Chapter Summaries

Ren Daniu revealed himself as the Little Human Emperor, killed Liu Suihan and then defeated Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng with one sword strike. After forcing several Travelers to leave the secret realm, he left the Central Heaven Sect trio facing the New Year's Watchers’ deadly summons outside Heavenly Capital City.

• Ren Daniu refused Liu Suihan’s attempts to settle the dispute and demanded that Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng die permanently in the secret realm.
• Ren Daniu revealed his true identity as the Little Human Emperor, used the Human Emperor Seal to lower Liu Suihan’s realm, and killed him with the Wangwu Sword.
• Lin Ye arrived with over a thousand Second Seat disciples and elders, causing Nong Zhiwei and the Chaos faction to withdraw rather than fight.
• Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng restored their True Self Bodies and challenged Ren Daniu, but his single sword strike killed all three and drove them from the secret realm.
• Deng Tongqi arranged for two New Year's Watchers to leave the secret realm in exchange for rewards, and they destroyed their Star Cores to depart.
• Outside Heavenly Capital City, Wordless Steles summoned the New Year's Watchers to confront Yang Youtian, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng, who realized they were in danger.

Fan Ming led the New Year's Watchers to kill Yang Youtian and detain the Central Heaven Sect’s disciples, while Little Bad King and Lin Ye discovered the bodies of missing disciples in the Fourth Seat’s labyrinth. The chapter ended by revealing that Daoist Chu had stabbed the Little Marquis and begun enveloping him in black qi.

• Over ten thousand New Year's Watchers pursued Yang Youtian to Heavenly Capital, where Fan Ming killed him, Ding Ying, and Lou Changfeng and ordered Tailai Academy’s people detained.
• Yunlu reprimanded Lin Ye and four elders for charging into the Fourth Seat’s Dao Palace, then authorized Lin Ye and Ren Daniú to search it for evidence.
• Little Bad King, Black Dog, Lei Hu, and Lin Ye searched for the missing Daoist Chu and the Little Marquis, who had vanished with the Dragon Blood.
• Little Bad King and Lin Ye entered a hidden chamber in the Worry-Free Labyrinth and found over a hundred corpses, including the missing disciple Xu Jin.
• The chapter revealed that Daoist Chu had stabbed the Little Marquis after telling him to sever his connection to the Dragon Blood, then covered him with black qi as the Marquis thanked him.

After the Dragon Scale Case dissolved First Seat Cloud Dragon’s Artificer Hall, Second Seat Cloud Boar summoned Little Bad King and revealed how he had found and claimed the Passion Slave Corpse Puppets while hunting for a mysterious intruder. Their missing Dragon Blood couriers might signal that the same foul thing had struck again, while Lin Ye received word that Old Chu and the Little Marquis were outside Heavenly Capital City.

• The Divine Court closed the Dragon Scale Case, ordered Cloud Dragon’s arrest, and dissolved Artificer Hall, leaving its disciples under investigation or seeking new lineages.
• Little Bad King met Cloud Boar, who ordered him to end the Fortune-Bearing Tower and Eight Illusory Realms businesses and continue searching for the Dragon Blood and the missing Dao Lord and Chicken Lord.
• Cloud Boar recounted finding Su Yan and Shen Xu hidden beneath Medicine Peak, along with the Nether Canon Corpse-Control Technique and evidence of a powerful, sinister corpse-controller.
• Cloud Boar suspected that the mysterious foul thing had returned and might be responsible for the disappearance of the Dragon Blood couriers; Little Bad King then asked for his view of Cloud Dragon.
• At the Internal Affairs Office, Lin Ye opened a letter addressed to Ren Daniú and learned that Old Chu and the Little Marquis were outside Heavenly Capital City.

Little Bad King met Qingping outside Heavenly Capital City and followed her trail to an inn, where he discovered Geng Zhengliang eating the corpse of He Hong. The group faced a new anomaly as Geng Zhengliang announced that he had killed everyone there and needed to erase the evidence.

• The Second Seat described Cloud Dragon as inscrutable, and Little Bad King suspected that Cloud Dragon might be involved in the dragon blood affair.
• Qingping sent Little Bad King a letter saying she had found Fatty Chu and the Little Marquis, so he secured divine objects and set out with Lin Ye, Black Dog, and Lei Hu to meet her.
• Qingping told Little Bad King that Cloud Dragon had assigned her to track Chu and the Little Marquis using scented phosphorus powder, and that they had fled Myriad Spirits Garden willingly with the dragon blood.
• Qingping led the group toward Zhuma Township, where Chu and the Little Marquis were staying, while Little Bad King suspected Chu had been affected by an anomaly.
• The group entered Fengxie Inn near the Imperial Mausoleum and found Geng Zhengliang beside a corpse, claiming he had killed everyone and needed to destroy the evidence.
• Little Bad King recognized the corpse Geng Zhengliang was eating as He Hong.

Little Bad King and his companions confronted a Dao Realm being emerging from Geng Zhengliang, while the Second Seat drove the intruder away with his Great Dao true soul. The group tracked Old Chu and Lord Hou to the Imperial Mausoleum Ancestral Land, as Cloud Clear urged the Second Seat to stop investigating and kill his disciples.

• Geng Zhengliang's body split open as a black-shrouded Dao Realm being emerged and struck Dragon Head with a wisp of black qi.
• Little Bad King awakened the Second Seat through his jade thumb ring, and the Second Seat fought the intruder with a soul sword until it escaped through a spatial fissure.
• Little Bad King found that Old Chu and Chicken Lord had left Zhuma Inn, then followed three yellow ants with Lin Ye, Lei Hu, and Black Dog to the Imperial Mausoleum Ancestral Land.
• Dragon Head left the group after revealing that black qi had entered her body, while Little Bad King became absorbed in a sudden train of memories at the place where the ants lost Old Chu and Lord Hou's scent.
• Cloud Clear admitted that she had delivered evidence of the Second Seat's crimes to Fulong Pavilion and told him to stop investigating the Dragon Blood, summon his disciples back, and kill them.

Cloud Clear tried to persuade the Second Seat to join the Tomorrow Emperor by exposing the Divine Court’s schemes, while the Little Bad King pieced together clues linking the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land to the strange Dao Realm being. The Little Bad King secured Long Er’s help to seek permission to open the Ancestral Land and ended by telling the Divine Sect that he suspected the former Myriad Spirits First Seat, Perfected Baoyuan, was buried there but had not died.

• Cloud Clear denied that Eldest Brother was involved in her plan and urged the Second Seat to follow the Tomorrow Emperor, arguing that the Divine Court deliberately fostered corruption and division among the Myriad Spirits Garden siblings.
• The Second Seat hesitated to accept Cloud Clear’s proposal, and Ying He advised him to wait until he knew more about the mysterious emperor.
• The Little Bad King connected Old Chu’s knowledge of the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land, the corpse puppets Su Yan and Shen Xu, and their deaths, then contacted the Second Seat through his jade thumb ring.
• The Little Bad King asked Long Er to help open the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land, and Long Er ordered the area surrounded while seeking his father’s approval.
• Cloud Dragon removed a trace of black qi from Dragon Head and ordered her to remain in his sanctuary until the storm passed.
• The Little Bad King accompanied Long Er to meet the Divine Sect and declared that he suspected the former Myriad Spirits First Seat, Perfected Baoyuan, had not died.

Little Bad King accompanied Long Er into the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land to investigate whether Perfected Baoyuan was alive, while learning the legend of Human Emperor Yin Taili. When they opened Baoyuan’s coffin, his corpse suddenly awakened and seized Little Bad King, triggering a new Secret Realm story chapter.

• The Divine Court sovereign ordered Long Er to investigate Baoyuan’s coffin after Little Bad King argued that Baoyuan might still be alive.
• Long Er told Little Bad King how Human Emperor Yin Taili had entered the Imperial Mausoleum’s Ancestral Land more than three thousand years earlier and never emerged.
• Perfected Ling Xu led Long Er, Little Bad King, and Lin Ye into the Ancestral Land, where they opened Baoyuan’s coffin and found his corpse inside.
• Little Bad King spotted blood on Baoyuan’s sleeve and realized that the corpse was alive, then warned the Dao Realm cultivators.
• Baoyuan opened his eyes, grabbed Little Bad King by the neck, and declared that everyone present would be buried there as the Heavenly Dao Proclamation announced the “Calamity of the True Dragon.”

Perfected Baoyuan escaped the Imperial Mausoleum after trapping seven Dao Realm cultivators with his dark arts, and Little Bad King reported the discovery to Piggy Master. Little Bad King then gathered Order Travelers and urged them to transfer to the Second Seat’s sect, arguing that the Second Seat was trusted by the Divine Court and aligned with Order.

• Perfected Ling Xu and Long Er rescued Little Bad King from Perfected Baoyuan, but Baoyuan swallowed the True Dragon blood and escaped after trapping the seven Dao Realm cultivators inside the tomb’s formation walls.
• Little Bad King traveled back to the Heavenly Capital with Long Er, who promised to reward him and explained that the Divine Court had released the Second Seat because it trusted him.
• Little Bad King reported Baoyuan’s survival to Piggy Master, who revealed Baoyuan’s connection to the Tomorrow Emperor and tasked his disciple with finding him.
• Little Bad King organized an assembly of Order representatives and argued that Travelers should join the Second Seat’s sect to earn the best rewards.
• Little Bad King claimed the Second Seat belonged to Order because the Divine Court knew of his crimes yet had released him, while warning that Cloud Sea’s allegiance could change.

Little Bad King united most of Order behind the Second Seat, then followed a clue about Perfected Baoyuan’s death to Luodao City. After visiting a lively local bread shop, he searched Baoyuan’s former residence and found a century-old bloodstain.

• Little Bad King persuaded roughly eighty percent of Order’s Travelers to join the Second Seat’s Master’s Sect, while Deng Tongqi and Yang Kai kept teams back because they could delay their choices without losing Merit Points.
• Little Bad King discovered that Perfected Baoyuan had died shortly after returning from a three-year garrison rotation in Luodao City and received permission and a Dao Realm token to investigate.
• Little Bad King traveled to Luodao City with Tang Feng, Brother Tiger, and Wang Lili, where they learned the story behind Yin’s Executioner’s Bread and tried the popular flatbread.
• Little Bad King and the others searched the Daoist academy where Baoyuan had lived, and Little Bad King spotted a dark-red mark before the meditation cushion.
• Brother Tiger identified the mark as a bloodstain that had been there for at least a hundred years.

Little Bad King spent eleven years in seclusion after decades of war, seeking the Dao Realm and clarifying the Dao he wanted to pursue. He returned to find Stone Demon dead and Ox Little Mouse transformed into an old man who had created the Ordinary Beast Daoist Scripture, while Baoyuan finally prepared to surface in Luodao City.

• Little Bad King spent decades searching for Baoyuan, then watched the Migration Land fall into war as Heavenly Radiance Temple invaded Divine Court territory.
• Little Bad King witnessed Panshi City's defenders die when the bombardment shook its formations, and later saw Luodao City become a long battlefield where familiar allies and cultivators fell.
• Little Bad King entered eleven years of seclusion on Chou Ox Mountain, abandoned reincarnation as the Dao he would pursue, and emerged with a greatly strengthened state of mind.
• Little Bad King learned that Stone Demon had died eight years earlier and reunited with eighty-three-year-old Ox Little Mouse, who had undergone Transformation at eighty-one.
• Ox Little Mouse showed Little Bad King and their friends his Ordinary Beast Daoist Scripture, whose view of the Dao gave Little Bad King a fresh glimpse of inspiration.
• In the Imperial Palace, a tall, middle-aged cultivator told the Divine Sect ruler that Baoyuan would probably go to Luodao City that night after hiding for thirty-five years.