Chapter Summaries

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.

Li killed the bald man who warned him about the Teaching Building and led the Sacred Soul Envoys inside to find Tang Xiaoling. The two men left behind tried to escape, but the PE teacher trapped them in a fifty-lap run around the School Field.

• Li refused to stay out of the Teaching Building and insisted that Bane would protect them.
• Li beheaded the bald man for warning him about the dangers inside, and the Sacred Soul Envoys agreed to follow him.
• Li rejected the two kneeling men’s pleas to join the Sacred Soul Hall and entered the Teaching Building with his followers.
• The blond man and his companion decided to leave, but the old guard stopped them at the school gates.
• More than fifty Evil Spirits appeared on the School Field, where the PE teacher ordered them to finish fifty laps in twenty minutes.
• The two men began running around the School Field, realizing they could not refuse the teacher’s rule.

Tang Xiaoling entered the Teaching Building and heard the rules of Evil Spirit Academy, while Li realized she counted as the twelfth player and persuaded the Sacred Soul Envoys to capture her as their way out. The Academy then announced that Tang Xiaoling was a Special Admit with privileges that let her ignore its rules and even encouraged her to sweet-talk the Principal.

• Tang Xiaoling opened the Teaching Building's back door, slipped inside with Tiantian, and wondered why people kept pursuing her.
• The Academy announced that players had to place first in exams to survive and warned them about the Principal.
• Li realized that the twelfth player mentioned by the Academy was Tang Xiaoling and convinced the Sacred Soul Envoys that capturing her could secure their escape.
• Li sent the Sacred Soul Envoys to their assigned classrooms and told them to notify one another if they spotted Tang Xiaoling.
• The Academy told Tang Xiaoling that, as a Special Admit, she could ignore rules and teachers, and advised her to sweet-talk the Principal.

Tiantian struggled to protect Tang Xiaoling from the Torch Dragon’s Karmic Fire while Tang Long watched from Fengdu. Tang Long intervened, used the Dark Overlord’s Godhood to destroy Bane, and provoked the West into sending Vassago after Tang Xiaoling.

• Tiantian concealed her connection to Tang Long from Tang Xiaoling and tried to protect her as the Torch Dragon’s heat threatened the Evil Spirits.
• The Torch Dragon inhaled, sucking several Evil Spirits toward its fiery body, and Tiantian shouted for her master to save them.
• Tang Long saw Tiantian and Tang Xiaoling in danger, then spotted Bane sacrificing human players to power a magic array.
• Tang Long retrieved the Dark Overlord’s Godhood from a graveyard and sent it above the school, where Bane rushed to seize it.
• Tang Long’s black light devoured Bane, who warned that the West would destroy Fengdu before vanishing.
• The Western Demon Lords reacted to Bane’s destruction, and their leader ordered Vassago to kill Tang Xiaoling and recover the Godhood.

Vassago sent nearly a thousand demons to kill Tang Xiaoling and reclaim the Dark Godhead, while Tiantian watched the Godhead begin to fuse with Tang Xiaoling. As the demons gathered outside the academy and the Torch Dragon stirred, Tiantian ordered everyone to protect the princess until the fusion was complete.

• Vassago used his power to glimpse a mysterious black-winged figure, then ordered his demons to kill Tang Xiaoling and seize the Dark Godhead.
• Nearly a thousand demons crossed through a Gate of Hell and charged toward the academy as the livestream image disappeared.
• Tiantian realized the Dark Godhead was intended to empower Tang Xiaoling, and lifted her toward it as the Torch Dragon began to stir.
• The Dark Godhead cast a beam around Tang Xiaoling and began moving toward her, signaling that it had recognized her as a possible Dark Supreme God.
• Yin Zheng warned Tiantian that a sea of demons was approaching the academy gates.
• Tiantian and the others drew their weapons, and she ordered them to guard Tang Xiaoling until her fusion with the Godhead was complete.

Tiantian led the defenders of the Evil Spirit Academy against a horde of demons while Tang Xiaoling merged with the divine godhead. As the defenders began to fall, Tiantian unleashed her full strength, transforming into an armored Valkyrie and preparing to strike back.

• Zuo Tong asked Tiantian whether he should activate the School Field's defensive array, but she refused because the torch dragon could trap them inside and burn them with hellish karmic fire.
• Yin Zheng rallied the officials' sons to fight, while Tiantian wondered why Baye had not returned with reinforcements.
• The demons breached the wall and attacked; Tiantian killed the first demon with her Long Whip, starting the battle.
• Tiantian and the others fought the advancing horde, but the defenders were overwhelmed and casualties began to mount.
• Tiantian unleashed her full strength, changed into Ancient Battle Armor, turned her Long Whip into a Long Spear, and shouted for everyone to kill.

Tiantian faced Amon’s stealth attacks while demons besieged the academy, and Baye and E Lai were trapped by three Demon Gods on their way to help. With their calls for aid unanswered, they could only hold out and hope Lord Ghost Emperor had a larger plan.

• Tiantian killed several demons, dodged Amon’s sneak attack, and recognized the seventh-ranked Demon God as he vanished into the battlefield.
• Tiantian struggled to locate Amon, whose scent was scattered across the battlefield, while worrying that the other defenders would eventually fall.
• Baye and E Lai were ambushed by three Demon Gods and could not break through their coordinated abilities, while their Netherworld Soldiers were pinned down by enemy forces.
• E Lai revealed that the curator had not answered his request for help, and Baye said Lady Houtu was likewise unable to act.
• Baye refused E Lai’s offer to hold the enemies alone, and the two chose to keep fighting while trusting that Lord Ghost Emperor had a larger scheme.

Tang Xiaoling’s fusion with the Dark Godhead neared completion while Tiantian fought to keep Amon and Vassago from reaching her. Amon attacked Tang Xiaoling just as she opened her eyes and spread a pair of black wings.

• Tang Xiaoling dreamed that a dark presence entered her mind and gave her black wings as the Dark Godhead fused with her.
• Amon tried to strike Tang Xiaoling, but Tiantian intercepted him with her spear and Yin Lightning, sending him flying and injuring him.
• Amon concealed himself again while Tiantian guarded Tang Xiaoling, and Vassago arrived and attempted to weaken her with a mental attack through a clone.
• Tiantian saw through Vassago’s trick, but Amon used the distraction to approach Tang Xiaoling and slash at her neck.
• Tang Xiaoling opened her eyes and spread black wings just before Amon’s blade could hit her.

Tang Xiaoling awakened after fusing with the Dark Godhood, grew black wings, and startled Amon with her apparent power. Tiantian tried to flee with her, but the barrier still trapped them as the Torch Dragon prepared to attack.

• Tang Xiaoling awakened with the Dark Godhood mark and black wings, while Amon stopped his attack and retreated in fear.
• Tang Xiaoling discovered her wings and wondered whether she could trade them for Fierce Spirit's white wings.
• Tiantian reached Tang Xiaoling and tried to carry her out before the Torch Dragon unleashed its breath attack.
• Tiantian crashed into the barrier while attempting to escape and failed to break it with her Long Spear.
• Amon realized Tiantian and the others were trapped, then ran through the barrier and out of the academy.

Amon taunted Tiantian and the trapped fighters as Torch Dragon prepared to unleash its Karmic Fire, and Tiantian attacked the dragon to protect Tang Xiaoling. After the flames swallowed Tiantian and Tang Xiaoling’s anger awakened her powers, the final Time-Space Trident fragment joined the other pieces and transported her into a transformed older form.

• Amon withdrew the demons from the Academy and taunted Tiantian, claiming Torch Dragon’s fire would kill everyone trapped inside.
• Tiantian urged Tang Xiaoling to use her powers to survive and promised they would return for meat buns together.
• Tiantian charged Torch Dragon with her Yin Thunder spear, but the dragon’s Karmic Fire swallowed her and spread across the realm.
• Amon laughed at Tiantian’s apparent death while Tang Xiaoling’s eyes changed and the Time-Space Trident appeared in her hand.
• The final Trident fragment flew into Tang Xiaoling and fused with the other pieces, transporting her away before she emerged from a tear in space in an older form.

Future Tang Xiaoling appeared in the Primordial Cage, protected Yin Zheng and the others from the Torch Dragon’s Karmic Fire, and searched for Tiantian. She found Tiantian lying on the Torch Dragon’s jaw and gathered her into her arms.

• A red-dressed girl arrived and recognized the Primordial Cage instance from her childhood, then identified Amon and reacted in shock.
• The girl used her Trident to create a Blue Barrier that extinguished the Karmic Fire and protected Yin Zheng, the others, and the Academy.
• After spotting the red-hot Long Spear, the girl demanded that Yin Zheng tell her where Tiantian had gone and attacked him when he said Tiantian might be dead.
• The girl revealed herself as future Princess Tang Xiaoling of Fengdu, and Yin Zheng recognized her from her wings, Trident, and red eyes.
• Tang Xiaoling flew through the Karmic Fire, found Tiantian lying on the Torch Dragon’s jaw, and wrapped her wings around her protectively.