Chapter Summaries

Gu Feng dealt with the Sacred Soul Envoys who had come after Tang Xiaoling, killing several and capturing their souls while treating her as a princess. Ryan and the surviving envoys tried to survive the encounter, but Gu Feng condemned Ryan to the Ghost Toads and the final two surrendered their lives.

• One Sacred Soul Envoy was frightened to death, and Gu Feng ate part of his soul before Zorn slit his throat and surrendered his soul.
• Gu Feng ordered his assistant to put Zorn's soul in a doll for Tang Xiaoling to catch, then killed an envoy who pointed at her and ordered his soul fed to Big Evil.
• Ryan and his companions realized Tang Xiaoling was likely the Primordial Cage master's daughter, and Ryan tried to claim he was close to her.
• Gu Feng killed Ryan for claiming a bond with the princess and ordered his soul sent to the Ghost Toads, where the assistant bound and captured him.
• The last two Sacred Soul Envoys slit their throats and pledged their lives to Tang Xiaoling.

After Gu Feng killed six Sacred Soul Envoys at Fierce Spirit Mall, the Sacred Soul Hall’s reputation suffered and its elders argued over betrayal, Demon God powers, and personal loyalties. The First Elder then watched the livestream and wondered how Li had withstood Baal’s power.

• Foreign viewers argued over the Sacred Soul Hall after Gu Feng killed six Envoys and three of them submitted to him, while Stick Country defended the organization and other countries mocked it.
• First Elder Sadis ordered the families of the three disloyal Envoys executed and demanded that all Sacred Soul Hall followers remain loyal.
• Casey mocked Li’s influence over the Envoys, and Kang Mu rebuked her for her conduct and private male servants.
• Casey invoked her bloodline from Asmodeus, and the First Elder defended her, explaining that she could not control the Lust Demon God’s power.
• Kang Mu ended his marriage to Casey and vowed revenge, while the First Elder privately decided that Casey’s behavior would fuel Kang Mu’s power as the Envy Demon God Leviathan.
• The First Elder returned his attention to the livestream and wondered how Li had withstood Baal, the God of Destruction.

Tang Xiaoling followed Gu Feng to basement level three to find Fierce Spirit's corpse, which she believed concealed a gift. She uncovered a damaged divine artifact, the Time-Space Trident, and learned that gathering its scattered pieces could grant control over time and space.

• Gu Feng's assistant sent a Sacred Soul Envoy to tell Gu Feng that Fierce Spirit's corpse was on basement level three, and the Envoy's soul burst into purple flames after he revealed the hiding place.
• Gu Feng escorted Tang Xiaoling to basement level three while Tiantian stayed close to her.
• Tang Xiaoling recognized her father's red cross on a wall and smashed through it with her fist.
• Tiantian knocked aside the doll behind the wall, revealing a red iron rod.
• Tang Xiaoling picked up the rod and identified it as a damaged divine artifact called the Time-Space Trident, whose pieces could grant control over time and space.

Tang Xiaoling collected a Divine Artifact fragment in the mall Instance and struggled to accept Fierce Spirit’s quest reward. After Tang Xiaoling finally took the bracelet, Fierce Spirit ascended with angel wings, which Tang Xiaoling immediately said she wanted too.

• Tang Xiaoling identified the four marked locations as places where Divine Artifact fragments were buried and took the fragment from the mall.
• Tiantian ordered Fierce Spirit to dispel her resentment, and Fierce Spirit restored her body and thanked Tang Xiaoling.
• Fierce Spirit repeatedly tried to give Tang Xiaoling a Luck Spirit Artifact bracelet, but Tang Xiaoling refused until Fierce Spirit begged her to accept it.
• Tang Xiaoling put on the bracelet, allowing Fierce Spirit to complete her quest and ascend.
• Tang Xiaoling admired Fierce Spirit’s angel wings and said she wanted a pair of her own.

Tang Xiaoling left the Shopping Mall and followed her map to a barren field marked as the second treasure site. After deciphering the drawing as a clue to wait for the moon, she settled in to search the field after nightfall.

• Tang Xiaoling stopped Tiantian from taking Fierce Spirit's wings, and Fierce Spirit escaped through the ring of light.
• Tang Xiaoling carried Tiantian out of the Shopping Mall and followed the map to a barren stretch of ground marked with a red cross.
• Tang Xiaoling asked Tiantian to sniff an iron rod for clues, but its foul smell from Fierce Spirit's corpse made him dry-heave.
• Tang Xiaoling studied the map's abstract drawing and realized the small circle represented the moon.
• Tang Xiaoling checked her watch, saw it was six in the evening, and decided to wait for the moon to rise before searching the field.

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.