Recaps

Tang Xiaoling entered the Ghost Market that appeared in the Primordial Cage and delighted in its lively shops and street performances. After she tipped a grandfather and grandson with thousand-denomination Spirit Coins, they tried to return the money, only for her to pull out an even larger bill.

• At sunset, a bustling Ghost Market appeared around Tang Xiaoling, who carried Tiantian into it.
• Tang Xiaoling watched the street performers while livestream viewers marveled at the market and argued about whether other countries had similar attractions.
• An old man performed the Divine Rope trick, and Tang Xiaoling tossed him a stack of thousand-denomination Spirit Coins.
• Huzi and the old man panicked at the valuable tip and repeatedly tried to return the money to Tang Xiaoling.
• When Tang Xiaoling searched her schoolbag for smaller bills, the old man saw her take out a ten-thousand-denomination Spirit Coin.

Tang Xiaoling visited the Ghost Market, where players had to follow each stall’s rules and money determined what they could do. Meanwhile, Bane and Li searched for Tang Xiaoling and a Divine Artifact, then headed to the Myriad Exchange after Bane explained its power and its refusal to trade with humans.

• Tang Xiaoling offered a ten-thousand-denomination note to an old man, who fled with his grandson rather than accept it.
• Players at the Ghost Market learned that touching merchandise could trigger a stall’s deadly rules, so many avoided the goods and wandered safely through the market.
• Bane and Li led Sacred Soul Envoys through the crowd, searching for Tang Xiaoling.
• Bane sensed that the Divine Artifact was nearby and gave his followers Spirit Coins to search for it and Tang Xiaoling.
• Bane took Li to the Myriad Exchange and explained that it could provide almost anything for a price, but traded only with Evil Spirits.

Tang Xiaoling was cornered at a night market by Bane, a Demon God who recognized the Six Paths of Reincarnation in her eyes and feared Tiantian, her cat. Tiantian taunted Bane over their defeat a thousand years earlier, until Baye arrived and challenged him.

• Bane and more than a dozen Sacred Soul Envoys surrounded Tang Xiaoling as she waited for cotton candy, and she saw terrifying black energy around him.
• Bane recognized the Six Paths of Reincarnation in Tang Xiaoling’s eyes, then noticed Tiantian and realized the cat was protecting her.
• Tang Xiaoling tried to leave with her cotton candy, but the Sacred Soul Envoys blocked her while nearby Evil Spirits gathered to defend their princess.
• Tiantian reminded Bane that his master had defeated him a thousand years earlier, provoking Bane to unleash demonic energy and threaten an attack.
• Baye arrived, mocked Bane about his lost horns, and strode toward the gathering as his aura tore through the demonic darkness.

Baye and Tiantian protected Tang Xiaoling from Bane, then guided her toward the Myriad Exchange while Bane suspected a Divine Artifact was hidden there. As Tang Xiaoling struggled with a sudden urge to make Bane disappear, the Six Paths of Reincarnation in her eyes began to stir.

• Bane confronted Baye over his broken horns and threatened Tang Xiaoling, but Baye mocked him and Tiantian restrained herself to avoid endangering the Princess.
• Baye suggested taking Tang Xiaoling to the Myriad Exchange, then blasted two Sacred Soul Agents aside when they blocked her path.
• Bane ordered his remaining agents to yield, reasoning that he could not safely attack Tang Xiaoling while Baye and Tiantian protected her.
• Tang Xiaoling felt an uncontrollable urge to make Bane disappear, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation in her eyes began to revolve as Bane sensed its aura.
• Bane concluded that Baye was directing Tang Xiaoling toward a possible Divine Artifact at the Myriad Exchange and ordered his group to go there.

Baye brought Tang Xiaoling to the Myriad Exchange, where Bane followed them and ordered his men to watch Tang Xiaoling and search for a Divine Artifact. As Baye led the princess toward the Exchange’s auction hall, livestream viewers speculated about the strange power of Baye and Bane, while the Exchange’s mysterious owner remained unknown.

• At the Myriad Exchange entrance, a beauty greeted Baye flirtatiously, and he rebuked her when Tiantian teased him about his social life.
• Tang Xiaoling nearly revealed something about her father, but Tiantian covered her mouth before she could finish.
• Bane arrived with Sacred Soul Envoys, ordered Li to watch Tang Xiaoling and search the Exchange for a Divine Artifact, then entered after them.
• Livestream viewers watched the dancers and debated whether Baye and Bane were ordinary people, since the instance showed no clear information about them.
• Inside the Exchange, Baye explained that its varied guests were evil spirits from different eras and led Tang Xiaoling toward the rear-hall auction, one of the Exchange’s major businesses.

Tang Xiaoling and Baye entered Myriad Exchange, where Ye You welcomed them and showed Tang Xiaoling the building’s hidden entrance and unusual flowers. They arrived at the auction floor and received an exuberant welcome that left Tang Xiaoling shy at first, then dazzled by the praise.

• Baye explained that Myriad Exchange’s lanterns concealed the building and gave Tang Xiaoling a token that let her enter its rear hall.
• Ye You welcomed Tang Xiaoling and Baye, then turned a carved Flower of the Other Shore into a real flower and gave it to Tang Xiaoling.
• Ye You led the group by elevator to the Thirty-Sixth Floor, where the auction was held.
• The evil spirits welcomed Tang Xiaoling with gifts and confetti, and she refused one spirit’s offer to carry her on its back.
• The evil spirits showered Tang Xiaoling with flattery, leaving the four-year-old dazed and pleased.

Bane arrived at the Myriad Exchange and demanded Supreme Room 888, then attacked the greeter when she refused. Tang Xiaoling confronted him after he killed the greeter, and her grief summoned the Six Paths of Reincarnation as a jade hand reached for Bane.

• Bane endured a humiliating security check and found no one waiting to welcome him at the Myriad Exchange.
• At the auction hall, Bane demanded Supreme Room 888, but the greeter told him it was occupied.
• Bane attacked the greeter, and a surge of ghostly Qi destroyed her soul as Tang Xiaoling watched.
• Tang Xiaoling tearfully vowed that anyone who bullied Lingling would go to hell, causing the Six Paths of Reincarnation to form in the void.
• The Evil Spirits and Sacred Soul Envoys fled, while Bane recognized the jade hand reaching toward him and cried out, "Houtu!!!"

Houtu intervened to protect Tang Xiaoling, nearly destroying Bane with a blow and dragging him into the Hell Path. Bane escaped through a spatial fissure, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Houtu struck Bane, cracking his Dark Beast Cloak, while Baye and Tiantian protected the auction house from the force.
• Houtu declared that whoever bullied her daughter must die, revealing that she was Tang Xiaoling’s mother.
• Bane realized Tang Xiaoling might be an extraordinary child born across worlds and suspected Baal had sent him to kill her.
• Houtu pulled Bane into the Hell Path despite his transformed struggle, and Tang Xiaoling mourned the candy-giving big sister.
• Bane burst back through a fissure in space, covered in palm prints and wearing a ruined Dark Beast Mantle.

Bane returned from the Hell Path after using several Demon Gods’ powers and treasures to survive Houtu’s strike, then resumed the auction while hiding his injuries. Meanwhile, Baal ordered the Sacred Soul Hall to sacrifice a hundred virgins and open the Gate of Hell before daybreak.

• Bane emerged from the void, healed his wounds, and agreed to return to the auction as Baye and Tiantian wondered what treasure had saved him.
• Meng You urged everyone to stop fighting and continue the auction, and Bane accepted while privately remaining wary of Baye and Tiantian.
• Bane recalled that Vassago had foreseen the danger, Agares had provided the power of a peak-strength strike, and Buer had supplied the Healing Orb, though Houtu had still badly injured him.
• Baye and Tiantian took Tang Xiaoling back to their private box, where she ate happily after the livestream returned.
• Sadis told Casey to find a hundred girls for a blood sacrifice and ordered the others to prepare to open the Gate of Hell before daybreak, following Baal’s command.

Meng You opened the delayed auction by presenting a fragment of the Time-Space Trident, which Bane, Li, and Tang Xiaoling recognized as a coveted Divine Artifact. The bidding began at one Spirit Coin, drawing the Evil Spirits into a frenzy as Tang Xiaoling prepared to buy the fragment herself.

• Meng You announced the Time-Space Trident fragment as the auction’s first item and claimed it could grant Ghost Monarch Tier strength when complete.
• Bane recognized the Divine Artifact, while Li feared the Demon Gods would use it to break through the barrier to Blue Star.
• Tang Xiaoling recognized the trident as a gift from her father and insisted on purchasing it with her own money.
• Tang Xiaoling emptied bundles of Spirit Coins from her schoolbag as Baye watched in surprise.
• Meng You set the starting bid for the fragment at one Spirit Coin, and the Evil Spirits eagerly prepared to bid.

Meng You auctioned a Divine Artifact fragment as wealthy Evil Spirits drove the bidding past one billion Spirit Coins. Baine bid five billion from Suite 999, but Tang Xiaoling in Supreme Suite 888 invoked the Myriad Exchange’s exorbitant-price rule, leaving Baine furious and unable to withdraw his bid without paying.

• Meng You auctioned the Divine Artifact fragment as bids in the hall climbed to seventy-eight million Spirit Coins.
• Guests in private rooms raised the bids past one billion Spirit Coins.
• Baine in Suite 999 bid five billion Spirit Coins, startling the auction hall.
• Meng You announced that Tang Xiaoling in Supreme Suite 888 had invoked the exorbitant-price privilege, making the bidders’ offers nonrefundable.
• Baine realized he would have to pay the five billion Spirit Coins even if he withdrew and smashed his wine glass in anger.

Baye and Tiantian provoked Bane into a sky-high bidding war over the Divine Artifact fragment, and Bane’s eleven-billion bid triggered an asset check. The chapter ended with the Myriad Exchange staff reporting to the manager in Suite 888 that Bane had provided a bank card containing fifty billion Spirit Coins.

• Tiantian started the sky-high bidding with a ten-billion offer from Supreme Suite 888.
• Bane answered after a pause, bidding eleven billion from Suite 999.
• A Myriad Exchange staff member halted the auction briefly to verify Bane’s funds.
• Bane showed the staff a Netherworld Bank Card with fifty billion Spirit Coins, then angrily asked how much Baye had produced.
• The staff member entered Suite 888 and handed the card to Tang Xiaoling’s manager, reporting Bane’s balance.

E Lai and Baye discussed Fengdu’s plan to place E Lai inside the Myriad Exchange and the fortune he had accumulated there. As bidding for the Divine Artifact fragment escalated, E Lai gave Tang Xiaoling a bank card as the New Year’s gift money he owed her.

• E Lai laughed at Bane’s challenge, while Baye suspected Bane was plotting something bigger.
• E Lai told Baye that the Myriad Exchange’s proprietor had known his identity from the start and promoted him to general manager, while the Ghost Emperor had sent him to protect the Exchange’s wealth.
• E Lai explained that he had deposited the Ghost Emperor’s share of the Exchange’s earnings at the Netherworld Bank, where the manager later gave him a credit card with no spending limit.
• Tiantian bid twenty billion for the Divine Artifact fragment, and Bane immediately raised the bid to forty billion, exhausting his fifty-billion bank card.
• E Lai gave Tang Xiaoling his card, calling it the New Year’s gift money he had owed her since childhood.

Tang Xiaoling accepted E Lai’s bank card as lucky money while Tiantian and Bane competed over a Divine Artifact fragment. Bane’s attempt to prove he had the funds left Tiantian and the others with a three-hundred-billion-coin bank card and no need to raise their bid yet.

• Tang Xiaoling accepted E Lai’s bank card, and E Lai promised to take her to see exotic beasts after the auction.
• Tiantian bid seventy billion Spirit Coins, but Bane countered with one hundred billion.
• E Lai told Tiantian to wait while Gu Yi went to check whether Bane could afford his bids.
• Bane threw a bank card at Gu Yi’s group, and it struck Xiao Yin, causing the waiter to vanish as his soul scattered.
• Gu Yi checked the card and found three hundred billion Spirit Coins, then returned to tell E Lai and Tiantian.

Tiantian outbid Bane for the Divine Artifact fragment, driving the price to three hundred billion Spirit Coins. Bane left the auction in humiliation, planning to return after the Gate of Hell opened and seize the fragment by force.

• Tiantian bid one hundred ninety billion Spirit Coins, shocking the auction hall and the Stream Viewers.
• Bane bid two hundred billion after Li told him the Gate of Hell would soon connect the Demon Realm and the Instance.
• Tiantian raised the bid to three hundred billion, leaving Bane unable to pay more.
• Bane demanded five hundred billion from Sadis, then stormed out when he realized he was penniless.
• Meng You's countdown ended, and the Divine Artifact fragment sold for three hundred billion Spirit Coins.

Tang Xiaoling won the Time-Space Trident fragment for three hundred billion, though she believed it had cost only a few thousand. As the group prepared to retrieve the other fragments, a powerful veiled woman appeared and asked why Tang Long had not come, prompting E Lai to suspect she was the curator of Myriad Exchange.

• Tang Xiaoling celebrated winning the Time-Space Trident fragment and tried to join it to the iron rod in her schoolbag, but found part of the artifact was still missing.
• Baye said he would send someone to take Tang Xiaoling to retrieve the remaining fragments, while she offered the Master of Ceremonies Spirit Coins to pay the bill.
• Tiantian said Myriad Exchange should deduct thirty billion from Bane's card and give him the rest, claiming the auctioned item belonged to his family.
• A veiled woman entered the suite with overwhelming pressure, and Baye shielded Tang Xiaoling while asking who she was.
• The woman asked why Tang Long had not come, and E Lai recognized her aura as resembling that of the curator he had encountered at Myriad Exchange a thousand years earlier.

The proprietor of the Myriad Exchange revealed herself as the Nine Heavens Goddess and kept Tang Xiaoling in her private room, while the others were thrown out. She told Xiaoling that Tang Long had angered her and asked the child to help teach him a lesson.

• The Nine Heavens Goddess ordered Baye, E Lai, and Tiantian to leave Tang Xiaoling with her and summon Tang Long, then hurled them outside and sealed the door.
• Baye hurried to notify the Ghost Emperor, while Tiantian remained calm because she believed the woman would not harm Xiaoling.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess examined Xiaoling and remarked that she looked much like her father, Tang Long.
• Tang Xiaoling guessed that the beautiful woman was another of her aunts, and the woman confirmed she was both Xiaoling’s aunt and the Myriad Exchange’s proprietor.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess recalled Tang Long calling her a fox spirit ten thousand years earlier and asked Xiaoling to help her teach him a lesson.

The Nine Heavens Goddess warned Tang Xiaoling that the West had targeted her, then gave her a jade pendant granting her access to the Myriad Exchange and passed on the Five Elements Formation. Tang Long watched from Fengdu, questioning why the goddess had also bestowed her inherited formation on his daughter.

• Houtu appeared through the Hell Path and told the Nine Heavens Goddess to protect Tang Xiaoling from the West's schemes.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess gave Tang Xiaoling a jade pendant that let her take anything from the Myriad Exchange.
• Tang Xiaoling refused the goddess's offer to gather every Trident fragment, insisting she wanted to find them herself.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess transmitted the Five Elements Formation and its mantra to Tang Xiaoling.
• Tang Long watched from Fengdu and wondered whether the Nine Heavens Goddess intended Tang Xiaoling to succeed her.

Tang Long summoned the Nine Heavens Goddess and warned her that the West had infiltrated the Myriad Exchange. He explained that the barrier around Tang Xiaoling’s world was about to break, bringing rival realms into conflict and drawing the exchange into the coming war.

• The Nine Heavens Goddess left Tang Xiaoling and went alone to meet Tang Long on the Myriad Exchange’s hundredth floor.
• E Lai and Baye found Tang Xiaoling unharmed but sensed that dangerous power had awakened within her.
• Tang Long ordered E Lai and Baye to let Tang Xiaoling go while secretly protecting her from troublemakers from the West.
• Tang Long told the Nine Heavens Goddess that the West had infiltrated the Myriad Exchange’s branches and was coveting it.
• Tang Long warned that the world’s barrier was about to shatter, allowing the West Demon Realm and his Netherworld Fengdu to descend and fight over the world.

Tang Long told the Nine Heavens Goddess that Tang Xiaoling’s soul was being nurtured in this world and that he suspected her maternal clan was manipulating events. After Tang Long fled to Fengdu to escape the Goddess’s anger, Tang Xiaoling continued searching for hidden gifts, unaware that Bane and dozens of figures were following her.

• Tang Long explained that Tang Xiaoling’s mother had placed her soul within the world’s essence and suspected someone from That Realm was controlling events.
• Tang Long vowed to seek justice for Yan’er, then fled to Fengdu when the Nine Heavens Goddess demanded to know whether he had other women.
• The Nine Heavens Goddess’s outburst damaged the Myriad Exchange’s private room, while Tiantian overheard their conversation and escaped the chaos.
• Tang Xiaoling left the Myriad Exchange carrying Tiantian’s avatar and continued toward the next hidden gift, mistaking a glimpse of Tang Long in the smoke for her imagination.
• Tiantian briefly vanished and reappeared beside Tang Xiaoling, while Bane and dozens of dark figures followed her through the darkness.

The Ten Elders suspected a Ghost Emperor was interfering with Tang Xiaoling’s livestream as she traveled toward another treasure site. Meanwhile, Bane secretly met with several Demon Gods, where Astaroth was completing an array for a plan tied to the sacrifice at the Sacred Soul Hall.

• The Ten Elders speculated that the livestream interruptions were caused by a Ghost Emperor, whom they suspected might be Tang Long.
• Tang Xiaoling followed her map through the Instance, unaware that others were trailing her.
• E Lai and Baye failed to identify how Bane concealed himself and debated whether he had gained a new ability.
• Bane vanished into a hidden void and asked Astaroth how long it would take to finish the array.
• Astaroth said he was maintaining a Time Spell on Bane and assured him the spell would prevent others from noticing the plan.

Tang Xiaoling entered Evil Spirit Academy, where her aura severely injured a female Evil Spirit. Li and ten subordinates arrived to seize a Divine Artifact, but the gatekeeper confronted them after Li refused to enter the gatehouse to register.

• Tang Xiaoling followed her map into Evil Spirit Academy, and her presence caused an Azure Dragon to disperse the sinister energy and injure a female Evil Spirit.
• Li led ten subordinates to the academy, knowing its rules allowed only the first-place exam taker to survive.
• Li persuaded his reluctant subordinates to enter and search for the Divine Artifact Bane had ordered them to obtain.
• The gate slammed shut as Li approached, and an Evil Spirit gatekeeper told the group to register inside the gatehouse.
• Li spotted a warning forbidding unauthorized personnel from entering and asked the gatekeeper to bring the register outside.
• The gatekeeper became hostile, threatened to eat them, and revealed a huge mouth full of bloody fangs.

Li and the ten Sacred Soul Envoys entered the Evil Spirit Academy and triggered a trap that brought a Ghost General onto the School Field. While the female ghost drained their strength, viewers from other countries mocked Dragon Country and hoped Tang Xiaoling would die.

• Li dismissed the Evil Spirit Guard’s threats, and the guard opened the gate while secretly expecting the unregistered humans to be killed on the School Field.
• Li and the ten Sacred Soul Envoys stepped onto the School Field, where an eerie wind and dark clouds revealed that they had fallen into a trap.
• A bloodied Female Ghost General appeared and accused them of entering campus without registering.
• The Female Ghost General stayed motionless as her Yin energy steadily drained the Sacred Soul Envoys’ stamina, while Li prepared to fight.
• Viewers from various countries mocked Dragon Country and celebrated the danger facing Tang Xiaoling, blaming her for their contestants’ deaths.

Tang Xiaoling met three frightened contestants fleeing the teaching building and asked how to enter, but they ran away without answering. As they reached the School Field, the contestants panicked at the ominous sky, while the injured female Evil Spirit spotted Tang Xiaoling approaching the standoff at the academy gate.

• Tang Xiaoling found the teaching building door open and met three foreigners fleeing from inside, who mistook her for an Evil Spirit before realizing she was human.
• Tang Xiaoling asked the three contestants how to enter the building to find the gift her father had hidden, but they dismissed her and ran toward the School Field.
• The three contestants entered the School Field, sensed a thick Yin aura, and panicked when they saw black clouds overhead.
• At the academy gate, Li noticed the female Evil Spirit was badly injured, and she decided to attack the contestants to recover her strength.
• The female Evil Spirit sensed Tang Xiaoling approaching behind the three fleeing contestants and recognized the little girl who had injured her.

Li ordered the ten Sacred Soul Envoys to enter the teaching building and find Tang Xiaoling, despite their fear of the Evil Spirits inside. When the bald man revealed that anyone entering became a student and only the exam’s first-place winner could leave, the Envoys and the three survivors looked to Li, hoping he would change his mind.

• The female Evil Spirit fled after seeing Tang Xiaoling, and the Sacred Soul Envoys were relieved to avoid a fight.
• Three survivors begged the Envoys to take them out, while Tang Xiaoling spotted Li and ran away before they could approach her.
• Li ordered his ten subordinates to enter the teaching building and find Tang Xiaoling, dismissing their suggestion to report to Bane.
• The bald man warned that entrants became students and only the person who placed first in the exam could leave.
• The Sacred Soul Envoys and the three survivors watched Li anxiously, hoping he would abandon the plan to enter.