Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye explored the nine Dragon Treasures Pavilions while struggling to choose a second treasure to pair with Destiny for completing the Emperor Scripture. As his indecision deepened, his Divine Avatar proposed a dangerously unconventional path, and the Heavenly Dao relayed another challenge from I'm a Wimp.

• Ren Ye refused challenges from all three contestants and accepted a two-month ban on issuing or accepting challenges because his Infiltrator Token had expired.
• Ren Ye explored the Dragon Treasures Pavilions, finding soul treasures, Divine Blood, a Crimson Blood Red Lotus, a young Divine Dragon Immortality Medicine, and rare Dao qi.
• Ren Ye finished touring all nine pavilions but remained unable to decide which treasure to pair with Destiny for the Emperor Scripture's Advancement Chapter.
• Ren Ye's Divine Avatar appeared beneath the Human Emperor Seal and offered to complete the Emperor Scripture, revealing a wildly unconventional method born from Ren Ye's hidden thoughts and divinity.
• The Heavenly Dao announced that I'm a Wimp had challenged Knife Hidden in Shit again and taunted Ren Ye for refusing to fight.

Ren Ye accepted Melon’s challenge, hoping to win his 22 victory points while concealing his identity, and entered the dueling arena as Knife Hidden in Shit. Melon overwhelmed Ren Ye’s Ten Thousand Bone Jar and chased him across the arena as Wei Tianbao watched, still unable to judge Melon’s full strength.

• Ren Ye concluded Melon was a formidable fighter with 22 victory points and accepted the challenge rather than forfeit.
• Wei Tianbao bought a spectator ticket and entered the arena alongside Prisoner of Time.
• Ren Ye and Melon exchanged taunts before Melon charged at extraordinary speed.
• Ren Ye summoned the Ten Thousand Bone Jar, unleashed ten thousand Wronged Souls, and fled while Melon pursued him.
• Wei Tianbao searched his Heavenly Pride Record for clues about Ren Ye’s jar but found no certain way to identify him.
• Melon crushed the Wronged Souls with his fists and chased Ren Ye, while Wei Tianbao regretted paying to watch what seemed like a one-sided fight.

Ren Ye used a staged sword duel and the Spirit-Surge Method to conceal his strength from Melon, then countered Melon's strongest punch with the Human Emperor Sword. The Heavenly Dao declared Ren Ye the winner, and Melon fell into Heavenly Fortune Lake.

• Melon overwhelmed Ren Ye's damaged Nine Peaks Divine Swords with his bare hands while mocking him.
• Ren Ye unleashed the Wangwu Sword with a surge of spiritual qi, but Melon stopped it and knocked it away.
• Melon pressed his attack, and Ren Ye used the Spirit-Surge Method to dodge and endure Melon's blows while appearing near defeat.
• As Melon prepared his strongest punch, Ren Ye revealed the Human Emperor Sword, activated his Holy Eyes, and infused the blade with Southern Bright Separation Fire and spiritual qi.
• Ren Ye timed a sword strike to interrupt Melon's attempt to enter the Extreme Realm and carved a deep wound across his chest.
• The Heavenly Dao declared Knife Hidden in Shit the winner, and Melon plunged into Heavenly Fortune Lake.

After defeating Melon with a carefully staged ambush, Ren Ye discussed a dangerous method of completing the Emperor Scripture with his Divine Avatar, then received another challenge from Melon. The chapter ended with Ren Ye weighing whether to accept the rematch while several Dragon Palace observers eagerly awaited his decision.

• Ren Ye reflected that his victory over Melon had relied on acting and surprise, and reviewed how the Returning Dragon Art suited his powerful original body.
• Ren Ye debated the Emperor Scripture with his Divine Avatar, whose proposed method involved shattering Ren Ye’s Star Core Inner Core to create two cores and reach Second Rank.
• Wei Tianbao struggled to assess Knife Hidden in Shit after the duel and gave him an A-plus rating.
• Melon analyzed Ren Ye’s escalating spiritual-energy technique, then used his Copying Painter ability to recreate their duel and study it from above.
• Ren Ye considered the Divine Avatar’s dangerous proposal but rejected it for the moment, then began reviewing the Returning Dragon Art.
• Melon challenged Knife Hidden in Shit to another duel and promised a surprise, while Wei Tianbao and a Spirit Beast urged Ren Ye to accept; Ren Ye weighed the risks.

Ren Ye accepted Melon’s rematch, intending to use his physical strength while keeping his other tricks hidden, but Melon revealed a stronger body-cultivation realm and copied the Returning Dragon Technique. Their brutal fight ended with both badly wounded, while Prisoner of Time identified Ren Ye as having an Emperor Body and being Heaven’s Favored.

• Ren Ye accepted Melon’s challenge and agreed to fight using only their bodies, while several high-ranking Travelers watched.
• Melon revealed his Nirvana Human King Body, and Ren Ye’s own blood and qi surged in response as the Heavenly Dao suppressed them both.
• Ren Ye met Melon’s opening punch head-on and forced him back, surprising the spectators and Melon.
• Melon analyzed Ren Ye’s Returning Dragon Technique, explained its method, and then used it himself after copying it.
• Ren Ye resolved to defeat Melon regardless, and the two exchanged a bloody series of close-range blows over Heavenly Fortune Lake.
• Prisoner of Time wrote “Emperor Body” and “Heaven’s Favored” while the spectators struggled to assess the fighters.

Ren Ye and Melon fought to a bloody stalemate until the Heavenly Dao forced them back into spirit-beast forms, then Ren Ye tricked Melon into copying a dangerous cultivation method. Melon’s head exploded, leaving Ren Ye alive and the duel’s outcome unresolved.

• Ren Ye and Melon exchanged hundreds of brutal blows, awakening Ren Ye’s Emperor Blood and revealing the strength of Melon’s Human King Body.
• Melon formed a sword from his blood essence and severed Ren Ye’s left arm, but Ren Ye tore out three of Melon’s ribs and prepared to strike a killing blow.
• The Heavenly Dao interrupted their attacks because Melon’s Infiltrator Token expired, transforming both duelists into concealed spirit-beast forms while allowing the duel to continue.
• Ren Ye pretended to demonstrate a spirit-beast technique, using the Rhinoceros Emperor Inner Canon to draw and suspend a dangerous spirit pearl above his head.
• Melon imitated Ren Ye and drew an apple-sized spirit pearl into his Baihui acupoint, causing his head to explode and his Divine Soul to shatter.

After defeating Melon, Ren Ye returned to Yaoguang Peak and found his cave destroyed and his companions missing. He reunited with them and learned that the Golden-Haired Hou’s spirit beast army had ambushed them and was hunting them even after revival.

• Melon reflected on losing to Ren Ye, then tried drawing a tiny spiritual energy orb into his body and burst into a bloody mist.
• Ren Ye rejected Melon’s rematch request, left the Dragon Palace, and returned to Yaoguang Peak after more than a month away.
• Ren Ye found his cave collapsed and followed familiar routes to the Forty-Third Peak, where he reunited with Apu, Brother Tiger, and Wang Lili.
• Brother Tiger and Wang Lili explained that a group led by the Golden-Haired Hou and a Lushu Beast had attacked them, with the Travelers they had offended secretly instigating the assault.
• Ren Ye learned the attackers intended to eliminate them from the Myriad Spirits Garden Secret Realm and had posted sentries near revival locations.
• An Azure Flood Dragon urged its companions to split up and meet later when the Fortunate Destiny Contest grew more intense.

Ren Ye sent Brother Tiger, Apu, Wang Lili, and Ox Little Mouse to the Dragon Palace while he stayed behind to cultivate and prepare for the struggle over Yaoguang Peak's Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion. After months of stalemate and secret training, he received another duel challenge from Melon, who wagered all sixteen of his remaining victory points.

• Ren Ye rejected the idea of surrendering to the Golden-Haired Hou and Lushu, then ordered Brother Tiger, Apu, Wang Lili, and Ox Little Mouse to travel together to the Dragon Palace.
• Brother Tiger's group left for the Dragon Palace, while Ren Ye stayed to watch the contest at Yaoguang Peak and have his divine avatar work on the Rhinoceros-Ox Emperor Scripture's advancement chapter.
• Ren Ye soothed and buried the dead spirit beasts across the Fortunate Destiny peaks, using their souls to nurture reincarnation aura for the Lotus Lamp.
• The Golden-Haired Hou and Lushu's forces repeatedly fought the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant for control of Yaoguang Peak's dao mansion, giving Ren Ye's squad time to develop.
• Melon challenged Ren Ye to another duel, and Ren Ye sent back a message demanding a higher stake.
• Melon accepted the higher stake and wagered all sixteen of his remaining victory points on one decisive duel against Knife Hidden in Shit.

Little Bad King accepted Wimp’s third duel and used reincarnation aura to attack him, but Wimp’s body survived the years passing over it. As Little Bad King prepared a sword strike with his Divine Avatar, Wimp began to stir a hidden Forbidden Art, then held back to avoid revealing his own depths.

• Little Bad King accepted Wimp’s challenge with an additional wager of sixteen victory points and entered the arena as Knife Hidden in Shit.
• Wimp explained that he had mastered the Returning Dragon Technique and vowed to defeat Little Bad King in a contest of physical strength.
• Wimp attacked with the Nirvana Human King Body, but Little Bad King blocked his punch with reincarnation aura from the Reincarnation Lotus Lamp.
• Little Bad King’s reincarnation aura aged Wimp’s body, yet Wimp repeatedly revived and endured the attack.
• Little Bad King summoned his Divine Avatar and the Human Emperor Sword to finish Wimp, who sensed secret powers in the realm but chose not to reveal his Forbidden Art.

Ren Ye defeated Melon for the third time, secured thirty-one victory points, and reunited with Dragon Head and Rooster on the Forty-Third Peak. After learning the gathered Travelers were making their way to Yaoguang Peak, he set off for the Dragon Palace to exchange for two treasures and later confronted his Divine Avatar about whether it had written something.

• Melon reflected on his hidden Heaven-Favored Arts and chose not to reveal them, then begged Ren Ye to kill him gracefully before Ren Ye thrust his sword into Melon's mouth and won their third match.
• The Heavenly Dao awarded Ren Ye thirty-one victory points, while Wei Tianbao and the prophetess reconsidered what they had witnessed and Prisoner of Time left the arena.
• Melon tried to copy Ren Ye's Reincarnation Aura and Divine Avatar on White Paper, but both images blurred, so he wrote “I'm a Wimp. Don't argue!” on the paper and pasted it to his forehead before falling asleep.
• Ren Ye returned to retrieve his sculpture and found Dragon Head and Rooster beside it; he learned Dragon Head had reunited with several Travelers and that the rest were expected to reach Yaoguang Peak within a month.
• Ren Ye stayed with Dragon Head and Rooster for a day, then left alone for the Dragon Palace to exchange for two treasures; after returning there over a month later, he summoned his Divine Avatar and demanded to know whether it had written something.

Ren Ye and his Divine Avatar completed the Human Emperor Scripture: Yin-Yang Chapter, then Ren Ye gathered the divine objects and resources needed to cultivate it. He shattered his Star Core and used purple-gold destiny and reincarnation aura to reshape it, triggering a heavenly phenomenon that astonished Wei Tianbao and Melon.

• Ren Ye and the Divine Avatar reconciled their dispute and worked together to write the Human Emperor Scripture: Yin-Yang Chapter, crediting its foundation to the Rhinoceros Emperor Inner Canon.
• Ren Ye spent eleven victory points to redeem the Di Ting statue and used the remaining points to obtain purple-gold destiny.
• Ren Ye returned to his Azure Ox form and condensed Fire Essence Stones, spirit-pill dregs, and Seven-Treasure Spirit-Restoring Pills into three spiritual pearls inside his Dantian.
• Ren Ye used the spiritual pearls to crack and shatter his Star Core Inner Core, then activated purple-gold destiny, reincarnation aura, and the Demon Monk Inheritance Method to nurture its two halves.
• New Dao rhyme energy surged from Ren Ye as thunder and rosy light appeared over Heavenly Fortune Lake, prompting Wei Tianbao and Melon to react in alarm.

Ren Ye endured the painful growth of twin Star Core Inner Cores, entered the Second Rank Realm, and prepared to leave the Dragon Palace. He discovered the palace and Heavenly Fortune Lake had become a decayed graveyard, then heard unseen footsteps approaching, while Apu warned the Park District Squad that they might not be able to compete for the Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion.

• The Female Prophet, Melon, and the Prisoner of Time speculated about the heavenly phenomenon caused by newly formed Dao Qi.
• Ren Ye endured more than a month of agony as his twin Star Core Inner Cores grew, then entered the Second Rank Realm and created the Human Emperor Scripture’s cultivation method through the fifth grade.
• Ren Ye prepared to leave the Dragon Palace, confident in his new strength and eager to return to the Park District Squad.
• Ren Ye discovered that the Dragon Palace had become ancient and ruined and that Heavenly Fortune Lake was filled with shattered souls and countless bones.
• Ren Ye realized the True Dragon had been absent for over a year, then heard unseen footsteps approaching through the dark corridor.
• Apu rushed to the Park District Squad on the Forty-Third Peak and warned Dragon Head that they might not be able to compete for the Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion on Yaoguang Peak.

Little Bad King escaped the Dragon Palace after encountering an unseen presence, then returned to Forty-Third Peak and found Ren Ye’s squad assembled. After learning that the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant had allied with Lushu and Golden-Haired Hou, Ren Ye decided to stay on Yaoguang Peak but ordered everyone to flee before Lushu’s forces could attack them.

• Little Bad King recorded the Dragon Palace’s strange dangers and resolved to return after reuniting with his squad.
• Ren Ye returned to Forty-Third Peak and met the assembled squad, including Dragon Head, Little Marquis, Tang Feng, Apu, Xu Bangzi, Deng Tongqi, and the New Year's Watchers.
• Deng Tongqi and the others told Ren Ye that the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant had allied with Lushu and Golden-Haired Hou, combining their forces to claim Yaoguang Peak’s Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion.
• Apu revealed that Lushu had offered the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant a place in the Fortune Source Dao Mansion and thirty cultivation positions for its Spirit Beasts.
• Ren Ye refused to abandon Yaoguang Peak because of his grudge with Lushu’s forces, but ordered the squad to flee before they could be hunted at their respawn points.
• Lou Changfeng and Ding Ying urged Lushu to send Spirit Beasts to ambush Bai Ze’s group at Forty-Third Peak, and Lushu recognized that they wanted him to settle their personal grudge.

Zhang Biyun approved Ding Ying and Lou Changfeng’s plan to wipe out Bai Ze’s group, but Ren Ye anticipated the attack and moved his squad away from the Forty-Third Peak. After the attackers found the camp empty, Ren Ye began preparing a counterplan, then started dreaming at the Fifty-Second Peak, signaling an approaching anomalous death.

• Ding Ying urged Zhang Biyun to help eliminate Bai Ze’s group, and Zhang Biyun agreed after she and Lou Changfeng spoke plainly about their desire for revenge.
• Lou Changfeng and Ding Ying led hundreds of spirit beasts to the Forty-Third Peak, but found Bai Ze’s group gone and suspected someone had warned them.
• The Seven-Colored Divine Elephant rebuked Lou Changfeng and left, while Ding Ying advised returning to search for Bai Ze’s trail later.
• Ren Ye explained to Deng Tongqi that he had predicted the attack and planned to strengthen the enemy force before defeating it through a larger strategy.
• Ren Ye took the Park District Squad to the Fifty-Second Peak, where he began dreaming during the night.

After his fourth mysterious disappearance, Ren Ye revived and learned that Tang Feng, Dragon Head, and Deng Tongqi had also died for the first time. Tang Feng proposed that the disappearances targeted valuable, gifted spirit beasts, leaving Ren Ye anxious about surviving another likely outbreak that night.

• Ren Ye dreamed of becoming Ox Daoist, having an affair with a noble consort, and being caught in a plot to enthrone their son before the Heavenly Dao announced his fourth death and demanded 800,000 Star Source for revival.
• Ren Ye paid the fee, revived near camp, and discovered that Tang Feng had also died in a mysterious disappearance.
• Dragon Head and Deng Tongqi returned and confirmed that they too had suffered their first deaths in the secret realm.
• The squad tallied its deaths, and Tang Feng theorized that traffickers targeted gifted spirit beasts whose value had increased as they matured.
• Ren Ye realized that his repeated revivals and growing potential may have made him a target, and he feared another disappearance outbreak would leave him with too few revival chances.

Ren Ye persuaded Black Brother Dog to join the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant’s faction and recruit displaced spirit beasts, offering pills in exchange for helping disrupt the alliance with Lushu. He returned to camp claiming he had also found a place where the squad could avoid the bizarre disappearances, but the chapter left the location undisclosed.

• Ren Ye met Black Brother Dog and learned that Lushu’s alliance with the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant had driven the dog and his followers away from Yaoguang Peak.
• Ren Ye argued that a rival faction could upset the alliance’s balance and persuaded Black Brother Dog to become that rival by joining the Seven-Colored Divine Elephant.
• Ren Ye offered Black Brother Dog Seven-Treasure Spirit-Restoring Pills and pill residue in exchange for recruiting displaced spirit-beast squads, and Black Brother Dog accepted.
• Ren Ye promised Black Brother Dog and all his followers a place to cultivate below the three mansions if the plan succeeded.
• Ren Ye returned to camp and told Dragon Head and the others that he had found a place where they could avoid the disappearances.

Ren Ye persuaded the New Year's Watchers to avoid the mysterious disappearances by hiding on Thirty-Three Medicine Peaks, where he suspected the hunters operated. As the group set out, Black Brother Dog brought his followers to join Seven-Colored Divine Elephant, secretly driven by the Seven-Treasure Pill he had taken from Ren Daniú.

• Deng Tongqi proposed using Infiltrator Tokens to return to their original bodies and ambush whoever was hunting spirit beasts, but Ren Ye warned that the current hunters might be too powerful to confront safely.
• Ren Ye argued that the herbal miasma on Thirty-Three Medicine Peaks could conceal them and that the mountain might be the hunters’ base, citing their dreams of wooden crates, the parked herb carriages, and the numbered Netherman Puppet he had captured.
• Most of the group accepted Ren Ye’s plan, and he led them from Fifty-Two Peaks toward Thirty-Three Medicine Peaks to avoid the disappearances and investigate the mountain.
• Seven-Colored Divine Elephant agreed to meet Black Brother Dog after hearing that he wanted to join him.
• Black Brother Dog arrived with his brothers and begged to join Seven-Colored Divine Elephant, while privately blaming his decision on the Seven-Treasure Pill he had taken from Ren Daniú.

Black Brother Dog secured permission for his spirit beast squad to cultivate on Yaoguang Peak by shamelessly flattering Tuoba Chan, who planned to use them as front-line fighters. Meanwhile, the Park District Squad found corpse puppets leaving the Medicine Peaks and decided to send the Little Marquis into the Taoist temple to investigate.

• Black Brother Dog convinced Tuoba Chan to let his brothers settle on Yaoguang Peak, while Tuoba Chan privately planned to use them in a future attack.
• Ding Ying ordered a junior brother to watch Tuoba Chan's new recruits, but chose not to disturb Zhang Biyun while he dealt with another disappearance.
• The Park District Squad hid in medicinal field C and watched seven synchronized corpse puppets leave the three-courtyard Taoist temple around Zi Hour.
• The Little Marquis explained that the puppets were exceptionally powerful and likely controlled by someone with a Dao-Touching Realm true body.
• After Gan Jinrong and a black-robed man left the temple, Ren Ye proposed sneaking inside to find clues, and the squad chose the Little Marquis for the task.

Ren Ye and the others infiltrated the three-courtyard Taoist temple to search for evidence of the Spirit Beast hunters, suspecting An Mountain Master was behind the operation. They found a hidden passage beneath his bed, and after the Little Marquis shoved Ren Ye inside, a corpse appeared and asked if he would marry her.

• The Little Marquis used his Infiltrator Token to scout the temple and found its disciples asleep, so Ren Ye decided they should search before the Corpse Puppets returned.
• Ren Ye, the Little Marquis, Dragon Head, and Deng Tongqi entered the temple and reasoned that the main hall was the likeliest hiding place for the hunters' puppets and evidence.
• Deng Tongqi discovered a mechanism in An Mountain Master's bedroom and opened a hidden passage beneath the bed.
• The Little Marquis shoved Ren Ye through the narrow entrance, and Ren Ye fell into the darkness below.
• A blue flame approached Ren Ye, and a deathly pale corpse appeared and asked whether he would marry her.

Ren Ye and the others became trapped in the Medicine Peak underground passage, where poisonous miasma and two powerful corpse puppets overwhelmed the three fighters. As Deng Tongqi drew both puppets’ attention by answering the woman’s marriage proposal, Ren Ye searched for a clue to the mechanism before time ran out.

• A female corpse and a half-cremated male corpse confronted Ren Ye and the Little Marquis, repeatedly asking whether they would marry them.
• Deng Tongqi and Dragon Head joined Ren Ye and the Little Marquis, but the passage sealed behind them and the Heavenly Dao announced a half-hour deadline to disable its mechanism.
• Green miasma filled the passage as the four discovered the two corpses were powerful puppets bearing mysterious divine dao star sand.
• Deng Tongqi and Dragon Head initially drove the puppets back, but the miasma and the puppets’ silver-lit bodies turned the fight against them.
• The Little Marquis suggested answering the corpses’ repeated question, and Deng Tongqi’s proposal caused both puppets to focus their attacks on him.
• Ren Ye searched for a clue to the mechanism while Deng Tongqi fled from the two puppets and the others struggled to survive.