Chapter Summaries

Zhao Changsheng and his family killed four people, while the Sacred Soul Hall issued a bounty for Tang Xiaoling both inside and outside the Primordial Cage. The chapter ended with the Holy Lord ordering the Sacred Soul Hall’s elders to prioritize killing her and sending a Holy Relic into the Instance.

• Zhao Changsheng and his family tore four people apart, leaving their heads with candles burning on top, and a passing Evil Spirit devoured their souls.
• A Sacred Soul Hall Red Bishop revealed Tang Xiaoling’s identity and announced that anyone who killed her would be promoted to Bishop.
• The Sacred Soul Hall spread a bounty throughout the Primordial Cage, promising players who killed Tang Xiaoling a safe clearance, prompting many to make her their target.
• Sadis told the five elders in the Vatican that the Holy Lord had ordered Tang Xiaoling’s death and entrusted Andal with a ruby necklace for Li.
• Sadis instructed Andal to tell Li to put the search for the Divine Artifact aside and focus on killing Tang Xiaoling.

After the Sacred Soul Hall placed Tang Xiaoling on a global wanted list, the Ten Elders prepared to protect her in the real world, while the Corpse Consort ordered the Evil Spirits of Corpse Village to kill every surviving human. Jack witnessed the massacre and realized the Evil Spirits were willingly sacrificing themselves to carry out their mission.

• The Ten Elders learned of the wanted poster and feared that the 1,300 surviving players in the instance would target Tang Xiaoling.
• Jiang Daoguo ordered Cheng Li to evacuate nearby residents and Leng Feng to deploy the Dragon Guardians around Tang Xiaoling’s real-world location.
• When Tang Xiaoling asked Zhao Ping'an to continue teaching her to sing, the Corpse Consort received news of the bounty and unleashed her ghostly Qi over Corpse Village.
• The Corpse Consort commanded the Evil Spirits to slaughter all surviving humans, and thousands of spirits attacked players throughout Corpse Village, even as they risked erasure.
• Jack, a Spirit Walker of the Sacred Soul Hall, approached the Ancient Mansion and witnessed Evil Spirits die from Karmic Fire while appearing satisfied with their sacrifice.

Tiantian arrived at Corpse Village with Baye, restored the punished evil spirits, and reunited with Tang Xiaoling. Baye gave Tang Xiaoling a token before leaving, while Tiantian prepared to hunt the Western demon hiding in the Instance.

• A dark red pillar erupted from the ancient mansion, ending the Karmic Fire and restoring the injured evil spirits.
• Tiantian appeared with the Cloth Doll, and Tang Xiaoling joyfully hugged it while the Corpse Consort and Zhao Family members bowed to Lord Baye.
• Baye knelt before Tang Xiaoling as the Princess, then explained that he had brought Tiantian to see her.
• Tiantian told Baye to withdraw and revealed that a Western demon had sneaked into the Instance, which it planned to capture as a laborer in Evil Dog Village.
• Tang Xiaoling mistook the Cloth Doll for a gift from Tiantian and hung it on her skirt, while Tiantian continued to play along.
• After Baye rescued the punished evil spirits, he gave Tang Xiaoling a token and promised to rush to her protection whenever she needed him.

Baye ended the rampage in Corpse Village, allowing Jack to survive until the game ended. Tang Xiaoling returned with Tiantian, which spotted Jack at the Fallen Angel Faction before Baine erased its mark on him.

• Baye vanished after giving Tang Xiaoling a token, and the Evil Spirits stopped hunting, leaving Jack as the only other survivor in the ruined village.
• Jack survived the remaining half hour and was teleported back to the Fallen Angel Faction when the Corpse Village game ended.
• Li ordered the battered Jack to continue the mission and prioritize killing Tang Xiaoling.
• Tang Xiaoling returned to the Soul-Locking Tower with Tiantian and checked the abstract map.
• Tiantian located Jack, but Baine appeared and erased the mark, prompting Tiantian to vow to cut off Baine's claw.

Jiang Ya faced an advancing army of more than a thousand Evil Spirits while the six players outside her faction fled. Believing she had no chance of surviving, she opened the gate and played a zither in an Empty Fort Strategy, as Dragon Country viewers speculated that the Evil Spirits might have come to help her.

• Tiantian spared Jack to monitor Sacred Soul Hall, but Demon God Baine broke Tiantian’s Eye of Truth technique.
• Tang Xiaoling used her map to find a treasure marker and set off with Tiantian, unaware that players across the Instance were hunting her.
• Jiang Ya worried about Tang Xiaoling as six players who had cleared Instances waited outside the God-Sealing Faction for reinforcements.
• An army of more than a thousand Evil Spirits, led by a Ghost General, appeared and killed one of the six players before the others fled.
• Jiang Ya opened the faction gate, spent 300 faction points on a Chinese zither, and played Ambush from Ten Sides as the Evil Spirits advanced.
• Dragon Country viewers praised Jiang Ya’s courage and speculated that the Evil Spirits had come to defend her, while foreign viewers mocked them.

Jiang Ya discovered that the Evil Spirits were guarding her city gate because Ghost Monarch Tu had ordered them to protect her, while she mistakenly believed her zither had enchanted them. Tang Xiaoling reached the Fierce Spirit Mall to search for her hidden gift and received an Instance quest, as players gathered outside.

• Thousands of Evil Spirits reached Jiang Ya’s city gate, then turned outward and stood guard while she played the zither.
• Jiang Ya thought her music had captivated the Evil Spirits, while their leading general endured the duty on Ghost Monarch Tu’s orders.
• Tang Xiaoling arrived at the Fierce Spirit Mall with Tiantian and Zhong Jue watching over her for signs of danger.
• The Instance gave Tang Xiaoling a quest to find a bullied girl’s corpse, then changed it into a human-shaped doll when it detected her fear.
• Taylor told Mr. Gar that he had seen Tang Xiaoling enter the mall, and the players waited outside.

Gar, Taylor, and the Sacred Soul Envoys entered the Fierce Spirit Mall to hunt Tang Xiaoling, only to discover a rule quest that forbade players from killing one another. The group had to find a Fierce Spirit’s corpse and fulfill her dying wish within two hours to escape.

• Gar and the other players gathered outside the dilapidated mall and sensed the danger inside.
• Si Te and six Sacred Soul Envoys arrived, and Taylor claimed he had seen Tang Xiaoling enter the mall.
• Taylor offered to guide the envoys, while Gar joined them in hopes of winning favor and earning a safe clearance.
• Si Te promised to credit them if they helped kill Tang Xiaoling, and Taylor led the group into the mall.
• The mall’s quest instructed the players to find the Fierce Spirit’s corpse and resolve her resentment within two hours, and warned that anyone who killed another player would be executed immediately.
• Si Te questioned the unexpected no-killing rule as the group reacted with alarm.

Si Te and the Sacred Soul Envoys searched Haunted Bell Mall for Tang Xiaoling, intending to exploit its dangers to complete their mission. They found her among suspended evil spirits, but Tiantian fled beneath a cabinet, and the group arrived face-to-face with the hanging ghosts.

• Si Te ordered Taylor to lead the Sacred Soul Envoys through the mall to find Tang Xiaoling, while Taylor guessed which way she had gone.
• Tang Xiaoling discovered dozens of suspended humanoid dolls and playfully poked and squeezed them, terrifying the evil spirits hanging there.
• Si Te grew angry when the group found no Tang Xiaoling and encountered several vengeful ghosts instead.
• Tang Xiaoling heard the approaching group, recognized the foreigners as strangers, and tried to leave.
• Tiantian suddenly leaped from Tang Xiaoling’s arms and hid beneath a cabinet, drawing her shout and the group’s attention.
• The Sacred Soul Envoys ran toward Tang Xiaoling, then stopped in terror when they saw the rows of suspended evil spirits.

Tang Xiaoling found two Middle-grade Spirit Artifacts under a cabinet while the Sacred Soul Hall group watched from a distance, believing the surrounding Evil Spirits made the area too dangerous to approach. Carter then crawled over safely and found another artifact, revealing that staying low let them reach the cabinet without being attacked.

• Si Te told the group to wait because Tang Xiaoling had entered a dangerous area surrounded by dozens of ghost fiends.
• Tang Xiaoling found a cartoon hairclip and a seashell bracelet under the cabinet, and the group realized both were Middle-grade Spirit Artifacts.
• Carter ignored the warnings and crawled toward Tang Xiaoling, reaching the cabinet without drawing an attack from the Evil Spirits.
• Carter pulled a Middle-grade Spirit Artifact comb from beneath the cabinet, and Ryan guessed that crawling kept them safe from the Evil Spirits.
• The group grew furious at Carter for discovering the rule and keeping it to himself.

Tang Xiaoling’s companions searched beneath the cabinet for Spirit Artifacts while she worried about Tiantian and pinched the Evil Spirit. When the others urged her to die to appease it, the terrified Evil Spirit secretly dropped a treasured Surgical Knife, and Tang Xiaoling asked whether it had fallen from the Evil Spirit.

• Si Te and the others crawled toward the cabinet to search for Spirit Artifacts, ignoring Tang Xiaoling’s warning that Tiantian was still beneath it.
• Tang Xiaoling squeezed the Evil Spirit’s thigh, frightening the searchers into thinking she had enraged it.
• Si Te and the others told Tang Xiaoling to kill herself to appease the Evil Spirit, while foreign viewers agreed with their proposal.
• The Evil Spirit secretly dropped its middle-grade Surgical Knife to show goodwill and prevent Tang Xiaoling from taking the others’ threats seriously.
• Tang Xiaoling picked up the Surgical Knife and asked the Evil Spirit whether it had dropped it.

Tang Xiaoling tried to return the Evil Spirit’s Surgical Knife, but Si Te claimed it and boasted after taking it from her. The Instance’s random allocation gave the knife and Si Te’s other Spirit Artifacts to Tang Xiaoling, leaving him furious and the others afraid their possessions would be taken next.

• Si Te demanded Tang Xiaoling hand over the Surgical Knife, and the Evil Spirit nervously told her it was meant for her.
• Tang Xiaoling threw the knife to Si Te after he claimed the Evil Spirit had given it to him, and Si Te picked it up and celebrated its abilities.
• The Instance announced that all Spirit Artifacts in Fierce Spirit Mall had to be obtained through random allocation.
• The Instance awarded the Surgical Knife to Tang Xiaoling and transferred it from Si Te’s hand to hers.
• The Instance also allocated Si Te Malou’s Worn-Out Ring and Evil Spirit’s Hide to Tang Xiaoling, ignoring his protests.

Tang Xiaoling took Si Te’s Spirit Artifacts, then followed her cat Tiantian toward the stairs after the Instance announced that Fierce Spirit’s corpse might be on the mall’s third floor. Si Te fell under the Ghost Fiends’ illusion and died on an iron hook as the other Sacred Soul Envoys fled.

• The system transferred Si Te’s two Spirit Artifacts to Tang Xiaoling, who packed all three artifacts into her backpack and thanked him.
• The Instance announced that Fierce Spirit’s corpse might be on the mall’s third floor, prompting the players to search for the stairs.
• Tiantian darted toward the back stairs, and Tang Xiaoling hurried after the cat.
• The Ghost Fiends began swaying, and Si Te stayed behind as the other players fled.
• Si Te succumbed to the Ghost Fiends’ illusion, impaled his neck on an iron hook, and died suspended in midair.

After Si Te died, Ryan and the other Sacred Soul Envoys abandoned Taylor, who followed them through the Fierce Spirit Mall for safety. On the third floor, Tang Xiaoling reunited with Tiantian while the fleeing Fierce Spirit Soul mistook the newcomers for pursuers and ran from them.

• Taylor found the stairs, returned to the group, and discovered Si Te's corpse hanging in the air.
• Ryan scolded and threw Taylor to the ground, then led the Sacred Soul Envoys away and left him behind.
• Taylor cursed the group but chased after them, knowing he could not survive alone in the Fierce Spirit Mall.
• Tang Xiaoling caught up with Tiantian on the lively third floor and continued searching for the doll.
• The Fierce Spirit Soul saw Tang Xiaoling, sensed her overwhelming aura, and fled in terror.
• Ryan and the other Sacred Soul Envoys arrived, saw the Fierce Spirit Soul running, and chased after her as she mistook them for Tang Xiaoling's allies.

Ryan and the others were forced by an Evil Spirit shop assistant to enter her store and buy something after they lingered outside too long. Tang Xiaoling, whom the assistant feared and excluded from the store’s rules, then headed inside to ask the mall residents about her doll.

• Ryan spotted Tang Xiaoling after the Fierce Spirit vanished, and an Evil Spirit shop assistant invited the group into her store.
• When Ryan and the others refused, the assistant turned hostile; they learned she could reach half-step Ghost General strength and agreed to enter to avoid being killed.
• Zorn questioned why Tang Xiaoling was exempt, and the assistant claimed she was outside the store’s jurisdiction before leading the group inside.
• The assistant began showing Ryan and the others her merchandise while Tang Xiaoling realized the store’s workers might know where her doll was.
• Tang Xiaoling trotted toward the store, frightening the assistant and drawing ridicule from foreign viewers watching the livestream.

Tang Xiaoling asked an Evil Spirit shopping guide where to find a person-sized doll, and the guide pointed her toward the manager on the Twelfth Floor. The guide gave Tang Xiaoling a water cup for free, but a Normal player who tried to copy her was trapped inside a flashlight.

• Ryan and two other Normal players tried to sneak out of the store while Tang Xiaoling questioned the shopping guide.
• The guide told Tang Xiaoling that the manager in the Manager's Office on the Twelfth Floor might know where to find a doll.
• Tang Xiaoling saw through Ryan's lie about the dolls and thanked the guide for the clue.
• Tang Xiaoling asked for a water cup, and the guide handed it to her for free.
• A Normal player returned to ask for a million-Spirit-Coin flashlight, and the guide sucked his soul into it.

The Evil Spirit demonstrated a soul-absorbing flashlight, then tried to make Simon pay for the one Tang Xiaoling took. Tang Xiaoling produced rare ten-thousand-denomination Spirit Coins, and the clerk suddenly declared the shop’s goods free when it recognized her as the Fengdu Princess.

• The Evil Spirit showed Ryan and the others how the flashlight could absorb and release a soul, then gave one to Tang Xiaoling.
• Tang Xiaoling aimed the flashlight at the ceiling, while the Evil Spirit demanded that Simon pay for it and threatened to trap him inside.
• Simon protested that the Fierce Spirit Mall had to follow the rules and insisted Tang Xiaoling should pay if she could not produce the money.
• Tang Xiaoling pulled out a stack of ten-thousand-denomination Spirit Coins and offered them to the Evil Spirit.
• The Evil Spirit recognized Tang Xiaoling as the Fengdu Princess, refused her money, and announced that everything in the shop was free.
• Simon asked whether the flashlight he had supposedly bought was free too.

Tang Xiaoling paid for a flashlight, won a rigged raffle, and drew the attention of the Sacred Soul Envoys, who secretly planned to kill her. The Evil Spirit trapped Simon in a cage and raised the merchandise prices a hundredfold, leaving Ryan and the others unable to buy their way out cheaply.

• Tang Xiaoling insisted on paying for the flashlight, so the Evil Spirit offered her a lucky draw instead of accepting her money directly.
• The Evil Spirit secretly switched Tang Xiaoling's raffle ticket and declared that she had won the grand prize.
• Ryan and the other Sacred Soul Envoys concluded that a powerful faction backed Tang Xiaoling, but Ryan decided they would kill her once they left the shop.
• The Evil Spirit gave Tang Xiaoling the flashlight, then trapped Simon in a toy cage where an evil hound devoured him.
• Ryan and the others tried to choose cheap merchandise, but the Evil Spirit raised the price of a thousand Spirit Coins to one hundred thousand.

The Evil Spirit forced Ryan and the other Sacred Soul Envoys to pay inflated prices for cheap shop goods, while two Normal clearance participants signed binding labor contracts to cover their debts. After the Envoys left to wait for Tang Xiaoling, the Evil Spirit offered her the confiscated goods as free gifts.

• The Evil Spirit demanded payment from Ryan and his companions, and Ryan traded two Spirit Artifacts for a wooden comb labeled as made in Yiwu two days earlier.
• The other Sacred Soul Envoys exchanged their Spirit Artifacts for assorted trinkets, while one received a worn pair of panties.
• The Evil Spirit made the two Normal clearance participants sign binding contracts requiring them to work for fifty Spirit Coins a month until they repaid their debts.
• The six Sacred Soul Envoys left the shop and waited for Tang Xiaoling, intending to kill her.
• The Evil Spirit told Tang Xiaoling that the confiscated items were free gifts and offered to pack them into her schoolbag.

Tang Xiaoling escaped the hostile group by taking a hidden elevator from the shop to the fifteenth floor, where General Manager Gu Feng welcomed her as a princess. Gu Feng brought up the arcade, and she eagerly asked about the large plush toys in the claw machines.

• The Evil Spirit gave Tang Xiaoling a Supreme VIP Black Card and offered her a hidden passage to the fifteenth floor, while the Sacred Soul Envoy and the others waited outside with plans to kill her and reclaim their Spirit Artifacts.
• Tang Xiaoling followed the Evil Spirit into a storage room that transformed into an elevator, while Taylor found the stairs and Ryan’s group headed toward him.
• The elevator brought Tang Xiaoling to the fifteenth floor, where General Manager Gu Feng greeted her with a grand welcome.
• Gu Feng offered Tang Xiaoling a feast, then suggested the arcade when she said she had already eaten.
• Tang Xiaoling perked up at the mention of claw machines, and Gu Feng secretly ordered his assistant to stock them with huge plush toys and ensure she could win them.

Tang Xiaoling searched the Arcade for the hidden gift, but Gu Feng had no way to reveal where the Fierce Spirit’s corpse was. Six Sacred Soul Envoys arrived after escaping ghost toads and realized they had encountered Gu Feng, an Unknown Taboo who meant their clearance had failed and their lives were in danger.

• Gu Feng filled the Arcade’s claw machines with possessed dolls, but Tang Xiaoling found none of the quest items she wanted.
• Gu Feng learned that the Shopping Mall had no dolls left, while Tang Xiaoling said she could not wait because she needed to find the gift Daddy hid.
• Six Sacred Soul Envoys reached the twelfth floor after ghost toads ambushed them, and Ryan and the others escaped using Demon's Embrace while Taylor was left behind.
• The Sacred Soul Envoys spotted Tang Xiaoling in the Arcade beside Gu Feng and recognized him as an Unknown Taboo.