Chapter Summaries

Jiang Ya returned to the Soul-Locking Tower with Tang Xiaoling, who insisted on going inside despite Jiang Ya's concerns. Yang Dianfeng, Kishida Kameichiro, and Park Dam-hwan reappeared and attacked them, forcing Jiang Ya to carry Tang Xiaoling into the tower as the trio gave chase.

• Jiang Ya was teleported to the Soul-Locking Tower entrance, where Tang Xiaoling greeted her and asked to enter the building.
• Jiang Ya tried to take Tang Xiaoling away, but the girl resisted and asked to explore the tower.
• Yang Dianfeng, Kishida Kameichiro, and Park Dam-hwan appeared, and Kishida Kameichiro hurled a kunai at Tang Xiaoling.
• Jiang Ya shielded Tang Xiaoling, whose Princess Dress blocked the kunai with its blue protective light.
• Jiang Ya carried Tang Xiaoling into the tower to escape, and the three men followed them inside.

Jiang Ya fled up a seemingly endless stairway while carrying Tang Xiaoling, pursued by Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro. Yang Dianfeng was trapped in the Asura Path, and Jiang Ya collapsed from exhaustion as her pursuers closed in.

• Jiang Ya chose one of six stairways and ran upstairs with Tang Xiaoling as Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro chased them.
• Yang Dianfeng sensed danger, saw the Asura Path inscription appear, and was pulled into the path when his attempts to escape failed.
• Jiang Ya climbed more than 150 floors carrying Tang Xiaoling, then fell but caught the girl before she could tumble down the stairs.
• Tang Xiaoling landed safely with an agile flip and caught Jiang Ya, while viewers praised her skill.
• Jiang Ya tried to pick Tang Xiaoling up and keep climbing, but exhaustion overcame her and she collapsed.

Tang Xiaoling carried the unconscious Jiang Ya up the stairs while evading Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro, revealing strength befitting her SSS-rated clearance. After her artifact-soul Spirit Artifact caught Kameichiro’s kunai, the men pursued them greedily, while Jiang Ya woke and marveled at Lingling’s strength.

• Jiang Ya collapsed as Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro caught up, but Tang Xiaoling lifted her overhead and raced up the stairs.
• Park Dam-hwan and Kameichiro realized Tang Xiaoling was an SSS-rated clearer and chased after her.
• Kameichiro threw a kunai at Tang Xiaoling, and the porcelain-doll Evil Spirit from her backpack caught it.
• Park Dam-hwan and Kameichiro recognized the backpack as a rare artifact-soul Spirit Artifact and pursued Tang Xiaoling in hopes of stealing it.
• Jiang Ya woke while Tang Xiaoling carried her and was astonished by the little girl’s speed and strength.

Tang Xiaoling carried Jiang Ya up the endless stairs while Park Dam-hwan and Gui Yilang pursued them for her backpack. At the Asura Gate, Tang Xiaoling rushed into the terrifying realm beyond, leaving Jiang Ya frozen with fear.

• Tang Xiaoling kept running with Jiang Ya despite Jiang Ya's pleas to be put down, while the exhausted Park Dam-hwan and Gui Yilang continued chasing them for the backpack.
• Tang Xiaoling reached a doorway decorated with bloody body parts, ignored Jiang Ya's warning, and set her down before the doors.
• A familiar, warm feeling drew Tang Xiaoling to the doors, and she pushed them open despite Jiang Ya trying to stop her.
• Jiang Ya saw hideous Evil Spirits and a pot boiling with severed limbs inside, while Tang Xiaoling looked on with delight.
• Park Dam-hwan and Gui Yilang caught up, so Tang Xiaoling grabbed Jiang Ya and ran through the doors marked Six Paths of Reincarnation · Asura Gate.

Tang Xiaoling and Jiang Ya entered the six paths of reincarnation, where hundreds of powerful evil spirits rushed toward them. The spirits recognized Tang Xiaoling as the Fengdu Princess and knelt, while Jiang Ya feared Tang Xiaoling’s words had exposed her invisibility.

• Tang Xiaoling pulled Jiang Ya through the gate marked as the six paths of reincarnation, and the evil spirits inside turned toward them.
• Jiang Ya saw the approaching spirits’ levels, pressed an Invisibility Talisman onto Tang Xiaoling, and tried to throw her back through the gate.
• Jiang Ya failed to move Tang Xiaoling and fell as the spirits surrounded them, believing the talisman would let Tang Xiaoling escape.
• The evil spirits recognized Tang Xiaoling as the Fengdu Princess and dropped to their knees in terror.
• Tang Xiaoling noticed Jiang Ya on the ground and spoke to her, making Jiang Ya fear that the talisman’s invisibility had been broken.

Jiang Ya woke to find hundreds of Evil Spirits kneeling before Tang Xiaoling, who remained calm and friendly toward them. Park Dam-hwan and Gui Yilang arrived and hid nearby, hoping to seize Tang Xiaoling’s Ghost Artifact after the Spirits killed her and Jiang Ya.

• Jiang Ya lay waiting for death, but Tang Xiaoling woke her by poking her cheek.
• Jiang Ya opened her eyes and saw hundreds of Evil Spirits prostrating themselves before Tang Xiaoling.
• Tang Xiaoling told Jiang Ya she was not afraid because the Spirits seemed nice, leaving Jiang Ya baffled.
• Park Dam-hwan and Gui Yilang found the kneeling Spirits and decided to hide and wait for a chance to take Tang Xiaoling’s Ghost Artifact.
• Dragon Country’s livestream viewers mocked Gui Yilang and wondered when Tang Xiaoling would command the Spirits to attack the men.

Jiang Ya discovered that Tang Xiaoling’s Princess Outfit could shield them from powerful evil spirits and urged her to activate it so they could escape. With the blue barrier around them, Jiang Ya prepared to fight their way out while carrying Lingling.

• Jiang Ya realized her remaining tools could not handle the surrounding Ghost General- and Ghost Monarch-tier evil spirits.
• Tang Xiaoling examined the Princess Outfit’s description but struggled to read it, so Jiang Ya helped confirm that it was a top-grade intermediate Spirit Artifact.
• Jiang Ya learned that the outfit’s skill could withstand attacks from Ghost General-tier spirits and one full-power Ghost Monarch-tier attack.
• Jiang Ya hugged and kissed Tang Xiaoling, then picked her up and asked her to activate the shield.
• Tang Xiaoling activated the shield, surrounding them both in blue light as Jiang Ya prepared to escape with her.

Jiang Ya carried Tang Xiaoling through the kneeling Evil Spirits and escaped the room unharmed, while Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro mistook the spirits’ reverence for proof that she possessed a powerful treasure. Seeing the men prepare to attack, Jiang Ya whispered a plan to protect Tang Xiaoling and confront them.

• Jiang Ya hesitated to step over a Ghost General Tier Evil Spirit, but Tang Xiaoling startled her and made her stomp down.
• Jiang Ya ran across the kneeling Evil Spirits with Tang Xiaoling and reached the doorway without being attacked.
• The Evil Spirits turned and bowed toward Jiang Ya, while Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro concluded she had a treasure that could command them.
• Park Dam-hwan and Kishida Kameichiro grew intent on killing Jiang Ya and taking her supposed treasure.
• Jiang Ya told Tang Xiaoling to pretend to head downstairs, run when the men attacked, and leave them to her.

Jiang Ya discovered that the Evil Spirits were bowing to Tang Xiaoling, despite the girl having joined no faction. Realizing Lingling had her covered, Jiang Ya grew confident about facing the attackers from Stick Country and Sakura Country.

• Jiang Ya warned Tang Xiaoling to flee if the two attackers came after them, but Tang Xiaoling insisted that someone inside the doorway was calling her.
• Jiang Ya saw the Evil Spirits bowing and suspected they were paying respect to Tang Xiaoling.
• Viewers from Dragon Country argued with foreign viewers over whether the Evil Spirits were bowing to Tang Xiaoling or the rival challengers.
• Jiang Ya moved from side to side and confirmed that the Evil Spirits turned to bow wherever she carried Tang Xiaoling.
• Jiang Ya asked whether Tang Xiaoling had joined a faction, and Tang Xiaoling said she had not.
• Jiang Ya set Tang Xiaoling down and saw that the Evil Spirits kept bowing to her, then decided she no longer needed to fear the attackers.

Jiang Ya and Tang Xiaoling tricked Gui Yilang into staring at Park Dam-hwan’s Plague Ghost eyeball, trapping him in a terrifying hallucination. He fled into the Primordial Cage doorway and landed on the kneeling Evil Spirits, while Park Dam-hwan watched in disbelief.

• Jiang Ya and Tang Xiaoling pretended to be frightened so Gui Yilang and Park Dam-hwan would prepare an ambush.
• Park Dam-hwan explained that his Plague Ghost eyeball caused hallucinations after someone stared into it for three seconds.
• Gui Yilang stared at the eyeball for three seconds and hallucinated that he had returned to Death Highway.
• Gui Yilang fled from the Driver Evil Spirit, tripped, and came to on top of the kneeling Evil Spirits inside the Primordial Cage doorway.
• Gui Yilang trembled and foamed at the mouth as the pinned Evil Spirits glared at him, while Park Dam-hwan stared in astonishment.

Kishida Kameichiro was torn apart by the Evil Spirits, while Park Dam-hwan was captured after trying to flee. Jiang Ya discovered that the spirits feared and obeyed Tang Xiaoling, who recovered Jiang Ya’s lost jade pendant and completed her mission.

• Kishida Kameichiro ran into the Evil Spirits, who tore him apart and cleaned up the scene while Jiang Ya shielded Tang Xiaoling.
• Park Dam-hwan realized the Evil Spirits worshipped Tang Xiaoling and tried to retreat, but a crowd of spirits stopped him and dragged him away.
• The newly arrived Evil Spirits recognized Tang Xiaoling, became frightened, and knelt before her.
• Jiang Ya asked Tang Xiaoling to find her lost jade pendant, and an Evil Spirit promptly brought it to them.
• Jiang Ya took the jade pendant and received confirmation that her mission was complete.

After completing the jade pendant quest, Jiang Ya was summoned back to defend West Qi City from a group of attackers. Tang Xiaoling remained with the Evil Spirits, who recognized her as their Princess and mobilized Netherworld Soldiers to help Jiang Ya.

• Jiang Ya received 2,000 Contribution Points for retrieving King Wu of Zhou, Ji Fa's jade pendant, then was summoned to defend West Qi City.
• Jiang Ya told Tang Xiaoling to stay safely with the Evil Spirits and teleported to the city wall, where she saw dozens of clearance-passers preparing to attack.
• Tang Xiaoling wished she had a faction so she could help Jiang Ya, prompting the Evil Spirits to pledge their support to her as their Princess.
• A Ghost Monarch used the Spirit Communication Stone to order Netherworld Soldiers to assist the God-Sealing Human Race faction.
• Ghost Monarch Tu scolded the commander for promising to flatten the city and threatened him if West Qi City suffered any harm.

Tang Xiaoling’s authority over the Asura Land became clear as Ghost Monarch Tu ordered the Evil Spirits to protect Jiang Ya and West Qi. Tang Xiaoling entered the Instance with Tu as her guide, while Tang Long agreed to send Sky Dog after her later.

• Foreign viewers questioned why the Evil Spirits obeyed Tang Xiaoling, while viewers from Stick Country and Sakura Country accused Dragon Country of using tricks.
• Ghost Monarch Tu assured Tang Xiaoling that Jiang Ya and West Qi would be safe, and she asked the kneeling Evil Spirits to stand up.
• Tang Xiaoling asked to enter the Asura Land, and Ghost Monarch Tu offered to guide her around its sights.
• Tang Long watched the group leave and praised Xiao Ye’s subordinates for following the rules.
• Sky Dog begged Tang Long to send him to Tang Xiaoling, and Tang Long agreed to ask Baye to send him over after letting Lingling play alone for a while.

Tang Xiaoling explored the Asura Hall with Ghost Monarch Tu while searching for the gift her father had hidden in the Instance. She felt drawn toward the dangerous Asura Path, and Ghost Monarch Tu panicked as she begged to approach it.

• Ghost Monarch Tu showed Tang Xiaoling the River of Forgetfulness and warned her that its resentful waters could consume her soul.
• Tang Xiaoling asked Ghost Monarch Tu to help find the gift her father had hidden somewhere in the Instance, but he did not know where it was.
• Ghost Monarch Tu offered to accompany Tang Xiaoling on her search, but she declined and said she would look for it herself.
• Tang Xiaoling sensed a growing summons from inside the Asura Hall and asked to approach the Chaos Magic Treasure of the Asura Path.
• Ghost Monarch Tu warned that the Asura Path could suck in her soul, but Tang Xiaoling begged him to let her go closer.

Tang Xiaoling followed Ghost Monarch Tu to observe the Asura Path, a dangerous Chaos Magic Treasure, after he took precautions to protect her. The treasure suddenly activated and pulled her toward reincarnation, and a cold snort from within made Ghost Monarch Tu release her.

• Ghost Monarch Tu warned Tang Xiaoling about the Asura Path and agreed to take her closer while keeping her behind him.
• Ghost Monarch Tu led Tang Xiaoling and five Ghost Generals to a spot thirty meters from the Asura Path.
• The Asura Path began fluctuating, and its soul-sucking range expanded as Ghost Monarch Tu realized it was pulling Tang Xiaoling in particular.
• The five Ghost Generals and Ghost Monarch Tu tried to hold Tang Xiaoling back, but the attraction lifted her into the air.
• A cold snort from inside the Asura Path struck Ghost Monarch Tu like thunder, making him let go of Tang Xiaoling as she plunged into reincarnation.

Tang Xiaoling's feed cut out after the Asura Path swallowed her, leaving the Ten Elders fearing for her life while Jiang Ya fought off foreigners besieging West Qi City. Tang Xiaoling awoke in a dark void and encountered a woman who looked like her mother but had no visible face.

• Tang Xiaoling's Princess Outfit barrier shattered as a whirlpool pulled her into the Asura Path, and her live feed went black.
• The Ten Elders panicked over Tang Xiaoling's fate, while Jiang Daoguo hoped the Fengdu Forces would protect her.
• Jiang Daoguo saw Jiang Ya defending West Qi City against dozens of foreigners, but she was gradually losing ground.
• Tang Xiaoling awoke alone in an endless darkness and called for her father, receiving no answer.
• A woman in a dress Tang Xiaoling recognized as her mother's appeared, embraced her, and said she looked just like him.

Houtu met Tang Xiaoling and revealed that Tang Long had given her a Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud Skirt identical to Tang Xiaoling’s mother’s. Houtu gifted Tang Xiaoling a fragment of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, leaving Tang Long worried that she intended to make their daughter the Underworld Bureau’s future ruler and use it as a way to come to him.

• Houtu told Tang Xiaoling she was both her aunt and one of her father’s wives, then asked how many women Tang Xiaoling called mommy.
• Tang Xiaoling said Tang Long told her she could call any pretty woman mommy, and Houtu scolded Tang Long while insisting Tang Xiaoling had only two mommies.
• Houtu explained that Tang Long had given her a Seven-Colored Rosy Cloud Skirt and glared at him from afar as he sat on his throne in Fengdu City.
• Houtu gave Tang Xiaoling a fragment of the Six Paths of Reincarnation, causing her eyes to transform, and Tiantian realized the girl might inherit the full Six Paths and rule the Underworld Bureau.
• Tang Long silenced Tiantian before it could reveal its realization and worried that Houtu was using the gift to pass the Underworld Bureau to their daughter so she could come to him.

Houtu reassured Tang Xiaoling before recalling how she fell in love with Tang Long, a man from another world who brought her a ribbon of sunset clouds. As Houtu sent Lingling back to the Instance, the girl’s words awakened a protective vortex linked to the hell path of reincarnation.

• Tang Xiaoling saw Houtu’s face clearly, and Houtu praised her while warning her not to trust boys easily.
• Tang Xiaoling asked Houtu to take her to her mother and wondered why Houtu was not with her daddy.
• Houtu remembered how Tang Long’s visits changed her lonely life, how she searched the Three Realms and the River of Time for him, and how he returned wounded with a ribbon of sunset clouds.
• Houtu told Tang Xiaoling she would explain her story with Tang Long when Lingling grew up, then prompted the girl to repeat a warning for anyone who bullied her.
• Tang Xiaoling’s left eye changed, and a vortex filled with skeletal hands appeared; Houtu dispersed it and explained that it would protect Lingling, though it was an entrance to the hell path.

Houtu restored Tang Xiaoling’s clothes and returned her from the Asura Path to the Asura Hall, where the Evil Spirits realized she was Houtu’s daughter and bowed to her. Tang Xiaoling was then transported to Corpse Village, hoping the village held her father’s present.

• Houtu restored Tang Xiaoling’s clothes with the Sky-Blue Mystic Rainbow Skirt and disappeared.
• A force pulled Tang Xiaoling out of the Asura Path and returned her to the Asura Hall.
• Ghost Monarch Tu and the Evil Spirits recognized Houtu’s aura on Tang Xiaoling and knelt to welcome her as their princess.
• Tang Xiaoling called Ghost Monarch Tu “Uncle,” and he respectfully asked her to call him Tu instead.
• The stream viewers saw Tang Xiaoling return as the Evil Spirits knelt before her.
• A notification announced Tang Xiaoling would be transported to Corpse Village, and she vanished from the Asura Hall.

Two hundred players entered Corpse Village, where they could take Spirit Artifacts only by risking attacks from the Evil Spirits guarding them. Tang Xiaoling wandered into a courtyard and found two foreign players planning to use her as bait, leaving her in danger.

• The Primordial Cage selected 200 of the remaining players to enter Corpse Village, and greedy players who tried to snatch guarded treasures were quickly killed.
• A cloaked Sacred Soul Hall Spirit Walker defeated a Vengeful Ghost, took its low-grade Spirit Artifacts, and planned to find a Divine Artifact and replace Li on the Elder Council.
• Tang Xiaoling used her father Tang Long’s branch-tossing method to choose a route and cheerfully made her way into Corpse Village.
• Tang Xiaoling saw a young woman in red hanging from a rope and hurried into the courtyard to help her.
• Jeff and David recognized the red-clad woman as a powerful Evil Spirit guarding a treasure chest, and David decided to feed Tang Xiaoling to it as a distraction.