye the cover identity of a novice monk from Heavenly Radiance Temple.
• The Heaven's Grace Token assigned Ren Ye to steal the Dao-Comprehending Ginseng Fruit from Wang Anquan for Arhat Yuyang, while also giving him Order Faction missions to save Jiu Zhi and Punching Bag and recover North Wind Town.
• Ren Ye realized his two factions' assignments conflicted because one demanded he support Wang Anquan while the other required him to steal from him.

Ren Ye prepared to impersonate the monk Zhenyi by securing funding and buying Chaos-tainted disguise tools for his mission in North Wind Town. While shopping in the Heavenly Capital, he ran into his old friend Fatty Chu, who had reached Fifth Grade.

• Ren Ye pointed out that Order’s mission to recruit Wang Anquan conflicted with Chaos’s demand to kill him, and Long Er told him to prioritize Order’s assignment.
• Ren Ye persuaded Long Er to provide five hundred thousand Star Source, then left to buy disguise and assassination tools in the West Tower Bustling District.
• Ren Ye spent nearly three million Star Source on ominous treasures, pills, talismans, and a controllable corpse to conceal his identity as an Order cultivator.
• Ren Ye recognized a familiar liquor fragrance at a fortune-telling stall and exposed the Taoist priest’s scam to a woman seeking relief from bad luck.
• Ren Ye answered the riddles about the Park District’s child of Destiny and Monkey Lord, then recognized the Taoist priest as Fatty Chu and learned that he had reached Fifth Grade.

Ren Ye reunited with Daoist Chu in the Heavenly Capital, traded intelligence about the factions and assignments, and persuaded him to join the journey to North Wind Town. Disguised as the monk Zhenyi, Ren Ye reached the Fortune Comes Inn, where an explorer from the Chaos Faction introduced himself as Wang Tudou.

• Daoist Chu explained that he had searched for Ren Ye and shared news about the Heavenly Capital’s factions, assignments, and the New Year's Watchers.
• Ren Ye told Daoist Chu about his conflicting assignments and lured him into joining the trip to North Wind Town by promising access to the Delusion Divine Tomb; Daoist Chu agreed and provided two million Star Source.
• Ren Ye merged with the three wisps of Zhenyi’s Divine Soul, disguised himself with a Disguise Pill, and traveled with Daoist Chu to the Fortune Comes Inn.
• The innkeeper verified Ren Ye’s password and brought him and Daoist Chu to meet the Divine Monk Prefecture’s waiting contact.
• The contact introduced himself as Wang Tudou and revealed that he was an explorer from the Chaos Faction.

Ren Ye disguised himself as a Remnant Soul while meeting Wang Tudou and the monk Mora, then traveled with their groups toward North Wind Town. Three days later, garrison commander Wang Anquan prepared his sons for the arriving Heavenly Radiance Temple officials, while the imprisoned Little Marquis noticed his food had improved.

• Wang Tudou introduced Ren Ye to his traveling companions and Mora, the Fifth-Grade monk who would oversee the Inner Manor in North Wind Town.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu concluded that Wang Tudou and his companions were Travelers, and Ren Ye warned Daoist Chu that Wang Tudou was dangerous.
• Mora, Wang Tudou, and Ren Ye set out for North Wind Town with their respective groups and arrived three days later.
• Wang Anquan shaved both sons' heads and told his younger son that doing so would protect him, then ordered the Steward to entertain the sixteen arriving officials.
• The Little Marquis received an unusually good meal in North Wind Town's prison and guessed that something was happening.