Chapter Summaries

Ren Ye and his companions distributed the Dao Abodes to those who needed them most, then learned that the Female Prophet wanted the nine peak leaders to investigate the disappearances on Medicine Peak together. As An Mountain Master’s superior warned him to lie low, a porcupine at Tianshu Peak prepared to join the hunt and seek revenge.

• Ren Ye gave the Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion to Wang Lili, Brother Tiger gave the Earth Star Dao Mansion to Xu Bangzi, and the Little Marquis handed the Heavenly Star Dao Mansion to Deng Tongqi for the New Year's Watchers.
• Ren Ye offered to reimburse Brother Tiger and the Little Marquis for their Dao Abode expenses, and they fled from him in alarm.
• An Mountain Master met his superior, who warned that Yunhai First Seat suspected him and ordered him to pause spirit-beast hunting for three years while secretly moving the treasures.
• More than a month later, Yin Guan arrived from Tianquan Peak and invited Ren Ye and the other nine peak leaders to join the Female Prophet in investigating the disappearances on Medicine Peak.
• At Tianshu Peak, a porcupine urged his senior brother to join the hunt so he could avenge himself on the swordsman who had struck him.

Ren Ye agreed to join the Female Prophet’s alliance meeting after Yaoguang Peak’s occupation period ended, then prepared his team to guard against betrayal. When every Traveler at the nine peaks failed to claim their Dao Mansions but Tuoba Chan succeeded, Ren Ye began to suspect that remnant soul spirit beasts were connected to the mysterious disappearances.

• The rhinoceros spirit explained the alliance meeting’s three-person limit, and Ren Ye agreed to attend five months later after Yaoguang Peak’s occupation period expired.
• Ren Ye gathered the Park District Squad, drew lots to select Deng Tongqi and Dragon Head as his companions, and told the remaining members to prepare for the alliance’s operation at Medicine Peak.
• The Female Prophet sent Ren Ye a secret message saying all four Dao Mansions on Tianquan Peak and the other main peaks had failed to be occupied.
• When Yaoguang Peak’s occupation period ended, Wang Lili and the other Travelers received a Heavenly Dao proclamation saying they were not the Dao Mansions’ true owners.
• Tuoba Chan succeeded in occupying the Human Star Dao Mansion, prompting Ren Ye to suspect that remnant soul spirit beasts might be involved in the disappearances.

Little Bad King theorized that remnant-soul spirit beasts might be spying on Travelers, then traveled with Dragon Head and Deng Tongqi toward Medicine Peak’s alliance meeting. They met Liu Suihan and his junior brothers beneath an ancient pine, where a junior brother described Little Bad King’s demon-mist disguise before a Chaos cultivator arrived to confront them.

• Little Bad King wondered whether remnant-soul spirit beasts were informing An Mountain Master’s gang and decided the Female Prophet might know more about the disappearances.
• Little Bad King, Dragon Head, and Deng Tongqi left Yaoguang Peak and stopped in a hollow near Medicine Peak to use their Infiltrator Tokens and Disguise Pills.
• Little Bad King discovered that the ancient pine was Liu Suihan, a Traveler from Tianshu Peak who had come to the alliance meeting.
• Liu Suihan told Little Bad King about his Order faction’s Plant-Person Army, and Little Bad King introduced Dragon Head and Deng Tongqi under false names.
• Liu Suihan struck a junior brother for insulting Ren Ye, and the junior brother described a demon-mist Traveler who could lower opponents’ realms and grades, prompting Ren Ye to recognize himself as the target.
• A black-robed Chaos cultivator appeared and accused Liu Suihan and the others of delaying on their way to the alliance meeting.

Ren Ye attended the alliance meeting, where the Female Prophet proposed a plan to expose the crimes on Medicine Peak and solve the mysterious disappearances. After the teams were assigned by lot, Ren Ye drew the shortest branch and was selected to lure An Mountain Master away, while Wei Tianbao approached him to ask about fate.

• Wei Mosan provoked Liu Suihan and mocked the Central Heaven Sect, but Liu threatened to kill him, forcing Wei and his companions to leave.
• Yang Youtian identified the Black Robe Daoist as Wei Mosan, the Corpse-Hoarder who had escaped the Chaotic Stone Sea, and Liu Suihan explained the Sea's dangers to Ren Ye.
• At the alliance meeting, the Female Prophet proposed occupying An Mountain Master, suppressing the Corpse Puppets, and controlling the disciples so the Dao Palace would discover the crimes on Medicine Peak.
• The Female Prophet explained her suspicion that An Mountain Master had disposed of spirit-beast corpses through the Irrigation Treasure Spring, poisoning animals downstream, and said Tianquan Peak's Golden-Winged Roc would provide disguises for the infiltrators.
• The peak lords agreed to choose teams by lot, and Ren Ye drew the shortest branch, assigning him to impersonate a disciple and lure An Mountain Master away.
• The Female Prophet asked Ren Ye whether her plan was thorough, and Wei Tianbao approached him and asked whether he believed in fate.

Ren Ye shared a way past Medicine Peak's corpse puppets and sold Wei Tianbao emergency use of his incense burner before joining a disguised investigation to draw An Mountain Master away. The infiltration proceeded, but Yang Kai's impersonation became complicated when Gan Jinrong revealed her intimate connection to Liu Yumei.

• The Female Prophet identified Ren Ye as the Traveler who had obtained important clues, and Ren Ye explained that the corpse puppets' blood could temporarily protect infiltrators from the miasma.
• Ren Ye agreed to let Wei Tianbao use the miasma incense burner for one million star source per incense stick's worth of time.
• Ren Ye, Yang Kai, and three others disguised themselves as Punishment Hall disciples and persuaded An Mountain Master and Gan Jinrong to accompany an investigation of the Irrigation Treasure Spring.
• Yang Kai deflected An Mountain Master's procedural questions while sending three disguised disciples into the spring to investigate.
• Gan Jinrong privately approached Yang Kai as Liu Yumei's intimate partner and implied that Liu Yumei already knew about the spring's contamination.
• Deng Tongqi and the others began subduing the temple's disciples while the Female Prophet and Wei Tianbao slipped into the underground secret chamber.

Wei Tianbao and the Female Prophet retrieved Divine Dao Star Sand and entered Medicine Peak’s secret chamber, while Gan Jinrong exposed Yang Kai’s disguise and attacked him. An Mountain Master then launched an early assault with the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record, and Ren Ye fought him as Yang Kai returned to warn the others; the chapter ended with the Female Prophet preparing to break out of the chamber as the formation threatened to seal them in.

• Wei Tianbao restrained the Passion Slave Corpse Puppets with more than twenty treasures, collected Divine Dao Star Sand, and helped the Female Prophet reach the secret chamber.
• Gan Jinrong lured Yang Kai into the woods, recognized that he was an impostor, and stabbed him with her Fifth-Grade Dagger before calling for An Mountain Master.
• An Mountain Master used the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record to flood the Irrigation Treasure Spring with poisonous miasma, trapping three investigators underwater.
• Ren Ye shattered the miasma barrier with a punch and fought An Mountain Master, then realized the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record was the core of the Medicine Peak Grand Formation.
• Yang Kai returned to the Three-Courtyard Taoist Temple and struck the ground to warn the group beneath it, while the Female Prophet ordered Wei Tianbao to help blast open the secret chamber.

Wei Tianbao used the Immortal-Felling Cannons to expose Medicine Peak’s hidden chamber and draw the Myriad Spirits Garden elders, but the arriving Dao-Touching Realm ancestor revealed that they were An Mountain Master’s accomplices. As the formation began to awaken and the escapees faced capture, Ren Ye suspected they had been relying too much on their true self bodies to solve the case.

• The Female Prophet and her companions blasted open the underground chamber, and Wei Tianbao flew out to summon five Immortal-Felling Cannons and fire Heavenflame Stone into the sky.
• Wei Tianbao’s cannon blasts lit up Medicine Peak and drew the attention of more than a dozen Fifth-Grade elders and a Dao-Touching Realm Living Ancestor.
• The Female Prophet released the corpse puppets to expose An Mountain Master’s lies, while Dragon Head’s squad confronted him and Ren Ye and the others scattered to escape.
• The Living Ancestor called An Mountain Master useless, ordered the elders to delay the escapees, and backed An Mountain Master as he began awakening the grand formation.
• The Female Prophet realized the arriving elders were An Mountain Master’s accomplices, and Ren Ye wondered whether relying on their true self bodies had led them to investigate the case incorrectly.

After the alliance’s disastrous assault on Medicine Peak, Ren Ye studied his clues and chose to use his father’s book-dissection method to rethink the case. He emerged with a plan to enter Medicine Peak alone again, while the leaders of the other peaks received his invitation and questioned his motives.

• A Dao-Touching ancestor and An Mountain Master’s allies slaughtered most of the alliance at Medicine Peak, while Ren Ye and four others escaped.
• Ren Ye collected two million star source from Wei Tianbao and brought him to the Park District Squad, whose members frightened Wei into flying off toward Tianquan Peak.
• Ren Ye concluded that the alliance’s approach to the Bizarre Disappearance Case was wrong and spent two days reviewing his Clue Diary, including An Mountain Master’s schedule and the deaths of beasts downstream from the Irrigation Treasure Spring.
• Ren Ye decided to write a documentary novel and use his father Ren Daguo’s book-dissection method to organize the clues into storylines.
• After half a month in seclusion, Ren Ye sent letters inviting travelers from all nine peaks to hide outside Medicine Peak while he entered alone.
• Nong Zhiwei weighed Ren Ye’s invitation, while the Female Prophet and Wei Tianbao reacted with disbelief and suspicion.

Ren Ye infiltrated Medicine Peak alone, stole a Golden Book from the Three-Courtyard Taoist Temple, and fled as An Mountain Master and a group of elders pursued him. His allies opened the items he had left behind to learn the next step of his plan, but the porcelain bottle contained only a drop of blood.

• After the Female Prophet's earlier alliance failed, Ren Ye invited the Travelers to gather while he entered Medicine Peak alone and asked them to wait for his signal.
• Ren Ye concealed his Azure Ox body's aura with destiny, hid near the temple, and used An Mountain Master's strict schedule to choose the right time to move.
• At the end of Zi Hour, Ren Ye returned to his true body, snatched the Golden Book from the temple, concealed it with the Human Emperor Seal's purple fortune, and fled.
• An Mountain Master and more than a dozen fifth-grade elders pursued Ren Ye as he allowed the Golden Book's aura to flicker, intending to draw them toward a concealed location.
• The Female Prophet told Dragon Head to open Ren Ye's secret letter and porcelain bottle, and the Little Marquis found a drop of blood inside the bottle.

Ren Ye used the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record and a jar of blood essence to stop An Mountain Master’s elders from attacking, then explained how unregistered spirit beasts had been secretly identified and captured. His revelation left the Travelers realizing that changing their unregistered status could be the key to surviving the secret realm’s trials.

• The Female Prophet identified the drop in the porcelain bottle as Ren Daniú’s blood essence, while Nong Zhiwei and Wei Tianbao recognized that Ren Ye was using destiny to conceal himself.
• After reading Ren Ye’s letter, Wei Tianbao flew northwest toward Medicine Peak, while Yang Youtian watched Ren Ye and suspected he resembled the person who had killed him.
• An Mountain Master and more than twenty fifth-grade elders surrounded Ren Ye, who destroyed their Soul-Breaking Nails with separation fire and threatened to stain the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record with hundreds of drops of blood essence.
• Ren Ye explained that Gan Jinrong had failed to register some spirit beasts in the Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record, allowing their blood essence and wooden tablets to guide their secret capture.
• Ren Ye argued that the missing spirit beasts and their failed attempts to occupy Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansions stemmed from their unregistered status, leaving the Female Prophet convinced she understood his plan.

Ren Ye used a decoy Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record to draw out Daoist Songgu while Wei Tianbao hid the real treasure and brought it to the Travelers. The Travelers entered their identities into the record, attracting the Dao Palace’s attention and breaking the deadlock, but Ren Ye was gravely wounded and faced capture as he received his stage reward.

• The Female Prophet realized Ren Ye had deduced that An Mountain Master left the record unattended during his bathing routine, while Ren Ye stalled An Mountain Master with a fabricated story about his brother.
• Daoist Songgu attacked Ren Ye with a short sword, destroying his right arm, and then shattered the destiny concealing the decoy record, exposing that it contained only golden light.
• An Mountain Master attacked Ren Ye in fury, while Wei Tianbao returned to the mountain hollow with the real Myriad Spirits Illustrated Record, which Ren Ye had secretly entrusted to him.
• Dragon Head entered Ren Daniú’s identity into the record using Azure Ox blood essence, and more than seven hundred spirit beasts followed by registering their names.
• The mass of new entries stirred the Myriad Spirits Stele, prompting Yunlu Daoist and other powerful figures to head for Medicine Peak as Ren Ye realized he was unlikely to escape Daoist Songgu.
• Ren Ye received the first-stage reward of powdered bones from a Divine Prohibition Realm being, while Wei Tianbao asked the Female Prophet to clear the others away and guard him.

Wei Tianbao used his flag to steal Ren Ye from the Dao-Touching Realm ancestor’s attack, but the feat destroyed his body and cost him a life. As the Dao Palace arrested Medicine Peak’s conspirators, Mountain Master An escaped while Gan Jinrong sacrificed herself, and a captive was held under guard on Tianquan Peak.

• Wei Tianbao summoned a black flag that plunged the peaks into darkness and carried Ren Ye away from Daoist Songgu’s strike, then disintegrated from the strain.
• Ren Ye thanked Wei Tianbao, who said saving Ren Ye repaid his debt for helping the Tianquan Peak Travelers; Ren Ye then tried to bargain with the Female Prophet over Golden-Winged Little Bird.
• Daoist Songgu abandoned his pursuit and went toward the city as Mountain Master An turned back to retrieve the wounded Gan Jinrong.
• Gan Jinrong urged Mountain Master An to leave her behind, then attacked a pursuing archer and died; An escaped through the Irrigation Treasure Spring but was later captured.
• Yunlu Daoist ordered Medicine Peak sealed and its prisoners held for questioning, while leaving Songgu’s fate to the Divine Court.
• Travelers on Tianquan Peak guarded a captive and warned him to wait quietly, while another Traveler asked if the order came from Little Bird Boss.

The Female Prophet used An Mountain Master’s Soul-Transfer Great Method to get herself killed in his body, see his cousin’s face, and earn a hidden reward for uncovering the Bizarre Disappearance Case. An Mountain Master was released as a wandering soul, while the case’s aftermath led Daoist Yunhai to announce a quest to discover who killed him and Ren Daniú prepared to enter the inner peaks.

• An Mountain Master’s cousin killed the body he believed belonged to An Mountain Master, but the Female Prophet had swapped yin souls with him and saw the cousin’s face before dying.
• At the Fortunate Destiny Dao Mansion, Qingzhi revealed the Female Prophet’s body had disappeared, and An Mountain Master’s yin soul learned he was free to leave.
• The chapter explained that the Female Prophet had arranged the soul swap to uncover the mastermind, then received a hidden reward for solving the Bizarre Disappearance Case and resurrected.
• An Mountain Master wandered away from the mountain range as a ghost, while the Female Prophet told Qingzhi that releasing him had fulfilled her promise.
• Daoist Yunhai announced a long-term quest offering a robe-rank promotion and triple rewards to anyone who discovered the cause of An Ping Xiong’s death, and the fat Taoist priest considered investigating.
• Ren Daniú examined the Divine Dao Star Sand he had won and resolved to cultivate until he could enter the inner peaks, before Tuoba Chan challenged him to compete for a reward of potent pills.

Ren Ye spent years cultivating on Yaoguang Peak, building a lively market and community before reaching the transformation realm and winning his wager with Tuoba Chan. He left for the Inner Peak after promising Ox Little Mouse they would meet again, then learned at the dormitory that he ranked second among his generation to transform.

• Little Bad King proposed a cultivation contest, then wagered with the Buddha's Son that the loser would owe pills or call the winner big brother for a hundred years.
• Ren Ye organized rainmaking services and a herb garden on Yaoguang Peak as commerce spread across the Nine Fortunate Destiny Peaks.
• After years in seclusion, Ren Ye emerged transformed, and Tuoba Chan acknowledged him as his sworn elder brother under their wager.
• At the celebration, Ren Ye comforted Ox Little Mouse, promised to wait for him on the Inner Peak, and gave him a sack of pills.
• Ren Ye left for the Inner Peak the next morning and learned at the dormitory that he was second in his generation to transform.

Ren Ye entered the Myriad Spirits Garden Inner Peak as the Second Scholar and learned that merit points determined his rank, assignments, and eventual rewards. After weighing the available Masters, he showed interest in Second Seat Yuntun’s lineage when Lu Wei offered him a welcoming gift.

• Ren Ye learned that the unidentified Top Scholar had entered the Transformation Realm before him, then received his Special-Grade Robe Promotion Reward from Lu Wei.
• Lu Wei explained the Inner Peak’s robe ranks and merit beads, and Ren Ye discovered he had thirty merit points, eleven more than an ordinary entrant.
• Reading the rules book triggered the Faith chapter’s assignments, which urged Travelers to build standing, watch for strange incidents, and investigate the True Dragon while warning of penalties for changing Masters.
• Ren Ye asked Lu Wei about the five Seats and learned that Yuntun oversaw the Internal Affairs Office and that Lu Wei was one of his disciples.
• Lu Wei revealed that Yuntun had prepared welcoming gifts for Ren Ye, and Ren Ye eagerly agreed to consider joining his lineage.

Ren Ye accepted the Second Seat’s tutelage, spent over two years doing menial work without missions or guidance, and met the Female Prophet when she joined the same master. The Second Seat finally summoned Ren Ye and revealed a secret mission: murder.

• Little Bad King chose the Second Seat as his master after Lu Wei used a Treasure Bag and a promised meal to secure his apprenticeship petition.
• The Second Seat granted Ren Ye access to most of the Spell Dao Pavilion and assigned him to the Miscellaneous Affairs Courtyard, where he spent over two years doing menial work without seeing his master again.
• The Female Prophet joined the Second Seat’s tutelage and met Ren Ye while he was feeding livestock; they exchanged information about their experiences and the likely first-place Traveler, the Golden-Haired Hou.
• An errand disciple summoned Ren Ye to Wanfu Palace, where the Second Seat noted that Ren Ye had endured two years of obscurity and revealed a secret mission involving murder.

Ren Ye accepted Cloud Boar’s secret assignment to retrieve a jade box and kill Zhang Fangyi and Guo An, along with the three disciples sent to help him. When the group reached Heavenly Capital, they found Zhang Fangyi being escorted by four strangers, and Ren Ye recognized a familiar gesture as he approached them.

• Cloud Boar told Ren Ye that Zhang Fangyi and Guo An had stolen public funds and a jade box, then ordered him to ambush and kill them and the three assisting disciples.
• Ren Ye received the assignment, learned it could earn three to six merit points, and spent the night preparing for possible complications.
• Bixiong, Zhou Fangfang, and Hunxiong met Ren Ye, and the four traveled to Heavenly Capital to stake out the East Rising Commercial Tower.
• Zhou Fangfang warned Ren Ye that Cloud Boar’s assignments had left only three of their original thirty fellow disciples alive.
• The group spotted Zhang Fangyi being led away by four unfamiliar men, and Ren Ye decided they should attack before the strangers could take him farther.
• As Ren Ye approached Zhang Fangyi and his escorts, he recognized a portly man’s gesture as strangely familiar.

Ren Ye and his companions pursued Zhang Fangyi after Zhou Fangfang’s illusion spell failed to stop his captors, but a military arrow killed Zhang Fangyi before they could recover the Mysterious Jade Box. While searching his body, Ren Ye recognized that his companions were plotting against him and killed Zhou Fangfang, then faced Bixiong and Hunxiong as a passing fat man reacted to his alias.

• Zhou Fangfang flooded the street with an illusion, but the middle-aged fat man seized Zhang Fangyi and escaped while Ren Ye fought the men left behind.
• Ren Ye suppressed and devoured the summoned ghosts, killed their summoner, and caught up with Zhou Fangfang, Bixiong, and Hunxiong as Zhang Fangyi broke free and the fat man fled.
• A fifth-rank arrow struck and killed Zhang Fangyi, so Ren Ye collected his body while the four disciples escaped the Night Patrol Soldiers and returned to search the corpse.
• Ren Ye found a dragon-and-phoenix jade token, then noticed Zhou Fangfang and the others preparing to attack him; he killed Zhou Fangfang when she tried to strike.
• Ren Ye used divine dao star sand to confront Bixiong and Hunxiong, claimed to be Bai Zhenzhen from Green City Mountain, and a passing fat man exclaimed at the coincidence.

Ren Ye and Daoist Chu reunited, defeated Hunxiong and Bixiong, and exchanged information about their missions and the Bizarre Disappearance Case. At the pawnshop, Ren Ye tried to use Zhang Fangyi’s jade token to retrieve a deposit, but the register showed it was fake, so he claimed it belonged to Cabinet Ten instead.

• Daoist Chu joined Ren Ye in the alley, and the two killed Hunxiong and Bixiong before heading toward the East Rising Commercial Tower.
• Daoist Chu told Ren Ye that Yunhai was investigating the Second Seat over An Mountain Master’s death and the Bizarre Disappearance Case, and shared his suspicions about a missing Internal Affairs Office disciple who may have vanished in the Dragon Palace.
• Ren Ye and Daoist Chu compared their missions and agreed that Yunhai’s conflict with the Second Seat and the missing disciple’s fate could help them uncover the truth.
• Ren Ye showed Daoist Chu the dragon-and-phoenix jade token he had taken from Zhang Fangyi, and they entered the pawnshop whose sign bore the same emblem.
• The pawnshop assistant said the Number Nine token had never been issued, so Ren Ye insisted that the token was for the Number Ten Cabinet.

Ren Ye completed the East Rising Commercial Tower assignment, earned five merit points, and gained the Second Seat’s trust enough to be transferred to a secret office. After a disciple reported his insults against the Second Seat, Ren Ye lost discipline points, and the chapter ended as an exceptionally beautiful horned woman came to meet him.

• Ren Ye retrieved the Number Ten Cabinet’s jade box by using jade token nine and the passcode “nine plus one,” completing the assignment.
• Ren Ye offered Daoist Chu a way to claim credit, but Daoist Chu declined the bodies and chose to report the events in his own way.
• Ren Ye presented the four bodies to the Second Seat and, pressed to speak honestly, insulted the Second Seat’s mother; the Second Seat laughed and praised Ren Ye’s potential.
• The Second Seat assigned Ren Ye to an office that did not exist within Myriad Spirits Garden and said Hall Master Lin Ye would oversee his future assignments.
• Ren Ye received five merit points, then learned that Geng Zhengliang had reported his insult and the Discipline Hall had deducted twenty discipline score points.
• Ren Ye began asking about Geng Zhengliang, but a Dormitory Courtyard disciple summoned him to meet a beautiful woman with small horns.